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Education

2018-2024(expected) Ph.D student in Psychology (major: Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience), Vanderbilt University
Advisor: Dr. Isabel Gauthier
2014-2016 M.S. in Cognitive Science, Yonsei University
Advisor: Dr. Sang Chul Chong
2010-2014 B.A. in Psychology (minor: Philosophy), Yonsei University

Honors and Awards

2022 Graduate School Travel Grant, Vanderbilt Graduate School, Vanderbilt University
2020 Psychology Scholarship Fund Award, Department of Psychology, Vanderbilt University
2020 William F. Hodges Teaching Assistant Award, Department of Psychology, Vanderbilt University
2015- 2016 Brain Korea 21+ Participation Scholarship, National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) grant funded by the Korea government (Ministry of Education)
2013 Internal Scholarship, Department of Psychology, Yonsei University
2011 University Designated Scholarship (Truth), Yonsei University
2011 Honors, Yonsei University

Publications

Son, G., Im., H. Y., Albohn, D. N., Kveraga, K., Adams, R. B., Sun, J., & Chong, S.C. (2023). Americans weigh an attended emotion more than Koreans in overall mood judgments. Scientific Reports. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-46723-7
Sun, J., & Gauthier, I. (2023). Does food recognition depend on color? Psychonomic Bulletin & Review. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13423-023-02298-y
Sun, J., & Gauthier, I. (2021). Car expertise does not compete with face expertise during ensemble coding. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics. 83(3), 1275-1281. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13414-020-02188-8
Sun, J., & Chong, S. C. (2020). Power of averaging: noise reduction by ensemble coding of multiple faces. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 149(3), 550-563. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/xge0000667
Im, H. Y., Chong, S. C., Sun, J., Steiner, T. G., Albohn, D. N., Adams, R. B., & Kveraga, K. (2017). Cross-cultural and hemispheric laterality effects on the ensemble coding of emotion in facial crowds. Culture and Brain, 5(2), 125-152. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40167-017-0054-y
Sun, J., Yang, J.-W., & Chong, S. C. (2017). The effect of emotional valence of stimuli and emotional state of observers on distance perception. The Korean Journal of Cognitive and Biological Psychology, 29(4), 331-349. http://dx.doi.org/10.22172/cogbio.2017.29.4.001

Manuscripts in progress

Sun, J., Smithson, C., & Gauthier, I. (in preparation). Individual differences in ensemble perception: Contributions of attention control.
Sun, J., & Gauthier, I. (in preparation). The conceptual encoding benefit for faces could be due to costs for perceptual encoding.
Sun, J., & Jeong, J., Cha, O., Gauthier, I., & Palmeri, T. (in preparation). Relations between ensemble perception and perceptual categorization.

Conference Presentations

Sun, J., & Gauthier, I. (2022, May). The conceptual encoding benefit for faces could be due to costs for perceptual encoding. Poster presented at the annual meeting of Vision Sciences Society, St. Pete Beach, FL.
Sun, J., & Gauthier, I. (2020, June). Car expertise does not compete with face expertise during ensemble coding. Poster presented at the annual meeting of Vision Sciences Society, Virtual.
Chong, S. C., & Sun, J. (2017, August). Ensemble perception of emotional crowds: Advantages and Characteristics. Talk presented at the annual conference of Korean Psychological Association, Seoul, Republic of Korea.
Sun, J., & Chong, S. C. (2017, May). Is holistic processing ensemble coding? Poster presented at the annual meeting of Vision Sciences Society, St. Pete Beach, FL.
Sun, J., & Chong, S. C. (2017, January). The effects of holistic processing of a single face on the ensemble coding of multiple faces. Poster presented at the annual meeting of Korean Society for Cognitive and Biological Psychology, Busan, Republic of Korea.
Sun, J., & Chong, S. C. (2016, May). The holistic processing of emotional faces in a single and multiple faces. Poster presented at the annual meeting of Vision Sciences Society, St. Pete Beach, FL.
Sun, J., & Chong, S. C. (2016, January). Difference between the processing of an emotional single face and emotional multiple faces. Talk presented at the annual meeting of Korean Society for Cognitive and Biological Psychology, Jeju, Republic of Korea.
Sun, J., Yang, J.-W., & Chong, S. C. (2015, May). Mood induction and distance perception. Poster presented at the annual meeting of Korean Society for Cognitive Science, Seoul, Republic of Korea.

Invited Talks & Speaking engagements

September 2020 Car expertise does not compete with face expertise during ensemble coding Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience Brown Bag Seminar, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN
September 2019 Using competition between expert domains to study mechanisms of ensemble coding Perceptual Expertise Network:3M V workshop, Nashville, TN
May 2016 The holistic processing of a single face is different from the ensemble coding of multiple faces Psychological Science Colloquium, Yonsei University, Seoul, Republic of Korea

Teaching experience

Teaching Assistant
Vanderbilt University
Fall 2023 PSY3760 Mind and Brain (Instructor: Frank Tong)
Fall 2022 PSY2150 Principles of Experimental Design (Instructor: Adriane Seiffert)
Spring 2022 PSY2100 Quantitative Psychology (Instructor: Ashleigh Maxcey)
Fall 2021 PSY3120 Cognitive Psychology (Instructor: Ashleigh Maxcey)
Spring 2020-Spring 2021 PSY2150 Principles of Experimental Design (Instructor: Isabel Gauthier)
Fall 2019, Spring 2023, 2024 PSY3750 Perception (Instructor: Alexander Maier)
Yonsei University
Spring 2015 COG3101 Introduction to Cognitive Science (Instructor: Sang Chul Chong)
Fall 2014 COG4101 Information Processing Theory (Instructor: Sang Chul Chong)

last update: March 2024