Education

PhD, 2011, University of Michigan

Center and Institute Affilitation

Healthy Development Initiative at Springfield

Institute for Applied Life Sciences

Neuroscience & Behavior Graduate Program

Research

How do foundational perceptual and cognitive abilities interact with developmental experience to give rise to full-fledged uniquely human knowledge? In the Cognitive and Developmental Neuroscience (CoDeNeuro) Laboratory, we study human cognition and cognitive development using behavioral and neuroimaging (fMRI and EEG) measures in children, adolescents, and adults. We focus on understanding the cognitive, developmental, and neural underpinnings of uniquely human abilities such as reading and mathematics. The goal of our research is to advance our theoretical understanding of the nature of human knowledge and to develop new pedagogical approaches for improving an important academic skill set for the next generations.

Teaching

Psych 201H - What Makes Us Human

Psych 891 - Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Methods

Publications

Please visit www.joonkoo.org for updated publications.

Biography

BS, Seoul National University

Master's, Carnegie Mellon University

PhD, University of Michigan

Postdoc, Duke University