Jejoong Kim
Graduate Student (Ph.D. course),
Department of Psychology
Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN 37240
Personal Information
Research Interests
1. Visual perception abnormalities in schizophrenia and other mental illness
2. Cognitive deficits in schizophrenia and other mental illness
3. Relationship between neuro-cognitive deficits and social functioning in schizophrenia
Education
March 1993 - February 1999.
B.A. course in Psychology, Academic Advisor: Choongkil Lee, Ph.D.
Department of Psychology, Seoul National University, Seoul 151-856, Korea.
(1994.7 - 1995.12 : Military service in Korean Army)
March 1999. - August 2001.
M.A. in Psychology (Biological Psychology & Neurophysiology). Academic Advisor : Choongkil Lee, Ph.D.
Department of Psychology, Seoul National University, Seoul 151-856, Korea
M.A. Thesis : Neural activities related with the direction of saccadic eye movement in the cat areas 17 and 18
September 2002. - present
Doctorial program (Neuroscience) in Psychology. Academic Advisor : Sohee Park, Ph.D.
Department of Psychology, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN 37240, U.S.A.
Publications
Tadin, D., Kim, J., Doop.M.L., Gibson, C., Lappin, J., Blake, R., & Park, S. (2006). Reduced center-surround antagonism in motion perception in schizophrenia. The Journal of Neuroscience, 26(44), 11403- 11412. [Text] [PDF]
Kim, J., Park, S., Shin, Y., Lee, K.J., & Kwon, J.S. (2006). Self-initiated encoding facilitates object working memory in schizophrenia: implications for the etiology of working memory deficit. Schizophrenia Research, 82, 65-74.
Kim, J., Doop. M.L., Blake, R., & Park, S. (2005). Impaired visual recognition of biological motion in schizophrenia. Schizophrenia Research, 77, 299-307.
Park, S., Lee, J., Folley, B.S., & Kim, J. (2003). Schizophrenia: Putting context in context. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 26(1), 98-99.
Lee, I., Kim, J., & Lee, C. (1999). Anatomical characteristics and three-dimensional model of the dog dorsal lateral geniculate body. Anatomical Record, 256(1), 29-39.
Paper under review
Kim, J., Blake, R., Park, S., Shin, Y., Yu, S., & Kwon, J.S. Selective impairment in visual perception of biological motion in obsessive-compulsive disorder. (Journal of Abnormal Psychology)
Paper in preparation
Kim, J., & Park, S. Specifying optimal encoding conditions for working memory in schizophrenia: timing and salience
Kim, J., Gibson, C., Lee, J., Anderson, A., & Park, S. An event-related fMRI study of verbal working memory function in schizophrenic and healthy control subjects.
Published abstracts and presentations
Kim, J., Gibson, C., Lee, J., Anderson, A., & Park, S. (2006). An event-related fMRI study of verbal working memory function in schizophrenic and healthy control subjects. Human Brain Mapping 2006, Florence, Italy, Jun 10th - 15th, 2006.
Kim, J., Park, S., Shin, Y., Lee, K.J., & Kwon, J.S. (2005). Self-initiated attention to target facilitates working memory encoding in schizophrenia: implications for the etiology of working memory deficit and strategies for remediation. 10th International Congress on Schizophrenia Research.
Kim, J., & Park, S. (2004). Specifying optimal encoding conditions for working memory in schizophrenia: Timing and salience. Society for Research in Psychopathology 2004. Saint Louis, Missouri, U.S.A., Oct 7 - Oct 10, 2004.
Park, S., Lee, J., Folley, B., Anderson, A., & Kim, J. (2004). Components of working memory deficit in schizophrenia: Integrating evidence from cognitive, fMRI, and DTI studies. Society of Biological Psychiatry, 59th Annual Convention and Scientific Program. April 29 - May 1, 2004.
Kim, J., Doop, M., Blake, R., & Park, S. (2003). Impaired recognition of biological motion in schizophrenia. Schizophrenia Research (Suppl) 60(1), 141. 9th International Congress on Schizophrenia Research. Colorado Springs, Colorado, U.S.A. March 29-April 2, 2003
Kim J., Tadin, D., Clemmons, F.C., Lappin, J.S., & Park, S. (2003). Enhanced motion perception of high-contrast stimuli in schizophrenia subjects implicates reduced center-surround antagonism in the cortical area MT. 9th International Congress on Schizophrenia Research. Colorado Springs, Colorado, U.S.A. March 29-April 2, 2003
Lee, C., Park, J., Lee, J., & Kim, J. (2001). Modulation of visual motion perception after saccadic eye movements. Korean Psychology Association Annual Conference Proceedings, 2001.
Research Experience
August 1999 - July 2001
September 2001 - June 2002
June 2004 - August 2004
June 2005 - August 2005
Graduate Teaching Experience
Night in Seoul
