Biography
Natalie Au Yeung is a third year Ph.D. student who studies Human Development in Context (HDiC) while specializing in Cognition and Neuroscience under her advisors, Dr. Lindsey Richland and Dr. Drew Bailey.
She is interested in how different kinds of pressure will affect individual’s cognitive performance and emotions. She is also interested in using different quantitative methodologies to examine the social and cognitive aspects of pressure. Currently, Natalie is working with her advisor on the project “Impacts of COVID-19 Out-of-School Stressors on Executive Function and E- Learning” to explore how COVID-19 stressors affect students’ online learning and emotion.
Natalie graduated from the Chinese University of Hong Kong as a psychology major. She also earned her MA in Social Sciences with a concentration in Psychology from the University of Chicago. Prior to her studies in the United States, she worked as a researcher in the Education Bureau of Hong Kong and a high school math teacher in Hong Kong for five years. These experiences have formed her interests in her current interdisciplinary research.
December 2020
Natalie Au Yeung is a third year Ph.D. student who studies Human Development in Context (HDiC) while specializing in Cognition and Neuroscience under her advisors, Dr. Lindsey Richland and Dr. Drew Bailey.
She is interested in how different kinds of pressure will affect individual’s cognitive performance and emotions. She is also interested in using different quantitative methodologies to examine the social and cognitive aspects of pressure. Currently, Natalie is working with her advisor on the project “Impacts of COVID-19 Out-of-School Stressors on Executive Function and E- Learning” to explore how COVID-19 stressors affect students’ online learning and emotion.
Natalie graduated from the Chinese University of Hong Kong as a psychology major. She also earned her MA in Social Sciences with a concentration in Psychology from the University of Chicago. Prior to her studies in the United States, she worked as a researcher in the Education Bureau of Hong Kong and a high school math teacher in Hong Kong for five years. These experiences have formed her interests in her current interdisciplinary research.
December 2020
