Iver Hans Iversen Department of Psychology University of North Florida

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1 1 Spring 2010 CURRICULUM VITA Iver Hans Iversen Department of Psychology University of North Florida Education University of Copenhagen, Denmark. Department of Psychology and Institute of Neurophysiology. Degree: "Magister Konferens" (eq. to Ph.D), Major field: Experimental Psychology (Experimental Analysis of Behavior). Professional Employment 1993-present Professor. Tenured, University of North Florida 1998/99 Visiting Professor. University of Tuebingen, Germany. (one year) Associate Professor. Tenured. University of North Florida Visiting Professor. Kyoto University, Japan. (one year) Assistant Professor. University of North Florida Visiting Assistant Professor. Whitman College, Walla Walla, WA Post-Doctoral Scientist in Behavioral Pharmacology. Southwest Foundation for Biomedical Research, San Antonio, Texas. With Dr. I. Geller Research Psychologist in experimental psychology. Fellowship from University of Copenhagen for research at Institute of Neurophysiology, Copenhagen, and at Department of Psychology at Northeastern University, Boston. With Dr. M. Sidman Post-Doctoral Fellow in Behavioral Biology. The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland. With Dr. J. Brady. Competitive Awards From University of North Florida 2003, Spring Summer Teaching Grant 2002, Spring Distinguished Professor-Runner Up Award 2000, Spring Outstanding Faculty Scholarship Award 1997, Spring Distinguished Professor-Runner Up Award 1996, Fall Teaching Incentive Program (TIP) Award

2 2 General Competitive Grants/Fellowships 2002, Summer Stipend from Max Planck Institute of Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany, for 2 months summer research 1998/2000 Grant from National Science Foundation for Instrumentation and Laboratory Improvement at UNF (in collaboration with Dr. Eisler at Psychology, Iversen as principal investigator) 1998 One-year research fellowship from German Research Council for research at the Institute of Medical Psychology, University of Tuebingen, Germany (while on research leave from UNF) Best Paper award from Japanese Psychological Association for a publication in Japanese Psychological Research (in English) 1997, Summer Fellowship from Kyoto University, Japan, for summer research at Primate Research Institute, Kyoto, Japan 1996, Summer Fellowship from Kyoto University, Japan, for summer research at Primate Research Institute, Kyoto, Japan 1994, Summer Fellowship from Kyoto University, Japan, for summer research at Primate Research Institute, Kyoto, Japan 1992/93 Japanese Ministry of Education Fellowship for research at Primate Research Institute, Kyoto University (while on sabbatical leave from UNF, one year) Primary Teaching at UNF I have taught a variety of classes for undergraduate students at UNF: Introduction to Psychology, Research Methods, Learning Theory, Behavior Modification, Experimental analysis of Behavior (with animal laboratory), Human Learning and Performance (with laboratory), and special topic Senior Seminars in behavior analysis. In addition to teaching, I have directed numerous students in their Independent Directed Studies. My main teaching emphasis has been on Research Methods, Experimental Analysis of Behavior, Human Learning, and Behavior Modification. Teaching in these classes centers on methods of research, data analysis, and basic principles of learning. In Experimental Analysis of Behavior, students conduct experiments on basic learning principles with live animals (rats). In Human Learning and Performance, students conduct experiments on human motor behavior in computerized aiming tasks. In Behavior Modification, students learn about application of basic learning principles to human therapy and they conduct a study of some aspect of their own behavior. In Research Methods students learn basic methods of research, data analysis, and writing of research reports. In sum, to emphasize that psychology is a discipline within the general sciences, my classes have a strong emphasis on methods of scientific analysis of behavior. Primary Research Interests At UNF s animal learning laboratory, I use rats to study a) circadian rhythms of learned behavior, b) stimulus control; specifically how chains of learned behavior are formed and broken down, c) how learned behavior is maintained over long periods of time, and d) how significant environmental events come to determine when specific behaviors will occur. The from 1993 to 2000 a good part of my research was done during the summers at Primate Research Institute, Kyoto University, Japan, where I established automated methods to train chimpanzees to perform complex human-like behaviors such as drawing the letters of the alphabet. I have collaborated with researchers at the new Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany, also on the research

3 3 topic of complex primate behavior. With researchers at University of Athens, Georgia I collaborate on projects on studies of complex learned behavior in capuchin monkeys. With researchers at University of Tuebingen, Germany, I have participated in the development of an automated communication tool for totally paralyzed human patients that teaches them to use brainwaves to control a cursor on a computer monitor to select letters for communication. In sum, I study basic principles of learning from rats through chimpanzees to the ultimate application of the principles in the human domain to help improve the life conditions of disadvantaged human patients. I have developed proficient skills in developing novel equipment for behavior research and programming skills to interface experimental equipment with control equipment and computers using languages such as QuickBasic, LibertyBasic, and VisualBasic. Professional Service Membership of Editorial Boards: Behavior Analysis Letters ( ); Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior ( ); The Behavior Analyst ( ); Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior ( ); Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis ( ); Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior ( ); Primatologie ( present); European Journal of Behavior Analysis (2000 present); Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior ( ). Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior ( ). Mexican Journal of Behavior Analysis ( ) Guest Reviewer: Pharmacology, Biochemistry, & Behavior; Neurobehavioral Toxicology & Teratology; The Psychological Record; Psychological Bulletin; American Psychologist; Journal of the Acoustical Society of America; Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior; Primates; Brain and Behavior Research; Japanese Psychological Research; Animal Learning and Behavior; Animal Cognition; Behavioural Processes. Neuroscience Letters. International Journal of Primatology. Book and Grant Reviewer: Books: Arnold Publishing House, Mayfield Publishing Company. Grants: National Science Foundation, National Research Council. Consultation work: Novo Nordisk, Denmark, (a Pharmaceutical company that studies the effects of drugs on learned behavior in rats); Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany, (an institute that conducts a comprehensive study of ape cognition); Primate Research Institute, Kyoto University, Japan (a research institute dedicated to the study of primates including ape cognition); Psychology Department, University of Athens, Georgia (a project aimed at teaching capuchin monkeys to draw on a touch monitor); Institute of Medical Psychology, University of Tuebingen, Germany, (a research institute dedicated to application of medical and psychological principles to help human patients with paralysis and other neurological impairments); Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville (consultant on research project on animal models of nicotine addiction). Books: Publications Henton, W. W., & Iversen, I. H. (1978). Classical conditioning and operant conditioning: A response pattern analysis. New York: Springer-Verlag. Iversen, I. H., & Lattal, K. A. (Eds.) (1991). Techniques in the behavioral and neural sciences: Experimental analysis of behavior, Part 1. Amsterdam: Elsevier. Iversen, I. H., & Lattal, K. A. (Eds.) (1991). Techniques in the behavioral and neural sciences: Experimental analysis of behavior, Part 2. Amsterdam: Elsevier.

4 4 Research Articles: Henton, W. W., & Iversen, I. H. (1973). An inexpensive feeder for rapid delivery of monkey pellets. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 19, Iversen, I. H. (1975). Concurrent responses during multiple schedules in rats. Scandinavian Journal of Psychology, 15, Iversen, I. H. (1975). Interactions between lever pressing and collateral drinking during VI with limited hold. The Psychological Record, 25, Iversen, I. H. (1975). Reciprocal response interactions in concurrent variable-interval and discrete-trial fixed-ratio schedules. Scandinavian Journal of Psychology, 16, Iversen, I. H. (1976). Interactions between reinforced responses and collateral responses. The Psychological Record, 26, Iversen, I. H. (1977). Reinforcement omission and schedule-induced drinking in a response-independent schedule in rats. Physiology and Behavior, 18, Iversen, I. H. (1981). Response interactions with signaled delay of reinforcement. Behavior Analysis Letters, 1, 3-9. Iversen, I. H. (1981). Response interactions with unidirectional changeover delay in concurrent schedules. In C. M. Bradshaw (Ed.), International symposium on recent developments in the quantification of steady-state operant behavior, pp Amsterdam: Elsevier. Iversen, I. H., Ragnarsdottir, G. A., & Randrup, K. I. (1984). Operant conditioning of autogrooming in vervet monkeys (Cercopithecus aethiops). Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 42, Turkkan, J. S., Iversen, I. H., & Harris, A. H. (1984). Discriminative control of hyperdipsic drinking in the baboon. Physiology and Behavior, 33, Iversen, I. H. (1985). Response interactions in multiple schedules: The influence of response displacement. The Psychological Record, 35, Iversen, I. H. (1985). Restricted access to collateral behavior affects operant behavior on variable-interval schedules. The Psychological Record, 35, Iversen, I. H. (1986). Time allocation, sequential, and kinematic analyses of behaviors controlled by an aperiodic reinforcement schedule. The Psychological Record, 36, Iversen, I. H., Sidman, M., & Carrigan, P. (1986). Stimulus definition in conditional discriminations. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 45, Mogensen, J., Iversen, I. H., & Divac, I. (1987). Neostriatal lesions impaired rat's delayed alternation in a T-maze but not in a two-key operant chamber. Acta Neurobiologiae Experimentalis, 47, Iversen, I. H. & Mogensen, J. (1988). A multipurpose vertical holeboard with automated recording of spatial and temporal visit patterns for rodents. Journal of Neuroscience Methods, 25,

5 5 Iversen, I. H. (1991). Methods of analyzing behavior patterns. In I. H. Iversen and K. A. Lattal (Eds.), Techniques in the Behavioral and Neural Sciences: Experimental Analysis of Behavior, Part 2. Amsterdam: Elsevier. Iversen, I. H. (1992). Skinner's early research: From reflexology to operant conditioning. American Psychologist, 47, Iversen, I. H. (1993). Acquisition of matching-to-sample performance in rats using visual stimuli on nose keys. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 59, Iversen, I. H. (1993). Techniques for establishing schedules with wheel running as reinforcement in rats. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 60, Iversen, I. H. (1994). From biological learning to machine learning. First International Symposium on Integrating Knowledge and Neural Heuristics. IEEE Neural Network Council, pp Iversen, I. H., & Matsuzawa, T. (1996). Visually guided drawing in the chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes). Japanese Psychological Research, 38, Iversen, I. H. (1997). Matching-to-sample performance in rats: A case of mistaken identity. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 60, Iversen, I. H. & Matsuzawa, T. (1997). Model guided line drawing in the chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes). Japanese Psychological Research, 39, (in English). (Received an award from Japanese Psychological Association.) Iversen, I. H. (1998). Simple and conditional visual discrimination with wheel running as reinforcement in rats. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 70, Birbaumer, N., Ghanayim, N., Hinterberger, T., Iversen, I., Kotchoubey, B., Kuebler, A. Perelmouter, J., Taub, E., & Flor, H. (1999). A spelling device for the paralyzed. Nature, 398, Birbaumer, N., Kuebler, A., Ghanayim, N., Hinterberger, T., Perelmouter, J., Kaiser, J., Iversen, I., Kotchoubey, B., Neumann, N., & Flor, H. (2000). The thought-translation device (TTD) for completely paralyzed patients. IEEE Transactions on Rehabilitation and Engineering, 8, Iversen, I. H. & Matsuzawa, T. (2001). Establishing line tracing on a touchmonitor as a basic drawing skill in chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes). In T. Matsuzawa (Ed.), Primate origin of human cognition and behavior. Tokyo: Springer Verlag. (pp ). Kaiser, J., Perelmouter, J., Iversen, I. H., Neumann, N., Ghanayim, N., Hinterberger, T., Kuebler, A., Kotchoubey, B., & Birbaumer, N. (2001). Self-initiation of EEG-based communication in paralyzed patients. Clinical Neurophysiology, 112, Iversen, I. H., & Matsuzawa, T. (2001). Acquisition of navigation in an automated finger maze task for the chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes). Animal Cognition, 4, Iversen, I. H. (2002). Response-initiated imaging of operant behavior using a digital camera. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 77,

6 6 Iversen, I. H., & Matsuzawa, T. (2003). Development of interception of moving targets by chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) in an automated task. Animal Cognition, 6, Iversen, I. H. (2006). Contingencies of reinforcement in stimulus control. European Journal of Behavior Analysis, 7, Boules, M., Iversen, I., Oliveros, A., Shaw, A., Williams, K., Robinson, J., Fredrickson, P.,& Richelson, E.. (2007). The neurotensin receptor agonist, NT69L, suppresses sucrosereinforced operant behavior in the rat. Brain Research, 1127, Iversen, I. H. (2008). An inexpensive and automated method for presenting olfactory or tactile stimuli to rats in a two-choice discrimination task. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 90, Iversen I.H., Ghanayim N, Kübler A, Neumann N, Birbaumer N, & Kaiser J. (2008a). A braincomputer interface tool to assess cognitive functions in completely paralyzed patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. Clinical Neurophysiology, 119, Iversen I.H., Ghanayim N, Kübler A, Neumann N, Birbaumer N, & Kaiser J. (2008b). Conditional associative learning examined in a paralyzed patient with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis using brain-computer interface technology. Behavioral and Brain Functions, 4:53 doi: / (open access online journal) Publications with students at University of North Florida: Rasey, H., & Iversen, I. H. (1993). An experimental acquisition of maladaptive behavior by shaping. Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry, 24, Walker, B. P., & Iversen, I. H. (2003). Conditioning respiration with positive self-reinforcement: Transferring slow, deep diaphragmatic breathing to everyday living. Psi Chi Journal of Undergraduate Research, 8, Reviews and Commentaries: Iversen, I. H. (1988). Tactics of graphic design: A review of Tufte's The Visual Display of Quantitative Information. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 49, (Book review). Iversen, I. H. (1988). How to change behavior? The Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 11, (Commentary) Iversen, I. H. (1994). Reply to Harrison: The representative method. The Behavior Analyst, 17, (Commentary) Iversen, I. H. (1998), Jennie. Primatologie, 1, (Book review). Iversen, I. H. (2005). Basic research, application, ethics, and recommendations regarding noncontingent reinforcement procedures. European Journal of Behavior Analysis, 6,

7 7 Conference Presentations (To save space, I list only presentations since 1998) Papers: Automated training of line drawing and object movement (in fingermaze and sorting tasks) on a touch-sensitive monitor in captive chimpanzees. Presentation at Measuring Behavior '98, Groningen, The Netherlands. (1998, August). Problems regarding interpretations of data from matching-to-sample tasks. Presentation at Fourth International congress on Behaviorism and the Sciences of Behavior, Seville, Spain. (1998, November). Methods of teaching chimpanzees to draw reliably on a touchmonitor. Presentation at Fourth International congress on Behaviorism and the Sciences of Behavior, Seville, Spain. (1998, November). Development of EEG-driven communication and cognitive assessment tools for ALS patients. Presentation at 9 th International Symposium on ALS/MND, Munich, Germany. (1998, November). Making totally paralyzed patients move by translating their brainwaves into cursor action on a monitor. Presentation at Measuring Behavior 2000, Nijmegen, The Netherlands. (2000, August). Navigation on a touch monitor in finger mazes and interception tasks in chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes), Presentation at International Primatology Society, Adelaide, Australia (2001, January). Teaching matching to sample to totally paralyzed patients by translating their brainwaves into cursor movement on a monitor. (In collaboration with researchers from University of Tuebingen, Germany). Presentation at International Association for Behavior Analysis, Venice, Italy. (2001, November). Dissociating the three-term contingency: The role of the response. Presentation at International Association for Behavior Analysis, Venice, Italy. (2001, November). Some causes of pauses in operant behavior. Presentation at International Association for Behavior Analysis, Venice, Italy. (2001, November). Drawing on PowerPoint slides on a Tablet PC in the classroom. Presentation at 15 th International Conference on College Teaching and Learning, Jacksonville, Florida. (2004, March). An automated sorting task for chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes), Presentation at International Primatology Society, Turin, Italy (2004, July). The role of feedback in human motor learning. Presentation at Association for Behavior Analysis, Atlanta. (2006, May). The role of remote stimuli in the control of behavior. Presentation at Association for Behavior Analysis, Atlanta. (2006, May). Contingencies for collateral behavior affect choice in concurrent operant performances in rats. Presentation at European Association for Behavior Analysis, Milan, Italy. (2006, June).

8 8 An Automated Touchscreen Drawing Task for captive capuchin monkeys (Cebus Apella). With: T. Jeyaraj, K. A. Leighty, & D. Fragaszy from University of Georgia, Athens. Presentation at European Association for Behavior Analysis, Milan, Italy. (2006, June). Interactions between reward expectation and sweeping across a linear array of dots in an automated touchscreen drawing task by a captive capuchin monkey (Cebus Apella). With T. Jeyaraj, K. A. Leighty, & D. Fragaszy. American Society of Primatologists, San Antonio, Texas. (2006, August). (presented by T. Jeyaraj). Automated equipment for simple two-choice olfactory and tactile discrimination in rats. Presentation at Association for Behavior Analysis, San Diego, CA. (2007, May) Contingencies of reinforcement embedded in equipment. The dos and don ts of setting up an experiment. Symposium presentation at Association for Behavior Analysis, San Diego, CA. (2007, May) Reinforcement and feedback in human motor learning. Presentation at Association for Behavior Analysis, International. Sydney, Australia (2007, August) Sustained performance in rats with extremely intermittent reinforcement under regressive schedules of reinforcement. Presentation at Association for Behavior Analysis, International. Sydney, Australia (2007, August). Issues related to drawing inferences from choice data in matching-to-sample tasks. Association for Behavior Analysis, International. Oslo, Norway (2009, August) Stimulus control in long stimulus-response chains in rats. Association for Behavior Analysis, International. Oslo, Norway (2009, August) Posters: Automated training of structured drawing on a touchmonitor in captive chimpanzees. Poster presented at the European Neuroscience Meeting, Berlin, Germany. (1998, June). On-line analysis of drawing and object movement on a touch-sensitive monitor: Interaction between finger position and object location on the monitor. Poster presented at Measuring Behavior '98, Groningen, The Netherlands. (1998, August). An inexpensive method to automate the recording of direction and speed of individual bouts of wheel running in rats. Poster presented at Measuring Behavior '98, Groningen, The Netherlands. (1998, August). A method to automate the recording of direction and speed of individual bouts of wheel running in rats. Poster presented at South Eastern Association for Behavior Analysis, Columbia, SC. (1999, October). Genesis of learning: The behavioral effects of a single reinforcement. Poster presented at Measuring Behavior 2000, Nijmegen, The Netherlands, (2000, August). Using a Tablet PC in education and research. Poster presented at the California Association for Behavior Analysis, San Francisco, California. (2004, February)

9 9 Demonstration of using a Tablet PC in the classroom. Poster presented at 15 th International Conference on College Teaching and Learning, Jacksonville, Florida. (2004, March) Invited Addresses at Scientific Conventions: Automated training of drawing, sorting, and object manipulation on a touch monitor in chimpanzees. Invited presentation at South Eastern Association for Behavior Analysis, Columbia, SC. (1999, October). Computerized drawing, sorting, and fingermaze tasks for chimpanzees. Invited presentation at International Symposium on Phylogeny of Cognition and Language. Inuyama, Japan. (2000, March). Control of behavior by remote stimuli. Invited presentation at California Association for Behavior Analysis, San Francisco, California. (2004, February). Teaching chimpanzees to draw, sort objects, solve finger mazes, intercept targets, and copy images using computerized touch-monitor technology. (A retrospective review of a 3-year research project). Invited presentation at the Symposium on Comparative Cognitive Science, Primate Origins of Human Mind, Kyoto University, Japan (2008, December) Academic Presentations (since 1998) Numerous Invited Presentations at Universities in the United States. For example: Using touchmonitors in research on ape cognition. Invited presentation at Language Research Center, Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia, (2001, May). Invited presentation at Department of Psychology, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida. (2008, September) Invited International Graduate Seminars: The use of operant conditioning in teaching complex skills. Invited one-week seminar for graduate students at Department of Psychology, University of Guadajahara, Mexico. (1998, September). Methods for behavioral research with animal subjects. Invited one-week seminar for graduate students at Department of Psychology, Akershus University, Oslo, Norway. (2008, October). International Presentations: Automated training and assessment of drawing, navigation, and object sorting by chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes). Invited presentation at Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany, (2001, August). Some examples of methods of behavioral research with animal subjects. Invited presentation at Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany. (2007, November) Automated teaching of visual control of complex motor skills in drawing, sorting, and finger maze tasks for captive chimpanzees. Invited presentation at Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany. (2007, October)

10 10 Teaching Chimpanzees to draw, sort objects, and solve finger mazes using computerized equipment. Invited presentation at Department of Psychology and Educational Sciences, Fribourg University, Switzerland. (2007, December) Review of equipment for two-choice olfactory and tactile discrimination in rats. Invited presentation at The Geneva International Centre for Humanitarian Demining, Geneva, Switzerland. (2007, December). [Rats are used in research on detection of hidden landmines - my research is relevant for this topic]