Yee Lee Shing

Short info

My research focuses on the development of learning and memory across the lifespan. I’m interested in how our brains form lasting representations of our everyday experiences, and in what ways the processes involved are similar or different among children, younger adults, and older adults. I also investigate how humans use prior knowledge and memory to predict upcoming events and how experiences in turn shape knowledge and memory in dynamically changing environments.

To this end, I conduct cross-sectional as well as longitudinal studies, combining experimental paradigms with neuroimaging techniques (functional and structural magnetic resonance imaging) to uncover brain–behavior relationships in different age groups and across time.

Open Science

Falck, J., Zhang, L., Raffington, L., Mohn, J. J., Triesch, J., Heim, C., & Shing, Y. L. (2023).
Longitudinal Changes in Value-based Learning in Middle Childhood: Distinct Contributions of Hippocampus and Striatum.
bioRxiv preprint

López, F. M., & Triesch, J. (2025).
Hierarchical Residuals Exploit Brain-Inspired Compositionality.
arXiv preprint arXiv:2502.16003.

McKay, C., Wijeakumar, S., Rafetseder, E., & Shing, Y. L. (2021).
Disentangling Age and Schooling Effects on Inhibitory Control Development: An fNIRS Investigation.
bioRxiv

Schroeger, A., Goettker, A., Braun, D. I., & Gegenfurtner, K. R. (2024).
Keeping your eye, head, and hand on the ball: Rapidly orchestrated visuomotor behavior in a continuous action task.
bioRxiv preprint 2024-12.

Articles

Davidson, C., Shing, Y. L., McKay, C., Rafetseder, E., & Wijeakumar, S. (2023).
The first year in formal schooling improves working memory and academic abilities.
Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 60, 101205.

Davidson, Ch., Shing, Y. L., McKay, C. Rafetseder, E., & Wijeakumar, S. (2023).
The first year in formal schooling improves working memory and academic abilities.
Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 60, 101205.

Ehrlich, I., Ortiz-Tudela, J., Tan, Y. Y., Muckli, L., & Shing, Y. L. (2024).
Mnemonic but not contextual feedback signals defy dedifferentiation in the aging early visual cortex.
Journal of neuroscience, 44(16).

Maier, P. M., Schommartz, I., Iggena, D., Finke, C., Ploner, C. J., & Shing, Y. L. (2024).
Development of spatial memory consolidation: A comparison between children and adults.
Developmental Psychology.

McKay, C., Wijeakumar, S., Rafetseder, E., & Shing, Y. L. (2021).
Disentangling age and schooling effects on inhibitory control development: An fNIRS investigation.
Developmental Science: e13205. 205, 102117.

Ortiz-Tudela, J., Bergmann, J., Bennett, M., Ehrlich, I., Muckli, L., & Shing, Y. L. (2023).
Concurrent contextual and time-distant mnemonic information co-exist as feedback in the human visual cortex.
NeuroImage, 265, 119778.

Schommartz, I., Kaindl, A. M., Buss, C., & Shing, Y. L. (2024).
Short- and long-delay consolidation of memory accessibility and precision across childhood and young adulthood.
Developmental psychology.

Schommartz, I., Lembcke, P. F., Ortiz-Tudela, J., Bauer, M., Kaindl, A. M., Buss, C., & Shing, Y. L. (2023).
Neural correlates and reinstatement of recent and remote memory: A comparison between children and young adults.
bioRxiv

Schommartz, I., Lembcke, P. F., Pupillo, F., Schuetz, H., de Chamorro, N. W., Bauer, M., ... & Shing, Y. L. (2023).
Distinct multivariate structural brain profiles are related to variations in short-and long-delay memory consolidation across children and young adults.
Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 59, 101192.

Schommartz, I., Lembcke, Ph. F., Pupillo, F., Schuetz, H., Wald de Chamorro, N., Bauer, M., Kaindl, A. M., Buss, C., & Shing, Y. L. (2023).
Distinct multivariate structural brain profiles are related to variations in short- and long-delay memory consolidation across children and young adults.
Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 59, 101192.

Turan, G., Spiertz, V., Bein, O., Shing, Y. L., & Nolden, S. (2025).
Unexpected Twists: Electrophysiological Correlates of Encoding and Retrieval of Events Eliciting Prediction Error.
Psychophysiology, 62(1), e14752.