Suzy Styles

Suzy J. Styles is a psychologist with Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore.[1] Her research is in the area of psycholinguistics and cognitive approaches to language acquisition.[2] She is the director of the Brain, Language and Intersensory Perception Lab at NTU.[3]

In 2017 she and Nora Turoman published a paper in Royal Society Open Science that found that research subjects could guess the sounds represented by letters from unfamiliar alphabets better than would be expected from simple chance indicating the possibility of an innate ability to understand writing.[4][5][6]

Selected publications
  • Hung S., Styles S.J. & Hsieh P. (2017). "Can a Word Sound Like a Shape Before You Have Seen It? Sound-Shape Mapping Prior to Conscious Awareness", Psychological Science, 28(3), 263–275.
  • Woon F.T. & Styles S.J. (2016, February). "Linguistic Sound Symbolism and Learning to Read: Developing a large-scale screening for pre-schoolers", paper presented at International Symposium on Cognitive Neuroscience, Singapore.
  • Liew K., Lindborg P.M. & Styles S.J. (2016, February). "Auditory Roughness: A new dimension in cross-modal perception", paper presented at International Symposium on Cognitive Neuroscience, Singapore.
  • Shang N. & Styles, S.J. (2016). Special Issue: Proceedings Si15. Singapore, August 2015: "An implicit association test on audiovisual cross-modal correspondences", 2nd International Symposium of Sound and Interactivity (pp. 50-51) ICMA Array.
  • Lim J. & Styles S.J. (2016). Special Issue: Proceedings Si15. Singapore, August 2015: "Guitar Face: Super-normal integration of sound and vision in Performance", 2nd International Symposium of Sound and Interactivity (pp. 45-‐49) ICMA Array.

See also

References
  1. "BabyLab Alumni — PSY". Psy.ox.ac.uk. Retrieved 16 September 2017.
  2. "NTU: Academic Profile: Asst Prof Suzy Styles". Research.ntu.edu.sg. Retrieved 16 September 2017.
  3. "People". Blogs.ntu.edu.sg. 24 November 2014. Retrieved 16 September 2017.
  4. "Our ability to recognise letters could be hard-wired into our brains". Phys.org. Retrieved 16 September 2017.
  5. "Words can sound 'round' or 'sharp' without us realizing it". Medicalexpress.com. Retrieved 16 September 2017.
  6. "Perceiving Word Sounds as 'Sharp' or 'Round' May Be Unconscious Process". Psychcentral.com. 12 February 2017. Retrieved 16 September 2017.


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