CURRICULUM VITAE Benjamin W. Mooneyham ADDRESS Office Santa Barbara, CA 93106 Email: bwmooneyham@gmail.com Home 3405 Cedar St Apt C Austin, TX 78705 Telephone: (210) 912-6076 EDUCATION B.A. Psychology Washington & Lee University Lexington, VA, 2010 B.S. Physics Washington & Lee University Lexington, VA, 2010 Ph.D. Psychological & Brain Sciences Emphasis: Cognition, Perception, & Cognitive Neuroscience University of California Santa Barbara, CA, awarded December 2015 EMPLOYMENT (INSTRUCTOR) 2013 Instructor, Cognitive Neuroscience
2014 Instructor, Biopsychology 2015 Instructor, Introduction to Research Methods and Designs 2015 Instructor, Cognitive Neuroscience EMPLOYMENT (TEACHING ASSISTANT) 2010 Introduction to Psychology Dr. Alan Fridlund 2012 Cognitive Psychology Dr. Russell Revlin 2012 Introduction to Experimental Psychology Instructor Alexander Swan 2014 Cognitive Psychology
Dr. Jonathan Schooler 2015 Cognitive Neuroscience Dr. Scott Grafton 2015 Cognitive Psychology Dr. Russell Revlin 2015 Cognitive Psychology Dr. Jonathan Schooler TEACHING INTERESTS Cognitive Neuroscience Biopsychology Research Design and Methods Statistics Cognitive Psychology Instructional Development Neuroimaging Methods & Analysis Computational Cognitive Neuroscience Network Science & Graph Theory
TEACHING AWARDS 2015 Nomination, University Teaching Assistant Award ACADEMIC/RESEARCH AWARDS 2011 National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship 2012 Distinction, Departmental Qualifying Exams 2014 Advanced to Ph.D. Candidacy RESEARCH EXPERIENCE 2007 National Science Foundation Research Experience for Undergraduates Mathematics (Population modeling) University of Nebraska-Lincoln (advised by Dr. Glen Ledder) 2008 Research Assistant Physics (Optics; coupled laser systems) Washington & Lee University (advised by Dr. David Sukow) 2009 National Science Foundation Research Experience for Undergraduates Physics (Genetic algorithms for pulse sequencing) Rice University (advised by Dr. Barry Dunning) 2010-2015 Graduate Student RESEARCH INTERESTS Cognitive Neuroscience Cognitive Psychology
fmri Analysis Methods Functional & Structural Neural Plasticity Cognitive State Decoding Brain Network Interactions Neural Correlates of Stress Neural Correlates of Cognitive Control Intervention Programs and Neural Plasticity Mind-wandering & Mindfulness Costs and Benefits of Mind-wandering Graph-theoretical Approaches to Cognitive Psychology PROFESSIONAL SERVICE 2011-2012 Graduate Executive Committee Member 2011-2014 Member, Teaching Assistant Advisory Program 2014 Lead Teaching Assistant PROFESSIONAL/ACADEMIC MEMBERSHIPS Association of Psychological Science American Association for the Advancement of Science Phi Beta Kappa Psi Chi
JOURNAL REVIEWING Applied Cognitive Psychology Biological Psychology Consciousness and Cognition Frontiers in Human Neuroscience Frontiers in Perception Science SPECIAL TRAINING 2015 Fellow, Summer Institute in Cognitive Neuroscience Course Directors: Dr. Brian Wandell (Stanford) and Dr. Susan Bookheimer (UCLA) PROGRAMMING/SOFTWARE EXPERIENCE General: Matlab Bash Python Neuroimaging: SPM FSL AFNI FreeSurfer fmri Acquisition (Siemens 3T System) DSIstudio Statistics: R SPSS
SAS Experimental Design: Psychtoolbox (Matlab) E-Prime PUBLICATIONS Peer-reviewed articles: 1. Mooneyham, B.W., & Schooler, J.W. (accepted: Psychonomic Bulletin and Review). Mind-wandering minimizes mind-numbing: Reducing semantic satiation effects through absorptive lapses of attention. 2. Schooler, J. W., Mrazek, M. D., Franklin, M. S., Baird, B., Mooneyham, B. W., Zedelius, C., & Broadway, J. M. (2014). The Middle Way: Finding the Balance between Mindfulness and Mind-Wandering. The Psychology of Learning and Motivation, 60, 1-33. 3. Mooneyham, B.W. & Schooler, J.W. (2013). The costs and benefits of mindwandering: A review. Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology, 67(1), 11-18. doi: 10.1037/a0031569 4. Franklin, M.S., Mooneyham, B.W., Baird, B., & Schooler, J.W. (2013). Thinking one thing, saying another: The behavioral correlates of mind-wandering while reading aloud. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 21(1), 205-210. 5. Sukow, D. W., Gavrielides, A., Erneux, T., Mooneyham, B.W., Lee, K., McKay, J., & Davis, J. (2010). Asymmetric square waves in mutually coupled semiconductor lasers with orthogonal optical injection. Physical Review E, 81(2), 025206. Peer-reviewed articles under review: 1. Mrazek, M.D., Mooneyham, B.W., Lepore, K.M., & Schooler, J.W. (under review: Social Cognitive & Affective Neuroscience). Cognitive, affective, and neural plasticity revealed by an intensive multifaceted intervention. Peer-reviewed articles in preparation: 1. Mooneyham, B.W., Mrazek, M.D., Mrazek, A.J., Mrazek, K.L., Phillips, D.T., & Schooler, J.W. (in preparation). States of mind: Characterizing the neural bases of focus and mind-wandering through dynamic functional connectivity.
2. Mooneyham, B.W., & Schooler, J.W. (in preparation). Mind-wandering enables improvements in the recall of tip-of-the-tongue knowledge. 3. Mrazek, M.D., Mooneyham, B.W., & Schooler, J.W. (in preparation). Reducing stress through a multifaceted intervention: Neural, behavioral, and physiological changes associated with successful stress reduction. Book chapters published: 1. Mooneyham, B.W. & Schooler, J.W. (in press). Mind-wandering and metaawareness in hypnosis and meditation: Relating executive function across states of consciousness. In A. Raz & M. Lifshitz (Eds.), Hypnosis and meditation: Towards an integrative science of conscious planes. New York, NY.: Oxford University Press. 2. Mrazek, M., Mooneyham, B.W., & Schooler, J. (2014). Insights from quiet minds: The converging fields of mindfulness and mind-wandering. In S. Schmidt & H. Walach (Eds.), Meditation Neuroscientific Approaches and Philosophical Implications, Studies in Neuroscience, Consciousness and Spirituality (Vol. 2, pp. 227 241). Springer International Publishing. 3. Mrazek, M.D., Broadway, J.M., Phillips, D.T., Franklin, M.S., Mooneyham, B.W., & Schooler, J.W. (2014). An antidote for wandering minds. The Wiley Blackwell Handbook of Mindfulness, 153. Invited articles: 1. Broadway, J.M., Zedulius, C.M., Mooneyham, B.W., Mrazek, M.D., & Schooler, J.W. (2015). Stimulating minds to wander. Proceedings of National Academy of Sciences, 112(10), 3182-3183. 2. Mooneyham, B.W., Franklin, M.S., Mrazek, M.D., & Schooler, J.W. (2012). Modernizing science: Comments on Nosek and Bar-Anan (2012). Psychological Inquiry, 23(3), 281-284. doi: 10.1080/104780X.2012.705246 Invited articles in preparation: 1. Mooneyham, B.W., Mrazek, M.D., Mrazek, A.J., & Schooler, J.W. (2015). Signal or noise: Brain network interactions underlying the experience and training of mindfulness. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences: The Year in Cognitive Neuroscience.
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS AND TALKS 1. Schooler, J.W., Mrazek, M.D., Mooneyham, B.W. & Mrazek, K.M. (2015, March). Pushing the limits of cognitive and neural plasticity: Assessing a sixweek comprehensive training program. Presentation at the International Convention of Psychological Science, Amsterdam, NL. 2. Mooneyham, B.W. (2014, November). Mind-wandering minimizes mindnumbing: The moderating role of task-unrelated thought in the semantic satiation effect. Poster session presented at the Psychonomic Society s Annual Meeting, Long Beach, CA. 3. Mooneyham, B.W. (2012, May). Temporal estimations, mind-wandering, and working memory. Presentation at Minicon, Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences,, CA. 4. Woodzicka, J., Mooneyham, B.W., Coyle, E.F., & Harrison, K.L. (2010). Examining the cultural stereotype of atheists. Poster session presented at the 11 th Annual Meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Las Vegas, NV. REFERENCE CONTACT INFORMATION Dr. Jonathan Schooler Professor, schooler@psych.ucsb.eud (805) 453 0557 Dr. Michael Mrazek Post-doctoral Researcher, mrazek@psych.ucsb.edu (507) 398 6776 Dr. Scott Grafton Professor, grafton@psych.ucsb.edu (805) 893 5235 Dr. Greg Ashby Professor, ashby@psych.ucsb.edu (805) 893 7909