News
An archive of updates and announcements from our lab
2023
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!
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.
2022
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]
Oct. 24, 2022
Congrats to Kyuli, whose first author paper has been accepted to be published at Brain Sciences with Nayoung as a coauthor! This is a joint effort with Dr. Kang and the VCNL lab. [read more]
Oct. 11, 2022
Congrats to Wonyoung, whose first author paper has been published at PNAS! We discuss how morphological similarity structures of amygdala-PFC pathways predict trait anxiety. [read more]
Sep. 23, 2022
Our paper in which we argue against the proposition that surprise is not an emotion has been accepted for publication at Perspectives on Psychological Science. [read more]
Sep. 22, 2022
Sumin, Lian, Yujin and Seohyun have been selected to be supported by the SKKU Co-Deep Learning Project program. Team Lobe Dive will be our lab's fourth to enter the competition!
Sep. 15, 2022
Our study on how 30 years of K-pop hits might track temporal shifts in emotion has been accepted for publication at Emotion. [read more]
Sep. 10, 2022
We will be collaborating with Dr. Daeun Park and the MAP lab to elucidate the neural underpinnings of grit, supported by a newly awarded NRF grant.
Aug. 10, 2022
Three-peat! Hayoung, Lian, Yujin, Yunsu and Sumin are proud winners of the 1st prize in the 2022-1 SKKU Co-Deep Learning Project competition.
Jun. 22, 2022
Congrats to Chaebin and Sujin, whose joint first authored paper has been accepted to be published in Brain Imaging and Behavior! [read more]
May. 26, 2022
Hayoung has been selected to participate in the 2022 IBS CNIR Summer School! [read more]
May. 13, 2022
Our paper that exploring a connectome-wide functional signature of trait anger is now officially available in the May issue of Clinical Psychological Science. [read more]
May. 12, 2022
Ready for Round 3! Hayoung, Lian, Yujin, Yunsu and Sumin have been selected to be supported by the SKKU Co-Deep Learning Project program.
Mar. 28, 2022
Our graduate students have been selected to receive support from the SKKU Cluster/Lab Mentoring program under the banner of the HumAN Lab Humans until January 2023.
Feb. 1, 2022
A new paper that assesses the utility of meta-analytic brain maps of emotional categories has been published in Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience. [read more]
Jan. 14, 2022
Huge congrats to Chaebin, Sujin, E-young, Seohyeon and Hayoung for winning the grand prize in the 2021-2 SKKU Co-Deep Learning Project competition!
2021
Dec. 30, 2021
E-young and Hayoung have been accepted to the Combined Bachelors & Masters program! They will become graduate students in 2022.
Sept. 24, 2021
Here we go again! Chaebin, Sujin, E-Young, Seohyeon and Hayoung have been selected to be supported by the SKKU Co-Deep Learning Project program.
Aug. 1, 2021
Dr. Pyungwon Kang from the University of Zurich will talk about her research on Aug. 13, 2021, as our invited speaker.
Jul. 27, 2021
A new paper that explores a connectome-wide functional signature of trait anger has been published in Clinical Psychological Science. [read more]
Jul. 21, 2021
Our commentary on how the dmPFC delineates the self and other against the tendency to form interdependent social representations has been published in Neuron. [read more]
Jul. 20, 2021
Dr. Kim's interview has been published in the 2021 summer issue of the SKKU Newsletter. [read more]
Jul. 16, 2021
Kyuli, representing our lab in her first conference presentation, was selected as one of the recipients of the Best Student Poster Award at KSCBP! Congrats, Kyuli!