Underwood International College

Associate Professor of Psychology

• Associate Professor, Cognitive Science, Johns Hopkins University, 2011-2017
• Postdoctoral Researcher, Brain and Cognitive Sciences, M.I.T., 2008-2011
• Ph.D. in Psychology, Yale University, 2008
• B.A. in Psychology, Yonsei University, 2003

Profile

Soojin Park is an associate professor of the department of psychology at Yonsei University. Dr. Park investigates how the human visual system represents scene information using fMRI neuroimaging methods. Her research lies at the intersection of the cognitive neuroscience, cognitive psychology, and computational vision. Before she joined Yonsei, she was an associate professor of Cognitive Science at Johns Hopkins University. She got her Ph.D. in psychology from Yale University, where she investigated the constructive nature of scene perception in the human brain. Then, she worked as a postdoctoral researcher at M.I.T., investigating how the visual system computes spatial information from a visual scene. She now leads the Visual Cognitive Neuroscience Lab at Yonsei University.

Education

Postdoctoral Researcher, Brain and Cognitive Sciences, M.I.T., 2008-2011
Ph.D., Psychology, Yale University, 2008
B.A., Psychology, Yonsei University, 2003

Courses and Current Research Areas

Courses taught at UIC
Vision, Mind and Brain

Current research interests
Visual scene perception
Space and spatial navigation
Dynamic vision