About
Hello! I am a postdoctoral researcher working with Daniel Dilks at Emory University.
Our surroundings are dynamic and complex — but humans rarely fail to make sense of all of this information to recognize where we are and navigate through it. How?
I address this question by examining how our brain is organized to support all of these, and critically, how this organization emerge during development. I use fMRI, DTI, machine learning, and behavioral measures to explore these questions.
I completed my PhD at the University of Toronto in Toronto, Canada, working with Dirk Bernhardt-Walther and Amy Finn, exploring how scene category information is represented in the prefrontal cortex and how such category information allows generalization in children. After that, I was a postdoc in Baby Lab at Princeton University.
Selected Publications
Jung, Y., & Dilks, D. D. (2025). Early development of navigationally relevant location information in retrosplenial complex. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 122, e2503569122.
Jung, Y., Hsu, D., & Dilks, D. D. (2024). “Walking selectivity” in the occipital place area in 8-year-olds, not 5-year-olds. Cerebral Cortex, 34(3). bhae101.
Jung, Y., & Walther, D. B. (2021), Task dependence of neural representations of global scene properties but not scene categories in the prefrontal cortex. Journal of Neuroscience.
Jung, Y., Walther, D. B. & Finn, A. S. (2020), Automatic categorical abstraction during visual statistical learning in adults and children. Developmental Science, e13072.
Jung, Y., Larsen, B., & Walther, D. B. (2018). Modality-independent coding of scene categories in prefrontal cortex. Journal of Neuroscience, 38(26):5969-5981.
CV
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Education
PhD — Psychology August, 2019
University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada (advisors: Dirk Bernhardt-Walther & Amy Finn)
MSc — Cognitive Science August, 2013
Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea (advisor: Sang Chul Chong)
BA — Psychology February, 2011
Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea (advisor: Sang Chul Chong)
Professional Appointments
Postdoctoral Researcher December, 2019
Princeton University (advisor: Lauren Emberson)
Postdoctoral Researcher August, 2021
Emory University (advisor: Daniel Dilks)
Selected Awards
Ontario Trillium Scholarship 2014-2018
Vision Science Society, Student Travel Award 2016
Computational Cognitive Neuroscience (CCN), Student Travel Award 2017
Get In Touch
Please feel free to reach out if you have any quesitons or want to learn more about my research!