CENTER FOR NEUROSCIENCE IMAGING RESEARCH

Sensorimotor Neuroscience Lab

[Introduction]

"The nervous system and the automatic machine are fundamentally alike in that they are devices, which make decisions on the basis of decisions they made in the past."

- Norbert Wiener  (Mathematician and philosopher, 1894-1964)

SN lab conducts researches on how the neural activities in the human brain are related to psychological processes so-called 'brain functions'. The scientific goal of our lab is to improve the current understanding of fundamental perceptual and cognitive processes through the combination of state-of-the-art technology from pattern recognition, neuroimaging, and rapid prototyping with rigorous psychophysical experiments.

[Selected Recent Publications]

1.     Junsuk Kim, Isabelle Bülthoff, Sung-Phil Kim*, and Heinrich H. Bülthoff* (2019). "Shared Neural Representations of Tactile Roughness Intensities by Somatosensation and Touch Observation Using an Associative Learning Method," Scientific Reports, Vol. 9, No. 1, Article number 77.

2.     Junsuk Kim*, Isabelle Bülthoff, and Heinrich H. Bülthoff (2018). "Decoding Visual Roughness Perception: an fMRI Study," Somatosensory & Motor Research, Vol. 35, No. 3-4, pp. 212-217.

3.     Junsuk Kim, Jiwon Yeon, Jae Kyun Ryu, Jang-Yeon Park, Soon-Cheol Chung and Sung-Phil Kim* (2017). "Neural Activity Patterns in the Human brain Reflect Tactile Stickiness Perception," Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, Vol. 11, No. 445, pp. 1-12. 

4.     Junsuk Kim, Yoon Gi Chung, Soon-Cheol Chung, Heinrich H. Bülthoff*, and Sung-Phil Kim* (2016). “Neural Categorization of Vibrotactile Frequency in Flutter and Vibration Stimulations: an fMRI Study," IEEE Transactions on Haptics, Vol. 9, No. 4, pp. 455-464.

5.     Junsuk Kim, Johannes Schultz, Tim Rohe, Christian Wallraven, Seong-Whan Lee, and Heinrich H. Bülthoff* (2015). “Abstract Representations of Associated Emotions in the Human Brain,” Journal of Neuroscience, Vol. 35, No. 14, pp. 5655-5663.