Journal Papers

2020–Present

  • Čeněk, J., Halámková, D., Caha, J., Lacko, D., Kalenská, P., Stachoň, Z., Tsai, J.-L., Ahenkan, A., Dresler, T., Lüdtke, J., Dostálová, N., Šašinková, A., Ugwitz, P., & Šašinka, Č. (in press). Cross-cultural analysis of eye-movement patterns in visual scene perception: A comparison of seven cultural samples. Scientific Reports.

  • Tsai, J.-L. (2025). Evidence of eye movements for the role of contextual predictability in Chinese word recognition during the reading of sentences. In D. Wu (Ed.), Cognitive and Neural Foundations of Chinese Reading: From Learning to Advanced Processing and Beyond (pp.71-82). Springer: New York. ISBN978-981-96-6668-3

  • Lacko, D., Čeněk, J., Arikan, A., Dresler, T., Galang, A. J. R., Stachoň, Z., Šašinková, A., Tsai, J.-L., Prošek, T., Ugwitz, P. & Sasinka, Č. (2025). Investigating the geography of thought across 11 countries: Cross-cultural differences in analytic and holistic cognitive styles using simple perceptual tasks and reaction time modeling. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 154(2), 325-346. https://doi.org/10.1037/xge0001685

  • Šašinková, A., Čeněk, J., Ugwitz, P., Tsai, J.-L., Giannopoulos, I., Lacko, D., Stachoň, Z., Fitz, J., & Šašinka, Č. (2023). Exploring cross-cultural variations in visual attention patterns inside and outside national borders using immersive virtual reality. Scientific Reports, 13, 18852. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-46103-1

  • Ma, X., Li, D., Tsai, J.-L., & Hsu, Y.-Y., (2022). An eye-tracking based investigation into on-line reading during Chinese-English sight translation – Effect of word order asymmetry. Translation & Interpreting, 14(1), 66-83. DOI: 10.12807/ti.114201.2022.a04

  • Čeněk, J., Tsai, J.-L., & Šašinka, Č. (2020). Cultural variations in global and local attention and eye-movement patterns during the perception of complex visual scenes: Comparison of Czech and Taiwanese university students. PLOS ONE, 15(11), 1-22. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0242501.

  • Ho, C.-E., Chen, T.-W., & Tsai, J.-L. (2020). How does Training Shape English-Chinese Sight Translation Behaviour? An Eye-Tracking Study. Translation, Cognition & Behavior, 3, 1-24. (MLA) DOI: 10.1075/tcb.00032.ho

  • 2010–2019

    Yu, W. -Y., Tsai, J. -L., & Tao, C. -C. (2017). Heard but Falsely Remembered? The Attention and Memory Effect of Product Placement in TV Episodes. The Journal of Cyber Culture and Information Society, 33, 189-214.

  • Liang, C.-W., Tsai, J.-L. , & Hsu, W.-Y. (2017). Sustained visual attention for competing emotional stimuli in social anxiety: An eye tracking study. Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry, 54, 178-185. DOI: 10.1016/j.jbtep.2016.08.009. (SSCI)

  • Yu, W.-Y. & Tsai, J.-L.* (2016). Modulation of scene consistency and task demand on language-driven eye movements for audio-visual integration. Acta Psychologica, 171, 1-16. doi: 10.1016/j.actpsy.2016.09.004. (SSCI) (*corresponding author)

  • 陳家興、 蔡介立*（2016）。詞彙邊界線索影響閱讀中文表現的眼動證據。中華心理學刊，58(1)，19-44。[Chen, C.-H. and Tsai, J.-L.* (2016). Eye movement evidence for the effects of word boundary cue when reading Chinese. Chinese Journal of Psychology, 58(1), 19-44]. (TSSCI)

  • Chang, Y.-N., Hsu, C.-H., Tsai, J.-L. , Chen, C.-L., & Lee, C.-Y. (2016). A psycholinguistic database for traditional Chinese character naming. Behavior Research Methods, 48(1), 112-122. (SSCI)

  • Chen, P.-H. & Tsai, J.-L.  (2015). The influence of syntactic category and semantic constraints on lexical ambiguity resolution: An eye movement study of processing Chinese homographs. Language and Linguistics, 16(4), 555-586. DOI: 10.1177/1606822X15583239. (SSCI)

  • Yeh, Y.-C., Tsai, J.-L. , Hsu, W.-C., & Lin, C. F. (2014). A model of how working memory capacity influences insight problem solving in situations with multiple visual representations: An eye tracking analysis. Thinking Skills and Creativity, 13, 153-167. (SSCI)

  • Chen, S.-C., She, H.-C., Chuang, M.-H., Wu, J.-Y., Tsai, J.-L. & Jung, T.-P. (2014). Eye movements predict students’ computer-based assessment performance of physics concepts in different presentation modalities. Computers & Education, 74, 61-72. (SSCI)

  • Tsai, J.-L. (2014). Eye movement guidance in reading unspaced text in Thai and Chinese. In H. Winskel & P. Padakannaya (Eds.), South and Southeast Asian Psycholinguistics (pp. 265-271). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

  • 顏乃欣、廖瑞銘、楊建銘、黃淑麗與蔡介立（2013）。臺灣地區華人情緒與相關心理生理資料庫—臺灣情緒圖片系統。中華心理學刊，55(4)，477-492。(TSSCI)

  • Lee, C.-Y., Liu, Y.-N., & Tsai, J.-L. (2012). The time course of contextual effects on visual word recognition. Frontiers in Psychology, 3(285), 1-13. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2012.00285. (SSCI)

  • Tsai, J.-L., Kliegl, R., Yan, M. (2012). Parafoveal semantic information extraction in traditional Chinese reading. Acta Psychologica, 141, 17-23. (SSCI) (*corresponding author)

  • Yen, M.-H., Radach, R., Tzeng, O. J.-L., & Tsai, J.-L. (2012). Usage of statistical cues for word boundary in reading Chinese sentences. Reading & Writing, 25, 1007-1029. (SSCI) (*corresponding author)

  • Yen, N.-S., Tsai, J.-L., Chen, P.-L., Lin, H.-Y., & Chen, A. L. P. (2011). Effects of typographic variables on eye-movement measures in reading Chinese from a screen. Behaviour & Information Technology, First published on: 06 February 2011 (iFirst). 30, 797-808. (SSCI)

  • Huang, H.-W., Lee, C.-Y., Tsai, J.-L., & Tzeng, O. J.-L. (2011). The sublexical semantic ambiguity effects for reading Chinese disyllabic compounds. Brain and Language, 117, 77-87. (SCI)

  • Han, C.C., Hung, D.L., & Tsai, J.-L. (2010). The mental representation during the mental rotation task- explore the complexity and integrity effects. (In Chinese) Bulletin of Educational Psychology, 41(3), 551-578. (TSSCI) (*corresponding author)

  • Lee, C.-Y., Huang, H.-W., Kuo, W.-J., Tsai, J.-L., & Tzeng, O. J.-L. (2010). Cognitive and neural basis of the consistency and lexicality effects in reading Chinese. Journal of Neurolinguistics, 23, 10-27. (SSCI)

2000–2009

  • Wang, C. A., Tsai, J.-L.*, Inhoff, A. W., & Tzeng, O. J. L. (2009). Acquisition of linguistic information to the left of fixation during the reading of Chinese text. Language and Cognitive Processes, 24(7), 1097-1123. (SSCI) (*corresponding author)

  • Yen, M. H., Radach,R., Tzeng,O.J.L, Hung,D.L., Tsai, J.-L. (2009). Early Parafoveal Processing in Reading Chinese Sentences. Acta Psychologica, 131(1), 24-33. (SSCI)(*corresponding author)

  • Hsu, C. H., Tsai, J.-L., Tzeng, O. J. L., & Lee, C. Y. (2009). Orthographic Combinability and Phonological Consistency Effects in the Reading of Chinese Phonograms: an Event-Related Potential Study. Brain and Language, 108, 56-66. (SCI) 

  • 韓承靜、蔡介立（2008）。「眼球軌跡記錄─科學學習研究的明日之星」。科學教育月刊，310，2-11。

  • 韓承靜、洪蘭、蔡介立（2008）。心、眼與世界的連結─從認知神經科學看知覺與心像的關係。科學教育月刊，308，16-23。

  • Yen, M. H., Tsai, J.-L., Tzeng, O. J. L., & Hung, D. L. (2008). Eye movements and parafoveal word processing in reading Chinese sentences. Memory and Cognition, 36, 1033-1045. (SSCI)

  • 蔡介立 (2007年9月)。<動動眼，看得更清楚！>。科學人雜誌，34-37。

  • Lee, C. Y., Tsai, J.-L., Chan, W. H., Hsu, C. H., Tzeng, O. J. L., & Hung, D. L. (2007). The temporal dynamics of the consistency effect in reading Chinese: An ERP study. Neuroreport, 18, 147-151. (SCI)

  • Tsai, J.-L., Lee, C. Y., Lin, Y. C., Tzeng, O. J. L., & Hung, D. L. (2006). Neighborhood size effects of Chinese words in lexical decision and reading. Language and Linguistics, 7(3), 659-675. (SSCI)

  • Lee, C.-Y., Tsai, J.-L., Chiu, Y.-C., Tzeng, O. J.-L., & Hung, D. L. (2006). The early extraction of sublexical phonology in reading Chinese pseudocharacters. Language and Linguistics, 7(3), 619-636. (SSCI)

  • Huang, H.-W., Lee, C. Y., Tsai, J.-L., Lee, C. L., Hung, D. L., & Tzeng, O. J. L (2006). Orthographic neighborhood effects in reading Chinese two-character words: reaction time and ERP measurements. NeuroReport, 17, 1061-1065. (SCI)

  • Lee, C.-Y., Tsai, J.-L., Huang, H-W., Tzeng, O. J.-L., & Hung, D. L. (2006). The temporal signatures of semantic and phonological activations for Chinese sublexical processing: an event-related potential study. Brain Research, 1121(1), 150-159. (SCI)

  • Lee, C.-L., Hung, D. L., Tsed, J. K.-P., Lee, C.-Y., Tsai, J.-L., & Tzeng, O. J.-L. (2005). Processing of disyllabic compound words in Chinese aphasia: Evidence for processing limitation hypothesis. Brain and Language, 92(2), 168-184. (SCI)

  • Lee, C.-Y., Tsai, J.-L., Su, E. C.-I., Tzeng, O. J. L., & Hung, D. L. (2005). Consistency, regularity and frequency effects in naming Chinese characters. Language and Linguistics, 6(1), 75-107. (SSCI)

  • Tsai, J.-L., Yen, M. H., & Wang, C. A. (2005). Eye movement recording and the application in research of reading Chinese. (in Chinese) Research in Applied Psychology, 28, 91-104. 

  • Tsai, J.-L., Lee, C. Y., Tzeng, O. J. L., Hung, D. L., & Yen, N. S. (2004). Use of phonological codes for Chinese characters: Evidence from processing of parafoveal preview when reading sentences. Brain and Language, 91(2), 235-244. (SCI)

  • Lee, C. Y., Tsai, J.-L., Kuo. W.-J., Hung, D. L., Tzeng, O. J. L., Yeh, T.-C., Ho, L.-T., Hsieh, J.-C (2004). Neuronal correlates of consistency and frequency effects on Chinese character naming: an event-related fMRI study. Neuroimage, 23(4), 1235-1245. (SCI)

  • Tsai, J.-L. & McConkie, G. W. (2003). Where do Chinese readers send their eyes? In J. Hyona, R. Radach & H. Deubel (Eds.), The Mind’s Eyes: Cognitive and Applied Aspects of Eye Movements (pp. 159-176). Amsterdam, Netherlands: North-Holland /Elsevier Science Publishers.

  • Tsai, J.-L. (2001). A multichannel PC tachistoscope with high resolution and fast display change capability. Behavior Research Methods, Instruments & Computers, 33, 524-531. (SSCI)

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