Clinical Cognitive Neuroscience Center
Research
Neuroscience in Healthy Individuals
Neuroscience in Healthy Individuals
Key question. How do long-term training and experience shape the healthy brain?
Approach. When the opportunity arises, we study expertise, meditation, and individual differences in healthy people with structural and functional MRI.
Recent Findings
Professional Go (Baduk) players showed a distinct neural basis for the intuitive approximate number system (Lee et al., Sci Rep, 2025).
After a Templestay meditation program, increased connectivity between the anterior cingulate and dorsomedial prefrontal cortex was related to gains in resilience that were maintained for three months (Kwak et al., Front Hum Neurosci, 2019).
After a Templestay meditation program, activation of the anterior cingulate cortex during cognitive conflict increased (Kwak et al., Front Psychol, 2020).
Behavioral inhibition and ventromedial prefrontal connectivity differed between men and women (Jung et al., Soc Cogn Affect Neurosci, 2022).
Foundational Work
Professional Go players differed from novices in the structure and connectivity of the nucleus accumbens and amygdala (Jung et al., Front Hum Neurosci, 2013).