Dr. Lee is interested in how the brain remembers episodic events (involving objects and places) and use it for adaptive behavior. Animal models are used with memory tasks to uncover the functional relationships between hippocampal memory systems and cognitive functions. Drug injections and neurotoxic lesions are used in addition to electrophysiological techniques in freely moving animals in VR environments.

Dr. Kim is an expert in geropsychiatry. He founded and led the National Institute of Dementia for 8 years. His research interests are pathophysiology, diagnosis and intervention of cognitive disorders (dementia and mild cognitive impairment) and late-life depression. He has been leading the Korean Longitudinal Study on Cognitive Aging and Dementia (KLOSCAD), and published more than 300 papers in peer-reviewed journals including Lancet, Alzheimers & Dementia, Annals of Neurology and Biological Psychiatry.

Dr. Lee received her B.S. in astronomy from Caltech and Ph.D. from Harvard Univ. in cognitive development. She did her postdoctoral training in neuroscience at the Center for Mind/Brain Sciences in Trento, Italy, where she worked as a faculty member before coming to Korea. Her research interests concern the neurocognitive foundations of event memory and symbolic representation, and how they change over the course of the lifespan and in neurological disorders.

How the mind works is a question that has captivated philosophers and scientists alike over millenia. Dr. Lee aims to contribute to our knowledge of the neural mechanisms of learning and memory by investigating its fundamental aspects at the cellular level, utilizing ex vivo electrophysiology combined with calcium imaging, computational models, behavioral study, optogenetics, and others.

Dr. Jeon is dedicated to investigating sequential processing in human cognition and language, as well as exploring the diverse factors influencing individuals' time estimation abilities across different contexts. Her current research explores three main areas: (1) the acquisition and generalization of sequential rules, (2) effective strategies for second language acquisition compared to native language learning, and (3) variations in time estimation during fun activities or in familiar environments. Dr. Jeon employs a multidisciplinary approach to gain insights into these complex processes from psychological, computational, and biological perspectives, including behavioral experiments, functional MRI (fMRI), transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS), eye-tracking, and mathematical modeling.