I am..
I’m a postdoctoral reesarch scholar at the Stanford University School of Medicine. I’m interested in understanding children’s cognition and brain development with a focus on investigating how educational experience molds children’s brains and vice versa.
My path to discovering my passion for investigating learner’s mind and brain with the goal of improving children’s education was unconventional. I studied physics as an undergraduate, but turned to cognitive science for my Masters, which led me to enter the field of numerical cognition. This diverse background led me to embrace an interdisciplinary approach, and into the field of educational neuroscience.
I’m investigating the development of nonsymbolic ratio representations and following structural and fuctional brain changes. But more specifically, I would like to focus more on the changes in structural connectivity and its relation with children’s learning abilities (ex. math and language). I do believe different educational experiences shape kid’s brain differently!
I love wine, yoga, and netflix.
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Publications
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Kalra, P. Binzak, J.V., Park, Y., Matthews, P.G. & Hubbard, E.M. (in preparation). Developmental lateralization of non-symbolic ratio processing predicts fraction knowledge.
Viegut, A.A., Park, Y., Hubbard, E.M. & Matthews, P.G. (in preparation). Fraction estimation predicts later calculation, but not fluency: A cross-sequential study.
Park, Y., Binzak, J.V., Kalra, P., Matthews, P.G., & Hubbard, E.M. (in preparation). Developmental changes in children’s processing of nonsymbolic ratio magnitudes: A cross-sectional fMRI study.
Park, Y., Dean, D.3rd, Alexander, A., Matthews, P.G., & Hubbard, E.M. (in preparation). Developmental changes in white matter tracts for symbolic and non-symbolic fractions.
Park, Y. & Matthews, P.G. (in press). Revisiting and Refining Relations between Nonsymolic Ratio Processing and Symbolic Math Achievement. Journal of Numerical cognition.
Park, Y., Viegut, A.A., & Matthews, P.G. (2021). More than the Sum of its Parts: Exploring the Development of Ratio Magnitude vs. Simple Magnitude Perception. Developmental Science, 24(3) e13043.
Park, Y. & Cho, S. (2017). Developmental Changes in the Relationship between Magnitude Acuities and Mathematical Achievement in Elementary School Children. Educational Psychology 37(7), 1-15.
Park, Y. & Cho, S. (2014). Comparing Construct and Predictive Validities of the Measurement of Children’s Approximate Number Acuity Depending on Numerosity Comparison Task Format. Korean Journal of Cognitive Sciences, 25(2), 79-101.
Talk
Park, Y. & Matthews, P.G. (accepted). Perceptual processing of non-symbolic and symbolic fractional magnitudes: cross-format distance effects across multiple nonsymbolic and symbolic formats. Paper submitted as part of a symposium organized by Park. Y, Accessing to fractional magnitudes: From perception to higher cognition, at Mathematical Cognition and Learning Society, Virtual Conference due to COVID-19.
Park, Y., Dean, D.3rd, Binzak, J.V., Matthews, P.G., & Hubbard, E.M. (Sep, 2020). Developmental Changes in White Matter Tracts for Symbolic and Non-Symbolic Fractions in primary school children. Paper submitted as part of a symposium organized by Park. Y. Neural Development of Symbolic Math Knowledge from Childhood to Young, at Mathematical Cognition and Learning Society, Virtual Conference due to COVID-19.
Park, Y. & Matthews, P.G. (Aug, 2020). Ratio as a Part of Quantity. Paper submitted as part of a symposium to Cognitive Science. Society, Virtual Conference due to COVID-19.
Park, Y., Binzak, J.V., Toomarian, E.Y., Kalra, P., Matthews, P.G., & Hubbard, E.M. (April, 2019). Differences in processing symbolic vs. non-symbolic representations ratios: Behavioral and neural evidence. Paper submitted as part of a symposium to American Education Research Association, Toronto, Canada.
Park, Y., Binzak, J.V., Toomarian, E.Y. Kalra, P.B., Matthews, P.G., & Hubbard, E.M. (April, 2018). Developmental changes in children’s processing of nonsymbolic ratio magnitudes: A cross-sectional fMRI study. Talk given at UW-Madison Waisman Center Brain Food Talks.
2018-2021 Presentations & Posters
Viegut, A.A., Park, Y., Hubbard, E.M. & Matthews, P.G. (April, 2021). Fraction estimation predicts later calculation, but not fluency: A cross-sequential study. 2021 Biennial Meeting on Society for Research in Child Development.
Park, Y., Dean, D.3rd, Binzak, J.V., Matthews, P.G., & Hubbard, E.M. (May, 2020) Symbolic and Non-Symbolic Fractions Relate to Different White Matter Tracts: A Cross-Sectional Diffusion MRI Tractography Study. Poster presented at the 27th Annual Meeting of Cognitive Neuroscience Society Annual Meeting, Virtual Conference due to COVID-19.
Sterling-Alves, I., Park, Y., Kalra, P.B., Binzak, J.V., Matthews, P.G., & Hubbard, E.M. (May, 2020). Educational Experience Connect Symbolic Fractions to Parietofrontal Nonsymbolic Ratio Processing Systems. Poster presented at the 27th Annual Meeting of Cognitive Neuroscience Society Annual Meeting, Virtual Conference due to COVID-19.
Toomarian, E.Y., Park, Y., Matthews, P.G., & Hubbard, E.M. (April, 2019). Spatial-numerical associations of fractions: Evidence from internal and external representations. Paper submitted as part of a symposium to American Education Research Association, Toronto, Canada.
Park, Y., Viegut, A.A., & Matthews, P.G. (March, 2019). The development of multiple non-symbolic ratio representations in children. 2019 Biennial Meeting on Society for Research in Child Development, Baltimore, MD.
Viegut, A.A. Park, Y. & Matthews, P.G. (March, 2019). Number Line Estimation is More than Numerical: Evidence from Nonstandard Number Lines, 2019 Biennial Meeting on Society for Research in Child Development, Baltimore, MD.
Matthews, P.G., Binzak, J.V., Kalra, P.B., Park, Y., & Hubbard, E.M. (March, 2019). Perceptual Routes to Rational Numbers. Paper submitted as part of a symposium to 2019 Biennial Meeting on Society for Research in Child Development, Baltimore, MD.
Park, Y., Binzak, J.V., Dean, D.3rd, Alexander, A., Matthews, P.G., & Hubbard, E.M. (Sep, 2018). Developmental changes in white matter tracts for symbolic and non-symbolic fractions, 6th Biennial conference on International Mind, Brain and Education Society, Los Angeles, CA.
Viegut, A.A. Park, Y., Hubbard, E.M. & Matthews, P.G. (Sep, 2018). Differential improvement in fraction estimation in 2nd vs. 5th grade children: Longitudinal Analysis, 6th Biennial conference on International Mind, Brain and Education Society, Los Angeles, CA.
Park, Y., Binzak, J.V., Toomarian, E.Y. Kalra, P.B., Matthews, P.G., & Hubbard, E.M. (July, 2018). Developmental changes in children’s processing of nonsymbolic ratio magnitudes: A cross-sectional fMRI study, Poster presented at the 40th Annual Meetings on Cognitive Science Society, Madison, WI.
Hubbard, E.M., Binzak, J.V., Park, Y., Kalra, P.B., Toomarian, E.Y. (April, 2018). The ratio processing system underpins symbolic fraction understanding: Developmental neuroimaging investigations. Paper submitted as part of a symposium to 1st Mathematical Cognition and Learning Society Conference.
Binzak, J.V., Park, Y, Toomarian, E.Y., Kalra, P.B., Chuang, Y-S., Matthews, P.G., & Hubbard, E.M. (2018, March). Neurocognitive Relationships between Nonsymbolic and Symbolic Ratio Processing in Children and Adults. Poster presented at the 25th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, Boston, MA.
Kalra, P. Binzak, J.V., Park, Y., Matthews, P.G. & Hubbard, E.M. (2018). Developmental lateralization of non- symbolic ratio processing predicts fraction knowledge. Poster presented at the 25th Annual Meeting of Cognitive Neuroscience Society Annual Meeting, Boston.
