Assistant Lecturer
BA in Linguistics, University of York, UK
MRes in Linguistics, University of York, UK
PhD in Linguistics, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
James is originally from the UK, but has been in Hong Kong for over 10 years, and has taught at several universities here. Prior to joining CAES, James earned a PhD from The Hong Kong Polytechnic University where he also worked as a research associate on various projects, with a focus on psycholinguistics and computational linguistics.
Selected Publications / Presentations:
Britton, J., Cong, Y., Hsu, Y.-Y., Chersoni, E., & Blache, P. (2024). On the influence of discourse connectives on the predictions of humans and language models. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 18, 1–17. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2024.1363120
Lewendon, J., Britton, J., & Politzer-Ahles, S. (2024). The Phonological Mapping Negativity (PMN) as a language-specific component: Exploring responses to linguistic vs musical mismatch. PLoS ONE, 19(12), e0315537 https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0315537
Lewendon, J., Britton, J., & Politzer-Ahles, S. (2023). The MMN by another name? Exploring the assumed autonomy of the Phonological Mapping (Mismatch) Negativity. Language, Cognition and Neuroscience, 1–17. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1080/23273798.2023.2203507
Neergaard, K., Britton, J., & Huang, C.-R. (2019). Neighborhood in decay: Working memory modulates effect of phonological similarity on lexical access, In Proceedings of the 41st Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. CogSci 2019.