Degrees and Education

Postdoctoral Fellow, University of California, Davis (1996-1998)

Ph.D in Cognitive Sciences, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN (1996)

M.A. in Psychology, Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea (1988)

B.A. in Psychology, Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea (1986)

Professional Experience

2005-Present, Professor, Department of Psychology, Yonsei University

2000-2005, Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, Yonsei University

1998-2000, Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, Yonsei University

1996-1998, Post.Doc-Fellow, Center for Neuroscience, University of California at Davis

1993-1996, Research Fellow, Vanderbilt University

1991-1992, Teaching Fellow, Yonsei University

1988-1991, Teaching Fellow, Korea Military Academy

Research Interests

• Attentional control of the visual system.

• Computational modeling of visual processing and the allocation of visual attention, guided by findings from visual neuroscience and psychophysics.

• Representations of visual information and their use in "everyday" visual tasks

• Visual neglect, visual illusion, visual imagery.

• Human memory; visual working memory, implicit memory, implicit learning.

• Applications of research on cognition to education and advertisements.

Professional Affiliations

• The Korean Society for Cognitive Science

• The Korean Society for Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

• Korean Society for Emotion & Sensibility

• The Korean Psychological Association

• Association for Psychological Society

• Psychonomic Society