Faculty
Urs MAURER
Ph.D., University of Zurich
Associate Professor
Rm 325, Sino Building
umaurer@cuhk.edu.hk
3943 1035
2603 5019
Brief Introduction
Professor Urs Maurer's research focuses on cognitive and neural aspects of spoken and written language processing. He is particularly interested in reading acquisition, dyslexia, and second language learning. One goal of his work is to use neural markers of language processing to inform screening and intervention practices for dyslexia. His research involves behavioral and functional neuroimaging techniques, such as EEG and fMRI.
Research Interests
Teaching Areas
- PSYC2350- Memory and Cognition
- PSYC5140- Cognitive Psychology
Publications
Yang, Y., Huo, S., Wang, J., & Maurer, U. (in press). Spectral and Topological Abnormalities of Resting and Task State EEG in Chinese Children with Developmental Dyslexia. Brain Topography.
Huo, S., Lo, J. C. M., Lui K. F. H., Maurer, U., McBride, C., (in press). EEG N1 specialization to print in Chinese primary school students: Developmental trajectories, longitudinal changes, and individual differences. Child Development.
Song, B., Sommer, W., & Maurer, U. (2025). Discrete repetition effects for visual words compared to faces and animals, but no modulation by expectation: An event-related potential study. European Journal of Neuroscience, 61(5), e70047
Wong, W. L., Huo, S., Maurer, U. (2024). Adaptation patterns and their associations with mismatch negativity: An electroencephalogram study with controlled expectations. European Journal of Neuroscience, 60(9), 6312-6329
Ruan, Y., Maurer, U., McBride, C. (2024). Effectiveness of Reading Interventions on Literacy Skills for Chinese Children with and without Dyslexia: A Meta-Analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials. Educational Psychology Review, 36(3), 80.
Huang, X., Wong, W. L., Ng, H. T.-Y., Sommer, W., Dimigen, O., Maurer, U. (2024). Neural mechanism underlying preview benefits and masked priming effects in visual word processing. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 1-20.
Song, B., Sommer, W., Maurer, U. (2024). Expectation modulates repetition suppression at later but not early stages during visual word recognition: Evidence from event-related potentials. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 1-16.
Maurer, U., Rometsch, S., Song, B., Zhao, J., Zhao, P., & Li, S. (2024). Repetition suppression for familiar visual words through acceleration of early processing. Brain Topography, 37(4), 608-620.
Wang, J., Wu, K. C., Mo, J., Wong, W. L., Siu, T. S. C., McBride, C., Chung, K. K. H., Wong, P. C. M., Maurer, U. (2021). Remediation of a Phonological Representation Deficit in Chinese Dyslexic Children: A Comparison between Metalinguistic Training and Working Memory Training. Developmental Science, 24(3), e13065
Lo, J. C. M., McBride, C., Ho, C. S. H., & Maurer, U. (2019). Event-related potentials during Chinese single-character and two-character word reading in children. Brain and Cognition, 136, 103589.
Eberhard-Moscicka, A. K., Jost, L. B., Raith, M., Maurer, U. (2015). Neurocognitive mechanisms of learning to read: print tuning in beginning readers related to word-reading fluency and semantics but not phonology. Developmental Science, 18, 106-18.
Maurer, U., Bucher, K., Brem, S., Benz R., Kranz, F., Schulz, E., van der Mark, S., Steinhausen, H.-C., Brandeis, D. (2009). Neurophysiology in preschool improves behavioral prediction of reading ability throughout primary school. Biological Psychiatry, 66, 341-348.
Maurer, U., Brem, S., Bucher, K., Kranz, F., Benz, R., Halder, P., Steinhausen, H.-C., & Brandeis, D. (2007). Impaired tuning of a fast occipito-temporal response to print in dyslexic children learning to read. Brain, 130, 3200-3210.
