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.