CHAI-YOUN KIM, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Psychology
Korea University
Sungbuk-Ku, Anam-Dong
Seoul, 136-701
South Korea
Phone: 82-2-3290-2866
E-mail: chaikim@korea.ac.kr
RESEARCH INTEREST
Cognitive Neuroscience of Vision (fMRI)
Visual Awareness/Consciousness - Synesthesia, Binocular Rivalry
Art and Brain
Social Cognition - Biological Motion Perception, Emotional Expressions of Faces
EDUCATION
2001.8 – 2006.5 Ph.D. in Psychology (Cognitive Neuroscience Major)
Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN
Thesis: Perceptual nature and neural mechanisms of color-graphemic synesthesia
1997.3 – 2000.2 M.A. in Cognitive Sciences
Seoul National University, Seoul Korea
1993.3 – 1997.2 B.A. in Aesthetics
Seoul National University, Seoul Korea
APPOINTMENTS
2008.9 - Assistant Professor
Department of Psychology
Korea University
2007.9 – 2008.8 BK21 Research Assistant Professor
Department of Psychology
Yonsei University
2006.6 – 2007.5 Postdoctoral Research Associate
Department of Psychology
Vanderbilt University
2006 – 2007
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
2001 – present Vision Sciences Society
2001 – present Society for Neuroscience
2007 – present Korean Psychological Association
2007 - present
PUBLICATIONS
JOURNAL ARTICLES
Thornton-Wells, T. A., Cannistraci, C., Anderson, A., Kim, C-Y., Eapen, M., Gore, J. C., Blake, R., & Dykens, E. M. (2010) Auditory attraction: Activation of visual cortex by music and sound in Williams syndrome, American Journal of Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, 115(2), 172-189.
김서경 & 김채연 (2009) 한국인 색-자소 공감각자의 공감각 경험에 대한 현상적 기술 및 실험적 입증. 한국 심리학회지: 인지 및 생물, 21(4), 309-335.
김채연 (2007) 의식적 시자각에 대한 신경 이론. 한국 심리학회지: 실험 및 인지, 19(3), 187 – 199.
Kim, C-Y., & Blake, R. (2007) Seeing what you understand: Brain activity accompanying perception of implied motion in abstract paintings, Spatial Vision, 20(6), 545-560.
Kim, C-Y., & Blake, R. (2007) Illusory colors promote interocular grouping during binocular rivalry, Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 14(2), 356-362.
Kim, C-Y., Blake, R., Palmeri, T. J. (2006) Perceptual interaction between real and synesthetic colors, Cortex, 421, 195-203.
Kim, C-Y., & Blake, R. (2005) Watercolor illusion induced by synesthetic colors, Perception, 34, 1501 – 1507.
Kim, C-Y., & Blake, R. (2005) Psychophysical magic: Rendering the normally visible “Invisible”, Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 9, 381-388.
- Cover article of Trends in Cognitive Sciences Volume 9, No.8.
- Announced as the 17th most downloaded article by Elsevier in December, 2005.
Grossman, E.D., Blake, R & Kim, C-Y. (2004) Learning to see biological motion: Brain activity parallels behavior, Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 16(9): 1669-1679.
Lee, K-M., Lee, S-H., Kim, N-Y., Kim, C-Y., Sohn, J-W., Choi, M-Y., Choi, D-G., Hwang, J-M., Park, K-H., Lee, D-S., Yu, Y-S., and Kee Chang, K-H. (2001) Binocularity and spatial frequency dependence of calcarine activation in two types of amblyopia, Neuroscience Research 40:147-153.
Lee, K-M., Lee, S-H., Kim, C-Y., Kim, N-Y., Chang, K-H., and Roh, J-K. (1999) Technical improvement of fMRI for clinical application, Journal of Korean Neurological Association, 17(2): 222-227.
BOOK CHAPTERS
김채연 (2007) 예술에 대한 인지신경과학적 접근. 한국의 미학대계. 제3권. 현대의 예술과 미학, 서울대학교 출판부.
Blake, R., Palmeri, T. J., Marois, R., and Kim, C-Y. (2005) On the Perceptual Reality of Synesthetic Color. In L. Robertson & N. Sagiv (Eds.), Synesthesia: persectives from Cognitive Neuroscience, Oxford University Press.
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
Kim, C-Y. (Feb. 2010) Activation in sensory brain areas reflecting creator’s visual intention. . Talk given at the International Workshop on Kansei, Fukuoka, Japan.
Kim, C-Y., Park, K., Kim, J., Joo, E., Lee, M., Hong, S-B., Hong, S-C., & Chong, S. (Oct, 2009) Subdural electrical stimulation on the face-selective brain region affected conscious perception of a face during binocular rivalry. Poster presented at Neuroscience 2009, Chicago, IL.
Kim, C-Y., & Kim, S. (Sept, 2009) Conscious awareness of inducing stimulus is necessary for synesthetic color perception. Poster presented at the NIPS International Workshop for Scientific Study of Consciousness, Okazaki, Japan.
Kim, C-Y. (July, 2008) The role of visual awareness in synesthetic color perception. Talk given at the International Conference on Cognitive Sciences, Seoul, Korea.
Kim, C-Y. (July, 2008) On the relationship between grapheme recognition and synesthetic color perception in color-graphemic synesthesia. Talk given at the 5th Asia-Pacific Conference on Vision, Queensland, Australia.
Thornton-Wells, T. A., Kim, C-Y., Cannistraci, C. J., Eapen, M., Anderson, A., Gore, J. C., Blake, R.,
& Dykens, E. M. (Nov, 2007) Music magnetism: An fMRI study of music processing in Williams Syndrome reveals recruitment of non-auditory sensory cortex. Talk given at the Society for Neuroscience Meeting, San Diego, CA.
Kim, C-Y., & Blake, R. (May, 2007) Brain activity reflects implied motion in abstract paintings. Talk given at the 7th Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, Sarasota, FL.
Kim, C-Y., Rogers, B. P., & Blake, R. (Oct., 2006) Functional connectivity between color- and grapheme-selective brain areas in synesthetic observers. Poster presented at the Society for Neuroscience Meeting, Atlanta, GA.
Kim, C-Y., & Blake R. (May, 2006) Do synesthetic colors recruit the same neuronal populations as real colors do? Poster presented at the 6th Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, Sarasota, FL.
Stephansic, J. D., Kim, C-Y., and Blake, R. (May, 2004) Evaluation of Effective Connectivity in the Visual System using fMRI. Poster presented at the 12nd Annual Meeing of the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, Kyoto, Japan.
Kim, C-Y., & Blake, R. (May, 2004) Color promotes interocular grouping during binocular rivalry. Poster presented at the 4th Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, Sarasota, FL.
Grossman, E., Kim, C-K. & Blake, R. (May, 2003) Perceptual learning of biological motion. Talk given at the 3rd Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, Sarasota, FL.
Kim, C-Y., Blake, R.B., Palmeri, T.J., Marois, R., & Whetsell, W. (May, 2003) Synesthetic colors act like real colors and interact with real colors. Poster presented at the 3rd Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, Sarasota, FL.
Palmeri, T.J., Kim, C-Y., Blake, R., Marois, R., Guttman, S., & Vickery, T. (May, 2003) The perceptual reality of synesthetic colors and their interactions with real colors. Talk given at the 3rd Annual Meeting of the American Synesthesia Association, New York.
Kim, C-Y., Grossman, E., Blake, R. (Nov., 2002) Biologically relevant events are undetectable
during suppression phases of binocular rivalry. Poster presented at the Society for Neuroscience Meeting, Orlando, FL.
Kim, C-Y. & Lee, K-M. (Apr., 2000) Brain areas involved in visual processing of musical and linguistic symbols: A functional MRI study, Poster presented at the Cognitive Neuroscience Society Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA.
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