Meghan Davis Caulfield, Ph.D. caulfiem@lafayette.edu sites.lafayette.edu/caulfiem EDUCATION Ph.D., Neuroscience 2014 Rutgers University, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Newark, NJ Individual differences in associative learning, intrinsic connectivity, and neural reactivity: Support for a cerebellar role in anxiety vulnerability. M.S., Psychology 2009 Villanova University, Villanova, PA Effect of spatial context in object memory: Evidence from amnesia. B.A., Psychology (Cum Laude) 2006 Lafayette College, Easton, PA CURRENT PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS Visiting Assistant Professor Psychology & Neuroscience, Lafayette College, Easton, PA Visiting Scientist Kessler Foundation, West Orange, NJ Adjunct Assistant Professor Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation, Rutgers New Jersey Medical School, NJ Health Science Specialist Veterans Affairs New Jersey Health Care System PRIOR PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS Postdoctoral Fellow 2014-2016 Kessler Foundation, West Orange, NJ Adjunct Assistant Professor 2015 Psychology, Montclair State University, Montclair, NJ Visiting Scholar 2011-2014 Cognitive Science Program, Michigan State University, MI GRANTS, FELLOWSHIPS, AWARDS & HONORS Foundations Scholar Fellowship Award, Rutgers University 2009-2014 Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences Travel Award 2013,2014 Graduate Research Fellowship, Villanova University 2007-2009 Conference Travel Award, Villanova University 2008
Caulfield CV 2 RESEARCH PUBLICATIONS (*Denotes student co-author) Caulfield, M.D., Hreha, K., Chen, P. (Under Review) White matter damage and spatial neglect after traumatic brain injury. The Clinical Neuropsychologist. Caulfield, M.D., & Myers, C.M. (In press). Post-traumatic stress symptoms are associated with better performance on a delayed match-to-position task. PeerJ. Caulfield, M. D., Chen, P., *Barry, M. M., & Barrett, A. M. (2017). Which perseverative behaviors are symptoms of spatial neglect? Brain and cognition, 113, 93-101. Caulfield, M. D., Zhu, D. C., McAuley, J. D., & Servatius, R. J. (2016). Cerebellar response to familiar and novel stimuli: An fmri study. Behavioral Neuroscience, 130, 585-592. Chen, P., Caulfield, M. D., *Hartman, A. J., O Rourke, J., & Toglia, J. (2016). Assessing viewercentered and stimulus-centered spatial bias: The 3s spreadsheet test version 1. Applied Neuropsychology: Adult, 24, 532-539. Caulfield, M.D., McAuley, J.D., Zhu, D.C., & Servatius, R.J. (2016). Individual differences in resting state functional connectivity of those at risk for anxiety disorders. Brain Structure and Function, 221, 3081-3093 Caulfield, M.D., VanMeenen, K.M., & Servatius, R.J. (2015). Facilitated acquisition of standard but not long delay classical eyeblink conditioning in behaviorally inhibited adolescents. Behavioural Brain Research, 278, 476-481. Caulfield, M.D., McAuley, J.D., & Servatius, R.J. (2013). Facilitated acquisition of eyeblink conditioning in those at risk for anxiety disorders. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 7. Toppino, T.C., Cohen, M.S., Davis, M., Moors, A. (2009). Metacognitive control over the distribution of practice: When is spacing preferred? J Exp Psychol: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 35, 1352-1358. Davis, M.L. & Barrett, A.M. (2009). Selective benefit of donepezil on oral naming in Alzheimer s disease in men compared to women. CNS Spectrums, 14, 175-176. RESEARCH PRESENTATIONS (*Denotes undergraduate student co-author) Waldman, S.A*., Chen, P., Caulfield, M.D. (2017, March). Same underlying neural mechanisms for spatial neglect and anosognosia for functional disability. Poster presented at the Cognitive Neuroscience Society annual meeting, Boston, MA. Coutinho, M.R*., Vogel, A.L*., Caulfield, M.D. (2017, March). Generalization in a pattern separation task implicates hippocampal processes in anxiety vulnerability. Poster presented at the Eastern Psychological Association annual meeting, Philadelphia, PA. Luethke, M*., Caulfield, M.D. (2017, March). Decision making and anxiety vulnerability in a spatial discrimination task. Poster presented at the Eastern Psychological Association annual meeting, Philadelphia, PA. Vogel, A.L*., Coutinho, M.R*., Caulfield, M.D. (2017, March). Individual differences in spatial pattern separation performance is associated with anxiety. Poster presented at the Eastern Psychological Association annual meeting, Philadelphia, PA. Wensel, M*. Herwig, K*., Caulfield, M.D. (2017, March). Why are you angry? Gender and risk for anxiety mediating interpretive bias. Poster presented at the Eastern Psychological Association annual meeting, Philadelphia PA. Caulfield, M.D., Chen, P., Barrett, A.M. (2016, November). Improved functional connectivity in the dorsal attentional network is specific to spatial neglect improvement following prism adaptation therapy. Poster presented at the American Society of NeuroRehabilitation annual meeting, San Diego, CA.
Caulfield CV 3 Boukrina, O., Caulfield, M.D., Chen, P., *Thomas, O., *Thiagaram, D., & Barrett, A.M. (2016, November). The role of neural networks for attention and arousal in stroke-induced spatial neglect and delirium. Poster presented at the American Society of NeuroRehabilitation, San Diego, CA. Caulfield, M.D., Myers, C.M., Beck, K.D. (2016, August). Brain imaging during abnormal generalization in Veterans with PTSD. Invited talk at Veterans Affairs NJ Health Care System, East Orange, NJ. Caulfield, M.D., Chen, P., Barrett, A.M. (2016, June). Changes in Functional Connectivity following Prism Adaptation Therapy. Invited talk at Rutgers Biomedical & Health Sciences Department of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation, West Orange, NJ. Caulfield, M.D., Hreha, K., Chen, P. (2016, April). White matter damage and visuospatial impairment after traumatic brain injury. Poster presented at the Cognitive Neuroscience Society annual meeting, New York, NY. Caulfield, M.D. (2016, February). Behavioral inhibition and disinhibition following right hemisphere stroke. Invited talk at Veterans Affairs NJ Health Care System, East Orange, NJ. Caulfield, M.D. (2016, February). Neuropsychological basis of emotion in the brain. Invited talk at Centenary College, NJ. Caulfield, M.D., Foundas, A.L., *Joshi, N., Barrett, A.M. (2015, November). Prefrontal and parietooccipital cerebral volume asymmetries and spatial neglect severity. Poster presented at the Psychonomic Society annual meeting, Chicago, IL. Chen, P. & Caulfield, M.D. (2015, October). Intensive home-based prism adaptation treatment for chronic spatial neglect: A case study. Poster presented at the American Society for Neurorehabilitation annual meeting, Chicago, IL. Caulfield, M.D., Chen, P., Barrett, A.M. (2015, May). Repeated markings versus scribble perseverations: Relationships to spatial neglect, cognitive impairment, and lesion location. Poster presented at the Association for Psychological Science annual meeting, New York, NY. Caulfield, M.D., Chen, P., Barrett, A.M. (2014, April). Co-occurrence of spatial neglect and perseveration contributes to cognitive and functional impairment. Poster presented at the American Academy of Neurology annual meeting, Washington, DC. Caulfield, M.D., McAuley, J.D., Zhu, D.C., Servatius, R.J. (2014, April). A cerebellar in anxiety vulnerability: Individual differences in functional connectivity with executive control networks. Poster presented at the Social Affective Neuroscience Science annual meeting, Denver, CO. Caulfield, M.D., VanMeenen, K.M., & Servatius, R.J. (2013, November). Differential enhancement of the conditioned response in delay compared to long delay eyeblink conditioning in anxiety vulnerable adolescents. In Human Sequence and Motor Learning Symposium at the Society for Neuroscience, San Diego, CA. Caulfield, M.D., McAuley, J.D., Zhu, D.C., Servatius, R.J. (2013, April). Neural correlates of anxiety vulnerability: Cerebellar reactivity to novel faces and scenes and at rest. Poster presented at the Cognitive Neuroscience Society annual meeting, San Francisco, CA. Caulfield, M.D., VanMeenen, K.M., Servatius, R.J. (2012, October). Understanding risk for anxiety in an adolescent population: An assessment of acquisition in delay and long delay contingencies and neuroendocrine reactivity. Poster presented at the Society for Neuroscience annual meeting, New Orleans, LA.
Caulfield CV 4 Caulfield, M.D., VanMeenen, K.M., Servatius, R.J. (2012, September). Assessment of eyeblink responding in adolescents at risk for anxiety disorders: Comparisons of acquisition in delay and long delay contingencies. Poster presented at the Pavlovian Society annual meeting, Jersey City, NJ. Caulfield, M.D., McAuley, J.D., Zhu, D.C., Servatius, R.J. (2012, June). Neural correlates of anxiety vulnerability: An assessment of associative learning, temperament, and cerebellar reactivity to novel social stimuli. Poster presented at the International Behavioral Neuroscience annual meeting, Kona, HI. Caulfield, M.D., McAuley, J.D., Zhu, D.C., Servatius, R.J. (2011, November). Facilitated acquisition of eyeblink conditioning in those at risk for anxiety disorders: Concordance among scales of Inhibited temperament. Poster presented at the Society for Neuroscience annual meeting, Washington, DC. Caulfield, M.D., McAuley, J.D., Zhu, D.C., Servatius, R.J. (2011, September). Facilitated acquisition of eyeblink conditioning in those at risk for anxiety disorders: Concordance among scales of inhibited temperament. Poster presented at The Pavlovian Society annual meeting, Milwaukee, MI. Cohen, M.S., Davis, M.L., Moors, A.C., Toppino, T.C. (2008, May). Metacognitive control over distribution of practice: when is spacing preferred?. Poster presented at the Association for Psychological Science 20 th annual convention, Chicago, IL. Naringrekar, H.V., Kornitzer, J., Hokenson, K., Varughese, S., Davis M.L., Barrett, A.M. (2008, May). Relationship of fractionating line bisection bias in spatial neglect to walking trajectory (WT). Poster presented at the American Academy of Neurology annual meeting, Chicago, IL. Davis, M.L., Barrett, A.M. (2008, March). Selective benefit of donepezil on oral naming in Alzheimer s Disease in men compared to women. Poster presented at the Eastern Psychological Association annual meeting, Boston, MA. BOOK CHAPTERS Caulfield, M.D. & Servatius, R.J (2013). Focusing on the Possible Role of the Cerebellum in Anxiety Disorders, New Insights into Anxiety Disorders, Dr. Federico Durbano (Ed.), InTech. ADDITIONAL TRAINING New Faculty Pedagogical Training. Intensive week-long program that is further supported by weekly meetings throughout the semester to discuss pedagogical issues and scholarship. Center for the Integration of Teaching, Learning, and Scholarship, Lafayette College. August 2016-May 2017. Introduction to Programming with MATLAB. Eight week online course provided by Vanderbilt University August 2015. FSL Course, Waikiki, Hawaii. Five days of intensive training in the use of the FSL software platform in neuroimaging analysis. June 2015. Neuroimaging training at Michigan State University. Hands-on training in the design, acquisition, and analysis of resting state and task-based functional MRI. January-May 2011.
Caulfield CV 5 TEACHING EXPERIENCE (Undergraduate courses, unless otherwise noted) Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, Lafayette College Introduction to Neuroscience Fall 2016, Spring 2017 Comparative Psychology: Animal Behavior (Lecture & Lab) Fall 2016, Fall 2017 Quantitative Methods in Psychology Spring 2017, Fall 2017, Spring 2018 Special Topics: Psychological Diseases: Brain & Behavior Spring 2017, Spring 2018 Introduction to Psychology (Lab Section) Fall 2016, Fall 2017 Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, Montclair State University Perception Fall 2015, Spring 2015 Introduction to Research Methods Fall 2015 Teaching Assistant, Neurology & Neuroscience, Rutgers University Spring 2012 Neurobiology of Learning & Memory (Graduate Course): Selected weekly readings, lead discussion, and provided feedback on final projects. INDIVIDUAL STUDENT MENTORSHIP Lafayette College & Kessler Foundation Co-operative Student Research Fall 2017-present For-credit advanced research opportunity across institutions to provide undergraduate students with hands-on clinical neuroscience and neuroimaging training. Stephanie Waldman: Awareness of deficit after stroke: disagreement of patients and caregiver s perception of independence in activities of daily living Advisor, Lafayette College Independent Study Research Michael Luethke: Individual differences in a visual match to sample pattern separation task. Fall 2017-present Jessica Cavanaugh: Does anxiety vulnerability enhance cue and context use in memory recall? Lafayette College Externship Program Jan 2017 Hosted Lafayette College undergraduate students interested in research careers, medicine, and/or rehabilitation at the Kessler Foundation in a 2-day shadowing experience during January recess. Kessler Foundation Internship Program Advisor 2014-2016 Neil Joshi (2014-2015): Currently attending Rowan University DO/PhD program Michelle Barry (2014-2015): Currently a research assistant at the Kessler Foundation Dawn Rozakis (2015-2016): Accepted to NYU Interdisciplinary studies M.A. with intention to design own degree program combining Economics, Public Policy, and Applied Psychology Bergen County Academies Senior Experience Internship Program 2011-2013 Mentored 4 student research assistants over two-years in a year-long (one full day per week) hands-on research experience for high-school seniors.
Caulfield CV 6 PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS Association for Psychological Science Cognitive Neuroscience Society Organization for Human Brain Mapping Psychonomic Society Society for Neuroscience Women in Cognitive Science Women in Learning Women in Neuroscience SERVICE ACTIVITIES Ad-hoc Reviewer Brain Structure & Function, Medicine, Social Neuroscience, Frontiers 2014-present Panelist, Pennypack Elementary School Career Day May, 2017 Panelist, Lafayette College Psi Chi Career & Grad School Panel March, 2017 Co-coordinator, Kessler Institute for Rehabilitation Neuro Journal Club 2014 Graduate Student Association, Treasurer, Villanova University 2008-2009