Institute for Cross-disciplinary Studies (ICS) - Biomedical Engineering

  • Associate Professor Brain science
  • WOO, CHOONG-WAN 홈페이지 바로가기
    Lab Computational Cognitive Affective Neuroscience Lab

Research Interest

COMPUTATIONAL, COGNITIVE, AND AFFECTIVE NEUROSCIENCE, 

PAIN, EMOTIONS, HUMAN FMRI

Journal Articles

  • (2026)  Towards a holistic understanding of pain in the biomarker age.  NATURE NEUROSCIENCE.  29,  1
  • (2026)  Personalized brain decoding of spontaneous pain in individuals with chronic pain.  NATURE NEUROSCIENCE. 
  • (2024)  Spatiotemporal integration of contextual and sensory information within the cortical hierarchy in human pain experience.  PLOS BIOLOGY.  22,  11
  • (2024)  A computational mechanism of cue-stimulus integration for pain in the brain.  SCIENCE ADVANCES.  10,  37
  • (2024)  Interindividual differences in pain can be explained by fMRI, sociodemographic, and psychological factors.  NATURE COMMUNICATIONS.  15,  1
  • (2024)  Digital assessment of cognitive-affective biases related to mental health.  PLOS Digital Health.  3,  8
  • (2024)  Brain representations of affective valence and intensity in sustained pleasure and pain.  PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.  121,  25
  • (2024)  Brain decoding of spontaneous thought: Predictive modeling of self-relevance and valence using personal narratives.  PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.  121,  14
  • (2023)  A dorsomedial prefrontal cortex-based dynamic functional connectivity model of rumination.  NATURE COMMUNICATIONS.  14,  1
  • (2022)  When self comes to a wandering mind: Brain representations and dynamics of self-generated concepts in spontaneous thought.  SCIENCE ADVANCES.  8,  35
  • (2022)  Individual variability in brain representations of pain.  NATURE NEUROSCIENCE.  25,  6
  • (2021)  A neuroimaging biomarker for sustained experimental and clinical pain.  NATURE MEDICINE.  27,  1
  • (2020)  Toward a unified framework for interpreting machine-learning models in neuroimaging.  NATURE PROTOCOLS.  15,  4
  • (2020)  Neural and sociocultural mediators of ethnic differences in pain.  NATURE HUMAN BEHAVIOUR.  4,  5
  • (2019)  False-positive neuroimaging: Undisclosed flexibility in testing spatial hypotheses allows presenting anything as a replicated finding.  NEUROIMAGE.  195,  1
  • (2019)  Cognitive self-regulation influences pain-related physiology.  PAIN.  160,  10
  • (2019)  Korea Brain Initiative: Emerging Issues and Institutionalization of Neuroethics.  NEURON.  101,  3
  • (2018)  Generalizable representations of pain, cognitive control, and negative emotion in medial frontal cortex.  NATURE NEUROSCIENCE.  21,  2
  • (2017)  Building better biomarkers: brain models in translational neuroimaging.  NATURE NEUROSCIENCE.  20,  3
  • (2017)  Quantifying cerebral contributions to pain beyond nociception.  NATURE COMMUNICATIONS.  8,  14211

Conference Paper

  • (2025)  EVAAA: A Virtual Environment Platform for Essential Variables in Autonomous and Adaptive Agents.  Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems.  UNITED STATES

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