Dr. Chia-Hsuan Liao received her B.A. and M.A. in the Department of English at National Taiwan Normal University. Then at the University of Maryland, she obtained her Ph.D. in Linguistics, with a certificate in Neuroscience and Cognitive Science. Her research area is in Neurolinguistics, Psycholinguistics, and Cognitive Neuroscience. She uses neuroimaging techniques, such as electroencephalography (EEG), magnetoencephalography (MEG), and functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), to study the neural mechanisms of (bilingual) sentence processing. The goal of her research is to bridge linguistic theories and cognitive neuroscience research, in hopes of developing a better understanding of sentence comprehension.