Language processing, emotion and language interaction, human-nonhuman interaction
EDUCATION
2008 - 2013 Ph.D.(Cognitive Psychology) Dept. of Psychology, Univ. of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
2001 - 2004 M.A.(Experiemntal Psychology) Dept. of Psychology, Korea Univ.
1998 - 2001 B.A.(Psychology) Dept. of Psychology, Korea Univ.
WORK EXPERIENCE
2016 – present Professor, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, GIST
2015 – 2016 Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Mind and Brain, Univ. of California, Davis
2013 – 2015 Postdoctoral Fellow, Institute of Mind and Brain, Univ. of South Carolina
2004 – 2007 lecturer, Korea Air Force Academy
HONORS AWARDS
2017 Kim Jaeil Young Scholar Award (awarded by Korean Psychological Association)
2018 Best Teacher Award (awarded by GIST)
2020 Best College Lecture Award (awarded by GIST)
2022 GIST Education Award (awarded by GIST)
2022 Educational innovation Award (awarded by GIST)
Peer-Reviewed International Journal Articles
Baek, H., Gordon, P. C., & Choi, W. (2024). Effects of age and word frequency on Korean visual word recognition: Evidence from a web-based large scale lexical-decision task. Psychology and Aging, 39(3), 231-244.
Baek, H., Lee, Y., & Choi, W. (2023). Proficiency versus lexical processing efficiency as a measure of L2 lexical quality: Individual differences in word frequency effects in L2 visual word recognition. Memory & Cognition, 51, 1858-1869.
Baek, H., Tae, J., Lee, Y., & Choi, W. (2023). Effects of native translation frequency and L2 proficiency on L2 word recognition: Evidence from Korean speakers of English as a foreign language. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 52(5), 1325-1343.
Kim, D., Lowder, M. W., & Choi, W. (2023). Emotionality effects in Korean visual word recognition: Evidence from lab-based and web-based lexical decision tasks. Acta Psychologica, 237, 103944.
Baek, H., & Choi, W., & Gordon, P. C. (2023). Reading spaced and unspaced Korean text: Evidence from eye-tracking during reading. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 76(5), 1072-1085.
Baek, H., & Choi, W. (2022). Parafoveal processing of underlying phonological information during Korean sentence reading. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 84, 1411-1416.
Kim, D., Lowder, M. W., & Choi, W. (2021). Effects of Print Exposure on an Online Lexical Decision Task: A Direct Replication Using a Web-Based Experimental Procedure. Frontiers in Psychology, 3448.
Henderson, J. M., Goold, J. E., Choi, W., & Hayes, T. R. (2020). Neural correlates of fixated low- and high-level scene properties during active scene viewing. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 32(10), 2013-2023.
Gordon, P. C., Moore, M., Choi, W., Hoedemaker, R. S. & Lowder, M. W. (2020). Individual differences in reading: Separable effects of reading experience and processing skill. Memory & Cognition, 38(4), 553-565.
Desai, R. H., Choi, W., & Henderson, J. M. (2020). Word frequency effects in naturalistic reading. Language, Cognition, and Neuroscience, 35(5), 583-594.
Goold, J. E., Choi, W., & Henderson, J. M. (2019). Cortical control of eye movements in natural reading: Evidence from MVPA. Experimental Brain Research, 237, 3099-3107.
Lee, H., Seong, E., Choi, W., & Lowder, M, W. (2019). Development and assessment of the Korean author recognition test. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology. 72, 1837-1846.
Lowder, M. W., Choi, W., Ferreira, F., & Henderson, J. M. (2018). Lexical predictability during natural reading: Effects of surprisal and entropy reduction. Cognitive Science, 42, 1166-1183.
Lee, Y., Jang, E., & Choi, W. (2018). L2-L1 translation priming effects in a lexical decision task: Evidence from low proficient Korean-English bilinguals. Frontiers in Psychology, 9, 267.
Henderson, J. M., Choi, W., Luke, S. G., & Schmidt, J. (2018). Neural correlates of individual differences in fixation duration during natural reading. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 71, 314-323.
Choi, W., Lowder, M. W., Ferreira, F., Swaab, T., & Henderson, J. M. (2017). Effects of word predictability and preview lexicality on eye movements during reading: A comparison between young and older adults. Psychology and Aging, 32, 232-242.
Henderson, J. M., Choi, W., Lowder, M. W., & Ferreira, F. (2016). Language structure in the brain: A fixation-related fMRI study of syntactic surprisal in reading. NeuroImage, 132, 293-300.
Desai, R. H., Choi, W., Lai, V., & Henderson, J. M. (2016). Towards semantics in the wild: Activation to manipulable nouns in naturalistic reading. Journal of Neuroscience, 36, 4050-4055.
Choi, W., Lowder, M. W., Ferreira, F., & Henderson, J. M. (2015). Individual differences in the perceptual span during reading: Evidence from the moving window technique. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 77, 2463-2475.
Choi, W., Nam, K., & Lee, Y (2015). The influence of L1’s Knowledge of the syllabification rule on the processing of L2 word recognition. Psychological Reports. 117, 535-553.
Henderson, J. M., Choi, W., Luke, S. G., Desai, R. H. (2015). Neural correlates of fixation duration in natural reading: Evidence from fixation-related (FIRE) fMRI. NeuroImage, 119, 390-397.
Choi, W., & Henderson, J. M. (2015). Neural Correlates of Active Vision: An fMRI Comparison of Natural Reading and Scene Viewing. Neuropsychologia, 75, 109-118.
Henderson, J. M., & Choi, W. (2015). Neural correlates of fixation duration during real-world scene viewing: Evidence from fixation-related (FIRE) fMRI. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. 27(6), 1137-1145.
Choi, W., Desai, L. H., & Henderson, J. M. (2014). The neural substrates of natural reading: A comparison of normal and nonword text using eyetracking and fMRI. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 8, 1024.
Henderson, J. M., Choi, W., & Luke, S. G. (2014). Morphology of primary visual cortex predicts individual differences in fixation duration during text reading. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 26(12), 2880-2888.
Choi, W., & Gordon, P. C. (2014). Word skipping during sentence reading: Effects of lexicality on parafoveal processing. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 76, 201-213.
Choi, W., & Gordon, P. C. (2013). Coordination of word recognition and oculomotor control during reading: The role of implicit lexical decisions. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 39, 1032-1046.
Lowder, M. W., Choi, W., & Gordon, P. C. (2013). Word recognition during reading: The interaction between lexical repetition and frequency. Memory & Cognition, 41, 738-751.
Gordon, P. C., Plummer, P., & Choi, W. (2013). See before you jump: Full recognition of parafoveal words precedes skips during reading. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, & Cognition. 39, 633-641.
Choi, W., Nam, K., & Lee, C. (2010). Non-selective access of phonological lexicon for two different orthographies: Korean and English. Perceptual and Motor Skills. 110, 3, 693-698.
Peer-Reviewed Domestic Journal Articles
Tae, J., Lee, Y., & Choi, W. (2025). The relationship between aging and inhibition ability: Evidence from a web-based Number Stroop task. Korean Journal of Cognitive Science, 36(1), 1-20.
Park, J., & Choi, W. (2024). The relationship between a bisyllabic onset task and individual differences in language proficiency. The Korean Journal of Cognitive and Biological Psychology, 36(3), 137-156.
Kang, J., & Choi, W. (2024). The null effect of vowel transposition in Korean visual word recognition. The Journal of Linguistic Sciences, 108, 177-199.
Noh, S. R., Choi, W., & Kim, J. H. (2024). The impact of self-control on loneliness among middle-aged and older adults: The mediating effects of social exclusion and thwarted belongingness. The Korean Journal of Health Psychology, 29, 127-156.
Lee, E., Baek, H., Kim, T., & Choi, W. (2023). A comparative study on information processing of human and avatar sign words during Korean sign language word recognition. Disability & Social Welfare, 14(2), 186-209.
Choi, W., Kim, E., Kang, J. (2023). Syllable transposition effects during Korean sentence reading: An eye-tracking study. The Korean Journal of Cognitive and Biological Psychology, 35(3), 205-212.
Tae, J., Choi, W., & Lee, Y. (2023). Age-related differences in the positive emotion bias and own-age effect through web-based experiment. Journal of the Korean Data Analysis Society, 25(3), 1145-1159.
Moon, S. H., Eom, J., Choi, W., Brothers, A., & Noh, S. R. (2023). Validation of the Korean version of age-related change (AARC) questionnaire in a sample of middle-aged and older adults. The Korean Journal of Health Psychology, 28, 789-815.
Park, N., Choi, W., & Kim, T. (2023). Moral judgment by the awareness of disgust-inducing factor. Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial Cooperation Society, 24(4), 253-259.
Baek, H., Kim, T., & Choi, W. (2023). Benefits of a sign language guide application on Korean sign language users: A case study on the exhibition of a public museum. Journal of the Korea Contents Association, 23(3), 614-623.
Lim, C., & Choi, W. (2023). The homonym advantage effects in Korean visual word recognition: Evidence from a lexical decision task. The Journal of Linguistic Sciences, 104, 67-88.
Tae, J., Baek, H., Lee, Y., & Choi, W. (2022). The relationship between aging and cognitive control in performing a switching task: Evidence from a web-based experimental study. Korean Journal of Psychology: General, 41(5), 491-517.
Tae, J., Choi, W., Lee, M., &Lee, Y. (2022). Effect of the concurrently presented predictive information of the up-coming trial on task performance. The Korean Journal of Cognitive and Biological Psychology, 34(4), 213-220.
Lim, C., Baek, H., Kim, T. H., & Choi, W. (2022). Activation of Phonological and Orthographic information during Korean Visual Word Recognition: Evidence from a Meta-analysis and a Priming Study. The Korean Journal of Cognitive and Biological Psychology, 34(4), 221-236.
Kim, Y., Kim, T., Choi, W. & Noh, S. R. (2022). Use of eye tracking to understand the differences in health literacy among younger and older adults: A pilot study. The Korean Journal of Health Psychology, 27(4), 649-666.
Choi, W., Lim, C., & Kim, D. (2022). The Null Effect of Letter Transposition in Korean: Evidence from Eye Movements during Reading. The Journal of Linguistic Science, 100, 19-40.
Baek, H., Kim, J., Kim, T., & Choi, W. (2021). An exploratory study on the comprehension of cultural heritage descriptions by deaf signers of Korean sign language. Disability & Social Welfare, 12(2), 175-191.
Tae, J., Kim, T., & Choi, W. (2021). Reinvestigating the phonological and orthographic priming effects with the web-based experiment. Korean Journal of Linguistics, 46(4), 1223-1250.
Kim, Y., Choi, W., & Kim, T. (2021). A convergence study for development of psychological language analysis program: Comparison of existing programs and trend analysis of related literature. Journal of the Korean Convergence Society, 12(11), 1-18.
Baek, H., Kim, B., Lee, S., & Choi, W. (2021). Preview benefit of phonological and orthographic information during Korean sentence reading: An eye-tracking study. Korean Journal of Linguistics, 46(2), 401-427.
Lee, S., Kim, D., & Choi, W. (2021). The effect of spacing in Korean sentence reading: A study using compound noun phrases. The Korean Journal of Cognitive and Biological Psychology, 33(2), 107-119.
Kim, B., Baek, H., Lee, Y., & Choi, W. (2021). Replication of word predictability effects using a web-based self-paced reading task. The Korean Journal of Cognitive and Biological Psychology, 33(2), 87-93.
Moon, S., Choi, W., & Noh, S. (2021). Comparison of cognitive resource allocation patterns and reading performance between younger and older adults. Korean Journal of Psychology: General, 40(1), 75-104.
Lee, S. & Choi, W. (2021). The Effects of Machine Advice and the Level of Anthropomorphism on Human Decision Making. Journal of the HCI Society of Korea, 16(1), 61-78.
Go, E.-T., Choi, W., & Lee, Y. (2021). The effect of Korean (L1) syllabification rule on recognition of the visually presented English (L2) word. Journal of the Korean Data Analysis Society, 23, 459-470.
Lee, S., Lee, Y., & Choi, W. (2021). The effect of task unrelated negative emotion on spatial and object recognition memory. The Korean Journal of Cognitive and Biological Psychology, 33(1), 1-14.
Lee, S., Go, E.-T., Lee, Y., & Choi, W. (2020). Interaction between inhibitory mechanism and lexicality in cognitive information processes. Journal of the Korean Data Analysis Society, 22, 1131-1143.
Seong, E., Lee, Y., & Choi, W. (2020). Interaction effects of text difficulty and individual differences in cognitive abilities during reading: An eye-tracking study. The Korean Journal of Cognitive and Biological Psychology, 32, 223-234.
Cha, B., Bae, Y., Ryu, J., Choi, W. (2019). The effect of enactment on memory retrieval in virtual environment. Journal of the Korean Data Analysis Society, 21(6), 3195-3206.
Lee, S., Hong, Y., Lee, Y., & Choi, W. (2019). The effect of the task-unrelated negative emotion on the visual and spatial working memory task. Journal of the Korean Data Analysis Society, 21, 1483-1495.
Cha, B., Bae, Y., Choi, W., & Ryu J. (2019). User evaluation of encountered type haptic system with visual-haptic co-location. Journal of the HCI Society of Korea, 14, 13-20.
Ahn, J., & Kim, T. H., & Choi, W. (2019). The effects of visual complexity and character structure on Hangul perception. The Korean Journal of Cognitive and Biological Psychology, 31, 135-146.
Seong, E., Lee, Y., & Choi, W. (2019). The word frequency effects modulated by age in Korean sentence reading: Evidence from an eye tracking study. The Journal of Linguistic Science, 88, 251-280.
Lee, H., & Choi, W. (2019). Predictability effects modulated by age during sentence reading: An eye-tracking study. The Korean Journal of Cognitive and Biological Psychology, 31, 17-38.
Jin, R., Lee, H., & Choi, W. (2018). Are they real neighbors?: Null effects of syllabic neighbors in Korean word recognition. The Korean Journal of Cognitive and Biological Psychology, 30, 211-223.
Choi, W., Lee, C., Kang, J., & Nam, K. (2015). The lexical inhibition of the phonological information in Korean visual word recognition. Korean Journal of Psychology: Cognition & Biology, 27, 561-581.
Choi, W, Lee, C., & Nam, K. (2008). Cross-linguistic semantic priming effect for Korean-English unbalanced bilinguals. Korean Journal of Psychology: Cognition & Biology, 20(4), 357-371.
Nam, K., Choi, W., Kim, C., Choi, Y., & Kim J. (2005). The text-to-speech system assessment based on word frequency and word regularity effects. Malsori, 53, 61-74.
Choi, W. & Nam, K. (2002). The Korean word length effect on auditory word recognition. Malsori, 44, 33-46.
Conference Presentations (Selected)
Baek, H., & Choi, W. (2023). Individual differences in the activation of phonological information during L2 visual word recognition. 2023 International Convention of Psychological Science.
Baek, H., Gordon, P. C., & Choi, W. (2022). Effects of Age and Familiarity on Visual Word Recognition in Korean: Evidence from a Web-based Large Scale Lexical Decision Task. Abstracts of the 63rd annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society.
Lee, H., Seong, E., & Choi, W. (2018). Reading spaced and unspaced Korean text: Evidence from eye tracking during reading. Abstracts of the 59th annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society.
Seong, E., Lee, H., Choi, W., Gordon, P. C. (2018). Reading goals modulate effects of individual differences. Abstracts of the 59th annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society.
Goold, J. E., Choi, W., Henderson, J. M. (2018). Cortical control of eye movements in natural tasks. Abstracts of the 59th annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society.
Choi, W., Lowder, M. W., & Henderson, J. M. (2017). Effects of text difficulty during natural reading: A co-registered eye tracking and fMRI study. Proceedings of the 24th Annual Meeting on Cognitive Neuroscience Society.
Choi, W., Lowder, M. W., Ferreira, F., Swaab, T., & Henderson, J. M. (2016). The effects of contextual predictability and parafoveal preview on word recognition during reading: A comparison between older and young adults. Proceedings of the 29th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing.
Choi, W., Lowder, M. W., & Henderson, J. M. (2015). Effects of global text difficulty on eye movements during reading: An individual difference approach. Proceedings of the 56th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society.
Choi, W., Lowder, M. W., Ferreira, F., & Henderson, J. M. (2015). Language ability modulates perceptual span in reading: Evidence from the moving window technique. Proceedings of the 28th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing.
Choi, W., Ferreira, F., & Henderson, J. M. (2014). Modulation of preview benefit by individual differences in reading skills. Proceedings of the 55th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society.
Choi, W., & Gordon, P. C. (2013). Preactivation of upcoming words during sentence reading. Association for Psychological Science 25th Annual Convention.
Choi, W., & Gordon, P. C. (2013). Predictability and prediction: Are upcoming words pre-activated during sentence reading? Proceedings of the 26th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing.
Gordon, P. C., Choi, W., Hoedemaker, R. S., & Lowder, M. W. (2013). Individual differences in sentence processing: Separable effects of knowledge and processing skill. Proceedings of the 26th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing.
Choi, W., & Gordon, P. C. (2012). Implicit lexical decisions during reading. Proceedings of the 53th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society.
Choi, W., & Gordon, P. C. (2012). Word skipping in eye movements during sentence reading: Effects of lexicality of the letter string in parafoveal preview. Proceedings of the 25th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing.
Choi, W., & Gordon, P. C. (2011). Word recognition during sentence processing: Lexical effects on parafoveal preview processing during reading. Proceedings of the 24th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing.
Gordon, P. C., Lowder, M. W., & Choi, W. (2010). Word recognition during reading: The interaction between lexical repetition and word frequency. Proceedings of the 23rd Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing.
Gordon, P. C., Plummer, P., & Choi, W. (2010). Effect of letter transposition on primed word recognition in the parafovea. Proceedings of the 23rd Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing.
Han, J., Choi, W., Chang, Y., Jeong, O., and Nam, K. (2005). Neuroanatomical analysis for onomatopoeia and pantomime words: fMRI study. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 3610, 850-854.
Nam, K., Choi, W., & Cho, K. (2004). fMRI study on the cerebral activation associated with the semantic processing in Korean and English spoken word production, 10th Annual Meeting of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping(OHBM).
Lectures
Human Behavior and Human Mind 1
Human Behavior and Human Mind 2
Brain and Cognition
Language and Mind: A Psycholinguistic Approach
Psychology of Technology and Information Society
Cognitive Psychology and Lab
Psychology of Human Relationships
Psychology and Life
Editorial Service
Editorial Board: Korean Journal of Cognitive and Biological Psychology
Ad hoc reviewer:
Psychological Science,
NeuroImage,
Human Brain Mapping,
Scientific Reports,
Cortex,
Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition,
Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance,
Behavioral Research Methods,
Language, Cognition and Neuroscience,
Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology,
Neuropsychologia,
Journal of Neurolinguistics,
Applied Psycholinguistics,
Cognitive Science,
Cognitive System Research,
Brain and Cognition,
Visual Cognition,
PLOS ONE,
frontiers in Psychology,
Journal of Psycholinguistic Research,
Journal of Research in Childhood Education,
Psychological Reports,
Journal of Cognitive Science,
Korean Journal of Cognitive Science,
Korean Journal of Cognitive and Biological Psychology,
