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1 CURRICULUM VITAE July 31, 2002 Sharon L. Thompson-Schill Personal Information Business Address Home Address Department of Psychology 3815 Walnut Street University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PA tel (215) fax (215) South 47th Street Philadelphia, PA tel: (215) Date and Place of Birth June 24, 1970 Washington, D.C. Education B.A. Davidson College (Psychology) Magna Cum Laude with Honors in Psychology Ph.D. Stanford University (Cognitive Psychology) Dissertation: Context effects on word recognition: Implications for models of lexical representation Post-doctoral Fellow University of Pennsylvania (Psychology) Faculty Appointments Instructor of Psychology Stanford University 1996 Instructor of Psychology College of Notre Dame 1999-present 1999-present Adjunct Scientist, Moss Rehabilitation Research Institute Assistant Professor of Psychology and Neurology University of Pennsylvania

2 University Affiliations 1998-present 1999-present 1999-present S. L. Thompson-Schill 2 Member, Institute for Research in Cognitive Science Member, The David Mahoney Institute of Neurological Sciences Member, Department of Neuroscience Graduate Group Honors and Awards 1989 Fellow, Pew Foundation for the Carolinas-Ohio Science Education Network 1991 Phi Beta Kappa 1991 William Gatewood Workman Award for Excellence in Psychology, Davidson College 1994 Centennial Teaching Assistant Award, Stanford University 1995 Graduate Research Opportunities Award, Stanford University 1997 Fellow, McDonnell Summer Institute in Cognitive Neuroscience 1999 Professional Opportunities for Women in Research and Education Award, National Science Foundation 2000 Searle Scholars Award 2001 Professors Hall of Fame, 2001 Undergraduate Course Guide, Univ of Penn Grants McDonnell-Pew Program in Cognitive Neuroscience, Investigator-initiated grant, "Cognitive Neuropsychological Models of Category Specificity", , Principal Investigator ($105,000 direct costs) National Institute on Aging, National Research Service Award, "Models of Semantic Impairment in Alzheimer's Disease", , Principal Investigator ($52,860 direct costs) National Science Foundation, Semantic and Executive Functions of Prefrontal Cortex, , Principal Investigator ($46,276 direct costs) University of Pennsylvania Research Foundation, Effects of Prefrontal Lesions on Semantic and Executive Functions, , Principal Investigator ($15,000 direct costs) National Institutes of Health, R01MH/NS60414, Neural Bases of Semantic Memory, , Principal Investigator ($800,000 direct costs) Searle Scholars Program, Linguistic and Non-linguistic Functions of Prefrontal Cortex, Principal Investigator ($240,000 direct costs) National Institutes of Health, R01DC04052, An fmri Investigation of Language in Both Hemispheres, , Co-Investigator ($1,000,000 direct costs) National Institutes of Health, R01MH62103, Word Encoding and Recognition in Schizophrenia, , Co-Investigator ($750,000 direct costs) National Institutes of Health, R01DC04817, Concepts and Language, , Co- Investigator ($1,250,000 direct costs, pending final approval) National Institutes of Health, R01MH67008, Linguistic and Nonlinguistic Functions of Frontal Cortex, Principal Investigator ($1,250,000 direct costs, pending final approval)

3 Research Interests S. L. Thompson-Schill 3 Functions of the frontal lobe, especially in relation to language and memory processes in the normal functioning brain (fmri) and following focal damage or disease Neuropsychological and computational models of semantic memory, in healthy people and in patients with aphasia or Alzheimer's disease, as revealed by measurements of semantic priming, conceptual forms of implicit memory, and functional magnetic resonance imaging (fmri) Memberships in Professional and Scientific Societies American Psychological Association American Psychological Society Cognitive Neuroscience Society Psychonomic Society Society for Neuroscience Professional Activities Ad-Hoc Reviewer: Brain Cerebral Cortex Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience Cognitive Psychology Cortex Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience Journal of the International Neuropsychological. Society Memory & Cognition Nature Neuroscience National Science Foundation Neuroimage Neurocase Neuron Neuropsychologia Neuropsychology Psychological Review Psychological Science Psychonomic Bulletin and Review Trends in Cognitive Sciences Statistical Consulting: 1990 Clinical Neuropsychiatry Dept, F. Hoffmann-La Roche; Switzerland Association for Support of Graduate Students Private national consultation service based in Lake Tahoe, NV Summer Honors Institute, Stanford University 1996-present Academic Consultants International Private international consulting service based in Foster City, CA

4 Academic Committees: Stanford University Graduate admissions committee Graduate faculty-student liason S. L. Thompson-Schill Coordinator of Stanford-Berkeley Symposium in Cognitive Psychology 1995 Statistics Curriculum Committee University of Pennsylvania Cognitive Neuroscience Search Committee, Psychology Graduate Admissions Committee, Psychology 2000 Cognitive Science 2000 Annual Meeting Program Committee 2000 Summer Workshop Program Committee, IRCS 2000 present School of Arts and Sciences Curriculum Committee, SAS 2000 present Co-director of IRCS Summer Workshop, IRCS 2000 present Retreat Planning Committee, INS 2001 present Graduate Group Academic Review Committee, Neuroscience 2001 present Graduate Group Advisory Committee, Psychology 2001 present Undergraduate Curriculum Committee, Psychology 2001 present Institute for Neurological Sciences Advisory Committee 2001 present Provost s Strategic Planning Committee 2000 present Junior Advising, Psychology 2002 present Society for Neuroscience Education Committee Teaching Activities Instructor, Undergraduate Courses: Instructor, Graduate Courses: Lecturer: Introduction to Psychology Statistical Methods Learning, Memory, and Cognition Human Neuropsychology Introduction to Cognitive Neuroscience Cognitive Neuroscience Proseminar Cognitive Neuroscience of Memory Seminar in selected topics in cognitive neuroscience Systems Neuroscience (graduate course) IRCS Summer Workshop in Cognitive Science Brain Awareness Week

5 5 Teaching Activities, cont. Graduate students: Undergraduate honors students: Stacey Schaeffer (1999-present) Laura Barde (2000-present) Irene Kan (2001-present) Robyn Oliver (2001-present) Marina Bedny (2001-present) Michael Herzlinger ( ) Allison Lapchak ( ) Nathan Withoft ( ) Jessica Savage (2001) Jennifer Townsend (2001) Sandy Yim (2002) Sarah Thompson (2002-present) Corey Pierson (2002-present) Hilary Smolen (2002-present) Lectures by Invitation July 1997 October 1997 October 1997 October 1997 January 1998 February 1998 February 1998 Functional neuroimaging: lighting up the brain Davidson College Neuropsychological models of semantic knowledge retrieval Martinez Veteran's Administration Neuropsychological models of semantic knowledge retrieval University of California, Davis Neuropsychological models of semantic knowledge retrieval Stanford University Neural bases of semantic memory University of Pennsylvania Neural bases of semantic memory University of Virginia Neural bases of semantic memory Bryn Mawr College

6 6 February 1998 March 1998 March 1998 February 1999 June 1999 Neural bases of semantic memory University of Chicago Role of prefrontal cortex in semantic retrieval Temple University Neural bases of semantic memory Princeton University Role of prefrontal cortex in semantic retrieval Stanford University Repetition and competition during semantic retrieval National Institutes of Health September 1999 Role of prefrontal cortex in semantic retrieval Emory University August 2000 October 2000 April 2001 July 2001 Cognitive Neuroscience for Cognitive Scientists (Memory) Cognitive Science Society Conference, Philadelphia Role of prefrontal cortex in semantic retrieval Yale University Is neuroimaging the new phrenology? Insights and examples. Villanova University Neural substrates of visual semantic knowledge 3 rd International Conference on Memory (Valencia, Spain) November 2001 Is neuroimaging the new phrenology? Insights and examples. Swarthmore College Bibliography Research Publications, peer-reviewed 1. Lorscheid, T., & Thompson, S. L. (1991). Intrusion errors in patients with degenerative or vascular dementia: The cholinergic connection? Dementia, 1, Illes, J., Gabrieli, J., Rumelhart, D., Stone, M. V., Thompson-Schill, S. L., & Glover, G. H. (1993). Use of a skip-echo Hadamard sequence for localizing cortical activation to visual words. Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging, 3, Bower, G. H., Thompson-Schill, S. L., & Tulving, E. (1994). On reducing retroactive interference: An interference analysis. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 20,

7 7 4. Thompson-Schill, S. L., D'Esposito, M., Aguirre, G. K., & Farah, M. J. (1997). Role of left prefrontal cortex in retrieval of semantic knowledge: A re-evaluation. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, 94, Thompson-Schill, S. L., Kurtz, K. J., Gabrieli, J. D. E. (1998). Effects of semantic and associative relatedness on automatic priming. Journal of Memory and Language, 38, Thompson-Schill, S. L., Swick, D., Farah, M. J., D'Esposito, M., Kan, I. P., & Knight, R. T. (1998). Verb generation in patients with focal frontal lesions: A neuropsychological test of neuroimaging findings. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, 95, Thompson-Schill, S. L. & Gabrieli, J. D. E. (1999). Priming of visual and functional knowledge on a semantic classification task. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 25, Thompson-Schill, S. L., Aguirre, G. K., D'Esposito, M., & Farah, M. J. (1999). A neural basis for category and modality specificity of semantic knowledge. Neuropsychologia, 37, Thompson-Schill, S. L., D Esposito, M., & Kan, I. P. (1999). Effects of repetition and competition on prefrontal activity during word generation. Neuron, 23, Thompson-Schill, S. L., Gabrieli, J. D. E., & Fleischman, D. A. (2000). Effects of structural similarity and name frequency on picture naming in Alzheimer's disease. Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society, 5, Gabrieli, J. D. E., Vaidya, C. J., Stone, M. V., Francis, W. S., Thompson-Schill, S. L., Fleischman, D. A., Tinklenberg, J. R., Yesavage, J. A., & Wilson, R. S. (2000). Convergent behavioral and neurospychological evidence for a distinction between identification and production forms of repetition priming. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 128, Thompson-Schill, S. L. & Kan, I. P. (2001). Perceptual and conceptual sources of priming on a word generation task. Memory and Cognition, 29, Barde, L. H. F. & Thompson-Schill, S. L. (in press). Models of functional organization of lateral prefrontal cortex in verbal working memory: Evidence in favor of the process model. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. 14. Schaefer, S.M., Jackson, D.C., Davidson, R.J., Kimberg, D.Y., & Thompson-Schill, S.L. (in press). Modulation of amygdala activity by conscious maintenance of negative emotion. 15. Thompson-Schill, S. L., Jonides, J., Marshuetz, C., Smith, E. E., D Esposito, M., Kan, I. P., Knight, R. T., & Swick, D. (2002). Effects of frontal lobe damage on interference effects in working memory. Journal of Cognitive, Affective & Behavioral Neuroscience, 2,

8 8 16. Thompson-Schill, S. L. (in press). Neuroimaging studies of semantic memory: inferring how from where. Neuropsychologia. Research Publications Under Review / In Preparation 1. Tippett, L. J., Gendall, A., Thompson-Schill, S. L., & Farah, M. J. (submitted). Selection ability in Alzheimer s disease: Investigation of a component of semantic processing. 2. Kan, I. P., Barsalou, L. W., Solomon, K. O., Minor, J. K., Thompson-Schill, S. L. (submitted). Role of mental imagery in a property verification task: fmri evidence for perceptual representations of conceptual knowledge. Invited submission for special issue of Cognitive Neuropsychology. 3. Schwoebel, J., Witthoft, N., Kimberg, D. Y., Thompson-Schill, S. L., & Coslett, H. B. (submitted). Neural bases of multiple human body representations: Evidence from fmri. 4. Barde, H. F., Baynes, K., Gage, N. M., Thompson-Schill, S. L., & Kickok, G. (in preparation). Phonemic perception in aphasia and the role of the isolated right hemisphere in auditory language processing. 5. Thompson-Schill, S. L., Swick, D., Knight, R. T., D'Esposito, M., Kan, I. P., & Farah, M. J. (in preparation). Lesions of the left inferior frontal gyrus affect selection, not retrieval, of semantic knowledge. Invited submission for special issue of Neuropsychologia. 6. Kan, I. P., Minor, J. K., & Thompson-Schill, S. L. (in preparation). Effect of name agreement on prefrontal activity during overt and covert picture naming. 7. Oliver, R. & Thompson-Schill, S. L. (in preparation). The large and small of it: Thinking about size. Chapters 1. Lorscheid, T., & Thompson, S. L. (1991). Intrusion errors: A new look at an old measure. In I. Hindmarch, H. Hippius, & G. Wilcock (Eds.), Dementia: Molecules, Methods, and Measures. London: Wiley & Sons, Jonides, J., Badre, D., Curtis, C., Thompson-Schill, S.L., & Smith, E.E. (in press). Mechanisms of interference resolution in prefrontal cortex. In D. Stuss and R.T. Knight (Eds.), The Frontal Lobes. 3. Thompson-Schill, S. L. (in press). Neural basis of mental imagery. In Encyclopedia of Life Sciences. London: Nature Publishing Group. 4. Thompson-Schill, S. L. (in press). Semantic memory: Neurobiological perspectives. In H. Eichenbaum, H. Roediger, & R. F. Thompson (Eds.) Learning and Memory, Second edition.

9 9 Books 1. Palmer, E. & Thompson-Schill, S. L. (1997). GRE Psychology: How to Prepare for the Graduate Record Examination in Psychology (4th ed.). New York: Barron's Educational Series. 2. Palmer, E. & Thompson-Schill, S. L. (2001). GRE Psychology: How to Prepare for the Graduate Record Examination in Psychology (5th ed.). New York: Barron's Educational Series. Abstracts / Papers Presented 1. Thompson, S. L. The roles of automaticity and effort in the use of a selective attention strategy in preschool children. Presented at the annual meeting of North Carolina Cognition Group, November Thompson, S. L., & Bower, G. H. Interfering with retroactive interference: A theory of intra-list response competition. Presented at the Stanford-Berkeley Symposium in Cognitive Psychology, May Illes, J., Gabrieli, J., Rumelhart, D., Stone, M. V., Thompson-Schill, S. L., & Glover, G. H. Use of a skip-echo Hadamard sequence for localizing cortical activation to visual words. Presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Thompson-Schill, S. L., Gabrieli, J. D. E., Vaidya, C. J. Conceptual priming in Alzheimer's disease. Presented at the Stanford-Berkeley Symposium in Cognitive Psychology, June Thompson-Schill, S. L., Gabrieli, J. D. E. Symmetrical semantic priming of asymmetrically associated word pairs. Presented at the annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, November Thompson-Schill, S. L., Gabrieli, J. D. E., Vaidya, C. J., Grinnell, E., & Fleischman, D. A. (1994). Preserved identification but impaired generation of repeated stimuli in conceptual priming tasks in patients with Alzheimer's disease. Society for Neuroscience Abstracts, 20, Askari, N., Vaidya, C. J., Jacobson, B., Thompson-Schill, S. L., Lange, K. L., Fleischman, D. A., & Gabrieli, J. D. E. (1996). Dissociation between two forms of conceptual implicit memory in Alzheimer's disease: Role of attention. Society for Neuroscience Abstracts, 22, Thompson-Schill, S. L., Aguirre, G. K., D'Esposito, M., & Farah, M. J. Category and domain specificity of semantic memory: An fmri study. Presented at the annual meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, March 1997.

10 10 9. Thompson-Schill, S. L., D'Esposito, M., Aguirre, G. K., & Farah, M. J. (1997). Role of left prefrontal cortex in retrieval of semantic knowledge: A re-evaluation. Society for Neuroscience Abstracts, 23, Farah, M. J., D'Esposito, M., Aguirre, G. K., & Thompson-Schill, S. L. (1997). BOLD fmri signal in left prefrontal cortex depends of specificity of semantic retrieval. Society for Neuroscience Abstracts, 23, Thompson-Schill, S. L., D'Esposito, M., Aguirre, G. K., & Farah, M. J. (1997). Left prefrontal cortex mediates selection, not retrieval, of semantic knowledge. Abstracts of the Psychonomic Society, 2, Thompson-Schill, S. L., Swick, D., D'Esposito, M., Knight, R. T., Kan, I. P., & Farah, M. J. (1998). Lesions of the left inferior frontal gyrus impair selection, not retrieval, of semantic knowledge. Presented at the annual meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, April Thompson-Schill, S. L. Role of prefrontal cortex in semantic retrieval. Presented at PIRCS-FEST, Institute for Research in Cognitive Science, University of Pennsylvania, March Thompson-Schill, S. L., D Esposito, M., & Kan, I. P. (1998). Effects of repetition and competition in left prefrontal cortex during word generation. Society for Neuroscience Abstracts, 24, Thompson-Schill, S. L., & Kan, I. P. (1998). Domain-specific and non-specific priming of semantic knowledge. Abstracts of the Psychonomic Society, 3, Thompson-Schill, S. L., D Esposito, M., & Kan, I. P. (1999). Double dissociation of frontal and temporal lobe contributions to semantic memory. Cognitive Neuroscience Society Annual Meeting Program 1999, Thompson-Schill, S. L., Jonides, J., Marshuetz, C., Smith, E. E., D Esposito, M., Kan, I. P., Knight, R. T., & Swick, D. (1999). Impairments in the executive control of working memory following prefrontal damage: A case study. Society for Neuroscience Abstracts. 18. Kan, I. P., D Esposito, M., Kimberg, D. Y., & Thompson-Schill, S. L. (1999). An fmri investigation of the nature of competition effects on prefrontal activity during word generation. Society for Neuroscience Abstracts. 19. Thompson-Schill, S. L. & Kan, I. P. (2000). Relationship between response set size and prefrontal activity during verbal fluency. Cognitive Neuroscience Annual Meeting Program 2000, Thompson-Schill, S. L., Barsalou, L. W., Solomon, K. O., Minor, J. K., Kan, I. P. (2000). Role of mental imagery in a property verification task: fmri evidence for perceptual semantic representations. Society for Neuroscience Abstracts, 26, 1500.

11 Schaefer, S.M., Jackson, D.C., Davidson, R.J., Kimberg, D.Y, & Thompson-Schill, S.L. (2000). Amygdala activity is modulated by conscious maintenance of negative emotion. Society for Neuroscience Abstracts, 26, Kan, I. P., Minor, J. K., Thompson-Schill, S. L., & Chatterjee, A. (2001). Rewriting to write: Exploring the graphemic buffer. Cognitive Neuroscience Society Annual Meeting Program 2001, Minor, J. K., Kan, I. P., & Thompson-Schill, S. L. (2001). Effect of name agreement on prefrontal activity during overt and covert picture naming. Cognitive Neuroscience Society Annual Meeting Program 2001, Barde, L.H.F., Hickok, G.S., Gage, N.M., & Thompson-Schill, S.L. (2001). A reevaluation of phonemic perception errors n auditory language comprehension: Studies from aphasia. Cognitive Neuroscience Society Annual Meeting Program 2001, Tippett, L., Gendall, A., Thompson-Schill, S. L., & Farah, M. J. (2001). Selection ability in Alzheimer s disease. Cognitive Neuroscience Society Annual Meeting Program 2001, Thompson-Schill, S. L., Jonides, J., Marshuetz, C., Smith, E. E., D Esposito, M., Kan, I. P., Knight, R. T., & Swick, D. (2001). Effects of frontal lobe damage on interference effects in working memory. Abstracts of the Psychonomic Society. 27. Schaefer, S.M., Jackson, D.C., Davidson, R.J., Kimberg, D.Y, & Thompson-Schill, S.L. (2001). Role of lateral prefrontal cortex in conscious maintenance of negative emotion. Society for Neuroscience Abstracts, Barde, L.H.F., & Thompson-Schill, S.L. (2001). Models of functional organization of lateral prefrontal cortex in verbal working memory: Evidence in favor of a process model. Society for Neuroscience Abstracts, Kan, I. P. & Thompson-Schill, S. L. (2002). Semantic processing in Chinese-English bilinguals: an fmri study of cross-language conceptual priming. Cognitive Neuroscience Society Annual Meeting Program. 30. Shivde, G., Barde, L. H. F., & Thompson-Schill, S. L. (2002). Delay-related activity while maintaining semantic and phonological information in working memory: Evidence from event-related fmri. Society for Neuroscience Abstracts, 28.

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