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• Degree
  • Ph.D. in Music Cognition, Northwestern University, 2011.
  
  
  • B.A. in Psychology, Seoul National University.
  
  
  • B.A. & M.A. in Musicology, Seoul National University.
  
  
• Research field
  • Cognitive Science of Music
  
  
• Teaching
  • Understanding Music and Music History
  
  
  • Understanding Music and the Brain
  
  
  • Cognitive Science of Music
  
  
• Major Career
  • BK professor, Graduate School of Convergence Science and Technology, Seoul National University
  
  
  • Researcher, Western Music Research Institute, Seoul National University
  
  
  • Adjunct Professor, Graduate School of Culture Technology, KAIST (2018-present)
  
  
• Major external activities and awards
  • President, Asia-pacific Society for Cognitive Sciences of Music (2017-2018)
  
  
  • President, Korean Society for Music Perception and Cognition (2015-2019)
  
  
  • KAIST Faculty Award 2019 (Prize for outstanding contribution)
  
  
  • Excellent Prize in Research Innovation, College of Liberal Arts and Convergence Science, KAIST (2020, 2022)
  
  
• Representative Research Performance
  • Moon, I. J., Kang, S., Boichenko, N., Hong, S. H., & Lee, K. M. (2020). Meter enhances the subcortical processing of speech sounds at a strong beat. Scientific Reports, 10(1), 1-8.
  
  
  • Lee, K. M. (2017). Music cognition: investigations through the centuries. In R. Timmers & R. Ashley (Eds.). Routledge companion to music cognition. New York: Routledge.
  
  
  • Lee, K. M., Skoe, E., Kraus, N., & Ashley, R. (2015). Neural transformation of dissonant intervals in the auditory brainstem. Music Perception,32(5), 445-459.