Sunfa Kim, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral research associate
Department of Psychology
University at Buffalo, The State
University of New York
Buffalo,
NY 14260-1030 U.S.A.
Office
363 Park Hall
North Campus
Email: sunfakim at buffalo dot edu
Research Interests
Language comprehension in
monolingual and bilingual speakers
Language production in bilingual
speakers
Spoken word recognition
Academic Research
Invited Talks
2011 Center for Brain Science of
Language Acquisition and Language Learning, University of
Hiroshima,
November 11, 2011.
2010 Center for Cognitive Science, Fall 2010 Colloquia, The State
University of New York at
Buffalo,
December 8, 2010.
Research Papers & Conference Posters
Kim,
S., Mauner, G., and Koenig, J.P. (in preparation). Structural priming in comprehension:
The
resolution of the DO/SC ambiguity.
Kim, S. (2010). Syntactic
representations of English in second language learners: An
investigation of the process
of English sentence production by bilingual speakers using
a within-language (L2)
structural priming paradigm. Doctoral Thesis, Department of
Psychology, The State
University of New York at Buffalo.
Kim, S., Mauner, G., & Koenig, J.-P. (2010). Shared
mapping between concepts and functional
assignment
across languages facilitates L2 production. Poster presented at the 51st annual
Meeting of the Psychonomic
Society, St. Louis, MO.
Kim, S., Mauner, G., & Koenig, J.-P. (2009). Structural priming within a
second language (L2)
– Do word order
differences across languages or the absence of a structural alternation in a
first
language (L1) matter? Poster presented at the 22nd Annual CUNY Conference on
Human
Sentence Processing, Davis,
CA.
Kim, S., & Luce, P. A.
(2008). Perceptual learning of specificity vs. abstractness in spoken word
recognition. Poster presented at the 6th international conference on
the Mental Lexicon, Banff,
Alberta, Canada.
Kim, S., Mauner, G., & Koenig, J.-P. (2008). Verb repetition is not required
for structural
priming in L2 English
production in Japanese-English bilinguals. Poster presented at the 14th
Annual Conference on
Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing, Cambridge,
UK.
Kim, S., Mauner, G., &
Koenig, J.-P. (2007). What is contingent about contingency learning?:
Evidence from structural
priming in comprehension. Poster
presented at the 20th Annual
CUNY
Conference on Human Sentence
Processing, La Jolla, CA.
Kim, S., & Mauner, G.
(2006). Priming vs. Contingency Learning Accounts of Structural
Priming Effects in
Comprehension. Poster
presented at the 19th annual
CUNY conference on
Human
Sentence Processing. New York, NY.
Teaching
2015 Psychology 207: Psychological
Statistics (Spring 2015)
2014 Psychology 207: Psychological
Statistics (Spring 2014)
2013 Organizational Behavior (Fall
2013)
Research Methods (Fall 2013)
Social Psychology (Fall 2013)
Cognition (Summer 2013)
Senior Project in Psychology
(Summer 2013, Fall 2013)
2012 Research Methods in Psychology
A (Semester 2, 2012–2013)
Perception & Cognition (Semester
2, 2012–2013)
Applied Psychology Integrated
Project 2 (Semester 2, 2012–2013)
Major Project (Semester 2,
2012–2013)
Psychology
341: Cognitive Psychology (Spring 2012)
Psychology
445: Memory (Spring 2012)
2011 Psychology 341: Cognitive
Psychology (Spring 2011)
2009 Psychology 250: Scientific
Inquiry (Spring 2009, Summer 2009, Fall 2009)
2008 Psychology 250: Scientific
Inquiry (Spring 2008, Summer 2008, Fall 2008)
2007 Psychology 250: Scientific
Inquiry (Summer 2007, Fall 2007)
TA (Teaching Assistant)
2007 Psychology 331: Social
Psychology (Spring 2007)
2006 Psychology 325: Health
Psychology (Spring 2006)
2005 Psychology 101: Introductory
Psychology (Fall 2005)
Psychology 207: Psychological
Statistics (Spring 2005)