BRADLEY C. TABER-THOMAS, M.A., Ph.D. Curriculum Vitae

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1 BRADLEY C. TABER-THOMAS, M.A., Ph.D. Curriculum Vitae Contact: Behavioral Sciences Labs Phone: VA Medical Center #151-A Cell: NE 13 th Street Fax: Oklahoma City, OK Last updated: March 2012 a. Professional Preparation and Experience. Beginning Pennsylvania State University Postdoctoral Fellow Summer 2012 Child Study Center, Psychology Department Cognition, Affect, and Temperament Lab (Director: Dr. Koraly Perez- Edgar; topic: social-affective developmental neuroscience; impact of anxiety treatment on neural functioning in children) 2012 present University of Oklahoma Postdoctoral Fellow Health Sciences Center Behavioral Sciences Lab (Director: Dr. William Lovallo; topic: neural risk factors associated with life adversity and familial alcoholism; psychophysiology; drug-challenge paradigm) 2012 present University of Iowa Postdoctoral Research Scholar Hospitals and Clinics Division of Behavioral Neurology and Cognitive Neuroscience (Director: Dr. Daniel Tranel; topic: neural basis of social and affective processing; lesion method) University of Iowa Ph.D., Neuroscience Dissertation: A Model of the Neural Basis of Predecisional Processes: The Fronto-Limbic Information Acquisition Network Committee Chair: Dr. Daniel Tranel Georgia State University M.A., Philosophy; Brains & Behavior Program Thesis: The Non-Moral Basis of Cognitive Biases of Moral Intuitions Committee Chair: Dr. Eddy Nahmias Northeastern University B.A., Modern Languages (Spanish), Biology minor, with honors

2 b. Relevant Experience and Awards Research Experience: 2011 Obermann Graduate Fellow, Obermann Institute for Advanced Studies, University of Iowa 2009 Graduate Research Assistant, Laboratory of Dr. David Rudrauf, Department of Neurology, University of Iowa Graduate Research Assistant, Laboratory of Dr. Daniel Tranel, Department of Neurology, University of Iowa Research Assistant, Laboratory of Dr. Tricia King, Department of Psychology, Georgia State University 2007 Summer Intern, Division of Cognitive and Behavioral Neurology, Department of Neurology, University of Iowa Brains & Behavior Graduate Fellow, Georgia State University Teaching Experience and Training: Spring 2010 & 2011 Teaching Assistant, Medical Neuroscience Spring 2011 Received pedagogical training in Seminar on College teaching Student mentor for 7 undergraduate research assistants and 2 precomps graduate students Awards and Funding: The Neural Basis of Moral Behavior, Executive Council of Graduate and Professional Students Research Grant, $ Graduate Student Senate Travel Award, to travel to the Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, November Executive Council of Graduate and Professional Students Travel Grant, to travel to the Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, November Society for Neuroscience Next Generation Award nominee from the Iowa SfN Chapter 2 of 6

3 2011 Society for Neuroscience Chapter Grant Award (as Student Co- Director of Chapter), supports chapter activities and outreach 2011 Obermann Graduate Fellowship to join the Obermann Graduate Institute on Engagement and the Academy, which works to deepen relationships between universities and communities Graduate College Supplemental Funds, to travel to the Rotman Research Institute Conference on the Frontal Lobes, in Toronto, Canada, March 22-26, Graduate Student Senate Travel Award, to travel to the Cognitive Neuroscience Society s 17th Annual Meeting, Montreal, Québec, Canada, April Executive Council of Graduate and Professional Students Travel Grant, to travel to the Cognitive Neuroscience Society s 17 th Annual Meeting, Montreal, Québec, Canada, April Exemplary Senator Recognition (for 78 hours of service in ), from the University of Iowa Graduate College and Graduate Student Senate 2006 Brains & Behavior Graduate Fellowship, Georgia State University 2006 Graduate Assistantship with full tuition waiver, Department of Philosophy, Georgia State University (declined to accept Brains & Behavior Fellowship) c. Publications. Published or in press: Taber-Thomas, B.C. & Tranel, D. (in press). Social and moral functioning: A cognitive neuroscience perspective. In Developmental social neuroscience and childhood brain insult: Implications for theory and practice. Miriam Beauchamp & Vicki Anderson (Eds.). Thomas, B.C., Croft, K., & Tranel, D. (2011). Harming Kin to Save Strangers: Further Evidence for Abnormally Utilitarian Moral Judgments after Ventromedial Prefrontal Damage. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience 23(9), Corona, E. & Thomas, B. (2010). A New Perspective on the Early History of the American Society for Cybernetics. Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences, Summer 2010, of 6

4 Manuscripts in preparation: Asp, E.W.*, Taber-Thomas, B.C.*, Koenigs, M., Sutterer, M., Anderson, S.W., & Tranel, D. (in submission). How We (Don t) Learn Right and Wrong: Psychopathic Moral Judgment After Developmental-Onset vmpfc Damage. (*equal contribution) Taber-Thomas, B.C., Murray, K., Robinson, H., & Tranel, D. (in submission). The Role of the vmpfc in Personal Control: vmpfc Injury Increases Belief in God- Mediated Control and Optimism. Taber-Thomas, B.C. & Tranel, D. (in preparation). Ventromedial Prefrontal Cortex Damage Increases the Acquisition of Utilitarian Information Prior to Choice. (based on PhD thesis) Taber-Thomas, B.C., Murray, K., Robinson, H., & Tranel, D. (in preparation). Impaired Flexibility in Predecisional Behavior After vmpfc Damage and Among Older Neurologically Intact Adults (based on PhD thesis) Taber-Thomas, B.C. & Lovallo, W.R. (in preparation). Harm Avoidance and Central Opioid Function: The Relationship Between Naltrexone Response and Personality. Taber-Thomas, B.C. (in preparation). Cognitive Biases of Moral Intuitions and the Argument from Disagreement. Abstracts: Scherer, A.M., Thomas, B.C., Robinson, H., and Tranel, D. (2012). Seeking What We Want: A Neuropsychological Test between Conflicting Accounts of Confirmatory Information Seeking. Judgment and Decision Making Preconference at Society for Personality and Social Psychology, May And at Midwestern Psychological Association, May (Slide presentation) Thomas, B.C., Edmiston, P., Robinson, H., Fleszar, A., and Tranel, D. (2011). Evidence for a Deficit in Adaptive Information Acquisition following Damage to the Ventromedial Prefrontal Cortex. Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting, November Thomas, B.C., Scherer, A.M., Edmiston, P., Robinson, H., and Tranel, D. (2011). Intact Confirmation Bias following Damage to the Ventromedial Prefrontal Cortex. Society for Social Neuroscience Annual Meeting, November Thomas, B.C, Nahmias, E., & Murray, D. (2010). The influence of moral judgments on epistemic judgments about moral dilemmas. Society for Philosophy and Psychology Annual Meeting, June of 6

5 Thomas, B.C., Tranel, D., Alvarez, M., Mattes, K., Adolphs, R., & Spezio, M. (2010). The Insula in Political Judgment. Cognitive Neuroscience Society s 17 th Annual Meeting, Montreal, Québec, Canada, April (Slide presentation) Thomas, B.C., Croft, K., & Tranel, D. (2009a). The Self-Other Bias in Moral Judgment is Insensitive to Ventromedial Prefrontal Damage. Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL, October Also presented at Pre-SfN Poster Session, University of Iowa, October Thomas, B.C. (2009). The Non-Moral Basis of Cognitive Biases of Moral Intuitions. Rocky Mountain Ethics Congress, Boulder, Colorado, August Thomas, B.C., Croft, K., & Tranel, D. (2009b). Ventromedial Prefrontal Damage Increases Utilitarian Moral Judgments for Impersonal and Personal Moral Dilemmas. Cognitive Neuroscience Society s 16 th Annual Meeting, San Francisco CA, March Thomas, B.C. (2008). From Performance Error to the Illusion of Incompatibilist Free Will: Accounting for Folk Intuitions on Moral Responsibility. Georgia Student Philosophy Symposium, March Abstract published in Proceedings of the Georgia Student Philosophy Symposium Thomas, B.C. (2007). Moral Responsibility: From Philosophy to Neuroscience. Invited presentation at Morning Meeting, Division of Behavioral Neurology and Cognitive Neuroscience, Department of Neurology, University of Iowa, June Abstracts of Mentored Undergraduate Students Edmiston, P., Thomas, B.C., Robinson, H., Fleszar, A., & Tranel, D. (2011). The Neural Correlates of Adaptive Information Acquisition. University of Iowa Summer Undergraduate Research Conference, July Miloyan, B., Firat, R., Thomas, B.C., & Tranel, D. (2010). The Neural Basis of Racial Attitudes in Context: A Pilot Study. University of Iowa Summer Undergraduate Research Conference, July Rodriguez Cardona, J.F., Koscik, T., Koscik, T., Thomas, B., & Tranel, D. (2009). Higher-order Theory of Mind or Memory for Complex Content. University of Iowa Summer Undergraduate Research Conference, July González, K., Thomas, B., Scherer, A., & Tranel, D. (2009). Neural Correlates of Framing Effects. University of Iowa Summer Undergraduate Research Conference, July of 6

6 d. Engaged and Synergistic Activities present Founder/Director of the Because of brain science? project a Twitter project that is seeking to capture the public s voice on the implications of brain science for society by asking people to complete the phrase Because of brain science in 140 characters or less Graduate Student Advisor to pre-comps neuroscience graduate students Chair of Brain Awareness Committee, Neuroscience Program, University of Iowa Undergraduate students supervised: Pierce Edmiston, Heather Robinson, Lucas Connor, Beyon Miloyan, Ali Mohammed, Katia González, and José Rodriguez Cardona Senator, Graduate Student Senate, University of Iowa (alternate ; full ) Organizer of the Iowa MoCo Reading Group on moral cognition Co-Chair of International Student Committee, Graduate Student Senate, University of Iowa Director of Lekker Lekker (annual ethnic restaurant review project of the Graduate Student Senate) Brain Awareness Committee Member, Neuroscience Program, University of Iowa (organizes local SfN Brain Awareness Week activities, the Iowa Brain Discovery Fair, the Iowa Brain Bee, and the Neuroscience Program Retreat) Peer-Review Experience Behavioural Brain Research (ad hoc) e. References & Other Affiliations (i) References. Daniel Tranel (University of Iowa, Neuroscience), Steven Anderson (University of Iowa, Neuroscience), Irwin Levin (University of Iowa, Psychology), William Lovallo (University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Psychiatry), Eddy Nahmias (Georgia State University, Philosophy) 6 of 6

7 (ii) Other collaborators. Paul Windschitl (University of Iowa, Psychology), Melissa Duff (University of Iowa, Neuroscience), William Hedgcock (University of Iowa, Marketing), Mike Koenigs (University of Wisconsin-Madison, Psychiatry), Aaron Scherer (University of Iowa, Psychology), Rengin Firat (University of Iowa, Sociology) (ii) Professional Societies. Society for Neuroscience, Cognitive Neuroscience Society, Society for Social Neuroscience, American Association for the Advancement of Science 7 of 6

BRADLEY C. TABER-THOMAS, M.A., Ph.D. Curriculum Vitae

BRADLEY C. TABER-THOMAS, M.A., Ph.D. Curriculum Vitae Contact: Cognition, Affect, & Temperament Lab Phone: Child Study Center Cell: 585-704-5137 171 University Support Bldg. 1 Fax: 814-863-5658 Penn State