Juno Kim BSc, PhD

photo of Juno
Position: Research Associate

Office: Room 304, Griffith Taylor Building
Phone: +61 2 9351 7613
Fax: +61 2 9036 5223
Email: 

Laboratory: Bart Lab

Postal Address:
School of Psychology
Brennan MacCallum Building (A18)
The University of Sydney
NSW 2006
Australia

 

Research Interests

I am a researcher working in sensation and perception, interested in understanding how we perceive objects and surfaces in the world and how we use this information to perceive our self motion as we move through the environment. My behavioural research spans several scientific areas relevant to psychology. These include perception of surface qualities; 3D rendering techniques, graphical modeling and simulation; self motion and self heading perception; illusory visual self motion (vection); and visual-vestibular interaction..

 
 

Publications (peer reviewed journals)

Kim, J. (in press). Short-term habituation of eye-movement responses induced by galvanic vestibular stimulation (GVS) in the alert guinea pig. Brain Research Bulletin, Proof available online 20 January 2009

Kim, J., Palmisano, S. (2008). Viewpoint jitter effects on vection in depth. Brain Research Bulletin, 77(6), 335-342.

Kim, J.
, Schiemer, G., Narushima, T. (2007). Oculog: Playing with eye movements. Proceedings of the 2007 Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME07), New York, NY, USA

Iwasaki, S., McGarvie, L.A., Halmagyi, G.M., Burgess, A.M., Kim, J., Colebatch, J.G., Curthoys, I.S. (2007). Head taps evoke a crossed vestibulo-ocular reflex. Neurology, accepted 4 December 2006.

Curthoys, I.S., Kim, J., McPhedran, S.K., Camp, A.J. (2006). Bone conducted vibration selectively activates irregular primary otolithic vestibular neurons in the guinea pig. Experimental Brain Research, published online 8 June 2006. DOI: 10.1007/s00221-006-0544-1

Kim, J.
, Curthoys, I.S. (2004). Responses of primary vestibular neurons to galvanic vestibular stimulation (GVS) in the anaesthetised guinea pig. Brain Research Bulletin 64 (3): 265-271. DOI: 10.1016/j.brainresbull.2004.07.008

Kim, J.
(2004). A simple pupil-independent method for recording eye movements in rodents using video. Journal of Neuroscience Methods, 138 (1-2): 165-171. DOI: 10.1016/j.jneumeth.2004.04.016

 
 

Conference Papers (past 5 years)


Kim J
, Palmisano S (2009) The role of eye movements in self-motion perception. Paper presented at Experimental Psychology Conference (EPC), 17 - 19 April, University of Wollongong, Australia.

Palmisano S, Kim J, Ash A, Allison R (2009) Where pilots look when they land. Poster presented at Experimental Psychology Conference (EPC), 17 - 19 April, University of Wollongong, Australia.

Anderson B, Kim J (2008) Coupled computations of lightness, 3D shape, and gloss.  Paper presented at European Conference on Visual Perception (ECVP), 24 – 28 August 2008, Utrecht, The Netherlands.

Anderson B, Kim J (2008) Image statistics and surface perception. Paper presented at           Asia Pacific Conference on Vision (APCV), 18 – 21 July 2008, Brisbane Convention Centre, Brisbane, Australia.

Kim J, Palmisano S (2008) Global perspective jitter enhances vection in both active and passive observers. Poster P3-23, presented at the XXV International Congress of the Bárány Society, 31 March to 3 April 2008, Kyoto International Conference Center (ICC Kyoto), Kyoto, Japan.

Kim J, Narushima T, Schiemer G (2007) Oculog: Playing with eye movements. Oral presentation at New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME ’07), New York, USA.

Curthoys IS, Iwasaki S, Burgess AM, Kim J, MacDougall HG, Halmagyi GM, McGarvie LA (2006) Short latency human oculomotor response to brief bone conducted vibration. Poster 243.1 presented at Neuroscience 2006, Society for Neuroscience 36th Annual Meeting, Atlanta, Georgia USA, 14-18 October, 2006.

Curthoys IS, Kim J, Burgess AM, Attard M, McGarvie L, Halmagyi GM, Iwasaki S (2006) The human eye movement response to stimulation of the head by bone conducted vibration. Presentation O17 at the XXIV International Congress of the Bárány Society, 11-14 June 2006, Uppsala, Sweden.

Curthoys IS, Kim J, Burgess AM, Aw ST, McGarvie LA, Todd MJ, Halmagyi GM (2005) Efficient delivery of bone-conducted sound causes short-latency eye movements in normal healthy human subjects and guinea pigs. Poster 391.5 presented at Neuroscience 2005, Society for Neuroscience 35th Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, USA, 12-16 November, 2005.

Curthoys IS, McPhedran SK, Kim J (2004) Bone conducted sounds preferentially activate guinea pig utricular and saccular irregular primary afferents. Journal of Vestibular Research, 14(2-3):210-1. Poster P046, presented at the XXIII International Congress of the Bárány Society, 7-9 July 2004, Collège de France, Paris.

Kim J, Curthoys IS (2004) Habituation of eye-movement responses induced by galvanic vestibular stimulation (GVS) in the alert guinea pig. Journal of Vestibular Research, 14(2-3):222. Poster P068, presented at the XXIII International Congress of the Bárány Society, 7-9 July 2004, Collège de France, Paris.


 
 
 

Publicity and research exposure

Aug 2007 Coverage of my concert performance featured in Warren Burt’s ACMC summary in Resonate
July 2007 Article appearing in the Illawarra Mercury titled: “Eye of the Beholder” about the gaze tracking in the study of brain and behaviour.
June 2007 Live sonification of eye movements performed at the Australasian Computer Music Conference (ACMC)
   

 

Research Grants and Awards

Kim J, Palmisano S. Role of eye movements in viewpoint jitter effects on vection in depth. Faculty Research Council (FRC) grant awarded by Faculty of Health and Behavioural Sciences (HBS), University of Wollongong. August 2008: $5000 (AUD)
 
 
 

Software

FullLightScan - WindowsXP program to automate the acquisition of 8-bit luminance spectra from CRT displays using the CRS LightScan v2