November 2009

Faculty Awards/Appointments/In the News

1. Dr. Koraly Perez-Edgar was cited in ‘Milestone envy pressures parents’, the Washington Times,
October 18, 2009, by Christian Toto.
2. Dr. Koraly Perez-Edgar received the Cognitive Development Society Travel Award to the meeting in
San Antonio, TX
3. Dr. Seth Kaplan contributed to a piece entitled “Where are the women?” on CNN’s “The Situation
Room!”
4. "Curiosity: The Killer Catalyst," an article on Dr. Todd Kashdan’s research, appears in the current
issue of Miller-McCune Magazine (Nov/Dec.)
5. Dr. Todd Kashdan is featured in the Washington Post Magazine, Sunday (Nov 1).
6. Dr. Todd Kashdan is cited in the November issue of First for Women magazine, as part of a
discussion of mindfulness and quilting.
7. A review of Dr. Todd Kashdan’s Curiosity appeared in Greater Good magazine.
8. Dr. Todd Kashdan appears in the October issue of Diane magazine (for Curves gym members), “The Happy Plan – the Science of Happiness.”

Faculty Grants/Research

1. Dr. Robert Pasnak received $510,000 in new funding for his grant from the Institute of Education
Sciences.
2. Dr. Koraly Perez-Edgar received funding from UMD in the amount of $147,220 for an ARRA –
NIMH project titled “The effects of early temperament on social behavior in adolescence.” The total
award for GMU is $297,658.
3. Dr. Raja Parasuraman received a grant in the amount of $12,500 from Perceptronics Solutions Inc.
4. Dr. James Thompson received an extension of his project “A Neuroimaging Study of the Acquisition
of Expertise” from the US Department of the Navy (ONR). The total funding to date is $215,656.
5. Dr. Koraly Perez-Edgar received an extension of her project “UVA/Jaobs FND/ Across Cognitive”
from the University of Virginia. The total funding to date is $22,824.
6. Dr. Deborah Boehm-Davis received an extension and increment for her project “Staffed NextGen
Towers (SNT) Task” from DOT/FAA; total funding is now $139,000.

Student Honors/Awards

1. Jennifer Brielmaier has been awarded a $3,000 APA Dissertation Fellowship to support part of the
costs of her dissertation, entitled "Effect of stress on initial sensitivity to nicotine reward in adolescent rats: role of CRF1 receptors".

Publications

Reeb-Sutherland, B. C., Vanderwert, R. E., Degnan, K. A., Marshall, P. J., Pérez-Edgar, K., Chronis-
Tuscano, A., Pine, D. S., & Fox, N. A. (2009). Attention to novelty in behaviorally inhibited adolescents
moderates risk for anxiety. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 50, 1365-1372.
Pasnak, R., Perez, K. & Romero, S. (2009). Encouraging friendships in preschool classrooms/. NHSA
Dialog: A Research-To-Practice Journal, 12, 342-346.
Romero, S., Perez, K., Pasnak, R., & Lehman, E. (2009) Selection of friends in an ethnically diverse
preschool, /NHSA Dialog: A Research-To-Practice Journal,12, 293-306.
Andrews, A., Ratwani, R. & Trafton, J. G. (2009). Recovering From Interruptions: Does Alert Type
Matter? In Proceedings of the 2009 meeting of the Human Factors & Ergonomics Society, San Antonio, TX.
Baldwin, C. L. (2009). Hearing Levels Affect Higher-Order Cognitive Performance, In Proceedings of
the 2009 meeting of the Human Factors & Ergonomics Society, San Antonio, TX.
Barrow, J. H., Baldwin, C. L. (2009). Semantic Versus Spatial Audio Cues: Is There a Downside to
Semantic Cueing? In Proceedings of the 2009 meeting of the Human Factors & Ergonomics Society, San Antonio, TX.
Finomore, V. S., Shaw, T. H., Warm, J. S., Matthews, G., Weldon, D., Boles, D. B. (2009) On the
Workload of Vigilance: Comparison of the NASA-TLX and the MRQ, In Proceedings of the 2009
meeting of the Human Factors & Ergonomics Society, San Antonio, TX.
Hunter, D. R., Monk, C. A., & Hurwitz, E. (2009). Effects of a Motion-Coupled Visual Display on
Motion Sickness and Task Performance, In Proceedings of the 2009 meeting of the Human Factors &
Ergonomics Society, San Antonio, TX.
Kidd, D. G., & Monk, C. A. (2009). Are Unskilled Drivers Aware of Their Deficiencies? How Driving
Skills Influence the Accuracy of Driving Performance Estimates, In Proceedings of the 2009 meeting of
the Human Factors & Ergonomics Society, San Antonio, TX.
Monk, C. A. & Nelson, E. T. (2009). Undershoot Bias in Lead-Vehicle Motion Extrapolation, In
Proceedings of the 2009 meeting of the Human Factors & Ergonomics Society, San Antonio, TX.
Salvucci, D. D., Monk, C. A., Trafton, J. G. (2009). A Process-Model Account of Task Interruption and
Resumption: When Does Encoding of the Problem State Occur? In Proceedings of the 2009 meeting of the Human Factors & Ergonomics Society, San Antonio, TX.
Shaw, T. H., Parasuraman, R., Sikdar, S., &Warm, J. S. (2009). Knowledge of Results and Signal
Salience Modify Vigilance Performance and Cerebral Hemovelocity, In Proceedings of the 2009 meeting of the Human Factors & Ergonomics Society, San Antonio, TX.
Shaw, T. S., Matthews, G., Finomore, V. S., Warm, J. S. (2009). Predicting Vigilance Performance and
Stress With Individual Difference Measures, In Proceedings of the 2009 meeting of the Human Factors & Ergonomics Society, San Antonio, TX.
Warm, J. S., Finomore, V. S., Shaw, T. S., Funke, M. E., Hausen, M. J., Matthews, G., Taylor, P.,
Vidulich, M. A., Repperger, D. W., Szalma, J. L., & Hancock, P. A. (2009). Effects of Training with
Knowledge of Results on Diagnosticity in Vigilance Performance, In Proceedings of the 2009 meeting of the Human Factors & Ergonomics Society, San Antonio, TX.
Werner, N. E., Cades, D. M., Boehm-Davis, D. A. & Peterson, M. S. (2009). Resuming After
Interruption: Exploring the Roles of Spatial and Goal Memory, In Proceedings of the 2009 meeting of the Human Factors & Ergonomics Society, San Antonio, TX.

Presentations

Boehm-Davis, D. A. (2009, October). Teaching Human Factors and Ergonomics: A Professional
Development Forum. Presented at the 2009 meeting of the Human Factors & Ergonomics Society, San Antonio, TX.
Caska, C. M., & Renshaw, K. D. (2009, November). Perceptions of distress, marital satisfaction, and
understanding in spouses of Vietnam veterans. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies, Atlanta, GA.
Caska, C. M., & Renshaw, K. D. (2009, November). Personality traits as moderators of the relation
between military experiences and PTSD symptoms. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the
International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies, Atlanta, GA.
Parasuraman, R. (2009, October). Teaching Human Factors and Ergonomics: A Professional
Development Forum. Presented at the 2009 meeting of the Human Factors & Ergonomics Society, San Antonio, TX.
Parasuraman, R. (2009, October). Panelist: Current concepts and trends in human-automation interaction. Presented at the 2009 meeting of the Human Factors & Ergonomics Society, San Antonio, TX.
Parra, L. A. *, Pérez-Edgar, K., Nelson, K. *, Cole, C. E. *, & Zapp, D. J. * (2009, October). The
relationship between inhibitory control and sadness in young boys’ and girls’ ability to detect threat:
Touch the Snake! Paper presented at the annual NIMH Career Opportunities in Research (COR)
Colloquium, Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Renshaw, K. D. (2009, November). Pre-deployment preparation, combat exposure, perceived threat and PTSD symptoms in Reserve troops. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies, Atlanta, GA.
Renshaw, K. D. (2009, November). Composition of psychological distress in spouses of combat veterans with PTSD symptoms. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies.
Rodrigues, C. S., & Renshaw, K. D. (2009, November). Spouses’ perceptions and veteran self-report of anger and PTSD: Influence on marital satisfaction. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the
International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies, Atlanta, GA.

Posters

Blais, R. K., & Renshaw, K. D., & *Burton, S. (2009, November). The role of childhood sexual abuse in
PTSD and marital satisfaction in Afghanistan/Iraq veterans. Poster session presented at the annual
meeting of the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies, Atlanta, GA.
Brielmaier, J. M., McDonald, C. G. Bergstrom, H. Fernandez, G. Smith, R. F. (2009). Environmental
novelty modulates long-term sensitization to nicotine following a single exposure in adolescence. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience.
Davidson, D. R., Chrosniak, L. D., Wanschura, P., & Flinn, J. (2009, October). Prefrontal cortical
function in chronically homeless adults. Poster presented at the Annual Conference of the Society for
Neuroscience, Chicago, IL.
*Gideons, E. S., Cano, K., Minn, J., Lengyel, I., & Flinn, J. (2009, October). Trace metal distribution and
concentration in sub-RPE deposits from post-mortem human eyes. Paper presented at the Annual
Conference of the Society for Neuroscience, Chicago, IL.
Gupta, D.*, & Pérez-Edgar, K. (2009, October). Role of Temperament on Somatization in Young Adults. Poster to be presented at the 6th Biennial Conference of the Society for the Study of Human Development, Ann Arbor, Michigan.
Helfinstein, S. M., Benson, B., Bar-Haim, Y., Pérez-Edgar, K., Detloff, A., Pine, D. S., Fox, N. A., &
Ernst, M. (2009, October). Striatal Activation to Negative Feedback Differs between Behaviorally
Inhibited and Non-inhibited Adolescents. Poster presented at the 49th Annual Meeting of the Society for Psychophysiological Research, Berlin, Germany.
*Koscho, J. E., Bohon, J., Peixoto, N., Railey, A., Groeber, C., & Flinn, J. (2009, October). Infared and xray spectroscopy: Colocalization of metals and protein conformations in Alzheimer s plaques. Poster
presented at the Annual Conference of the Society for Neuroscience, Chicago, IL.
*Lazzara, E. H., Shuffler, M., Rosen, M. A., Xavier, L., Wooten II, S. R., Salas, E., Zaccaro, S., Hilton,
R. (2009). Identifying the Best Practices for Critical Social Thinking and Metacognitive Thinking
Training, Poster presented at the 2009 meeting of the Human Factors & Ergonomics Society, San
Antonio, TX.
Lin, M.-K., Sundararajan, S., Fryxell, K.J., Greenwood, P.M., & Parasuraman, R. (October, 2009). The
effect of CHRM2 A1890T and age on human spatial working memory. Paper presented at the Annual
Conference of the Society for Neuroscience, Chicago, IL.
Nelson, S. K.*, Cole, C. E.*, Pérez-Edgar, K., Zapp, D.*, & LoBue, V. (2009, October). Detection of
Angry Faces Predicts Attentional Bias towards Affective Faces. Poster presented at the Cognitive
Development Society VI Biennial Meeting, San Antonio, Texas.
Pérez-Edgar, K., Nelson, S. K. *, Cole, C. E.*, & Zapp, D.* (2009, October). Links between Attention
Orienting and Attention Biases in 'Hot' and 'Cold' contexts. Poster presented at the Cognitive
Development Society VI Biennial Meeting, San Antonio, Texas.
Rodrigues, C. S., & Renshaw, K. D. (2009, November). Combat severity moderates association of
different coping styles with PTSD severity in OEF/OIF vets. Poster session presented at the annual
meeting of the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies, Atlanta, GA.
Rodrigues, C. S., & Renshaw, K. D. (2009, November). Spouses of combat veterans: Psychological
distress, coping styles, and perceptions of veterans’ PTSD. Poster session presented at the annual meeting of the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies, Atlanta, GA.
Rodrigues, C. S., & Renshaw, K. D. (2009, November). Anger mediates the relationship between PTSD
and marital satisfaction in National Guard veterans. Poster session presented at the annual meeting of the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies, Atlanta, GA.
Rodrigues, C. S., Renshaw, K. D., & Montie, B. (2009, November). Soldier expectations of deployment
experiences in relation to post-deployment PTSD symptoms. Poster session presented at the annual
meeting of the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies, Atlanta, GA.
*Sears, E. D., Brielmaier, J. M., McDonald, C. G., & Smith, R. F. (2009). Social context during a single
nicotine exposure in adolescence affects neurobehavioral response to drug challenge in adulthood.
Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience.
Squire, P., Greenwood, P. & Parasuraman, R. (2009). Is Visuospatial Attention Controlled by a Unitary
Process or Separate Processes? Poster presented at the 2009 meeting of the Human Factors &
Ergonomics Society, San Antonio, TX.
Squire, P., Barrow, J. H., Durkee, K. T., Smith, C. M., Moore, J., & Parasuraman, R. (2009). Runway
Incursion Monitoring, Detection, and Alerting System (RIMDAS): A Proposed System Design for
Reducing Runway Incursions, Poster presented at the 2009 meeting of the Human Factors & Ergonomics Society, San Antonio, TX.

* Student Co‐Author