BRADLEY C. TABER-THOMAS, M.A., Ph.D. Curriculum Vitae Contact: Behavioral Sciences Labs Phone: 405-456-3127 VA Medical Center #151-A Cell: 585-704-5137 921 NE 13 th Street Fax: 405-456-1839 Oklahoma City, OK 73104 Email: bradley-thomas@uiowa.edu 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) 2008 2011 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 2006 2008 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 2000-2004 Northeastern University B.A., Modern Languages (Spanish), Biology minor, with honors
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 2008-2011 Graduate Research Assistant, Laboratory of Dr. Daniel Tranel, Department of Neurology, University of Iowa 2007-2008 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 2006-2008 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 2009-2011 Student mentor for 7 undergraduate research assistants and 2 precomps graduate students Awards and Funding: 2011-2012 The Neural Basis of Moral Behavior, Executive Council of Graduate and Professional Students Research Grant, $900. 2011 Graduate Student Senate Travel Award, to travel to the Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, November 2011. 2011 Executive Council of Graduate and Professional Students Travel Grant, to travel to the Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, November 2011. 2011 Society for Neuroscience Next Generation Award nominee from the Iowa SfN Chapter 2 of 6
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. 2010 Graduate College Supplemental Funds, to travel to the Rotman Research Institute Conference on the Frontal Lobes, in Toronto, Canada, March 22-26, 2010 2010 Graduate Student Senate Travel Award, to travel to the Cognitive Neuroscience Society s 17th Annual Meeting, Montreal, Québec, Canada, April 2010. 2010 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 2010. 2010 Exemplary Senator Recognition (for 78 hours of service in 2009-2010), 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), 2186-2196. 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, 21-34. 3 of 6
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 2012. And at Midwestern Psychological Association, May 2012. (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 2011. 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 2011. 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 2010. 4 of 6
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 2010. (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 2009. Also presented at Pre-SfN Poster Session, University of Iowa, October 2009. Thomas, B.C. (2009). The Non-Moral Basis of Cognitive Biases of Moral Intuitions. Rocky Mountain Ethics Congress, Boulder, Colorado, August 2009. 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 2009. 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 2007. Abstract published in Proceedings of the Georgia Student Philosophy Symposium 2007. 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 2007. 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 2011. 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 2010. 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 2009. González, K., Thomas, B., Scherer, A., & Tranel, D. (2009). Neural Correlates of Framing Effects. University of Iowa Summer Undergraduate Research Conference, July 2009. 5 of 6
d. Engaged and Synergistic Activities. 2011-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 2010-2011 Graduate Student Advisor to pre-comps neuroscience graduate students 2009-2011 Chair of Brain Awareness Committee, Neuroscience Program, University of Iowa 2008-2011 Undergraduate students supervised: Pierce Edmiston, Heather Robinson, Lucas Connor, Beyon Miloyan, Ali Mohammed, Katia González, and José Rodriguez Cardona. 2008-2011 Senator, Graduate Student Senate, University of Iowa (alternate 2008-2009; full 2009-2011) 2008-2011 Organizer of the Iowa MoCo Reading Group on moral cognition 2009-2010 Co-Chair of International Student Committee, Graduate Student Senate, University of Iowa 2009-2010 Director of Lekker Lekker (annual ethnic restaurant review project of the Graduate Student Senate) 2008-2009 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
(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