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. (under review) Activation of visual cortex by music and sound in Williams syndrome.
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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
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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. (July, 2008) The role of visual awareness in synesthetic color perception. Paper presented 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. Paper presented 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. Paper presented at the Society for Neuroscience Meeting, San Diego, CA.
Kim, C-Y., & Blake, R. (May, 2007) Brain activity reflects implied motion in abstract paintings. Paper presented 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. Paper 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? Paper 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. Paper 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. Paper 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. Paper presented 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. Paper presented 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. |
