Hoo Keat Wong

Contact

• workRoom B1A19 Block B
  Malaysia Campus
  Jalan Broga
  43500 Semenyih
  Selangor Darul Ehsan
  Malaysia
• work+6 (03) 8924 8730
• HooKeat.Wong@nottingham.edu.my

Biography

Dr. Wong Hoo Keat graduated from the University of Nottingham with a Bsc(Hons), and a PhD in Psychology, investigating human face recognition with the use of eye trackers. After obtaining his Doctorate, he worked as lecturer in Cognitive Neuroscience (2019-2020) at HELP University Subang 2 Campus and started at UNM as an Assistant Professor in the School of Psychology in May 2020.

Teaching Summary

I am currently teaching:

1. Research Methods and Analysis 1 (PSGY1014)
2. Practical Methods in Psychology (PSGY1015)
3. Practical Methods in Psychology & Cognitive Neuroscience (PSGY2016)
4. Cognitive Psychology 2 (PSGY2012)
5. Face Recognition and Perception (PSGY3051)
6. Advanced Methods in Psychology (PSGY4078)

In my past institution, I also taught:

1. Biopsychology (BSc in Psychology)
2. Learning and Cognition (BSc in Psychology)
3. Neuropsychology (BSc in Psychology)
4. Clinical Neuropsychology (Master in Clinical Psychology)

Research Summary

As a cognitive psychologist, Dr Hoo Keat's research focuses on cross-cultural face perception, more specifically on the own-race bias in face memory (i.e. poorer recognition of other-race faces… read more

Selected Publications

• WONG, H.K., STEPHEN, I.D. and KEEBLE, D.R.T., 2020. The own-race bias for face recognition in a multiracial society Frontiers in Psychology. 11(208), 1-16
• WONG, H.K., ESTUDILLO, A.J., STEPHEN, I.D. and KEEBLE, D.R.T., 2021. The other-race effect and holistic processing across racial groups Scientific reports. 11(1), 8507
• WONG, H.K. and ESTUDILLO, A.J., 2022. Face Masks Affect Emotion Categorisation, Age Estimation, Recognition, and Gender Classification from Faces Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications. 7(91), 1-15
• WONG, HOO KEAT, KEEBLE, DAVID R. T. and STEPHEN, IAN D., 2023. Do they ‘look’ different(ly)? Dynamic face recognition in Malaysians: Chinese, Malays and Indians compared British Journal of Psychology. 114(S1), 134-149

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Current Research

As a cognitive psychologist, Dr Hoo Keat's research focuses on cross-cultural face perception, more specifically on the own-race bias in face memory (i.e. poorer recognition of other-race faces compared to own-race faces). With the use of eye trackers, he investigates how interracial contact, cultural factors, and media exposure may interact to influence the underlying mechanisms of human face processing. More recently, he has adopted combined techniques - eye-tracking and heart rate variability (HRV) - to study attentional biases and emotional face processing in depressive individuals and to examine the psychophysiological effects of mindfulness breathing meditation.

Research Interests

• Face perception and recognition
• Eye movements
• Executive functions (esp. inhibitory control)
• Cross-cultural cognition
• Mindfulness breathing meditation
• Method of Loci (MoL)
• Attentional biases and heart rate variability in depression
• The neurocognitive impacts of AI beauty filters

Please visit this website for more details: https://www.nottingham.edu.my/Psychology/Research/Visual-Cognition.aspx

• KRISTINE ANTHONY, HOO KEAT WONG, ALFRED LIM, FARRAH SOW and STEVE M. J. JANSSEN, 2024. Examining the roles of visual imagery and working memory in the retrieval of autobiographical memories using a dual-task paradigm Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology. 77(3), 447-460
• ESTUDILLO, ALEJANDRO J. AND WONG, HOO KEAT, 2024. The role of inversion and face masks on simultaneous and delayed face matching tasks PLOS ONE. 19(1,), 1-13
• HOO KEAT WONG, DAVID R. T. KEEBLE and IAN D. STEPHEN, 2023. Do they 'look' different(ly)? Dynamic face recognition in Malaysians: Chinese, Malays and Indians compared British Journal of Psychology. 1-16
• SIEW KEI KHO, BRYAN QI ZHENG LEONG, DAVID R. T. KEEBLE, HOO KEAT WONG and ALEJANDRO J. ESTUDILLO, 2023. A new Asian version of the CFMT: The Cambridge Face Memory Test – Chinese Malaysian (CFMT-MY) Behavior Research Methods.
• SIEW KEI KHO, DAVID R. T. KEEBLE, HOO KEAT WONG and ALEJANDRO J. ESTUDILLO, 2023. Investigating the role of the fusiform face area and occipital face area using multifocal transcranial direct current stimulation Neuropsychologia.
• HOUSE, T., WONG, H. K., SAMUEL, N. W., STEPHEN, I. D., BROOKS, K. R., BOULD, H., ATTWOOD, A. S. and PENTON-VOAK, I. S., 2023. The relationship between body dissatisfaction and attentional bias to thin bodies in Malaysian Chinese and White Australian women: a dot probe study Royal Society Open Science. 10(9), 230674
• SIEW KEI KHO, DAVID KEEBLE, HOO KEAT WONG and ALEJANDRO J. ESTUDILLO, 2023. Null effect of anodal and cathodal transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) on own- and other-race face recognition Social Neuroscience. 18(6), 393-406
• WONG, HOO KEAT, KEEBLE, DAVID R. T. and STEPHEN, IAN D., 2023. Do they ‘look’ different(ly)? Dynamic face recognition in Malaysians: Chinese, Malays and Indians compared British Journal of Psychology. 114(S1), 134-149
• ESTUDILLO, A.J. and WONG, H.K., 2022. Two face masks are better than one: Congruency effects in face matching Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications. 7(49), 1-8
• ESTUDILLO, A.J., ZHENG, B.L.Q. and WONG, H.K., 2022. Navon-induced processing biases fail to affect the recognition of whole faces and isolated facial features Journal of Cognitive Psychology. 34(6), 744-754
• THANG, S.M., MUTHUKRISHNAN, P., TAN, P.S., WONG, H.K. and ARSHAD, N.I., 2022. Is there a Relationship between Prereaders’ Visual Attention and their Storytelling Performance? Evidence from Eye-Tracking and Qualitative Data CALL-EJ. 23(4), 219-239
• SUE, C.H., THANG, S.M., WONG, H.K., TAN, P.S., LOO, F.L. and AJU, R., 2022. To what extent do pictures support Malaysian prereaders’ visual attention and retelling of stories: An eye-tracking experiment International Journal of Computer-Assisted Language Learning and Teaching. 12(4), 80
• WONG, H.K. and ESTUDILLO, A.J., 2022. Face Masks Affect Emotion Categorisation, Age Estimation, Recognition, and Gender Classification from Faces Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications. 7(91), 1-15
• CHEAH, Y.T., WONG, H.K., SPITZER, M. and COUTINHO, E., 2022. Background music and cognitive task performance: A systematic review of task, music and population impact Music & Science. 5,
• ESTUDILLO, A.J. and WONG, H.K., 2021. Associations between self-reported and objective face recognition abilities are only evident in above- and below-average recognisers PeerJ. 1-12
• WONG, H.K., ESTUDILLO, A.J., STEPHEN, I.D. and KEEBLE, D.R.T., 2021. The other-race effect and holistic processing across racial groups Scientific reports. 11(1), 8507
• ESTUDILLO, A.J., HILLS, H. and WONG, H.K., 2021. The Effect of Face Masks on Forensic Face Matching: An Individual Differences Study Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition.
• WONG, H.K., STEPHEN, I.D. and KEEBLE, D.R.T., 2020. The own-race bias for face recognition in a multiracial society Frontiers in Psychology. 11(208), 1-16
• WONG, H. K. and STEPHEN, I. D., 2019. Eye tracker as an implied social presence: awareness of being eye-tracked induces prosocial looking behaviour Journal of Eye Movement Research. 12(2), 1-17