Researcher biography
Dr Li-Ann Leow is a post-doctoral research fellow at the Centre for Sensorimotor Performance, at the University of Queensland, working with Associate Professor Tim Carroll, Associate Professor Stephan Riek, Aymar de Rugy and Dr Welber Marinovic. D Prior to working at UQ she completed a 2 year postdoctoral research fellowship at the Brain and Mind Institute, Western University (University of Western Ontario), working with Dr Jessica Grahn. Before that she pursued a doctoral research under the supervision of Geoff Hammond and Andrea Loftus at the University of Western Australia, examining how Parkinson's disease patients show in a selective deficit in retaining motor learning acquired from updating an internal model, despite intact ability to update an internal model during motor learning.
Book Chapter
Li-Ann Leow and Grahn, Jessica A. (2014). Neural mechanisms of rhythm perception: present findings and future directions. Neurobiology of interval timing. (pp. 325-338) edited by Hugo Merchant and Victor de Lafuente. New York, NY United States: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-1-4939-1782-2_17
Journal Articles
Leow, Li-Ann, Jiang, Jiaqin, Bowers, Samantha, Zhang, Yuhan, Dux, Paul E. and Filmer, Hannah L. (2024). Intensity-dependent effects of tDCS on motor learning are related to dopamine. Brain Stimulation. doi: 10.1016/j.brs.2024.03.015
Willmot, Nicholas, Leow, Li-Ann, Filmer, Hannah L. and Dux, Paul E. (2024). Exploring the intra-individual reliability of tDCS: A registered report. Cortex, 173, 61-79. doi: 10.1016/j.cortex.2023.12.015
Leow, Li-Ann, Bernheine, Lena, Carroll, Timothy J., Dux, Paul E. and Filmer, Hannah L. (2024). Dopamine Increases Accuracy and Lengthens Deliberation Time in Explicit Motor Skill Learning. eneuro, 11 (1), ENEURO.0360-23.2023. doi: 10.1523/eneuro.0360-23.2023
Filmer, Hannah L., Loughnan, Kathleen, Seeto, Jennifer X., Ballard, Timothy, Ehrhardt, Shane E., Shaw, Thomas, Wards, Yohan, Rideaux, Reuben, Leow, Li-Ann, Sewell, David and Dux, Paul E. (2023). Individual differences in decision strategy relate to neurochemical excitability and cortical thickness. The Journal of Neuroscience, 43 (42), 7006-7015. doi: 10.1523/jneurosci.1086-23.2023
Leow, Li-Ann, Marcos, Anjeli, Nielsen, Esteban, Sewell, David K, Ballard, Tim, Dux, Paul E. and Filmer, Hannah L. (2023). Dopamine alters the effect of brain stimulation on decision-making. The Journal of Neuroscience, 43 (41), 6909-6919. doi: 10.1523/jneurosci.1140-23.2023
Willmot, Nicholas S, Leow, Li-Ann, Filmer, Hannah L. and Dux, Paul E. (2023). Failure of tDCS to impact militarised threat-detection in a military cohort. Imaging Neuroscience, 1, 1-11. doi: 10.1162/imag_a_00004
Reuter, Eva-Maria, Booms, Arthur and Leow, Li-Ann (2022). Using EEG to study sensorimotor adaptation. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 134 104520, 104520. doi: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2021.104520
Mackay, Christopher P., Brauer, Sandra G., Kuys, Suzanne S., Schaumberg, Mia A. and Leow, Li-Ann (2021). The acute effects of aerobic exercise on sensorimotor adaptation in chronic stroke. Restorative Neurology and Neuroscience, 39 (5), 367-377. doi: 10.3233/RNN-211175
Leow, Li‐Ann, Tresilian, James R., Uchida, Aya, Koester, Dirk, Spingler, Tamara, Riek, Stephan and Marinovic, Welber (2021). Acoustic stimulation increases implicit adaptation in sensorimotor adaptation. European Journal of Neuroscience, 54 (3) ejn.15317, 5047-5062. doi: 10.1111/ejn.15317
Leow, Li-Ann, Watson, Sarah, Prete, David, Waclawik, Kristina and Grahn, Jessica A. (2021). How groove in music affects gait. Experimental Brain Research, 239 (8), 2419-2433. doi: 10.1007/s00221-021-06083-y
Reuter, Eva-Maria, Leow, Li-Ann and Carroll, Timothy J. (2020). Task Feedback Processing Differs Between Young and Older Adults in Visuomotor Rotation Learning Despite Similar Initial Adaptation and Savings. Neuroscience, 451, 79-98. doi: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2020.09.038
Leow, Li-Ann, Marinovic, Welber, de Rugy, Aymar and Carroll, Timothy J. (2020). Task errors drive memories that improve sensorimotor adaptation. Journal of Neuroscience, 40 (15), 3075-3088. doi: 10.1523/jneurosci.1506-19.2020
Leow, Li-Ann, Marinovic, Welber, de Rugy, Aymar and Carroll, Timothy J. (2018). Task errors contribute to implicit aftereffects in sensorimotor adaptation. European Journal of Neuroscience, 48 (11), 3397-3409. doi: 10.1111/ejn.14213
Leow, Li-Ann, Uchida, Aya, Egberts, Jamie-Lee, Riek, Stephan, Lipp, Ottmar V., Tresilian, James and Marinovic, Welber (2018). Triggering mechanisms for motor actions: the effects of expectation on reaction times to intense acoustic stimuli. Neuroscience, 393, 226-235. doi: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2018.10.008
Leow, Li-Ann, Waclawik, Kristina and Grahn, Jessica A (2017). The role of attention and intention in synchronization to music: effects on gait. Experimental Brain Research, 236 (1), 1-17. doi: 10.1007/s00221-017-5110-5
Leow, Li-Ann, Marinovic, Welber, Riek, Stephan and Carroll, Timothy J. (2017). Cerebellar anodal tDCS increases implicit learning when strategic re-aiming is suppressed in sensorimotor adaptation. PLoS One, 12 (7) e0179977, e0179977. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0179977
Leow, Li-Ann, Gunn, Reece, Marinovic, Welber and Carroll, Timothy J. (2017). Estimating the implicit component of visuomotor rotation learning by constraining movement preparation time. Journal of Neurophysiology, 118 (2), 666-676. doi: 10.1152/jn.00834.2016
Leow, Li-Ann, de Rugy, Aymar, Marinovic, Welber, Riek, Stephan and Carroll, Timothy John (2016). Savings for visuomotor adaptation requires prior history of error, not prior repetition of successful actions. Journal of Neurophysiology, 116 (4), 1603-1614. doi: 10.1152/jn.01055.2015
Leow, Li-Ann, Rinchon, Cricia and Grahn, Jessica (2015). Familiarity with music increases walking speed in rhythmic auditory cueing. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1337 (The Neurosciences and Music V), 53-61. doi: 10.1111/nyas.12658
Leow, Li-Ann, Parrott, Taylor and Grahn, Jessica A. (2014). Individual differences in beat perception affect gait responses to low- and high-groove music. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 8 (OCT) 811. doi: 10.3389/fnhum.2014.00811
Leow, Li-Ann, Hammond, Geoff and de Rugy, Aymar (2014). Anodal motor cortex stimulation paired with movement repetition increases anterograde interference but not savings. European Journal of Neuroscience, 40 (8), 3243-3252. doi: 10.1111/ejn.12699
Leow, Li-Ann, de Rugy, Aymar, Loftus, Andrea M. and Hammond, Geoff (2013). Different mechanisms contributing to savings and anterograde interference are impaired in Parkinson's disease. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 7 (Art No.: 55). doi: 10.3389/fnhum.2013.00055
Leow, Li-Ann, Loftus, Andrea M. and Hammond, Geoffrey R. (2012). Impaired savings despite intact initial learning of motor adaptation in Parkinson's disease. Experimental Brain Research, 218 (2), 295-304. doi: 10.1007/s00221-012-3060-5
Conference Paper
Mackay, Christopher, Kuys, Suzanne, Schaumberg, Mia, Leow, Li-Ann and Brauer, Sandy (2019). The effect of a single bout of aerobic exercise on sensori-motor function in a chronic stroke population. SSA Conference, Canberra, Australia, 10 – 13 September 2019. London, United Kingdom: Sage.