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Mei-Ching Lien, Ph.D.

Associate Professor
Department of Psychology
Oregon State University
Corvallis, OR 97331-5303
Phone: (541) 737-1375
Fax: (541) 737-3547
Email: mei.lien@oregonstate.edu

Background

  • She received her Ph.D. in Cognitive Psychology from Purdue University in 2001 and completed post-doc training at the NASA Ames Research Center in 2004.
  • She received the American Psychological Association's Division of Experimental Psychology 2004 Young Investigators Award.
  • She is also a member of the American Psychological Association, the American Psychological Society, the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, and the Psychonomics Society.
  • She studies human attention and performance using both behavioral measures (e.g. response time and accuracy) and electrophysiological measures (e.g. brain activity). Specific research objectives are to determine why it is hard to perform two tasks at once, why it is hard to switch between cognitive tasks, and how executive control over cognition change across the lifespan.

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Brief Vita

Publications: Articles

  • Lien, M.-C., Ruthruff, E., Hsieh, S.-L., & Yu, Y.-T. (in press). Parallel central processing between tasks: Evidence from lateralized potential. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review.
  • Allen, P.A., Ruthruff, E., & Lien, M.-C. (in press). Attention. In J. E. Birren (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Gerontology (Second edition). Academic Press.
  • Shin, Y.-K., Cho, Y.-S., Lien, M.-C., & Proctor, R. W. (in press). Is the psychological refractory period effect for ideomotor compatible tasks eliminated by speed-emphasis instructions? Psychological Research.
  • Lien, M.-C., Allen, P. A., Ruthruff, E., Grabbe, J., McCann, R. S., & Remington, R. W. (2006). Visual word recognition without central attention: Evidence for greater automaticity with advancing age. Psychology and Aging, 21, 431-447.
  • Lien, M.-C., Ruthruff, E., & Kuhns, D. (2006). On the difficulty of task switching: Assessing the role of task-set inhibition. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 13, 530-535.
  • Cho, Y.-S., Lien, M.-C., & Proctor, R. W. (2006). Stroop dilution depends on the nature of the color carrier but not on its location. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 32, 826-839.
  • Lien, M.-C., Ruthruff, E., & Johnston, J.C. (2006). Attentional limitations in doing two tasks at once: The search for exceptions. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 15, 89-93.
  • Allen, P. A., Smith, A. F., Lien, M.-C., Grabbe, J., & Murphy, M. D. (2005). Evidence for an activation locus of the word frequency effect in lexical decision. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 31, 713-721.
  • Lien, M.-C., Ruthruff, E., Remington, R. W., & Johnston, J. C. (2005). On the limits of advance preparation for a task switch: Do people prepare all the task some of the time or some of the task all of the time? Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 31, 299-315.
  • Lien, M.-C., McCann, R. S., Ruthruff, E., & Proctor, R. W. (2005). Confirming and disconfirming theories about ideomotor compatibility in dual-task performance: A reply to Greenwald (2005). Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 31, 226-229.
  • Lien, M.-C., McCann, R. S., Ruthruff, E., & Proctor, R. W. (2005). Dual-Task performance with ideomotor compatible tasks: Is the central bottleneck intact, bypassed, or shifted in locus? Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 31, 122-144.
  • Lien, M.-C., & Ruthruff, E. (2004). Task switching in a hierarchical task structure: Evidence for the fragility of the task repetition benefit. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 30, 697-713.
  • Lien, M.-C., Schweickert, R., & Proctor, R. W. (2003). Task switching and response correspondence in the psychological refractory period paradigm. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 29, 692-712.
  • Lien, M.-C., Proctor, R. W., & Ruthruff, E. (2003). Still no evidence for perfect timesharing with two ideomotor compatible tasks: An observation on Greenwald (2003). Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 29, 1267-1272.
  • Lien, M.-C., & Remington, R. W. (2003). In a blink of the mind's eye: What you see is not what you get. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 17, 495-496.
  • Allen, P. A., Lien, M.-C., Murphy, M. D., Sanders, R. E., Judge, K., & McCann, R. S. (2002). Age differences in overlapping-task performance: Evidence for efficient parallel processing in older adults. Psychology and Aging, 17, 505-519.
  • Lien, M.-C., & Proctor, R. W. (2002). Stimulus-response compatibility and psychological refractory period effects: Implications for response selection. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 9, 212-238.
  • Lien, M.-C., Proctor, R. W., & Allen, P. A. (2002). Ideomotor compatibility in the psychological refractory period effect: 29 years of oversimplification. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 28, 396-409.
  • Proctor, R. W., & Lien, M.-C (2002). Who's in control here? Applied Cognitive Psychology, 16, 739-740.
  • Proctor, R. W., Lien, M.-C., Vu, K.-P., Schultz, E. E., & Salvendy, G. (2002). Improving security for authentication of users: Influence of proactive password restrictions. Behavior Research Methods, Instruments, & Computers, 34, 163-169.
  • Schultz, E. E., Proctor, R. W., Lien, M.-C., & Salvendy, G. (2001). Usability and security: An appraisal of usability issues in information security methods. Computers & Security, 20, 620-634.
  • Lien, M.-C., & Proctor, R. W. (2000). Multiple spatial correspondence effects on dual-task performance. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 26, 1260-1280.
  • Proctor, R. W., Lien, M.-C., Salvendy, G., & Schultz, E. E. (2000, April). A task analysis of usability in third-party authentication. Information Security Bulletin, 49-56.
  • Allen, P. A., Smith, A. F., Lien, M.-C., Weber, T. A., & Madden, D. J. (1997). Word frequency effects at brief exposure durations: Comment on Raap and Johansen (1994). Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 23, 1792-1797.