Fang Liu
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Associate Professor
- Outreach and widening participation lead
- Module co-convenor: PY3NDD (Neurodevelopmental differences)
- Undergraduate dissertation project supervisor
Areas of interest
Music, language and the brain: Examining how the human brain processes pitch information for linguistic and musical purposes during production and perception through comparative studies of different populations.
Research centres and groups
- Centre for Autism
- Language, Development and Ageing.
- CINN
Academic qualifications
- BA MA Linguistics, Peking University
- MSc Statistics, PhD Linguistics, University of Chicago
- Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA).
Awards and honours
- ERC Starting Grant (ERC-2015-StG, 678733, CAASD) Cracking the pitch code in music and language: Insights from congenital amusia and autism spectrum disorders. European Research Council, €1,488,814.
- ERC Proof of Concept Grant (ERC-2018-PoC, 838787, MAP). Music-assisted programmes: Developing communication in autism spectrum disorder through music making. European Research Council, €150,000.
- ESRC Postdoctoral Fellowship (PTA-026-27-2480). How do musically tone-deaf individuals produce and perceive pitch targets in speech? Economic and Social Research Council, £92,772.
Professional bodies/affiliations
- European Society for Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience
- ESRC Peer Review College
- International Society for Autism Research
- UK Acoustics Network
- Experimental Psychology Society
- Society for Music Perception and Cognition