Dernière mise à jour : 28/01/2026

Tzuyi TSENG

  • Docteure

☎ 04 72 72 65 33

✉ tzuyitseng.neuroling@gmail.com

https://tzuyitseng.github.io/

  • Axes :
  • Développement, Neurocognition, Dysfonctionnements


 PRÉSENTATION

  • ***I am looking for a short-term engineer/postdoc position in France anytime during 2026.***

    I am interested in how language is represented in the human brain and mind across languages. My research focuses on understanding how speech sounds, word meanings and emotional cues are encoded and decoded during speech processing, and how our native language influences the way we hear, understand, and learn a foreign language.
    Along this research journey, I have developed expertise in speech processing, experimental design, and fMRI MVPA (such as decoding and RSA using Python) to address these questions in the contexts of speech perception and production. I'm always open to discussions and I welcome academic collaborations.

    Feel free to reach out via email : )

    Know more about me on
    🦋 Bluesky: @tzuyitseng.bsky.social
    📄 HAL: cv.hal.science/tzuyi-tseng
    🖥️ GitHub: github.com/tzuyitseng

 FORMATION ET PARCOURS PROFESSIONNEL

  • PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND

    2025- : Associate researcher
    Laboratoire Dynamique du Langage (DDL, CNRS - Université Lumière Lyon 2), Lyon, France
    ★ speech perception, emotion, scikit-learn
    2021-2025: Ph.D. Student
    Laboratoire Dynamique du Langage (DDL, CNRS - Université Lumière Lyon 2), Lyon, France
    ANR Project: AnchorFL (Anchoring Foreign Language Learning) 🔗
    ★ speech perception, embodiment, fMRI MVPA
    2020-2021: Project Assistant
    Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), USA
    MITx MOOCs: Chinese Language in Culture 🔗
    ★ project & pedagogical managements, foreign language teaching
    2020-2021: Project Assistant
    Program in Teaching Chinese as a Second Language, National Chengchi University (NCCU), Taiwan
    MOE Higher Education Sprout Project: sustained progress of universities in Taiwan
    MOE Higher Education Sprout Project: Enjoy E Learning Hub 🔗
    ★ project management, budgeting, scientific seminar organization, supervision
    2017-2020: Research Assistant & Analyst
    Phonetics and Psycholinguistics Laboratory, NCCU, Taiwan
    MOST project: error analysis of Thai students learning Taiwan Mandarin
    MOST project: corpora studies in natural language processing
    MOE New South Bound Policy project: Thai students learning Mandarin lexical tones
    ★ phonemically aligned speech corpora, supervision, budgeting

  • EDUCATION

    2021-2025: Ph.D. in Neuroscience
    Doctoral School in Neuroscience and Cognition, Université Lumière Lyon 2, Lyon, France
    Thesis: Sensorimotor representations for native and non-native phoneme perception
    Supervisors: Véronique Boulenger (CNRS), Claudio Brozzoli (Inserm) and Alice C. Roy (CNRS)
    2017-2020 : Master of Arts in Linguistics
    Graduate Institute of Linguistics, National Chengchi University (NCCU), Taipei, Taiwan
    Thesis: Lexical Organization in Taiwan Mandarin: Evidence from Word Association Tasks
    ★ 2021 NCCU Annual Master's Thesis Award
    2018 Fall: Graduate Exchange Program
    Training: Speech Language Pathology, Phonological disorders, Quantitative linguistics
    ★ NCCU International Outgoing Exchange Programs Award
    2013-2017: Bachelor of Arts in English
    Department of Foreign Language and Literature, National University of Tainan, Taiwan

  • SKILLS

    ● Languages: Mandarin (native), English (proficient), French (intermediate)
    ● Neuroimaging: 3T fMRI (sparse/continuous sequence), MVPA (decoding/RSA)
    ★ Statistical analysis/Programming: Python (Nilearn/scikit-learn/rsatoolbox), R (tidyverse)
    ● Speech processing: Praat
    ● Experimental design: PsychoPy/Pavlovia, Opensesame/Jatos

 THÈMES DE RECHERCHE

  • Cognitive psycho- and neurolinguistics; cross-linguistic comparison
    ● Sensorimotor representations in language processing
    ● Speech processing of articulatory features
    ● Prosodic encoding of emotions
    ● Structure and access of the mental lexicon

  • ONGOING PROJECT DEVELOPMENT & COLLABORATIONS

    ★ Finalizing journal publications for the ANR AnchorFL project, in collaboration with Véronique Boulenger (CNRS), Claudio Brozzoli (Inserm) and Alice C. Roy (CNRS), Lyon, France.
    ★ Developing a funding application for a research project led by Ladislas Nalborczyk (CNRS), Aix-en-Provence, France, on uncovering the neural dynamics of inner speech from EEG signals.
    ★ Conducting a preliminary investigation of cross-linguistic emotion recognition in French and Mandarin verbal phrases and non-verbal vocalizations, in collaboration with Aitana Garcia Arasco (DDL & ENES), Saint-Etienne, France.
    ★ Serving as an external collaborator on the Inidex EFL project: the grammatical encoding of expressivity and emotions, in collaboration with Lisa Brunetti (Université Paris Cité) with an ongoing funding application through Laboratoire de Linguistique Formelle, Paris, France.
    ★ Developing a funding application for a new research project co-led by Tzuyi Tseng on articulatory imagery in foreign language learning, in collaboration with Ladislas Nalborczyk (CNRS), Aix-en-Provence, France.

 ACTIVITÉS SCIENTIFIQUES

  • INVITED TALKS

    ★ Tseng, T. scheduled. Sensorimotor representations of native and foreign phoneme perception: an fMRI study. LingLunch seminar, Laboratoire de Linguistique Formelle, Université Paris Cité, Paris, France. 🔗
    ★ Tseng, T. 2025. How does the human brain process native and non-native speech sounds? (大腦如何辨識母語與外語語音？). Invited talk at Graduate Institute of Linguistics, National Chengchi University, Taipei, Taiwan. 🔗
    ★ Tseng, T. 2025. Sensorimotor representations of phoneme perception: an fMRI study with multivariate analyses. Invited talk (online) at NeuroImaging Club, Centre de Recherche en Neurosciences de Lyon (CRNL), Bron, France. 🎞️
    ★ Tseng, T. 2022. PhD in France: Motor Representation and Speech Processing in Foreign Language Learning (法國博士生研究什麼：腦動神經於外語語音學習的歷程). Invited talk at Graduate Institute of Linguistics, National Chengchi University, Taipei, Taiwan. 🔗

  • COMMUNITY WORK

    ★ Public seminar organizer & presenter with Rémi Anselme and Jin-Ke Song
    大腦語語工作坊(The Brain Talks Seminar) for Brain Mappers of Tomorrow Satellite Mandarin Session in Lyon, France, as part of 2025 Human Brain Mapping (OHBM) annual meeting, Brisbane, Australia, June 2025. 🔗
    ★ Laboratory seminar co-organizer with Katarzyna Pisanski
    for DDL seminar Dendy'n Science, Lyon, France, 2023-2024.
    ● Laboratory workshop presenter, DDL Atelier Café Doctorants - Langue taïwanaise, Lyon, France, February 2024.
    ● Public workshop presenter, DDL Stage d'Orthophonie, Lyon, France, June 2022, 2023.
    ● Public workshop presenter, Biennale des Langues 2022, Lyon, France, May 2022. 🔗

  • PRESENTATIONS

    ● Tseng, T. 2025. What do know about emotion, language and the brain? A glimpse into current research. Laboratory presentation at ImpAct Journal Club, Centre de Recherche en Neurosciences de Lyon (CRNL), Bron, France.
    ● Tseng, T. 2025. First steps toward emotion recognition across languages: a preliminary behavioral and fMRI protocol. Laboratory presentation at Club PAD (Club Protocole à la Demande/Protocol on Demand) DENDY, DDL, Lyon, France.
    ● Tseng, T. 2025. Sensorimotor representation of native and non-native phoneme perception and its application for foreign language learning (大腦辨識母語與非母語語音的機制與外語學習的應用【語言所第363次學術演講】). Public talk at Graduate Institute of Linguistics, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan. 🔗
    ● Tseng, T. 2022. Motor representation and speech processing in foreign language learning. Laboratory presentation at ImpAct Journal Club, CRNL, Bron, France.
    ● Tseng, T. 2022. Processing of phonemes in a foreign language: an fMRI study. Laboratory presentation at Club PAD DENDY, DDL, Lyon, France.

 DISTINCTIONS OU FINANCEMENTS

  • 2025: Laboratoire Dynamique du Langage (DDL) research funding to support the organization of a one-day seminar for local young children to learn science as a part of OHBM 2025 annual conference.
  • 2024: DDL training and travel funding to support the participation of a 3-day BrainHack Marseille 2024 winter school in the campus Timone, Aix-Marseille Université, Marseille, France.
  • 2022: DDL & National Chengchi Univeristy (NCCU) research funding to support a 3-day international academic visiting (as a Ph.D. researcher) at the Graduate Institute of Linguistics, NCCU, Taipei, Taiwan.
  • 2021: Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) 3-year Ph.D. full-time funded contract.
  • 2021: NCCU Annual Best Master's Thesis Award.
  • 2019: Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST, Taiwan) conference travel grants to the 3rd International Białystok Kyiv Conference on Theoretical and Applied Linguistics, Białystok, Poland.
  • 2018: NCCU International Outgoing Exchange Programs Award (one-semester tuition waiver) to do graduate-level study exchange at the University of Mississippi, USA.
  • 2017: NCCU Academic Performance Award.

 ENSEIGNEMENTS

  • Lecturer for graduate level
    2022 Fall
  • Introduction to Linguistics in English
    UE: 41DCAA01 - TD - General overview of SDL upgrade in English,
  • Université Lumière Lyon 2, Lyon, France.
  • Teaching Assistant - Undergraduate
    2018 Spring: Introduction to Phonology, Department of English, NCCU, Taiwan
    2018 Spring: Language and Civilization, Center of General Education, NCCU, Taiwan

 PRINCIPALES PUBLICATIONS ET CONFÉRENCES

  • Thèses et mémoires

    • Tseng, T., 2025, "Sensorimotor representations for native and non-native phoneme perception", Thèse, Neurosciences et Cognition, Université Lumière Lyon 2

    • Tseng, T., 2020, "Lexical Organization in Taiwan Mandarin: Evidence from Word Association Tasks", Master's Thesis, Graduate Institute of Linguistics, National Chengchi University, Taipei, Taiwan

  • Articles de revues

    • Tseng, T., Krzonowski, J., Brozzoli, C., Roy, A. & Boulenger, V., 2026, "Embodied speech: sensorimotor contributions to native and non-native phoneme processing and learning", Neurobiology of Language, 7:NOL.a.215.

  • Communications avec actes édités

    • Tseng, T., 2020, "Lexical Networks between Sounds and Meanings in Taiwan Mandarin: Evidence from Psycholinguistics" The 3rd International Białystok－Kyiv Conference on Theoretical and Applied Linguistics, Białystok, Poland, December, 2019, 29, pp. 37-52, Crossroads. A Journal of English Studies

  • Communications

    • Tseng, T., Krzonowski, J., Roy, A., Brozzoli, C. & Boulenger, V., 2024, "Beyond speech production: sensorimotor contribution to native and non-native phoneme perception", 13th International Seminar on Speech Production (ISSP 2024), Autrans, France, May 13-17, 2024 (poster)

    • Tseng, T., Krzonowski, J., Roy, A., Brozzoli, C. & Boulenger, V., 2024, "Decoding degraded speech in the motor cortex", Embodied and Situated Language Processing, Berlin, 2-5 Oct (conference)

    • Tseng, T., Krzonowski, J., Roy, A., Brozzoli, C. & Boulenger, V., 2023, "Cortical representations for native and non-native phoneme perception", 5th Annual Meeting of the Society for the Neurobiology of Language (SNL 2023), Marseille, France, October 24-26, 2023. (poster)