Hi, I'm a fourth 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 examining the properties of higher ventral visual areas, such as the Lateral Occipital Complex (LOC), by utilizing fMRI, EEG, and psychophysics.
Publications
Kim, J.G. & Biederman, I. (under review) Where do objects become scenes?
Xu, X., Yue, X., Lescroart, M.D., Kim, J.G. & Biederman, I. (2009). Adaptation in the Fusiform Face Area (FFA): Image or Person? Vision Research, 49, 2800-2807.
Kim, J.G., Biederman, I., Lescroart, M.D., Hayworth, K.J. (2009). Adaptation in the Lateral Occipital Complex (LOC): Shape or Semantics? Vision Research, 49, 2297-2305. [PDF]
Kim, J.G. & Goldman, A.J. & Biederman, I. (2008). Blind or deaf? A matter of aesthetics. Perception, 37, 949-950.
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Biederman, I. & Kim, J.G. (2008) 17,000 years of depicting the junction of two smooth shapes. Perception, 37, 161-164.
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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. & Biederman, I. (2009) Where Do Objects Become Scenes? Paper presented at the Vision Sciences Soceity conference in Naples, Florida. May 9.
Hayworth, K.J., Lescroart, M.D., Kim J.G., & Biederman, I. (2009). Evidence for Object File Encoding in the Poster Fusiform (pFs) and Intra-Parietal Sulcus (IPS). Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of Vision Science Society, Naples, FL.
Xu, X., Yue, X., Lescroart, M.D., Kim, J.G. & Biederman, I. (2009). Adaptation in the Fusiform Face Area (FFA): Image or Person? Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of Vision Science Society, Naples, FL.
Amir, O., Hayworth, K.J., Biederman, I., Lescroart, M., Kim, J.G. (2009). At What Stage in the Human Ventral Pathway is the Greater Sensitivity to Nonaccidental over Metric Properties First Manifested? Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of Vision Science Society, Naples, FL.
Kim, J.G. & Biederman, I. (2008). Neural Loci of Interacting Objects. Presented at the Annual Meeting of Objects, Perception, Attention, and Memory (OPAM), Chicago, IL. [Poster]
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, FL. [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, Toronto, Canada.
Grants/Fellowships/Awards
F.J. McGuigan Award: 2008
College Doctoral Fellowship: August 2006 - May, 2011
Valentine Fellowship: Aug 2006 - May 2007
Mellon Foundation Grant: May, 2004
Contact Information
Department of Psychology
University of Southern California
Image Understanding Lab HNB 316
3641 Watt Way
Los Angeles, CA 90089-2520
Phone:(213)740-6102
Fax: (213) 740-5687
Email: jiyekim@usc.edu