Research Interests
Cognitive Control, Emotion, fMRI, Psychophysiology
Education
2006.8 – B.A. Korea University, Seoul, Korea, Psychology
2008.8 – M.S. Korea University, Seoul, Korea, Experimental Psychology
2014.8 – Ph.D. University of Maryland, College Park, MD, US., Neuroscience and Cognitive Science, Department of Psychology
Positions
2019 ~ present - Post-doctoral fellow, Louisiana State University
2015 ~ 2019 – Postdoctoral fellow, Department of Psychology, Human Performance Lab, Korea University
2009 ~ 2014 – Doctoral Student in Neuroscience Program
2006 ~ 2008 – Master’s Student in Experimental Psychology
Conference Presentation
Choi, J.M., Padmala, S., Spechler, P. & Pessoa, L. (2013, Nov). Interactions between threat and anticipation of monetary gains and losses, San Diego, CA
Choi, J.M, Padmala, S., Spechler, P. & Pessoa, L. (2012, Oct). Competition between reward and threat processing. Society for Neuroscience, New Orleans, LA
Kinnison, J., Padmala, S., Choi, J.M., & Pessoa, L. (2011, Nov). Threat decreases network modularity and promotes increased global processing efficiency. Society for Neuroscience, Washington D.C.
Choi, J.M., Padmala, S., & Pessoa, L. (2010, Nov). Threat anticipation utilizes processing resources needed for cognitive control. Society for Neuroscience, San Diego, CA
Choi, J. M., Lee, Jaeyong, Kim, Yu mi & Cho, Y. S. (2008, Nov). The Congruency Sequence Effect in the Face-Name Stroop Task. OPAM 16th annual meeting. Chicago, IL
Choi, J. M., Lee, Jaeyong, Kim, Yu mi & Cho, Y. S. (2008, Aug). Influence of Perceptual Discriminability on the Stroop-dilution Effect. Korean Psychological Association. Seoul, Republic of Korea
Choi, J. M., & Cho, Y. S. (2007, Nov). Modulation of the Stroop effect by inhibition of return. 48th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Long Beach, CA
Bae, G. Y., Choi, J. M., Cho, Y. S., & Proctor, R. W. (2007, Nov). Transfer of orthogonal and parallel incompatible mapping to the SNARC effect. 48th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Long Beach, CA
Bae, G. Y., Choi, J. M., Cho, Y. S. & Proctor, R. W. (2007, Jul). Influence of spatial Stimulus-Response mapping on the SNARC effect. Experimental Psychology Society Edinburgh meeting 4/7 July 2007 joint with the Psychonomic Society. Edinburgh, UK
Choi, J. M., & Cho, Y. S. (2006, Nov). Influence of target type on the stroop dilution effect. OPAM 14th annual meeting. Houston, TX