PhD, Associate Professor

Hanyang University, Seoul, Korea


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+ Published Articles

[PS23] Moon, S., Kim, S. Y., & Yim, H. (in press). Second-language proficiency impacts the use of semantic spaces among Korean-English bilinguals: An event-related potential study. Journal of Neurolinguistics [PDF] https://doi.org/10.31219/osf.io/g7vby_v2

[PS22] Yim, H., Castro, L., Myung, J. I., Wasserman, E. A., & Sloutsky, V. M. (in press). Supervision, Category Structure, and Selective Attention in Category Learning: A Comparative Approach. Journal of Comparative Psychology [PDF] https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/bt3wg_v3

[PS21] Yim, H., Dennis, S., & Osth, A. (2025). A systematic reexamination of the list-length effect in recognition memory. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 154(10), 2772-2799. [PDF] https://doi.org/10.1037/xge0001802

[PS20] Dennis, S., Shabahang, K., & Yim, H. (2025). The antecedents of transformer models. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 34(1), 3-11. [PDF] https://doi.org/10.1177/09637214241279504

[PS19] Choi, Y., Kim, K., Moon, S., Jung, G., Cha, J.H., & Yim, H. (2025). Context-dependent memory in the real world: The role of frequency and context dwell time. Frontiers in Psychology, 15:1489039, 1-8. [PDF] https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2024.1489039

[PS18] Shabahang, K., Yim, H., & Dennis, S. (2024). Latent relations at steady-state with associative nets. Cognitive Science, 48(9), e13494. [PDF] https://doi.org/10.1111/cogs.13494

[PS17] Yim, H., Garrett, P., Baker, M., Cha, J., Sreekumar, V., & Dennis, S. J. (2024). Examining dependencies among different time scales in episodic memory - An experience sampling study. Frontiers in Psychology, 14:1277741, 1-9. [PDF] https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1277741

[PS16] Unger, L.*, Yim, H.*, Savic, O., Dennis, S.J., & Sloutsky, V.S. (2023). No Frills: Simple Regularities in Language can go a Long Way in the Development of Word Knowledge. Developmental Science, 26(4), e13373. *co-corresponding authors. [PDF] https://doi.org/10.1111/desc.13373

[PS15] Chen, Y., Yim, H.*, & Lee, T.* (2023). Negative Impact of Daily Screen Use on Inhibitory Control Network in Preadolescence: A Two Year Follow-Up Study. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 60, 101218. *co-corresponding authors. [PDF] https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dcn.2023.101218

[PS14] Chen, Y., Uljarevic, M., Neal, J., Greening, S., Yim, H.*, Lee, T.* (2022). Excessive functional coupling with less variability between salience and default-mode networks in Autism Spectrum Disorder. Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging, 7(9), 876-884. *co-corresponding authors. [PDF] https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bpsc.2021.11.016

[PS13] Shabahang, K. D., Yim, H., & Dennis, S. J. (2022). Generalization at Retrieval Using Associative Networks with Transient Weight Changes. Computational Brain & Behavior, 5(1), 124-155. [PDF] [open access] https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s42113-022-00127-4

[PS12] Yim, H., Osth, A. F., Sloutsky, V. M., & Dennis, S. J. (2022). Sources of Interference in Memory across Development. Psychological Science, 33(7), 1154-1171. [PDF] https://doi.org/10.1177/09567976211073131

[PS11] Laliberte, E.*, Yim, H.*, Stone, B., & Dennis, S. J. (2021). The Fallacy of an Airtight Alibi: Understanding Human Memory for Where Using Experience Sampling. Psychological Science, 32(6), 944-951. *co-first authors. [PDF] https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/6rce5

[PS10] Yim, H., Dennis, S. J & Sloutsky, V. M. (2021). Examining Three-way Binding as a Constraint on Statistical Learning. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 47(1), 75-86. [PDF] https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/zby3u

[PS9] Sreekumar, V., Yim, H., Zaghloul, K. & Dennis, S. (2019). Dual processes in memory: Evidence from memory of time of occurrence of events. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 42, e298. [PDF]

[PS8] Dennis, S. J, Garrett, P., Yim, H., Hamm, J., Osth, A. F., Sreekumar V. & Stone, B. (2019). Privacy versus Open Science. Behavior Research Methods, 51(4), 1824-1838. [PDF]

[PS7] Dennis, S. J, Yim, H., Garrett, P., Sreekumar V. & Stone, B. (2019). A system for collecting active and passive experience sampling data. Behavior Research Methods, 51(4), 1839-1848. [PDF]

[PS6] Yim, H., Osth, A. F, Sloutsky, V. M. & Dennis, S. J. (2018). Evidence for the Use of Three-way Binding Structures in Associative and Source Recognition. Journal of Memory and Language, 100, 89-97. [PDF] https://osf.io/tuh3n/

[PS5] Sloutsky, V. M., Yim, H., Yao, X., & Dennis, S. J. (2017). An Associative Account of The Development of Word Learning. Cognitive Psychology, 97, 1-30. [PDF] https://osf.io/d5fuy/

[PS4] Yim, H., Dennis, S. J., & Sloutsky, V. M. (2013). The Development of Episodic Memory: Items, Contexts, and Relations. Psychological Science, 24, 2163-2172. [PDF]

[PS3] Best, C. A., Yim, H., & Sloutsky, V. M. (2013). The Cost of Selective Attention on Category Learning: Developmental Differences between Adults and Infants. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 116, 105-119. [PDF]

[PS2] Yim, H., Park, C., Lim, H., & Nam, K. (2006). Mental Representation and Processing Involved in Comprehending Korean Regular and Irregular Verb Eojeols: an fMRI and Reaction Time Study. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 4232, 247-254. [PDF]

[PS1] Yim, H., Lim, H., Park, K., & Nam, K. (2005). A Computation Model of Korean Lexical Processing. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 3610, 844-849. [PDF]

+ Peer Reviewed Proceedings

[PR26] Cho, D., Moon, S. & Yim, H. (2025). Is baseline pupil size a good measure to assess attentional control?. In A. Ruggeri, M. Guarini, D. Barner, C. Walker & N. Bramley (Eds.) Proceedings of the 47th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, (pp. 3258-3263). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society. [PDF]

[PR25] Moon, S., Cha, J.H. & Yim, H. (2025). The effect of physical and psychological distances in everyday memory retrieval across older and young adults. In A. Ruggeri, M. Guarini, D. Barner, C. Walker & N. Bramley (Eds.) Proceedings of the 47th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, (pp. 3201-3207). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society [PDF]

[PR24] Yim, H., & Yoon, S. (2024). Is focusing enough in category learning?. In L. K. Samuelson, S. Frank, M Toneva, A. Mackey, & E. Hazeltine (Eds.) Proceedings of the 46th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, (pp. 3607-3614). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society [PDF]

[PR23] Yim, H., Dennis, S. J., & Bae, W. (2023). Examining Mechanisms Underlying the Ability to Form Paradigmatic Associations. In M. Goldwater, F. K. Anggoro, B. K. Hayes, & D. C. Ong (Eds.) Proceedings of the 45th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, (pp. 1856-1862). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society [PDF]

[PR22] Choi, Y., Kim, K., Jung, G., Moon, S., Cha, J., & Yim, H. (2023). Context Dependent Memory in the Wilds. In M. Goldwater, F. K. Anggoro, B. K. Hayes, & D. C. Ong (Eds.) Proceedings of the 45th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, (pp. 2127-2133). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society [PDF]

[PR21] Shabahang, K., Yim, H., & Dennis, S. J. (2023). Paradigmatic formation through context-mediation. In M. Goldwater, F. K. Anggoro, B. K. Hayes, & D. C. Ong (Eds.) Proceedings of the 45th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, (pp. 2909-2915). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society [PDF]

[PR20] Shabahang, K., Yim, H., & Dennis, S. J. (2022). Constructing Word Meaning without Latent Representations using Spreading Activation. In Culbertson, J., Perfors, A., Rabagliati, H., & Ramenzoni, V. (Eds.) Proceedings of the 44th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, (pp. 3384-3390). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society [PDF]

[PR19] Yim, H., Savic, O., Barkhimer, A., Sloutsky, V., & Dennis, S. J. (2021). The Mystery of Early Taxonomic Development. In Fitch, T., Lamm, C., Leder, H., & Temar-Raible, K. (Eds.) Proceedings of the 43rd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, (pp. 3103-3108). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society [PDF]

[PR18] Yim, H., O'Brien, C. R., Stone, B., Osth, A., & Dennis, S. J. (2020). Using Emails to Quantify the Impact of Prior Exposure on Word Recognition Memory. In Denison, S., Mack, M., Xu, Y., Armstrong, B. C. (Eds.) Proceedings of the 42nd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, (pp. 185-190). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society. [PDF]

[PR17] McKenzie, A., Yim, H., Stone, B., & Dennis, S. J. (2020). Using Experience Sampling to Investigate Affect at Encoding and Episodic Memory. In Denison, S., Mack, M., Xu, Y., Armstrong, B. C. (Eds.) Proceedings of the 42nd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, (pp. 1660-1666). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society. [PDF]

[PR16] Shabahang, K., Yim, H., & Dennis, S. J. (2020). Beyond Pattern Completion with Short-Term Plasticity. In Denison, S., Mack, M., Xu, Y., Armstrong, B. C. (Eds.) Proceedings of the 42nd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, (pp. 1107-1113). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society. [PDF]

[PR15] Shabahang, K., Yim, H., & Dennis, S. J. (2020). Propositional versus Associative Sentence Memory [Abstract]. In Denison, S., Mack, M., Xu, Y., Armstrong, B. C. (Eds.) Proceedings of the 42nd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, (pp. 1786). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society. [PDF]

[PR14] Laliberte, E., Stone, B., Yim, H., & Dennis, S. J. (2020). Understanding Memory for WHERE using Smartphone Data [Abstract]. In Denison, S., Mack, M., Xu, Y., Armstrong, B. C. (Eds.) Proceedings of the 42nd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, (pp. 198). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society. [PDF]

[PR13] Yim, H., Savic, O. Unger, L., Sloutsky, V., & Dennis, S. J. (2019). Can Paradigmatic Relations be Learned Implicitly? [Abstract]. In Goel, A., Seifert, C., & Freksa, C. (Eds.) Proceedings of the 41st Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, (pp. 3389). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society. [PDF]

[PR12] Yim, H., Ong, B.W.R., Stone, B., & Dennis, S. J. (2019). Understanding Human Memory for Where using Experience Sampling Data [Abstract]. In Goel, A., Seifert, C., & Freksa, C. (Eds.) Proceedings of the 41st Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, (pp. 3390). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society. [PDF]

[PR11] Shabahang, K., Yim, H., & Dennis, S. J. (2019). An Associative Theory of Semantic Composition [Abstract]. In Goel, A., Seifert, C., & Freksa, C. (Eds.) Proceedings of the 41st Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, (pp. 3350). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society. [PDF]

[PR10] Shabahang, K., Yim, H., & Dennis, S. (2019). Associations versus Propositions in Memory for Sentences [Abstract]. In Goel, A., Seifert, C., & Freksa, C. (Eds.) Proceedings of the 41st Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, (pp. 3356). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society. [PDF]

[PR9] Yim, H., Garrett, P. M., Baker, M., & Dennis, S. J. (2018). Examining the Independence of Scales in Episodic Memory using Experience Sampling Data. In Kalish, C., Rau, M., Zhu, J., & Rogers, T. T. (Eds.) Proceedings of the 40th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, (pp.2726-2731). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society [PDF]

[PR8] Dennis, S. J., Yim, H., Sreekumar, V., Evans, N. J., Garrett, P., & Sederberg, P. (2017). A hierarchical Bayesian model of 'memory for when' based on experience sampling data. In G. Bunzelmann, A. Howes, T. Tenbrink, E. Davelaar (Eds.) Proceedings of the 39th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, (pp. 295-300). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society. [PDF]

[PR7] Yim, H., Osth, A. F, Sloutsky, V. M. & Dennis, S. J. (2017). Three-Way Bindings in Associative Recognition. In G. Bunzelmann, A. Howes, T. Tenbrink, E. Davelaar (Eds.) Proceedings of the 39th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, (pp. 3590-3595). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society. [PDF]

[PR6] Yim, H., Castro, L., Wasserman, E. A., & Sloutsky, V. M. (2014). The interaction of supervision and category structure in category learning: a comparative approach. In P. Bello, M. Guarini, M. McShane, & B. Scassellati (Eds.) Proceedings of the 36th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, (pp. 787-792). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society. [PDF]

[PR5] Yim, H., & Sloutsky, V. M. (2013). The Role of Category Structure in Category Learning. In M. Knauff, M. Pauen, N. Sebanz, & I. Wachsmuth (Eds.) Proceedings of the 35th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, (pp. 3841-3846). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society. [PDF]

[PR4] Yim, H., Dennis, S. J., & Sloutsky, V. M. (2012). The Role of Attention in Three-way Binding in Episodic Memory. In N. Miyake, D. Peebles, & R. P. Cooper (Eds.) Proceedings of the 34th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, (pp. 2587-2592). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society. [PDF]

[PR3] Rivera, S., Best, C. A., Yim, H., Walther, D., Sloutsky, V. M., & Martinez, A. (2012). Automatic selection of eye tracking variables in visual categorization for adults and infants. In N. Miyake, D. Peebles, & R. P. Cooper (Eds.) Proceedings of the 34th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, (pp. 2240-2245). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society. [PDF]

[PR2] Yim, H., Dennis, S. J., & Sloutsky, V. M. (2011). The Development of Context Use and Three-way Binding in Episodic Memory. In L. Carlson, C. Holscher, & T. Shipley (Eds.) Proceedings of the 33rd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, (pp. 3000-3005). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society. [PDF]

[PR1] Yim, H., Best, C. A., & Sloutsky, V. M. (2011). Cost of Attention as an Indicator of Category Learning. In L. Carlson, C. Holscher, & T. Shipley (Eds.) Proceedings of the 33rd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, (pp. 1724-1729). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society. [PDF]

+ Media Coverage

• Schubert, T. (2022, August, 10). Memory interference changes across age (featuring Yim, Osth, Sloutsky & Dennis, 2022) [Nature Reviews Psychology]

• Bugno, R. (2022, February, 22). Interplay between brain networks in autism. (featuring Chen, Uljarevic, Neal, Greening, Yim, & Lee, 2022) [Elsevier]

• Character & Context, the blog of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology (2022, January, 17). Improving accuracy in memory recall: The particular case of alibi generation. (featuring Laliberte, Yim, Stone, & Dennis, 2021) [Link]

• Association for Psychological Science (2021, July 7). Faulty Memories of Our Past Whereabouts: The Fallacy of an Airtight Alibi. (featuring Laliberte, Yim, Stone, & Dennis, 2021) [Link]

• The Economist (2021, June 5). Testing alibis is not as straightforward as it seems. (featuring Laliberte, Yim, Stone, & Dennis, 2021) [Link]

• Grabmeier, J. (2013, September 23). Some parts of memory still developing deep into childhood. (featuring Yim, Dennis, & Sloutsky, 2013) [Link]