Joonwoo Kim   김준우

Personal Interests include: 🧑🏻‍💻 coding & productivity hacking   🎧 digging hip hop, jazz, and R&B   🕶️ exploring fashion & fragrance
🍺 visiting local breweries and cafés 🍴going on food adventures with my wife

Affiliations

Education

Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles

1. Kim, J., Lee, S., Nam, K. (2026). Neural sensitivity to word frequency modulated by morphological structure: univariate and multivariate fMRI evidence from morphologically complex words. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. doi:10.1162/jocn.a.2621

2. Kim, J., Lee, S., & Nam, K. (2026). Rapid orthographic and delayed phonological processing: ERP and oscillatory evidence from masked priming in Korean. Cortex, 200, 74–91. doi: 10.1016/j.cortex.2026.04.008

3. Kim, J., Kim, J., Lee, S., & Nam, K. (2026). The anatomical basis of morpho-syntactic computation reflected in gray matter volume and pattern of the inferior frontal gyrus. Brain Structure and Function, 231, 71. doi: 10.1007/s00429-026-03120-w

4. Kim, S., Kim, J., Lee, S., & Nam, K. (2025). Risk-taking propensity and its influence on lexical decision performance: a comparative study of high-and low-risk groups. Language and Cognition, 17, e20. doi:10.1017/langcog.2024.42

5. Kwon, S., Lee, S., Kim, J.*, & Nam, K.* (2024). The time course of syllable frequency effects in the visual recognition of Korean morphologically complex nouns: An ERP study. Frontiers in Language Sciences, 3, 1477606. doi: 10.3389/flang.2024.1477606
   * Co-corresponding authors

6. Kim, J., Kim, S., & Nam, K. (2024). Neural Dynamics of Processing Inflectional Morphology: An fMRI Study on Korean Inflected Verbs. Brain Sciences, 14(8), 752. doi: 10.3390/brainsci14080752

7. Kim, J., Kim, S., & Nam, K. (2024). The time course of semantic ambiguity in visual word recognition: behavioral and ERP evidence for the lexical-semantic effect. Frontiers in Psychology, 15, 1378125. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2024.1378125

8. Kim, S., Kim, J., & Nam, K. (2023). Electrophysiological evidence reveals the asymmetric transfer from the right to left hemisphere as key to reading proficiency. Brain Sciences, 13(4), 621. doi: 10.3390/brainsci13040621

9. Kim, S., Kim, J., & Nam, K. (2022). Familiarity with words modulates interhemispheric interactions in visual word recognition. Frontiers in Psychology, 13, 892858. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2022.892858

10. Kim, J., Kang, J., Kim, J., & Nam, K. (2022). Temporal dynamics of form and meaning in morphologically complex word processing: An ERP study on Korean inflected verbs. Journal of Neurolinguistics, 64, 101098. doi: 10.1016/j.jneuroling.2022.101098

Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles (Korean)

1. Park, J., Kim, J.*, & Nam, K.* (2025). The Role of Eojeol Learning and Temporal Delay in Memory: A Comparison of Episodic and Semantic Memory. The Korean Journal of Cognitive and Biological Psychology, 37(4), 149-165. doi: 10.22172/cogbio.2025.37.4.003
   * Co-corresponding authors

2. Lee, S., Kwon, S., Kim, J., Kim, S., Koo, M., & Nam, K. (2024). The Inhibitory Effect of the First Syllable Frequency in Spoken Eojeol Recognition. The Korean Journal of Cognitive and Biological Psychology, 36(2), 77-90. doi: 10.22172/cogbio.2024.36.2.002

3. Kim, J., Lee, S., Kim, S., & Nam, K. (2023). Syllable frequency effect in visual word recognition: a regression study on morphologically simple and complex Korean words. The Korean Journal of Cognitive and Biological Psychology, 35(4), 303-335. doi: 10.22172/cogbio.2023.35.4.004

4. Kim, S., Kim, J., Lee, S., & Nam, K. (2023). The effect of individual differences in alerting on representation and processing of Korean Eojeols. The Korean Journal of Cognitive and Biological Psychology, 35(2), 85-92. doi: 10.22172/cogbio.2023.35.2.003

5. Kang, J., Kim, S., Kim, J., Lee, S., & Nam, K. (2023). A Correlation Study on Safe Driving Behavior and Cognitive Abilities of Elder Drivers: Focusing on Visuo-spatial Working Memory and Motor Control Abilities. The Korean Journal of Cognitive and Biological Psychology, 15(2), 1-14. doi: 10.34264/jkafa.2023.15.2.1

6. Lee, S., Kim, J., Kim, S., Kwon, S., Lee, E., & Nam, K. (2023). The Facilitative Effect of the First Syllable Token Frequency in Visual Recognition of Korean Predicate Eojeols. The Korean Journal of Cognitive and Biological Psychology, 35(4), 337-345. doi: 10.22172/cogbio.2023.35.4.005

7. Kwon, S., Kim, J., Lee, S., & Nam, K. (2023). The Facilitative Effect of First Syllable Frequency during Visual Recognition of Korean Noun Eojeols. The Korean Journal of Cognitive and Biological Psychology, 35(2), 93-10. doi: 10.22172/cogbio.2023.35.2.004

8. Lee, S., Lee, E., Kim, J., Kim, S., Kim, J., Kang, J., Lee, C., & Nam, K. (2023). The Effect of the First Syllable and Syllables in Other Positions in Visual Word Recognition of Korean Noun Eojeol: Focusing on Token Frequency. The Korean Journal of Cognitive and Biological Psychology, 35(3), 151-164. doi: 10.22172/cogbio.2023.35.3.004

9. Kim J., Kim, S., Lee, S., Koo, M., & Nam, K. (2022). An Online-based Cognitive Intelligence Test and its Validation. Journal of Digital Contents Society, 23(4), 725-733. doi: 10.9728/dcs.2022.23.4.725

10. Kim, J., Kang, K., Yoo, D., Jeon, I., Kim, H., Nam, H., Shin, J., & Nam, K. (2021). Lexico-semantic interactions during the visual and spoken recognition of homonymous Korean Eojeols. Phonetics and Speech Sciences, 13(1), 1-15. doi: 10.13064/KSSS.2021.13.1.001

11. Lee, E. H., Kang, J., Kim, J., Ahn, J., Kang, K. G. Y., Kim, J., Lee, S., Cho, S., & Nam, K. (2020). The effects of video games on aggression, sociality, and affect: A meta-analytic study. Science of Emotion and Sensibility, 23(4), 41-60. doi: 10.14695/KJSOS.2020.23.4.41

Book Chapters

1. Kim, J., Lee, W., Song, J., Kim, J., Nam, K., & Kim, S. (2025). Korean Eojeol Representation and Lexical Processing. In H. K. Pae, H. Winskel, & S. Y. Kim (Eds.), Handbook of Reading in Korean Hangul (pp. 239–276). Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-88087-2_12

2. Lee, S., Kwon, S., Kim, J., Lee, E., Kang, J., & Nam, K. (2025). The Roles of Syllables in Korean Lexical Processing and Korean Orthographic-Phonological Syllable Access Model (K-OPSAM). In H. K. Pae, H. Winskel, & S. Y. Kim (Eds.), Handbook of Reading in Korean Hangul (pp. 159–185). Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-88087-2_8

Manuscripts Under Review

1. Kim, J., & Nam, K. (under review). Semantic influence in the processing of regular and irregular inflections: Evidence from brain potentials and oscillatory dynamics. Preprint: doi:10.22541/au.173142043.38485719/v1

2. Kim, J., & Kwon, N. (under review). Neural signatures of respect in the processing of subject-verb honorific agreement in Korean: Evidence from ERP, time-frequency, and MVPA analyses. 

3. Kim, J., Lee, S., Kim, J., & Nam, K. (under review). Context-dependent reconfiguration of functional connectivity in posterior (VWFA-1) and anterior (VWFA-2) Visual Word Form Area under attentional and linguistic demands.

4. Kwon, N., Kim, J., Nam, K., Kim, J. (under review). Licensing respect: Asymmetric object-verb agreement in Korean. 

5. Lee, S., Kim, J., Kwon, S., Lee, W., Kim, S., Koo, M., Kang, J., & Nam, K., (under review). The Role of Orthographic and Phonological Syllables on Korean Morphologically Complex Word depending on Modality.

Conferences

1. Kim, S., Kim, J., Kim, J., Hwang, J., Kim, M., Son, J., Jeon, H., Nam, K., & Ryu, H. (November 2025). Examination of Interhemispheric Interaction of Atypical Hemispheric Dominance in Visual Word Processing: Investigating Repetition Priming Effects in Individuals with Left Visual Field Advantage. Psychonomic Society 66th Annual Meeting, Denver, Colorado, USA.

2. Kim, J., & Kwon, N. (March 2025). Beta power reduction in response to subject-verb honorific agreement violations in Korean. 38th Annual Conference on Human Sentence Processing, University of Maryland, College Park, USA.

3. Kwon, S., Kim, J., Lee, S., Koo, M., & Nam, K. (November 2024). Investigating the facilitative effects of syllable frequency during the recognition of Korean Noun Eojeols: An ERP study. Psychonomic Society 65th Annual Meeting, New York City, New York, USA.

4. Lee, S., Kim, J., Kim, S., Kwon, S., Koo, M., & Nam, K. (November 2024). The influence of phonological change in Korean syllable on morphologically complex word. Psychonomic Society 65th Annual Meeting, New York City, New York, USA.

5. Kwon, N., Kim, J., Nam, K., & Kim, J. (May 2024). Real-Time Computation of Social Hierarchy During Online Sentence Processing. 37th Annual Conference on Human Sentence Processing, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA.

6. Kim, J., & Nam, K. (February 2024). Quantitative analysis on Korean syllable network using Graph theory. The 2024 Annual Conference of the Korean Society for Cognitive and Biological Society, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea.

7. Lee, S., Koo, M., Kim, J., Kwon, S., Kim, S., & Nam, K. (February 2024). The effect of the first syllable frequency in auditory Eojeol recognition. The 2024 Annual Conference of the Korean Society for Cognitive and Biological Society, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea.

8. Kim, J., & Nam, K. (February 2023). Morpho-semantic effects on visual recognition of morphologically complex Korean words: evidence from ERPs. The 2023 Annual Conference of the Korean Society for Cognitive and Biological Society, Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea.

9. Lee, S., Kim, J., Kim, S., & Nam, K. (February 2023). The effect of the first syllable frequency in Korean predicate Eojeols recognition. The 2023 Annual Conference of the Korean Society for Cognitive and Biological Society, Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea.

10. Kim, J., & Nam, K. (November 2022). Morpho-semantic analysis of morphologically complex Korean words. The Words in the World International Conference 2022, online.

11. Kim, J., Kim, S., Lee, S., & Nam, K. (February 2022). The neural correlates of morpho-semantic effects during visual recognition of morphologically complex words: A fMRI study on inflected Korean verbs. The 2022 Annual Conference of the Korean Society for Cognitive and Biological Society, online.

12. Kwon, S., Kim, J., Sun, J., & Nam, K. (February 2022). The relationship between subjective sleep quality and implicit memory. The 2022 Annual Conference of the Korean Society for Cognitive and Biological Society, online.

13. Kang, J., Kim, S., Kim, J., Lee, S., & Nam, K. (February 2022). The analysis of cognitive abilities for elderly taxi driver. The 2022 Annual Conference of the Korean Society for Cognitive and Biological Society, online.

14. Kim, J., Kang, J., Lee, S., & Sun, J. (November 2021). Temporal dynamics of Lexico-semantic Processing of Spoken Korean Homonyms. Psychonomic Society 62nd Annual Meeting.

15. Kim, J., Kang, J., & Nam, K. (July 2021). Temporal dynamics of lexico-semantic interactions in spoken recognition of Korean morphologically complex homonyms. The 2021 Annual Conference of the Korean Society for Cognitive and Biological Society, Seoul, Korea.

16. Kim, S., Kim, J., & Nam, K. (July 2021). Subjective familiarity with words may mediate the hemispheric lateralization and interactions in visual word recognition. The 2021 Annual Conference of the Korean Society for Cognitive and Biological Society, Seoul, Korea.

17. Ahn, J., Kim, J., Lee, S., Jo, S., & Nam, K. (November 2020). Differences in eye movement patterns during reading sentences composed of different orthographic systems. Psychonomic Society 61th Annual Meeting, online.

18. Kim, J., Kang, K. G., Yoo, D., Jeon, I., Kim, H., Nam, H., Shin, J., & Nam, K. (July 2020). Lexical ambiguity effects in Korean visual and spoken Eojeol recognition. The 2020 Annual Conference of the Korean Society for Cognitive and Biological Society, online.

19. Kim, J., Kim, J., Ahn, J., Kang, K., Jo, S., Lee, S., & Nam, K. (July 2020). The effect of video games on cognitive skills: an EEG study. The 2020 Annual Conference of the Korean Society for Cognitive and Biological Society, online.

20. Lee, E., Kang, J., Kim, J., Ahn, J., Kang, K., Kim, J., Lee, S., Jo, S., & Nam, K. (July 2020). The effects of video game on affective and cognitive functions: A meta-analytic study. The 2020 Annual Conference of the Korean Society for Cognitive and Biological Society, online.

21. Kim, J., & Nam, K. (February 2019). ERP indices of the stem length in Korean verb Eojeol processing. The 2019 Annual Conference of the Korean Society for Cognitive and Biological Society, Pyeongchang, Korea.

Patents

1.   “User-Customized Interface Arrangement Device that Reflects User's Information Processing Aspect and Operation Method Thereof”, Lee, S., Nam, K., Kim, J., Kim, S., KR Patent 10-2817475 (2025)

2. "User Semantic Network Learning Device Based on Users’ Semantic Network And Operation Method Thereof”, Lee, S., Nam, K., Kim, J., Kim, S.,
   KR Patent 10-2692517 (2024)

3. “Method for Diagnosing Language Proficiency Using EEG Technology”, Kim, J., Kang, K., Lee S., Jung, J., Nam, K., KR Patent 10-2352163 (2024)

4. “Frontotemporal Dementia Diagnosis Device and Operation Method Thereof”, Jo, S., Nam, K., Kim, J., KR Patent 10-2478268 (2022)

5. “Foreign Language Reading Ability Evaluation Device Based on Eye Movement and Operation Method Thereof”, Ahn, J., Nam, K., Lee, S., Kim, J., KR Patent 10-2478271 (2022)

6. “Meaning Information Network Measurement Server with Sematic Priming Mechanism and Operation Method Thereof”, Lee, S., Nam, K., Kim, J., Ahn, J.,
   KR Patent 10-2446514 (2022)

7. “Form-To-Form (Sound-To-Letter) Learning in English Words by Using Pseudowords”, Nam, K., Jung, J., Lee, S., Ahn, J., Kim, J., KR Patent 10-2410177 (2022)

8. “User-Customized Interface Arrangement Device that Reflects Users’ Information Processing Aspect and Operation Method Thereof”, Lee, S., Nam, K., Kim, J., Kim, S.,
   KR Patent Pending 10-2021-0159443 (202001)

9. “Server Providing Foreign Language Learning Tools and Operation Method Thereof”, Kang, K., Nam, K., Kim, J., KR Patent Pending 10-2020-0136521 (2020)

10. “A Word Level Test Using Google Corpus Word Lists Classified by Frequency and Suggesting Individual Location on Cumulative Distribution”, Nam, K., Jung, J., Ahn, J., Kim, J., Kim, J., KR Patent Pending 10-2018-0145920 (2018)

Research Fellowships

1.     Academic Research Fellowship (A type), National Research Foundation of Korea (June 2026–May 2031)
A Cognitive Neuroscience Model of Korean Honorific Processing: Integrating EEG, fMRI, and Large Language Models.
Role: PI, Amount: 200,000,000 KRW

2.     Korea University Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, Korea University (Sep 2024–Aug 2026)
Predicting EEG Responses from Korean Syllable Networks: Evidence from Priming Effects and MVPA Decoding
Role: PI, Amount: 48,000,000 KRW

3.     BK21 Research Fellowship, Brain Korea 21 Program (Mar 2020–Dec 2023)

4.     Global Ph.D. Fellowship, National Research Foundation of Korea (Mar 2019–Feb 2024)
Neural Mechanism of Language Processing based on Interactions of Rule and Retrieval: In-depth Look into Morphologically Complex Words
Role: PI, Amount: 150,000,000 KRW

Teaching and Professional Experiences

1.     Teaching

·       Mental Processes of Foreign Language Comprehension and Production, Korea University (Spring 2026)

·       Programming for Psychology, Korea University (Spring 2025, 2026)

·       Psychology of Language, Korea University (Spring 2025)

·       Cognitive Psychology, Korea University (Fall 2024, Winter 2025) &
Sookmyung Women’s University (Fall 2024)

2.     Invited Workshops and Seminars

·       Brain Research Methodology Seminar, Sookmyung Women’s University
(April 24, 2024) & Chonnam National University (June 13, 2024).

·       EEG Analysis Workshop, Korea University (March 28, 2024)

3.     Lab Manager

·       Prof. Kichun Nam’s Lab, School of Psychology, Korea University (Sep 2020 – Aug 2022)

4.     Teaching Assistant

·       Cognitive Psychology, Korea University (Fall 2018)

·       Psychology of Memory, Korea University (Spring 2019) 

Skills and Techniques

1.     Programming: Python, R, MATLAB

2.     Statistical modeling: mixed-effects models (lme4), Bayesian hierarchical models (brms)

3.     Computational linguistics: LLM-based surprisal extraction
                                          (Llama, Qwen, and GPT via Hugging Face and MLX),
                                          graph-theoretical network modeling (igraph)

4.     EEG analysis: EEGLAB, Fieldtrip, MNE-python

5.     fMRI analysis: SPM12, CONN, Nilearn

6.     Experimental software: E-Prime, Psychopy