Jeff Moher Brown University, Providence, RI Cognitive, Linguistic, & Psychological Sciences http://sites.clps.brown.edu/jmoher/ jeff_moher@brown.edu (734) 834-6205 Education Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland Ph.D., Psychological & Brain Sciences July 2011 Thesis: The role of explicit inhibition in visual search Advisor: Howard Egeth M.A., Psychological & Brain Sciences May 2008 Thesis: Distractor probability affects attentional capture through the modulation of top-down set Advisor: Howard Egeth University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan B.S., Brain Behavior and Cognitive Science (with honors) May 2006 Thesis: Backward inhibition in different aspects of working memory Advisors: Priti Shah and John Jonides Minor: Philosophy Research Experience Postdoctoral Fellow, Brown University 2011- Perception, Action & Cognition Lab (PI: Dr. Joo Hyun Song) Graduate Research Fellow, Johns Hopkins University 2006-2011 Attention and Perception Lab (PI: Dr. Howard Egeth) Undergraduate Research Assistant, University of Michigan Cognitive Neuroimaging Lab (PI: Dr. John Jonides) 2004-2006 Basic and Applied Cognition Lab (PI: Dr. Priti Shah) 2002-2004 Summer Internship, University of Illinois at Chicago Learning Sciences Research Institute (PIs: Drs. Susan Goldman & Jim Pellegrino) 2004 Eyetracking and Cognition Lab (PI: Dr. Jennifer Wiley) 2003 Grants NIMH Neuroscience Training Grant, Brown Neuroscience (1 year financial support) 2012-2013 Brown University Center for Vision Research Fellowship (1 year financial support) 2011-2012 Johns Hopkins University J. Brien Key Travel Award 2011 NIH Visual Neuroscience Training Grant, Wilmer Eye Institute (2 years financial support) 2009-2010 Jeff Moher CV 1
Publications Refereed Journal Articles Moher, J., & Song, J-H. (2014). Target selection bias transfers across different response actions. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance. Moher, J., Lakshmanan, B. M., Egeth, H. E., & Ewen, J. B. (2014). Inhibition drives early feature-based attention. Psychological Science, 25(2), 315 324. Moher, J., & Song, J-H. (2013). Context-dependent sequential effects of target selection for action. Journal of Vision, 13(8):10, 1 13. Moher J., Ashinoff B.K., & Egeth H.E. (2013). Detection is unaffected by the deployment of focal attention. Frontiers in Cognitive Psychology, 4(284), 1-10. Moher, J. & Egeth, H.E. (2012). The ignoring paradox: Cueing distractor features leads first to selection, then inhibition of to-be-ignored items. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 74(8), 1590-1605. Ewen J., Moher J., Lakshmanan B.M., Ryan M., Xavier P., Crone N.E., Denckla M.B., Egeth, H.E., & Mahone E.M. (2012). Multiple-task interference is greater in children with ADHD. Developmental Neuropsychology, 37(2), 119-133. Moher, J., Abrams, J., Egeth, H.E., Yantis, S., & Stuphorn, V. (2011). Trial-by-trial adjustments of top-down set modulate oculomotor capture. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 18, 897-903. Franklin, M.S., Sledge-Moore, K., Yip, C-Y., Jonides, J., Rattray, K., & Moher, J. (2008). The effects of musical training on verbal memory. Psychology of Music, 36(3), 353-365. Published Conference Proceedings Moher, J. & Song, J-H. (2012). Dynamic threshold adjustments reduce costly changes-of mind in perceptual decision making. Object Perception, Attention, and Memory (OPAM) 2012 Conference Report, Visual Cognition, 20(9), 1032-1035. Moher, J., Lakshmanan, B.M., Egeth, H.E., & Ewen, J. (2012). Perseveration in attention: Inhibitory featurebased attentional sets automatically carry over to novel task contexts. Information Sciences and Systems (CISS), Princeton, NJ, IEEE Information Theory Society, 1-3. Moher, J. & Egeth, H.E. (2011). A mechanism for inhibition in visual search. In 45 th Information Sciences and Systems (CISS), Baltimore, MD, IEEE Information Theory Society, 1-5. Moher, J. & Egeth, H.E. (2010). Search and destroy: Observers use an inefficient explicit feature-based inhibition strategy in visual search. Object Perception, Attention, and Memory (OPAM) 2010 Conference Report, Visual Cognition, 18(10), 1529-1532. Manuscripts in Progress Moher, J. & Song, J-H. (invited revision under review, Journal of Vision). Decision-making thresholds are dynamically adjusted to account for motor costs associated with changes of mind. Moher, J., Anderson, B.A., & Song, J-H. (under revision). Highly salient distractors trigger rapid suppression during goal-directed action. Lee, R-K., Moher, J., & Song, J-H. (in preparation). Comparing devices for measuring visually-guided reaching movements. Moher, J. & Tamber-Rosenau, B.J. (in preparation). The role of shape and configural properties in attentional capture by objecthood. Jeff Moher CV 2
Invited Talks Williams College (Psychology Department), Williamstown, MA, February 2014. Johns Hopkins University (Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences, Vision Seminar), Baltimore, MD, September 2013. Northwestern University (Visual Cognition Lab), Evanston, IL, April 2013. Boston Veterans Administration (Attention and Learning Lab), Boston, MA, September 2012. Brigham and Women s Hospital (Visual Attention Lab), Cambridge, MA, March 2012. Brown University (Department of Cognitive, Linguistic, & Psychological Sciences, Cognition Seminar), Providence, RI, October 2011. Select Conference Presentations Moher, J., Anderson, B.A., & Song, J-H. (2013, November). Reward-associated stimuli trigger movement repulsion in goal-directed action. Poster presented at annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Toronto, ON. Moher, J., Lakshmanan, B.M., Egeth, H.E., & Ewen, J. (2013, November). Inhibition Drives Early Feature- Based Attention. Talk presented by HEE at annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Toronto, ON. Erb, C.D., Moher, J., Song, J-H., & Sobel, D.M. (2013, October). Reach trajectory tracking as an online measure of executive control. Talk presented at biennial meeting of the Cognitive Development Society, Memphis, TN. Moher, J. & Song, J-H. (2013, May). Memory-based bias for target selection transfers across different response modalities. Poster presented at annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, Naples, FL. Moher, J. & Song, J-H. (2012, November). Dynamic threshold adjustments reduce costly changes-of mind in perceptual decision making. Talk presented at annual workshop on Object Perception, Attention, & Memory, Minneapolis, MN. Moher, J. & Egeth, H.E. (2011, May). Search and destroy: A new approach to understanding inhibition in visual search. Talk presented at annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, Naples, FL. Moher, J. & Egeth, H.E. (2011, March). A mechanism for inhibition in visual search. Talk presented at annual Conference on Information Science and Systems, Baltimore, MD. Moher, J. & Egeth, H.E. (2010, July). The role of explicit ignoring in visual search. Talk presented at annual meeting of the Cognitive Science Association for Interdisciplinary Learning, Hood River, OR. Tamber-Rosenau, B. & Moher, J. (2010, May). Attentional capture by objecthood is unaffected by salience in other dimensions. Poster presented at annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, Naples, FL. Ewen J., Moher J., Xavier P., Ryan M., Lakshmanan B.M., Crone N.E., Denckla M.B., Egeth, H.E., Mahone E.M. (2010, May). Degree of psychological refractory period effect predicts reading comprehension. Poster presented at biennial meeting of the International Child Neurology Congress, Cairo, Egypt. Jeff Moher CV 3
Teaching Experience Instructor (Johns Hopkins University) Free Will and Determinism: A Psychological Perspective 2009, 2010, 2011 Created original three-week intersession course, taught for three consecutive years Bi-weekly 2.5 hour class meetings included a lecture and discussion Each student required to present and lead discussion on a topic, encouraging active participation from students from a broad range of ages and majors Laboratory Analysis of Psychological Data 2007 Section instructor for semester-long laboratory methods course Taught weekly two-hour class meetings, including lectures and interactive lab work Responsibilities included designing lectures as well as creating and grading assignments & exams Teaching Assistant (Johns Hopkins University) Graduate Advanced Research Design & Analysis (Dr. Amy Shelton) 2009 Introduction of Cognitive Psychology (Dr. Amy Shelton) 2008 Neuroscience of Decision Making (Dr. Veit Stuphorn) 2008 Law and Psychology: Clinical Applications (Dr. Lawrence Raifman) 2007 History of Psychology (Dr. Paul Hofer) 2006 Guest lecturer (Brown University) Visual Attention (Dr. Joo-Hyun Song), Attention and inhibition 2013 Sensation and Perception (Dr. Leslie Welch), Attention 2012, 2013 Visually-Guided Action and Cognitive Processes (Dr. Joo-Hyun Song) 2012 Memory and attention in action: Sequential effects during visually-guided reaching Guest lecturer (Johns Hopkins University) Introduction to Cognitive Psychology (Dr. Amy Shelton), Introduction to Attention 2008 Neuroscience of Decision Making (Dr. Veit Stuphorn), Social Decision Making 2007 Teaching Development (Brown University) Sheridan Center for Teaching: Teaching Certificate IV Course 2013-2014 Training as a teaching consultant, conduct peer teaching observations and provide Feedback to instructors at Brown University Sheridan Center for Teaching: Teaching Certificate III Course 2013-2014 Topics include teaching philosophy, broader impacts of teaching Sheridan Center for Teaching: Assorted Teaching Workshops 2012-2014 Individual workshops include Interactive Classrooms, Syllabus Design, and Experiencing, Experimenting & Playing: Learning with Technology. Sheridan Center for Teaching: Teaching Certificate I Course 2012-2013 Topics included reflective teaching, student learning styles, student assessment Jeff Moher CV 4
Academic Service Ad-Hoc Reviewer Acta Psychologica, Applied Cognitive Psychology, Brain Research, Frontiers in Cognitive Science, Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception & Performance, Journal of Vision, Visual Cognition, Vision Research Professional Service Co-organizer for annual workshop on Object Perception, Attention, and Memory (OPAM) 2013 2014 Toronto, ON (2013) and Long Beach, CA (2014) Responsibilities include abstract reviewing, organization of conference abstracts for publication in Visual Cognition, financial planning, keynote planning, and organization of sponsored workshop on non-academic careers Volunteer judge at National Collegiate Research Conference at Harvard University 2013 Conference volunteer, annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society 2007 Departmental Service Co-representative for department steering committee, Johns Hopkins University 2007 2011 Co-organizer, graduate student interview weekend, Johns Hopkins University 2009 Community Outreach Volunteer presenter at Cambridge Brain Awareness Week Youth Conference 2013 Volunteer teacher at Baltimore Polytechnic School for Brain Awareness Week 2007 2011 Professional Affiliations Cognitive Neuroscience Society Vision Sciences Society Psychonomic Society (associate member) Jeff Moher CV 5