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
Nayoung Kim joins the HumAN lab. Welcome to the team, Nayoung!
fMRI paper showing amygdala-NAcc coupling and positive coloring of surprise is published at Cognitive, Affective, and Behavioral Neuroscience. [read more]
We've added a Media page that provides a list of links to press coverage, interviews, and professional commentaries of our research. [read more]
fMRI paper highlighting the representational structure of affect in the fusiform gyrus and the amygdala is published at Affective Science. [read more]
Dr. Kim was invited to speak at the Neuroeconomics Seminar in the University of Zurich. The presentation was done via Zoom. [read more]
We are moving to Sungkyunkwan University in the summer! Dr. Kim will be joining the Department of Psychology at SKKU as an Assistant Professor.
New preprint that compares the pattern similarity of meta-analysis maps and individual contrast maps of emotion categories is available at bioRxiv. [read more]
New paper examining how corticolimbic circuit moderates a link between childhood adversity and later anxiety is in press at Neuroimage: Clinical. [read more]
New paper exploring the impact of maternal protection on the corticolimbic circuit is in press at Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience. [read more]
We Are Attending
Korean Society for Cognitive and Biological Psychology
Yesan, Chungcheongnam-do, South Korea
*virtual conference due to COVID-19 pandemic
Reading Emotions Symposium
Reading, UK
*virtual conference due to COVID-19 pandemic
Society for Affective Science (SAS)
San Francisco, CA, USA
*virtual conference due to COVID-19 pandemic
