JUDY SEIN KIM [email protected] 202-701-8767 EDUCATION
2020- Postdoctoral Associate Yale University, Department of Psychology Advisor: Dr. Molly Crocke
2014 - 2020 Ph.D., Cogni ve Psychology Johns Hopkins University, Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences Advisor: Marina Bedny Commi ee: Barbara Landau, Chaz Firestone, Jus n Halberda
2009 - 2013 B.A., Linguis cs & Psychology, magna cum laude Georgetown University Advisor: Dr. Maximilian Riesenhuber
PUBLICATIONS
1. Kim, J.S., Aheimer, M., Monara-Montane, V., Bedny, M. (submi ed). Shared intui ve theories of color among blind and sighted individuals.
2. Liu, Y., Kim, J.S., Wilson, C., Bedny, M. (under review). Computer code comprehension shares neural resources with formal logical inference in the fronto-parietal network.
3. Damera, S., Mar n, J. G., Scholl, C., Kim, J. S., Glezer, L., Malone, P. S., & Riesenhuber, M. (2020). From Shape to Meaning: Evidence for Mul ple Fast Feedforward Hierarchies of Concept Processing in the Human Brain. NeuroImage.
4. Kim, J.S., Elli, G., Bedny, M. (2019a). Knowledge of animal appearance among blind and sighted individuals. Proceedings of the Na onal Academy of Science.
5. Kim, J.S., Elli, G., Bedny, M. (2019b). Reply to Ostarek et al.: Language, but not co-occurrence sta s cs, is useful for learning animal appearance. Proceedings of the Na onal Academy of Science.
6. Kim, J.S., Elli, G., Bedny, M. (2019c). Reply to Lewis et al.: Inference is key to learning appearance from language, for humans and distribu onal seman c models alike. Proceedings of the Na onal Academy of Science.
7. Glezer, L., Jiang, X., Luetje, M., Napoliello, E., Kim, J.S., Riesenhuber, M., Eden, G. (2019). An fMRI- adapta on study of phonological and orthographic selec vity to wri en words in adults with poor reading skills.” Brain and Language.
8. Kim, J.S., Kanjlia, S., Merabet, L. B., & Bedny, M. (2017). Development of the visual word form area requires visual experience: Evidence from blind Braille readers. The Journal of Neuroscience.
9. Malone, P. S., Glezer, L. S., Kim, J.S., Jiang, X., & Riesenhuber, M. (2016). Mul variate pa ern analysis reveals category-related organiza on of seman c representa ons in anterior temporal cortex. The Journal of Neuroscience.
10.Glezer, L. S., Eden, G., Jiang, X., Luetje, M., Napoliello, E., Kim, J.S., & Riesenhuber, M. (2016). Uncovering phonological and orthographic selec vity across the reading network using fMRI-RA. NeuroImage.
11.Glezer, L.S., Kim, J.S., Rule, J., Jiang, X., & Riesenhuber, M. (2015). Adding words to the brain's visual dic onary: novel word learning selec vely sharpens orthographic representa ons in the VWFA. The Journal of Neuroscience. AWARDS & HONORS
2019 Travel Award, Society for Philosophy and Psychology Conference 2019 G. Stanley Hall’s Scholar Award, Johns Hopkins University 2018 William Orr Dingwall Disserta on Fellowship, Dingwall Foundation ($30,000) 2016 Walker L. Clark Teaching Award, Johns Hopkins University 2015 Graduate Student Abstract Merit Award, Society for Neurobiology of Language 2014-2017 Owen Scholars Fellowship, Johns Hopkins University ($18,000) 2013 Regent’s Cita on, Faculty for Languages and Linguis cs, Georgetown University 2011 NSF Workshop in Cogni ve Neuroscience, University of Pennsylvania
PRESENTATIONS/POSTERS
Kim, J.S., & Bedny, M. (2019, December). Knowledge in the absence of visual experience. Cog Lunch, MIT, Boston. Talk Kim, J.S. & Bedny, M (2019, September). Knowledge in the absence of visual experience. Crocke Lab Mee ng, Yale, New Haven. Talk Kim, J.S., Yazzolino, L., Aheimer, B., Montane, V., & Bedny, M. (2019, July). Understanding color in blindness. Cogni ve Science Society Conference, Montreal, QC. Talk Kim, J.S., Yazzolino, L., Aheimer, B., Montane, V., & Bedny, M. (2019, July). Understanding color in blindness. Society for Philosophy and Psychology Conference, San Diego, CA. Talk Kim, J.S. & Bedny, M. (2019, February). Blind individuals’ theories about color. PBS Seminar, Johns Hopkins University, Bal more, MD. Talk Kim, J.S. & Bedny, M. (2018, December). Blind individuals’ knowledge about the “visual” world. Vision Seminar, Johns Hopkins University, Bal more, MD. Talk
Kim, J.S. & Bedny, M. (2018, October). Blind individuals’ knowledge about the “visual” world. Thompson- Schill Lab Mee ng, University of Pennsylvania, PA. Talk Kim, J.S. & Bedny, M. (2018, July). Nature and nurture in neurocogni ve development: Insights from studies with blind individuals. Gordon Research Conference - Neurobiology of Cogni on. Newry, ME. Talk Kim, J.S., Elli, G., Bedny, M. (2017, December). Furry hippos & scaly sharks: blind individuals’ knowledge of animal appearance, Cogni ve Lunch, Johns Hopkins University, Bal more, MD. Talk Kim, J.S., Elli, G., Bedny, M. (2017, November). Furry hippos & scaly sharks: blind individuals’ knowledge of animal appearance, Society for Neurobiology of Language Conference, Bal more, MD. Poster Kim, J.S., Elli, G., Bedny, M. (2017, October). Furry hippos & scaly sharks: blind individuals’ concepts of animals, Cogni ve Development Society Conference, Portland, OR. Poster Kim, J.S., Elli, G., Bedny, M. (2017, October). Furry hippos & scaly sharks: blind individuals’ knowledge of animal appearance, Cogni ve Lunch, Johns Hopkins University, Bal more, MD. Talk Kim, J.S., Elli, G., Bedny, M. (2017, October). Furry hippos & scaly sharks: blind individuals’ knowledge of animal appearance, Cogni ve Science Brown Bag, Johns Hopkins University, Bal more, MD. Talk Kim, J.S., Cantarero, G., Celnik, P., Bedny, M. (2017, March). fMRI-guided theta burst s mula on to the superior temporal cortex impairs sentence processing, Cogni ve Neuroscience Society Conference, San Francisco, CA. Talk Kim, J.S., Kanjlia, S. Bedny, M. (2017, March). Blind individuals do not develop a reading area in ventral occipitotemporal cortex, Cogni ve Neuroscience Society Conference, San Francisco, CA. Poster Kim, J.S., Kanjlia, S. Bedny, M. (2017, February). Development of the visual word form area requires visual experience: evidence from blind Braille readers, PBS Seminar, Johns Hopkins University, Bal more, MD Talk Kim, J.S., Kanjlia, S. Bedny, M. (2016, September). How is Braille reading represented in the brain? Cogni ve Lunch talk, Johns Hopkins University, Bal more, MD. Talk Kim, J.S., Cantarero, G., Celnik, P., Bedny, M. (2016, April). Is the 'visual' cortex of blind individuals func onally relevant for language processing?: A TMS study. PBS Seminar, Johns Hopkins University, Bal more, MD Talk Kim, J.S., Kanjila, S., Bedny, M. (2015, October). Braille reading in the visual cortex of blind individuals. Society for Neurobiology of Language Conference, Chicago, Illinois. Poster Glezer, L., Kim, J.S., Rule, J., Jiang, X., Riesenhuber, M. (2013, November). Novel word learning selec vely sharpens orthographic representa ons in the VWFA, Society for Neuroscience, San Diego, CA. Poster
Kim, J.S., Baum. B, Lillian, Z., Samuels, R. (2011, July). Modality constraints and long-term reten on in inten onal word learning, University of Pennsylvania IRCS Undergraduate Summer Workshop, PA. Poster
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
2020 March Guest Lecture - Language & Thought (Barbara Landau) 2019 January Guest Lecture - Cogni ve Neuroscience (Aus n Baker), Rutgers University 2016 Fall Teaching Assistant - Posi ve Psychology (Jus n Halberda) 2015 Spring Teaching Assistant - Mind, Brain, and Experience (Marina Bedny) 2015 Fall Teaching Assistant - Founda ons of Brain, Behavior, and Cogni on (Linda Gorman) 2014 Spring Teaching Assistant - Altered States of Consciousness (Richard Allen)
OTHER RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
2011 - 2014 Lab Manager The Laboratory of Computa onal Cogni ve Neuroscience, Georgetown University P.I: Maximilian Riesenhuber
2013-2014 Research Technician Center for Func onal and Molecular Imaging, Georgetown University P.I.: John VanMeter
2013-2014 Research Assistant Cogni ve Neurogene cs Laboratory Georgetown University P.I.: Adam Green
SERVICE
2015 - 2018 Bal more Brain Awareness Week - Teaching high school students at Bal more Polytechnic Ins tue 2017 - 2018 TMS Training Instructor 2012 - 2013 President, Georgetown University Linguis cs Society (GULS)
ADVISING
2018 - 2020 Brianna Aheimer, undergraduate at Johns Hopkins University 2018 - 2020 Veronica Montane, undergraduate at Johns Hopkins University 2016 - 2018 Erin Brush, undergraduate at Johns Hopkins University 2015 - 2016 Esther Kim, undergraduate at Johns Hopkins University PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
2015-present Society for the Neurobiology of Language 2013-present Society for Neuroscience 2016-present Cogni ve Neuroscience Society 2017-present Cogni ve Development Society 2019-present Society for Philosophy and Psychology 2019-present Cogni ve Science Society