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Hwee Ling Lee

Address: Spemannstr. 41
72076 Tübingen
Room number: 1.A.03
Phone: +49 7071 601 1786
Fax: +49 7071 601 616
E-Mail: hwee-ling.lee
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Hwee Ling Lee

Position: PhD Student  Unit: 

Research Interests

Brain plasticity, Multisensory integration, Structural imaging, Bilingualism, Dyslexia, Auditory processing, Neurodegeneration.

Audiovisual speech perception

Academic Background

05/2007 – 08/2011 (Thesis submitted)

PhD student, Graduate School of Neuronal and Behavioural Sciences, International Max Planck Research School, University of Tübingen, Germany

Research Dissertation: Audiovisual speech perception (Supervisor: Uta Noppeney)

 

09/2004 – 09/2005

Masters of Science in Clinical Neuroscience, Institute of Neurology, University College London, UK

Masters Essay: The ubiquitin-proteasome pathway in neuronal degeneration and synaptic plasticity (Supervisor: Prof. A.H. Pullen)

Research Dissertation: The perceptual interface for music and speech (Supervisors: Prof. Cathy J. Price & Dr. Fred Dick)

 

07/1997 – 08/2000

Bachelor of Arts, Major in Psychology and Japanese Studies, The National University of Singapore, Singapore

Research Dissertation: The meta-motivational states of novice and experienced rock climbers (Supervisor: Prof. Richard K. Howard)

 

Research Experience

01/2006 – 09/2006

Research Scientist, Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory (PI: Prof. Michael Chee), Singapore Health Services, Singapore

Responsibilities: data collection of sleep deprivation project, structural analyses (freesurfer) of data from aging project.

 

10/2005 – 12/2005

Research assistant, AlphaLab (PI: Dr. Fred Dick), Birkbeck College, UK

Responsibilities: data collection and analyses for project continued from the Masters dissertation.

 

10/2004 – 09/2005

Research assistant, The Wellcome Department of Imaging Neuroscience (PI: Prof. Cathy J. Price), University College London, UK

Responsibilities: data collection and analyses of bilingual and dyslexia projects.

 

05/2000 – 09/2004

Research assistant, Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory (PI: Prof. Michael Chee), Singapore Health Services, Singapore

Responsibilities: taking care of 3T Siemens Allegra MRI scanner, coordinating external projects, data collection and analyses of bilingual language fMRI projects.

 

Teaching Experience

Summer Term, 2009

Introduction to functional imaging: Experimental design and Analysis, jointly conducted with Dr. Uta Noppeney, Dr. Lewis Richard, Dr. Ruth Adam, and Dr. Sebastian Werner, Graduate School of Neuronal and Behavioural Sciences, International Max Planck Research School, University of Tübingen, Germany

 

Summer Term, 2007

Introduction to functional imaging: Experimental design and Analysis, jointly conducted with Dr. Uta Noppeney and Dr. Sebastian Werner, Graduate School of Neuronal and Behavioural Sciences, International Max Planck Research School, University of Tübingen, Germany

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Articles (13):

• Lee HL Person and Noppeney U Person (December-2011) Long-term music training tunes how the brain temporally binds signals from multiple senses Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 108(51) E1441-E1450.
• Lee HL Person and Noppeney U Person (August-2011) Physical and Perceptual Factors Shape the Neural Mechanisms That Integrate Audiovisual Signals in Speech Comprehension Journal of Neuroscience 31(31) 11338-11350.
• Parker Jones O , Green DW , Grogan A , Pliatsikas C , Filippopolitis K , Ali N , Lee HL Person, Ramsden S , Gazarian K , Prejawa S , Seghier ML and Price CJ (June-2011) Where, When and Why Brain Activation Differs for Bilinguals and Monolinguals during Picture Naming and Reading Aloud Cerebral Cortex Epub ahead 1-11.
• Dick F , Lee HL Person, Nusbaum H and Price CJ (April-2011) Auditory-Motor Expertise Alters "Speech Selectivity" in Professional Musicians and Actors Cerebral Cortex 21(4) 938-948.
• Hu W , Lee HL Person, Zhang Q , Liu T , Shakeshaft C , Tae T , Mohamed S , David G , Yang Y and Price CJ (May-2010) Developmental dyslexia in Chinese and English: Dissociating the effect of dyslexia from language differences Brain 133(6) 1694-1706.
• Cappelletti M , Lee HL Person, Freeman E and Price CJ (February-2010) The Role of Right and Left Parietal Lobes in the Conceptual Processing of Numbers Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience 22(2) 331-346.
• Seghier ML , Lee HL Person, Schofield T , Ellis CL and Price CJ (September-2008) Inter-subject variability in the use of two different neuronal networks for reading aloud familiar words Neuroimage 42(3) 1226-1236.
• Lee HL Person, Devlin JT , Shakeshaft C , Stewart LH , Brennan A , Glensman J , Pitcher K , Crinion J , Mechelli A , Frackowiak RSJ , Green DW and Price CJ (January-2007) Anatomical Traces of Vocabulary Acquisition in the Adolescent Brain Journal of Neuroscience 27(5) 1184-1189.
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• Chee MWL , Soon CS , Lee HL Person and Pallier C (October-19-2004) Left insula activation: A marker for language attainment in bilinguals Proceedings of The National Academy of Science of the USA 101(42) 15265-15270.
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• Chee MWL , Lee HL Person, Soon CS , Westphal C and Venkatraman V (February-2003) Reproducibility of the word frequency effect: comparison of signal change and voxel counting Neuroimage 18(2) 468-482.
• Chee MWL , Soon CS and Lee HL Person (January-2003) Common and segregated neuronal networks for different languages revealed using functional magnetic resonance adaptation Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience 15(1) 85-97.
• Chee MWL , Hon N , Caplan D , Lee HL Person and Goh J (May-2002) Frequency of concrete words modulates prefrontal activation during semantic judgments Neuroimage 16(1) 259-268.
• Chee MWL , Hon N , Lee HL Person and Soon CS (June-2001) Relative language proficiency modulates BOLD signal change when bilinguals perform semantic judgments Neuroimage 13(6) 1155-1163.

Posters (6):

• Lee HL Person and Noppeney U Person (June-2010): Audiovisual synchrony perception of speech and non-speech signals in musicians and non-musicians, 16th Annual Meeting of the Organisation for Human Brain Mapping (HBM 2010), Barcelona, Spain.
• Lee H Person and Noppeney U Person (July-2009): Audiovisual synchrony detection for speech and music signals, 10th International Multisensory Research Forum (IMRF 2009), New York, NY, USA.
• Lee HL Person, Tuennerhoff J Person, Werner S Person, Pammi C Person and Noppeney U Person (July-2008): Physical and perceptual factors that determine the mode of audio-visual integration in distinct areas of the speech processing system, 9th International Multisensory Research Forum (IMRF 2008), Hamburg, Germany.
• Green DW , Hu W , Lee HL Person, Zhang Q , Liu T , Libo G , Seghier ML and Price CJ (June-2008): Differences in the neural basis of Chinese and English reading, UCL-China Research Festival, 2008 13.
• Cappelletti M , Lee HL Person, Freeman E and Price CJ (June-2008): Segregating parietal areas related to number processing and response times, 14th Annual Meeting of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping (HBM 2008), Melbourne, Australia, NeuroImage, 41(Supplement 1) S98.
• Kherif F , Ellis C , Shakeshaft C , Lee HL Person, Seghier ML and Price CJ (June-2008): Unbiased classification of developmental dyslexic subtypes using fMRI activation during reading, 14th Annual Meeting of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping (HBM 2008), Melbourne, Australia, NeuroImage, 41(Supplement 1) S140.

Theses (1):

• Lee HL Person: The perceptual interface for music and speech, University College London, United Kingdom, (September-2005). Diplom thesis

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