Our group is looking for undergraduate assistants & graduate students. Please contact me via email (sayyoungkim at hanyang.ac.kr) for more information.
2025
Nov: I received a research grant from Hanyang University (2025-2026).
Sep: I will give a plenary talk at the 2025 Winter KASELL (The Korean Association for the Study of English Language and Linguistics) conference, to be held at Soongsil University, Seoul, this December.
Sep: I started a two-year term as department chair.
Aug: The handbook entitled "Handbook on the Korean Language and Literacy: Insights into Hangul and Text Processing" has finally been released. [link] I contributed to the volume as co-editor and as the author of four chapters (including three coauthored chapters).
Aug: I gave a talk @Language and Mind Lab at Pusan National University in Busan.
Jun: A conference paper in collaboration with Phil Monahan & Bill Irsadi will be presented at SNL this year.
Jun: A paper with Dr. Song Sanghoun and Dr. Jieun Lee has been accepted for publication in Cognitive Linguistics!
May: Juhyung from University of Toronto visits our lab to help collect data for our collaborative project.
Mar: A paper with Dr. Miseon Lee, Hyoung Sun, Yuree, and Gayoung has been accepted for publication in Journal of Neurolinguistics!
Feb: Our collaborator Phil Monahan from University of Toronto visited our lab to set up experiments for our collaborative project. He also gave a talk @HIPCS on Feb 20.
Jan: A paper with Dr. Bennett's group has been published in Future Internet.
2024
Dec: I've submitted a manuscript for the Springer Handbook regarding the role of syllabic saliency in visual word recognition in Korean Hangul.
Dec: With Hyoung Sun Kim, i will present a poster at the AMLap Asia conference at NUS this year.
Aug: I am currently participating in a book editing project with Dr. Hye Pae (U of Cincinnati) and Dr. Heather Winskel (James Cook University, Singapore). The tentative title of the Handbook is Handbook on the Korean Language and Literacy: Insights into Hangul and Text Processing. Stay tuned.
Jul: Hyoung Sun will leave for her new chapter (PhD) and join Jeong's lab at Tohoku University this fall. Best wishes for everything you do, Sunny!
Jul: I gave a talk at the Korean Association of Psycholinguistics Meeting held at Pusan National University.
Jun: A research grant proposal in collaboration with Dr. Krisda Chaemsaithong (PI, HYU) was awarded by NRF of Korea (공동연구지원사업, 2024-2027). Hooray!
Mar: I visited Jeong's lab at Tohoku University and gave a talk.
Mar: Taewon started his master's program @HYU ELL. Good luck!
2023
Dec: I received a research grant from Hanyang University (2023-2024).
Dec: Hannah joined the lab. Welcome Hannah!
Nov: A paper with Dr. Miseon Lee, Yuree, and Hyoung Sun has been accepted for publication in Cortex!
Nov: Taewon joined the lab & will start his master's program next spring. Welcome Taewon!
Oct: Hyoung Sun visited Sugiura & Jeong's Lab at Tohoku University, Japan, for her research internship.
Oct: Hyoung Sun gave a presentation at the 2023 ALAK International Conference in Jeju. [Program]
Sep: Hyoung Sun's very first first-author paper has been accepted for publication in Journal of Neurolinguistics!
Jul: A paper with Dr. Bennett (Dept. of Data Science, HYU) has been accepted by International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction.
Jun: Prof. Jeong Hyeonjeong from Tohoku University visited our lab with her lab members, Diego and Victoria-Anne. Diego and Victoria-Anne presented their work.
Apr: A manuscript by Hyoung Sun has been invited for resubmission.
Apr: A paper with Dr. Bennett (Dept. of Data Science, HYU) has been accepted at Computer Speech & Language. [link]
2022
Dec: Hyoung Sun successfully defended her master's thesis!
Dec: I received a research grant from Hanyang University (2022-2023).
Nov: Dr. Jeong (Hyeonjeong) from Tohoku University visited our lab and gave a presentation.
Nov: Dr. Pae (배혜경) from University of Cincinnati visited our lab and gave a presentation about 'writing system effects on cognition and culture'.
Jun: Multipic database of more than 30 languages has been accepted by Scientific Data. Our lab was responsible for its Korean part. [preprint]
Jan: A paper with Dr. Fan Cao has been accepted to a special issue in Reading and Writing.
2021
Oct: I gave a talk @Dept of Psychology's colloquium, Sogang University.
Aug: Our lab will be part of a research center for Humanities and Social Sciences (PI: Taehong Cho, Ph.D.) funded by NRF of Korea. (2021-2027)
Jul: Abstracts by Boyoung and Sunny have been accepted for the conference of Neurobiology of Language 2021!
Jul: I gave a series of lectures on some psycho/neurolinguistic issues during the summer school run by Interaction English Studies @SKKU
May: A paper with the team of UMD and UCSD has been accepted to Language and Speech.
Mar: A paper with Xin Wang (Macquarie U) and Marcus Taft has been accepted for publication in Language, Cognition and Neuroscience.
Mar: Jiwoo joined the lab as an undergraduate RA. Welcome!
Feb: I gave a talk @Language Science Program, Tohoku University, Japan.
Feb: Our grant proposal with Dr. Jeong @Tohoku University has been approved by NRF of Korea. (한일국제협력연구, 2021 - 2023).
2020
Jul: Our paper with Dr. Cao has been accepted for publication in Human Brain Mapping.
Jun: I gave a talk @Linguistics, Korea University.
Mar: Sunny and Bo Young joined the lab as graduate students. Welcome!!
2019
Dec: I received Early Career Research Award (신진연구자상) from HYU.
Sep: I received a research fund from National Research Foundation of Korea (2019-2021)
Sep: I gave a talk @Invited Colloquium as part of 2019 ALAK international conference & the 6th East Asia AILA Symposium, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, Seoul. (http://www.alak.or.kr/ )
May: I gave a talk @Sungkyunkwan University about his fMRI study of Korean-Chinese-English trilinguals.
Jan: Our paper with Neurolinguistics Lab at Dongguk University has been accepted for publication in Journal of Neurolinguistics.
2018
Oct: Our paper with Melvin Yap and Winston Goh @NUS Psychology has been accepted at Behavior Research Methods.
Neuroscan SynAmps 32 ch. system has been equipped in our lab.
2017
Sep: I've joined Dept. of English Language and Literature at Hanyang University as an assistant professor of experimental linguistics, and launched NeuroCognition of Language Lab (H 214), which will be a platform for conducting both behavioral and neurobiological studies of language processing and learning.