Ya-Yun Chen
Last Update: July. 20th, 2025

• Chen, Y.-Y., Seago, E., Katz, B., & Lee, T.-H. (2025, November). Attentional plasticity and associated neurophysiological changes in locus coeruleus-salience network connectivity between domain-general and unimodal training paradigms. Submitted for poster presentation at the Society for Neuroscience (SfN) Annual Meeting 2025, San Diego, CA, USA.
   

• Treves, I., Chen, Y.-Y., Wilson, C., Verdonk, C., Qinaʻau J. … & Khalsa, S. S. (2025, November). Minding the Body: A Meta-analysis of the Effects of Mindfulness Meditation Training on Self-reported Interoception. Submitted for a symposium at the Conference of the International Society for Contemplative Research (ISCR), Chapel Hill, NC, USA.
   

• Schaefer, M., Alvarado-Resendiz, T., Moreno, J. M., Chen, Y.-Y., Harb, F., Rahrig, H., Adams, E. V., Richter, C. G., Wilson-Mendenhall, C. D., & Wicker, P. (2025, May). Dismantling Hierarchy in Academic Workshops to Foster Community and Care: A Qualitative Investigation. Poseter presented the 2025 Association for Psychological Science (APS) Annual Convention, Washington DC, USA.
   

• †Szenas, N., Chen, Y.-Y., & Lee, T.-H. (2025, April). Validating Behavioral Tasks for Measuring Aggression and Prosociality Using Self-Report Measures. Poseter presentes the 2025 Virginia Tech Dennis Dean Undergraduate Research and Creative Scholarship Conference, Blacksburg, VA, USA.
   

• Seago, E., Chen, Y.-Y., Lee, T.-H., & Katz, B. (2024, November). Family History of Alzheimer’s Disease and Locus Coeruleus Activation in Healthy Older and Younger Adults. Poseter presentes at the Gerontology Research Society (GSA) 2024 Annual Scientific Meeting. Seattle, WA, USA.
   

• Chen, Y.-Y., Katz, B., Kim, I., & Lee, T.-H. (2024, October). Task-based functional connectivity of locus coeruleus-salience network and attentional distractibility in young adults. Nano Symposium Talk at the Society for Neuroscience (SfN) Annual Meeting 2024, Chicago, IL, USA.
   

• Kim-Spoon, J., Chen, Y.-Y., Lee, T.-H., Lee, J., Lindenmuth, M., Clinchard C., Lee, J., & Casas, B. (2024, June). Neural Processing of Cognitive Control Predicts Substance Use Through Altruism. Poster presented at the 2024 Annual Meeting of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping (OHBM), Seoul, Koera.
   

• Lindenmuth, M., Chen, Y.-Y., Lee, T.-H., Melville, N., Casas, K., & Kim-Spoon, J. (2024, April). Effects of Chronic Maltreatment on Functional Connectivity in Risk Processing Systems. Poser presented at the Society for Research on Adolescence (SRA), Chicago, IL, USA.
   

• Chen, Y.-Y., & Lee, T.-H. (2023, November). The association between family conflict and children’s emotional capacity is mediated by parent-child neural similarity during unpredictable aversive events in youths. Poster presented at the Society for Neuroscience (SfN) Annual Meeting 2023, Washington DC, USA.
   

• †Hong, S., Chen, Y.-Y., & Lee, T.-H. (2023, November). The Role of the Inferior Frontal Gyrus in the Processing of Ambiguity in Emotions: Will Emotional Ambiguity Predict Avoidance Behavior? Poster presented at the SfN (Society for Neuroscience) Annual Meeting 2023, Washington DC, USA.
   

• Lindenmuth, M., Chen, Y.-Y., Lee, T.-H., Melville, N., Casas, B., & Kim-Spoon, J. (2023, November). Effects of Chronic Maltreatment on Adolescent Functional Connectivity during Risk Processing. Poser presented at the Developmental Affective Neuroscience Symposium, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
   

• Chen, Y.-Y.,  †Hong, S., Harrison, A., & Lee, T.-H. (2023, March). Emotional Uncertainty’s Effect on Avoidance Behavior in Risky Conflicts. Poster presented at the 2023 Graduate and Professional Student Senate (GPSS) Research Symposium, Virginia Tech, Virginia, USA.
   

• Chen, Y.-Y.,  †Hong, S., & Lee, T.-H. (2023, March). Children Derive Aggression and Prosociality from Parents in Distinct Ways. Poster presented at the 2023 Biennual Meeting of the society for research in child development (SRCD), Salt Lack City, Utah, USA.
   

• Lindenmuth, M., Chen, Y.-Y. … & Kim-Spoon, J. (2023, March). Harshness vs. Unpredictability: Family Income and Functional Connectivity during Cognitive Control during Adolescence. Poster presented at the 2023 Biennual Meeting of the society for research in child development (SRCD), Salt Lack City, Utah, USA.
   

• Chen, Y.-Y., †Wang, M., Chen, T.-J., & Lee, T.-H. (2022, May). Predicting aggressive behaviors in childhood and early adolescence with the socioecological approach: From neighborhoods, parents to the brain. Poster presented at the 2022 Annual Meeting of Social and Affective Neuroscience Society (SANS), Virtual.
   

• †Wang, M., Chen, Y.-Y., Chen, T.-J., & Lee, T.-H. (2022, April). Predicting prosociality in childhood and early adolescence by integrating neighborhoods, parental factors, and the brain. Poster presented at the Society for Research on Adolescence (SRA) Biennial Meeting, New Orleans, LA.
   

• Chen, Y.-Y.,  Yim, H., & Lee, T.-H. (2021, April). Children of the Pandemic: Increasing Screen Exposure Time Harms Inhibitory Control Network in Developing Children. Poster presented at the 2021 Society for Research in Child Development Biennial Meeting, Virtual.
   

• Chen, Y.-Y., Neal, J., & Lee, T.-H. (2020, May). Distracted ‘from’ their surroundings: excessive functional coupling between salience and default-mode networks in ASD. Poster presented at the 2020 Annual Meeting of Cognitive Neuroscience Society (CNS), Virtual.
   

• Chen, Y.-Y.,  Chen, C.-C., … & Gary C.-W. Shyi, (2019, May). Neural Correlates of Emotional Expression Processing of East-Asian Faces: An fMRI and Dynamic Causal Modeling Investigation. Poster presented at the 2019 Annual Meeting of Vision Sciences Society (VSS), St. Pete Beach, FL. ​​[Abstract]

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• Kuo. Y.-C., Chen, Y.-Y. & Gary C.-W. Shyi, (2019, May ). The Neural Underpinning of Abstracting Emotion from Facial Expressions. The 2019 Annual Meeting of Vision Sciences Society (VSS), St. Pete Beach, FL, USA. ​​[Abstract] 
   

• Gary C.W. Shyi, Wan-Ting Hsieh, ..., Chen, Y.-Y., Chi-Chuan Chen, Yu Song Haw (2019). Neural Encoding and Decoding with Convolutional Autoencoder for Predicting Emotional Judgment of Facial Expressions. The 2019 Annual Meeting of Vision Sciences Society (VSS), St. Pete Beach, FL, USA. ​​[Abstract] 

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• Yi-Chen Kuo, Gary C. -W, Shyi and Chen, Y.-Y. (2018). Labeling Emotion: Semantic Processing of Facial Expressions. The 2018 Annual Meeting of Vision Sciences Society (VSS), St. Pete Beach, FL, USA. ​​[Abstract]
   

• Chen, Y.-Y., Wang, Y. H., …& and Hsieh, T. C. (2017). Domestic Violence Risk Prediction and Management: A Public-Private Partnership Approach. The 2017 annual meeting of American Public Health Association (APHA), 11/04, Atlanta, USA.
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• Chen, Y.-Y., Wang, Y. H., …& and Hsieh, T. C. (2017). Measuring the unmeasurable - a project of domestic violence risk prediction and management. Data for Good Exchange 2017, 09/24, New York, USA. [Full Text]

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• Chen, Y.-Y., Cheng-Hao Tu,…& Jen-Chuen Hsieh (2016). Central Processing of Thermal Pain in Young Women With Primary Dysmenorrhea. The 2016 Annual Meeting of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping (OHBM), Geneva, Switzerland. [Poster]

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• Chen, Y.-Y.., & Gary C. -W, Shyi (2015). A Comparison of Perceptual and Emotional Expression Processing between Real and Line-drawn Faces. The 2015 Annual Meeting of Vision Sciences Society (VSS), St. Pete Beach, FL, USA. [Abstract]
   

• Chen, Y.-Y., & Shyi, G. C. W. (2014). A Comparison of Face and Emotional Expression Processing between Real and Line-drawn Faces. The 17th Conference on Attention and Perception (A&P), 6/25, Chiayi, Taiwan.