Hi! I am a postdoctoral researcher working with Daniel Dilks at Emory University.

I study how we understand and navigate the places around us. My work explores how we recognize what kind of place we are in, use visual information to move through our surroundings, and build knowledge of the broader spatial world. My research asks how these abilities are organized, and how this organization emerges over development, from the earliest days of life through adulthood.

I address these questions using behavioral experiments, neuroimaging, and computational analyses across infants, children, and adults.

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

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