Choi, Jong Moon  (choi.jmoon@gmail.com)

 

◎ RESEARCH INTERESTS
Cognitive Control, Emotion, fMRI, Psychophysiology
 
◎ EDUCATION
 
2006 – B.A., Korea University, Seoul, Korea, Psychology, August
2008 – M.S., Korea University, Seoul, Korea, Experimental Psychology, August
2014 – Ph.D., University of Maryland, College Park, MD, US., Neuroscience and Cognitive Science, Department of Psychology, August
 
◎ POSITIONS
 
2015 – present – Postdoctoral fellow, Department of Psychology, Human Performance Lab, Korea University
2009 ~ 2014 – Doctoral Student in Neuroscience Program
2006 ~ 2008 – Master’s Student in Experimental Psychology
 
◎ SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
 
  • Choi, J.M., Padmala, S., & Pessoa, L. (2015) Counteracting effect of threat on reward enhancements during working memory. Cognition and Emotion, DOI:10.1080/02699931.2014.993596.
  • Choi, J.M., Padmala, S., Spechler, P. & Pessoa, L. (2014). Pervasive competition between threat and reward in the brain. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 9, 737-750.
  • Choi, J.M., Padmala, S., & Pessoa, L. (2012). Impact of state anxiety on the interaction between threat monitoring and cognition. NeuroImage, 59(2), 1912-1923.
  • Kinnison, J., Padmala, S., Choi, J.M., & Pessoa, L. (2012). Network analysis reveals increased integration during emotional and motivational processing. The Journal of Neuroscience, 32(24), 8361-8372.
  • Cho, Y.S., Choi, J.M., & Proctor, R.W. (2012). Likelihood of attending to the color word modulates Stroop interference, Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 74, 416-429.
  • 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., 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.
 

◎ CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
 
  • Choi, J.M., Padmala, S., Spechler, P. & Pessoa, L. (2013, Nov). Interactions between threat and anticipation of monetary gains and losses, San Diego, CA.
  • Choi, J.M, Padmala, S., Spechler, P. & Pessoa, L. (2012, Oct). Competition between reward and threat processing. Society for Neuroscience, New Orleans, LA.
  • Kinnison, J., Padmala, S., Choi, J.M., & Pessoa, L. (2011, Nov). Threat decreases network modularity and promotes increased global processing efficiency. Society for Neuroscience, Washington D.C.
  • Choi, J.M., Padmala, S., & Pessoa, L. (2010, Nov). Threat anticipation utilizes processing resources needed for cognitive control. Society for Neuroscience, San Diego, CA.
  • Choi, J. M., Lee, Jaeyong, Kim, Yu mi & Cho, Y. S. (2008, Nov). The Congruency Sequence Effect in the Face-Name Stroop Task. OPAM 16th annual meeting. Chicago, IL.
  • Choi, J. M., Lee, Jaeyong, Kim, Yu mi & Cho, Y. S. (2008, Aug). Influence of Perceptual Discriminability on the Stroop-dilution Effect. Korean Psychological Association. Seoul, Republic of Korea.
  • 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.
  • Bae, G. Y., Choi, J. M., Cho, Y. S. & Proctor, R. W. (2007, Jul). Influence of spatial Stimulus-Response mapping on the SNARC effect. Experimental Psychology Society Edinburgh meeting 4/7 July 2007 joint with the Psychonomic Society. Edinburgh, UK.
  • Choi, J. M., & Cho, Y. S. (2006, Nov). Influence of target type on the stroop dilution effect. OPAM 14th annual meeting. Houston, TX.