Professor Cho, Yang Seok  (yscho_psych@korea.ac.kr)

phone: 82-2-3290-2861

◎ RESEARCH INTERESTS
 
Response Selection processes (Stimulus-Response Compatibility effect), Attention (Stroop Effect), Visual perception (Metacontrast Masking), and Human Factors.
 
◎ EDUCATION
 
1991 - B.A., Korea University, Seoul, Korea, Psychology, February
1993 - M.S., Korea University, Seoul, Korea, Experimental Psychology, August
2002 - Ph.D. Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, Cognitive Psychology, August
 
◎ POSITIONS
 

2014. 3. ~Present - Professor, Department of Psychology Korea University

2009. 3. ~2014. 2 - Associate Professor, Department of Psychology Korea University
2005. 9. ~2009. 2 - Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology Korea University
2003. 8. ~2005. 8 - Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Psychological Sciences
Purdue University with Dr. Robert Proctor.
2002. 8. ~2003. 8 - Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Psychological Sciences
Purdue University with Dr. Gregory Francis.

 
◎ PROFESSION ORGANIZATION
 
Member of the Psychonomic Society since 2005.
Member of the Vision Sciences since 2003.
 
◎ SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
 

  • Jeong, H. J. & Cho, Y. S. (in press). Cognitive control under high threat: The effect of shock on the congruency sequence effect. Motivation and Emotion.

  • Lee, H. J. & Cho, Y. S. (in press). The effect of threatening facial expressions on inhibition-induced forgetting depends on their task-relevance. Cognition and Emotion.

  • Lee, H. J. & Cho, Y. S. (2019). Memory facilitation for emotional faces: Visual working memory trade-offs resulting from attentional preference for emotional facial expressions. Memory & Cognition.

  • Kim, H., Park, B. Y., & Cho, Y. S. (2019). Uncertainty as a determinant of attentional control settings. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics.

  • Lim, C. E., & Cho, Y. S. (2018). Determining the scope of control underlying the congruency sequence effect: Roles of stimulus-response mapping and response mode. Acta Psychologica, 190, 267-276.
  • Cho, S. A., & Cho, Y. S. (2018). Multiple attentional control settings on distinct locations without the confounding of repetition priming. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 80, 1718-1730.
  • Park, B. Y., Kim, S., & Cho, Y. S. (2018). The cognitive loci of the display and task-relevant set size effects on distractor interference: Evidence from a dual-task paradigm. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 80, 337-351.
  • Chang, S., Kim, C.Y., & Cho, Y. S. (2017). Sequential effects in preference decision: Prior preference assimilates current preference. PloS one, 12 (8), e0182442.
  • Kim, J., Kang, M.S., Cho, Y. S., & Lee, S. H. (2017). Prolonged interruption of cognitive control of conflict processing over human faces by task-irrelevant emotion expression. Frontiers in psychology, 8, 1024.
  • Kim, S., & Cho, Y. S. (2016). Memory-based attentional capture by colour and shape contents in visual working memory. Visual Congnition.
  • Kim, M., & Cho, Y. S. (2016). The modulating effect of emotional valence on the speed of involuntary attentional capture. The Korean Journal of Cognitive and Biological Psychology, 28, 285-307.
  • Jang, S.-K., Park, S.-C., Lee, S.-H., Cho, Y. S., & Choi, K.-H. (2016). Attention and memory bias to facial emotions underlying negative symptoms of schizophrenia. Cognitive Neuropsychiatry.
  • Kim, S., Lee, S. H., & Cho, Y. S. (2015). Control processes through the suppression of the automatic response activation triggered by task-irrelevant information in the Simon-type tasks. Acta Psychologica, 162, 51-61.
  • Shin, J. C., Chang, S., & Cho, Y. S. (2015). Adjustment to subtle time constraints and power law learning in rapid serial visual presentation. Frontiers in Psychology, 6, A1748
  • Kang, D., Kim, J., Jang, D.-P., Cho, Y. S., & Kim, S.-P. (2015). Investigation of engagement of viewers in movie trailers using electroencephalography. Brain-Computer Interface.
  • Lee, S. H., Kim, S.-P., & Cho, Y. S. (2015). Self-concept in fairness and rule establishment during a competitive game: A computational approach. Frontiers in Psychology, 6, A1321.
  • Kang, J.-H., Kim, S. J., Cho, Y. S., & Kim, S.-P. (2015). Modulation of alpha oscillations in the human EEG with facial preference. PLoS ONE, 10, e0138153.
  • Chang, S., & Cho, Y. S. (2015). Polarity correspondence effect between loudness and lateralized response set. Frontiers in Psychology, 6, 683.
  • Park, Y. & Cho, Y. S. (2015). Effect of abrupt onsets attentional capture by the color word in the Stroop task. The Korean Journal of Cognitive and Biological Psychology, 27, 77-102.
  • Suh, J. H., & Cho, Y. S. (2015). Attentional capture as an alternative view of perceptual load theory and early-visual crosstalk account. The Korean Journal of Cognitive and Biological Psychology, 27, 121-149.
  • Kim, S., & Cho, Y. S. (2014). Congruency sequence effect without feature integration and contingency learning. Acta psychologica, 149, 60-68.
  • Lee, J., & Cho, Y. S. (2013). Congruency sequence effect in cross-task context: Evidence for dimension-specific modulation. Acta psychologica, 144, 617-627.
  • Cho, Y. S., Bae, G. Y., & Proctor, R. W. (2012).  Referential coding contributes to the horizontal SMARC effect.  Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance.
  • Lee, T-H., Choi, J-S., & Cho, Y. S. (2012). Context modulation of facial emotion perception differed by individual difference. PLoS ONE, 7, e32987.

  • Cho, Y. S., Choi, J. M., & Proctor, R. W. (2012). Likelihood of attending to the color word modulates Stroop interference. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics.

  • Lee, K. Y., Lee, T. H., Yoon, S. J., Cho, Y. S., Choi, J. S., Kim, H. T. (2010). Neural Correlates of top-down processing in emotion perception: An ERP study of emotional faces in white noise versus noise-alone stimuli. Brain Research, 1337, 56-63.

  • Bae, G. Y., Choi, J. M., Cho, Y. S., & Proctor, R. W. (2009). Transfer of magnitude and Spatial Mappings to the SNARC Effect for Parity Judgements. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 35, 1506-1521.

  • Choi J. M., Cho, Y. S., & Proctor, R. W. (2009). Impaired color word processing at an unattended location: Evidence from the Stroop task combined with inhibition of return. Memory & Cognition. 37, 715-944.

  • Bae, G. Y., Cho Y. S., & Proctor, R. W. (2009). Transfer of orthogonal stimulus-response mappings to an orthogonal Simon task.  Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 62, 747-766.

  • Kim, H., Cho, Y. S., Yamaguchi, M., & Proctor, R. W. (2008). Influence of color word availability on the Stroop color-naming effect.  Perception & Psychophysics,  70, 1540-1551.

  • Francis, G. & Cho, Y. S. (2008).  Effects of temporal integration on the shape of visual backward masking functions. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 34, 1116-1128.

  • Cho, Y. S., Proctor, R. W., & Yamaguchi, M. (2008).  Influence of response position and hand posture on the orthogonal Simon effect.  Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 61, 1020-1035.

  • Cho, Y. S. & Proctor, R. W. (2007). When is an odd number not odd? Influence of task rule on the MARC effect for numeric classification. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 33, 832-842.

  • Shin, Y. K., Cho, Y. S., Lien, M.-C., & Proctor, R. W. (2007). Is the psychological refractory period effect for ideomotor compatible tasks eliminated by speed-stress instructions? Psychological Research/Psychologische Forschung, 71, 553-567.

  • Francis, G. & Cho, Y. S. (2007). Testing models of object substitution with backward masking. Perception & Psychophysics, 69, 263-275.

  • Cho, Y. S., Lien, M.-C., & Proctor, R. W. (2006). Stroop dilution depends on the nature of the color carrier but not its location. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 32, 826-839.

  • Proctor, R. W. & Cho, Y. S. (2006). Polarity correspondence: A general principle for performance of speeded binary classification tasks. Psychological Bulletin, 132, 416-442.

  • Francis, G. & Cho, Y. S. (2006). Quantitative models of backward masking. In B. Breitmeyer & H. Öğmen (Eds.) The First Half Second (pp.111-126), MIT press.

  • Cho, Y. S. & Proctor, R. W. (2005). Representing response position relative to display location: Influence on orthogonal stimulus-response compatibility. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 58A, 839-864.

  • Cho, Y. S. & Proctor, R. W. (2004). Influences of multiple spatial stimulus and response codes on orthogonal stimulus-response compatibility. Perception & Psychophysics, 66, 1003-1017.

  • Cho, Y. S. & Proctor, R. W. (2004). Stimulus-set location does not affect orthogonal stimulus-response compatibility. Psychological Research/Psychologische Forschung, 69, 106-114.

  • Cho, Y. S. & Proctor, R. W. (2003). Stimulus and response representation underlying orthogonal stimulus-response compatibility effects. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 10, 45-73.

  • Proctor, R. W. & Cho, Y. S. (2003). Effect of relative position and response eccentricity on orthogonal stimulus-response compatibility with joystick and keypress responses. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 56A, 309-327.

  • Cho, Y. S. & Proctor, R. W. (2002). Influences of hand posture and hand position on compatibility effects for up-down stimuli mapped to left-right responses: Evidence for a hand-referent hypothesis. Perception & Psychophysics, 64, 1301-1315.

  • Cho, Y. S. & Proctor, R. W. (2001). Effect of initiating action on the up-right/down-left advantage for vertically arrayed stimuli and horizontally arrayed response. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 27, 472-484.

  • Proctor, R. W. & Cho, Y. S. (2001). The up-right/down-left advantage occurs for both participant-paced and computer-paced conditions: An empirical observation on Adam, Boon, Paas, & Umiltà (1998). Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 27, 466-471.
 
◎ CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
 

  • You, S., Lim, C. E., Park, M., Ryu, S., Lee, H. J., Choi, J. M., & Cho, Y. (2019, July). Impulsivity and poor inhibitory control in emotional contexts in suicide ideators and attempters: Evidence from an emotional stop-signal task and self-report measures. Poster presented at the 9th World Congress of Behavioural and Cognitive Therapies (WCBCT), Berlin, Germany.

  • Choi, J. M., & Cho, Y. S. (2015, Nov.). Threat of shock enhances response inhibition while impairing visual discrimination. 56th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Chicago, IL, USA.

  • Chang, S., & Cho, Y. S. (2015, Nov.). Value-driven attentional capture occurs on the basis of relative value. 56th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Chicago, IL, USA.

  • Rheem, H., & Cho, Y. S. (2015, Nov.). Cue-target compatibility as an indicator of attentional capture. 56th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Chicago, IL, USA.

  • Chang, R., & Cho, Y. S. (2015, Nov.). The congruency sequence and proportion congruency effects reflecting different control mechanisms. 56th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Chicago, IL, USA.

  • Jeong, H., & Cho, Y. S. (2015, Nov.). Freeze or fast! Different impact of shock on the congruence sequence effect. 23rd Annual Meeting of OPAM, Chicago, IL, USA.

  • Park, B. Y., Jeong, H., Cho, S. A., & Cho, Y. S. (2015, Nov.). Importance of individual’s task set in joint Simon effect. 23rd Annual Meeting of OPAM, Chicago, IL, USA.

  • Chang, S., Cho, Y. S., & Kim, C-Y. (2014, Nov). Sequential Modulation of Preference Judgments. 55th Annual Conference of the Psychonomic Society, Long Beach, CA.

  • Kim, S. J., Chang, R., & Cho, Y. S. (2014, Nov). Dilution Effects in the Dual-Task Context. 55th Annual Conference of the Psychonomic Society, Long Beach, CA.

  • Lee, S. H., & Cho, Y. S. (2014, Nov). Computational Model of Inhibitory Cognitive Control in Cross-Task Context. 55th Annual Conference of the Psychonomic Society, Long Beach, CA.

  • Lee, S. H., Han, J. H., Kim, H. J., Kim, S. P., & Cho, Y. S. (2014, Nov). The Fairness Model based on EEG Hyperscanning for Behaviors in Competitive Games. 2014 Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting, Washington DC.

  • Kim, S. J., & Cho, Y. S. (2014, Nov). Gender and task-context modulate the LPC amplitudes related to facial preference. 2014 Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting, Washington DC.

  • Chang, R., & Cho, Y. S. (2014, Nov). Different Control Mechanisms for the Conflict Adaptation and Proportion Congruency Effects. 22nd Annual Conference of OPAM, Long Beach, CA.

  • Rheem, H., Kim, S. Y., Lee, Y. Y., Lee, S. M., Gilliam, B. È., Lee D. H., & Cho, Y. S. (2014, Nov). Target Compatibility modulated by Cue Type and Cue Validity. 22nd Annual Conference of OPAM, Long Beach, CA.

  • Chang, S., Moon, S. K., & Cho, Y. S. (2013, Nov). Polarity Correspondence Between the Lateralized Response-Set and Sound Amplitude. 54th Annual Conference of the Psychonomic Society, Toronto, ON.

  • Kim, H. S., Kim, S. J., & Cho, Y. S. (2013, Nov). The Flexible Nature of Attentional Control Settings. 54th Annual Conference of the Psychonomic Society, Toronto, ON.

  • Shin, J. C., Chang, S., & Cho, Y. S. (2013, Nov). The Implicit Learning of Subtle Timing Constraints Influences the Magnitude of the Attentional Blink. 54th Annual Conference of the Psychonomic Society, Toronto, ON.

  • Kim, S-A., Lee, S. H., Kim, S. J., & Cho, Y. S. (2013, Nov). How Response-Sets Are Represented Determines the Domain of Control. 54th Annual Conference of the Psychonomic Society, Toronto, ON.

  • Kim, S-A., Chang, S., Cho, Y. S. (2012, Nov). Task-Irrelevant Dimension and Response Set-Specific Control Mechanism. 53rd Annual Conference of the Psychonomic Society, Minneapolis, MN.

  • Kim, B., Kim, S. M., Cho, Y. S. (2012, Nov). Contingent Capture by Broadly Tuned Filter. 53rd Annual Conference of the Psychonomic Society, Minneapolis, MN.

  • Kim, S. M., Chang, S., Cho, Y. S. (2012, Nov). Shared Representation in Social Orthogonal Simon Task. 53rd Annual Conference of the Psychonomic Society, Minneapolis, MN.

  • Kim, S. H., Kim, H., Cho. Y. S. (2012, Nov). The Content in Visual Working Memory Automatically Captures Visual Attention. 20th Annual Conference of OPAM, Minneapolis, MN.

  • Han, J., Kim, H., Cho, Y. S. (2012, Nov). Electrophysiological Evidence for Automatic Word Recognition in a Stroop Task. 20th Annual Conference of OPAM, Minneapolis, MN.

  • Lee, J., Kim, M. W., Cho, Y. S. (2011, Nov). Control Mechanism Resolve Conflict through Suppression of the Distractor Dimension. 52th Annual Conference of the Psychonomic Society, Seattle, WA.

  • Park, Y. E., Jung, H., Cho, Y. S. (2011, Nov). Contents of the Attentional Set Revealed by the Negative Spatial Cueing Effect. 52th Annual Conference of the Psychonomic Society, Seattle, WA.

  • Kim, S-A., Kim, B. Y., Cho, Y. S. (2011, Nov). Attentional-Set Adjustment Based on Past Experience in Exogenous Orienting. 52th Annual Conference of the Psychonomic Society, Seattle, WA.

  • Suh, J. H., Kim, S-A., Cho, Y. S. (2011, Nov). The Failure of Attentional Disengagement from Negative Facial Expression. 19th Annual Conference of OPAM, Seattle, WA.

  • Jung, H., Park, Y. E., Kim, S. M., Cho, Y. S. (2011, Nov). Psychophysiological Evidence for the Non-target Singleton Suppression. 19th Annual Conference of OPAM, Seattle, WA.

  • Kim, M. W., Kim, B. Y., Cho, Y. S. (2011, Nov). The Role of Arousal in Automatic Attentional Capture Triggered by Negative Distractor Words. 19th Annual Conference of OPAM, Seattle, WA.

  • Suh, J. H., Cho, Y. S. (2010, Nov). Selective Distractor Processing in high perceptual load. 18th Annual Conference of OPAM, St. Louis, MO.

  • Kim, M. W., Cho, Y. S. (2010, Nov). Distractor-target similarity determines emotional information processing in RSVP. 18th Annual Conference of OPAM, St. Louis, MO.

  • Park, Y. E., Cho, Y. S. (2010, Nov). Contingent Attentional Capture by the Matching Color at Uncued Locations. 51th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, St. Louis, MO.

  • Lee, J. Y., Cho, Y. S. (2010, Nov). Dimension-Specific Sequential Modulation of Congruency Effects in Cross-Task Context. 51th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, St. Louis, MO.

  • Suh, J. H., Cho, Y. S. (2009, Nov). Selective Distractor Processing in the Flanker-Compatibility Task. 50th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Boston, MA.

  • Lee, J. Y., Cho, Y. S. (2009, Nov). Sequential Modulation of the Orthogonal Simon Effect. 50th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Boston, MA.

  • Park, Y. E., Cho, Y. S. (2009, Nov). The Effect of Abrupt Onsets in the Stroop Task. 50th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Boston, MA.

  • Bae, G. Y., Kim, Y. M., Cho, Y. S. (2009, Nov). Referential Coding contribute to the SMARC effect. 17th Annual Meeting of OPAM, Boston, MA.

  • Bae, G. Y., Kim, Y. M., Lee, J., & Cho, Y. S. (2008, Nov). Interaction between Spatial Compatibility and the SNARC effect. 49th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Chicago, IL.

  • Cho, Y. S., Choi, J. M., Lee, J., & Kim Y. M. (2008, Nov). The congruency sequence effect in the face-name Stroop task. OPAM 16th annual meeting. Chicago, IL.

  • Choi, J. M., & Cho, Y. S. (2007, Nov). Modulation of the Stroop effect by inhibition of return. 48th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Long Beach, CA.

  • Bae, G. Y., Choi, J. M., Cho, Y. S., & Proctor, R. W. (2007, Nov). Transfer of orthogonal and parallel incompatible mapping to the SNARC effect. 48th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Long Beach, CA.

  • Cho, Y. S., & Proctor, R. W. (2007, Nov). Simon effect for orthogonal stimulus-response arrangements as a function of response position and hand posture. 19th Annual Convention of Association for Psychological Science, Washington, DC.

  • Bae, G. Y., Cho, Y. S., & Proctor, R. W. (2006, Nov). Transfer of orthogonal and prarallel incompatible mappings to an orghogonal Simon task. 47th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Houston, TX.

  • Kim, H. S., Cho, Y. S., & Proctor, R.,W. (2006). Color word availability modulates the Stroop effects. 47th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Houston, TX.

  • Choi, J. M., & Cho, Y. S. (2006, Nov). Influence of target type on the stroop dilution effect. (2006). OPAM 14th annual meeting. Houston, TX.

  • Jung, K. H., & Cho, Y. S. (2006, Nov). Does a color stimulus capture attention initially? OPAM 14th annual meeting. Houston, TX.

  • Kwon, Y. A., Lim, H. S., Cho, Y. S., & Nam, K. C. (2006). The inhibition effect of the phonological neighborhood size on word recognition: Behavioral and fMRI study. NeuroImage, volume31, supplement1.

  • Yu, G. S., Cho, S. H., Cho, Y. S., & Nam, K. C. (2006). Cerebral activation associated with lexical ambiguity and idiomatic ambiguity. NeuroImage, volume31, supplement1, 356.

  • Wang, D-Y. D., Pick, D. F., Proctor, R. W., Cho, Y. S., & Patel, D., (2006). Contribution of sound to perception of CVT performance. Proceedings of the Society of Automotive Engineers 2006 World Congress Exhibition, Dearborn, MI. (Selected for SAE transaction Journal).

  • Cho, Y. S. & Proctor, R. W. (2005, Nov). The task rule effect on the MARC effect . 46th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Toronto, Canada.

  • Cho, Y. S. & Francis, G. (2005, May). The highs and lows of temporal integration in backward masking. 5th Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences, Sarasota, FL.

  • Cho, Y. S., Lien, M.-C., & Proctor, R. W. (2004, Nov). Stroop dilution depends on the role of the color word. 45th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Minneapolis, MN.

  • Cho, Y. S. & Francis, G. (2004, May). Evidence for integration in Type A and B backward masking. 4th Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences, Sarasota, FL.

  • Cho, Y. S. & Proctor, R. W. (2003, Nov). Stimulus-set position and orthogonal stimulus-response compatibility. 44th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Vancouver, B.C., Canada.

  • Cho, Y. S. & Proctor, R. W. (2003, Aug). Compatibility effects for orthogonal display-control arrangements. 15th Triennial Congress of the International Ergonomics Association, Seoul, Korea.

  • Cho, Y. S. & Francis, G. (2003, May). Backward masking with sparse masks: Models and experiments. 3rd Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences, Sarasota, FL.

  • Cho, Y. S. & Proctor, R. W. (2003, Mar). Is the effect of response eccentricity on S-R compatibility due to hand position or response location? Hoosier Mental Life 2003, West Lafayette, IN.

  • Cho, Y. S. & Proctor, R. W. (2002, Nov). Orthogonal stimulus-response compatibility as a function of response location relative to the stimulus display. 43rd Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Kansas City, MO.

  • Cho, Y. S., Proctor, R. W., & Weeks, D. J. (2001, Nov). Orthogonal stimulus-response compatibility: Hand posture and response eccentricity effects. 42nd Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Orlando, FL.

  • Proctor, R. W., Cho, Y. S., & Black, C. D. (2000, Feb). Distance learning: Teaching human factors through use of video streaming and web-based materials. Teaching Learning & Technology Showcase, West Lafayette, IN.

  • Cho, Y. S. & Proctor, R. W. (1999, Nov). Influence of initiating action on the up-right/down-left mapping advantage. 40th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Los Angeles, CA.
 

◎ 국내학회발표
 

  • 이태호, 조양석. (2009년 9월) The Roles of context and individual differences in face emotion perception. 2009 뇌인지과학 학술대회, 서울

  • 이재용, 조양석, 최준식. (2009 9월) ERP 연구를 통해 바라본 Simon Task와 Orthogonal Simon task에서 발생하는 간석효과의 위치. 2009 뇌인지과학 학술대회, 서울