Team
Dr. Irena Lovcevic is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the International Research Center For Neurointelligence (WPI-IRCN), The University of Tokyo Institutes for Advanced Studies. She is interested in how different family and environmental factors influence language acquisition in infants. Irena completed her PhD at the MARCS Institute for Brain, Behaviour and Development, Western Sydney University, investigating early language development in infants with hearing loss.
Dr. Jun Ho Chai is a Lecturer in the School of Psychology, Faculty of Medical and Life Sciences at Sunway University. His research investigates the mechanisms underlying early language development across diverse linguistic environments. I study vocabulary acquisition in both monolingual and multilingual children, with a particular interest in how the quality and quantity of language input, as well as the diversity of naturalistic social interactions, shape learning trajectories.
Dr. Jongmin Jung is a Research Professor at Chosun University in South Korea who studies how young children learn to communicate. She earned her Ph.D. in Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences from Purdue University in the United States and is a certified speech-language pathologist in Korea. Dr. Jung works with children with hearing loss, exploring how various factors and environments influence language development in both typically developing children and those who use hearing aids or cochlear implants. Her goal is to apply insights from typical development to develop better ways of supporting children with hearing loss.