Robert W. Wiley
(434) 953-5830
[email protected]
EDUCATION
Doctor of Philosophy, Cognitive Science
Johns Hopkins University, expected fall 2017
Teacher Certification, K-12 Foreign Language
North Park University, January 2010
Illinois State Board of Education, certified in French and endorsed in Arabic
Master of Arts, Middle Eastern Studies
University of Chicago, June 2008
Thesis: “Freedom of the Press As It Is: Mohammed VI’s Morocco”
Bachelor of Arts, French and Middle East Studies
University of Virginia, June 2006
Longevity of Academic Excellence Award, Office of African-American Affairs
Echols Scholar, College of Arts and Sciences
PUBLICATIONS
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Wiley, R. W. & Rapp, B. Statistical analysis in small-N designs: using linear mixedeffects modeling for evaluating intervention effectiveness. Under review,
Neuropsychological Rehabilitation.
Wiley, R. W., Wilson, C., & Rapp, B. (2016). The Effects of Alphabet and Expertise
on Letter Perception. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and
Performance, 42(8), 1186-1203. http://doi.org/10.1037/xhp0000213
PRESENTATIONS
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Using the local heterogeneity of neural responses to index the integrity of
representations and track recovery of function, Purcell, J., Wiley, R., & Rapp, B.
Paper presentation, Academy of Aphasia, Llandudno, Wales, UK. October
2016.
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Perceptual Processing of Orthography in Monoscriptal and Biscriptal Readers of
Arabic and English, R. Wiley & B. Rapp. Paper presentation, Second Language
Research Form 2016, Columbia University, New York. September 2016.
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Context-based predictions and errors in scene-selective cortex, R. Wiley & S. Park.
Poster, 2016 annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, St. Pete Beach,
Florida. May 2016.
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Visual Feature Weighting in Letter Identification: Mono and Bi-Scriptal Readers of
English and Arabic, R. Wiley and B. Rapp. Poster, International Meeting of the
Psychonomic Society, Granada, Spain. May 2016.
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Using Linear mixed-effects modeling to analyze small-N designs, R. Wiley. Invited
talk, Department of Cognitive Science, Macquarie University. April 2016.
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Addressing challenges for statistical analysis in small-group designs, R. Wiley and
B. Rapp. Paper, 2016 annual meeting of the American Educational Research
Association, Washington, DC. April 2016.
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A Novel approach for the analysis of treatment effects and training schedules in
acquired dysgraphia, J. Shea, R. Wiley, G. Ellenblum, D. Gotsch, and B. Rapp.
Poster presentation, Academy of Aphasia, Tucson, AZ. October 2015.
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Network coherence in the resting state: Differences between orthographic networks
and evolutionarily older networks, G. Ellenblum, J. Purcell, X. Song, R. Wiley,
and B. Rapp. Poster presentation, Society for Neurobiology of Language,
Chicago. October 2015.
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The Nature of visual features and the effects of expertise in the perception of letters,
R. Wiley, C. Wilson and B. Rapp. Poster presentation, 27 annual Association
for Psychological Science convention, New York. May 2015.
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The Influence on visual perception of visual expertise and non-visual knowledge, R.
Wiley and B. Rapp. Poster presentation, 54 annual meeting of the
Psychonomic Society, Toronto. November 2013.
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“Ta’aleem al-lugha al-‘arabiyya bil-madaaris ath-thaanawiyya: mithaal madrasa fee
Chicago” (“Secondary Education of the Arabic Language: A Case Study of
One School in Chicago”). Invited speaker, Arabic Department colloquium,
University of Chicago. October 2011.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Department of Cognitive Science, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD
• Teaching Assistant: Minds, Brains, & Computers (Spring 2013), Bilingualism (Fall
2013), Neuropsychology of Vision (Spring 2014), Cognition (Fall 2014), Cognitive
Neuroscience (Spring 2015), Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience (Fall 2015)
• Instructor: Cognitive Neuroscience (Spring 2016)
Lincoln Park High School, Chicago, IL
• Teacher, World Language Department, September 2008 – June 2012
Arabic Flagship Curriculum Alignment Team, Chicago Public Schools
• Office of Language and Cultural Education, March – June 2009
Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, University of Chicago
• Teaching Assistant, Arabic 101 - 103, June 2007 – June 2008
StarTalk/CPS Summer Arabic Immersion Program
• Co-teacher, Summer 2008 and 2009
FELLOWSHIPS AND GRANTS
Science of Learning Institute Distinguished Fellowship (Johns Hopkins University), 2015
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Two-year pre-dissertation fellowship, $70,000
American Councils Teachers of Critical Languages Program, 2009
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Co-author of federal grant funding for Lincoln Park High School an exchange
teacher from Egypt for the 2009-2010 school year.
American Councils Follow-on Project/Oppenheimer Foundation, 2010
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Co-author of a grant with Lincoln Park High School’s English department, to
fund a joint project/field-trip to the Oriental Institute Museum
Chicago Public Schools “Artists-inResidency” Grant, 2011
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Author of a grant funding Lincoln Park High School students twelve lessons with
a master of Arabic calligraphy as well as art supplies
SKILLS
Programming/Computer
• R
• Matlab
• E-prime
• Adobe Photoshop, After Effects
• Brain Voyager
Languages
• English: native
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French: near-native
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Arabic: highly proficient
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Spanish, Italian: proficient in
reading, limited conversational
skills