The University of Chicago
Department of Psychology
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Chicago, IL, 60637
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Mee-Kyoung Kwon
Background
Mee-Kyoung is a doctoral student in the Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience Program at the University of Chicago. Prior to her enrollment at the University of Chicago, she worked as a research associate at the Center for Cognitive Science, associated with Yonsei University and taught Introduction of Psychology and Cognitive Psychology at Yonsei University and Catholic University as a part-time instructor. She received her M.A. in Psychology from Yonsei University in 2002 after earning her B.A. in Psychology and English literature.
Mee-Kyoung’s research interests are varied but can be categorized into two topics: children’s numeric development and human attention. She studies on how children’s numerical understanding is improved with Susan Levine. She has also studied visual attention in normal adults, and “Inhibition of Return” in ADHD children and schizophrenics.
Research Interest
Young children’s numerical representation
Brain-damaged children’s mathematical ability
Repetition Blindness for real-life scene pictures
Inhibition of Return in ADHD children and schizophrenics
Relationship between object effects and Inhibition of Return
Object/grouping effects independent from location effects
Publications
Kwon, M. K., & Kim, M.-S. 2002. Object Effects and Grouping Effects on Moving Objects. Korean Journal of Experimental & Cognitive Psychology, 14, 345-358.
Song, H. J., Kwon, M. K., Oh, K.J., Kim, M.-S., Ha, E.H., & Shin, M.S. 2004. Inhibition of Return Deficit of ADHD, Korean Journal of Clinical Psychology, 23, 243-251.
Presentations
Kwon, M., Jeong, Y., & Levine, S. (August, 2010). The role of conventional number knowledge in young children’s nonverbal number matching: Is two special? Poster presentation at the 32nd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. 2010, Portland, OR.
Kwon, M., Levine, S., & Ratliff, K. (August, 2010). SES-related gap in measurement achievement: how to teach children from low- and high-income families. Poster presentation at the 3rd Annual Meeting of Spatial Cognition, Mt. Hood, OR. Also presented at the annual SILC Advisory meeting (July 2010), Philadelpia, PA.
Kwon, M., Levine, S. & Jeong, Y. (May, 2010). Acquiring Two Number Words Facilitates Young Children’s Nonverbal Number Matching. Poster presentation at the Third Annual Inter-Science of Learning Center Student and Post-Doc Conference 2010, Boston, MA.
Kwon, M. K., & Kim, M.-S. (January, 2002). (Speaker) Object Effects Mediated by Location-Based Selection : evidence from inhibition of return at moving objects. The Annual Conference of Korean Society of Experimental & Cognitive Psychology, Yonsei Univ., Seoul.
Kwon, M. K., & Kim, M.-S. (August, 2001). (Speaker) Object Effects Mediated by Location-Based Selection. The 3rd International Conference on Cognitive Science, Beijing, China.
