Affective neuroscience
Facial expression perception
Affective information processing
Neural underpinnings of anxiety
Education
(Ph.D.) Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Dartmouth College
(M.A.) Department of Psychology, Seoul National University
(B.A.) Department of Psychology, Seoul National University
Experience
(2022-present) Department Chair, Department of Psychology, Sungkyunkwan University
(2020-present) Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, Sungkyunkwan University
(2020-present) Participating Faculty, Center for Neuroscience Imaging Research, Institute for Basic Science (IBS)
(2018-2020) Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Hawaii at Manoa
(2016-2018) Postdoctoral Associate, Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, Duke University
(2012-2014) Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, Korea Military Academy
Journal Articles
(2024)
Intersubject representational similarity analysis uncovers the impact of state anxiety on brain activation patterns in the human extrastriate cortex.
BRAIN IMAGING AND BEHAVIOR.
18,
2
(2023)
Corticolimbic structural connectivity encapsulates real-world emotional reactivity and happiness.
SOCIAL COGNITIVE AND AFFECTIVE NEUROSCIENCE.
18,
1
(2023)
Similarity in functional connectome architecture predicts teenage grit.
SOCIAL COGNITIVE AND AFFECTIVE NEUROSCIENCE.
18,
1
(2023)
Tracking Emotions From Song Lyrics: Analyzing 30 Years of K-Pop Hits.
EMOTION.
23,
6
(2023)
Topographical similarity of cortical thickness represents generalized anxiety symptoms in adolescence.
BRAIN RESEARCH BULLETIN.
202,
(2023)
Surprise as an Emotion: A Response to Ortony.
PERSPECTIVES ON PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCE.
18,
4
(2023)
On the relationship between the social brain, social connectedness, and wellbeing.
FRONTIERS IN PSYCHIATRY.
14,
(2022)
Structural connectome-based prediction of trait anxiety.
BRAIN IMAGING AND BEHAVIOR.
16,
6
(2022)
Volumetric variability of the ventromedial prefrontal cortex reflects the propensity for engaging in high-stakes gambling behavior.
BRAIN SCIENCES.
12,
11
(2022)
Morphological similarity of amygdala-ventral prefrontal pathways represents trait anxiety in younger and older adults.
PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
119,
42
(2022)
Meta-analytic activation maps can help identify affective processes captured by contrast-based task fMRI: the case of threat-related facial expressions.
SOCIAL COGNITIVE AND AFFECTIVE NEUROSCIENCE.
17,
9
(2022)
A connectome-wide functional signature of trait anger.
CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCE.
10,
3
(2021)
Human dorsomedial prefrontal cortex delineates the self and other against the tendency to form interdependent social representations.
NEURON.
109,
14
(2021)
Altered Task-Evoked Corticolimbic Responsivity in Generalized Anxiety Disorder.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR SCIENCES.
22,
7
(2020)
Amygdalostriatal coupling underpins positive but not negative coloring of ambiguous affect.
COGNITIVE AFFECTIVE & BEHAVIORAL NEUROSCIENCE.
20,
5
(2020)
Identifying the representational structure of affect using fMRI.
Affective Science.
1,
1
Honors / Awards
(2024) Early Career Award, Social & Affective Neuroscience Society
(2023) SKKU Teaching Award, Sungkyunkwan University
(2021) APS Rising Star Award, Association for Psychological Science
(2017) Hannah Croasdale Award for Academic Excellence, Dartmouth College
(2017) William M. Smith Promise Award in the Brain Sciences, Dartmouth College
(2015) SFN Trainee Professional Development Award, Society for Neuroscience