Yee Chee Leong
Biographic Data
| ID | 108127 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Yee Chee Leong |
| GIVEN NAMES | Yee Chee |
| FAMILY NAME | Leong |
| SIGNATURE | LEONG Y C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Chicago |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2499-2393 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Desirability biases perceptual decisions in the aversive domain
Perceptual judgments are often influenced by goals and preferences, resulting in biased judgments that deviate from objective reality. When presented with ambiguous images, observers are biased to report seeing images associated with rewards. However, it remains unclear whether this is driven by a bias toward stimuli that are desirable or stimuli that are motivationally salient. As rewards are both desirable and motivationally salient, these effe…
Emotional arousal enhances narrative memories through functional integration of large-scale brain networks
Neurocomputational mechanisms underlying motivated seeing
People tend to believe that their perceptions are veridical representations of the world, but also commonly report perceiving what they want to see or hear. It remains unclear whether this reflects an actual change in what people perceive or merely a bias in their responding. Here we manipulated the percept that participants wanted to see as they performed a visual categorization task. Even though the reward-maximizing strategy was to perform the…
English in higher education in Cambodia
This paper discusses a number of key issues in English education and research in Cambodia. Multiple studies on Cambodia often suggest that English is a key component required to transform the standard of life of common Cambodians (Clayton ). To understand the phenomenon of the ever-increasing demand for English in the country, we conducted a series of semi-structured interviews with teachers and students followed by a needs analysis of English la…
Neurocomputational mechanisms underlying motivated seeing
People tend to believe that their perceptions are veridical representations of the world, but also commonly report perceiving what they want to see or hear. It remains unclear whether this reflects an actual change in what people perceive or merely a bias in their responding. Here we manipulated the percept that participants wanted to see as they performed a visual categorization task. Even though the reward-maximizing strategy was to perform the…
English in higher education in Cambodia
This paper discusses a number of key issues in English education and research in Cambodia. Multiple studies on Cambodia often suggest that English is a key component required to transform the standard of life of common Cambodians (Clayton ). To understand the phenomenon of the ever-increasing demand for English in the country, we conducted a series of semi-structured interviews with teachers and students followed by a needs analysis of English la…
English in higher education in Cambodia
This paper discusses a number of key issues in English education and research in Cambodia. Multiple studies on Cambodia often suggest that English is a key component required to transform the standard of life of common Cambodians (Clayton ). To understand the phenomenon of the ever-increasing demand for English in the country, we conducted a series of semi-structured interviews with teachers and students followed by a needs analysis of English la…
Neurocomputational mechanisms underlying motivated seeing
People tend to believe that their perceptions are veridical representations of the world, but also commonly report perceiving what they want to see or hear. It remains unclear whether this reflects an actual change in what people perceive or merely a bias in their responding. Here we manipulated the percept that participants wanted to see as they performed a visual categorization task. Even though the reward-maximizing strategy was to perform the…
Desirability biases perceptual decisions in the aversive domain
Perceptual judgments are often influenced by goals and preferences, resulting in biased judgments that deviate from objective reality. When presented with ambiguous images, observers are biased to report seeing images associated with rewards. However, it remains unclear whether this is driven by a bias toward stimuli that are desirable or stimuli that are motivationally salient. As rewards are both desirable and motivationally salient, these effe…
Emotional arousal enhances narrative memories through functional integration of large-scale brain networks
Perception (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Psychology (2 works) · Aging, Elder Care, and Social Issues (1 works) · Arousal (1 works) · Autobiographical memory (1 works) · Cambodian History and Society (1 works) · Cognitive psychology (1 works) · Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics (1 works) · Developmental psychology (1 works)