Hayoung Song

I am a postdoctoral research associate at the Center for Theoretical and Computational Neuroscience at Washington University in St. Louis. I received a PhD in Psychology (Integrative Neuroscience) from the University of Chicago, advised by Monica Rosenberg and Yuan Chang Leong. I received an MS in Biomedical Engineering and a BA in Psychology from Sungkyunkwan University in Korea.

My main research area is narrative comprehension. I study how we make sense of everyday events, by examining the neural and computational underpinnings of memory, attention, and causal reasoning. I use naturalistic behavioral experiments and functional magnetic resonance imaging to study brain dynamics underlying these processes. I complement empirical findings with computational modeling that includes both normative and data-driven approaches. I am passionate about slow and open science practices and across-field collaborations.