Su Keun Jeong

Contact:

Department of Psychology, Chungbuk National University

Chungdae-ro 1, Seowon-Gu, Cheongju, Chungbuk 28644, Korea

skj at chungbuk.ac.kr    

Academic Positions

2020-Present   Assistant Professor

  Department of Psychology  & Brain and Cognitive Engineering Program

Chungbuk National University, Cheongju, South Korea

2019 - 2020      Group Leader

                           Cognitive Science Research Group, Korea Brain Research Institute, Daegu, South Korea 

2018 - 2020      Adjunct Research Fellow

                            Center for Cognition and Sociality, Institute for Basic Science, Daejeon, South Korea

2016 - 2020      Principal Investigator/Senior Researcher

                            Cognitive Science Research Group, Korea Brain Research Institute, Daegu, South Korea

2016 - 2016       Postdoctoral Research Associate

                             Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD

    Dynamic Perception Lab, Advisor: Jason Fischer, Ph.D.

2014 - 2016       Postdoctoral Research Associate

                             Princeton Neuroscience Institute, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ

    Neuroscience of Attention and Perception Lab, Advisors: Sabine Kastner, M.D./Ph.D. 


Education

2014    Ph.D. Cognitive Psychology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA      

      Vision Sciences Lab, Advisor: Yaoda Xu, Ph.D.

2012    A.M. Cognitive Psychology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA

2007    M.A. Cognitive Psychology, Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea

              Advisor: Min-Shik Kim, Ph.D.

  (2002-2005 Mandatory military service)

2002    B.A. Psychology/Library and Information Sciences, Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea

Books 

PsychoPy를 활용한 심리학 실험 제작의 기초 (2023) [교보문고] [Yes24] [알라딘]

팬데믹 브레인 (2022) [교보문고] [Yes24] [알라딘]

 빅픽쳐 2017 (2016) [교보문고] [Yes24] [알라딘]

Presentations

Jeong, SK (2024) Predicting visual memorability using indirect behavior measurements. Korean Society for Cognitive and Biological Psychology, Seoul, Korea (presented as a talk)   

Lee, S, & Jeong, SK (2024) The roles of executive function in children's memory for temporal information. Korean Society for Cognitive and Biological Psychology, Seoul, Korea  

Kim, Y & Jeong, SK (2023) The interaction between internal and external attention depends on predictability, Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting, Washington DC

Lee, Y & Jeong, SK (2023) Consistency of visual memorability across cultures, Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting, Washington DC  

Lee, S, Song, J, & Jeong, SK (2023) Long-term time trends in Korean child and adolescent mental health and the effect of Covid-19. Korean Society for Developmental Psychology, Seoul, Korea

Kim, Y & Jeong, SK (2023) Effect of attentional window size predictability on the interaction between internal and external attention. Korean Psychological Association Annual Meeting, Suwon, Korea  

Lee, Y & Jeong, SK (2023) Comparison of visual memorability between Korean and U.S. participants. Korean Psychological Association Annual Meeting, Suwon, Korea  

Jeong, SK (2023) The effect of perceived size on visual memory. Korean Society for Cognitive and Biological Psychology, Seoul, Korea (presented as a talk)

Lee, Y & Jeong, SK (2023) The effect of wearing opaque masks and transparent masks on facial attractiveness. Korean Society for Cognitive and Biological Psychology, Seoul, Korea

Mocz, V, Jeong, SK, Chun, M, & Xu, Y (2022) Representing multiple visual objects in the human brain and convolutional neural networks. Vision Science Society Annual Meeting (presented as a talk)

Yu, J, Choe, E, & Jeong, SK (2022) Selection history within VSTM contents guides eye-specific attention. Korean Society for Cognitive and Biological Psychology

Choe, E & Jeong, SK (2021) Visual short-term memory contents bias eye-specific attention. Vision Sciences Society Annual Meeting (Virtual meeting)

Choe, E & Jeong, SK (2021) Statistical regularities modulate inhibitory control within working memory. Cognitive Neuroscience Society Annual Meeting (Virtual meeting)

Jeong, SK (2020)  Development of target location probability learning in visual search. Korean Society for Cognitive and Biological Psychology (Virtual meeting, presented as  a talk)

Lee, S, Hong, I, & Jeong, SK (2020) Development of implicit location probability learning. Cognitive Neuroscience Society Annual Meeting (Virtual meeting)

Lee, S & Jeong, SK (2020) The representation of rich event memory in higher-order cortical regions in human. Korean Society for Cell Biology, Gyeongju, Korea (presented as a talk)

Lee, S & Jeong, SK (2019) Optimal encoding of temporal distance in rich event sequence memory. Korean Psychological Association Annual Meeting, Seoul, Korea (presented as a talk)

Shin, GI, Lee, H, & Jeong, SK (2019) The effect of temporal encoding demands and visual short-term memory load on selective attention.  Korean Psychological Association Annual Meeting, Seoul, Korea

Hong, I, Kim, MS, & Jeong, SK (2019) The influence of temporal probability change on location probability learning. International Conference on Cognitive Science, Seoul. Korea

Hong, I, Kim, MS, & Jeong, SK (2019) Reduction of attentional bias through gradual signal change. Vision Science Society Annual Meeting, St. Pete Beach, Florida  

Kim, G, Jeong, SK, & Kuhl, B (2019) Encoding context overlap facilitates learning of common structures among similar visual events. Vision Science Society Annual Meeting, St. Pete Beach, Florida 

Lee, H & Jeong, SK (2019) Visual short-term memory load weakens attentional selection by increasing the size of attentional zoom. Vision Science Society Annual Meeting, St. Pete Beach, Florida 

Lee, S & Jeong, SK (2019) Integration of event order and duration during movie watching. Cognitive Neuroscience Society Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA 

Lee, S & Jeong, SK (2019) Optimal encoding of interval timing in rich event sequence. Concepts, Actions, and Objects conference, Rovereto, Italy

Lee, S & Jeong, SK (2019) What changes the form of spatio-temporal representation? The effects of age, stimulus and retrieval structure. The Korean Society for Cognitive and Biological Psychology, Yongpyong, Korea (presented as a talk) 

Hong, I, Kim, MS, & Jeong, SK (2019) Gradual signal change affects the learning of attentional bias. The Korean Society for Cognitive and Biological Psychology, Yongpyong, Korea (presented as a talk) 

Lee, H & Jeong, SK (2019) The effects of attentional window and working memory load on distractor inhibition. The Korean Society for Cognitive and Biological Psychology, Yongpyong, Korea (presented as a talk)

Kim, G & Jeong, SK (2019) Episodic reactivation while encoding overlapping experiences facilitates learning of common structures. The Korean Society for Cognitive and Biological Psychology, Yongpyong, Korea

Hong, I & Jeong, SK (2018) Investigating the role of task relevance on context-specific statistical learning. The Korean Society for Brain and Neural Sciences Annual Meeting, Seoul, Korea

Lee, S & Jeong, SK (2018) The effects of event- and task structure on timeline estimation. Korean Psychological Association Annual Meeting, Seoul, Korea

Hong, I & Jeong, SK (2018) Latent learning of context-specific probability cue. Korean Psychological Association Annual Meeting, Seoul, Korea

Hong, I, Jeong, SK, & Kim, MS (2018) Task relevance affects the context-dependency of implicit learning. Vision Sciences Society Annual Meeting, St. Pete Beach, Florida

Jeong, S. K. (2017) Context dependent visual object representation in human parietal cortex. Korean Society for Human Brain Mapping, Seoul, Korea (presented as a talk)

Martin, A., Wang, L., Saalmann, Y., Shestyuk, A., Jeong, S. K., Crone, N., Parvizi, J., Knight, R., & Kastner, S. (2015) Modulation of intracranial field potential responses in the human large-scale attention network during a spatial attention task. Vision Sciences Annual Meeting, St. Pete Beach, FL

Jeong, SK & Xu, Y (2014) Abstract face identity representation in human superior intra-parietal sulcus reflects perceived face identity similarity. Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting, Washington DC (presented as a talk)

Jeong, SK & Xu, Y (2014) Task-context dependent visual object representation in human parietal cortex. Vision Sciences Society Annual Meeting, St. Pete Beach, FL

Jeong, SK & Xu, Y (2013) Object identity representation in human superior intra-parietal sulcus. Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA

Jeong, SK & Xu, Y (2013) The representation of face identity in human parietal cortex. Vision Sciences Society Annual Meeting, Naples, FL. (presented as a talk)

Jeong, SK & Xu, Y (2012) Flexible visual information representation in human parietal cortex. Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA

Jeong, SK & Xu, Y (2012) Decoding location and category information in human parietal cortex. Vision Sciences Society Annual Meeting, Naples, FL

Jeong, SK & Xu, Y (2011) Hemispheric bias in the parietal region depends on top-down attentional engagement. Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting, Washington DC

Jeong, SK & Xu, Y (2011) Parietal laterality effect in visual information processing during object individuation and identification. Vision Sciences Society Annual Meeting, Naples, FL

Jeong, SK & Xu, Y (2010) Neural representation of targets and distractors during object individuation and identification. Vision Sciences Society Annual Meeting, Naples, FL

Jeong, SK & Kim, MS (2008) Social and emotional biases increase with monetary incentives through attentional inhibition. Vision Sciences Society Annual Meeting, Naples, FL

Jeong, SK & Kim, MS (2007) Monetary incentives increase attentional effects on social and emotional judgment. Meeting of Korean Society of Experimental Psychology. Pyeongtaek, Korea

Ahn, JW, Jeong, SK & Kim, MS (2006) Top-down attentional shift influences object working memory task: A distinction between ‘what’ and ‘where’ in VWM still remains uncertain. Vision Sciences Society Annual Meeting, Sarasota, FL


Professional Activities, Teaching, & Awards

Professional Activities

Consulting Editor, Biological Psychology (2021 - present)

Review Board, Korea National Research Foundation (뇌첨단의공학단) (2022 - present)

Board Member, Korean Society for Cognitive & Biological Psychology (2021 - present)

Board Member, Korean Society of Human Brain Mapping (2019, 2022 - present)

Chungbuk National University Institutional Review Board Member (2021 - present)


Teaching

Chungbuk National University

   Graduate: Advanced Cognitive Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience, Neuropsychology, Advanced Visual Cognition

   Undergraduate: Cognitive Psychology and Lab, Physiological Psychology, Introduction to Psychology I,

Experimental Psychology and Lab, Cognitive Engineering, Biological Psychology,

Psychology of Everyday Life, Neuroimaging

Korea Brain Research Institute

   Lecturer: IBRO-APRC advanced school on functional brain mapping with advanced neurotechnologies (2017)

Princeton University

   Lecturer: Cognitive Neuroscience

Harvard University

   Teaching Fellow: Psychological Science, Application of fMRI in Cognitive Neuroscience Research

Yonsei University

   Department Head Teaching Assistant

   Teaching Assistant: Experimental Methodology in Psychology, Biological Psychology


Honors & Awards

Dissertation Completion Fellowship, Harvard University (2013-2014)

Elsevier/Vision Research Graduate Student Travel Award (2013)

Restricted Funds Travel Grant, Harvard University (2012, 2013, 2014)

Certificate of Distinction in Teaching, Harvard University (2012)

Stimson Fund Research Grant, Harvard University (2011)

Graduate Thesis Award, The Graduate School of Yonsei University (2008)

Brain Korea 21 Scholarship, Korea Ministry of Education & Human Resources Department (2006-2007)

Scholarships for Student Excellence, Yonsei University (2005-2006)

PyungHwa scholarships, Yonsei University (1998-2000)


Advising 

Researchers

Eunhye Choe, M.A. (2020 ) Currently: Ph.D. student at Dartmouth College

Saebyul Lee, Ph.D. (2017 - 2020)  Currently: Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, Chungbuk National University

Injae Hong, M.A. (2017 - 2018)  Currently: Postdoctoral researcher, Brigham and Women's Hospital/Harvard Medical School

Hyuksu Lee, M.A. (2018 - 2019) 

Ghootae Kim, Ph.D. (2018 - 2019) 

Research assistants

2023-2: 연구실습 수강생: 최희현, 홍유진, 박진수

2022-1 연구보조원/연구실습 수강생: 유진국, 김유정, 최보인, 이용성, 최현오

2021-2 연구보조원: 유진국, 정충환, 김유정 (충북대)

2021-1 연구보조원: 김연지, 유진국 (충북대)

Yerin Jang (2019 - 2020) Undergraduate at Kyungpook National University 

Hyesung Cho, B.A.  (2018 - 2020) Graduate student at Chonnam National University

Ga In Shin, M.S. (2019) Currently: Ph.D. student at University of Oregon

Hyunji Lee (2019) Undergraduate student at Kyungpook National University

Hyunae Park (2019) Undergraduate student at Korea University

Jihye Park (2018) Undergraduate student, Kyungpook National University

Aegyung Ahn (2018) Undergraduate student, Catholic University of Daegu

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last updated: 2024.02.26.