Director
Hakwan Lau
As the director of the SIN group, Hakwan aims to uncover the fundamental reason humans experience the world differently from other animals. Learn more about his profile here.
Research Professor
Qi Lin
Qi is broadly interested in learning and memory, and how individual differences in these processes interact with other aspects of the mind.
Postdoc
Injae Hong
Injae is interested in how humans efficiently (or inefficiently) deploy attention in complex visual scenes. Her previous works has primarily employed psychophysical methods, and now she is expanding her work to bridge brain and human behavior — exploring how brain stimulation may modulate cognitive performance. Outside the lab, she spends most of her time knitting.
Tomoya Nakamura
Tomoya has a background in psychophysics, specializing in the temporal aspects of visual perception. His current research utilizes fMRI to explore the fundamental distinctions between perceptual and mnemonic processes.
Jane Yook
Jane’s research interests stem from how we make sense of our world, encompassing areas such as visual perception and decision-making. She uses psychophysics and neuroimaging techniques in her work.
Joshua Tan
Josh works on cortico-cerebellar interactions in fMRI data. His research focuses on the contribution of these interactions to learning and expertise, and the generalisation of the cerebellum’s role across both motor and non-motor actions.
Konstantin Demin
Kostya conducts neurofeedback experiments with humans and rodents. His research interests include intelligence and consciousness.
Researcher
Tzu-Ying Chuang(Jean)
Jean’s research interests center around cognition, interoception, pain perception, decision-making and mental health. She aims to conduct psychophysics experiments on mice models, and also investigate the relationship between mental health and neuroimaging under social network.
Research Assistant
Hyun Seo Lee (Hannah)
Hannah’s research interests revolve around attention, perception, and decision- making in changing dynamics, using psychophysics and neuroimaging. She likes tea and cake.
Jeeyoon Lee
Jeeyoon studies how humans perceive and understand the world, along with the processes that shape interindividual variability. To explore this, she focuses on several domains, including perception, memory, social context, and decision making.
Jun Seo Hwang
Jun Seo conducts psychophysics experiments on humans and monkeys. His research interests center on consciousness.
Raihyung Lee
Raihyung conducts behavioral experiments on humans. His research interest focuses on metacognition.
Wonyi Che
Wonyi conducts psychophysics experiments on humans and rodents. Her research interests include memory, aging, neurodevelopmental disorders, and dementia.
Student
Maria Sanz Bernal
Maria studies how computational models and fMRI can be used to uncover brain patterns associated with autism and other cognitive disorders.
Olga Gulka
Olga’s research interests include cognitive functions—particularly memory and attention—and research methods such as functional MRI and eye-tracking.
Sara Mohammadzadeh
Sara is a Master’s student interested in consciousness and unconscious processing. She aims to use fMRI and computational tools to explore how brain activity patterns can be used to treat phobias without conscious exposure.
Xue Zhang
Xue is interested in attention and memory. She investigates the computational and neural foundations of memory formation in naturalistic contexts, with attention to individual differences and developmental trajectories.
Lab Manager
Chae Eun Bang
Chaeeun studied political science and international relations. As a lab manager, she bridges administrative operations and research support, facilitating smooth and effective collaboration across teams.
Mina Kim
Mina has a background in the performing arts. She supports research by overseeing lab operations and fostering collaboration.
SKKU Faculty Collaborators
Hansem Sohn
Hansem investigates how the brain measures and processes time using multiple approaches: behavioral experiments, computational modeling, human neuroimaging, and electrophysiology in non-human primates.
Joonyeol Lee
Joonyeol explores how attention and cognition modulate sensory neural representation and transmission of the neural information to the downstream motor areas in the brain.
Kayuet Liu
Kayuet’s group focuses on mental health conditions like depression and anxiety disorders, and their link to aphantasia, using large cohort data analysis.
Seng Bum Michael Yoo
Michael is interested in understanding the neural population inferring the world when an agent is foraging/hunting in interactive and dynamic environments.
Seok-Jun Hong
Seok-Jun’s lab specializes in brain network modeling and the data-driven subtyping of developmental conditions. His research integrates neuroinformatics, machine learning, and neuroimaging data across human and non-human primates.