Biography
My interest lies in language processing in both typical and clinical populations, with a focus on sentence comprehension and production, reading comprehension, and language assessment. One notable achievement is my collaboration with a team at the University of Groningen to design and publish the first reading assessment and dyslexia test battery for Indonesian, a language spoken by over 250 million people.
Currently, my research utilizes electrophysiology, particularly event-related potentials (ERPs), to uncover fundamental cognitive processes underlying language comprehension. Recently, in collaboration with researchers from PolyU HK, we explore linguistic universals by investigating neural correlates of thematic role assignment (one of our studies has been covered by SCMP).
As an early-stage researcher, I advocate for open science by ensuring my studies are replicable and methodologically robust, with data available in open-access repositories. I also support registered reports in open-access journals, where experimental protocols receive feedback before studies are conducted (see example 1, example 2).
Selected Grants
2024 Faculty/dept-level international collaboration grant “Syntactic priming revisited: Electrophysiological and behavioral investigation into comprehending Standard Indonesian relative clauses” from PolyU (HK) – HK$250,000 (US$32,015) as member/co-PI.
2023 University-level grant for large equipment fund for research “A multimodal simultaneous language processing modeling system of eye-movement and EEG measurements" from PolyU (HK) – HK$901,853 (US$115,007) as member/co-PI.
2021 Faculty/dept-level reserve grant for “Neural Correlates of Thematic Role Assignment and WH-Movement in Standard Indonesian” from PolyU (HK) - HK$161,980 (US$20,636) as member/co-PI.
Teaching Areas & Research Interests
- Psycholinguistics
- Neurolinguistics
- Electroencephalography (EEG)/ Event-related potentials (ERP)
- Sentence processing
- Reading and dyslexia
- Aphasiology and clinical linguistics
Selected Publications
Book Chapters
- Jap, B. A. & Tiatri, S. (2024). Dyslexia in Indonesia: An Overview. In Elbeheri, G., Reid, G., & Fawcett, A. (Ed.). Dyslexia in many languages: Insights, Interactions and Interventions. Routledge.
Journal Articles
- Jap, B. A., Alimu, S., & Dolcini, N. (2025). Affect and Human Electrophysiological Research. Neuroethics, 18(1), 1-17. (IF=2.6, Q1 15/77 Ethics)
- Jap, B. A., Hsu, Y. Y., & Politzer-Ahles, S. (2024). Are cleft sentence structures more difficult to process?. Neuroscience Letters, 138029. (IF=2.5, Q3 183/310 Neurosciences)
- Politzer-Ahles, S., & Jap, B. A. (2024). Can the mismatch negativity really be elicited by abstract linguistic contrasts?. Neurobiology of Language, 5(4), 818-843. https://doi.org/10.1162/nol_a_00147 (IF = 3.6, Q1 12/297 Linguistics)
- Jap, B. A., Hsu, Y.-Y., & Politzer-Ahles, S. (2022). Neural correlates of thematic role assignment for passives in Standard Indonesian. PLOS ONE, 17(8), e0272207. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0272207 (IF = 2.9, Q1 31/134 Multidisciplinary Sciences)
- Jap, B. A*, Borleffs, E.*, Nasution, I. K., Zwarts, F., & Maassen, B. A. (2018). Do single or multiple deficit models predict the risk of dyslexia in Standard Indonesian?. Applied Psycholinguistics, 39(3), 675-702. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0142716417000625 * equal first authors (IF = 2.4, Q1 31/297 Linguistics)
- Jap, B. A., Borleffs, E., & Maassen, B. A. (2017). Towards identifying dyslexia in Standard Indonesian: the development of a reading assessment battery. Reading and writing, 30(8), 1729-1751. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11145-017-9748-y (IF = 2.0, Q2 193/756 Education and Educational Research)
- Jap, B. A., Martinez-Ferreiro, S., & Bastiaanse, R. (2016). The effect of syntactic frequency on sentence comprehension in standard Indonesian Broca's aphasia. Aphasiology, 30(11), 1325-1340. https://doi.org/10.1080/02687038.2016.1148902 (IF = 1.5, Q2 81/297 Linguistics)
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