Vanessa Lim

Phone: +64 9 373 7599 ext 88516
Room: HSB 616
Email: v.lim@auckland.ac.nz

As Neuroimaging Lab Manager and Research Fellow, Vanessa is responsible for the RCCN's High Density EEG facility and assists with fMRI research within the RCCN. Vanessa is also supervisor using behavioural methods, EEG, & fMRI to investigate movement disorders and music processing.
 

Vanessa completed her PhD from Melbourne, during which she spent 11 months collecting data for her PhD in Hannover, Germany. After her PhD she returned to Auckland and completed two Post-Doctoral Fellowships in Psychology and Sport and Exercise Science. Vanessa is now the Psychology Department’s Neuroimaging Laboratory Manager and Research Fellow.

Vanessa has spent over ten years investigating sensorimotor integration in individuals with Focal Hand Dystonia (a movement disorder) and more recently Parkinson’s disease. Aside from movement disorders, Vanessa has a great interest and several publications in the areas of the cognitive neuroscience of music, auditory processing, amusia, and tonal language processing.

• JIANG, C, HAMM, J.P., LIM, V.K., KIRK, I.J. YANG, Y. (2010).  Processing melodic contour and speech intonation in congenital amusics with Mandarin Chinese.  Neuropsychologia, 48, 2630-2639. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2010.05.009
• WU, C.C, FAIRHALL, S.L., McNAIR, N.A., HAMM, J.P., KIRK, I.J., CUNNINGTON,  R., ANDERSON, T., LIM, V.K. (2010).  Impaired sensorimotor integration in focal hand dystonia patients in the absence of symptoms.  Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery & Psychiatry, 81, 659-665. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/jnnp.2009.185637
• Wu, C.C., Kirk, I.J., Hamm, J.P., & Lim, V.K. (2008). The neural networks involved in pitch labeling of absolute pitch musicians. Neuroreport, 19, 851-854. http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/WNR.0b013e3282ff63b1
• Lim, V.K. (2007).  Health related quality of life in patients with dystonia and their caregivers in New Zealand and Australia.  Movement Disorders, 22, 998-1003. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/mds.21486
• Lim, V. K., Altenmüller, E. , & Bradshaw, J.L.  (2001).  Focal dystonia: Current Theories.  Human Movement Science, 20, 875-914. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0167-9457(01)00076-8

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