EDUCATION

University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, CA

Ph.D. in Cognitive Science & Neurosciences, Area of Specialization: Cognitive Psychology, 1998

M.S. in Neurosciences, 1992

University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA

B.A. in Neurobiology, with high distinction and high honors, 1990

AWARDS AND HONORS

Faculty Research Award Committee (FRAC), Research Semester Fellowship. One semester release time and salary for research on Temporal and Spatial Neuroimaging of Visual Knowledge. 2006-2007

National Institute on Aging (NIA) Technical Assistance Workshop (TAW), attendance and travel award, 2004

National Institute on Aging, Individual National Research Service Award (post-doctoral), 2000-2003

Affective Neuroscience Symposium in Madison, WI, Travel Award, 1998

University of California President's Dissertation Year Fellowship, 1996-1997

McDonnell Summer Institute in Cognitive Neuroscience, Travel Award, 1994

National Science Foundation Fellowship, Honorable Mention, 1991

McDonnell-Pew Graduate Fellowships in Cognitive Neuroscience, 1990-1997

High Honors in Neurobiology, University of California at Berkeley, 1990

High Distinction in College of Letters & Science, University of California at Berkeley, 1990

Summer Institute on Neural Plasticity and Brain Function & Research Internship, University of California at Irvine, Summer internship, 1988

GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS AWARDED

National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, Co-Investigator, Grant 9R01 NS052914-06. Effect of Signal Strength on Alzheimer Cognition. Administered through Boston University (A. Cronin-Golomb, PI). Awarded 2005-2010.

Tufts University, Faculty Research Award Committee (FRAC), Research Semester Fellowship. Principal Investigator. Temporal and Spatial Neuroimaging of Visual Knowledge. Awarded one semester of salary in 2006-2007 academic year. Administered through Tufts University.

National Institute of Mental Health, Co-Investigator, fMRI of Striatal Systems for Memory: Parkinson's Disease. R21 Grant, R21 MH66213, Awarded 2002-2004 (C.E. Stern, PI).

National Institute on Aging, Principal Investigator, Individual National Research Service Award (post-doctoral). Aging & Visual-Specificity of Explicit & Implicit Memory. F32 AG05914, Awarded 2000-2003.

National Institute of Health, Consultant, DOT and fMRI Studies of Visual Perception and Imagery. R21 Grant MH068610-01A1. Administered through Harvard Medical School (G. Ganis, PI).

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Department of Psychology, Tufts University, 2003-, Director: Vision & Memory Neuroimaging Laboratory.

Cognitive neuroscience of visual perception, cognition, learning, and memory using primarily event-related potentials (ERPs) and functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), as well as neuropsychology. Other techniques to define the spatiotemporal dynamics of neural processing, such as magnetoencephalography (MEG) or simultaneous ERP-fMRI, are also applied in collaborative studies.

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS AND ACTIVITIES

Adhoc Reviewer: Neuron; Neuropsychologia; Psychological Science; Learning and Memory; Cerebral Cortex; Neuropsychology; Electroencephalography and Clinical Neurophysiology; Public Library of Science- Biology; Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition.

Member: Cognitive Neuroscience Society; Society For Neuroscience.

Consultant: Department of Psychology, Harvard University, fMRI Data Analysis.

Department of Radiology, Harvard University Medical School, Cognitive Neuroscience of Vision and Memory: ERP & fMRI Design and Analysis.

PUBLICATIONS AND PRESENTATIONS

Peer-Reviewed Publications

Tinaz, A.S., Schendan, H.E., Schon, K., & Stern C.E. (2006). Evidence for the Importance of Basal Ganglia Output Nuclei in Semantic Event Sequencing: An fMRI Study. Brain Research, 1067(1):239-249. [published online December 14, 2005].

Amick, M.M., Schendan, H.E., Ganis, G., & Cronin-Golomb, A. (2006). Frontostriatal Circuits Are Necessary for Visuomotor Transformation: Mental Rotation in Parkinson's Disease. Neuropsychologia, 44:339-349. [published online July 2005].

Schendan, H.E., Searl, M.M., Melrose, R.J., and Stern, C.E., 2003. An fMRI Study of the Role of the Medial Temporal Lobe in Implicit and Explicit Sequence Learning. Neuron, 37:1013-1025.

Schendan, H.E. and Kutas, M., 2003. Time Course of Processes and Representations Supporting Visual Object Identification and Memory. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 15(1): 111-135.

Schendan, H.E. and Kutas, M., 2002. Neurophysiological Evidence for Two Processing Times for Visual Object Identification. Neuropsychologia, 40(7): 931-945.

Schendan, H.E., Ganis, G., and Kutas, M., 1998. Neurophysiological Evidence for Visual Perceptual Categorization of Words and Faces within 150 ms. Psychophysiology, 35(3):240-251.

Schendan, H.E., Kanwisher, N.G., and Kutas, M., 1997. Early Brain Potentials Link Repetition Blindness, Priming and Novelty Detection. Neuroreport, 8(8):1943-1948.

Schendan, H.E. and Ganis, G., 1992. Hebbian Learning of Artificial Grammars. Proceedings of the Fourteenth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, pp. 838-843.

Schendan, H.E., 1992. Attention, Memory, and Concepts in Autism. Proceedings of the Fourteenth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, pp. 1110-1115.

Other Publications

Schendan, H.E., Searl, M.M., Melrose, R.J., Stern, C.E. (2003). Sequence? What Sequence? – the human medial temporal lobe and sequence learning. Molecular Psychiatry, 8(11), 896-897.

Schendan, H. and Treisman, A., 1990. Unpublished raw data. Reported by Treisman, A., 1992. “Perceiving and Re-Perceiving Objects.” 99^th Annual Convention of the American Psychological Association: Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award address (1991, San Francisco, CA). American Psychologist, 47(7):862-875.

Oral Research Presentations

Schendan, H.E. (2004) Neuroimaging Studies of Vision, Learning & Memory: When & Where in the Brain. Invited Talk presented at the Behavioral Neuroscience Seminar Series of Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Division of Cognitive and Behavioral Neurology. Credit of 1 CE per seminar to psychologists, and CME credit through Harvard Medical School. March 18, 12 p.m. – 1 p.m.

Schendan, H.E., Searl, M.M., Melrose, R.J., Horwitz, C.D., Tinaz, S., Stern, C.E. (2003). Medial Temporal Lobe Involvement in the Early Acquisition Phase of Implicit & Explicit Sequence Learning: Evidence From fMRI. Society for Neuroscience Abstract, 443.2. Slide presentation, New Orleans, LA, November.

Schendan, H.E. Reading Pictures, Viewing Text: An ERP Investigation. Invited Talk presented at the Joint University of California, San Diego and University of California, Davis Annual Retreat of the McDonnell-Pew Centers for Cognitive Neuroscience, La Jolla, CA, 1995.

Abstracts

Maher, S.M., & Schendan, H.E. (2005). Neurophysiological investigation of the time course of visual object categorization and long-term memory retrieval. Society For Neuroscience, Abstract 192.13. Washington, D.C., Sunday, a.m., November 13, 2005.

Atri, A. LoPresti, M.L., Sherman, S.J., Schendan, H.E., Hasselmo, M.E., and Stern, C.E. (2004). Central Cholinergic Augmentation Improves Reaction Time But Not Recognition Memory In Young Healthy Adults. American Society for Experimental NeuroTherapeutics, Abstract, March 11-13, Bethesda, MD.

Amick, M.A., Schendan, H.E., Cronin-Golomb, A. (2004). Body side of Parkinson’s disease motor symptom onset predicts performance on hierarchical pattern perception. International Neuropsychological Society Abstract, Vol. 32, p. 68. February 5, Baltimore, MD.

Schendan, H.E., Searl, M.M., Melrose, R.J., Horwitz, C.D., Tinaz, S., Stern, C.E. (2003) Medial Temporal Lobe Involvement in the Early Acquisition Phase of Implicit & Explicit Sequence Learning: Evidence from fMRI. Society For Neuroscience, Abstract, 443.2. New Orleans, LA.

Searl, M.M., Schendan H.E., Melrose R.J., Stern C.E. (2003) HIV-Infected Individuals Show Delayed fMRI Activation in Basal Ganglia Regions during Implicit Sequence Learning. Society For Neuroscience, Abstract. New Orleans, LA.

Amick, M.A., Schendan, H.E., Ganis, G., Neargarder, S., Cronin-Golomb, A. (2003) Frontostriatal Circuits Are Involved in Visuomotor Transformation: Evidence from Mental Rotation in Parkinson's Disease. Society For Neuroscience, Abstract 934.13. November 12, New Orleans, LA.

Sharma, S.G., Amick, M.A., Schendan, H.E., Cronin-Golomb, A. (2003) Visuospatial Functioning in HIV-Infected Individuals. Society For Neuroscience, Abstract, 620.2. November 11, New Orleans, LA.

Schendan, H.E., Searl, M.M., Stern, C.E. (2001). A fMRI Study of the Role of the Mediotemporal Lobe in Implicit and Explicit Sequence Learning. Society for Neuroscience Abstract. San Diego, CA, Abstract 638.4.

Schendan, H.E. and Kutas, M. (2001). Neurophysiological Evidence for Two Processing Times for Visual Object Identification. Poster presented at the Cognitive Neuroscience Society Meeting, New York, NY.

Schendan, H.E. and Kutas, M. (1999, Sunday). Neurophysiological Investigations of Perceptual Implicit Memory: Process versus Feature Transfer. Poster presented at the Cognitive Neuroscience Society Meeting, Washington, DC. Abstract 44b.

Ganis, G., Kutas, M., Schendan, H.E. and Dale, A. (1997, Sunday). DOC: A Direct Method for Temporal Overlap Correction of ERP and fMRI Responses. Poster presented at the Cognitive Neuroscience Society Meeting, Boston, MA. Abstract 55, pp. 42.

Schendan, H.E., Ganis, G., and Kutas, M. (1996). What Do Faces and Letter-strings Have in Common? Early Event-Related Potential Evidence. Society for Neuroscience Abstract, 440.11

Schendan, H.E. and Kutas, M. (1996, Tuesday). An ERP Investigation of Perceptual Priming: Representations or Processes? Poster presented at the Cognitive Neuroscience Society Meeting, San Francisco, CA. Abstract 39, pp. 137.

Schendan, H.E., Ganis, G., and Kutas, M. (1996, Monday). Using ERPs to Look in the Face of Words. Poster presented at the Cognitive Neuroscience Society Meeting, San Francisco, CA. Abstract 37, pp. 85.

Schendan, H.E., Ganis, G., and Kutas, M. (1995). Reading Pictures, Viewing Text: An Event-Related Potential Study. Society for Neuroscience Abstract, 279.1.

Schendan, H.E., Ganis, G., and Kutas, M. (1995, Sunday). Reading Pictures, Viewing Text: An Electrifying Vision. Poster presented at the Cognitive Neuroscience Society Meeting, San Francisco, CA. Abstract 58, pp. 31.

Schendan, H.E. and Kutas, M. (1994, Sunday). Electrophysiological Investigation of Repetition Blindness. Poster presented at the Cognitive Neuroscience Society Meeting, San Francisco, CA. Abstract 34, pp. 53.

Interviews to News Media

Surface, D. Mapping Memory—Imaging Parkinson’s Cognitive Dysfunction. Radiology Today, 4(9), 5.