Chia Ying Lee
128, Sec. 2, Academia Rd.
Institute of Linguistics, Academia Sinica
Nankang, Taipei 11529
TAIWAN
Phone: +886-2-2652-5031
FAX: +886-2-2785-6622
chiaying@gate.sinica.edu.tw
Education
June, 1993: B.S. Kaohsiung Medical College, Psychology Department
June, 1995: M.A. National Chung-Cheng University, Psychology Department
December, 2000: Ph.D. National Chung-Cheng University, Psychology Department
Academic position and relevant experience
June 2009- Associate research fellow, Institute of Linguistics, Academia Sinica
2002-2009 Assistant research fellow, Institute of Linguistics, Academia Sinica
Field of specialty
Psycholinguistics, Neurolinguistics, fMRI, and Event-Related Potential
Awards and Honor
2007
Academia Sinica Research Award for Junior Research Investigators
Ad hoc Reviewer
Brain and Language, Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, Journal of Research in Reading,
Language and cognitive processing, Memory and Language, European Journal of Cognitive
Psychology, Neuropsychologia, Cognition, International Journal of Psychophysiology,
Neuroscience, Journal of Neurolinguistics, Frontiers in Psychology, Neuropsychology.
Selected publications
Kuo,W. J., Yeh, T. C., Lee, C. Y., Wu, Y. T., Chou, C. C., Ho, L. T., Hung, D. L., Tzeng, O. J. L., &
Hsieh, J. C. 2003. Frequency Effects of Chinese Character Processing in the Brain: an
Event-Related fMRI Study. Neuroimage 18. 720-730.
Lee, C. Y., Tsai, J.-L., Kuo, W.-J., Hung, D. L., Tzeng, O. J. L., Yeh, T.-C., Ho, L.-T., & Hsieh, J.-J.
2004. Neuronal correlates of consistency and frequency effects on Chinese character naming:
Event-related fMRI study. Neuroimage 23. 1235-1245.
Lee, C.-Y., Tsai, J.-L., Su, E. C.-I., Tzeng, O. J. L., & Hung, D. L. 2005. Consistency, regularity and
frequency effects in naming Chinese characters. Language and Linguistics 6(1). 75-107.
Lee, C.-Y., Tsai, J.-L., Chiu, Y.-C., Tzeng, O. J.-L., & Hung, D. L. 2006. The early extraction of
sublexical phonology in reading Chinese pseudocharacters. Language and Linguistics 7(3).
619-636.
Huang, H-W., Lee, C.-Y*., Tsai, J.-L., Tzeng, O. J.-L., & Hung, D. L. 2006. Orthographic
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neighborhood effects in reading Chinese two-character words. Neuroreport 17(10). 1061-1065.
Lee, C.-Y., Tsai, J.-L., Huang, H-W., Tzeng, O. J.-L., & Hung, D. L. 2006. The temporal signatures
of semantic and phonological activations for Chinese sublexical processing: an event-related
potential study. Brain Research 1121(1). 150-159.
Ahrens, K., Liu, H.-L., Lee, C.-Y., Gong, S.-P., Fang, S.-Y., & Hsu, Y.-Y. 2007. Functional MRI of
conventional and anomalous metaphors in Mandarin Chinese. Brain and Language 100(2).
163-171.
Hsiao, J., Shillcock R., & Lee, C.-Y. 2007. Neural correlates of foveal splitting in reading: evidence
from an ERP study of Chinese character recognition. Neuropsychologia 45(6). 1280-1292.
Lee, C.-Y., Tsai, J.-L., Chan, W-H., Hsu, C-H., Tzeng, O. J.-L., & Hung, D. L. 2007. The temporal
dynamics of the consistency effect in reading Chinese: An ERP study. Neuroreport 18(2).
147-151.
Lee, C.-Y. 2008. Rethinking of the Regularity and Consistency Effects in Reading Chinese.
Language and Linguistics 9(1). 177-186.
Hsu, C.-H., Tsai, J.-L., Lee, C.-Y.*, & Tzeng, O. J.-L. 2009. Orthographic combinability and
phonological consistency effects in reading Chinese phonograms: An event-related potential study.
Brain and Language 108. 56-66.
Lee, C.-Y. 2009. The Cognitive and Neural Basis for Learning to Reading Chinese. Journal of Basic
Education 18(2):63-85. (In Chinese)
Lee, C.-Y., Huang, H.-W., Kuo, W.-J., Tsai, J.-L., & Tzeng, O. J.-L. 2010. Cognitive and neural basis
of the consistency and lexicality effects in reading Chinese. Journal of Neurolinguistics 23. 10-27.
Hsu, C.-H., Lee, C.-Y., & Marantz, A. 2011. Effects of visual complexity and sublexical information
in the occipitotemporal cortex in the reading of Chinese phonograms: a single-trial analysis with
MEG. Brain and Language 117(1):1-11.
Huang, H.-W., Lee, C.-Y., Tsai, J.-L., & Tzeng, O. J.-L. 2011. The sublexical semantic ambiguity
effects for reading Chinese disyllabic compounds. Brain and Language 117(2):77-87.
Huang, C.Y., Lee, C.-Y.*, Huang, H.-W., & Chou, C.J. 2011. Number of sense effects of Chinese
disyllabic compounds in the two hemispheres. Brain and Language 119(2): 99-109.
Lee, C.-Y. 2011. The statistical learning perspective on Chinese reading. In P. McCardle, J.-R. Lee,
O. Tzeng, & B. Miller (eds.), Dyslexia across Languages: orthography and the
Brain-Gene-Behavior Link, 44-61. Baltimore: Brookes Publishing
Lee, C.-Y., Liu, Y.-N., & Tsai, J.-L. 2012. The time course of contextual effects on visual word
recognition. Frontiers in Language Sciences 3(285):1-13.
Lee, C.-Y.*, Yen, H.-L., Yeh, P.-W., Lin, W.-H., Cheng, Y.-Y., Tzeng, Y.-L., & Wu, H.-C. 2012.
Mismatch Responses to Lexical Tone, Initial Consonant, and Vowel in Mandarin-Speaking
Preschoolers. Neuropsychologia 50(14): 3228-3239.
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