Joonkoo Park
Associate Professor and Honors Faculty
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