Ho Ming CHOW “Ho Ming Chow”, “Chow Ho Ming”, fMRI, Osnabrueck PhD Candidate Institute of Cognitive Science University of Osnabrueck, Address: Albrechtstr. 28, 49076 Osnabrueck, Germany Phone: +49-(0) 541-9692706 Email: hchow “at” uos “dot” de
	Research interests: Language comprehension Information processing in the frontal systems Functional integration and connectivity Computational and statistical modelling of brain imaging data Ergonomics
	PhD project: Using fMRI and dynamic causal modelling (effective connectivity analysis), we investigate the neural mechanisms underlying the retrieval and integration of the reader’s knowledge in comprehension. Two fMRI experiments were conducted. In these experiments, the reader’s attention was orientated to focus on different aspects of the text. These manipulations presumably lead to the encouragement or inhibition of the retrieval of the reader’s knowledge. This project is supported by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) and supervised by Prof. Peter Bosch, Universität Osnabrück, Prof. Mark Greenlee, Universität Regensburg and Dr. Barbara Kaup, TU Berlin.
	Journal publications: Chow, H.M., Kaup, B., Raabe, M., Greenlee, M.W., 2008. Evidence of fronto-temporal interactions for strategic inference processes during language comprehension, NeuroImage 40(2), 940–954. Courtney, A.J., Chow, H.M., 2001. A study of the discriminability of foot symbols, Ergonomics 44(3), 328–338. Courtney, A.J., Chow, H.M., 2001. Ergonomic considerations in designing tactile guide paths for the blind, Asian Journal of Ergonomics 2(1), 1–11. Courtney, A.J., Chow, H.M., 2000. A study of tile design for tactile guide pathways, International Journal of Industrial Ergonomics 25, 693–698.
	Poster presentations and conference papers: Chow, H.M., Kaup, B., Friese, U., Raabe, M., Greenlee, M.W., 2008. World knowledge retrieval during text reading: a dynamic causal modelling study. Poster will be presented in the Annual Meeting of the Organization of Human Brain Mapping, Melbourne, Australia. (jpg) Chow, H.M., Kaup, B., Raabe, M., Greenlee, M.W., 2007. Inferencing in language comprehension: a dynamic causal modelling study. Poster presented in the Annual Meeting of the Organization of Human Brain Mapping, Chicago, USA. (jpg) Quirin, M., Helduser, C., Scholz, J., Küstermann, E., Chow, H.M., Raabe, M., Kazen, M., Kuhl, J., Strüber, D., Roth, G., 2007. Love against Power: An fMRI study on motive-dependent approach and avoidance motivation. Poster presented in the Emotion Preconference of the 8th annual meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Memphis, USA. Chow, H. M., Friese, U., Schmalhofer, F., 2005. Reading goals modulate the functional connectivity between language areas in human brain. Poster presented in the 15th Annual Meeting of the Society for Text and Discourse, Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Chow, H. M., Friese, U., Schmalhofer, F., 2005. The neural correlates of two reading strategies: a functional connectivity analysis. Poster presented in the 47. Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psychologen, Regensburg, Germany. Friese, U., Schmalhofer, F., Pietruska, K., Rutschmann, R.M., Raabe, M., Chow, H.M., 2005. An fMRI-study on the recognition of text statements in dependence of prior reading experience. Poster presented in the 15th Annual Meeting of the Society for Text and Discourse. Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Courtney, A.J., Chow, H.M., 1999. Design of tactile guide paths. In: M. A. Hanson, E. J. Lovesey and S. A. Robertson (Eds.), Contemporary Ergonomics. Proceedings of the Annual Conference 1999 of Ergonomics Society. Taylor & Francis, 125–129.
	Awards: Research Grants for Doctoral Candidates and Young Academics and Scientists, DAAD (the German Academic Exchange Service), 10/2005–09/2008. Organization for Human Brain Mapping Travel Award (2008). Postgraduate Studentship, University of Hong Kong, 09/1997–08/1999.
	Ho Ming Chow, “Ho Ming Chow”, Chow Ho Ming, “Chow Ho Ming”, Ho Ming, “Ho Ming”, fMRI, fMRI, Osnabrueck, Osnabrück, Germany. Evidence of fronto-temporal interactions for strategic inference processes during language comprehension