Human Affective Neuroscience Lab
AT SUNGKYUNKWAN UNIVERSITY
Welcome!
Welcome to the Human Affective Neuroscience (HumAN) lab! We are located at Sungkyunkwan University, in the heart of Seoul, South Korea. The overarching goal of our research is to understand the psychological and neurobiological mechanisms that underpin how we experience our own emotions and evaluate the emotions of others.
At the HumAN lab, we examine how different aspects of affective information are encoded, manipulated, and integrated in the brain. We also investigate individual differences in such processes on both behavioral and neural levels, and their implications for mental health. We combine experimental psychology, functional neuroimaging (fMRI), and computational tools to answer research questions pertaining to affective science.
Updates & Announcements
Nov. 21, 2023
Dr. Kim was awarded the Sungkyun Research Fund, which will support our research project entitled, Decoding depressive symptoms with computer vision-based analysis of facial muscle dynamics.
Sep. 27, 2023
Seohyun, Lian and Jihye are Team New-ro Jeans, who will enter the 6th SKKU Co-Deep Learning Project program!
Sep. 20, 2023
Hayoung is the recipient of the honorary award from the SKKU Graduate Student Research Paper Awards! [read more]
Sep. 2, 2023
Dr. Kim's collaborative work linking real-world emotional reactivity, happiness, and corticolimbic circuits is accepted for publication at SCAN.
Aug. 27, 2023
Hayoung's first preprint is available at bioRxiv! Using movie-watching fMRI, Hayoung explored how our brain responds to characters with contrasting narrative roles. [read more]
Aug. 17, 2023
Congrats to Dr. Kim for receiving the SKKU Teaching Award! [read more]
Aug. 6, 2023
Congrats to Chaebin, whose first author paper has been accepted for publication at Brain Research Bulletin! Chaebin proposes a novel method to assess cortical thickness topography and uses it to predict generalized anxiety symptoms in adolescents. [read more]
Aug. 5, 2023
In what would be the HumAN lab's biggest news yet, Nayoung and Wonyoung are a married couple! The newlyweds are heading to Atlanta where Wonyoung will start his PhD at Emory, in Philip Kragel's lab. We will miss having you two around!
Jul. 31, 2023
Results from an international collaboration with Dr. Andy Chen at NTU are available at bioRxiv. We show that state anxiety influences multivariate activation patterns in the human extrastriate cortex in response to emotionally-charged images. [read more]
Jul. 27, 2023
Congrats to Sujin, whose first author paper has been accepted for publication at SCAN! Sujin shows evidence that grittier teens' brains are characterized by similar functional connectome architecture. [read more]
Jul. 19, 2023
Seohyeon, Seohyun and Bokyoung brought home the grand prize from the 2023-1 SKKU Co-Deep Learning Project competition. Our lab continues the winning streak - that's three grand prizes and two 1st prizes in five competitions! [read more]
Jul. 05, 2023
Our paper in which we argue against the proposition that surprise is not an emotion has been published in the July issue of Perspectives on Psychological Science. [read more]
Jun 23, 2023
Congrats to Yujin, who will become a graduate student this fall in the Master's program in Cognitive Science at the University of Vienna!
Jun 22, 2023
Dr. Kim has joined the editorial team at the Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience as a Consulting Editor. [read more]
May 25, 2023
Seohyeon has been selected to participate in the 2023 IBS CNIR Summer School! [read more]
May 12, 2023
Our graduate students once again have been selected to receive support from the SKKU Cluster/Lab Mentoring program.
Apr. 30, 2023
Wonyoung's paper has been nominated as one of the four finalists for the 2023 SANS Innovation Award!
Apr. 13, 2023
Bokyeong is our newest lab member! She joins the HumAN lab as an undergraduate RA. [read more]
Apr. 3, 2023
Seohyeon & Seohyun teamed up and was selected to represent our lab as the Dynamic Duo in the SKKU Co-Deep Learning Project program. [read more]
Mar. 11, 2023
Chaebin's latest work is available at bioRxiv! In this study, Chaebin attempts to identify cortical thickness topography that encapsulates generalized anxiety symptoms in adolescents. [read more]
Feb. 25, 2023
Hayoung is the recipient of the SKKU TA Award for being an amazing teaching assistant!
Feb. 25, 2023
Our lab's first preprint, led by Sujin, is available at bioRxiv! In this study, Sujin uses functional connectome similarity to explain teenage grit, [read more]
Feb. 24, 2023
Our review discussing the social brain, social connectedness, and well-being is published at Frontiers in Psychiatry. [read more]
Feb. 17, 2023
Another big W for the HuMAN Lab undergrads as Sumin, Yujin, Lian and Seohyun go on to win the Best Student Poster Award at the 2023 KSCBP conference!
Feb. 15, 2023
Kyuli has successfully graduated with a Master's degree! She is our lab's first graduate alumna,
Jan. 13, 2023
Champions! Sumin, Yujin, Lian and Seohyun are grand prize winners in the 2022-2 SKKU Co-Deep Learning Project competition. We made history as our lab produced 4 prize winning teams in 4 consecutive competitions!
Jan. 9, 2023
Seohyeon has been accepted to the Combined Bachelors & Masters program! She will become our lab's first Ph.D. student in the fall of 2023.
Nov. 29, 2022
Congrats to Chaebin & Sujin, whose paper has been selected for the Cover Illustration of the December issue of Brain Imaging and Behavior! [see here]
We Are Attending
Nov. 24, 2023
Department of Psychology, Yonsei University
Presenters: Dr. Kim
Seoul, South Korea
Nov. 9, 2023
Department of Psychology, Lingnan University
Presenters: Dr. Kim
Hong Kong
Nov. 8-10, 2023
Developmental Affective Neuroscience Symposium
Presenters: Sujin, Chaebin
Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Nov. 2, 2023
Interdisciplinary Program in Neurosciences, Seoul National University
Presenters: Dr. Kim
Seoul, South Korea
Oct. 20, 2023
Korean Clinical Psychology Association (KCPA)
Presenters: Dr. Kim
*virtual conference
Oct. 11, 2023
School of Digital Humanities and Computational Social Sciences, KAIST
Presenters: Dr. Kim
Daejeon, South Korea
Sep. 20, 2023
Department of Brain Sciences, DGIST
Presenters: Dr. Kim
Daegu, South Korea
Apr. 27-29, 2023
Social & Affective Neuroscience Society
Presenters: Sujin, Chaebin
Santa Barbara, CA, USA
Feb. 16-17, 2023
Korean Society for Cognitive & Biological Psychology
Presenters: Nayoung, Sumin (with Yujin, Lian, Seohyun)
Seoul, South Korea
May. 26-29, 2022
Association for Psychological Science (APS)
Presenters: Wonyoung (with Kyuli, Nayoung)
Chicago, IL, USA
Apr. 14-16, 2022
Korean Clinical Psychology Association (KCPA)
Presenters: Dr. Kim
*virtual conference due to COVID-19 pandemic
Mar. 30-Apr. 2, 2022
Society for Affective Science (SAS)
Presenters: Nayoung, Kyuli, Wonyoung
*virtual conference due to COVID-19 pandemic
Feb. 17-18, 2022
Korean Society for Cognitive & Biological Psychology
Presenters: Sujin, Chaebin, Hayoung, E-young, Seohyeon
*virtual conference due to COVID-19 pandemic
Invited Speakers & Guests
Aug. 9, 2023
Dr. Leehyun Yoon [lab]
Department of Psychology & Center for Vital Longevity, University of Texas at Dallas
Aug. 4, 2022
Dr. Youngbin Kwak [lab]
Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Aug. 13, 2021
Dr. Pyungwon Kang
Department of Economics, University of Zurich