Research Interests

• bilingualism
• second language processing
• cross-linguistic comparisons using both behavioral and neuroimaging methods

 

Representative Publications

• Kim, S. Y., Wang, M., & Taft, M. (in press). Morphological decomposition in the recognition of prefixed and suffixed words: Evidence from Korean. Scientific Studies of Reading
• Cao, F., Kim, S. Y., Liu, Y., & Liu, L. (2014). Similarities and differences in brain activation and functional connectivity in first and second language reading: Evidence from Chinese learners of English. Neuropsychologia, 63, 275-284.
• Kim, S. Y., & Wang, M. (2014). The time-course of cross-language morphological activation in Korean-English bilinguals: Evidence from a masked priming experiment. Language Research, 50(1), 59-75.
• Kim, S. Y., Wang, M., & Ko, I. Y. (2011). The processing of derived words in Korean-English bilingual readers. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 14(4), 473-488.
• Ko, I. Y., Wang, M., & Kim, S. Y. (2011). Bilingual reading of compound words. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 40(1), 49-73.