Matthew King-Hang Ma

Selected Publications

2025

Ma, M. K.-H., Fong, M. C.-M., Feng, Y., Li, C. P.-H., & Wang, W. S. (2025). More than a feeling: Expressive style influences cortical speech tracking in subjective cognitive decline (No. arXiv:2509.21277). arXiv. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2509.21277


Xie, C.*, Ma, M. K.-H.*, Wang, W., & Wang, W. S. (2025). Context and POS in Action: A Comparative Study of Chinese Homonym Disambiguation in Human and Language Models. In C. Christodoulopoulos, T. Chakraborty, C. Rose, & V. Peng (Eds.), Proceedings of the 2025 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (pp. 27596–27613). Association for Computational Linguistics. https://aclanthology.org/2025.emnlp-main.1404/

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Rilliard, A., de Moraes, J. A., Erickson, D., Guerry, M., Hönemann, A., Lee, T., Ma, M. K.-H., Mixdorff, H., Rao, P., & Shochi, T. (2025). Cross-cultural dimensions organizing prosodic attitudes reception: A meta-analysis of free labeling studies. Journal of Speech Sciences, 14(00), e025012. https://doi.org/10.20396/joss.v14i00.20379


Ma, M. K.-H., Fong, M. C.-M., & Wang, W. S. (2025). A Reliability Study in Resting-state EEG Network Characteristics: Frequency of Interest, Number of Oscillatory Cycles and Thresholding. 2025 47th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC), 1–7. https://doi.org/10.1109/EMBC58623.2025.11251614


Ma, M. K.-H., Xie, C., Wang, W., & Wang, W. S. (2025). Exploring Layer-wise Representations of English and Chinese Homonymy in Pre-trained Language Models. Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2025, 19705–19724. https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2025.findings-acl.1011

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Fong, M. C.-M., Ma, M. K.-H., Ng, X. S.-W., Liu, J. C. H., Waye, M. M. Y., Chien, W. T., & Wang, W. S. (2025). Regional Brain Age Measures Based on Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs)—Symmetry Properties and Associations with Fluid and Crystallized Intelligence. 2025 47th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC), 1–7. https://doi.org/10.1109/EMBC58623.2025.11252950


Fong, M. C.-M., Liu, J. C. H., Ma, M. K.-H., Ng, X. S.-W., Hui, C. L. L., Waye, M. M. Y., Chien, W. T., & Wang, W. S. (2025). Predicting Intelligence Profile and Brain Age with Single- and Dual-Channel Cnns: A Study Based on Human Connectome Projects. 2025 IEEE 22nd International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI), 1–6. https://doi.org/10.1109/ISBI60581.2025.10981090

2023

Ma, M. K.-H. (2023). Six-Year Longitudinal Changes in EEG Spectral Characteristics of a Healthy Older Individual. In Inspirations from a Lofty Mountain: Festschrift in Honor of Professor William S.-Y. Wang on his 90th Birthday.


Xie, C., Fong, M. C.-M., Ma, M. K.-H., Wang, J., & Wang, W. S. (2023). The retrogenesis of age-related decline in declarative and procedural memory. Frontiers in Psychology, 14.

2022

Fong, M. C-M., Ma, M. K-H., Chui, J. Y. T., Law, T. S. T., Hui, N-Y., Au, A., & Wang, W. S. (2022). Foreign language learning in older adults: anatomical and cognitive markers of vocabulary learning success. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 16, 787413.

2021

Ma, M. K.-H., Fong, M. C.-M., Xie, C., Lee, T., Chen, G., & Wang, W. S. (2021). Regularity and randomness in ageing: Differences in resting-state EEG complexity measured by largest Lyapunov exponent. Neuroimage: Reports, 1(4), 100054. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ynirp.2021.100054

2020

Ma, M. K.-H., Lee, T., Fong, M. C.-M., & Shiyuan Wang, W. (2020). Resting-State EEG-Based Biometrics with Signals Features Extracted by Multivariate Empirical Mode Decomposition. ICASSP 2020 - 2020 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 991–995. https://doi.org/10.1109/ICASSP40776.2020.9054351