Jeong-Ah Shin received a Ph.D. in educational psychology (cognitive science of teaching and learning) from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2008. She is now teaching and doing research in Department of English Language and Literature at Dongguk University and serving as an associate editor for COGNITIVE SCIENCE: A Multidisciplinary Journal.
Her fields of research center on cognitive science, psycholinguistics and second language research, including syntactic(structural) priming and syntactic parsing, language production, processing in language comprehension, bilingual language processing, and language learning of human and artificial intelligence.