At the Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory, we are broadly interested in the origins of cognitive abilities and how they change over the course of the lifespan – from infancy to late adulthood. We are currently investigating the behavioral and neural correlates of spatial cognition, navigation, episodic memory, and symbolic thinking. Our aim is to understand the core foundations of human intelligence and to uncover new methods to assess and improve disrupted cognitive function in neurodevelopmental or neurodegenerative disorders.

We’re now recruiting postdoctoral researchers to join us in 2024! Email your CV and cover letter to our lab email (leelab.bcs.snu@gmail.com).

10.18.2024 Jisun and Sangwon won Best Poster Award at KSBNS 2024!

09.02.2024 Congratulations to Bohee for being selected for the 2024 SNU본부 BK21 대학원혁신사업단 우수인재 Fellowship!

07.28.2024 Sang-Eon, Jisu, and Jeonghyun’s paper “Digital Assessment of Cognitive-Affective Biases Related to Mental Health” was accepted for publication in PLOS Digital Health. Congratulations!

07.15.2024 Maria’s paper “Scene construction processes in the anterior hippocampus during temporal episodic memory retrieval” was accepted for publication in Hippocampus. Congratulations!

07.12.2024 Yu Jin & Jung Han’s paper “The visual scene network and hippocampus represent spatial boundary structures for temporal episodic memory organization” was accepted for publication in Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. Congratulations!

07.05.2024 Congratulations to Jisun for being selected for the Fostering the Next Generation of Researchers Projects (학문후속세대지원사업)!

06.11.2024 Congratulations to Seongyoon and Miso for successfully defending their Master’s thesis!

06.04.2024 Congratulations to Jung Han for successfully defending his Ph.D’s thesis on “Foundational Role of Spatiotemporal Binding in Human Episodic Memory”!

05.17.2024 Congratulations to Sang-Eon for being selected for the Sejong Science Fellowship!

01.22.2024 Jung Han’s paper “Wearable functional near-infrared spectroscopy for measuring dissociable activation dynamics of prefrontal cortex subregions during working memory” was accepted for publication in Human Brain Mapping. Congratulations!

10.28.2023 Gakyung won Best Poster Award at KHBM 2023!

09.07.2023 Sang-Eon won Best Presentation Award & Ji Yeon won Best Poster Award at KSBNS 2023!

08.21.2023 Sang-Eon, Jeonghyun & Gakyung won the best poster award at Neurosplash 2023!

07.03.2023 Jisun’s paper “Hippocampal orchestration of associative and sequential memory networks for episodic retrieval” was accepted for publication in Cell Reports. Congratulations!

07.01.2023 Sang-Eon, Jeonghyun, and Maria’s paper “Cognotyping by what-where-when retrieval reveals the potential role of temporal memory and its neural correlates in understanding individual differences across aging and Alzherimer’s disease” was accepted for publication in The Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. Congratulations!

04.26.2023 Sang-Eon & Jeonghyun’s paper “Domain-general and domain-specific electrophysiological markers of cognitive distance coding for what, where, and when memory retrieval” was accepted for publication in The Journal of Neuroscience. Congratulations!

03.2023 Congratulations to Sang-Eon and Jung Han for completing their military service!

12.16.2022 Brain Day 2022: Congratulations to Yu Jin winning the Cajal Award (Best Paper Award)!

08.08.2022 Congratulations to Minwoo for being selected for the NRF Postdoctoral Fellowship!

4.19.2022 Congratulations to Maria for being selected for the 관정 이종환 Scholarship!

3.28.2022 Yu Jin’s paper “Effects of Spatial Boundaries on Episodic Memory Development” was accepted for publication in Child Development. Congratulations!

3.1.2022 Congratulations to Hyeja for being selected for the 2022 SNU본부 BK21 대학원혁신사업단 우수인재 Fellowship!

12.17.2021 Brain Day 2021: Hanuel won the Cajal Award (Best Paper Award) and Best Presentation Award, Yu Jin won Best Poster Award (1st Place), and Jeonghyun won Best Poster Award! KAIST BMCC 2021: Jung Han won Best Poster Award! Congratulations to everybody!

11.24.2021 Haneul’s paper “Electrophysiological Responses to Rapidly-Presented Affective Stimuli Predict Individual Differences in Subsequent Attention” was accepted for publication in eNeuro. Congratulations!

08.30.2021 Congratulations to our lab’s digital therapeutic startup team “우울지마” for winning best team!

06.11.2021 Congratulations to Jisun in successfully defending her Master’s thesis!

4.21.2021 Congratulations to Seongyoon for being selected for the 2021 SNU본부 BK21 대학원혁신사업단 우수인재 Fellowship!

3.31.2021 Our lab’s digital therapeutic startup team “우울지마”  was accepted by the Seoul National University Entrepreneurship Center!

3.01.2021 Our lab moved from KAIST Bio and Brain Engineering to SNU Department of Brain & Cognitive Sciences

12.17.2020 Congratulations to Haneul, Yu Jin, Maria in successfully defending their Master’s thesis!

11.25.2020 Congratulations to Sang Ah for becoming a member of the Memory Disorders Research Society (MDRS)!

11.17.2020 Haneul won the best presentation award for the 2020 Korean Society for Brain and Neural Sciences Conference!

08.27.2020 Minjun won the best poster award for the 2020 Meeting of the Korean Society for Cognitive Psychobiology!

12.09.2019 Haneul won the best poster award at 2019 KEEG annual conference!

07.03.2019 Sang Ah gave talks World Economic Forum in Dalian

05.25.2019 Gitae won Embrain research sponsorship for her research on scene perception!

05.25.2019 Jung Han received a best poster prize at The Korean Society for Cognitive Science conference!

05.25.2019 Junghan, Yujin, Hanuel, Maria and Gitae present their poster at The Korean Society for Cognitive Science conference.

02.27.2019  Congratulations to our postdoc Jin Hyuck Park on starting his tenure-track faculty position at the Department of Occupational Therapy at Soon Chun Hyang University! Best of luck, Jin!!

02.14.2019  Yujin and Junghan present their posters at the Korean Society for Cognitive and Biological Psychology conference.

12.06.2018  Congratulations to Eugenia Gianni in successfully defending her PhD thesis!

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