Dr Ruth Lee

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Dr Ruth Lee

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r.lee@yorksj.ac.uk

Department:

School of Education, Language, and Psychology

Biography

Expertise:

Language processing, Temporal cognition

Job title:

Senior Lecturer

Biography:

I completed an MEd 'conversion course' in Psychology of Education at the University of Manchester in 2008, and received my PhD from the University of Toronto in 2018. I held postdoctoral posts at Queen's University Belfast and the University of York between 2018 and 2021, before returning to Queen's University Belfast as a Lecturer in Education at the School of Psychology in 2021. I joined York St. John in 2022.

Qualifications:

PhD, Developmental Psychology and Education, University of Toronto, 2018 MEd, Psychology of Education, University of Manchester, 2008 BA(Hons), Russian Studies, University of Sheffield, 1995

My Latest

Nyhout, Angela ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3852-9527 and Lee, Ruth ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8854-1968 (2022) Young children are not driven to explore imaginary worlds. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 45.
O’Connor, Patrick A. and Lee, Ruth ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8854-1968 (2023) ‘We can’t see your slides!’ Undergraduate psychology students’ perceptions of emergency remote teaching. Psychology Teaching Review, 29 (1). pp. 25-36.
Lee, Ruth ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8854-1968, Chambers, Craig and Ganea, Patricia (2018) Children prioritize prior background knowledge over story information during real-time linguistic processing. In: Budapest CEU Conference on Cognitive Development, 4-6 January 2018, Budapest, Hungary.
Lee, Ruth ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8854-1968, Gabrielle Strouse, Gabrielle Strouse, Brian Verdine, Brian Verdine, Katherine O'Doherty, Katherine O'Doherty and Georgine Troseth, Georgine Troseth (2015) Children's Symbolic Media Environments: a Latent Class Analysis. In: Annual meeting of the Jean Piaget Society, 4-6 June 2015, Toronto, Canada. (Unpublished)
Lee, Ruth ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8854-1968 and Ganea, Patricia (2017) Children’s semantic and world knowledge overrides fictional information during linguistic processing. In: SRCD 2017 Biennial meeting, 6-8 April 2017, Austin, Texas, USA. (Unpublished)
Lee, Ruth ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8854-1968, Chambers, Craig and Ganea, Patricia (2017) Generic language diminishes children’s reliance on novel discourse information about familiar fantastical characters. In: Boston University Conference on Language Development, 3-5 November 2017, Boston, USA. (Unpublished)
Lee, Ruth ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8854-1968 and Ganea, Patricia (2013) Looking ahead: Children’s inferences from picture books. In: Cognitive Development Society, 18-19 October 2013, Memphis, Tennessee USA. (Unpublished)
Lee, Ruth ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8854-1968 and Ganea, Ruth (2015) Must I Draw you a Picture? Children's Mental Manipulation of Implicit Information. In: Society for Research in Child Development Conference, 19-21 March 2015, Philadelphia, USA.
Lee, Ruth ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8854-1968, Herman, Jayme, Nishat, Fareha and Peskin, Joan (2017) Strategies for interpreting fiction in high functioning autism and typical development. In: Canadian Psychological Association Convention 2017, 7-10 June 2017, Toronto, Canada.
Lee, Ruth ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8854-1968, Chambers, Craig G., Huettig, Falk and Ganea, Patricia A. (2017) Children’s semantic and world knowledge overrides fictional information during anticipatory language processing. In: CogSci 2017 Proceedings of the 39th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. Cognitive Science Society, pp. 730-735

My Most Viewed

#	Item title
1	‘We can’t see your slides!’ Undergraduate psychology students’ perceptions of emergency remote teaching	40	28
2	Contextual modulation of appearance-trait learning	36	12
3	Toward an Account of Intuitive Time	33	8
4	Past-future preferences for hedonic goods and the utility of experiential memories	30	12
5	Pain in the Past and Pleasure in the Future: The Development of Past–Future Preferences for Hedonic Goods	26	11
6	Spontaneous first impressions emerge from brief training	26	10
7	Exploring people’s beliefs about the experience of time	24	10
8	Children’s semantic and world knowledge overrides fictional information during anticipatory language processing	23
9	Children’s and adults’ use of fictional discourse and semantic knowledge for prediction in language processing	22	8
10	A developmental perspective on temporal asymmetries	19