2002. Ph.D. in Cognitive Psychology, Purdue University
1993. M.A. in Experimental Psychology, Korea University
1991. B.A. in Psychology, Korea University
Career and Awards
2020. 3. ~ Present / President, Korean Society for Cognitive & Biological Psychology
2017. 9. ~ Present / Chair, Korea University Institutional Review Board
2017. 2. ~ Present / Director, Korea University Institute of Behavioral Science
2017. 2. ~ 2019. 2. / Editor, Korean Journal of Cognitive and Biological Psychology
2014. 3. ~ present / Professor, Department of Psychology, Korea University
2009. 3. ~ 2014.2. / Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, Korea University
2005. 9. ~ 2009.2. / Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, Korea University
Undergraduate and Graduate Courses
Fundamental of Psychology
User Experience and Psychology
Attention and Response Selection
Advanced Cognitive Psychology
Theory of Attention
System and User Experience
Book Chapter
Francis, G. & Cho, Y. S. (2006). Quantitative models of backward masking. In B. Breitmeyer & H. Öğmen (Eds.), The First Half Second (pp.111-126). Cambridge, MA: MIT press.
Research Papers
Cho, S. A., & Cho, Y. S. (2021). Uncertainty modulates value-driven attentional capture. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 83, 142-155.
Lee, H. J. & Cho, Y. S. (2020). The effect of threatening facial expressions on inhibition-induced forgetting depends on their task-relevance. Cognition and Emotion, 34, 526-538.
Chang, S. & Cho, Y. S. (2015). Polarity correspondence effect between loudness and lateralized response set. Frontiers in Psychology, 6, A693. 1050-1074.
Kim, S. & Cho, Y. S. (2014). Congruency sequence effect without feature integration and contingency learning. Acta Psychologica, 149, 60–68.
Proctor, R. W. & Cho, Y. S. (2006). Polarity correspondence: A general principle for performance of speeded binary classification tasks. Psychological Bulletin, 132, 416-442.
