Do-Joon Yi, Ph.D.

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I am studying human learning and memory using psychophysical and neuroimaging methods - with an emphasis on functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) technique.

  • Assistant professor, Department of Psychology, Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea.
  • Email: dojoon dot yi at yonsei dot ac dot kr
  • Address: Department of Psychology, Yonsei University, 134 Shinchon-dong, Seodaemun-gu, Seoul 120-749, Republic of Korea.
Publications

Luhmann, C. C., Chun, M. M., Yi, D. -J., Lee, D., & Wang, X. -J. (2008). Neural dissociation of delay and uncertainty in inter-temporal choice. Journal of Neuroscience, 28(53), 14459-14466. 

Yi, D. -J.
, Turk-Browne, N. B., Chun, M. M., & Johnson, M. K. (2008). When a thought equals a look: Refreshing enhances perceptual memory. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 20(8), 1371-1380.

Yi, D. -J., Turk-Browne, N. B., Flombaum, J. I., Scholl, B. J., Kim, M.-S., & Chun, M. M. (2008). Spatiotemporal object continuity in human ventral visual cortex. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA, 105, 8840-8845. [featured at BRIC in Korea]

Kim, K. -M., Yi, D. -J., Yang E. -J., & Lee, K. -H. (2007). What makes repressors good suppressors?: The effect of trait anxiety. Korean Journal of Psychology: General, 26, 261-278.

Park, S., Intraub, H., Yi, D. -J., Widders, D., Chun, M. M. (2007). Beyond the edges of a view: boundary extension in human scene-selective visual cortex. Neuron, 54, 335-342. [pdf]

Woodman, G. F., & Yi, D. -J. (2007). Masked-target recovery requires focused attention on the target object. Visual Cognition, 15(4), 385-401. [pdf]

Turk-Browne, N. B., Yi, D. -J., Leber, A. B. & Chun, M. M. (2007). Visual quality determines the direction of neural repetition effects. Cerebral Cortex, 17, 425-433. [pdf]

Turk-Browne, N. B., Yi, D. -J., & Chun, M. M. (2006). Linking implicit and explicit memory: Common encoding factors and shared representations. Neuron, 49, 917-927. [pdf] [preview by Dudukovic & Wagner] [cover by Nick Turk-Browne]

Yi, D. -J., Kelley, T. A., Marois, R. & Chun, M. M. (2006). Attentional modulation of repetition attenuation is anatomically dissociable for scenes and faces. Brain Research, 1080, 53-62. [pdf] [partial cover]

Yi, D. -J., Olson, I. R., & Chun, M. M. (2006). Shape-specific perceptual learning in a figure-ground segregation task. Vision Research, 46, 914-924. [pdf]

Yi, D. -J., & Chun, M. M.. (2005). Attentional modulation of learning-related repetition attenuation effects in human parahippocampal cortex. Journal of Neuroscience, 25 (14), 3593-3600. [pdf]

Yi, D. -J., Woodman, G. F., Widders, D., Marois, R., & Chun, M. M.. (2004). Neural fate of ignored stimuli: Dissociable effects of perceptual and working memory load, Nature Neuroscience, 7 (9), 992-996. [pdf] [demo] [featured at BRIC in Korea]

Marois, R., Yi, D. -J., & Chun, M. M. (2004). The neural fate of consciously perceived and missed events in the attentional blink, Neuron, 41, 465-472. [pdf]

Yi, D. -J., Kim, M. -S., & Chun, M. M. (2003). Inhibition of return to occluded objects. Perception & Psychophysics, 65 (8), 1222-1230. [pdf] [demo]

Kim, M. -S. & Yi, D. -J. (2000). The nature of location in location-based selection: Evidence from a symbolic spatial probe task. Korean Journal of Experimental & Cognitive Psychology, 12 (1), 15-26. [abstract]

Yi, D. -J., & Kim, M. -S. (1999). The line motion illusion in visual search. Korean Journal of Experimental & Cognitive Psychology, 11 (2), 171-184. [abstract]

[conference presentations] [invited colloquia]

Education & Career
2007 spring. Assistant professor in Department of Psychology, Yonsei University.
  • 2008 fall. Lecturing 'Introduction to Psychology', 'Social and Affective Neuroscience', and 'Cognitive Neuroscience Seminar (graduate course)'
  • 2008 spring. Lecturing 'Introduction to Psychology', 'Physiological Psychology', 'Psychology of Learning', and 'Brain & Cognition (graduate course)'
  • 2007 fall. Lecturing 'Introduction to Psychology (team teaching)', 'Social, Cognitive, and Affective Neuroscience,' and 'Cognitive Neuroscience Seminar (graduate course)'
  • 2007 spring. Lecturing 'Biological Psychology', 'Learning & Memory', 'Introduction to Psychology (team teaching),' and 'Functional Neuroimaging (graduate course)'.
2006 fall. BK 21 postdoctoral fellow in Department of Psychology, Yonsei University.
  • 2006 fall. Lecturing 'Brain & Cognition (graduate course)'.
2006 spring. Postdoctoral research associate in Department of Psychology, Yale University.

2003 fall ~ 2005 fall. Ph. D. program in Department of Psychology, Yale University, advised by Dr. Marvin M. Chun.

  • 2005 fall. Ph. D. (dissertation: 'Learning-induced neural plasticity in vision')
  • 2005 spring. M. Phil.
  • 2004 spring. ERP Trainee at Clinical Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory,
    Olin Neuropsychiatry Research Center, Institute of Living, Hartford, CT
    (advised by Dr. Kent Kiehl).
  • 2003 fall. Teaching fellow for Statistics (Prof. Mitch Prinstein).

2001 fall ~ 2003 spring, Ph D. program in Department of Psychology, Vanderbilt University.

  • 2003 spring. Teaching assistant for Quantitative Methods (Prof. Jeffrey Franks).
  • 2002 fall. Teaching assistant for General Psychology (Prof. Marvin Chun).

2001 spring. Lecturing 'General Psychology' (honored by 'Yonsei University Teaching Award').

1998~2000. M. A. in Cognitive Psychology from Yonsei University, advised by Dr. Min-Shik Kim.

1992~1998. B. A. in Psychology from Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea.

  • 1997. Exchange student at University of California, Davis.
  • 1992~1994. Military service in the Korean Army.
Last updated 071408.