Center for Advanced Study of Language


Joseph Dien, Ph.D

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SUMMARY

My primary research and teaching interests is in cognitive neuroscience, the approach of integrating the theories and paradigms of cognitive psychology with the frameworks and methods of neuroscience. My primary topic of interest is the laterality of expectancy processes, guided by my Janus model (Dien, 2008) that the left hemisphere is focused on anticipating the future and the right hemisphere is focused on responding to the (recent) past. These processes are primarily being investigated in the context of semantic priming and oddball paradigms. Studies are also in progress examining the hypothesis that anxiety and stress differentially affect these processes. I use both electrophysiological (event-related potentials) and regional cerebral blood flow (functional magnetic resonance imaging) methods to study these issues. I also have an active line of research advancing the multivariate statistical techniques used to interpret such data.


EDUCATION

University of Oregon: M.S. and Ph.D. in Psychology, 1995

Stanford University: A.B. in Psychology/B.S. and M.S. in Biological Sciences, 1988

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Positions

8/09- Senior Research Scientist. Center for Advanced Study of Language, University of Maryland, College Park.
8/08-7/09 Visiting Professor. Birth Defects Center, University of Louisville.
7/03-5/08 Assistant Professor. Psychology Dept., University of Kansas, Lawrence.
7/99-6/03 Assistant Professor. Psychology Dept., Tulane University, New Orleans.
9/97-6/99 Post-doc. Center for Neuroscience (Mangun), U. of California, Davis.
8/95-8/97 Post-doc. Psychology Dept. (Donchin and Coles), U. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Editing and Reviewing

1/07-present Associate Editor of Biological Psychology.

09 Special Issue Editor - Learning to Read: Early Latency Language ERPs, Developmental Neuropsychology.

08 Special Issue Editor - Before the N400: Early Latency Language ERPs, Biological Psychology.

3/05-present Editorial Board of Clinical Neurophysiology.

5/07-present Editorial Board of Cognitive, Affective and Behavioral Neuroscience.

Consulting Editor (2001-2009) - Behavioral and Brain Functions; Behavioral Brain Research; Biological Psychology; BMC Neuroscience; Brain and Cognition; Brain and Language; Brain Research; Brain Topography; Clinical Neurophysiology; Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience; Cognitive Brain Research; Cognitive Neuropsychology; Cognitive Therapy and Research; Current Directions in Psychological Science; Emotion; European Journal of Neuroscience; Human Brain Mapping; IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems & Rehabilitation Engineering; International Journal of Psychophysiology; Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience; Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition; Journal of Neuroscience; Journal of Personality and Social Psychology; Journal of Psychophysiology; Journal of Zhejiang University - Science; Language and Cognitive Processes; Neuroimage; Neuroscience Letters; Progress in Neurobiology; Psychiatry Research; Psychological Reports; Psychological Science; Psychonomic Bulletin and Review; Psychophysiology; Social, Cognitive, and Affective Neuroscience.

Outside Reviewer (2001-2009) - Veterans Affairs Medical Center Merit Grant , NSERC Research Grant, National Science Foundation.

Society Activities

Symposium Chair, Levels Of Meaning: Current Neural Perspectives On The N400, Society for Psychophysiological Research (2009).

Symposium Chair, Making Sense Of Frontal Language ERPs, Society for Psychophysiological Research (2008).

Tursky Award Committee - Society for Psychophysiological Research (2007).

Symposium Chair, How Early Is Semantics? Electrophysiological Correlates Of Semantic Processing Peaking Earlier Than The N400, Society for Psychophysiological Research (2007).

Ad Hoc Committee on the Needs of ERP/EEG Psychophysiologists - Society for Psychophysiological Research (2005-6).

Symposium Chair, Electrophysiological Studies of Lateralized Semantic Processing, Society for Psychophysiological Research (2004).

Program Committee - Society for Psychophysiological Research (2003).


AWARDS AND GRANTS
PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS (ISI are 2006 rankings)
CHAPTERS, CONFERENCE PAPERS, EDITORIALS, AND LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
PRESENTATIONS

SOFTWARE

Send me an E-mail note and I'll put you on a mailing list for notifications of updates and general user notes. Since I have no grant support for software development or release time, all software is available strictly on an "as is" basis. I will be happy to answer occasional questions but cannot provide extensive support. My apologies in advance.

ERP PCA Tookit - is a Matlab toolkit for performing some of the core analysis functions in ERP analysis, including PCA, eyeblink correction, and robust inferential statistics.

ERPSS Toolbox 1.0 (Mac or Window) - is a Matlab toolbox for importing ERPSS data to Matlab and back again.