Ashley Chung-Fat-Yim

• PSYC 2480 - Cognitive Processes

Dr. Ashley Chung-Fat-Yim joined the Psychology Department at the University of Manitoba in January 2025. Prior to joining the department, Ashley was a Research Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders at Northwestern University. Her research program focuses on the cognitive consequences of learning and knowing more than one language. Specifically, she investigates the impact of bilingualism on executive function, language, emotion perception, and narrative transportation using a variety of research techniques, including behavioural, EEG, and mouse tracking.

• PhD (Psychology), York University, 2020
• MA (Psychology), York University, 2013
• BSc (Psychology), York University, 2010

Research interests

• Bilingualism
• Cognition
• Language
• Emotion
• Creativity

• Chung-Fat-Yim, A., Hayakawa, S., & Marian, V. (2025). Language experience influences performance on the NIH Toolbox Cognition Battery: A cluster analysis. Humanities and Social Sciences Communications.
• Chen, P., Chung-Fat-Yim, A., Guo, T., & Marian, V. (2024). The influence of cultural background and input familiarity on multisensory emotion perception. Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology, 30(3), 487-496.
• Chung-Fat-Yim, A., Bobb, S. C., Hoshino, N., & Marian, V. (2023). Bilingualism alters the neural correlates of sustained attention. Translational Issues in Psychological Science, 9(4), 409-421.
• Chung-Fat-Yim, A., Lo, R. F., & Mar, R. A. (2023). Multilingualism and mentalizing abilities in adults. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 26(2), 456-467.
• Chung-Fat-Yim, A., Chen, P., Chan, A. H. D., & Marian, V. (2022). Audio-visual interactions during emotion processing in bicultural bilinguals. Motivation and Emotion, 46(5), 719-734.
• Hayakawa, S., Chung-Fat-Yim, A., & Marian, V. (2022). Predictors of language proficiency and cultural identification in heritage bilinguals. Frontiers in Communication, 7, 994709.
• Bialystok, E., Hawrylewicz, K., Grundy, J. G., & Chung-Fat-Yim, A. (2022). The swerve: How childhood bilingualism changed from liability to benefit. Developmental Psychology, 58(8), 1429-1440.
• Chung-Fat-Yim, A., Calvo, N., & Grundy, J. G. (2022). The multifaceted nature of bilingualism and attention. Frontiers in Psychology, 13, 910382.
• Chen, P., Chung-Fat-Yim, A., & Marian, V. (2022). Cultural immersion experience influences multisensory emotion perception in bilinguals. Languages, 7(1), 12.