Lee, Yang
Male, Born in 1950 and South Korea
Ph D. from Seoul National Univ., Korea
Professor of psychology, Martial artist and Poet
My academic background lies in cognitive psychology and Asian philosophy, while my broader training has been shaped by martial arts and poetry. My current research focuses on the cognition–language and perception–motor domains. Both my research and everyday life are informed by the concept of Gih (기, 氣).
Gih, which developed within Asian traditions, is described by many scholars as a fundamental entity that mediates the interaction between mind and body, encompassing both potential activation and psychosomatic processes. It is often considered compatible with the concept of affordance in ecological psychology, which emphasizes the correspondence between organism and environment.
My future research will reexamine cognition–language and perception–motor relationships through the lens of Gih, extending this framework to medical science and the philosophy of mind and body, with the aim of contributing to a more integrated paradigm.
Affiliation
Since 2000: Senior scientist, Haskins Lab., YALE Univ., US https://haskinslabs.org/people/yang-lee
Since 2016: Consultant Professor for the international affairs, Gyeongsang National Univ., Korea
From 1985 To 2016: Professor, Psychology Dept., Gyeongsang National Univ., Korea
Majors
Cognition and Language, Perception and Motor, Psychology and Philosophy
Doctorate thesis: “A test od the Orthographic Hypothesis in Recognition of Korean Written Words”
(Feb, 1995) earned from Seoul National Universirty.
Folloing the doterate/ Cognition and Language:
Lee, Y., Moreno, A. M., Park, H., Carello, C., & Turvey, M. T. (2006). Phonological assimilation & visual word recognition. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 35(6). 513-530. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10936-006-9027-6
Lee, Y. & Lee, C. (2009). Non-selective access of phonology by Korean-Chinese bilinguals. Psychologia, 52(3), 198-208. https://doi.org/10.2117/psysoc.2009.198
Lee, Y., Moreno, A. M., Carello, C., & Turvey, M. T. (2013). Do phonological constraints on the spoken word affect visual lexical decision? Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 42(2) 191-204. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10936-012-9211-9
Lee, Y., & Carello, C. (2016). The differentiation of phonological and morphological intrusion for the two-dimensional orthography. Psychology, 7, 1217-1224. https://doi.org/10.4236/psych.2016.79123
Jeong, J., Katz, L., & Lee, Y. (2018). The two-dimensional orthography of phonology and morphology in differentiating Korean and Chinese. Writing Systems Research. https://doi.org/10.1080/17586801.2018.1519482
Perception and Motor:
Lee, Y., Lee, S., Carello, C., & Turvey, M. T. (2012). An archer’s perceived form scales the hit-ableness of archery targets. Journal of Experimental Psychology; Perception and Performance, 38(5), 1125-1131. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0029036
Psychology and Philosophy:
Lee, Y., Shaw, R. E. & Jin, Z. (2017). Gih(Qi): Beyond affordance. Frontiers in Psychology. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2017/00556
Cho, C., & Lee, Y. (2017). The three dimensions of belief differentiating religions. Humanities & Social Sciences. 5(2). 79-83. https://doi.org/10.11648/j.hss.20170502.15
Hong, B., Lee, S., &. Lee, Y. (2019). Words related to souls in the Eastern and Western Systems. Journal of Philosophy and Ethics, 1(2), 20-29. https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Words-Related-to-Souls-in-the-Eastern-and-Western-Hong-Lee/4d26f51a97dab2941dbc75dfee39a33e66f5066b