About
Eiling Yee is an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychological Sciences at the University of Connecticut. She holds a Ph.D. from Brown University (2005) and leads the Yee Lab, focusing on cognitive and neural representations of concepts. Her research explores semantic memory, spoken word recognition, and how perceptual experiences shape language processing.
Research areas include the relationship between sensory input and conceptual processing, with emphasis on the anterior temporal lobe and angular gyrus roles in semantic networks. She employs neuroimaging and eyetracking methods to study abstract vs. concrete concepts, embodiment of knowledge, and lexical-semantic activation in aphasia.
Her work bridges cognitive neuroscience, linguistics, and developmental psychology. Notable contributions include studies on manual experience shaping object representations, distributional semantics models, and autism-spectrum traits influencing embodied cognition. The lab's interdisciplinary approach addresses questions about how context and sensory experience shape meaning representation.
