Cognitive neuroscience · Human neuroimaging
Research Professor · Korea University
Behavioral Science Research Institute
I am a cognitive neuroscientist interested in how the brain supports learning and decision-making. My research examines how social feedback and bodily signals influence these processes. I also study how self-esteem changes in everyday life.
jinhee_kim@korea.ac.kr
I am a cognitive neuroscientist and Research Professor at the Behavioral Science Research Institute, Korea University, where I work with Dr. Hackjin Kim in the Laboratory of Social and Decision Neuroscience. I use neuroimaging to study the brain processes involved in learning, emotion, and decision-making.
I completed my PhD at Kangwon National University under the supervision of Dr. Eunjoo Kang, studying how the brain processes feedback during learning. At the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) in Toronto, I worked with Dr. Antonio Strafella as a postdoctoral fellow, studying resting-state brain network dynamics in Parkinson’s disease. My work there also included PET and fMRI studies of brain connectivity in relation to cognition and emotion.
My current work asks how feedback from others affects our judgments and decisions. I am also interested in interoception—how we perceive signals from within our bodies—and its role in decision-making. I study these questions using fMRI, behavioral tasks, and physiological recordings.
In daily-life studies, I use experience sampling methods (ESM) and wearable sensors to examine how self-esteem varies over time and how these changes relate to cardiac activity.
Research
How does feedback change what we learn and choose? My doctoral work examined feedback-based learning. I now study how feedback from other people affects judgments and decisions.
Behavioral experiments · Task-based fMRI · Physiological recordings
My work at CAMH examined resting-state brain network dynamics in Parkinson’s disease. My research there also included PET and fMRI studies of brain connectivity in relation to cognition and emotion.
Resting-state fMRI · Network dynamics · PET–MRI
I study how the perception of internal bodily signals relates to decision-making. In a related line of field research, I use experience sampling and wearable sensors to examine daily changes in self-esteem and their relationship with cardiac activity.
Interoception · Experience sampling (ESM) · Wearable sensing
Selected publications
First author
Cardiac responses to social feedback and their relationship with individual differences in behavioral bias.
First & corresponding author
Resting-state fMRI research on changes in the dynamics of intrinsic brain networks in Parkinson’s disease.
Co-first author
A combined PET and fMRI study relating FAAH binding to amygdala functional connectivity in healthy adults.