Minwoo JB Kim @ UNIST

Ph.D. Cognitive Psychologist

Minwoo (pronounced Minu) investigates visual attention, emotion, motion perception and cognitive control using behavioral, EEG, and computational modelling methods.

๐Ÿ‘‰ ๊น€๋ฏผ์šฐ ์ธ์ง€์‹ฌ๋ฆฌํ•™ ๋ฐ•์‚ฌ ์ด๋ฉ”์ผ: minu333@unist.ac.kr

Academic Appointments

  • 2023-Present Post-Doc, Biomedical Engineering, UNIST | PALLab
  • 2021-2023 Post-Doc, Brain & Cognitive Science, Seoul National University | DCNLab
  • Education

  • 2016-2021 Ph.D. Cognitive Psychology, University of Delaware | VCLab
  • 2010-2016 M.S. Cognitive Psychology, Korea University | HPLab
  • 2005-2010 B.A. Psychology, Korea University
  • Select Publications (*first-author)

  • ๊ถŒ์œ ๋ฆฌ, *๊น€๋ฏผ์šฐ, ๊น€๋ฒ”์ˆ˜, ๊น€ํšจ์ •, ์„ค์„ ํ˜œ, ์ •๋™์ผ, ๊ถŒ์˜ค์ƒ (2026). ์ดˆ์—ฐ๊ฒฐ ๋ฏธ๋””์–ด ์‹œ๋Œ€์™€ ์‚ฌํšŒ ์–‘๊ทนํ™”์˜ ์ดํ•ด: ๊ฐœ์ธ, ์‚ฌํšŒ์ง‘๋‹จ, ์ •๋ณดํ™˜๊ฒฝ์˜ ์ƒํ˜ธ์ž‘์šฉ. ํ•œ๊ตญ์‹ฌ๋ฆฌํ•™ํšŒ์ง€:์ผ๋ฐ˜, 45(3), 325 - 371.
  • *Kim et al., (2025). Spatiotemporal dynamics of mouse tracking reveal general and selective control mechanisms of the congruency sequence effect in Simon tasks. Cognition, 264, 106259.
  • Turner, W., Kwon, O. S., Kim, M. J., & Hogendoorn, H. (2025). Rapid Reweighting of Sensory Inputs and Predictions in Visual Perception. Neural Computation, 37(10), 1853-1862.
  • Guida, C., *Kim, M.J.B., Stibolt, O., Lompado, A., Hoffman, J.E., (2024). The N400 component reflecting semantic and repetition priming of visual scenes is suppressed during the attentional blink
  • Park, S. E., Chung, J., Lee, J., Kim, M. J., Kim, J., Jeon, H. J., ... & Lee, S. A. (2024). Digital assessment of cognitive-affective biases related to mental health. PLOS Digital Health, 3(8), e0000595.
  • *Kim, M.J.B. (2024). Emotional capture of spatial attention is suppressed in high anxiety but at a non-spatial time cost, Visual Cognition
  • Baker, A.L., Kim, M., & Hoffman, J.E. (2021). Searching for emotional salience. Cognition, 214, 104730.
  • Hoffman, J.E., Kim, M., Taylor, M., & Holiday, K. (2020). Emotional capture during emotion-induced blindness is not automatic. Cortex, 122, 140-158.
  • *Kim, M., & Cho, Y. S. (2016). The modulating effect of emotional valence on the speed of involuntary attentional capture. ํ•œ๊ตญ์‹ฌ๋ฆฌํ•™ํšŒ์ง€: ์ธ์ง€ ๋ฐ ์ƒ๋ฌผ, 28(2), 285-308.
  • *๊น€๋ฏผ์šฐ, ์ตœ์ค€์‹, ์กฐ์–‘์„. (2011). ๊ณ ๋ ค๋Œ€ํ•™๊ต์–ผ๊ตดํ‘œ์ •๋ชจ์Œ์ง‘ (KUFEC) ๊ณผ ์˜๋ฏธ๋ฏธ๋ถ„๋ฒ•์„ ํ†ตํ•œ ์ •์„œ์ฐจ์›ํ‰์ •. ํ•œ๊ตญ์‹ฌ๋ฆฌํ•™ํšŒ์ง€: ์ผ๋ฐ˜, 30(4), 1189-1211.
  • Skills

  • โœ”๏ธ Programming - Python, Matlab, Github
  • โœ”๏ธ Analysis Techniques - EEG, Computer Mouse-Tracking, Response Latency, Accuracy
  • โœ”๏ธ Experiment Design - Psychopy (Online and Offline)
  • โœ”๏ธ Multimedia - Photoshop, Audition etc.
  • Membership

  • Psychonomics Society
  • Object Perception Attention Memory (OPAM)
  • Visual Science Society (VSS)
  • Korean Cognitive and Biological Psychology Society
  • Korean Psychological Association