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Yuanyuan Chen
Graduate student, Hearing, Speech and Language Group
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Contact details
| E-mail address: | yuanyuan.chen@mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk |
| Telephone: | +44 (0)1223 355294 (extension 211) |
| Direct line: | +44 (0)1223 273668 |
| Fax: | +44 (0)1223 359062 |
| Address: | MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge, CB2 7EF |
Research areas
My current research interest is to understand how the brain recognises written words in a task-specific context. Word processing is always embedded in a specific task environment, such as lexical decision, reading aloud and semantic decision. Different tasks often stress on different components of word processing and task-related decision-making can affect how information about the words is retrieved.
I use neuroimaging method (fMRI) as well as psychophysiological methods (EEG and MEG) to study visual word recognition. FMRI has got good spatial resolution but does not address the question about timing. EEG/MEG has got good temporal resolution but its source localisation is not as accurate as fMRI. By comparing and contrasting the results from both methods we hope to get a more complete picture of the spatial-temporal evolution of brain activity during visual word recognition.
Here is my CV