Nick Yeung, PhD
University Lecturer in Experimental Psychology
Fellow of University College
Address: Dept of Experimental Psychology
South Parks Road
Oxford
OX1 3UD
Phone: (01865) 271389
Fax: (01865) 310447
Email: nicholas.yeung <at> psy.ox.ac.uk
Curriculum Vitae
I received my BA in Experimental Psychology from Oxford in 1996, then a PhD in the same area from Cambridge University in 2000. I completed my postdoctoral training at Princeton University in 2004, at which time I took up an academic post in the Psychology Department at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, PA. I returned to the UK in October 2006 to take up my current post at Oxford, where I am a fellow of University College.
Teaching
I
currently teach three undergraduate lecture courses in the EP dept: a 1st year introductory course in cognitive psychology, and a 2nd year course on memory and attention (jointly with Prof. Charles Spence), and an advanced option in the 3rd year on cognitive neuroscience. At Univ, I give the first year tutorials in psychology, and teach other tutorials in my specialisation of cognitive neuroscience. For more information about studying psychology at Univ, please consult the
college's website.
Research
My research investigates the question of how intelligent thought and action emerge from processing in the brain. I am particularly interested in the way that individual cognitive processes become organised to produce effective, goal-directed behaviour. Translated into neuroscientific terms, the goal is to understand the mechanisms responsible for coordinating brain activity that is distributed across multiple, functionally specialised regions.
