Yoolim Kim

I am a visiting lecturer in the Cognitive and Linguistic Sciences Program at Wellesley College with a joint appointment in the Department of Psychology. 

I received my Ph.D. in 2019 in Linguistics from the University of Oxford. Previously, I was a postdoctoral fellow at the Korea Institute at Harvard University. Before Harvard, I was a postdoctoral researcher at the Minds and Traditions research group (where I still maintain affiliation) within the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History (now the Max Planck Institute for Geoanthropology). 

My research focuses on writing systems and the ways in which written language informs the way we think about language and linguistic concepts. What do we perceive when we see letter shapes, and how does the language's orthography affect the way  we store and process language in the brain? 

News

Sept 2023

I'll be presenting with Carolyn Anderson (Computer Science, Wellesley) at Comparative Punctuation Worldwide in Regensburg, Germany on our research examining differences in processing of parentheticals between English and Korean readers. 

Feb 2022

I am pleased to announce that our new applet Glyph has launched. It's part of larger project to classify letter shapes found in the world's writing systems, but instead of using the more traditional route of laboratory-based data collection, we're using a crowdsourcing method through gamification. We're hoping to reach a wider audience and capture more realistic data. You can learn more about it here.