Publications

DUAN, X., Li, S., & Cai, Z. G. (2023). MacBehaviour: An R package for behavioural experimentation on large language models. preprint osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/ywtfd

Cai, Z. G., Haslett, D. A., Duan, X., Wang, S., & Pickering, M. J. (2023). Does ChatGPT resemble humans in language use?. arXiv preprint arXiv:2303.08014.

Shuo Lu, Xufeng Duan & Xiangyu Li(2021). Prominence and Locality Principle in Chinese Possessive Topicalization Sentences and its Psychological Basis——Evidence from eye-movements. Contemporary Linguistics 23(1): 56-73 [pdf]

Conference Talks/Papers

Xufeng Duan, Chinese translations of English words: A comparison between human and ChatGPT translations (2023). Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing Asia (AMLaP Asia). Hong Kong, China.

Zhenguang Cai, Xufeng Duan, Lu Sun and Martin PickeringStructural priming in ChatGPT (2023). Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing Asia (AMLaP Asia). Hong Kong, China.

Zhenguang Cai, Xufeng Duan, David Haslett, Shuqi Wang & Martin Pickering (2023). Does ChatGPT resemble humans in language use? Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing (AMLaP). Donostia-San Sebastián, Spain.

Zhuang Qiu, Xufeng Duan, and Zhenguang Cai(2023). Does ChatGPT Resemble Humans in Processing Implicatures? In Proceedings of the 4th Natural Logic Meets Machine Learning Workshop, pages 25–34, Nancy, France. Association for Computational Linguistics.

Xufeng Duan(2018). Language rehabilitation training therapies for Chinese aphasia— Using Chinese characters as clues. Beyond A Limited Scope: Chinese for Specific, Academic, & Professional Purposes Hawaii, US.

Xufeng Duan(2018). The Dependence on different symbolic systems during word recognition-pronunciation tests by Chinese native speakers with aphasia——based on eye-movement methodology. Annual Conference of the Chinese Society of Neurological Linguistics. Xuzhou, China.

Xufeng Duan(2018). The Rules of Prominency and Locality Psychological Reality Basis. Annual Academic Conference of the Chinese Linguistic Society. Guangzhou, China.

Poster Presentations

Zhuang Qiu, Xufeng Duan & Zhenguang Cai (2024). Do Large Language Models Resemble Humans in Grammaticality Judgement? Human sentence processing 2024 . University of Michigan, USA.

Xufeng Duan, Zhenguang Cai & Bo Yao. (2023). Electrophysiological responses associated with character amnesia in Chinese handwriting. Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing (AMLaP). Donostia-San Sebastián, Spain.

Hanlin Wu, Xufeng Duan & Zhenguang Cai. (2023). Belief of Speakers’ Linguistic Competence Modulates the N400 Effect Elicited by Inconsistent Lexical Use. Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing (AMLaP). Donostia-San Sebastián, Spain.

Zhuang Qiu, Xufeng Duan, Zhenguang Cai & Nan Zhao. (2023). Pragmatic Implicature Processing in ChatGPT. Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing (AMLaP). Donostia-San Sebastián, Spain.

Research Projects

Orthographic Processing in Chinese Handwriting

- Timecourse of Chinese handwriting: EEG study

- Character amneisa: Behavior/EEG/fMRI study

Large language models for language research

- Prediction in LLM and human

- LLM translation

Awards and Scholarships

The Chinese university of Hong Kong Ph.D. Studentship around 880,000 HKD

Research Funding

Key Laboratory Open Fund for student(2019), 30,000 RMB Multimodal(EEG/fNIRs/Eyetrakcing) Corpus for Special Population. Sun Yat-sen University.

Training/Intership

TMS training APAC TMS clinic Workshop, University of Numnich & MagMore Company May.2023

Language therapist The Third Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University Jul.2017-Jul.2019