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Educational Applied Research Division

Hyeonjeong JEONG

Professor, Graduate School of International Cultural Studies
Language Learning and Communication
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At the JEONG Lab, we investigate how people learn and use multiple languages, and how the brain supports these processes. Using neuroimaging techniques such as fMRI and behavioral experiments, we explore how memory, emotion, and social interaction influence language.
We also aim to uncover, from both neurocognitive and social perspectives, the mechanisms by which individuals learn languages, communicate, and make multilingual and culturally grounded behavioral choices in diverse and international contexts.

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202507.13

Do bilinguals share the same syntactic processing system for L1 and L2? (International Conference Oral Presentation)

When bilinguals produce sentences in their first language (L1) and second language (L2), how is syntactic information integrated? Is this integrative processing based merely on surface-level word orde

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202507.13

How Gestures Facilitate Second Language Acquisition: A Neural Perspective (International Oral Presentation)

People use gestures all the time — they’re such a natural yet essential part of our communication. While the study of co-speech gestures in our native language began long ago, attention to

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202507.04

Embodied Emotion and Language: the Neural Substrates of Visceral Expressions of Emotion (Oral Presentation/Award-winning)

This study investigated how the neural processing of visceral expressions of emotion (e.g., 'heart fell apart') differs from that of general emotion labels non-specific to the body, and a

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202507.04

Neural Processing of Attitudinal Prosody During Second Language Sentence Comprehension(Oral Presentation)

We attended the Korean Society of Psycholinguistics "Re"-Human Brain in Psychology and Language conference, held in Seoul, South Korea. At the conference, Victoria-Anne, stude

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202506.24

Beyond Words: How Gestures Shape Speech Comprehension and Retention in the Bilingual Brain (International Conference Poster Presentation)Poste

Yan Jiaxin, student of Graduate School of International Cultural Studies, have attended the Organisation for Human Brain Mapping (OHBM) this year, aiming to share her recent research findings and

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202506.13

27th Human Neuroscience Seminar(June 13th): How Do We Study Language:The Potential of fMRI

We were honored to welcome Dr. Andrew Lee (Associate Professor, Université Laval, Canada), a leading scholar in instructed second language acquisition, as our invited speaker. In his talk title

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202505.16

26th Human Brain Science Seminar

Emotion and Memory in the Brain: Multimodal Insights from Language, Gesture, and Psychophysiology —International Academic Exchange: Tohoku University × University of Jyväskylä&m

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202503.31

Emotional Cues in L2 Vocabulary Learning: How Expressive Facial Contexts Enhance Initial Learning and Long-Term Vocabulary Retention(Poster)

At this year’s Cognitive Neuroscience Society (CNS) Annual Meeting, Chunlin Liu presented research on how learning contexts influence the acquisition of emotional vocabulary in a second language

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202503.11

Emotional Cues in L2 Vocabulary Acquisition: How Expressive Facial Contexts Enhance the Learning and Retention of L2 Emotional Vocabulary(Poster Presentation)

Acquiring the emotional meanings of second-language (L2) emotional vocabulary (e.g., tanoshimi meaning “joy”) is a significant challenge in language learning. This study explored

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202503.10

Mapping visceral language in the brain: a functional neuroimaging study (Oral Workshop)

We all know emotion heavily depends on the sensations from within our body but much less is known as to how other cognitive domains such as Language interact with our embodied emotions. In this study,

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