Ching-I Lu

Ching-I Lu

Dr. Lu is a researcher in reading, especially in reading western musical notation system, as well as working memory and executive function. She is currently studying brain activation in Musicians comparing different reading tasks, including letters, musical notation, reading transposing instrument, and digit using magnetoencephalography (MEG) at VA hospital in Taipei, Taiwan.

Dr. Lu also focuses on cognitive process while healthy readers learn a new language, such as Chinese. Other areas of interest include Neuroplasticity of Musicians’ brain using neuroimaging techniques and musical therapy in stroke patients.

Research interest(s)/area of expertise

• Cognitive process of reading musical notation.

•  Generalization after musical training, especially in working memory and executive function in musicians.

•  Neuroplasticity of musicians' brains, using fMRI, TMS, and magnetoencephalography (MEG).

•  Music therapy in stroke patients.

•  Collaborating with AI lab @National Taiwan TsingHua University http://ai.cs.nthu.edu.tw/

Education

• PhD in Communication Sciences and Disorders, Wayne State University
• Fellowship Program NMR Center and the Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, at Massachusetts General Hospital
• MS in Psychology, National Taiwan University
• MA in Music, National Taiwan Normal University
• BA in Music, National Taiwan Normal University
• MTA: Introduction to Programming Using Python - Certified 2019 Issuer: Microsoft

Selected publications

• Lu, C.I., & Greenwald, M., Lin, Y. Y. & Bowyer, S. M. (2022). Music, Math and Working Memory: MEG Mapping of Brain Activation in Musicians. Front. Hum. Neurosci., 16 May 2022 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2022.866256.
• Lu, C.I., & Greenwald, M., Lin, Y. Y. & Bowyer, S. M. (2021). Musical transposing versus sight-reading: Mapping brain activation with Magnetoencephalography (MEG). Psychology of Music, 49 (3), 581-599. doi.org/10.1177/0305735619883692
• Lu, C. I., Greenwald, M., Lin, Y. Y. & Bowyer, S. (2019). Musical transposing versus sight-reading: Mapping brain activation with magnetoencephalography. Psychology of Music.   https://doi.org/10.1177/0305735619883692.
• Lu, C. I.,  Greenwald, M.,  Lin, Y. Y. & Bowyer, S. (2019). Reading musical notation versus English letters: Mapping brain activation with MEG. Psychology of Music, 47 (2), 255-269. https://doi.org/10.1177/0305735617744886
• Wu, W. C., Chuang, W. C., & Lu, C. I. (2018).  A Collaborative Action Research of Music Appreciation Assessment for Students at a Senior High School in Taiwan. Journal of National Taichung University: Education. 32 (1), 79-109.
• Davis, B., Lu, C. I. & Greenwald, M. (November 9-11, 2017). What is Normal? Normative Data for Healthy Older Adults Learning New Verbal Material. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the American- Speech-Language-Hearing Association, Los Angeles, California.
  Davis, B., Lu, C. I. & Greenwald, M. (March 23-25, 2017). Normative Learning Data for Healthy Older Adults Performing a Novel Verbal Task. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Michigan- Speech-Language-Hearing Association, Troy, Michigan.
• Lu, C.I., & Greenwald, M. (2016). Reading and working memory in adults with or without formal musical training: Musical and lexical tone. Psychology of Music, 44 (3), 369-387. DOI: 10.1177/0305735614568881.
• Meli, E., Manfre, J., Suntres, S., Atkinson, D., Meehan, M., Parrish, J., Lu, C. I., and Greenwald, M. (April 21-23, 2016). Contrasting Methods for Training Verbal Names in Healthy Adults. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Michigan- Speech-Language-Hearing Association, Grand Rapids, Michigan.
• Lu, C. I., and Greenwald, M. (Nov. 14-18, 2012). Musical Training Facilitates Reading of Mandarin Chinese. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, Atlanta, Georgia.
• Greenwald, M., Lu, C. I., Bowyer, S. (Nov. 17-20, 2011). Magnetoencephalography (MEG) Analyses of Lexical Decision in Developmental Dyslexia. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, San Diego, California.
• Lu, C. I., Greenwald, M., Bowyer, S. (Jun. 06-10, 2010). Brain activation during letter sounding and silent transposing of musical notation: A MEG study. Poster presented at the 16th Annual Meeting of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping, Barcelona, Spain.
• Lu, C. I., Greenwald, M., Bowyer, S. (Nov. 18-22, 2009). Patterns of Brain Activation During Silent Transposing of Musical Notation. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association in New Orleans, Louisiana.