Eric D. Leshikar, Ph.D. E-mail: Leshikar@uic.edu Office Department of Psychology 1007 West Harrison Street Chicago, Illinois, 60607 Academic Degrees PhD University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) 2009 Psychology MA University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 2006 Psychology BS Abilene Christian University (ACU) 2000 Psychology BS Abilene Christian University (ACU) 2000 Communication Professional Experience Clinical Assistant Professor, University of Illinois at Chicago 2016-Pres Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Illinois at Chicago 2013-2016 Assistant Director, Center for Advanced Brain Imaging 2013 Post-doctoral Fellow, advised by Angela Gutchess, Brandeis U. 2011-2013 Post-doctoral Trainee, advised by Audrey Duarte, Georgia Tech 2009-2011 Graduate Student, advised by Denise Park, UIUC 2003-2009 Research Assistant, Boston Medical Center 2002-2003 Administrative Assistant to Jerome Kagan, Harvard University 2002 Administrative Assistant, UROP, MIT 2002 Honors and Awards HOPE Award, Student-nominated teacher excellence award, UIC 2017 HOPE Award, Student-nominated teacher excellence award, UIC 2016 Fellow, Psychonomics Society 2016-Pres Editorial Board Membership, Frontiers in Neuroscience 2015-Pres Center for Teaching Excellence, Graduate Teaching Certificate 2009 The List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent by Their Students (Illinois) 2008 The List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent by Their Students (Illinois) 2007 Summer Institute in Cognitive Neuroscience at Dartmouth College Fellow 2006 Cognitive Psychophysiology Training Grant Recipient 2005 American Psychological Association Advance Training Institute Fellow 2004 Graduate College Diversity Fellowship for Under-represented Students 2003 McNair Undergraduate Fellow, ACU Chapter 1998-2000 Teaching Experience Cognitive Aging (UIC) Spring, 2015 Memory (UIC) Spring, 2014 Introduction to Psychology (UIC) Fall, 2013-Pres (8 terms) Teaching of Psychology (UIC) Fall, 2014-Pres (6 terms) 1
Introduction to Psychology, Lecturer (UIUC) Fall, 2007 & Fall, 2008 Modern Viewpoints in Psychology, Teaching Assistant (UIUC) Fall, 2005 Honors Seminar, Teaching Assistant (ACU) Fall, 2000 Professional Memberships Society for Neuroscience Cognitive Neuroscience Society Human Brain Mapping Midwest Psychological Association American Psychological Association Division 20 Association for Psychological Science Psychonomics Society National Latina/o Psychological Association Peer-Reviewed Publications (*Denotes senior authored publication) McCurdy, M.P., Leach, R.C., & Leshikar, E.D.* (2017). The generation effect revisited: Fewer constraints enhances item and context memory. Journal of Memory and Language. 92, 202-216. doi: 10.1016/j.jml.2016.06.007 Wong, S., Irish, M., Leshikar, E.D., Duarte, A., Bertoux, M., Savage, M., Hodges, J.R., Piguet, O., Hornberger, M. (2016). The self-reference effect in dementia: Differential involvement of cortical midline structures in Alzheimer s disease and behavioural-variant frontotemporal dementia. Cortex. Leach, R.C., McCurdy, M.P., Trumbo, M.C., Matzen, L.E., & Leshikar, E.D.* (2016). Transcranial stimulation of left Inferior frontal gyrus increases false alarms for associative memory in older adults. Healthy Aging Research. 5, 1-6. Leshikar, E. D., Cassidy, B. S., Gutchess, A. H. (2016). Similarity to the self influences cortical recruitment during impression formation. Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience. 16 (2), 302-314. doi: 10.3758/s13415-015-0390-3 Matzen, L.E., Trumbo, M., Leach, R.C., Leshikar, E.D.* (2015). Effects of noninvasive brain stimulation on associative memory. Brain Research. 1624, 286-296. doi:10.1016/j.brainres.2015.07.036. PMID: 26236022 Leshikar, E.D., & Gutchess, A.H. (2015). Similarity to the self affects impression memory for others. Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition. 4 (1), 20-28. doi: 10.1016/j.jarmac.2014.10.002. 2
Leshikar, E. D., Dulas, M. R., & Duarte A. (2015). Self-referencing enhances recollection in both young and older adults. Aging, Neuropsychology, and Cognition. 22, 4, 388-412. doi: 10.1080/13825585.2014.957150. PMID: 25264018. PMCID: PMC4377313. Leshikar, E.D., Park, J.M., & Gutchess, A.H. (2015). Similarity to the self affects impression memory in younger and older adults. Journal of Gerontology: Series B Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences. doi: 10.1093/geronb/gbt132. PMID: 24389124 PMCID: PMC4553711. Leshikar, E. D., & Duarte, A. (2014). Medial prefrontal cortex supports source memory for selfreferenced materials in young and older adults. Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience, 14 (1), 236-252. doi: 10.3389/fnhum.2013.00537. PMID: 23904335. PMCID: PMC3871985. Cassidy, B. S., Leshikar, E. D., Gutchess, A. H. (2013). Valence-based age differences in medial prefrontal activity during impression formation. Social Neuroscience. 8(5), 462-73. doi: 10.1080/17470919.2013.832373. PMID: 23998453. PMCID: PMC3786866. Colton, G., Leshikar, E. D., & Gutchess, A. H. (2013). Age differences in neural response to stereotype threat and resiliency for self-referenced information. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience. 7, 537. doi:10.3389/fnhum.2013.00537. doi: 10.3389/fnhum.2013.00537. PMID: 24046739. PMCID: PMC3764398. Leshikar, E. D., Duarte, A., & Hertzog, C. (2012). Task-selective memory effects for successful implemented encoding strategies. PLoS One.7(5), e38160. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0038160. PMID: 22693593. PMCID: PMC3364974. Leshikar, E. D., & Duarte A. (2012). Medial prefrontal cortex supports source memory accuracy for self-referenced items. Social Neuroscience. 7 (2), 126-145. doi: 10.1080/17470919.2011.585242. PMID: 21936739. PMCID: PMC3701388. Goh, J. O. S., Leshikar, E. D., Sutton, B. P., Tan, J. C., Sim, S. K. Y., Hebrank, A., Park, D. C. (2010). Culture differences in neural processing of faces and houses in the ventral visual cortex. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience. 5, 227-235. doi: 10.1093/scan/nsq060. PMID: 20558408. PMCID: PMC2894673. Leshikar, E. D., Gutchess, A. H., Hebrank, A. C., Sutton B. P., & Park, D. C. (2010). The impact of increased relational encoding demand on frontal and hippocampal function in older adults. Cortex. 4, 507-521. doi: 10.1016/j.cortex.2009.07.011. PMID: 19709652. PMCID: PMC2826535. 3
Gutchess, A. H., Hebrank, A., Sutton, B., Leshikar, E., Chee, M., Tan, J., Goh, J., Park, D. (2007). Contextual interference in recognition memory with age. Neuroimage. 35(3), 1338-1347. Goh, J. O. S., Chee, M. W. L., Venkatraman, V., Hebrank, A., Leshikar, E. D., Jenkins, L., Sutton, B. P., Gutchess, A. H., & Park, D. C. (2007). Age and culture modulate object processing and object-scene binding in the ventral visual area. Cognitive, Affective, and Behavioral Neuroscience. 7(1), 44-52. Chee, M. W. L., Goh, J. O. S., Venkatraman, V., Tan, J. C., Gutchess, A., Sutton, B., Hebrank, A., Leshikar, E., & Park, D. (2006). Age-related changes in object processing and contextual binding revealed using fmr-adaptation. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 18: 495-507. Park, D. C., & Leshikar, E. D. (2006). An overview of the cognitive neuroscience of aging. In Jing, Q., Rosenzweig, M., d'ydewalle, G., Zhang, H., Chen, H., and Zhang, K (Eds.) Progress in psychological science around the world, Proceedings of the 28th International Congress of Psychology.Vol 1, Neural, cognitive, and developmental issues. Hove, UK: Psychology Press. Manuscripts Under Review or In Preparation (*Denotes senior authored manuscript) McCurdy, M.P., Leach, R., & Leshikar, E.D.* (Under Review). Fewer constraints influence generation effect for associative and source memory in younger, but not older adults. Leshikar, E.D., Leach, R.C., McCurdy, M.P., Trumbo, M., Matzen, L.E.* (Under Review). Transcranial direct current stimulation of dorsolateral prefrontal cortex improves recall but not recognition memory. Jackson, J.D., Luu, C., Vigderman, A., Leshikar, E.D., St. Jacques, P.L., Gutchess, A.H. (Under Review). Reduction of the self-reference effect via induction of a self-oriented mode in younger and older adults. Meyer, Z., McCurdy, M.P., Leach, R.C., & Leshikar, E.D.* (In Preparation). Effects of survival processing on Item and context memory. Leach, R.C., Leshikar, E.D, Trumbo, M., Matzen, L.E.* (In Preparation). Differential age effects of transcranial stimulation on associative memory in younger and older adults. McCurdy, M.P., Leach, R., & Leshikar, E.D.* (In Preparation). Generation constraints impacts the generation effect for color context and cued recall. 4
Sklenar, A. M., McCurdy, M. P., & Frankenstein, A. N., and Leshikar, E.D.* (In Preparation). The influence of self-similarity on impression memory. Frankenstein, A., McCurdy, M. P., Pandya, R. Sklenar, A. M., and Leshikar, E. D.* (In Preparation). The role of prediction outcome on memory. Sklenar, A. M., Leshikar, E. D., McCurdy, M. P., Frankenstein, A. N. & Motyl, M., and Leshikar, E.D.* (In Preparation). The effect of impression memory on ideological distance judgments. McCurdy, M.P., Viechtbauer, W., Leach, R.C., Frankenstein, A., Sklenar, A. M., & Leshikar, E.D.* (In preparation). The impact of generation constraints on the generation effect: A meta-analytic review. McCurdy, M., Pandya, R., Leach, R., Leshikar, E.D.* (In Preparation). Adaptive memory: Test of the future simulation hypothesis. Perez, J., Leach, R.C., McCurdy, M., Motyl, M., Leshikar, E.D.* (In Preparation). A person memory mechanism underlying ideological migration. Leach, R.C., McCurdy, M.P., Sklenar A., M., Frankenstein, A., and Leshikar, E.D.* (In Preparation). tdcs effects on memory: a review. Leshikar, E.D., Shin, J., Duarte, A. (In Preparation). Resting state activity predicts successful memory in a self-referencing task. Holder, J., Leshikar, E.D., Duarte, A., & Hertzog, C. (In Preparation). Cortical regions supporting successful encoding strategies in younger and older adults. Leshikar, E. D., Hebrank, A. C, Jenkins, L. J., Goh, J. O., Chee, M. W. & Park, D. C. (In Preparation). Frontal compensation for default network suppression deficits in older adults during scene encoding. Leshikar, E. D., Hebrank, A. C, Jenkins, L. J., Goh, J. O., Tan., J., Chen, K., Chee, M. W. & Park, D. C. (In Preparation). Culture differences in function of the default network: Evidence for greater default modulation in western versus east Asian adults. Leshikar, E. D., Hebrank, A. C, Jenkins, L. J., Goh, J. O., Tan., J., Chen, K., Chee, M. W. & Park, D. C. (In Preparation). Frontal Compensation across cultures: Orbitofrontal cortex compensates for default suppression deficits in East Asian and Western elderly. Invited Talks Aging, Culture and Cognition Laboratory, Brandeis University Summer, 2008 5
Cognitive Division Brown Bag Seminar, University of Illinois Fall, 2008 Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience Laboratory, Boston College Summer, 2009 Cognition and Brain Science Seminar, Georgia Tech Fall, 2010 MIND Institute, University of New Mexico Spring, 2011 Psychology department, University of Akron Fall, 2011 Cognitive Aging Seminar, Georgia Tech Spring, 2012 Martin Weiner Lecture Series, Brandeis University Spring, 2012 Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience Laboratory, Boston College Summer, 2012 VA Boston Neuroimaging & Neuropsychology Lecture Series Fall, 2012 Psychology department, Tufts University Fall, 2012 Psychology department, University of Illinois-Chicago Spring, 2013 Psychiatry department, University of Illinois College of Medicine Spring, 2013 Cognitive Program, Psychology department, University of Illinois-Chicago Fall, 2013 Social Program, Psychology department, University of Illinois-Chicago Fall, 2013 Behavioral Neuroscience, University of Illinois-Chicago Fall, 2013 Psychology department, University of Illinois-Chicago Fall, 2014 Cognitive Program, University of Illinois-Chicago Spring, 2015 Psychology department, Cognitive Division, UIUC Spring, 2016 Psychology department, Cognitive & Behavioral Science, Illinois State U. Spring, 2016 Psychology department, UNED, Madrid, Spain Spring, 2016 Scholarly Presentations McCurdy, M.P., Leach, R., & Leshikar, E.D. (November, 2017). Fewer Generation Constraints Improve the Generation Effect via Associative Strengthening. Poster to be presented at the Psychonomics Society Annual Meeting, Vancouver, BC. McCurdy, M.P., Leach, R., & Leshikar, E.D. (August, 2017). Generation Constraints Influence the Generation Effect for Younger but not Older Adults. Poster to be presented at the APA Annual Convention, Washington, DC. McCurdy, M.P., Leach, R., & Leshikar, E.D. (April, 2017). Fewer Generation Constraints Enhances the Generation Effect. Poster presented at the Midwest Psychological Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL. Meyers, Z., McCurdy, M.P., Leach, R., & Leshikar, E.D. (April, 2017). Effects of Survival Processing on Context Memory. Poster presented at the Midwest Psychological Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL. Leach, R., McCurdy, M.P., & Leshikar, E.D. (April, 2017). Transcranial Stimulation Effects on Face-Name Associative Memory. Poster presented at the Midwest Psychological Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL. 6
Meyers, Z., McCurdy, M.P., Leach, R., & Leshikar, E.D. (April, 2017). Effects of Survival Processing on Context Memory. Poster presented at the Illinois Undergraduate Research Day, State Capital, Springfield, IL. Meyers, Z., McCurdy, M.P., Leach, R., & Leshikar, E.D. (April, 2017). Survival Processing: Item and Context Memory Enhancement. Poster presented at the Student Research Forum, Chicago, IL. Leach, R., McCurdy, M.P., & Leshikar, E.D. (January, 2017). Differential Age Effects of Transcranial Stimulation on Face-Name Associative Memory. Poster presented at the Dallas Aging and Cognition Conference, Dallas, TX. McCurdy, M.P., Leach, R., & Leshikar, E.D. (January, 2017). Level of Constraint Influences the Generation Effect for Item and Context Memory in Younger but not Older Adults. Poster presented at the Dallas Aging and Cognition Conference, Dallas, TX. McCurdy, M.P., Leach, R., & Leshikar, E.D. (November, 2016). Fewer Constraints Enhances the Generation Effect for Context Memory: Benefits for Source and Color. Poster presented at the Psychonomic Society Annual Meeting, Boston, MA. Leach, R.C., McCurdy, M.P., & Leshikar, E.D. (May, 2016). Transcranial stimulation of dorsolateral prefrontal cortex improves face-name associative memory. Poster presented at the Annual meeting of the Association for Psychological Science, Chicago, IL. McCurdy, M.P., Leach, R., & Leshikar, E.D. (May, 2016). Unconstrained Generation Improves the Generation Effect: Benefits for Item and Context Memory. Poster presented at the International Psychonomics Society Annual Meeting, Granada, Spain. McCurdy, M.P., Leach, R., & Leshikar, E.D. (May, 2016). The Generation Effect Revisited: Enhancements for Item and Context Memory. Poster presented at the Midwest Psychological Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL. McCurdy, M.P., Leach, R., & Leshikar, E.D. (May, 2016). Enhancing the Generation Effect: Unconstrained Generation Improves Item and Context Memory. Poster presented at the Association for Psychological Science Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL. Perez, J., Leach, R.C., McCurdy, M., Motyl, M., Leshikar, E.D. (April, 2016). In Search of a person memory mechanism underlying ideological migration. Poster presented at the UIC Student Research Forum. Chicago, IL. 7
McCurdy, M.P., Leach, R., & Leshikar, E.D. (November, 2015). Unconstrained Generation Improves the Generation Effect: Benefits for Item and Context Memory. Poster presented at the Psychonomics Society Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL. Wong, S., Irish, M., Leshikar, E.D., Duarte, A., Savage, G., Hodges, J.R., Piguet, O., Hornberger, M. (July, 2015). Social cognition and the self-reference effect in Alzheimer s disease and behavioural variant frontotemporal dementia. Poster presented at the INS/ASSBI conference, Sydney, Australia. McCurdy, P., & Leshikar, E.D. (April, 2015). Self-Generation benefits item and context memory. Talk given to the Cognitive Program, UIC Psychology, Chicago, IL. Leshikar, E.D., Cassidy, S., & Gutchess, A.H. (April, 2015). Thinking about similar others: Regions supporting evaluation and memory for others varying in similarity to the self. Poster presented at the Society for Affective Neuroscience Conference, Boston, MA. Pandya, R., Leach, R., McCurdy, M., Leshikar, E.D. (April, 2015). Adaptive memory: Test of the future simulation hypothesis. Poster presented at the UIC Student Research Forum, Chicago, IL. (NOTE: First place, Social Sciences Division) Leshikar, E.D., Park, J., & Gutchess, A.H. (April, 2014). Similarity to the Self Affects Memory for Impressions of Others across Age. Poster presented at the Cognitive Aging Conference, Atlanta, GA. Leshikar, E.D., Park, J., & Gutchess, A.H. (January, 2013). Similarity to the self affects Impression memory in younger and older adults. Poster presented at the Dallas Aging and Cognition Conference, Dallas, TX. Leshikar, E. D., Zabludosky, L., & Gutchess, A. H. (November, 2012). A self-reference mechanism for memory of first impressions. Poster presented at the Psychonomics Society Annual Meeting, Minneapolis, MN. Leshikar, E. D. & Duarte, A. (October, 2012). Medial prefrontal cortex supports source memoryfor self-referenced materials in young and older adults. Poster presented at the Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA. Cassidy, B. S., Leshikar, E. D., Gutchess, A.H. (October, 2012).Valence modulates dorsomedial prefrontal cortex engagement during impressions formation in healthy aging. Talk presented at the Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA. Leshikar, E. D. & Duarte A. (April, 2012). Self-referencing supports source memory in young and older adults. Poster presented at the Cognitive Aging Conference, Atlanta, GA. 8
Leshikar, E. D., Holder, J., Duarte, A., & Hertzog, C. (November, 2011). Task-dependent activation supports subsequent memory for successful encoding strategy use. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, Washington, D.C. Leshikar, E. D. & Duarte, A. L. (November, 2010). Medial prefrontal cortex supports source memory retrieval for self-reference. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Psychonomics Society, St. Louis, Missouri. Leshikar, E. D. & Duarte, A. L. (November, 2010). Medial prefrontal cortex supports accurate source memory retrieval for items encoded under self-reference. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, San Diego, California. Zuo, Jessica X., Leshikar, Eric D., Duarte, Audrey L. (August, 2010) Effects of Successful Encoding Strategy Implementation on Subsequent Memory Performance: A Pilot Study. Poster presented at Center for Behavioral Neuroscience BRAIN program. Leshikar, E. D. & Duarte, A. L. (January, 2010). Effects of semantic versus self-reference encoding on source memory. Poster presented at the Dallas ACC conference, Dallas, Texas. Leshikar, E. D., Hebrank, A. C, Jenkins, L. J., Goh, J. O., Chee, M. W. & Park, D. C. (October, 2009). Frontal compensation for default network suppression deficits in older adults during scene encoding. Talk presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, Chicago, Illinois. Leshikar, E. D., Hebrank, A. C, Jenkins, L. J., Goh, J. O., Chee, M. W. & Park, D. C. (November, 2008). Episodic memory success is tied to parametric modulation of the default network in younger but not older adults. Talk presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, Washington D. C. Goh, J. O.,Leshikar, E., Hebrank, A., Flicker, B., Sutton, B., Wang, W., Jenkins, L., Tan, J., Chen, K., Chee, M., Park, D. (November, 2008). Age and culture modulate neural selectivity in the ventral visual area during face and place viewing. Talk presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, Washington D. C. Leshikar, E. D., Gutchess, A.H., Hebrank, A. C., Sutton B., & Park, D. C. (April, 2008). The impact of increased encoding demand on frontal and medial temporal function in older adults. Poster presented at the Cognitive Aging Conference, Atlanta, Georgia. Leshikar, E. D., Gutchess, A.H., Hebrank, A. C., Sutton B., & Park, D. C. (May, 2007). Relational encoding leads to greater engagement of prefrontal cortex in lower than higherperforming elderly. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, San Francisco, CA. 9
Leshikar, E. D., Gutchess, A.H., Hebrank, A. C., Sutton B., Welsh, R., & Park, D. C. (April, 2006). Modulation of neural response to task difficulty in young and old adults using fmri. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, San Francisco, CA. Goh, J., Chee, M., Tan, J., Venkatraman, V., Leshikar, E. D., Hebrank, A. C., Jenkins, L. J., Sutton, B., Park, D. C. (April, 2006). Aging and culture modulate fmr-adaptation in ventral visual areas. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, San Francisco, CA. Chee, M., Goh, J., Tan, J., Gutchess, A., Sutton, B., Hebrank, A., Leshikar, E., Park, D. (November, 2005). fmr-adaptation shows that age and culture modulate visual processing of complex pictures. Talk presented at the meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, Washington, DC. Gutchess, A., Hebrank, A., Sutton, B., Leshikar, E., Chee, M., Tan, J., Goh, J., Park, D. (November, 2005). Prefrontal compensation with age for contextual interference. Talk presented at the meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, Washington, DC. Editorial Board Membership Frontiers in Human Neuroscience Role: Action Editor Ad Hoc Reviewer Aging Clinical and Experimental Research Behavioral Brain Research Brain and Cognition Cerebral Cortex Cognitive, Affective, and Behavioral Neuroscience Cortex Child Development Experimental Brain Research Experimental Psychology Frontiers in Human Neuroscience Journal of Cognitive Psychology NeuroImage Neuroscience Letters Neuropsychologia Memory Memory and Cognition Psychology and Aging Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology 10
Mentoring Independent project, Dena Giannakopoulos, Psych Dept., UIC Project Title: Generation constraint influences the testing effect Spring, 2016-Pres (3 terms) Independent project, Jonathan Villasenor, Psychology Dept., UIC Spring, 2016-Pres (3 terms) Project Title: An intervention to improve memory in younger adults Independent project, Chiara Faust, Psychology Dept., UIC Spring, 2016-Fall, 2016 (2 terms) Project Title: An intervention to improve memory in younger adults Independent project, Camill Burden, Psychology Dept., UIC Project Title: Self-reference benefit from tdcs stimulation. Independent project, Desiree Davila, Psychology Dept., UIC Project Title: An intervention to improve associative memory Spring, 2015-Pres (5 terms) Spring, 2015-Pres (5 terms) Independent project, Janette Perez, Psychology Dept., UIC Spring, 2015-Spring, 2016 (3 terms) Project Title: Person memory mechanism underlying ideological migration Graduate student, Matthew McCurdy, Psychology Dept., UIC Fall, 2014-Pres (6 terms) Independent project, Haajra Narmawala, Psychology Dept., UIC Spring, 2014-Pres (7 terms) Project Title: Implicit and explicit memory influences underlying the self-reference effect Independent project, Rhiday Pandaya, Neuroscience, UIC Spring, 2014-Spring, 2015 (3 terms) Project Title: Adaptive memory: A test of the future simulation hypothesis Independent project, Zoie Meyers, Psychology Dept., UIC Spring, 2014-Pres (7 terms) Project Title: Context Memory Benefit As a Result of Survival Processing Graduate student, Ryan Leach, Psychology Dept., UIC Fall, 2014-Fall, 2016 (5 terms) Project Title: tdcs effects on memory Senior Thesis, Gabe Colton, Psychology Dept., Brandeis Univ. Fall-Spring, 2012-2013 Project Title: Age differences in neural response to stereotype threat and resiliency for selfreferenced information. 11
Senior Thesis, Abby Vigderman, Psychology Dept., Brandeis Univ. Fall-Spring, 2012-2013 Project Title: Autobiographical Memory Underlies the Self-Reference Effect in Memory Senior Thesis, R. Colin Blenis, Psychology Dept., Georgia Tech Fall-Spring, 2011-2012 Project Title: Culture Effects on Source Memory for Self-Referenced Materials Senior Thesis, Brent Sattelmeier, Psychology Dept., Georgia Tech Fall-Spring, 2011-2012 Project Title: Self-Reference Effects on Memory Characteristics with Age BRAIN Summer Intern, Jessica Zuo, Harvard University Summer, 2010 Project Title: Effects of Encoding Strategies on Subsequent Memory Senior Thesis, Adarsh Shetty, Biology Dept., Georgia Tech Fall-Spring, 2009-2010 Project Title: Self-Reference and Recollection in Young and Older adults Mentored awards (to my students) Student: Matthew McCurdy, Psychology, UIC Spring, 2017 Award: Keys Award for Early Oustanding Research Award (Note: This is the highest award given to an early career graduate student in the psych department.) Student: Matthew McCurdy, Psychology, UIC Spring, 2017 Award: MPA Graduate Student Paper Award (Note: Given to the single best paper from the Cognitive area at MPA) Student: Zoie Meyers, Psychology, UIC Fall-Spring, 2016-2017 Award: Hirschberg Memorial Grant for Undergraduate Research Student: Konstadena Giannakopoulos, Psychology, UIC Spring, 2017 Award: LASURI research funding award Project title: The Relationship between the Generation Effect and the Testing Effect for Memory Student: Matthew McCurdy, Psychology, UIC Fall, 2016 Award: Sallie P. Asche Travel Award for the Dallas Aging and Cognition Conference Student: Ryan Leach, Psychology, UIC Fall, 2016 Award: Sallie P. Asche Travel Award for the Dallas Aging and Cognition Conference 12
Student: Matthew McCurdy, Psychology, UIC Spring, 2016 Award: UIC Provost s Award for Graduate Research Project title: Improving memory in older adults using the Generation Effect Student: Matthew McCurdy, Psychology, UIC Spring, 2016 Award: Psychonomic Society International Graduate Accommodation Award Student: Haajra Narmawala, Psychology, UIC Spring, 2016 Award: LASURI research funding award Project title: Does Self-Referencing Support Implicit Memory? Student: Ryan Leach, Psychology, UIC Fall, 2015 Award: Provost/Deiss Award Project title: Electrical Stimulation of the cortex facilitate memory for face-name associations Student: Haarjra Narmawala, Psychology, UIC Fall, 2015 Award: CURA award Project title: Does Self-Referencing Support Implicit Memory? Student: Zoie Meyer, Psychology, UIC Fall, 2015 Award: LASURI research funding award Project title: Context Memory Improvement from Survival Processing Student: Ryan Leach, Psychology, UIC Spring, 2015 Award: Harry Upshaw Award for Excellence in Teaching (Note: This is the highest teaching award conferred to a student by the department of psychology) Student: Rhiday Pandya, Neuroscience Dept., UIC Spring, 2015 Award: Social Sciences Division, Student Research Forum, First place Poster title: Adaptive Memory: A Test of the Future Simulation Hypothesis Student: Rhiday Pandya, Neuroscience Dept., UIC Fall-Spring, 2014-2015 Award: LASURI award Project title: Adaptive Memory: A Test of the Future Simulation Hypothesis Student: Abby Vigderman, Psychology Dept., Brandeis Univ. Fall-Spring, 2012-2013 Award: Schiff Undergraduate Fellow Project title: Relating information to the self relies on autobiographical memory Student: Jessica Zuo, Psychology Dept., Harvard University Summer, 2010 Award: Poster presentation runner-up, BRAIN program Project title: Effects of Successful Encoding Strategy Implementation on Subsequent Memory Performance 13
Student Committee Work Prelim, Aimee Karstens, Psychology Dept., UIC Spring, 2017 Role: Prelim Committee Member Masters, Matthew McCurdy, Psychology Dept., UIC Fall, 2016 Role: Masters Committee Chair Masters, Sushmita Shrikanth, Psychology Dept., UIC Fall, 2016 Role: Masters Committee Preliminary Exam, Kirk Manson, Psych Dept., UIC Fall, 2015 Role: Committee Member Masters, Erin Sovansky, Psychology Dept., UIC Spring, 2015 Role: Masters Committee Member Senior Thesis, Monica Makar, Psychology Dept., UIC Spring, 2015 Role: Reader Project Title: Feeling the Number Crunch: Physiological Measures of Math Anxiety Dissertation, Rebecca Koppel, Psychology Dept., UIC Spring, 2015 Role: Dissertation Committee Member Project Title: Understanding different kinds of mental fixation Dissertation, David Cosejo, Psychology Dept., UIC Spring, 2014 Role: Dissertation Committee Member Project Title: The effect of working memory and cognitive motivation on re-categorization Senior Thesis, Salma Ayaz, Psychology Dept., UIC Spring, 2014 Role: Reader Project Title: How does math anxiety affect working memory capacity? Senior Thesis, Aimee Fizor, Psychology Dept., UIC Spring, 2014 Role: Reader Project Title: Overcoming Competition during Problem Solving Senior Thesis, Jung M. Park, Psychology Dept., Brandeis Univ. Spring, 2014 Role: Reader Project Title: False Recognition of Trait Inferences Increases with Age University and Departmental Committee Work Human Subjects Research Committee (Department of Psychology, UIC) 14
Current Grant Support Institute of Educational Sciences Jenny Wiley (PI) 9/1/16-8/31/20 Exploring mediators and moderators of metacomprehension accuracy Role: Co-Investigator Amount (Directs): $893,852 P30AG022849 Susan Hughes (PI) Roybal Pilot grant 9/30/14-5/31/17 NIA Pilot project to investigate memory facilitation in older adults. Amount: $40,000 Completed Grant Support SIP 14-002 David Marquez (PI) Center for Disease Control 9/30/15-9/30/16 Funds to support Illinois Prevention Research Center: Supporting Policy and Environmental Change T32 AG000204 Arthur Wingfield (PI) NIA 12/1/11-11/30/12 Training in cognitive aging in a social context This training grant supports 2 postdoctoral fellows to work in cognitive aging. Role: Post-doctoral Fellow T32 AG000175 Christopher Hertzog (PI) NIA 10/1/09-9/30/11 Research training grant in cognitive aging This training grant supports 2 postdoctoral fellows and 4 graduate students to work in cognitive aging. Role: Post-doctoral Trainee S091001 Christopher Hertzog (PI), Duarte and Leshikar (Co-investigators) 9/3/2010-9/2/11 Center for Advanced Brain Imaging Functional recruitment underlying the use of effective memory mediators This funding covers fmri scanning costs for an imaging experiment involving younger and older adults. Role: Co-investigator 15
T32 MH019554 Gregory Miller (PI) NIMH 7/16/04-7/15/06 Psychophysiological training grant Role: Pre-doctoral Trainee Submitted Grants NSF (PI) August 2016 Title: Human memory improvement through brain stimulation R21 (PI) NIMH June 2016 Title: Mechanisms underlying brain stimulation induced memory improvement R21 (resubmission) (PI) NIA July 2016 Title: Improving context memory in older adults through non-invasive brain stimulation R21 (PI) NIA October 2015 Title: Improving context memory in older adults through non-invasive brain stimulation R21 (PI) NIA October 2014 Title: Improving memory in older adults using brain stimulation R21 (PI) NIA October 2013 Title: Context memory facilitation induced by transcranial direct current stimulation in older adults R03 Angela Gutchess (PI) NIA June 2012 Title: The influence of the self on long-term memory formation across culture and age Role: Co-Investigator 16
References Dr. Denise Park, Director of Research Center for Vital Longevity University Distinguished Chair and UT Regents Research Scholar 1600 Viceroy Drive Dallas, TX 75235 972-883-3255 denise@utdallas.edu Dr. Christopher Hertzog, Professor of Psychology Georgia Institute of Technology School of Psychology J S Coon building 235 654 Cherry Street Atlanta, GA 30322-0170 404-894-6774 christopher.hertzog@psych.gatech.edu Dr. Angela Gutchess, Associate Professor Brandeis University Department of Psychology MS 062 PO Box 549110 Waltham, MA 02454 781-736-3247 gutchess@brandeis.edu Dr. Audrey Duarte, Associate Professor Georgia Institute of Technology School of Psychology JS Coon Building 124 654 Cherry Street Atlanta, GA 30322-0170 404-894-2349 audrey.duarte@psych.gatech.edu 17