ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS

 

2010.7-

Brown University, Providence, RI

Department of Cognitive, Linguistic & Psychological Sciences

Assistant Professor

2009-Present

The Smith-Kettlewell Eye Research Institute

Postdoctoral Researcher

Advisor: Dr. Robert McPeek

 

2006-2009

The Smith-Kettlewell Eye Research Institute

Postdoctoral Fellow

Advisor: Dr. Robert McPeek

 

EDUCATION

2006

Harvard University, Cambridge, MA

Ph.D in Psychology

Advisor: Dr. Ken Nakayama

2003

Harvard University, Cambridge MA 

A.M in Psychology

Advisor: Dr. Ken Nakayama

2000

Seoul National University, Korea

M.A in Psychology

Advisor: Dr. Jung-Oh Kim

1998

Seoul National University, Korea

B.A in Psychology, Summa Cum Laude

 

HONORS AND AWARDS

 

2009

Society for the Neural Control of Movement Scholarship

2007-2008

R.C. Atkinson Fellowship Award, Smith-Kettlewell Eye Research Institute, San Francisco, CA

2006

Summer Institute in Cognitive Neuroscience at Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH

2006

APA Advanced Training Institute in functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging at MGH, Charlestown, MA

2006

Harvard Merit Fellowship

2004

Harvard Graduate Society Summer Fellowship

2004

Certificate of Distinction in Teaching, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA

Teaching award based on anonymous student evaluation 

2001-2006

Fellow, Korea Foundation for Advanced Studies, Korea

5 year fellowship for Ph.D abroad

1998

Walden Award, Dept. of psychology, Seoul National University, Korea

Best B.A. Thesis of The Year

1998

University President's Award for Graduation, Seoul National University, Korea

Valedictorian of the College of Social Sciences

1994-1998

Dean’s list, Seoul National University, Korea

University fellowship award

 

PUBLICATIONS

 

Song J-H., & Nakayama K. (in press). Hidden cognitive states revealed in choice reaching tasks. Trends in Cognitive Sciences.

Song J-H., & Nakayama K. (2008). Target selection in visual search as revealed by movement trajectories. Vision Research, 48, 853-861.

Song J-H., Takahashi N., & McPeek R. M. (2008). Target selection for visually-guided reaching in macaque. Journal of Neurophysiology, 99, 14-24.

Song J-H., & Nakayama K. (2008). Numeric comparison in a visually-guided manual reaching task. Cognition,106, 994-1003

Finkbeiner M., Song J. -H., Nakayama K., & Caramazza A. (2008). Engaging the motor system with masked orthographic primes: a Kinematic analysis. Visual Cognition, 16, 11-22.

Song J-H., & Nakayama K. (2007). Automatic adjustment of visuomotor readiness. Journal of Vision, 7(5), 1-9.

Song J-H., & Nakayama K. (2007). Fixation offset facilitates saccades and manual reaching for single but not multiple target displays. Experimental Brain Research, 177(2), 223-232.

Song J-H., & Jiang YV. (2006). Motion tracking mediates capacity allocation in visual working memory. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 13(6), 1011-1015.

Song J-H., & Nakayama K. (2006). Role of focal attention on latencies and trajectories of visually guided manual pointing. Journal of Vision, 6(9), 982-995.

Song J-H., & Jiang Y. (2006). Visual working memory for simple and complex features: An fMRI study. NeuroImage, 30(3), 963-972.

Jiang Y., Song J-H., & Rigas A. (2005). High-capacity spatial contextual memory. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 12(3), 524-529.

Jiang Y., & Song J-H. (2005). Hyper-specificity in visual implicit learning: Learning of spatial layout is contingent on item identity. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception & Performance, 31(6), 1439-1448.

Song J-H., & Jiang Y. (2005). Connecting the past with the present: How do humans match an incoming visual display with visual memory? Journal of Vision, 5(4), 322-330.

Jiang Y., & Song J-H. (2005). Spatial context learning in visual search and change detection. Perception & Psychophysics, 67(7), 128-139.

 

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

 

Song J-H, McPeek RM. Target selection for visually guided reaching. Annual Meeting of the Society for the Neural Control

of Movement, 2009.

McPeek RM, Song J-H. Neural correlates of target selection for reaching movements in superior colliculus. Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, 2009.

Song J-H, McPeek RM. Deficits in target selection for reaching movements after superior colliculus inactivation. Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, 2009.

Song J-H, McPeek RM. Target selection for visually-guided reaching in the dorsal premotor area during a visual search task. Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience.

Song J-H, McPeek RM. Target selection for visually-guided reaching in the dorsal premotor area during a visual search task. Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, 2008.

Song J-H, McPeek RM. Eye and hand coordination during a target selection task in monkey. Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, 2008.

Song J-H. & McPeek RM. Target selection for visually-guided reaching in the dorsal premotor area during a visual search task, Computational and Systems Neuroscience, Utah, 2008.

Song J-H.,& McPeek RM. Target selection for visually-guided reaching in macaque. Society for Neuroscience, San Diego, 2007.

Song J-H., McPeek RM., & Takahashi N. Target selection for visually-guided reaching in macaque. Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, Florida, 2007.

Nakayama K, Song J-H., Finkbeiner M., & Caramazza A. Hand trajectories reveal cognitive states. Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, Florida, 2007.

Song J-H., & Nakayama K. Automatic readiness adjustment of visually-guided manual-pointing movements. Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, Florida, 2006.

Song J-H., & Nakayama K. Control of speed and accuracy set point in visually guided manual-pointing movements. Annual Meeting of Object, Perception, and Memory, Toronto, Canada, 2006.

Song J-H., & Nakayama K. Control of speed and accuracy criteria in manual-pointing movements. ESF-EMBO Symposium on three-Dimensional Sensory and Motor Space, Sant Feliu de Guixols, Spain, 2005.

Song J-H., & Nakayama K. Selecting and pointing: Consecutive serial processing? Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, Florida, 2005.

Song J-H., & Nakayama K. The role of attention in manual pointing. Motor control for vision scientists, Lunteren, Netherlands, 2004.

Song J-H., & Jiang Y. How configural is implicit learning of repeated visual context? Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, Florida, 2004.

              

INVITED TALKS

 

UCSF, San Francisco, April 2007.

The Smith-Kettlewell Eye Institute, San Francisco, January 2006.

University of Western Ontario, London, Canada, January 2006.

Harvard University, Cambridge, April 2006.

University of Montreal, Montreal, Canada, November 2005.

 

TEACHING AND RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

 

2002-2005

Teaching Fellow, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA

Vision and Brain

2000

Lecturer, Hallym University, Korea

Introduction to Psychology, Experimental Psychology & Lab

2000

Researcher, Seoul National University, Korea

Perception & Attention Lab, Department of Psychology,

Project: Developing ‘Hangul (The Korean Alphabet) Learning Program based on Phoneme awareness’

1999-2000

Research Assistant, Seoul National University, Korea

Institute of Psychological Science, Department of Psychology,

Project: Developing national-wide 'Drivers Aptitude Test System’

1998-2000

Teaching Assistant, Seoul National University, Korea

Learning and Memory & Lab, Psychological Statistics, Perception & Lab, Experimental Psychology & Lab, Attention and Performance

 

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

 

Professional membership

Vision Sciences Society

Society for Neuroscience

Cognitive Neuroscience Society

 

Ad Hoc Review

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception & Performance

Perception

Brazilian Journal of Medical and Biological Research

Experimental Brain Research

Perception & psychophysics

Journal of vision

Cognition
Vision Research
Korean Journal of Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

 

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