Research Interests
Cognitive development
Conceptual development
Cognitive neuroscience methods (fMRI, fNIRS, EEG/ERP)
Research Description
My current research focuses on numerical concept development.
Education
M.Sc. in Developmental Psychology, UIUC (2024)
M.Sc. in Cognitive Neuroscience, Graduate Institute of Brain and Mind Sciences, National Taiwan University (2017)
Grants
Taiwan-UIUC Fellowship, Ministry of Education, Taiwan (2021-2025)
Awards and Honors
Conference Presentation Award, Graduate College, UIUC (2023)
APS Student Travel Award, Association for Psychological Science (2023)
SRCD Graduate Student Travel Award, Society for Research in Child Development (2023)
Alumni Advisory Board Travel Award, Department of Psychology, UIUC (2022, 2023)
Outstanding Graduate Thesis Award, College of Medicine, National Taiwan University (2020)
International Conference Travel Award, Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan (2017)
Recent Publications
* = co-first authorship
Chen, C. C., Hyde, D. C. (revision under review). Understanding of exact equality emerges after and builds on symbolic number knowledge. [preprint]
Chen, C. -C., Berteletti, I., Hyde, D. C. (2024). Neural evidence of core foundations and conceptual change in preschool numeracy. Developmental Science, e13556. https://doi.org/10.1111/desc.13556. [preprint]
Chen, C. C.*, Jang, S.*, Piazza, M., Hyde, D.C. (2023). Characterizing exact arithmetic abilities before formal schooling. Cognition, 238, 105481. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2023.105481. [preprint]
Lee, C. Y., Chen, C. C., Mair, R. W., Gutchess, A., & Goh, J. (2021). Culture-related differences in the neural processing of probability during mixed lottery value-based decision-making. Biological psychology, 166, 108209. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biopsycho.2021.108209
Chen, C. C., Su, Y. S., Tu, Y. Z., & Goh, J. (2019). Default-mode network activation underlies accurate contextual processing of exclusive disjunctions in older but not younger adults. NeuroImage, 201, 116012. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2019.116012