Hi, I'm a second year graduate student in the Brain and Cognitive Sciences Program, department of Psychology. I received my BA in Psychology from Scripps College in 2004.

Broadly, my research interest is in how the human visual system interprets and utilizes the vast amount of information in our visual world. My recent projects include 1: comparison of shape representation of cave art 17,000 years ago and current day drawings 2: individual differences in sensory preferences and 3: observing the effects of semantic and physical similarities of object pairs in the lateral occipital complex (LOC).

Publications

Kim, J. G. & Goldman, A. J. & Biederman, (2008) I. Blind or deaf? A matter of aesthetics. Perception. 37, 949-950. [PDF]

Biederman, I. & Kim, J. G. (2008) 17,000 years of depicting the junction of two smooth shapes. Perception, 37, 161-164. [PDF]

Baldo, J.V., Dronkers, N.F., Wilkins, D., Ludy, C., Raskin, P., & Kim, J. (2005). Is problem solving dependent on language? Brain and Language, 92, 340-250.

Conferences

Kim, J. G., Lescroart, M. D., Hayworth, K. J., & Biederman, I. (2008) The release from adaptation in LOC: An effect of shape or semantics? Presented at the Vision Sciences Society conference in Naples, Florida. [Poster]

Kim, J. & Biederman, I. (2007). 17,000 years of depicting the junction of two smooth shapes. Presented at the Annual Meeting of Objects, Perception, Attention, and Memory (OPAM), Long Beach, CA. [Poster]

Hellige, J. B., Patel, U., Kim, J., & George, P. (2007) Interhemispheric collaboration for matching emotions signified by words and faces. Presented at the 48th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Long Beach, CA.

Mackay, D.G., Hadley, C.B., McDonough, I., & Kim, J. (2005). Relations between emotion and immediate memory: Data and theory. Paper presented at the 46th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society.

Grants/Fellowship

College Doctorate Fellowship: August 2006 - May, 2011

Mellon Foundation Grant: May, 2004

Contact Information

Department of Psychology
University of Southern California
Image Understanding Lab HBN 316
3641 Watt Way
Los Angeles, CA 90089-2520
Phone:(213)740-6102
Fax: (213) 740-5687
Email: jiyekim@usc.edu