Hongmi Lee

Hongmi Lee is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychological Sciences at Purdue University. Her research focuses on human long-term memory, naturalistic memory, and functional neuroimaging, using behavioral experiments and fMRI to explore how the brain encodes and retrieves complex real-world experiences.

• PhD, New York University (2018)

Lee investigates how memories for naturalistic events are structured in the brain, emphasizing the roles of the posterior medial cortex and parietal cortex in memory reactivation. Her work examines semantic integration, contextual binding, and neural dynamics during spontaneous recall and future thinking.

The 15 most recent articles highlight trends in episodic retrieval, event segmentation, and neural activity patterns during memory processing. Key methodologies include fMRI, naturalistic stimuli, and network science.

• Labs: Lee Memory and Cognition Lab