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EmoLab at JBNU · 전북대학교 정서연구실

Understanding affective representations in minds, brains, and machines.

We study how affective experience is structured across people, sensory modalities, biological systems, and artificial intelligence, and develop multivariate methods to make those structures visible.

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Affect

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EmoLab

WHAT WE STUDY

Research themes

Our work is organized around durable scientific questions in affective science.

01

Affective Representation

How emotions and affective experiences are organized across sensory modalities, individuals, tasks, and stimulus domains.

02

Multivariate Methods

Developing and applying methods that treat psychological patterns, geometry, and relational structure as primary scientific objects.

03

Brain & Physiology

Studying affect with neuroimaging and psychophysiological measures, with emphasis on multivariate structure and generalization.

04

Humans & Artificial Intelligence (AI)

Comparing human and artificial representational systems and using modern AI systems in psychological research.

SELECTED WORK

Featured publications

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Touching the Unseen: Exploring Affective Responses to Haptic Stimuli with and without Visual Input

Chaery Park & Jongwan Kim
Perception, 55(6), 588–602
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Consistent neural representation of valence in encoding and recall

Hyeonjung Kim & Jongwan Kim
Brain and Cognition, 186, 106296
DOI

Exploring Affective Representations in Emotional Narratives: An Exploratory Study Comparing ChatGPT and Human Responses

Chaery Park & Jongwan Kim
Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking, 27(10), 736-741
DOI

Taste the music: Modality-general representation of affective states derived from auditory and gustatory stimuli

Chaery Park & Jongwan Kim
Cognition, 249, 105830
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PEOPLE

A small lab built around hands-on research.

EmoLab brings together students interested in affective science, cognitive neuroscience, quantitative methods, and psychological experimentation.

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EmoLab · Department of Psychology · Jeonbuk National University

 

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