Seung-Goo KIM, PhD

Seung-Goo [IPA:sɯŋgu] KIM (김승구;金勝九) is a cognitive neuroscientist specialized in human neuroimaging and auditory processing. Seung-Goo uses computational models of sounds and non-invasive human neuroimaging techniques (functional/structural MRI and M/EEG source imaging) to investigate (1) how the musical sounds are represented in the human brain and (2) how these neural representations are transformed to evoke intense emotions.

After a Ph.D. program at Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Germany in 2017 (PI: Dr. Thomas R. Knösche), he has worked as a postdoc at the University of Cambridge (PI: Dr. Valerie Voon), Duke University (PI: Dr. Tobias Overath), and currently works as a research scientist at Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics (PI: Dr. Daniela Sammler).

news

Jan 27, 2025	As of 26 January 2025, I have joined the Peer Community In Neuroscience (PCI-neuro) as a Recommender, which functions similarly to a handling editor in conventional journals. The “Peer Community In” (PCI) is a not-for-profit and non-commercial organization that publishes peer reviews in open access at no cost. Once a preprint is recommended by a Recommender based on the reviews, authors can choose to send it to PCI-friendly journals for expedited processing. It would attract more authors with more journals that do not require additional reviews with a recommendation. Let’s see how this radical movement (by scientists, for scientists!🧪) unfolds. The Max Planck Society is one of the supporting societies.
Jan 06, 2025	I have joined the Editorial Board of PLOS ONE as an Academic Editor as of 6 January 2025! PLOS (Public Library of Science) is a non-profit publisher that has been promoting open science since 2003. ❤️ I am so excited to contribute to the editorial service of their wonderful journal! 😍
Jan 05, 2025	I will be attending a German conference for experimental psychologists (Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psycholog:innen [TeaP2025]) from 9 to 12 March 2025, at Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main. Presentations can be either in English or German. I am going to present a talk about the neural encoding of musical emotions, and a technical poster about conference programming based on a large-language model. The event is free for BSc, MSc students at Goethe University!

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selected publications

CerCor

Linguistic modulation of the neural encoding of phonemes

Seung-Goo Kim, Federico De Martino , and Tobias Overath

2024

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@article{kim2024cc,
  author = {Kim, Seung-Goo and Martino, Federico De and Overath, Tobias},
  date-modified = {2024-04-25 14:43:05 +0200},
  doi = {10.1093/cercor/bhae155},
  title = {Linguistic modulation of the neural encoding of phonemes},
  year = {2024},
}

MEG correlates of temporal regularity relevant to pitch perception in human auditory cortex

Seung-Goo Kim, Tobias Overath, William Sedley , and 5 more authors

NeuroImage, Apr 2022

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@article{kim2022ni,
  author = {Kim, Seung-Goo and Overath, Tobias and Sedley, William and Kumar, Sukhbinder and Teki, Sundeep and Kikuchi, Yukiko and Patterson, Roy and Griffiths, Timothy D.},
  doi = {10.1016/j.neuroimage.2022.118879},
  journal = {{NeuroImage}},
  month = apr,
  pages = {118879},
  publisher = {Elsevier {BV}},
  title = {{MEG} correlates of temporal regularity relevant to pitch perception in human auditory cortex},
  volume = {249},
  year = {2022},
}

FNsci

On the encoding of natural music in computational models and human brains

Seung-Goo Kim

Frontiers in Neuroscience, Apr 2022

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@article{kim2022fn,
  author = {Kim, Seung-Goo},
  date-modified = {2024-04-25 17:36:43 +0200},
  journal = {Frontiers in Neuroscience},
  title = {On the encoding of natural music in computational models and human brains},
  volume = {16},
  year = {2022},
}