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Sharlene D. Newman

Director, Program in Neuroscience

Professor, Psychological and Brain Sciences

Associate Vice Provost, Undergraduate Education

sdnewman@indiana.edu
(812) 856-0839
Psychology Building 362
Office Hours
M-F
By Appointment Only

Education

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

Areas of Study

Biology, Behavior, and Neuroscience
Cognitive Science

Research Topics

fMRI of language processes, problem-solving and planning.

Representative Publications

Kim, D-J, Skosnik, P.D., Cheng, H., Pruce, B.J., Braumbaugh, M.S., Vollmer, J.M., Hetrick, W.P., O'Donnell, B.F., Sporns, O., Puce, A., Newman, S.D. (2012). Structural network topology revealed by white matter tractography in cannabis users: a graph theoretical analysis. Brain Connectivity, 1(6): 473-483.

Newman, S.D. (2012). The homophone effect during visual word recognition in children: an fMRI study. Psychological Research.

Newman, S.D., Willoughby, G., Pruce, B. (2011). The effect of problem structure on problem-solving: An fMRI study of word versus number problems. Brain Research, 1410: 77-88.

Newman, S.D., Pruce, B., Rusia, A., & Burns, T. (2010). The effect of strategy on problem solving: an fMRI study. Journal of Problem Solving, 3.

Newman, S.D., Ikuta, T., Burns, T. (2010). The effect of the semantic relatedness on syntactic analysis: an fMRI study. Brain and Language, 113:51-58.

Lee, D., Newman, S.D. (2010). The effect of presentation paradigm on syntactic processing: An event-related fMRI study. Human Brain Mapping, 31:65-79.

Newman, S.D., Greco, J.A., Lee, D. (2009). An fMRI study of the Tower of London: A look at problem structure differences. Brain Research, 1286:123-132.

Newman, S.D., Ratliff, K., Muratore, T., Burns, T. (2009). The effect of lexical priming on sentence comprehension: An fMRI study. Brain Research, 1285: 99-108.

Newman, S.D., Lee, D., Ratliff, K. (2009). How much does the comprehension probe interact with on-line syntactic processing? Human Brain Mapping, 30: 2499-2511.

Department of
Psychological and Brain Sciences