Hyojin Park

Dr. Hyojin Park is an Assistant Professor in the School of Psychology at the University of Birmingham, UK. She specializes in neural oscillatory mechanisms underlying human speech and memory, with a focus on audiovisual speech processing and integration. Her research explores how brain oscillations, such as delta and theta rhythms, support attention, memory, and communication in multi-speaker environments. Prior to this role, she held positions as a Research Associate at the University of Glasgow and a Birmingham Fellow at the University of Birmingham.

Dr. Park’s educational background includes a PhD in Cognitive Neuroscience from Seoul National University (South Korea) and a BA in Psychology from Kyungpook National University (South Korea). She leads the NEURECA research group, which investigates neural representations and computational models of multi-modal brain activity across the lifespan. The group’s work integrates neuroimaging techniques like fNIRS and EEG to study speech perception, cognitive control, and neural oscillations.

Her research interests span neural oscillations, speech perception, and neuroimaging methods. Recent studies highlight the dissociation between prosodic and syntactic speech processing, the role of visual speech cues in multi-speaker scenarios, and the impact of face masks on speech feature reconstruction. She also explores theta phase modulation in auditory detection and delta oscillations’ role in semantic gist extraction.

Dr. Park actively recruits PhD students and postdoctoral researchers, emphasizing collaborative projects in cognitive neuroscience and neuroimaging. Her work has been published in high-impact journals such as Current Biology and Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, with ongoing contributions to conferences and preprint platforms like bioRxiv.

She coordinates the NEURECA lab, hosting interdisciplinary collaborations on multimodal brain dynamics. Her research aligns with broader efforts in cognitive neuroscience, clinical neuroimaging, and computational modeling of neural systems.