2025
Visiting scholars
Jiwoong has received the Joongbong Brain Science Fellowship and will visit Jack Gallant’s lab. Congratulations!
Jaeyoung is visiting the labs of Steven Piantadosi and Jack Gallant at UC Berkeley. Congratulations!
PhD defense
Dasom successfully defended his PhD and is now a postdoctoral researcher in our lab. Congrats! 👴
CCN 2025
Dasom, Hun, Jaeyoung, and Sanghyun presented posters at CCN (Cognitive Computational Neuroscience). Dasom’s work was selected for a contributed talk—congratulations! 💑
New paper!
Jiwoong’s new paper is out in Communication Biology: Hippocampal systems for event encoding and sequencing during ongoing narrative comprehension! Congrats, Jiwoong! 📄
New grant
Our lab has been awarded a grant for sEEG–fMRI research, in collaboration with Seunghoon Lee, MD (Samsung Medical Center) and Prof. Se-Bum Paik (KAIST).
Welcome Seongeon!
Seongeon is joining our team to support the NatPAC dataset and HappyBrain projects. We’re excited to have him aboard.
KSCBP 2025
Dasom, Jisu, Jaeyoung, Kwon, Sanghyun, Jiwoong, and Jiun gave talks at the KSCBP (Korean Society for Cognitive & Biological Psychology) Annual Meeting.
Awards to Sanghyun (Data Challenge) and Royoung (Best Presenter). Congratulations! 🎉
New paper!
Dasom’s new paper is out in Nature Communications: Coordinated representations for naturalistic memory encoding and retrieval in hippocampal neural subspaces! Congrats, Dasom! 📃
Check this out 👀
2024
OHBM 2024
Royoung, Dasom, Jaeyoung, Jiwoong, Kwon, and Jisu presented posters at OHBM (Organization for Human Brain Mapping)!
Royoung also gave a talk. Congratulations! 👏
VSS 2024
Jiwoong and Royoung presented posters at VSS (Vision Science Society)! 👁️✨
SANS 2024
Dasom, Jisu, and Jiun presented posters at SANS (Social & Affective Neuroscience Society)!
Dasom and Jiun also gave Blitz talks and Dasom recieved a travel award! Congratulations! 🥳
Welcome Kyubeen!
Welcome our new research staff, Kyubeen! She will support the NatPAC dataset project.
Welcome Byeongjun!
Welcome our new graduate student, Byungjun!
KSCBP2024
At the 2024 Annual Meeting of the Korean Society for Cognitive and Biological Psychology (KSCBP), Jiwoong, Royoung, and Jiun received the Best Presentation Awards, and Jiwoong and Sanghyun received the Data Challenge Awards. Congratulations to all!
Master defense
Sanghyun successfully defended his Master’s thesis, “Adaptive goal-switching and planning for sequential decision-making in dynamic environments.” Congratulations, Sanghyun!
2023
New paper!
“Large-scale neural dynamics in a shared low-dimensional state space reflect cognitive and attentional dynamics” is accepted for publication in Elife.
KSCBP 2023
At the 2023 Annual Meeting of the Korean Society for Cognitive and Biological Psychology, Dasom received the Best Presentation Award. Congratulations, Dasom!
Welcome Seoyu!
Welcome our new research staff, Seoyu! Seoyu will support the 7T NatPAC dataset project.
2022
OHBM 2022
Sanghyun attended OHBM 2022.
Welcome Jiun and Sanghyun!
Welcome our new graduate students, Jiun and Sanghyun! Jiun is working on real-world shared memory and Sanghyun is working on plan and goal adaptation.
Visiting scholars
Royoung is visiting Kendrick Kay’s lab at the University of Minnesota. Congratulations!
Jisu is visiting Luke Chang’s lab at Dartmouth College. Congratulations!
Welcome Sunhyun!
Welcome our new research staff, Sunhyun! She will support the 7T NatPAC dataset project.
2021
Welcome our new graduate students, Dasom and Kwon!
Congratulations to Hayoung on publishing her work in Journal of Neuroscience! Her work has supported adaptive reconfiguration and interaction of functional brain networks on causal integration of narratives. This work is in collaboration with Dr. Hyunjin Park. https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0037-21.2021
Congratulations to Kyeong-jin on her publication in NeuroImage! Her work shows that neural representations of ensemble perception arise by pooling signals at multiple levels of the visual processing stream. This work is in collaboration with Drs. Sang Chul Chong and Min Suk Kang. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2021.118680
2020
Congratulations to Insub, a recent graduate of our lab, on publishing his master’s thesis work in PNAS! His work has shown a transition along the visual hierarchy—from early, stimulus-bound coding of retinal light to higher-level representations aligned with perceived color—in collaboration with Drs. Sang Wook Hong and Steven Shevell. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1911041117
Welcome our new postdoctoral researcher, Hun Seok!
Welcome our new graduate students, Royoung , Jisu, and JaeYoung!
Yelim successfully defended her Master’s thesis, “Affective states modulate neural representations of color during categorization.” Congratulations, Yelim! She has joined VAIV company.
Welcome Dasom, our new post-master’s researcher!
Jane successfully defended her Master’s thesis, “Animacy of a perspective-taking object modulates the neural representation of mentally rotated objects.” Congratulations, Jane! In fall 2020, Jane will join the Haxby lab at Dartmouth College as a PhD student.
2019
Congratulations to Yelim and Jane on receiving the 2019 Best Presentation Award from the Korean Society for Cognitive & Biological Psychology!
Welcome our new grad student, Jiwoong!
Congratulations to our new M.S. graduates, Insub and Hayoung!
Insub and Hayoung successfully defended their Master’s theses, “Neural representations of color perception progressively evolve across the human visual cortex” and “Dynamic reconfiguration of functional networks when understanding a story.”
In fall 2019, Insub will join the Grill-Spector lab at Stanford Univ. and Hayoung will join the Rosenberg lab at Univ. of Chicago as PhD students. We wish them all the best in their next steps!
2018
Welcome our new lab manager, Jiyeong, and undergraduate RA, Mooyoung and Jongmin!
Congratulations to Insub on giving his talk at the Vision Science Society!
Congratulations to Hayoung and Sunyoung on presenting their posters at the Vision Science Society!
Welcome our new undergraduate RA—Kahyun, Seung-Yub, Chanho, Sung-Min and Kwon!
Congratulations to Insub on receiving the 2018 VSS Student Travel Award!
Welcome our new graduate students, Yelim and Jane!
2017
Welcome Hisham, our undergraduate RA!
Congratulation to Daehyun on successfully defending his thesis, “The effect of emotion on neural representations of color.”
Congratulations to our postdoc, Kyeong-Jin on giving her talk at the Society for Neuroscience annual meeting!
Congratulations to Insub and Sunyoung on presenting their first posters at the Society for Neuroscience annual meeting!
Welcome our new graduate students, Insub and Hayoung!
2016
Welcome our new lab manager, Sunyoung!
Welcome our new postdoc, Kyeong-Jin!
Our lab has moved to Sunkyunkwan University (SKKU).
See the latest commentary on our paper, “Interpolated visual features during apparent motion are represented in primary visual cortex,” here.
Check out the Neuroscientist News article on our recent work on top-down influences of visual processing.
2015
Welcome our new RA, Kirsten Ziman! Kirsten joins us from USC where she spent time in the Brain and Creativity Institute.
Our RA, Ariana Familiar, is off to grad school at the University of Pennsylvania this fall where she’ll be studying Cognitive Neuroscience
Congratulations to our former RA, Stefan Uddenberg, for receiving an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship!
2014
Congratulations to Won Mok for receiving a Rockefeller grant to study the influence of emotional states on perception!
Congratulations to our grad student Qing Yu for successfully giving her first talk at the Vision Sciences Society annual meeting!
Congratulations to our grad student Qing Yu for receiving the Vision Sciences Society Student Travel Award!
Welcome our new grad student, Feilong Ma!
2013
Welcome our new RA, Ariana Familiar! Ariana joins us from NYU where she worked with Marisa Carrasco and Marialuisa Martelli.
Our RA, Stefan Uddenberg, is off to grad school at Yale University this fall.