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CURRICULUM VITAE
Adam E. Green
BACKGROUND
Personal Information:
Name:
Adam E. Green
Work Address:
302C White-Gravenor
Department of Psychology
Georgetown University
Washington, DC 20057
Telephone:
(202) 687-5581 (Office)
(336) 430-7097 (Mobile)
(202) 687-6050 (Fax)
Email:
[email protected]
Lab website:
http://cng.georgetown.edu
Education and Training:
1997 – 2001
B.A., Cognitive Science with concentrations in Neuroscience
and Cognitive Neuropsychology
Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD
summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa
2002 – 2007
Ph.D., Cognitive Neuroscience
Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
Thesis: “Categorization and Abstract Understanding in
Analogy”
Advisor: Dr. Kevin N. Dunbar
2006
Extramural pre-doctoral training, Human genetic analysis and
cognitive neurogenetic methods
Sackler Institute for Developmental Psychobiology, Weill
Medical College of Cornell University, New York, NY
Advisor: Dr. John R. Fossella
2007 – 2010
Post-doctoral Associate, Department of Psychology
Yale University, New Haven, CT
Advisor: Dr. Jeremy R. Gray
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Professional Experience:
1997 – 1999
Research Assistant
REACH: Research and Education for Autism in Children
Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, MD
Researched the learning abilities of children with autism
Laboratory of Dr. Rebecca Landa
1998 – 2000
Research Assistant
Developmental Cognitive Neurology Clinic
Kennedy Krieger Institute, Baltimore, MD
Studied cognitive control in pediatric neurological disorders
Laboratory of Dr. Stewart Mostofsky
1998 – 2001
Research Assistant
Cognitive Neuroscience Section,
National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke,
Bethesda, MD
Investigated executive function in young and elderly adults
Laboratory of Dr. Jordan Grafman
Fall 2004
Teaching Fellow, Introductory Statistics
Department of Psychology
Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
Spring 2005
Teaching Fellow, Introductory Psychology
Department of Psychology
Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
Fall 2005
Teaching Fellow, Introductory Statistics
Department of Psychology
Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
Spring 2006
Teaching Fellow, Quantitative Research Methods
Department of Psychology
Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
Fall 2006
Teaching Fellow, Quantitative Research Methods
Department of Psychology
Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
Aug 2010 – present
Assistant Professor
Department of Psychology
Georgetown University, Washington DC
Aug 2010 – present
Affiliated Faculty
Interdisciplinary Program in Neuroscience
Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington, DC
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SCHOLARSHIP AND RESEARCH
External Research Funding:
Active
2017 – 2020
Principal Investigator, National Science Foundation, DRL-1661065,
“Collaborative research: Neural and cognitive strengthening of
conceptual knowledge and reasoning in classroom-based spatial
education.” (Total costs = $1,495,522)
*Proposal unanimously received highest possible score of Excellent
from all NSF review panelists, indicating highest funding priority.
2017
Principal Investigator, National Science Foundation, BCS-1651187,
“Meeting: Society for the Neuroscience of Creativity.” (Total costs =
$15,000).
2016-2017
Principal Investigator, John Templeton Foundation, supplement to ID
51971, “Causality Cognition as a Mechanism of Belief in God in the U.S.
and Afghanistan.” (Total costs = $6,033).
2015 – 2017
(3 years)
Principal Investigator, National Science Foundation, DRL-1420481,
“Collaborative Research: Cognitive and Neural Indicators of SchoolBased Improvements in Spatial Problem Solving.”
(Total costs = $1,503,361).
2015 – 2017
(2.5 years)
Principal Investigator, John Templeton Foundation, ID 51971,
“Causality Cognition as a Mechanism of Belief in God in the
U.S. and Afghanistan.” (Total costs = $301,917).
*No-cost extension granted 3/17 to extend duration to 3 years
2014 – 2020
Principal Investigator, Pymetrics, “Development of Novel Measures of
Exceptionally Creative Relational Reasoning.” (Total costs = $55,000).
Completed
2013 – 2014
Principal Investigator, American Legacy Foundation, “A Cognitive
Neurogenetic Investigation of Responses to Tobacco-Related
Messaging.” (Total costs = $55,700).
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2006 – 2009
Pending
2017 – 2018
2017 – 2023
Named post-doc*, National Science Foundation, REC-0634025
"Cross-domain Analogical Reasoning: Mechanisms and
Implications." (PI Gray; Total costs = $793,724).
*PI status was precluded by Yale University policy on postdocs; I developed this grant based on my thesis data and
played a PI-level role at all stages of writing, study design, and
execution.
Co-I, National Science Foundation, OIA-000615741, “Acquisition of
Prisma 3T MRI Upgrade.” (PI VanMeter; Proposed total costs =
$1,128,365).
Advisory Board, NIH, “Interactions of Family-Level Environmental and
Biological Influences on the Development of Language and Thought.”
(PIs Goldin-Meadow, Richland; Proposed total costs = $9,204,847).
Institutional and Training Grants
2015 – 2020
Faculty, National Institutes of Health, TL1-TR001431-01, “Training
Program in Translational Biomedical Science.” (PI Sandberg; Total costs
= $542,056).
Grants for Student Research
2014 – 2016
Faculty Mentor, Psi Chi (National Honor Society for Psychology)
Thelma Hunt Research Grant*, “Efficacy of a Psi Chi Peer Advising
Network at Georgetown University.” (Student PIs: Reilly, Sharkey; Total
costs = $3,000).
*One proposal is selected nationwide each year to receive funding for
undergraduate research.
Intramural Research Funding:
2017 – 2018
Co-PI, Georgetown Global Health Initiative, “Workshop on Violence
and Substance Abuse Among Adolescents: Twin Dangers Single Route."
(Total costs = $10,000).
2012
Principal Investigator, Georgetown University Summer Academic Grant,
“Addressing the Cognitive Gap in Gene-Brain-Cognition Pathways.”
(Total costs = $9,500).
2012
Junior Faculty Research Fellowship (fall semester), “Semantically-Distant
Analogical Reasoning in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders.
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2011 – 2012
Principal Investigator, Partners in Research at Georgetown
University, Pilot Research Award, “Can Healthy Young Adults
Reveal Brain Differences that Predict Alzheimer’s Disease Before
it Develops?” (Total costs = $25,000).
2011
Principal Investigator, Georgetown University Summer Academic Grant,
“Analysis and Collaboration for Cognitive Neurogenetic Research.”
(Total costs= $9,500).
Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles:
Mean (median) citations for papers published ≥ 1 year ago: 82.9 (48)
Lead or senior authorship on publications: 82.8%
i100-index (publications cited > 100 times): 7
Selected press coverage: NBC, CNN, NPR, KBS (South Korean Public Television),
Times of London, U.S. News and World Report, Sydney Morning Herald, Popular
Mechanics, Wired, Science Daily, Inc. Magazine, Huffington Post, Yahoo, Brit + Co,
APS Observer, mental_floss, Pacific Standard
v = Georgetown undergraduate student co-author; ⌘ = Georgetown
graduate student co-author; ✜ Georgetown Post-doc co-author; ★ =
Georgetown research assistant co-author
Green, A., vSpiegel, K., vGiangrande, E., ⌘Weinberger, A., ★Gallagher, N. &
Turkeltaub, P. (in press). Thinking cap plus thinking zap: tDCS of frontopolar cortex
improves creative analogical reasoning and facilitates conscious augmentation of state
creativity. Cerebral Cortex.
⌘Weinberger, A., Green, A*., Chrysikou*, L. (in press). Using Transcranial Direct Current
Stimulation to Enhance Creative Cognition: Interactions Between Task, Polarity, and
Stimulation Site. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience.
*Dual senior authorship, order determined by coin toss
⌘Reed, J., ★Gallagher, N., vSullivan, M., Callicott, J., & Green, A. (in press).
Measurement at very high loads of common neuroimaging tasks indicates sex differences in
verbal working memory. Brain and Cognition.
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Green, A., Kenworthy, L., ★Gallagher, N., Antezana, L., Mosner, M., vKrieg, S., Dudley,
K., Ratto, A., & Yerys, B. (in press). Social Analogical Reasoning in School-Aged Children
with Autism Spectrum Disorder and Typically Developing Peers. Autism.
Green, A. (2016). Creativity, within reason: Semantic distance and dynamic state
creativity in relational thinking and reasoning. Current Directions in Psychological Science,
25, 28-35.
⌘Ihne, J., vGallagher, N., vSullivan, M., Callicott, J., & Green, A. (2016). Is less
really more: Does a prefrontal efficiency genotype actually confer better performance
when working memory becomes difficult? Cortex, 74, 79-95.
⌘Weinberger, A., Iyer, H., Green, A. (2016). Conscious Augmentation of Creative State
Enhances “Real” Creativity in Open-Ended Analogical Reasoning. PLoS One, 11, e0150773.
Green, A.*, Mays, D.*, Falk, E., Vallone, D., ★Gallagher, N., Richardson, A.,
Tercyak, K., Abrams, D., & Niaura, R. (2016). Young Adult Smokers' Neural
Responses to Graphic Warning Labels. Addictive Behaviors Reports, 3, 28-32.
*Dual lead authorship, order determined by coin toss
Green, A., Cohen, M., vRaab, H., vYedibalian, C., & Gray, J. R. (2015).
Frontopolar activity and connectivity support conscious augmentation of creative
state. Human Brain Mapping, 36, 923-934.
Green, A., Kenworthy, L., vGallagher, N., Mosner, M., vFearon, E., ⌘Balhana,
C., & Yerys, B. (2014). Abstract analogical reasoning in high-functioning children
with autism spectrum disorders. Autism Research, 7, 677-686.
⌘DiBattista, A., ⌘Stevens, B., Rebeck, G.W., & Green, A. (2014). Two Alzheimer’s
disease risk genes increase entorhinal cortex volume in young adults. Frontiers in
Human Neuroscience, 8, doi: 10.3389
⌘Stevens, B.W., Rebeck, G.W., ⌘DiBattitsta, A.M., & Green, A. (2014). A genebrain-cognition pathway for the effect of an Alzheimer's risk gene on parietal grey
matter volume and working memory in young adults. Neuropsychologia, 61, 143-149.
Green, A., Gray, J.R., DeYoung, C., Mhyre, T., Padilla, R., ⌘DiBattista, A, & Rebeck, G.
(2014). A combined Alzheimer’s risk genotype additively affects medial temporal activity
during executive attention in young adults. Neuropsychologia, 56, 1-8.
Prabhakaran, R.*, Green, A.*, & Gray, J.R. (2013). Thin slices of creativity: Using singleword utterances to assess creative cognition. Behavior Research Methods, 1-19.
*Dual lead authorship, order determined by coin toss
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Green, A., Kraemer, D.J.M., DeYoung, C., Fossella, J., & Gray, J.R. (2013). A Gene-BrainCognition Pathway: Prefrontal activity mediates the effect of COMT on cognitive control
and IQ. Cerebral Cortex, 23, 552-559.
Green, A., Cohen, M., Kim, J., & Gray, J.R. (2012). An Explicit Cue Improves Creative
Analogical Reasoning. Intelligence, 40, 598-603.
Green, A., Kraemer, D.J.M., Fugelsang, J., Gray, J.R., & Dunbar, K. (2012). Neural
correlates of creativity in analogical reasoning. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning,
Memory, and Cognition, 38, 264-272.
Green, A., Kraemer, D.J.M., Fugelsang, J., Gray, J.R., & Dunbar, K. (2010). Connecting
Long Distance: Semantic distance in analogical reasoning modulates frontopolar cortex
activity. Cerebral Cortex, 10, 70-76.
DeYoung, C., Shamosh, N., Green, A., Braver, T., & Gray, J.R. (2009). Intellect as
distinct from Openness: Differences revealed by fMRI of working memory. Journal of
Personality and Social Psychology, 87. 983-992.
Green, A., Munafo, M.R., DeYoung, C., Fossella, J., Fan, J., & Gray, J.R. (2008).
Using genetic data in cognitive neuroscience: from growing pains to genuine insights.
Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 9, 710-720.
Green, A., Fugelsang, J., Kraemer, D.J.M, & Dunbar, K. (2008). The micro-category
account of analogy. Cognition, 106, 1004-1016.
Shamosh, N., DeYoung, C., Green, A., Reis, D., Conway, A.R.A., Johnson, R.,
Engle, R., Braver, T., & Gray, J.R. (2008). Individual differences in delay discounting:
Relation to intelligence, working memory, and frontopolar cortex. Psychological Science,
19, 904-911.
Green, A., Kraemer, D.J.M., Fugelsang, J., Shamosh, N., & Dunbar, K. (2006).
Frontopolar cortex mediates abstract integration in analogy. Brain Research, 1096, 125137.
Green, A., Fugelsang, J., & Dunbar, K. (2006). Automatic activation of categorical
and abstract analogical relations in analogical reasoning. Memory & Cognition, 7, 14141421.
Fossella, J., Green, A., & Fan, J. (2006). Evaluation of a structural polymorphism in
the ankyrin repeat and kinase domain containing-1 (ANKK1) gene and the activation
of executive attention networks. Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience, 6, 71-78.
Kraemer, D.J.M., Macrae, C. N., Green, A., & Kelley, W. (2005). Musical imagery:
Sound of silence activates auditory cortex. Nature, 434, 158.
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Fugelsang, J., Stien, C., Green, A., & Dunbar, K. (2004). Theory and data
interactions of the scientific mind: Evidence from the real world and the cognitive
laboratory. Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology, 58, 86-95.
Chapters:
Green, A. (in press). Creativity in the Distance: The Neurocognition of Semantically
Distant Relational Thinking and Reasoning. In R. E. Jung & O. Vartanian (Eds.), The
Cambridge Handbook of the Neuroscience of Creativity. New York: Cambridge University
Press.
Green, A., & Dunbar, K. (2012). Mental Function as Genetic Expression: Emerging
insights from cognitive neurogenetics. In K.J. Holyoak and R. Morrison (Eds.), The
Oxford Handbook of Thinking and Reasoning (pg. 90-114). Oxford, UK: Oxford
University Press.
Abstracts and Conference Presentations:
✜Peterson, E., Kolvoord, R., Kraemer, D. J. M., Uttal, D., ★Goldman, D., & Green, A.
(2017). Training Spatial Thinking in the High School Classroom Impacts Cognitive and
Neural Correlates of Verbal Relational Reasoning. Poster presented at the annual meeting of
the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, San Francisco, CA.
⌘Weinberger, A., Giordano, J., & Green, A. (2017). Transcranial Electrical Stimulation to
Promote Creativity: Neuroethical, Legal and Social Issues, Tasks, and Approaches. Poster
presented at The Society for the Neuroscience of Creativity, San Francisco, CA.
⌘Weinberger, A., ⌘Daker, R.,★Dinh, N., vSweetser, B., ✜Peterson, E. M., & Green, A.
(2017). Does general spatial ability predict spatial creativity? Poster presented at The Society
for the Neuroscience of Creativity, San Francisco, CA.
vCortes, R., vMendez, P., ✜Peterson, E., Kolvoord, R., Uttal, D., ★Goldman, D. &
Green, A. (2017). Gender Differences in Spatial Ability Among Adolescents. Poster to be
presented at the Association for Psychological Sciences Annual Convention, Boston, MA.
⌘Weinberger, A., Green, A. (2016). Neurostimulation interacts with instructional cues to
enhance creative performance in relational thinking and reasoning. Presentation given at The
Society for the Neuroscience of Creativity, San Diego, CA.
✜Peterson, E. M., Kolvoord, R., Uttal, D., ★Goldman, D. Hollenbeck, E., Kraemer,
D.J.M., & Green, A. (2016). Spatial Thinking in the High School Classroom: Cognitive and
Neural Effects of the Geospatial Semester. Poster presented at the International Mind,
Brain, and Education Society, Toronto, ON.
-Awarded prize for best poster, including monetary prize for Dr. Peterson (post-doc).
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✜Grossnickle, E. M., ★Goldman, D., Uttal, D., Kolvoord, R., & Green, A. (2016). The
role of spatial ability in spatial and non-spatial syllogistic reasoning. Paper presented at the
conference on Spatial Cognition, Philadelphia, PA.
✜Grossnickle, E. M., Green, A., Kolvoord, R., ★Goldman, D., Hollenbeck, E., & Uttal, D.
(2016). Childhood and adolescent spatial activities, spatial ability, and spatial habits of mind.
Paper presented at the conference on Spatial Cognition, Philadelphia, PA.
Green, A., ⌘Weinberger, A., vSpeigel, K., vGiangrande, E., ★Gallagher, N. &
Turkeltaub, P. (2016). Thinking cap plus thinking zap: tDCS of frontopolar cortex improves
creative analogical reasoning and facilitates conscious augmentation of state creativity. Poster
presented at the Cognitive Neuroscience Society.
Nastase, S., Green, A., Cross, E., Lee, Y-S., Halchenko, Y., Haxby, J., Kraemer, D. (2016).
Decoding contributions of prefrontal and sensory-specific cortices to the retrieval of
perceptual knowledge. Poster presented at the Cognitive Neuroscience Society.
Uttal, D., Kolvoord, B., Green, A., ✜Grossnickle, E., & Hollenbeck, E. Using Geographic
Information Systems to Promote Spatially Based Problem Solving. (2016). Paper presented
at the American Educational Research Association annual meeting.
✜Grossnickle, E., Uttal, D., Kolvoord, B., Green, A., ★Goldman, D., ★Gallagher, N.,
Hollenbeck, E. (2015). The Role of Formal and Informal Learning Experiences on Spatial
Ability and Spatial Habits of Mind. Paper presented at the American Educational Research
Association.
★Gallagher, N., Antezana, L., Mosner, M., Dudley, K., Kenworthy, L., Yerys, B., & Green,
A. Evidence of Intact Social Reasoning in ASD. (2015). Poster presented at the Cognitive
Neuroscience Society.
★English, G., vParrott, N., vFearon, E., vLiu, N., vGallagher, N., & Green, A. (2014).
Analogical Mapping Within and Across Modalities: Modular Abilities or Analo-g? Poster
presented at the Society for Neuroscience.
★Gallagher, N. Niaura, R., Tercyak, K., Vallone, D., Mays, D., & Green, A. (2014). Young
Adult Smokers' Reactions to Graphic Warning Labels and Tobacco Advertising. Poster
presented at the Society for Neuroscience.
⌘Ihne, J., Callicott, J., & Green, A. (2014). When Working Memory Load Increases, the
COMT Met Allele Does Not Confer a Performance Advantage. Poster presented at the
Society for Neuroscience.
vSpiegel, K.A., Green, A., vGiangrande, E., & Turkeltaub, P. (2014). Transcranial Direct
Current Stimulation of Left Frontopolar Cortex Augments Creativity in a Verb Generation
Task. Poster presented at the Society for Neuroscience.
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vGallagher, N., Yerys, B., Kenworthy, L., Mosner, M., vFearon, E., ⌘Balhana, C., &
Green, A. (2014). Abstract Analogical Reasoning in High-Functioning Children with Autism
Spectrum Disorders. Poster presented at the Cognitive Neuroscience Society.
★Raksit, M., Rebeck, G.W., Mhyre. T, & Green, A. (2013). A combined effect of genetic
Alzheimer’s risk factors on medial temporal activity during executive attention. Poster
presented at the Cognitive Neuroscience Society.
★Raksit, M., vMikhaiel, J.P., Straube, B., Chatterjee, A., & Green, A. (2013). Perception of
causality correlates with spirituality. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the
International Neuropsychological Society.
vRaab, H., Rebeck, G.W., & Green, A. (2013). Effects of DAT1 and APOE
polymorphisms on structural connectivity and cognitive performance. Poster presented at
the annual meeting of the International Neuropsychological Society.
Green, A., Cohen, M., Kim, J., & Gray, J.R. (2012). Looking under your thinking cap:
Consciously augmenting creative state depends on frontopolar recruitment and trait
creativity. Poster presented at the Cognitive Neuroscience Society.
Green, A., Prabhakaran, R., & Gray, J.R. (2011). Cued creativity using a verb generation
task: Validation of a novel paradigm. Poster presented at the Psychonomic Society Meeting.
Green, A., Kraemer, D.J.M., & Gray, J.R. (2011). A gene-brain-cognition pathway for the
effect of COMT on executive attention and IQ. Poster presented at the Cognitive
Neuroscience Society.
Green, A., DeYoung, C., Fossella, J., Cohen, M., & Gray, J.R. (2010). Cingulum fractional
anisotropy mediates a pathway for the effect of BDNF on verbal intelligence. Poster
presented at the Cognitive Neuroscience Society annual meeting.
Green, A., Fossella, J., Cohen, M., Kim, J., Muller, K., & Gray, J.R. (2010). Anterior
cingulate activity mediates a pathway for the effect of DAT1 on executive attention. Poster
presented at the conference on genetic and experiential influences on prefrontal and
executive function.
Green, A., Kraemer, D.J.M., Gray, J.R., & Dunbar, K. (2009). Where do good ideas come
from? Neural substrates of generating analogical solutions. Poster presented at the Cognitive
Neuroscience Society annual meeting.
Green, A., Kraemer, D.J.M., & Dunbar, K. (2008). Frontopolar cortex and creative thinking:
an fMRI study of the Uses of Objects task. Poster presented at the Cognitive Neuroscience
Society annual meeting.
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Green, A., Kraemer, D.J.M., & Dunbar, K. (2006). Frontopolar cortex becomes more active
for more abstract analogies. Poster presented at the Cognitive Neuroscience Society annual
meeting.
Green, A., & Dunbar, K. The micro-category account of analogy. (2006). Poster presented
at Psychonomic Society annual meeting.
Green, A., & Dunbar, K. (2005). Behavioral and fMRI evidence for automatic
categorization during analogical reasoning. Poster presented at the Cognitive Neuroscience
Society annual meeting.
Green, A., & Dunbar, K. (2005). Priming category relations during analogical reasoning.
Poster presented at the Psychonomic Society annual meeting.
Green, A., & Dunbar, K. (2004). Analogical priming of abstract relations. Poster presented
at the Psychonomic Society annual meeting.
Green, A., J., Shamosh, N., & Dunbar, K. (2004). The roles of distinct prefrontal
regions in categorization and abstract relational integration during analogical
reasoning. Poster presented at the Cognitive Neuroscience Society annual meeting.
Conferences Organized:
International Analogy Conference (planning committee; 2017)
Conference to be held in Paris.
International Conference on the Cognition and Neuroscience of Belief (2017).
Conference to be held at Georgetown University as an activity funded by a grant
from the John Templeton Foundation.
Conference Organizers: Green, A., Moghaddam, A.
Keynote: Justin Barrett
Society for the Neuroscience of Creativity annual meeting (founding member of
executive committee)
-2017: PI of funded NSF grant to fund travel awards for students, cover
travel for keynote speakers, and provide administrative costs. Keynotes:
Anajan Chatterjee, Robert Bilder
-2016: Conference accepted as an official satellite of the Society for
Neuroscience meeting in San Diego. Keynotes: Daniel Schacter,
Kalina Christoff.
Meeting on Brain and Religion sponsored by the Georgetown University Program in
Cognitive Science (2016). Conference Organizers: Moghaddam, A., Green, A.
Keynotes: Jordan Grafman, Deborah Kelemen, Max Riesenhuber
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Symposia Chaired/Organized:
“Analogy, Metaphor, and Creativity”
(Invited) Symposium to be given at the International Analogy Conference (2017).
Chair: Green, A.
Speakers: Green, A., Steen, G., Trench, M., Uttal, D.
“Science Learning, Education and Cognitive Neuroscience.”
(Invited) Symposium given at the International Mind, Brain, and Education Society
meeting (2016).
Chair: Green, A.
Speakers: Bunge, S., Green, A., Kraemer, D., Schunn, C.
Discussant: Kolvoord, B.
“Perceptions of Consciousness”
Symposium given at the APA annual convention (2012)
Chairs: Green, A., Jack, A.
Speakers: Knobe, J., Machery, E., Sytsma, J., Waytz, A.
“Vertically integrating molecular-genetics, cognitive neuroscience, and psychology.”
Symposium given at the Cognitive Neuroscience Society annual meeting (2009).
Chair: Green, A.
Speakers: Callicott, J., DeYoung, C., Fossella, J., Papassotiropoulos, A.
Academic Talks:
“Creativity, Within Reason: Semantic Distance and Dynamic State Creativity in Relational
Thinking and Reasoning.” School of Psychology, Southwest University, BeiBei, Chongqing,
China (talk invited for October, 2017)
“Measuring and enhancing creativity in relational thinking and reasoning.” American
Psychological Association (APA), Symposium on cognitive enhancement. Washington, D.C.
(scheduled for August, 2017).
“Measuring and enhancing creativity in relational thinking and reasoning.” Association for
Psychological Science (APS), Symposium entitled, “Can We Facilitate Creativity? Insights on
How to Have More Insights,” Boston, Massachusetts (scheduled for May, 2017).
“Creativity, Within Reason: Semantic Distance and Dynamic State Creativity in Relational
Thinking and Reasoning.” Winter Enrichment Program, King Abdullah University of
Science and Technology, Thuwal, Saudi Arabia (2017).
“Creativity, Within Reason: Semantic Distance and Dynamic State Creativity in Relational
Thinking and Reasoning.” American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS),
Washington, DC (2016).
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“Creativity, Within Reason: Semantic Distance and Dynamic State Creativity in Relational
Thinking and Reasoning.” Department of Psychology, George Mason University, Fairfax,
Virginia (2016).
“Creativity, Within Reason: Semantic Distance and Dynamic State Creativity in Relational
Thinking and Reasoning.” Department of Human Development and Quantitative
Methodology, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland (2016).
“How does high school STEM education change your brain: A study of neural and cognitive
plasticity in spatial relational reasoning.” International Mind Brain and Education Society
(IMBES), Symposium on Science Learning, Education and Cognitive Neuroscience,
Toronto, Ontario, Canada (2016).
“Creativity, Within Reason: Semantic Distance and Dynamic State Creativity in Relational
Thinking and Reasoning” American Psychological Association (APA), Symposium on the
Neuroscience of Creativity, Denver, Colorado (2016).
(Invited keynote), “Creativity, Within Reason: Semantic Distance and Dynamic State
Creativity in Relational Thinking and Reasoning” Neuroscience of Creativity Meeting,
Chicago, Illinois (2015).
-The executive committee for The Society for the Neuroscience of Creativity was
formed at this meeting. Thus, while I am a founding member of the executive
committee, I did not plan this inaugural meeting or invite this talk.
“Frontopolar contributions to creative reasoning and augmented creative state.” Department
of Cognitive Science, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland (2014).
“Brain-imaging of creative analogical reasoning and augmented state creativity.”
International Analogy Conference, Dijon, France (2013).
“Applying cognitive neurogenetics to early Alzheimer’s intervention.” Instituto do Cérebro,
Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul Porto Alegre, Brazil (2012).
“A gene-brain-cognition pathway for the effect of COMT on executive attention and IQ.”
Department of Psychology, George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia (2010).
“Vertically integrating molecular-genetics, cognitive neuroscience, and psychology.”
Symposium at the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, San Francisco, California (2009).
“Analogical reasoning ability mediates the relationship between intelligence and creativity.”
Annual Meeting of The Cognitive Neuroscience Society, San Francisco, California (2009).
“Neural correlates of mapping and mnemonic encoding in analogical reasoning.”
International Analogy Conference, Sofia, Bulgaria (2009).
“Building a cognitive neurogenetic model of reasoning.” Sackler Institute for Developmental
Psychobiology, Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York, New York (2007).
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“Testing the effects of semantic distance on neural correlates of analogical reasoning.”
Department of Psychology, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut (2006).
Honors and Awards:
2016
Georgetown College Honors for undergraduate teaching
2015
Invited contributor, White House Workshop on Bridging
Neuroscience and Learning
2011
Invited faculty,
Neuroscience
2009
Travel Award, Conference on Genetic and Experiential Influences
on Prefrontal and Executive Function.
2007
NIH Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award
(NRSA), pre-doctoral – awarded, but declined to pursue postdoctoral research
2001
Undergraduate honor societies: Phi Beta Kappa, Nu Rho Psi, Psi
Chi
1998
Michael S. Applestein Scholarship for Undergraduate Academic
Achievement awarded by Johns Hopkins University
NIMH
Summer
Institute
in
Cognitive
Professional Affiliations:
Cognitive Neuroscience Society
International Conference on Analogy (planning committee)
International Mind, Brain, and Education Society (poster award committee 2016; not
involved in review of Dr. Peterson’s poster that received top prize)
Society for Personality and Social Psychology
Society for Neuroscience
Society for the Neuroscience of Creativity (co-founder/executive board)
Grant Reviewer for National & International Agencies:
Agence Nationale de la Recherche (French National Research Agency) – ad hoc
Economic and Social Research Council, UK – ad hoc
John Templeton Foundation – standard non-empaneled review mechanism
National Science Foundation – review panel (NSF-NCS; CogNeuro); ad hoc
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Journal Reviewer:
Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences
Brain
Brain Research
Cerebral Cortex
Cognition
Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience
Cortex
Creativity Research Journal
Developmental Science
European Journal of Neuroscience
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
Frontiers in Psychology
Human Brain Mapping
Journal of Experimental Psychology: General
Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition
Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
Journal of Neuroscience
Neuroimage
Neuropsychologia
Oxford Handbook of Thinking and Reasoning (book chapter review)
PLoS ONE
Psychological Review
Psychological Science
Journal Editorial Boards:
Creativity Research Journal (Associate Editor for Neuroscience)
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience (editorial review board)
Current Scientific Collaborations:
Joseph Callicott, M.D.
National Institute of Mental Health – cognitive
neurogenetics of executive function
Christopher Chabris, Ph.D.
Union College – developing collaboration on group
dynamics in creative relational reasoning
James Haxby, Ph.D.
Dartmouth College – advanced neuroimaging measures of
relational reasoning and concept development in STEM
classroom education.
Dan Johnson, Ph.D.
Washington and Lee University – relationship between
working memory and creativity in relational thinking and
reasoning
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Lauren Kenworthy, Ph.D.
Center for Autism Spectrum Disorders, Children’s National
Medical Center – relational reasoning in autism spectrum
disorders
Robert Kolvoord, Ph.D.
Department of Integrated Science and Technology,
James Madison University – neural effects of schoolbased spatial education
David Kraemer, Ph.D.
Department of Education, Dartmouth College –
relational reasoning in STEM-related thinking and
learning.
Darren Mays, Ph.D.
Lombardi Cancer Research Center, Georgetown University –
neurocognitive and genetic predictors of smoking behavior
and smoking-related reasoning.
Fathali Moghaddam, Ph.D
Department of Psychology, Georgetown University – crosscultural commonalities in causal relational reasoning
Francisco Pereira, Ph.D.
Department of Psychology, Princeton University; Siemens
Corporate Research – development of novel measures of
semantic distance in relational reasoning
G. William Rebeck, Ph.D.
Department of Neuroscience, Georgetown University –
cognitive neurogenetic effects of Alzheimer’s risk genes in
young adults
Peter Turkeltaub, M.D., Ph.D Department of Neurology, Georgetown University – creative
state augmentation by transcranial direct current stimulation
of frontopolar cortex
R. Scott Turner, M.D., Ph.D. Department of Neurology, Georgetown University –
cognitive neurogenetic effects of Alzheimer’s risk genes in
young adults
David Uttal, Ph.D.
Department of Psychology, Northwestern University
– neural effects of school-based spatial education
Benjamin Yerys, Ph.D.
Center for Autism Research, Children’s Hospital of
Philadelphia – relational reasoning in autism spectrum
disorders
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TEACHING ACTIVITIES
Courses:
Undergraduate courses
2017
Physiological Psychology – PSYC120 (Lecture course)
2011 – present
Neurophilosophy – PSYC355 (Seminar course)
2011 – present
Cognitive Neurogenetics – PSYC350 (Seminar course)
2010 – present
Cognitive Neuroscience – PSYC234 (Lecture course)
Graduate courses
2016
Cognitive Science Research Seminar – ICOS710 (Contributor for
1 session of team-taught course)
2015 – present
Graduate Seminar in Cognition – PSYC511
2015
Graduate Seminar in Cognitive Neuroscience – PSYC512
2012 – 2015
Introduction to Neuroscience for Special Masters Program –
NSC575 (Contributor for 1 session of team-taught course)
2011 – 2014
Survey course for Interdisciplinary Program in Neuroscience –
NSCI505 (Contributor for 1 session of team-taught course)
2011, 2014
Graduate Seminar in Lifespan Development: Brain and Cognition
- PSYC504 (Contributor for 1 session of team-taught course)
2010 – present
Systems and Cognitive Neuroscience for Interdisciplinary
Program in Neuroscience – NSCI503 (Contributor for 1 – 2
sessions of team-taught course)
Mentorship:
Post-doctoral
2015 – present
Dr. Emily Peterson (née Grossnickle)
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Graduate
Primary dissertation mentor
2016 – present
Richard Daker, Lifespan Cognitive Neuroscience Track,
Department of Psychology, Georgetown University (comentored with Ian Lyons)
2015 – present
Adam Weinberger, Lifespan Cognitive Neuroscience Track,
Department of Psychology, Georgetown University
2014
Emilee Naylor, Lifespan Cognitive Neuroscience Track,
Department of Psychology, Georgetown University (left program
for personal reasons)
2012 – 2014
Jessica Reed (née Ihne), Interdisciplinary Program in
Neuroscience, Georgetown University (co-mentored with Joseph
Callicott, NIMH; Dr. Reed successfully defended her thesis in
2014 and is currently a post-doc in the laboratory of Dr. Carlos
Zarate, Section on Neurobiology and Treatment of Mood
Disorders, NIMH)
Committee (dissertation / qualifying oral exam) member
2015
Kelly Michaelis, Interdisciplinary Program in Neuroscience, Georgetown
University Medical Center
2015
Gabrielle Torre, Interdisciplinary Program in Neuroscience, Georgetown
University Medical Center
2015
Elise Cardinale, Department of Psychology, Georgetown University
(qualifying committee member but not thesis committee member)
2015
Amanda DiBattista, Interdisciplinary Program in Neuroscience,
Georgetown University Medical Center
(qualifying committee member but not thesis committee member)
2014
Benson Stevens, Interdisciplinary Program in Neuroscience, Georgetown
University Medical Center
2013
Evan Gordon, Interdisciplinary Program in Neuroscience, Georgetown
University Medical Center
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Laboratory rotation and/or co-mentored research
2012 – present
Kevin Cook (Interdisciplinary Program in Neuroscience),
Hassan Aleem (Interdisciplinary Program in Neuroscience),
Edith Brignoni-Perez (Interdisciplinary Program in
Neuroscience),
Amanda DiBattista (Interdisciplinary Program in Neuroscience),
Benson Stevens (Interdisciplinary Program in Neuroscience)
Undergraduate
Research Intensive Senior Experience (RISE) mentor
2013
Hillary Raab (Department of Biology, Georgetown University)
Honors thesis co-mentor
2014
Katherine Speigel (Department of Psychology, Georgetown University)
Howard Hughes Medical Institution Summer Scholars mentor (mentors contribute $1,000 to support
scholars)
2013
Cory Reyes (Montgomery College; funded via scholarship for
first-generation college students)
2013
Hillary Raab (Department of Biology, Georgetown University)
2012
Hillary Raab (Department of Biology, Georgetown University)
Research assistant mentor
2011 – present
Research assistant mentor for 1 or more full semesters of the
academic year (*via Georgetown Undergraduate Research
Opportunities Program): Judy Kim (now a Ph.D. candidate at
Johns Hopkins University), Edward Fearon, Nicholas Parrott
(now a Ph.D. candidate on leave from Northwestern University),
J.P. Mikhaiel, Samantha Kreig, Christopher Yedibalian, Hillary
Raab* (now a Ph.D. candidate at Cornell University), Nathaniel
Liu*, Marie Sullivan*, Natalie Gallagher (now a Ph.D. candidate
at Northwestern University), Evan Giangrande* (now a Ph.D.
candidate at the University of Virginia), Hari Iyer (volunteered as
a recent graduate of Syracuse University), Gwendolyn English
(volunteered as a recent graduate of Stanford University; now a
Ph.D. candidate at the University of Zurich), Nathaniel Sergay
(volunteered as a recent graduate of Haverford College; now an
MD student at Mt. Sinai School of Medicine), Adam Weinberger
(volunteered as a recent graduate of Union College; now a Ph.D.
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candidate at Georgetown University), Charlotte Wright, Noa
Levy*, Eunyoung Kim*, Sunwoo Park, Sari Cooper, Nicholas
Stabile, Paola Mendez, Brittney Sweetser, Robert Cortes.
Summer 2016
Naomi Lanos (McGill University), Amar Ojha (Bates University),
Kyle Singerman (Washington and Lee University)
Summer 2015 – 16 Riva Dhalma (Tufts University)
Summer 2011
Cara Washington (University of Virginia)
Full-time research assistant/laboratory manager (employee)
2016 – present
Nhi Dinh (B.A. Earlham College)
2015 – 2017
Daniel Goldman (B.A. Wesleyan University)
2015
Michelle Quigley (Ph.D. Catholic University of America)
2013 – 2015
Natalie Gallagher (B.A. Georgetown University)
2012 – 2013
Megna Raksit (B.A. Duke University)
2011 – 2012
Victoria Thornton (M.A. Stanford University)
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SERVICE
Department:
2016 – present
Search committee for associate-level position in cognitive aging, Joint
appointment with Neuroscience (ongoing)
2016 – present,
2014 – 2015
Psychology department graduate committee
2015 – present
Co-director, Psychology department honors program
2015 – present
Working group to develop a research experience-based course credit
system for undergraduates
2014 – present
Faculty director, Georgetown chapter of Psi Chi (national psychology
honor society)
2014 – 2015
Psychology department search committee for tenure-track position,
Lifespan Cognitive Neuroscience track (successful recruitment of
department’s top choice candidate: Assistant Professor, Ian Lyons)
2013 – 2015
Psychology departmental integrated writing team
2011 – 2014
Psychology department library liaison
University:
2017 – present
Ad hoc committee on adding a natural science requirement to the
undergraduate core curriculum
2016 – present
Cognitive Science Executive Committee (interdepartmental graduate
program)
2015 – present
Steering committee for the minor in Cognitive Science
2015 – present
Director, Georgetown Research Volunteer Program (GRVP)
2015
Senior Awards Selection Committee (selection of senior undergraduate
recipients of the Coakley, Kraft, and McCahill awards presented at
College Tropaia exercises)
2015
Panelist, information session on the academic job search process for
graduate students and post-docs in the sciences
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2015
Panelist, Interdisciplinary Program in Neuroscience panel on career
development in neuroscience research (“How did I get here?”)
2014 – present
Interdisciplinary Program in Neuroscience Executive Committee (elected
to 3-year term)
2014 – present
Provost’s Undergraduate Research Council
2013 – present
Speaker at Neurofest for incoming Interdisciplinary Program in
Neuroscience students
2013
Participant, university-wide summer workshop on implementing the
University integrated writing plan
2013
Speaker, interdepartmental workshop on developing university-wide
collaborations for developmental research
2012 – 2014
Participant in formal and informal meetings to establish a Cognitive
Science concentration, integrating Ph.D. programs across departments
relevant to the cognitive sciences on the main and medical campuses.
(this initiative was organized by Dr. Elissa Newport).
2011, 2012
Panelist, psychology career information session for Georgetown
undergraduates
Community:
2015
Invited speaker, The Lab School – talk on the neuroscience of creativity
followed by discussion with faculty about how this research can inform
their curricula; Georgetown, Washington, DC
2012
Invited panelist, Georgetown Medical Center “Doctors Speak Out”
series for donors and community members
2012
Laboratory tour host for community donors to the GUMC Partners in
Research program
2012
Invited speaker, New Garden Friends School – talk introducing cognitive
neuroscience research to middle school students; Greensboro, NC
2011
Radio show guest for the Georgetown University Forum radio show – 1hour program on reasoning and creativity
2011-present
Program director of a volunteer weekend at Camp Carefree, a camp for
children with cognitive disabilities – I have facilitated the participation of
several Georgetown undergraduate and graduate students as volunteers.