Tae-Ho Lee | Psychology Department

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Tae-Ho Lee is an Associate Professor of Psychology at Virginia Tech. He obtained his Ph.D. in Brain and Cognitive Science from the University of Southern California and an M.A. in Clinical Psychology from Korea University. In 2020, he was honored as a 'Rising Star' by the Association for Psychological Science (APS). His research focuses on studying affective and cognitive neural development, as well as neurodegeneration across the lifespan.

Interests

Age-related attentional control development.
Dyadic neural concordance of family and its impact on the adolescent emotional development
Brain connectome dynamics in emotional processing

Recent Courses Taught

PSYC 5984: Brain Imaging in Cognitive Neuroscience
PSYC 1094: Principles of Psychological Research

Select Publications

Neal J, Song I, Katz B & Lee TH (2023). Association of intrinsic functional connectivity between the locus coeruleus and salience network with attentional ability. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
Zhou Z, Chen YY, Yang B, Qu Y & Lee TH (2023). Family Cohesion Moderates the Relation between Parent-Child Neural Connectivity Pattern Similarity and Youth’s Emotional Adjustment, Journal of Neuroscience
Chen YY, Uljarevic M, Neal J, Greening S, Yim H & Lee TH (2022). Excessive functional coupling with less variability between salience and default-mode networks in Autism Spectrum Disorder. Biological Psychiatry: CNNI
Lee TH, Greening SG, Ueno T, Ponzio A, Clewett D, Sakaki M, Mather M (2018). Arousal increases neural gain via the locus coeruleus-norepinephrine system in younger adults but not in older adults, Nature Human Behaviour

Degrees

2015 Ph.D. University of Southern California
2006 M.A. Korea University
2004 B.A. Korea University