Our Team

      Dr. Mehdi Bakhtiar

      Lab Director; Assistant Professor 

Dr. Mehdi Bakhtiar is an Assistant Professor in the Human Communication, Development and Information Sciences Unit at The University of Hong Kong Faculty of Education. He received an MSc degree in Speech Therapy from Tehran University of Medical Sciences and worked as a clinician for a few years before pursuing his PhD in Cognitive Neuroscience of Language at The University of Hong Kong. His main research interests are related to the underlying nature of speech disorders in people with stuttering and other neurogenic communication disorders. Mehdi studies the neurocognitive, linguistic and sensory-motor aspects of stuttering and other motor speech disorders. He is also interested in the application of non-invasive brain stimulation methods (e.g., tDCS, TMS) as an add-on treatment for people with neurogenic communication disorders. 

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Research Expertise and Interests:

• Psycholinguistics and Neurocognitive Aspects of Human Communication

• Neuromodulation

• Stuttering and Fluency Disorders

• Development of Speech and Language assessment tests

Selected Research Outputs:

• Shao, J. Bakhtiar, M., & Zhang, C. (2022). Impaired categorical perception of speech sounds under the backward masking condition in adults who stutter. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research.     

• Momenian, M., Lau, K. Y. D., & Bakhtiar, M. (2022). Developing psycholinguistic norms for action pictures in Cantonese. Applied Neuropsychology: Adult, 1-8.

• Bakhtiar, M., Wong, M. N., Tsui, E. K. Y., & McNeil, M. R. (2020). Development of the English Listening and Reading Computerized Revised Token Test Into Cantonese: Validity, Reliability, and Sensitivity/Specificity in People With Aphasia and Healthy Controls. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 63, 3743–3759. 

• Bakhtiar, M., Zhang, C., & Ki, S. S. (2019). Impaired processing speed in categorical perception: Speech perception of children who stutter. PloS one, 14(4), e0216124.

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Curriculum Vitae:

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Links:

Departmental Page: https://web.edu.hku.hk/faculty-academics/mbakht

ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Mehdi-Bakhtiar-2

Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=YNlRwdoAAAAJ

Loop: https://loop.frontiersin.org/people/155397/overview

ORCiD: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6088-3106