Team

Principal Investigator

Soo Hyun is interested in understanding how our brain easily processes endless inputs coming through our eyes. Her interests in neuroscience started when she was an undergraduate student majoring in Psychology at Seoul National University. Beginning as an undergraduate RA in Dr. Sang-Hun Lee’s lab at SNU, she investigated how the human early visual cortex is organized to reconstruct the perceived world modulated by spatiotemporal contexts using fMRI in humans. After she got her PhD, she joined Dr. David Leopold’s group at the NIMH in the US as a postdoctoral researcher to study the same mystery but at a whole different scale, where you can measure and manipulate the neurons involved in visual perception using non-human primate models (monkeys). Her research with Dr. Leopold revealed whole-brain functional networks related to single neurons in face areas in macaque monkeys. Fascinated by neuronal responses to dynamic, naturalistic inputs, she expanded her research to marmoset monkeys to study local and global circuit mechanisms underlying dynamic social vision.

Read her story from an interview with KAIST BCS Department (in Korean)

Research Assistant

With a background in atmospheric science and astronomy (B.S.) and in the history of science (M.S.), Haneul is now a research assistant in the Visual NeuroDynamics Lab at KAIST. Her current work explores how the brain interprets social visual information through naturalistic approaches.

M.S.-Ph.D. Student (2026 Mar - present)

Kyung Min holds a B.A. in Psychology, a B.S. in Life Sciences, and an M.S. in Healthcare Digital Engineering. Building on this multifaceted academic foundation, she is currently pursuing an integrated M.S.-Ph.D. in the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences at KAIST. During her Master's studies, she specialized in the electrochemical measurement of dopamine and serotonin, investigating the precise fluctuations of these neuromodulators in the brain. Her doctoral research now extends this expertise to explore the neuromodulatory role of dopamine in social vision, aiming to uncover how dopaminergic circuits modulate the brain's interpretation of social information within naturalistic and dynamic contexts.

Undergraduate Researcher

Yun Yeong is an undergraduate student at KAIST, majoring in Brain and Cognitive Sciences and Computer Science. She is interested in understanding how the brain enables humans to perceive and interpret the world. She believes that studying the brain is one of the most fundamental ways to understand human behavior.

During her undergraduate studies, she has been involved in research using eye-tracking systems to investigate how people visually explore their environment. Through this experience, she became curious about the meaning behind human gaze behavior and how the direction of our attention may reflect social information.

She is particularly interested in studying primate models, whose brain structures are closely related to those of humans. She joined the lab because it provides a unique opportunity to study perception and behavior using marmosets.

She hopes to better understand how human gaze is guided in different contexts and what this reveals about the way people perceive the social world.