Welcome to the Vision & Reading Laboratory website. We are a part of the Department of Psychology at Pusan National University. We study neural bases of visual perception and cognition using both behavioral (psychophysics) and neuroimaging (fMRI, EEG, & MEG) measurements.
News
Our paper, "Behavioral examination of the role of the primary visual cortex in the perceived size representation" is accepted and now on line in Scientific Reports. Congrats Sang-Ah!
읽기의 과학: 우리가 글을 읽을 때 뇌의 많은 영역들이 활성화됩니다. 특히 언어영역의 활동은 아동의 글 읽기 능력과 상관관계가 있습니다. 더 궁금하신 분들은 Click.
Our new paper "Monocular cues are superior to binocular cues for size perception when they are in conflict in virtual reality" is accepted and in-press in Cortex!
Our new grant, titled "Developing methods to improve digital literacy through research on the Hangul reading brain" is awarded by NRF Korea!!!
Our new paper is now published! "Development of the visual white matter pathways mediates development of electrophysiological responses in visual cortex" link
Our research was featured in the media! Link
Our new MEG paper, "Automaticity in the reading circuitry" has been online in Brain and Language. Click here!
Sung Jun gave a talk, titled "Visually-driven, automatic activation of language processing areas as a hallmark of skilled reading" at ARWA (Association for Reading and Writing in Asia) 2020 conference.
Our paper, "Controlling for Participants’ Viewing Distance in Large-Scale, Psychophysical Online Experiments Using a Virtual Chinrest", is now published in Scientific Reports. Click here to read the paper.
Our paper, "Eye-specific pattern motion signals support the perception of three-dimensional motion" , has been published in Journal of Vision.
Sung Jun gave a talk, titled "시각 시스템과 언어 시스템의 상호작용이 읽기 발달에 주는 영향" at Korean Society for Cognitive & Biological Psychology Annual Meeting 2019 in 용평리조트.
Sung Jun gave a talk, titled "Automaticity in the reading circuitry" at Neuroscience 2018 in San Diego, CA, USA.
Our paper, titled "Word selectivity in high-level visual cortex and reading skill", will be published in Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience. Click the title to see the paper.