Dr KyungMin An PhD

Dr KyungMin An

School of Psychology
Assistant Professor in Psychology

Contact details

Email
k.m.an@bham.ac.uk
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Address
G05, Centre for Human Brain Health
School of Psychology
University 麻豆精选
Birmingham
B15 2TT

Dr KyungMin An’s main interests are in neuroimaging studies on child development and children with developmental disorders. She is focusing on developmental trajectories of brain activity/rhythms across child development and neural characteristics in children with developmental disorders. To measure brain responses from children, she is applying non-invasive and child-friendly neuroimaging tools such as EEG/MEG and Optically pumped magnetometers (OPMs).

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Qualifications

BA. Psychology

MSc. Medical Physics

PhD. Child development

Biography

Dr Kyung-min An took her BA in Psychology at Chungnam National University, Republic of Korea. She took her MSc in Medical Physics at the University of Science and Technology, Republic of Korea. During her MSc, she studied brain responses to the somatosensory processing measured by Magnetoencephalography (MEG). She took her PhD in Child Development at Osaka University, Japan. She studied brain activity during motor control in children with autism spectrum disorders using child-customized MEG. As a postdoctoral fellow, she focused on neural and cognitive development in young children at the Research Center for Child Mental Development, Kanazawa University, Japan.

In 2020, she was employed as an assistant professor at Kanazawa University, Japan. She focused on the topic of neuroimaging of child development, autism spectrum disorders, and preterm-birth children using MEG. She developed a MEG system with multi-channel optically pumped magnetometers (OPMs) to measure the auditory gamma activity. Her research was funded by the Japan Science and Technology Agency, the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, and the Collaborative Research Network for Asian Children with Developmental Disorders.

She joined the School of Psychology and Centre for Human Brain Health at the University 麻豆精选 in June 2022. Her research interests are mainly focused on 1) developing an OPM-MEG system for infants, children, and adolescents, and 2) applying it to study child development and developmental disorders.

Postgraduate supervision

Dr KyungMin An is looking for highly motivated and enthusiastic students who are interested in neuroimaging study about child development and developmental disorders.

Please feel free to contact her to discuss projects and potential funding opportunities. (k.m.an@bham.ac.uk)

Research

Dr KyungMin An’s research interests are focused on child development and developmental disorders using child-friendly neuroimaging techniques. Her main research tools are EEG/MEG and optically pumped magnetometer (OPM) to measure brain activity and rhythms. She is seeking neural correlates of behaviour and brain responses related to the child development and developmental disorders. 

Child OPM-MEG

-        Developing and optimizing an OPM-MEG system for infants, children, and adolescents.

-        Applying the child OPM-MEG system to study on child development and developmental disorders.

Developmental trajectory across child development

-        Developing multi-sensory/motor task for children.

-        Investigating the developmental trajectory over a wide age range.

-        Finding trends of developmental trajectory in children with ASD and preterm-birth children.

Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD)

-        Finding a characteristics of brain response and developmental trajectory in children with ASD.

-        Investigating brain mechanism of sensory/motor processing in children with ASD.

-        Finding Neural correlates of behavioural characteristics of ASD.

Publications

Highlight publications

An, K, Shim, JH, Kwon, H, Lee, Y-H, Yu, K-K, Kwon, M, Chun, WY, Hirosawa, T, Hasegawa, C, Iwasaki, S, Kikuchi, M & Kim, K 2022, '', Scientific Reports, vol. 12, no. 1, 17993.

An, K, Hasegawa, C, Hirosawa, T, Tanaka, S, Saito, D, Kumazaki, H, Yaoi, K, Kikuchi, M & Yoshimura, Y 2020, '', Human Brain Mapping, vol. 41, no. 9, pp. 2292-2301.

An, K, Ikeda, T, Yoshimura, Y, Hasegawa, C, Saito, D, Kumazaki, H, Hirosawa, T, Minabe, Y & Kikuchi, M 2018, '', The Journal of Neuroscience, vol. 38, no. 36, pp. 7878-7886.

An, K, Ikeda, T, Hasegawa, C, Yoshimura, Y, Tanaka, S, Saito, D, Yaoi, K, Iwasaki, S, Hirosawa, T, Jensen, O & Kikuchi, M 2021, '', NeuroImage: Clinical, vol. 29, 102560.

An, K, Ikeda, T, Hirosawa, T, Yaoi, K, Yoshimura, Y, Hasegawa, C, Tanaka, S, Saito, D & Kikuchi, M 2021, '', Scientific Reports, vol. 11, no. 1, 10001 .

Recent publications

Article

Yoshimura, Y, Mitani, Y, Ikeda, T, Tanaka, S, Suda, M, Yaoi, K, Hasegawa, C, An, K, Iwasaki, S, Kumazaki, H, Saito, DN, Ohta, H, Ando, A, Cho, K, Kikuchi, M & Wada, T 2025, '', Pediatric Research, vol. 97, no. 1, pp. 120-127.

Yeom, H & An, K 2024, '', Applied Sciences, vol. 14, no. 19, 8646.

Sano, M, Hirosawa, T, Yoshimura, Y, Hasegawa, C, An, K-M, Tanaka, S, Yaoi, K, Naitou, N, Kikuchi, M & Fernandes, TP (ed.) 2024, '', PLOS One, vol. 19, no. 3, e0298020.

Kameya, M, Hirosawa, T, Soma, D, Yoshimura, Y, An, K, Iwasaki, S, Tanaka, S, Yaoi, K, Sano, M, Miyagishi, Y & Kikuchi, M 2024, '', Frontiers in Psychiatry, vol. 15, 1419815.

Shiota, Y, Hirosawa, T, Yoshimura, Y, Tanaka, S, Hasegawa, C, Iwasaki, S, Sano, M, An, K, Yokoyama, S & Kikuchi, M 2022, '', Neuropsychopharmacology Reports, vol. 42, no. 3, pp. 352鈥�355.

Shiota, Y, Hirosawa, T, Yoshimura, Y, Tanaka, S, Hasegawa, C, Iwasaki, S, An, K, Soma, D, Sano, M, Yokoyama, S & Kikuchi, M 2021, '', PLOS One, vol. 16, no. 12, e0260548.

Soma, D, Hirosawa, T, Hasegawa, C, An, K, Kameya, M, Hino, S, Yoshimura, Y, Nobukawa, S, Iwasaki, S, Tanaka, S, Yaoi, K, Sano, M, Shiota, Y, Naito, N & Kikuchi, M 2021, '', Frontiers in Psychiatry, vol. 12, 790234.

Hirosawa, T, An, K, Soma, D, Shiota, Y, Sano, M, Kameya, M, Hino, S, Naito, N, Tanaka, S, Yaoi, K, Iwasaki, S, Yoshimura, Y & Kikuchi, M 2021, '', Brain Communications, vol. 3, no. 3, fcab184.

Sano, M, Yoshimura, Y, Hirosawa, T, Hasegawa, C, An, K, Tanaka, S, Naito, N & Kikuchi, M 2021, '', Autism Research, vol. 14, no. 12, pp. 2603-2612.

Yoshimura, Y, Ikeda, T, Hasegawa, C, An, K, Tanaka, S, Yaoi, K, Iwasaki, S, Saito, D, Kumazaki, H, Hiraishi , H & Kikuchi, M 2021, '', International Journal of Molecular Sciences, vol. 22, no. 5, 2611.

Hirosawa, T, Kontani, K, Fukai, M, Kameya, M, Soma, D, Hino, S, Kitamura, T, Hasegawa, C, An, K, Takahashi, T, Yoshimura, Y & Kikuchi, M 2020, '', PLOS One, vol. 15, no. 8, pp. e0235380.

Hirosawa, T, Sowman, P, Fukai, M, Kameya, M, Soma, D, Hino, S, Kitamura, T, An, K, Yoshimura, Y, Hasegawa, C, Saito, D, Ikeda, T & Kikuchi, M 2020, '', Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences, vol. 74, no. 9, pp. 510.

Hirosawa, T, Kikuchi, M, Fukai, M, Hino, S, Kitamura, T, An, K, Sowman, P, Takahashi, T, Yoshimura, Y, Miyagishi, Y & Minabe, Y 2018, '', Frontiers in Psychiatry, vol. 9, pp. 568.

Kumazaki, H, Okamoto, M, Yoshimura, Y, Ikeda, T, Hasegawa, C, Saito, D, Iwanaga, R, Tomiyama, S, An, K, Minabe, Y & Kikuchi, M 2018, '', Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, vol. 50, no. 5, pp. 1809鈥�1815.

Preprint

An, K, Shim, JH, Kwon, H, Lee, Y-H, Yu, K-K, Kwon, M, Chun, WY, Hirosawa, T, Hasegawa, C, Iwasaki, S, Kikuchi, M & Kim, K 2021 '' bioRxiv.