
Prof. Dr. Yee Lee Shing
Institute of Psychology
Developmental Psychology
PEG Building, Room 5.G089
Theodor-W.-Adorno-Platz 6
60629 Frankfurt am Main
Tel +49 (0)69-798-35258
E-Mail: shing@psych.uni-frankfurt.de
Scientific Focus
The development and plasticity of cognitive and brain functions over the lifespan; memory; cognitive control; environmental effects on development
Methods
Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI)
Structural equation modeling
Selected Publications
Brod, G., Bunge, S., & Shing, Y. L. (2017). Does one year of schooling improve children’s cognitive control and alter associated brain activation? Psychological Science, 28, 967–967.
Keresztes, A., Bender, A. R., Bodammer, N. C., Lindenberger, U., Shing, Y. L.*, Werkle-Bergner, M.* (2017). Hippocampal maturity promotes memory distinctiveness in childhood and adolescence. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 114, 9212–9217.
*co-senior authors
Shing, Y. L., Brehmer, Y., Heekeren, H. R., Bäckman, L., & Lindenberger, U. (2016). Neural activation patterns of successful episodic encoding: Reorganization during childhood, maintenance in old age. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 20, 59-69. doi:10.1016/j.dcn.2016.06.003
Fandakova, Y., Lindenberger, U., & Shing, Y. L. (2014). Deficits in frontal and hippocampal modulation underlie adult age differences in episodic memory interference. Cerebral Cortex, 24(7), 1832–1844.
Shing, Y. L., Werkle-Bergner, M., Brehmer, Y., Mueller, V., Li, S.-C., & Lindenberger, U. (2010). Episodic memory across the lifespan: The contributions of associative and strategic components. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, 34, 1080-1091.