Hope 희진 Kean

How do we get from noisy sensory inputs to meaningful representations that we can reason and talk about? I research this as a graduate student with Ev Fedorenko in EvLab. This is my cv/resume. I have also done a bit of theatre in the past as well.

Project Website: InterestingBrains.com

scholar.google.com/citations?user=w0NfsHsAAAAJ

Main Projects

Temporal Receptive Windows

we are investigating the optimal/fundamental amount of linguistic information that elicits responses in language-selective cortex by varying the linguistic chunk-size of strings - building on the semantic build-up effect observed in ECoG.

Program Induction and the Brain

we are establishing the neural underpinnings of inductive processing and primitive representations during a list function program induction task - building on the work of Josh (Rule 2020).

Interesting Brain (Lesions Project)

we are looking at the brains of individuals who sustained brain lesions early in life (many in the womb!) and whose brains have reorganized such that they show little to no behavioral effects and relocalized high-level cortical networks. InterestingBrains.com

PUBLICATIONS

Auditory Cortex (No Temporal Lobes)

Regev T, Lipkin B, Boebinger D, Paunov A, Kean HH, Norman-Haignere S, and Fedorenko E. (2023). Preserved functional organization of human auditory cortex in individuals missing one temporal lobe from infancy. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.01.18.523979v1

Reading without a vWFA

Li J, Kean HH, and Fedorenko E & Saygin Z. (2022). Intact reading ability despite lacking a canonical visual word form area in an individual born without the left superior temporal lobe. Cog Neuropsych

LanA (Language Atlas)

Lipkin B, Tuckute G, Affourtit J, Small H, Mineroff Z, Kean HH, Jouravlev O, Rakocevic L, Pitchett B, Siegelman M, Hoeflin C, Pongos A, Blank I, Kline M, Ivanova A, Shannon S, Sathe A, Hoffman M, Nieto-Castañón A, and Fedorenko E. (2022). LanA (Language Atlas): A probabilistic atlas for the language network based on fMRI data from >800 individuals. Nature Scientific Data

Music vs. Language

Chen X, Affourtit J, Ryskin R, Regev T, Norman-Haignere S, Jouravlev O, Malik-Moraleda S, Kean H, Varley R, and Fedorenko E. (2022). The human language system does not support music processing. Cerebral Cortex

Language Production

Hu J, Small H, Kean H, Takahashi A, Zekelman L, Kleinman D, Ryan E, Nieto-Castañón A, Ferreira V, and Fedorenko E. (2022). Precision fMRI reveals that the language-selective network supports both phrase-structure building and lexical access during language production. Cerebral Cortex

No Left Temporal Lobe

Tuckute G, Paunov A, Kean HH, Blank I, Mineroff Z & Fedorenko E. (2022). Frontal language areas do not emerge in the absence of temporal language areas: A case study of an individual born without a left temporal lobe. Neuropsychologia

BrainCode

Ivanova, A. A., Srikant, S., Sueoka, Y., Kean, HH., Dhamala, R., O’Reilly, U.-M., Bers, M. U., & Fedorenko, E. (2020). Comprehension of computer code relies primarily on domain-general executive resources. eLife

Composition as Core Driver

Mollica F, Siegelman M, Diachek E, Piantadosi S, Mineroff Z, Futrell R, Kean HH, Qian P & Fedorenko E. (2020). Composition is the core driver of the language-selective network. Neurobiology of Language

Physical←Social Effect

*Guterstam A, *Kean HH, Webb TW, Kean FS, Graziano MSA (2019) Implicit Model of Other People’s Visual Attention as an Invisible, Force-Carrying Beam Projecting from the Eyes. PNAS

Awareness as Control of Attention

Webb TW, Kean HH, and Graziano MSA (2016) Effects of awareness on the control of attention. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 28: 842-851.

in prep

Constituents

Shain C, Kean H, Lipkin B, Affourtit J, Siegelman M, Mollica F, and Fedorenko E. (in prep). ‘Constituent length’ effects in fMRI do not provide evidence for abstract syntactic processing. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.11.12.467812v1

Task Manipulations

Siegelman M, Kean HH, Pongos A. & Fedorenko E. (in preparation). Language activations in the fronto-temporal network are robust to task manipulations.

Posters

Kean HH, Ellis CT, Webb TW, Graziano MSA (2017) Implicit biases about invisible forces that project from the eyes. Princeton Neuroscience Institute Research Symposium.

Liao VTY, Webb TW, Kean HH, Graziano MSA (2017) Effects of Awareness on the Control of Attention: An Auditory Behavioral Paradigm. Princeton Neuroscience Institute Research Symposium.

Webb TW, Kean HH, and Graziano MSA (2015) Awareness alters the control of attention. Poster presented at the Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting, Chicago.

Kean HH, Ogilvie K, Lussier M, Roche K (2014) Binding of MAGUK family proteins to Neuroligin -1 and -2. NINDS Summer Research Symposium.

Presentations

Regev T, Jhingan N, Kim HS, Kean H, Casto C, and Fedorenko E. (2022) Neural Representation of Prosody. Society for the Neurobiology of Language.

Hu, J., Small, H., Kean, H. H., Takahashi, A., Zekelman, L., Kleinman, D., Ryan, E., Ferreira, V., & Fedorenko, E. (2020). Distributed and overlapping neural mechanisms for lexical access and syntactic encoding during language production. Society for the Neurobiology of Language.

Ivanova, A. A., Siegelman, M., Cheung, C., Pongos, A. L. A., Kean, H. H., & Fedorenko, E. (2020) The effect of task on sentence processing in the language and multiple demand brain networks. Society for the Neurobiology of Language.

Gallée J, Kean HH, Fedorenko E (2020) Robust Neural Adaptation to Syntactic Structure. Cognitive Neuroscience Society.

Kean HH, Fedorenko E. (Fall 2021) Cog Lunch: Temporal Receptive Windows in the Language Network. BCS Department Lunch

Kean HH, Han S, Park H, Suh YH (2015) TARP γ-8, γ-2, Cornichon, Auxiliary Binding Proteins and AMPA Receptor Trafficking. Seoul National University Hospital Neuroscience Summer Research Meeting.

Kean HH, Ogilvie K, Lussier M, Roche K (2014) Binding of MAGUK family proteins to Neuroligin -1 and -2. NINDS Award Ceremony and Winning Presentation Meeting.

contact

hope kean at em eye tea dot ee dee you