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Minsik Kim

Yonsei University · Neuroscience

About the Lab

Professor Minsik Kim's research lab specializes in cognitive neuroscience and psychological mechanisms underlying attention, working memory, and executive function. The lab investigates how spatial attention, feature binding, and statistical learning shape visual perception and decision-making, particularly through neurocognitive paradigms such as memory-driven attention capture and visual search tasks. A key focus is on the interplay between top-down (executive control) and bottom-up (stimulus-driven) attention, especially in the context of working memory load and attentional cueing. The lab also explores mindfulness and self-awareness in clinical and educational settings, particularly in nursing education, linking psychological processes to behavioral outcomes.

attentionworking memoryexecutive functionvisual searchcognitive control

Research Overview

Papers
88
Total Citations
459
Papers (5y)
23
Primary Field
Neuroscience

Research Output Trend

Figures are computed from collected data and may differ slightly.

Publications per year (5y)
23total
2019
2020
2022
2023
2024
Citations per year (5y)
35total
20192020202220232024

Selected Papers

15
1
Article|242 citations·2011
Consumers’ knowledge and safety perceptions of food additives: Evaluation on the effectiveness of transmitting information on preservatives
Soon‐Mi Shim, Sun Seo, Young-Ja Lee, Guiim Moon, Min-Shik Kim, Park Ju-Hee
SJR Q1Food Control
Food ScienceAgricultural and Biological Sciences
2
Article|72 citations·2001
Perceptual grouping via spatial selection in a focused-attention task
Min-Shik Kim, Kyle R. Cave
SJR Q2Vision Research
Cognitive NeuroscienceNeuroscience
3
Article|54 citations·2001
Implicit Representations of Space after Bilateral Parietal Lobe Damage
Min-Shik Kim, Lynn C. Robertson
SJR Q1Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

There is substantial evidence that the primate cortex is grossly divided into two functional streams, an occipital-parietal-frontal pathway that processes "where" and an occipital-temporal-frontal pathway that processes "what" (Ungerleider and Mishkin, 1982). In humans, bilateral occipital-parietal damage results in severe spatial deficits and a neuropsychological disorder known as Balint's syndrome in which a single object can be perceived (simultanagnosia) but its location is unknown (Balint,

Cognitive NeuroscienceNeuroscience
4
Article|12 citations·2022
Eye-specific attentional bias driven by selection history
Eunhye Choe, Min-Shik Kim
SJR Q1Psychonomic Bulletin & ReviewOA
Cognitive NeuroscienceNeuroscience
5
Article|10 citations·2016
Teaching and Practicing Caring in the Classroom
Min-Shik Kim, K Patterson
SJR Q4Journal of Christian Nursing

The purpose of this study was to test the assumption that caring could be taught by nurse educators in the classroom environment and that learning to be self-aware in a mindful state would facilitate students to listen more closely to their inner spirit, which would affect caring behaviors. A convenience sample of 238 students in the Psychiatric-Mental Health Nursing course in a baccalaureate program was obtained from 2007 to 2011. At the beginning of each class and throughout the semester, self

Speech and HearingHealth Professions
6
Article|5 citations·2023
Spatial Attention in Visual Working Memory Strengthens Feature-Location Binding
Juyeon Joe, Min-Shik Kim
SJR Q2VisionOA

There is a debate about whether working memory (WM) representations are individual features or bound objects. While spatial attention is reported to play a significant role in feature binding, little is known about the role of spatial attention in WM. To address this gap, the current study required participants to maintain multiple items in their WM and employed a memory-driven attention capture paradigm. Spatial attention in WM was manipulated by presenting an exogenous cue at one of the locati

Cognitive NeuroscienceNeuroscience
7
Article|4 citations·2022
Habit-like attentional bias is unlike goal-driven attentional bias against spatial updating
Injae Hong, Min-Shik Kim
SJR Q1Cognitive Research Principles and ImplicationsOA

Statistical knowledge of a target's location may benefit visual search, and rapidly understanding the changes in regularity would increase the adaptability in visual search situations where fast and accurate performance is required. The current study tested the sources of statistical knowledge-explicitly-given instruction or experience-driven learning-and whether they affect the speed and location spatial attention is guided. Participants performed a visual search task with a statistical regular

Cognitive NeuroscienceNeuroscience
8
Article|4 citations·2011
러프 집합을 이용한 코스피 200 주가지수옵션 시장에서의 박스스프레드 전략 실증분석 및 거래 전략
김민식, 오경주

주가지수 옵션시장에는 많은 투자전략이 개발되어 있다. 그중 차익거래 전략은 시장이 효율성 유지측면에서 매우 중요한 역할을 하고 있다. 본 연구는 이러한 차익거래 전략 중 박스스프레드 전략을 적용하여 과거 옵션 데이터를 통해 사후 검증하고 러프 집합을 이용해 수익성을 향상시키고자 한다. 옵션 데이터는 2002년 1월부터 2006년 12월까지 실제 증권거래소에서 거래되었던 틱 데이터를 기반으로 하고 있으며 비주얼 베이직을 이용해 9시부터 오후 3시까지의 1분 마다의 종가인 1분봉으로 변형하여 분석을 하였다. 박스스프레드 전략은 낮은 위험, 낮은 이익 구조를 가지고 있다. 기존의 전략을 과거 데이터를 기반으로 백 테스팅 해보고 러프 집합을 이용하여 거래 진입 시점을 제한함으로써, 동일 위험 대비 좀 더 높은 수익구조를 만들어 낼 수 있는 전략을 구사한다면 낮은 위험으로 안정적 수익을 취할 수 있다.

9
Article|3 citations·2004
집행적 작업기능이 외인성 및 내인성 주의에 미치는 영향
김민식, 권민영

주변단서와 중심단서를 사용한 전통적인 공간주의 과제에서 집행적 작업기억의 정보 조작(manipulation) 과정이 외인성 및 내인성 주의에 미치는 영향을 3개의 실험을 통하여 알아보았다. 모든 실험에서 정보의 조작이 필요한 작업기억 과제로서 역행 숫자 빼기 과제를 사용하였으며, 외인성 및 내인성 주의의 조작은 공간단서 패러다임을 사용하여 주변단서의 예언가(predictability)를 조작하거나 혹은 중심단서를 사용하였다. 실험 1에서는 역행 숫자 빼기 과제를 하는 동안 예언가가 없는 주변 단서 효과를 관찰하였고, 실험 2에서는 주변 단서가 표적의 위치에 나타날 확률을 증가시켜 역행 숫자 빼기 과제를 하는 동안 주변 단서 효과를 측정하였으며, 실험 3에서는 역행 숫자 빼기 과제를 하는 동안 예언가가 높은 중심 단서 효과를 측정하였다. 실험 결과, 실험 1에서 단서가 표적의 위치를 잘 예측하지 못할 때 작업기억의 집행기능의 부하는 주변 단서 효과에 부적 영향을 미치지만 실험 2와 3

10
Article|2 citations·2005
얼굴 및 표정 인식에서의 점화 효과
김민식, 정찬섭, 한재현

얼굴과 표정 인식이 서로 완전히 병렬적이고 독립적인 과정인가를 확인하기 위해 얼굴 인식 및 표정 인식 과정에서 점화 효과를 측정하였다. 표정 인식 시간 측정 결과, 점화 자극이 목표 자극과 다른 사람의 얼굴이면서 동일한 표정인 경우에는 오히려 표정 인식 시간을 지연시키는 것으로 나타났다. 누구의 얼굴인지를 파악하는 얼굴 인식 과제에서는, 판단 이전에 제시된 얼굴의 표정은 얼굴 인식 시간에 유의한 영향을 미쳤으며 동일한 표정일 경우 얼굴 인식 시간을 단축시켰다. 표정 및 얼굴이 각기 다른 정보의 처리 시간에 미치는 이같은 영향은 두 정보가 서로 완전히 독립적으로 처리되지 않을 수 있음을 시사한다.

11
Article|1 citations·2024
Attenuation of spatial bias with target template variation
Injae Hong, Min-Shik Kim
SJR Q1Scientific ReportsOA

This study investigated the impact of target template variation or consistency on attentional bias in location probability learning. Participants conducted a visual search task to find a heterogeneous shape among a homogeneous set of distractors. The target and distractor shapes were either fixed throughout the experiment (target-consistent group) or unpredictably varied on each trial (target-variant group). The target was often presented in one possible search region, unbeknownst to the partici

Cognitive NeuroscienceNeuroscience
12
Article|1 citations·2019
The role of attention in the action effect
So Ri Jung, Ki Bbum Lee, Myeong‐jin Lee, Eunhee Ji, Min-Shik Kim
SJR Q1Journal of VisionOA

Previous research had shown how simple action towards an object (prime) can help prioritize the allocation of attention onto the same object in the later unrelated visual search task (Weidler & Abrams, 2014). This so-called “action effect” yielded reaction time (RT) benefit only when the target was embedded in the acted-on object. To explore the role of attention in action effect, we examined the allocation of attention at the precise moment of action. In experiment 1, participants were instruct

Cognitive NeuroscienceNeuroscience
13
Article|0 citations·2002
Effects of Conceptual Context on Implicit Memory
Min-Shik Kim, EunKyoung Yeon
The Journal of Cognitive Science
Cognitive NeuroscienceNeuroscience
14
dataset|0 citations·1997
Unconscious spatial information in a patient with Balint's syndrome
Min-Shik Kim, Lynn C. Robertson
PsycEXTRA Dataset
Cognitive NeuroscienceNeuroscience
15
dataset|0 citations·1994
A Neural Network Model for Visual Selection
Min-Shik Kim, Kyle R. Cave
PsycEXTRA Dataset
Artificial IntelligenceComputer Science

Research Areas

Cognitive NeuroscienceAerospace EngineeringSocial PsychologyExperimental and Cognitive PsychologyElectrical and Electronic EngineeringSociology and Political Science

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