CURRICULUM
VITAE
MICHAEL
I. POSNER
Born: September
12, 1936
Cincinnati,
Ohio
Current Address:
Department
of Psychology
University
of Oregon
Eugene,
Oregon 97403
Phone:
541-346-4939
Fax:
541-346-4914
E-mail:
mposner@oregon.uoregon.edu
Education:
1957 University of Washington, Seattle,
B.S. Physics
1959 University of Washington, Seattle,
M.S. Psychology
1962 University of Michigan, Ann Arbor,
Ph.D., Psychology
Experience:
1957-59 Associate
Research Engineer, Boeing Airplane Company
1959-60 USPHS
Predoctoral Fellow, University of Michigan
1960-61 Teaching
Fellow, University of Michigan
1962-65 Assistant
Professor of Psychology, University of Wisconsin
1965-68 Associate
Professor of Psychology, University of Oregon
1968- Professor
of Psychology, University of Oregon
(EMERITUS 2000)
1969-70 Director
of Office of Scientific and Scholarly Research, Univ. of Oregon
1968-69 NSF
Senior Postdoctoral Fellow, Applied Psychol Unit, Cambridge, England
1974-75 Visiting
Professor, Yale University
1976 (Fall) Visiting
Professor, University of Delhi, Delhi, India
1979 (Jan.-June) Visiting
Professor, Cornell Medical College - Rockefeller University
1979-1985 Director,
Neuropsychology Laboratory, Good Samaritan Hospital
1985 Visiting
Professor, University of Minnesota
1985-1989 Professor
of Neuropsychology and Psychology, Department of Neurology Neurosurgery,
Washington University, St. Louis
1989-1995
Director,
Institute of Cognitive and Decision Sciences, University of Oregon
1995-98 Head
Dept of Psychology, University of Oregon
1997-2000
Distinguished
Professor, College of Arts and Science, Univ. of Oregon
1998-2002
Professor
of Psychology in Psychiatry, Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New
York Founding Director, Sackler Institute
2002 Adjunct
Professor, Weill Medical College
2003 Faculty
Coordinator Brain, Biology and Machine Initiative University of Oregon
Honors and Awards:
€Donald G. Marquis
Award, University of Michigan, 1961-62, "For the most distinguished
dissertation"
€American Institute for Research, Dissertation award in the area of
Learning, Perception and Motivation, 1962
€Paul M. Fitts Award, Human Factors Society (for contributions to training
of Human Factors Specialists)
€Member: Oregon, Western
and American Psychological Association (Fellow, Division 3): AAAS (Fellow
1976): Psychonomics Society (Governing Board, 1973-79), Cognitive Science Society;
Neuroscience Society, American Psychological Society
€Editor, Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and
Performance, 1974-1979
€Ersted Award for distinguished teaching, University of Oregon, 1975
€Paul M. Fitts Lecturer, University of Michigan, Fall, 1976
€Sir F.C. Bartlett Lecturer, University of Oxford, July, 1979
€John Simon Guggenheim Fellow, 1979-1980
€A.P.A. Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award, 1980
€Elected to U.S. National Academy of Sciences, 1981
€NRSA Senior postdoctoral fellowship, 1982-84
€Association Lecture International Attention and Performance Society,
1982
€Elected Chair Section J (Psychology) American Association for the
Advancement of Science - Term February, 1987-February, 1988
€Fellow American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1986
€Distinguished Foreign Lecturer British Psychology Society. Cognitive
Section, September, 1986
€8th McKinnon Lecture, University of Missouri, Department of Psychology,
April, 1987
€Harold Schlossberg Lecture, Brown University, Department of Psychology,
May, 1987
€Presidential Symposium Neuroscience Society, November, 1987
€Howard Crosby Warren Medal of the Society of Experimental
Psychologists, 1988
€Member, Institute of Medicine, National Academy of Science, 1988
€Hilgard Visiting Professor, Stanford University, May, 1988
€2nd Quad 4 lecture, University of New Mexico, October 1988
€Invited Lecturer, Congress on Cerebral Blood Flow, Bologna, Italy, May,
1989
€Invited Lecturer, Experimental Psychology Society, Cambridge
University, July, 1989
€Howard Vollum award for exceptional achievement of a member of the
scientific and technical community of the Pacific Northwest, 1989
€Invited Paper, Decade of the Brain Conference, Institute of Medicine,
July, 1990
€Invited Plenary Lecture 25th International Congress of Psychology,
Brussels, Belgium,July 1992, with M.K. Rothbart
€Nijmegen Lectures - Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics,
Nijmegen, Holland, December 1992.
€Invited Visitor Norway Symposium on Psychopathology, February, 1993
€Distinguished Scientific Lecture American Psychological Association,
May, 1992
€Organizer Cognitve Neuroscience Symposium International Union of
Physiological Sciences. Glasgow
Scotland, July, 1993.
€Invited Presidential Address - Society for Neuroscience, Washington,
DC, Nov. 1993
€James McKeen Cattell Fellow 1993-94
€Scientist of the Year Award, Oregon Academy of Sciences, 1995
€McDonnell-Pew Lecture-European Society for Psychology and Philosophy,
1995
€Phi Beta Kappa Lecturer, 1995-96
€Dedication Lecturer - Welcome Trust Center for Brain Imaging University
of London, April, 1996.
€William James Book Award, 1996 American Psychological Association for
the book Images of Mind.
€Donald Broadbent
Lecture - European Cognitive Psychology Society, Wurzburg Germany, September,
1996.
€Dana Foundation Award for pioneering research in medicine
(neuroscience)
€John T. McGovern Medal and Lecture American Assoc. for the Advancement
of Science, February, 1998
€Walker-Ames Visiting Professor, University of Washington, April, 1998
€Lanier Lecturer, University of Illinois, April, 1998
€Honorary Doctoral Degree, University of Padova, Italy, 1998
€Karl Lashley Award,
American Philosophical Society (joint with M. E. Raichle), November, 1998
€Elliot Lecture, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine,
February,1999
€W.R. Jeffry Lecture UCLA, February, 1999
€Distinguished Lecturer, Ben Gurion University, November-December, 1999
€Honorary Doctoral Degree, University of Granada, Spain, November, 1999
€Pasarow Foundation Award in Medical Research (Neuropsychiatry) with
M.E. Raichle, June, 2000
€Hebb Lecture, Dalhousie University, March, 2000
€Salmon Lecture, NY Academy of Medicine, December, 2000
€De Lange Lecture, University of Houston, March, 2001
€Centennary Lecture on Attention, British Psychology Society, April,
2001
€Grawemeyer Award for psychology contribution /w/ Raichle & Petersen
€Honorary Degree University of Nottingham, July 2002
€Honorary Degree University of Paris, Dec 2002
€Presidential
Symposium Amercan. Psychologial Association, 2003
€Fyssen
International Prize 2003 (Nature and Function of Consciousness)
€George
A. Miller Lecture, Cognitive Neuroscience Society, 2004
National Service:
€National Research Council Committee on Human Factors, 1982-83
€National Research Council Committee on Enhancement of Human
Performance, 1985-1987
€National Research Council Subcommittee on Learning and Memory of
Committee on Research Opportunities in the Social and Behavioral Science, 1985
€National Research
Council Subcommittee on Neurobiology and Behavior of the Committee on Research
Opportunities in Biology
€McArthur Foundation Committee of Scientific Advisers to the Health
Program, 1986-1990
€Reviews of Program of
Psychology Departments:
Rochester
University, 1983
University
of California at Santa Cruz, 1983
McGill
University, 1984
Northwestern
University, 1985
University
of Minnesota, 1986
University
of Iowa, 1988
UCSD
(Cognitive Science), 1994
Chair,
visiting committee Harvard University Psychology Dept., 1995-98
Chair
review committee Brown University, 1999
Vanderbilt
University, 1999
U.S.C.,
2000
UC
Davis Neuroscience Program, 2001
€Surrogate Delegate Oxford
University Press, 1990-1996
€Chair, James S. McDonnell
Foundation Committee on Cognitive Neuroscience of €Attention and Perception,
1987-1989
€Board of Reviewing
Editors, Science, 1988-1989
€Membership Chair Section
53 National Academy of Sciences, 1992-94
€Nominating Committee
Society for Neuroscience, 1993
€National Research Council
Committee on Early Child Pedagogy, 1998-00
€PNAS Board of Editors
2000-
€Monitor NRC report on
polygraphy 2002
€Society for Neuroscience
Lindsley Award Committee 2001-
Culbert, S.S.
& Posner, M.I. (1960). Human habituation to an acoustical
energy distribution spectrum. Journal
of Applied Psychology, 44: 263-266.
Posner,
M.I. (1963). Immediate memory in sequential
tasks. Psychological Bulletin, 60:333-349.
Posner,
M.I. (1963). An information approach to thinking. Air Force Office of Scientific Research
Report 2635, ASTIA, Document
276136, 1962. Extended abstract in
Creative Talent Awards Series #2, Washington: AIR.
Posner,
M.I. (1964). Uncertainty as a predictor of
similarity in the study of generalization. Journal of Experimental Psychology, 68:
113-118.
Posner,
M.I. (1964). Information reduction in the analysis
of sequential tasks. Psychological
Review, 71:491-504.
Reprinted in Bobbs-Merrill reprint series.
Posner,
M.I. (1964). Effect of rate of presentation and
order of recall in immediate memory.
British Journal of Psychology, 55:303-306. Reprinted in R. Haber (ed.),
Information Processing Approaches to Perception.
Posner, M.I.
& Rossman, E. (1965). The effect of size and location of
interpolated information reduction transforms upon short term retention. Journal of Experimental Psychology, 70: 496-505.
Posner,
M.I. (1965). Memory and thought in human
intellectual performance.
British Journal of Psychology, 56: 197-215.
Posner,
M.I. (1966). Components of skilled performance. Science, 152: 1712-1718.
Reprinted in R.N. Singer (ed.), Readings in Motor Learning.
Posner, M.I.
& Konick, A.F. (1966). Short term retention of visual and
kinesthetic information. Journal
of Organization Behavior and Human Performance, 1: 71-86.
Posner,
M.I. (1966). An informational analysis of the
perception and classification of patterns. Proceedings of the XVIII the International Congress
Symposium on Information Theory and Perception, Moscow.
Fitts, P.M.
& Posner, M.I. (1967). Human Performance, Belmont, CA
Brooks/Cole.
Posner, M.I.,
Goldsmith, R., & Welton, K.E.
(1967). Perceived distance
and the classification of distorted patterns. Journal of Experimental Psychology, 72: 28-38.
Posner,
M.I. (1967). Short term memory systems in human
information processing. Proceedings
of the Symposium on Attention and Performance, Soesterberg, The Netherlands. Acta Psychologia, 27: 267-284.
Reprinted in R. Haber (ed.), Information Processing Approaches to
Perception.
Posner, M.I.
(1967). Concept identification:
Information processing approaches. Encyclopedia of Linguistics, Information
and Control. London: Pergammon.
Posner,
M.I. (1967). Perception and cognition as processing
levels. Paper delivered at the
conference on "Approaches to Cognition,² October 1967. In Voss (ed.), Approaches to Thought., New York:
Merrill.
Posner,
M.I. (1967). Characteristics of visual and
kinesthetic memory codes.
Journal of Experimental Psychology, 75: 103-107.
Posner, M.I.
& Mitchell, R.F. (1967). Chronometric analysis of
classification. Psychological
Review, 74: 392-409.
Posner, M.I.
& Keele, S.W. (1967). Decay of visual information from a
single letter. Science, 158: 137-139.
Reprinted in R. Haber (ed.), Information Processing Approaches
to Perception.
Keele, S.W.
& Posner, M.I. (1968). Processing of visual feedback in rapid
movements. Journal of Experimental Psychology, 77: 155-158.
Posner, M.I.
& Keele, S.W (1968). On the genesis of abstract ideas. Journal of Experimental Psychology, 77: 353-363.
Posner, M.I.,
Boies, S.W., Eichelman, W., & Taylor, R. (1969).
Retention of visual and name codes of single letters. Journal of Experimental Psychology
Monography, 79:1-16.
Reprinted in M. Coltheart (ed.), Readings in Cognition, New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1972.
Posner, M.I.
& Keele, S.W. (1969).
Attention demands of movements.
Proceedings of the 16th International Congress of Applied Psychology
Symposium on Work and Fatigue. Amsterdam, Swets: Zeitlinger.
Posner,
M.I. (1969). Representational systems for storing
information in memory. In Talland
and Waugh (eds.), Psychopathology of Memory, New York: Academic Press.
Posner, M.I.
& Taylor, R.L. (1969). Subtractive method applied to separation
of visual and name components of multi letter arrays. Paper presented to Donders Centenary Symposium, Eindhoven,
The Netherlands, August, 1968. Acta
Psychologica, 30:104-114.
Posner,
M.I. (1969). Abstraction and the process of
recognition. In G. Bower (ed.),
Advances in Learning, New York:
Academic Press.
Posner,
M.I. (1969). Reduced attention and the performance
of "automated movements".
Journal of Motor Behavior, 1:
245-258.
Posner, M.I.
& Keele, S.W. (1970).
Retention of abstract ideas. Journal
of Experimental Psychology,
83: 304-308.
Posner,
M.I. (1970). On the relationship between letter
names and superordinate categories.
Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 22: 279-287.
Posner,
M.I. (1971). Perception. In, Yearbook of Science and Technology, New York: McGraw Hill.
Posner,
M.I. (1971). Cognition: Hard boiled and soft
shelled. A review of Antrobus, J.
Cognition and Affect: Contemporary Psychology, 16: 547-548.
Posner, M.I.
& Boies, S.J. (1972). Components of attention. Psychological Review, 78: 391-408.
Reprinted in M. Coltheart (ed.), Readings in Cognition. New
York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston.
Posner, M.I.
& Keele, S.W. (1972). Skill learning. In R. Travers (ed.), Handbook of
Research in Teaching, (American Research
Association). New York: Rand McNally.
Posner, M.I.,
Lewis, J., & Conrad, C.
(1972). Component processes
in reading: A performance analysis.
In J. Kavanaugh and I. Mattingly (eds.), Language by Ear and by Eye. Boston: MIT Press, (pp; 159-192).
Posner, M.I.
& Warren, R. (1972). Traces, concepts and conscious
constructions. In A.W. Melton and
E. Martin (eds.), Coding Theory and Learning and Memory. New York: Winston, (pp 25-43).
Posner,
M.I. (1972). After the revolution...What? A review of D. Broadbent (ed.), Decision
and Stress, Contemporary
Psychology, 17: 185-188.
Posner,
M.I. (1973). Natural and artificial. In R. Solso (ed.), Contemporary
Issues in Cognitive Psychology: The Loyola Symposium, New York: Wiley.
Posner, M.I.
& Klein, R. (1973). On the functions of consciousness. In S Korkblum (ed.), Attention and
Performance IV, New York: Academic Press.
Osgood, G.W.,
Posner, M.I., & Lyon, D.R.
(1973). Computers in the
training of experimental inquiry in psychology. Proceedings of the Fourth Conference of Computers in the
Undergraduate Curriculum, Claremont,
California.
Posner,
M.I. (1973). Coordination on internal codes. In W.G. Chase (ed.), Visual
Information Processing, New York: Academic Press ( pp. 35-73).
Posner, M.I., Klein,
R., Summers, J., & Buggie, S.
(1973). On the selection of
signals. Memory and Cognition, 1: 2-12.
Klein, R. &
Posner, M.I. (1974). Attention to visual and kinesthetic
components of skills. Brain
Research, 7:401-411.
Posner,
M.I. (1974). Cognition: An introduction.
Glenview, IL: Scott-Foresman.
Posner,
M.I. (1974). The memory system. A review of J. Anderson and G. Bower's Human
Associative Memory. Science, 183: 1283-1284.
Posner, M.I.
& Snyder, C.R.R. (1975). Facilitation and inhibition in the
processing of signals. Attention
and Performance V, New York
Press, (pp. 669-681).
Posner,
M.I. (1975). Psychobiology of attention. In M. Gazzaniga and C. Blakemore
(eds.), Handbook of Psychobiology. New
York: Academic Press, (pp. 441-480).
Posner,
M.I. (1975). Temporal course of information
processing in the human nervous system.
In G.F. Inbar (ed.), Signal Analysis in Pattern Recognition and
Biochemical Engineering. Jerusalem: Israel Universities Press,
(pp. 157-176).
Posner, M.I.,
& Snyder, C.R.R. (1975). Attention and cognitive control. In R. Solso (ed.), Information
Processing and Cognition: The Loyola Symposium.
Hillsdale, N.J.: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
Posner, M.I.,
Nissen, M.J., & Klein, R.
(1976). Visual dominance: An
information processing account of its origins and significance. Psychological Review, 83: 157-17.
Proceedings of the International Congress of Physical Activity Sciences,
Quebec City, 1976.
Posner, M.I.,
Nissen, M.J., & Ogden, W.C.
(1977). Attended and
unattended processing modes: the role of set from spatial location. In H.J. Pick (ed.), Modes of
Perception. Hillsdale,
N.J.: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
Posner,
M.I. (1977). Applying theories and theorizing about
applications. In L. Resnick and P.
Weaver (eds.), Theory and Applications of Reading.
Posner, M.I.
& McLean, J. (1977). Cognition: Steady progress or fresh start? A review of U. Neisser¹s, Cognition and Reality,
Contemporary Psychology.
Posner, M.I.
(1978). Chronometric
Explorations of Mind. Hillsdale, N.J.: Lawrence Erlbaum
Associates.
Carr, T.H.,
Posner, M.I., Pollatsek, A. & Snyder, C.R.R. (1979).
Orthography and familiarity effects in words processing. Journal of Experimental Psychology:
General, 108: 389-414.
Posner, M.I. (1979). Comparing chronometric methods. Commentary:
The Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 2:
276.
Sen, A. &
Posner, M.I. (1979). The effect of
unattended auditory and visual words on cross modal naming. Bulletin of the Psychonomic Society, 13: 405-408.
Posner, M.I.
& Shulman, G.L. (1979). Cognitive Science. In E. Hearst (ed.), The First 100
Years of Experimental Psychology, (pp. 371-406).
Posner, M.I.
& Cohen, Y. (1980). Attention and the control of
movements. In G.E. Stelmach and J.
Requin (eds.), Tutorials in Motor Behavior.
Amsterdam: North Holland,
(pp. 243-258).
Posner, M.I.,
Davidson, B.J. & Snyder, C.R.R.
(1980). Attention and the
detection of signals. Journal of
Experimental Psychology: General, 109: 160-174.
Posner,
M.I. (1980). Orienting of attention. The 7th Sir F.C. Bartlett Lecture. Quarterly Journal of Experimental
Psychology. 32:
3-25.
Posner, M.I.
& Hanson, V.L. (1980).
Analyzing spoken and written language. In R. A. Cole (ed.), Perception and Production of Fluent
Speech. Hillsdale, N.J.: Lawrence Erlbaum
Associates, (pp. 201-211).
Posner,
M.I. (1980). Mental chronometry and the problem of
consciousness. In R. Klein and P.
Juszyck (eds.), Structure of Thought: Essays in Honor of D.O. Hebb, Hillsdale, N.J.: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, (pp.
95-113).
Posner, M.I.
& Osgood, G. (1980). Computers in the training of inquiry.
Behavioral Research and Instrumentation, 12: 87-905.