정수영, Chung, Sooyoung

Senior Researcher

OFFICE

L7312

+82-2-958-6954

LAB

L7312

+82-2-958-6954

E-mail

sooyoung@kist.re.kr

EDUCATION
B.A. Psychology Department of Psychology, Seoul National University(1985-1989)
M.A. Biopsychology Department of Psychology, Seoul National University(1990-1992)
Ph.D. Neuroscience Northwestern University Institute for Neuroscience (NUIN)
Department of Neurobiology & Physiology, Evanston, IL, USA.(1993-1998)

RESEARCH CAREER & ACTIVITIES
  • Postdoctoral Fellow Department of Biology Brandeis University, MA, USA(1998-2003)
  • Postdoctoral Fellow Department of Neurobiology Harvard Medical School, MA, USA (2003-2006)
  • Senior Research Scientist, PI Center for Neural Science, Korea Institute of Science and Technology
    (KIST) (2006-present)
RESEARCH INTERESTS

My research interests are to reveal such neuronal connections & circuits as a mechanism for sensation/perception. In the past I have studied connections from thalamus to the sensory cortices in vivo. Currently I’m focusing on the study of intra-cortical circuits in vivo, using a combination of electrophysiological and imaging techniques. A part of my research interests covers a reality check of the known perceptual rules in awake behaving animals.

HIGHLIGHT

Lee, C., Chung, S., Kim, J., and Park, J. (1991)  Auditory-facilitation of visually-guided saccades, Society for Neuroscience Abstract 17:862.

Ferster, D., Chung, S., and Wheat, H. (1996)  Orientation selectivity of thalamic input to simple cells of cat visual cortex, Nature, 380: 249-252. [PDF / News & Views by Hubel]

Chung, S. and Ferster, D.  (1998)  Strength and orientation tuning of the thalamic input to simple cells revealed by electrically evoked cortical suppression, Neuron, 20: 1177-1189. [PDF]

Hempel, C.M., Sugino, S., Chung, S. and Nelson, S.B.  (2000)  Multi-unit spike-triggered averaging: a method for probing synaptic physiology in the vertebrate CNS, Society for Neuroscience Abstract 23:1967.

Chung, S., Li X., and Nelson S.B. (2002)  Short-term depression at thalamocortical synapses contributes to rapid Adaptation of cortical sensory responses in vivo. Neuron, 34: 437-446. [PDF / previewby Nicolelis]

Van Hooser, S.D, Heimel, J.A., Chung, S., Nelson, S.B., and Toth, L.J. (2005)  Orientation selectivity without orientation maps in visual cortex of a hightly visual mammal. Journal of Neuroscience, 25: 19-28. [PDF]

Ohki, K, Chung, S, Ch’ng, Y.H., Kara, P., and Reid, R.C. (2005)  Functional imaging with cellular resolution reveals precise micro-architecture in visual cortex. Nature 433: 597-603. [PDF]

Van Hooser, S.D., Heimel, J.A., Chung, S., and Nelson, S.B. (2006)  Lack of patchy horizontal connectivity in primary visual cortex of a mammal without orientation maps. Journal of Neuroscience 26(29): 7680-7692. [PDF]

Ohki, K., Chung, S., Kara, P., Hbener, M., Bonhoeffe, T., and Reid, R.C. (2006)  Highly ordered arrnagement of single neurons in orientation pinwheels. Nature 442:925-928. [PDF]