The experience of attending the 5th International Conference of Mental Lexicon has been stimulating and rewarding. First of all, I enjoyed the opportunity to get to know exciting research in all aspects of Mental Lexicon, including Morphology, Compounding, as well as research using advanced techniques like ERP. I was able to talk to some researchers and scholars whose work I am very interested in. Second, I presented my own research at the Poster session during the conference. Importantly, my research of cross-language priming studies attracted a number of scholars who did various types of research in Mental Lexicon. Some of them asked important questions about my work, and some provided constructive suggestions. I even got the chance to talk about possible opportunity to learn a different technique in someone’s lab. Third, I met scholars whose research insights I will take into consideration in my future research agenda. I will continue to follow up my discussion with them about possible ideas to develop research projects.

Every time I went to conferences, I learned something new. I view attending conferences as a practice to broaden my research framework and create my own visibility in the research community. This implies an important idea in current research community: doing good research is essentially important to a graduate student; however, being able to sell your research in a community and network a research community of your own is not less important practice during the graduate career. I therefore appreciate the HEC funding from GIDP that made my professional travel possible and successful.