Denise Hsien Wu

Denise Hsien Wu (吳嫻) is a professor of neuroscience, the head of the Concept & Language Laboratory, and the chair of the Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience at National Central University, Taiwan.

Denise Hsien Wu
NationalityTaiwanese
Alma materB.S. National Taiwan University
M.S. National Chung Cheng University
PhD Rice University
Scientific career
InstitutionsNational Central University
University of Pennsylvania
Rice University
National Chung Cheng University
National Taiwan University
National Yang Ming University
Macquarie University
City University of Hong Kong
Thesis (2003)

Early life and education

Wu studied a B.S. in psychology at National Taiwan University, followed by an M.S. in psychology at National Chung Cheng University. She then moved to Rice University for her Ph.D. in psychology, with a specialty in cognitive neuroscience. After earning her Ph.D., Wu joined Anjan Chatterjee's group as a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Pennsylvania.

Research

Research area

  • Patients with aphasic and amnesic traumatic brain injury study
  • Cognitive representation in action, conception, and language
  • Mental representation and processing of short-term memory
  • Mental Characterization of parallel information processing
  • Phonological processing in Chinese character identification
  • Applications of fMRI in Cognitive Neuroscience

Selected awards

[1]

  • 2013–2017 Outstanding Research Award, National Central University, Taiwan（中央大學101-105學年度學術研究傑出獎）
  • 2016 Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science, USA
  • 2015 Fellow of the Psychonomic Society, USA[2]
  • 2014 TWAS Young Affiliate, The Academy of Sciences for the Developing World, East and Southeast Asia and Pacific Region
  • 2013 Distinguished Research Award, National Science Council, Taiwan（國科會優秀年輕學者研究計畫）
  • 2007, 2012 Excellent Teaching Award, the College of Science, National Central University（中央大學理學院優良教師）
  • 2012 Junior Research Investigators Award, Academia Sinica（中央研究院年輕學者研究著作獎）
  • 2011 Excellent Teaching Award, the College of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, National Central University（中央大學資電學院優良教師）
  • 2009 Excellent Mentor Award, National Central University（中央大學優良導師）
  • 2007 Young Investigator Merit Award, National Science Council（國科會傑出學者養成計畫）

Selected publications
  • Rueckl, J. G., Paz-Alonso, P. M., Molfese, P. J., Kuo, W.-J., Bick, A., Frost, S. J., Hancock, R., Wu, D. H., Mencl, W. E., Dunabeitia, J. A., Lee, J.-R., Oliver, M., Zevin, J. D., Hoeft, F., Carreiras, M., Tzeng, O. J.-L., Pugh, K. R., & Frost, R. (2015). Universal brain signature of proficient reading: Evidence from four contrasting languages. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 112(50), 15510–15515. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1509321112
  • Hung, Y.-H., Pallier, C., Dehaene, S., Lin, Y.-C., Chang, A., Tzeng, O. J.-L., & Wu, D. H.* (2015). Neural correlates of merging number words. NeuroImage, 122, 33–43. doi: 10.1016/j.neuroimage

Science outreach

Wu has been active on science outreach, including giving talks at the TED (conference) in Taipei[3] and at the Tech-Talk FORUM of Scientific American.[4][5] She also wrote articles for the Scientific American.[6]

References
  1. "Denise Hsien Wu, Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience".
  2. "Spring 2015 Class, Fellow of the Psychonomic Society".
  3. "如何用科學方法驗證「自由意志」是否存在？". TEDxTaipei.
  4. "科創講堂：腦科學【中文、英文、外星文？大腦幫你學語文】". 《科學人》雜誌 科創講堂.
  5. "學習外語有什麼難？大腦知道！". 科學人雜誌.
  6. "聯覺：我的B大調是綠色". 科學人.
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