Shu-Chen Li
Biographic Data
| ID | 3885609 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Shu-Chen Li |
| GIVEN NAMES | Shu-Chen |
| FAMILY NAME | Li |
| SIGNATURE | LI S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Technische Universität Dresden |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 47 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Too easy, too hard, or just right
In everyday life, individuals often need to make choices about the difficulty level of tasks they wish to perform. Here, we investigate age- and gender-related differences in the monitoring of discrepancies between the difficulty of a given task and one’s own performance level, and in the likelihood to select task difficulties that match one’s performance level. Male and female children, teenagers, younger adults, and older adults (total N = 160)…
The Oxford Handbook of Cultural Neuroscience
The goal of the Oxford Handbook of Cultural Neuroscience is to highlight the theoretical and methodological advances in the field of cultural neuroscience and the role that these scientific advances can play in understanding how to close the gap in population mental health disparities. Population mental health disparities may arise due to unequal access to healthcare as well as due to the interaction of cultural, biological, and environmental fac…
Aging Mind
Intelligence
Development of attentional control of verbal auditory perception from middle to late childhood
Multitalker situations confront listeners with a plethora of competing auditory inputs, and hence require selective attention to relevant information, especially when the perceptual saliency of distracting inputs is high. This study augmented the classical forced-attention dichotic listening paradigm by adding an interaural intensity manipulation to investigate developmental differences in the interplay between perceptual saliency and attentional…
Neuromodulation of behavioral and cognitive development across the life span
Among other mechanisms, behavioral and cognitive development entail, on the one hand, contextual scaffolding and, on the other hand, neuromodulation of adaptive neurocognitive representations across the life span. Key brain networks underlying cognition, emotion, and motivation are innervated by major transmitter systems (e.g., the catecholamines and acetylcholine). Thus, the maturation and senescence of neurotransmitter systems have direct impli…
Dopaminergic and cholinergic modulations of visual-spatial attention and working memory
Attention and working memory are fundamental for selecting and maintaining behaviorally relevant information. Not only do both processes closely intertwine at the cognitive level, but they implicate similar functional brain circuitries, namely the frontoparietal and the frontostriatal networks, which are innervated by cholinergic and dopaminergic pathways. Here we review the literature on cholinergic and dopaminergic modulations of visual-spatial…
Dyadic drumming across the lifespan reveals a zone of proximal development in children
Many social interactions require the synchronization--be it automatically or intentionally--of one's own behavior with that of others. Using a dyadic drumming paradigm, the authors delineate lifespan differences in interpersonal action synchronization (IAS). Younger children, older children, younger adults, and older adults in same- and mixed-age dyads were instructed to drum in synchrony with their interaction partner at a constant, self-chosen …
The development of attentional networks
Using a population-based sample of 263 individuals ranging from 6 to 89 years of age, we investigated the gains and losses in the abilities to (a) use exogenous cues to shift attention covertly and (b) ignore conflicting information across the life span. The participants' ability to shift visual attention was tested by a typical Posner-type orienting task with valid and invalid peripheral cues. To tap conflict resolution, we asked participants to…
Aging and Neuroeconomics
‘Neuroeconomics’ can be broadly defined as the research of how the brain interacts with the environment to make decisions that are functional given individual and contextual constraints. Deciphering such brain-environment transactions requires mechanistic understandings of the neurobiological processes that implement value-dependent decision making. To this end, a common empirical approach is to investigate neural mechanisms of reward-based decis…
Memory plasticity across the life span
Memory plasticity, or the ability to improve one's memory performance through instruction and training, is known to decline during adulthood.However, direct comparisons among middle childhood, adulthood, and old age are lacking.The authors examined memory plasticity in an age-comparative multisession training study.One hundred and eight participants ages 9 -10, 11-12, 20 -25, and 65-78 years learned and practiced an imagery-based mnemonic techniq…
Visual Search Across the Life Span
Gains and losses in visual search were studied across the life span in a representative sample of 298 individuals from 6 to 89 years of age. Participants searched for single-feature and conjunction targets of high or low eccentricity. Search was substantially slowed early and late in life, age gradients were more pronounced in conjunction than in feature search, and all age groups were uniformly affected by eccentricity manipulations. However, de…
Biocultural orchestration of developmental plasticity across levels
The author reviews reemerging coconstructive conceptions of development and recent empirical findings of developmental plasticity at different levels spanning several fields of developmental and life sciences. A cross-level dynamic biocultural coconstructive framework is endorsed to understand cognitive and behavioral development across the life span. This framework integrates main conceptions of earlier views into a unifying frame, viewing the d…
Invariants et variabilités dans les sciences cognitives
« Comme toutes les sciences, les sciences cognitives sont confrontées à la variabilité des phénomènes qu'elles étudient, et cherchent à dégager de cette variabilité un ensemble de régularités, d'invariants, sur lesquels ancrer les connaissances. Cette quête d'invariance implique des choix quant aux formes de variabilité à prendre en considération. Certaines, jugées pertinentes pour l'objet d'étude, sont utilisées ou manipulées pour en extraire de…
Biocultural orchestration of developmental plasticity across levels
The author reviews reemerging coconstructive conceptions of development and recent empirical findings of developmental plasticity at different levels spanning several fields of developmental and life sciences. A cross-level dynamic biocultural coconstructive framework is endorsed to understand cognitive and behavioral development across the life span. This framework integrates main conceptions of earlier views into a unifying frame, viewing the d…
Visual Search Across the Life Span
Gains and losses in visual search were studied across the life span in a representative sample of 298 individuals from 6 to 89 years of age. Participants searched for single-feature and conjunction targets of high or low eccentricity. Search was substantially slowed early and late in life, age gradients were more pronounced in conjunction than in feature search, and all age groups were uniformly affected by eccentricity manipulations. However, de…
The development of attentional networks
Using a population-based sample of 263 individuals ranging from 6 to 89 years of age, we investigated the gains and losses in the abilities to (a) use exogenous cues to shift attention covertly and (b) ignore conflicting information across the life span. The participants' ability to shift visual attention was tested by a typical Posner-type orienting task with valid and invalid peripheral cues. To tap conflict resolution, we asked participants to…
Memory plasticity across the life span
Memory plasticity, or the ability to improve one's memory performance through instruction and training, is known to decline during adulthood.However, direct comparisons among middle childhood, adulthood, and old age are lacking.The authors examined memory plasticity in an age-comparative multisession training study.One hundred and eight participants ages 9 -10, 11-12, 20 -25, and 65-78 years learned and practiced an imagery-based mnemonic techniq…
Dyadic drumming across the lifespan reveals a zone of proximal development in children
Many social interactions require the synchronization--be it automatically or intentionally--of one's own behavior with that of others. Using a dyadic drumming paradigm, the authors delineate lifespan differences in interpersonal action synchronization (IAS). Younger children, older children, younger adults, and older adults in same- and mixed-age dyads were instructed to drum in synchrony with their interaction partner at a constant, self-chosen …
Invariants et variabilités dans les sciences cognitives
« Comme toutes les sciences, les sciences cognitives sont confrontées à la variabilité des phénomènes qu'elles étudient, et cherchent à dégager de cette variabilité un ensemble de régularités, d'invariants, sur lesquels ancrer les connaissances. Cette quête d'invariance implique des choix quant aux formes de variabilité à prendre en considération. Certaines, jugées pertinentes pour l'objet d'étude, sont utilisées ou manipulées pour en extraire de…
Biocultural orchestration of developmental plasticity across levels
The author reviews reemerging coconstructive conceptions of development and recent empirical findings of developmental plasticity at different levels spanning several fields of developmental and life sciences. A cross-level dynamic biocultural coconstructive framework is endorsed to understand cognitive and behavioral development across the life span. This framework integrates main conceptions of earlier views into a unifying frame, viewing the d…
Visual Search Across the Life Span
Gains and losses in visual search were studied across the life span in a representative sample of 298 individuals from 6 to 89 years of age. Participants searched for single-feature and conjunction targets of high or low eccentricity. Search was substantially slowed early and late in life, age gradients were more pronounced in conjunction than in feature search, and all age groups were uniformly affected by eccentricity manipulations. However, de…
Aging and Neuroeconomics
‘Neuroeconomics’ can be broadly defined as the research of how the brain interacts with the environment to make decisions that are functional given individual and contextual constraints. Deciphering such brain-environment transactions requires mechanistic understandings of the neurobiological processes that implement value-dependent decision making. To this end, a common empirical approach is to investigate neural mechanisms of reward-based decis…
Memory plasticity across the life span
Memory plasticity, or the ability to improve one's memory performance through instruction and training, is known to decline during adulthood.However, direct comparisons among middle childhood, adulthood, and old age are lacking.The authors examined memory plasticity in an age-comparative multisession training study.One hundred and eight participants ages 9 -10, 11-12, 20 -25, and 65-78 years learned and practiced an imagery-based mnemonic techniq…
The development of attentional networks
Using a population-based sample of 263 individuals ranging from 6 to 89 years of age, we investigated the gains and losses in the abilities to (a) use exogenous cues to shift attention covertly and (b) ignore conflicting information across the life span. The participants' ability to shift visual attention was tested by a typical Posner-type orienting task with valid and invalid peripheral cues. To tap conflict resolution, we asked participants to…
Dyadic drumming across the lifespan reveals a zone of proximal development in children
Many social interactions require the synchronization--be it automatically or intentionally--of one's own behavior with that of others. Using a dyadic drumming paradigm, the authors delineate lifespan differences in interpersonal action synchronization (IAS). Younger children, older children, younger adults, and older adults in same- and mixed-age dyads were instructed to drum in synchrony with their interaction partner at a constant, self-chosen …
Neuromodulation of behavioral and cognitive development across the life span
Among other mechanisms, behavioral and cognitive development entail, on the one hand, contextual scaffolding and, on the other hand, neuromodulation of adaptive neurocognitive representations across the life span. Key brain networks underlying cognition, emotion, and motivation are innervated by major transmitter systems (e.g., the catecholamines and acetylcholine). Thus, the maturation and senescence of neurotransmitter systems have direct impli…
Dopaminergic and cholinergic modulations of visual-spatial attention and working memory
Attention and working memory are fundamental for selecting and maintaining behaviorally relevant information. Not only do both processes closely intertwine at the cognitive level, but they implicate similar functional brain circuitries, namely the frontoparietal and the frontostriatal networks, which are innervated by cholinergic and dopaminergic pathways. Here we review the literature on cholinergic and dopaminergic modulations of visual-spatial…
Development of attentional control of verbal auditory perception from middle to late childhood
Multitalker situations confront listeners with a plethora of competing auditory inputs, and hence require selective attention to relevant information, especially when the perceptual saliency of distracting inputs is high. This study augmented the classical forced-attention dichotic listening paradigm by adding an interaural intensity manipulation to investigate developmental differences in the interplay between perceptual saliency and attentional…
The Oxford Handbook of Cultural Neuroscience
The goal of the Oxford Handbook of Cultural Neuroscience is to highlight the theoretical and methodological advances in the field of cultural neuroscience and the role that these scientific advances can play in understanding how to close the gap in population mental health disparities. Population mental health disparities may arise due to unequal access to healthcare as well as due to the interaction of cultural, biological, and environmental fac…
Aging Mind
Intelligence
Too easy, too hard, or just right
In everyday life, individuals often need to make choices about the difficulty level of tasks they wish to perform. Here, we investigate age- and gender-related differences in the monitoring of discrepancies between the difficulty of a given task and one’s own performance level, and in the likelihood to select task difficulties that match one’s performance level. Male and female children, teenagers, younger adults, and older adults (total N = 160)…
Psychology (12 works) · Cognitive psychology (10 works) · Developmental psychology (8 works) · Cognition (6 works) · Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies (6 works) · Neuroscience (5 works) · Cognitive Abilities and Testing (4 works) · Life span (4 works) · Child and Animal Learning Development (3 works) · Social Psychology (3 works)