Sohee Park

Sohee Park is the Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor of Psychology at Vanderbilt University (USA). Dr. Park’s research programme lies at the intersection of clinical, cognitive and social neuroscience. She received her PhD in psychology from Harvard University and completed post-doctoral fellowships at Harvard Medical School and the University Hospital of Zürich (Switzerland). She taught at Northwestern University before moving to Vanderbilt where she directs the Body, Mind & Brain Laboratory.

Her research focuses on understanding the etiology of schizophrenia and the nature of disrupted cognitive and social behaviour in psychosis-spectrum conditions investigating the relationship between the self and the environment with a wide range of methods including behavioural tasks, clinical assessments, eye-tracking, neuroimaging, brain stimulation and virtual reality. Three broad lines of research represent the Park Lab: (1) Working memory & representational guidance of behaviour; (2) Disrupted social cognition; (3) Bodily-self disturbances (see https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psychres.2023.115547).

She currently serves on the executive boards of the International Consortium on Hallucination Research and the International Consortium on Paranoia Research, two global research networks that aim to elucidate psychosis in the context of culture.

During her stay in Strasbourg, Sohee Park will be hosted by Dr. Anne Giersch (2024 Fellow). She will participate in the International symposium The sense of self: One body, multiple mechanisms (20-21/03/2025) and give a lecture to members of the Strasbourg Translational Neuroscience & Psychiatry Unit (STEP) on empirical studies of self-disorders in psychiatry.

^{Photo - Lucius Outlaw/Vanderbilt}