Dr Hyojin Park PhD

Dr Hyojin Park

School of Psychology
Assistant Professor in Psychology

Contact details

Address
School of Psychology
University of Birmingham
Edgbaston
Birmingham
B15 2TT
UK

Dr Hyojin Park is an expert on neural oscillatory mechanisms associated with human speech and memory. Her PhD work focused on the functional role of brain oscillations and how they support network interactions (cross-frequency coupling) in attention and memory. Her current research is focused on the topic of audiovisual speech processing, integration, and communication.

View Hyojin Park’s Group Page: https://www.neureca.org/

Qualifications

  • PhD in Cognitive Neuroscience (Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea)
  • BA in Psychology (Kyungpook National University, Daegu, South Korea)

Biography

Dr Hyojin Park completed a PhD on Cognitive Neuroscience at the Seoul National University, South Korea. Subsequently she worked as a Research Associate in the lab of Professor Joachim Gross and Professor Gregor Thut at the School of Psychology/Institute of Neuroscience and Psychology/Centre for Cognitive Neuroimaging (CCNi) at the University of Glasgow before taking up the post of Birmingham Fellow at the University of Birmingham.

Postgraduate supervision

Highly motivated PhD students and postdoctoral scientists are welcome to join Dr Park’s research group. Please feel free to contact to discuss further: H.Park@bham.ac.uk

Research

Publications

Recent publications

Article

Chalas, N, Meyer, L, Lo, C-W, Park, H, Kluger, DS, Abbasi, O, Kayser, C, Nitsch, R & Gross, J 2024, 'Dissociating prosodic from syntactic delta activity during natural speech comprehension', Current Biology, vol. 34, no. 15, pp. 3537-3549.e5. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2024.06.072

Haider, CL, Park, H, Hauswald, A & Weisz, N 2024, 'Neural Speech Tracking Highlights the Importance of Visual Speech in Multi-speaker Situations', Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, vol. 36, no. 1, pp. 128–142. https://doi.org/10.1162/jocn_a_02059

Haider, CL, Suess, N, Hauswald, A, Park, H & Weisz, N 2022, 'Masking of the mouth area impairs reconstruction of acoustic speech features and higher-level segmentational features in the presence of a distractor speaker', NeuroImage, vol. 252, 119044. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2022.119044

Biau, E, Wang, D, Park, H, Jensen, O & Hanslmayr, S 2021, 'Auditory detection is modulated by theta phase of silent lip movements', Current Research in Neurobiology, vol. 2, 100014. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.crneur.2021.100014

Conference contribution

Zheng, B, Park, H & Dehghani, H 2025, High framerate FD-fNIRS for auditory-inspired Speech hemodynamic response function. in S Fantini & P Taroni (eds), Optical Tomography and Spectroscopy of Tissue XVI., 1331414, Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging, vol. 13314, SPIE, Optical Tomography and Spectroscopy of Tissue XVI 2025, San Francisco, United States, 27/01/25. https://doi.org/10.1117/12.3043098

Zheng, B, Park, H & Dehghani, H 2025, TD-fNIRS for auditory-inspired Speech and Music hemodynamic response. in European Conferences on Biomedical Optics, 22–26 June 2025, Munich, Germany. Proceedings of SPIE, SPIE.

Zheng, B, Park, H & Dehghani, H 2025, TD-fNIRS for auditory-inspired Speech and Music hemodynamic response function. in Cerebral Hemodynamics and Neural Activity: Proceedings, European Conferences on Biomedical Optics 22–26 June 2025. European Conferences on Biomedical Optics, Optica Publishing Group (formerly OSA), European Conferences on Biomedical Optics, Munich, Germany, 22/06/25.

Preprint

Byczynski, G & Park, H 2024 'Attentional inhibition by alpha power is modulated by faster theta rhythm and audio-visual congruency during natural speech perception' bioRxiv. https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.02.25.581860

Park, H & Gross, J 2023 'Get the gist of the story: Neural map of topic keywords in multi-speaker environment' eLife Sciences Publications. https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.89703.1

Haider, CL, Park, H, Hauswald, A & Weisz, N 2023 'Lip movements and lexical features improve speech tracking differently for clear and multi-speaker speech' bioRxiv. https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.05.15.540818

Park, H, Ince, RAA & Gross, J 2022 'Differential roles of delta and theta oscillations in understanding semantic gist during natural audiovisual speech perception: functional and anatomical evidence' bioRxiv. https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.06.21.497061

Park, H & Gross, J 2022 'Get the gist of the story: neural map of topic keywords in multi-speaker environment' bioRxiv. https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.05.05.490770

Park, H & Gross, J 2022 'Get the gist of the story: Neural map of topic keywords in multi-speaker environment' eLife, eLife Sciences Publications. https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.89703.1

Haider, CL, Suess, N, Hauswald, A, Park, H & Weisz, N 2021 'Face masks impair reconstruction of acoustic speech features and higher-level segmentational features in the presence of a distractor speaker' bioRxiv. https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.09.28.461909

Review article

UK mTBI Predict Consortium, Sassani, M, Ghafari, T, Arachchige, PRW, Idrees, I, Gao, Y, Waitt, A, Weaver, SRC, Mazaheri, A, Lyons, HS, Grech, O, Thaller, M, Witton, C, Bagshaw, AP, Wilson, M, Park, H, Brookes, M, Novak, J, Mollan, SP, Hill, LJ, Lucas, SJE, Mitchell, JL, Sinclair, AJ, Mullinger, K & Fernandez-Espejo, D 2025, 'Current and prospective roles of magnetic resonance imaging in mild traumatic brain injury', Brain Communications. https://doi.org/10.1093/braincomms/fcaf120

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