TAMAOKA, Katsuo is a full professor at the Graduate School of Humanities, Nagoya University, Japan. He obtained his Ph.D. from the University of Saskatchewan, Canada. He is a psycholinguist whose research focuses on a wide range of issues in language processing from phonology, morphology, lexicology, and syntax to pragmatics. He is currently a member of the editorial boards of Writing Systems Research (Oxford University Press) and Mental Lexicon (John Benjamin). He is also one of the three deputy editors of Human Behaviour and Brain (International Society of Neuroscience). He has (co)authored several articles in prestigious journals including the Journal of Neurolinguistics, Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, PLoS ONE, and the Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, as well as in renowned linguistics journals such as Language, Lingua, Linguistic Inquiry, Journal of Japanese Linguistics, and Journal of Quantitative Linguistics.