Mei-Ching Lien
Professor
School of Psychological Science
Reed Lodge 215
2950 SW Jefferson Way
Corvallis, OR 97331
United States
Research/Career Interests
- Cognitive Control
- Visual/Spatial Attention and Working Memory
- Cognitive Aging
- Human Information Processing
- Facial Emotion Processing
- Perception and Action Control
- Word Recognition
Education
- PhD, Cognitive Psychology, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, 2001
- MA, Experimental Psychology, Cleveland State University, Cleveland, OH, 1997
- BA, Psychology, Cleveland State University, Cleveland, OH, 1995
Academic Experience
- 9/2016-Present, Professor, School of Psychological Science, Oregon State University
- 9/2009-9/2016, Associate Professor, School of Psychological Science, Oregon State University
- 9/2004-9/2009, Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, Oregon State University
- 6/2004-9/2004, Senior Research Associate, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA
- 6/2001-5/2004, Post-doctoral fellow, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, supported by National Research Council
Courses Taught
- PSY 201 General Psychology
- PSY 301 Research Methods
- PSY 302 UX Research
- PSY 340 Cognition
- PSY 440/540 Cognition Research (writing intensive course)
- PSY 494/594 Engineering Psychology (after Fall 2012)
- PSY 499/599 Human Factors in Psychology (before Fall 2012)
- PSY 599 Introduction to SAS
- PSY 599 Applied Cognition
- PSY 599 Behavioral Research Methods
Additional Information
This lab (https://sites.google.com/a/oregonstate.edu/lien/lab) is accepting applications for undergrad research assistants. Preference will be given to students who are Psychology majors or minors, junior, sophomore, or freshman have GPA of 3.2 or above, and will be able to work with Dr. Lien for at least one academic year. These positions are ideal for students who are interested in gaining research experience relevant to Cognitive Psychology and Human Factors using computers and EEG and are planning to attend graduate school in the future. Please email Dr. Lien at [email protected].