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Indiana University Bloomington
Sharlene Newman

Dr. Sharlene Newman

Assistant Professor

 

sdnewman [at] indiana.edu

office: PY 362 | (812)856-0839

lab: Cognitive NeuroImaging Lab
   PY 289 | (812)856-1776

 

fMRI of language processes, problem-solving and planning

Educational Background

1993 - B.E. Electrical Engineering, Vanderbilt University
1996 - M.S. Biomedical Engineering, University of Alabama at Birmingham
1999 - Ph.D. Biomedical Engineering, University of Alabama at Birmingham
1999-2004 - Psychology, Postdoctoral Fellow, Carnegie Mellon University

Areas of Study

  • Biology, Behavior, and Neuroscience
  • Cognitive Science

Research Topics

  • fMRI of language processes, problem-solving and planning.

Representative Publications

in press - Edwards, C.R., Newman, S.D., Bismark, A., Skosnik, P.D., O'Donnell, B.F., Shekhar, A., Steinmetz, J.E., & Hetrick, W.P. Cerebellum volume and eyeblink conditioning in schizophrenia. Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging.

in press - Newman, S.D. Neural Bases of Giftedness. In (J. A. Plucker & C. M. Callahan) Critical Issues and Practices in Gifted Education. Prufrock Press.

2007 - Newman, S.D., & Pittman, G). The Tower of London: a study of the effect of problem structure on planning. Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology 29:3 333-342.

2007 - Newman, S.D., Keller, T.A., & Just., M.A. Volitional control of attention and brain activation in dual task performance. Human Brain Mapping 28:109-117.

2005 - Newman, S.D., Klatzky, R. L., & Lederman, S. J., Just, M. A. An fMRI comparison of haptic and visual imagery processes. Cognitive Brain Research 23: 235-246.

2005 - Newman, S. D. & Just, M. A. The neural bases of intelligence: a perspective based on functional neuroimaging. In (R. Sternberg, J. Davidson & J. Pretz, Eds.) Cognition & Intelligence.

2004 - Mitchell, T. M., Hutchinson, R., Niculescu, R. S., Pereira, F., Wang, X., Just, M. & Newman, S. D. Learning to decode cognitive states from brain images.

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