**Jongjun Kim (1’)**
Jongjun Kim's research focuses on the impact of the dominant and non-dominant eye on interhemispheric dynamics in visual word recognition. His work aims to determine how each eye influences the interaction between the brain's hemispheres during the process of recognizing visual words. To explore this, he has designed behavioral and electrophysiological experiments utilizing the visual half-field presentation paradigm. Currently, he is in an integrated undergraduate and master's degree course.
**Jinsol Park (1’)**
Jinsol Park's research examines hemispheric asymmetries in visual word recognition by exploring the differential processing of global and local aspects across the two hemispheres. His work specifically investigates the asymmetry in sublexical and lexical processing during visual word tasks. To uncover these hemispheric differences, he has designed behavioral experiments using the visual half-field presentation paradigm. Currently, he is in an integrated undergraduate and master's degree course.
**In-Gyeong Kim (1’)**
In-Gyeong Kim's research focuses on how interhemispheric interactions in visual word recognition are influenced by word length. She distinguishes between two primary length factors: physical length (i.e., the number of strokes) and linguistic length (i.e., the number of syllables). Her work utilizes the behavioral measure known as bilateral redundancy gain in the visual half-field presentation paradigm to investigate these hemispheric interactions. Currently, she is in an integrated undergraduate and master's degree course.
**Jeonggi Hwang**
Jeonggi Hwang's research investigates the interplay between the two hemispheres in the semantic processing of visual words. Building on the findings of Kim and Nam (2023), which revealed asymmetrical semantic processing across the hemispheres, he is investigating how the hemispheres interact cooperatively when processing ambiguous words (e.g., homonyms, polysemous words). This is being examined using a behavioral measure of bilateral redundancy gain. He is currently designing a series of behavioral experiments employing a visual half-field presentation paradigm.
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**Jisu Son**
Jisu Son’s research focuses on how interhemispheric interactions in visual and object recognition are influenced by hemispheric specialization. Given that the left hemisphere is predominantly involved in analytical processes and the right hemisphere excels in holistic processing, his research aims to enhance the efficiency of interhemispheric communication by accounting for these distinct specializations. Currently, he is designing a behavioral experiment that assesses bilateral redundancy gain using a visual half-field presentation paradigm.
**Minwoo Kim**
Minwoo Kim's research investigates the impact of behavior on emotional processing across the two hemispheres. He plans to conduct experiments where participants engage in power posing (associated with positive emotions) or weak posing (associated with negative emotions) to observe how these postures influence emotional processing in the hemispheres. To assess this, he will use a lateralized lexical decision task involving positive and negative emotional word stimuli. He is currently developing a series of behavioral experiments.
**Hangyeom Jeon**
Hangyeom Jeon's research examines whether bilateral redundancy gain arises from asymmetrical hemispheric specialization or the increased physical magnitude of stimuli in both parafoveal fields. She has developed a lateralized lexical decision task to compare the effects of presenting identical items in unilateral versus bilateral visual fields, focusing on the role of physical magnitude in visual word recognition. She is currently designing a behavioral experiment using the visual half-field presentation paradigm.