Curriculum Vitae June, 2013 Timothy Wifall Department of Psychology 11 Seashore Hall E University of Iowa Iowa City, IA 52242 Phone: 303-956-8814 Email: timothy-wifall@uiowa.edu Educational and Professional History Education: Ph.D. M.S. B.S. University of Iowa Psychology, (2007-present) Cognition and Perception Psychology training area Villanova University Psychology, 2007 Thesis Title: The effect of punishment on the actor/observer asymmetry in risky decision making. Chair: Dr. Diego Fernandez Duque Regis University Honors in Neuroscience, 2004 Thesis Title: Discrimination between Umami substances MSG and GMP. Chair: Dr. Gene Delay Research Positions: Graduate Research Assistant, Action and Cognition Laboratory, supervisory Dr. Eliot Hazeltine (2007- present). Graduate Research Assistant, Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory, supervisor Dr. Diego Fernandez-Duque (2006-2007). Graduate Research Assistant, Comparative Cognition Laboratory, supervisor Dr. Michael Brown (2006-2007). Behavioral Research Assistant, Gustatory Animal Behavioral Lab, supervisor Dr. Gene Delay (2002 2004).
Honors and Awards: Delta Center Research Grant, Univ. of Iowa 2011 College of Graduate and Professional Student Research Grant, Univ. of Iowa 2010 Graduate College Summer Fellowship, University of Iowa (Summer 2010) Recruitment Award, University of Georgia (Spring 2007) Travel Grant Award, Villanova University (November 2006) Graduate Assistantship, Villanova University (2006-2007) Tuition Scholarship, Villanova University (2006 2007) Harry E. Hoewischer, S.J. Award for excellence in Psychology, Graduation Award (May 2004) Member of Psi Chi, Regis University (Spring, 2004) St. John Francis Regis Scholarship, Regis University (August 2000) Board of Trustees Scholarship, Regis University (2000 2004) Research Refereed Publications: Wifall, T., Hazeltine, E., & McMurray, B. Similarity impairs motor learning: Implications for the power law of learning. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General. Hazeltine, E. & Wifall, T. (2011). Searching working memory for the source of dual-task costs, Psychological Research,75,466-475. Brown, M. F., Knight-Green, M. B., Lorek, E. J., Packard, C., Shallcross, W. L., Wifall, T., et. al. (2008). Social working memory: Memory for another rat s spatial choices can increase or decrease choice tendencies. Learning and Behavior, 36, 327-340. Fernandez-Duque, D., & Wifall, T. C. (2007). Actor/observer asymmetry in risky decision making. Journal of Judgment and Decision Making, 2, 1-8. Wifall, T. C., Faes, T. M., Taylor-Burds, C. C., Mitzlefelt, J. D., & Delay, E. R. (2007). Umami qualities of IMP and GMP in the Rat. Chemical Senses, 32, 161-172. Taylor-Burds, C. C., Westburg, A. M., Wifall, T. C., Delay, E. R. (2004). Behavioral comparisons of the tastes of L-alanine and monosodium glutamate in rats. Chemical Senses, 29, 807-814. Manuscript under Review: Wifall, T., Hazeltine, E., & Mordkoff, J.T. Does stimulus uncertainty or response uncertainty produce the Hick-Hyman Law? Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance.
Buss, A. T., Wifall, T., Hazeltine, E., and Spencer, J. P. Integrating the behavioral and neural dynamics of response selection in a dual-task paradigm: a dynamic neural field model of Dux et al. (2009). Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. Book Chapters: Buss, A. T., Wifall, T. and Hazeltine, E. (in press) The dynamic field theory of executive function. In J. P. Spencer and G. S. Schöner (Eds.), Dynamic Thinking A Primer on Dynamic Field Theory. Manuscripts in Preparation: Wifall, T., Buss, A. T., Spencer, J.P., and Hazeltine, E. How the metrical properties of the stimulus and response affect response selection. Research Support: Integrating Perception and Action in a Neural Field Theory of Response Selection. National Institute of Health. Tim Wifall (Co. I.), 2012-2014. $100,000 total direct costs. Conference Presentations: Wifall, T. & Hazeltine, E. (2012, November). Moving bottleneck? Assessing the dualtask costs across a range of task pairings. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Minneapolis, MN. Buss, A. T., Wifall, T., Hazeltine, E., and Spencer, J. P. (2012, November). The interaction of inhibition, working-memory, and task-switching in a suite of executive function tasks. Poster presented at the 52 nd Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Minneapolis, MN. Wifall, T. & Hazeltine, E. (2011, November). How does task structure affect Hick/Hyman law? Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Seattle, WA. Buss, A. T., Wifall, T., Schöner, G., Hazeltine, E., and Spencer, J. P. (2011, November). Integrating mind and body in a response selection task: from neural decisions to mouse trajectories and back again. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Seattle, WA. Wifall, T., Buss, A. T., Spencer, J. P., and Hazeltine, E. (2010, November). The role of metrics in response selection. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, St. Louis, MO. Buss, A. T., Spencer, J. P., Wifall, T., and Hazeltine, E. (2010, November). A dynamic neural field model of the hemodynamics associated with response selection and
dual-task. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, St. Louis, MO. Hazeltine, E., Wifall, T., & Mordkoff, T. (2010, Novemeber). Does stimulus uncertainty or response uncertainty produce the Hick/Hyman Law? Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, St. Louis, MO. Wifall, T., & Hazeltine, E. (2009, November). Modality overlap and dual task cost. Poster session presented at the annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Boston, MA. Buss, A. T., Wifall, T., Hazeltine, E., & Spencer, J. P. (2009, November). A dynamic neural field model of response selection using a dual-task paradigm. Poster session presented at the annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Boston, MA. Hazeltine, E., Ruthruff, E., & Wifall, T. (2009, November). Evidence against a unitary central bottleneck: Reductions of dual-task costs depend on modality pairings. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Boston, MA. Wifall, T., Hazeltine, E., & McMurray, B. (2009) Inter-item similarity impairs motor skill learning. Paper presented at 15 th annual meeting of the Cognitive Science and Interdisciplinary learning, Mt. Hood, OR. Wifall, T., Hazeltine, E., & Ruthruff, E. (2008, November). Does response selection use working memory. Poster session presented at the annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Chicago, IL. Wifall, T. C., & Fernandez-Duque, D. (2006, November). Actor/observer asymmetry in risky decision making. Poster session presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Judgment and Decision Making, Houston, TX. Brown, M. F., Knight-Green, M. E., Lorek, E. J., Packard, C. C., Shallcross, W. L., & Wifall, T. C. (2006, November). Social spatial memory in the radial-arm maze. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Houston, TX. Taylor-Burds, C. C., Westburg, A. M., Wifall, T. C., Delay, E. R. (2004, April). CTA and Discrimination between L-Alanine and MSG. Poster session presented at the annual meeting of the Association for Chemoreception Sciences, Sarasota, FL. Faes, T. M., Wifall, T. C., Taylor-Burds, C. C., Mitzlefelt, J. D., Padilla, A. M., & Delay, E. R. (2003, April). Can rats discriminate between the tastes of IMP, GMP, and monosodium glutamate? Poster session presented at the annual meeting of the Association for Chemoreception Sciences, Sarasota, FL. Faes, T. M., Wifall, T. C., Taylor-Burds, C. C., Mitzlefelt, J. D., & Delay, E. R. (2003, November). Taste qualities of the umami substances IMP and GMP. Program No. 490.11. Abstract Viewer/Itinerary Planner. Washington, DC: Society for Neuroscience. Online.
Delay, E. R., Wifall, T. C., & Faes, T. M. (2002, November) Discrimination between umami tastes of IMP and MSG in rats. Program No. 355.9. Abstract Viewer/Itinerary Planner. Washington, DC: Society for Neuroscience. Online. Teaching Teaching Assistant for Laboratory in Psychology (Spring 2010, supervised by Dr. Eliot Hazeltine) Teaching Assistant for Cognitive Psychology (Fall 2009, supervised by Dr. Eliot Hazeltine) Teaching Assistant for Research Methods in Psychology (Spring 2009, supervised by Dr. Jonathan T. Mordkoff) Teaching Assistant in Cognitive Psychology (Fall 2008, supervised by Dr. Eliot Hazeltine) Co-Instructor in Brain and Behavior (Summer 2008, supervised by Dr. John Freeman) Teach Assistant in Elementary Psychology (Fall 2007, supervised by Dr. Scott Robinson; Spring 2008, supervised by Dr. Shaun Vecera) Teaching Assistant in Cognitive Laboratory Class (Spring 2007, supervised by Dr. Diego Fernandez-Duque) Teaching Assistant in Cognitive Laboratory Class (Fall 2006, supervised by Dr. Chip Folk) Teaching Assistant in Learning and Memory Laboratory Class (Spring 2004, supervised by Dr. Gene Delay) Service Departmental Service Graduate Student Mentor, Fall 2008-Present Secretary of Psi Chi (Villanova University), 2006-2007 Graduate College Service Professional Advancement Travel Award Reviewer, Fall 2009-Present Professional Advancement Research Grant Reviewer, Fall 2009-Present
Judge at University of Iowa Undergraduate Research Conference, Fall 2010