Adam E. Green, Ph.D.

Curriculum Vitae

 

 

Department of Psychology  

Yale University  

Box 208205  

New Haven, CT 06520-8205

Adam.Green@Yale.edu

(336) 430-7097

 

Education and Training:

Post-Graduate:

 

Yale University, New Haven, CT

Department of Psychology

Postdoctoral Associate, 2007-present

Conducted research into fMRI and genotypic measures of reasoning, learning, and creativity, Laboratory of Dr. Jeremy Gray

 

Sackler Institute for Developmental Psychobiology,

Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York, NY

Winter, 2006

Training in human genomic analysis and imaging-genetics methods, Laboratory of Dr. John Fossella

 

Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH

Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences

Ph.D., Cognitive Neuroscience, 2007

Investigated cognitive and neural bases of complex reasoning, especially analogy, Laboratory of Dr. Kevin Dunbar

 

Undergraduate:

 

Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD

Bachelor of Arts, May 2001

Degree in Cognitive Science with concentrations in Neuroscience and Cognitive Neuropsychology

 

Cognitive Neuroscience Section, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, Bethesda, MD

Investigated executive function in young and elderly adults, Laboratory of Dr. Jordan Grafman

 

Developmental Cognitive Neurology Clinic, Kennedy Krieger Institute, Baltimore, MD

Assayed cognitive control in children with neurological disorders, Laboratory of Dr. Stewart Mostofsky

 

REACH: Research and Education for Autism in Children, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, MD

Researched learning abilities of children with autism, Laboratory of Dr. Rebecca Landa

 

 

Grants and Funding:

National Science Foundation Award REC-0634025 to Yale University

"Cross-domain Analogical Reasoning: Mechanisms and Implications." (Co-PI status precluded by Yale policy on post-docs; made major contributions to the writing at all stages and contributed key preliminary data, named post-doc), PI: Dr. Jeremy R. Gray, $827,754, 12/01/06 to 11/30/09

 

National Institute of Mental Health, National Research Service Award, Pre-doctoral

ÒA Cognitive Neuroscience Approach to Abstract Thinking.Ó 2007

 

 

Publications:

Research Papers:

 

Published and in press:

 

DeYoung, C., Shamosh, N., Green, A., Braver, T., & Gray, J.R. (in press). Intellect as distinct from Openness: Differences revealed by fMRI of working memory.  Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.

 

Green, A., Kraemer, D.J.M., Fugelsang, J., Gray, J.R., & Dunbar, K. (in press). Connecting Long Distance:  Semantic Distance in Analogical Reasoning Modulates Frontopolar Cortex Activity.  Cerebral Cortex. PDF

 

Shamosh, N., DeYoung, C., Green, A., Reis, D., Conway, A.R.A., Johnson, M., Engle, R., Braver, T., & Gray, J.R. (2008). Individual differences in delay discounting: Relation to intelligence, working memory, and frontopolar cortex. Psychological Science, 19, 904-911. PDF

 

Green, A., Munafo, M.R., DeYoung, C., Fossella, J., Fan, J., & Gray, J.R. (2008). Using genetic data in cognitive neuroscience: From growing pains to genuine insights. Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 9, 710-720. PDF

 

Green, A., Fugelsang, J., Kraemer, D.J.M, & Dunbar, K. (2008). The micro-category account of analogy. Cognition, 106, 1004-1016. PDF

 

Green, A., Kraemer, D.J.M., Fugelsang, J., Shamosh, N., & Dunbar, K. (2006). Frontopolar cortex mediates abstract integration in analogy. Brain Research, 1096, 125-137. PDF

 

Fossella, J., Green, A., & Fan, J. (2006). Evaluation of a structural polymorphism in the ankyrin repeat and kinase domain containing-1 (ANKK1) gene and the activation of executive attention networks. Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience, 6, 71-78. PDF

 

Green, A., Fugelsang, J., & Dunbar, K. (2006). Automatic activation of categorical and abstract analogical relations in analogical reasoning. Memory & Cognition, 7, 1414-1421. PDF

 

Kraemer, D.J.M., Macrae, C. N., Green, A., & Kelley, W. (2005). The sound of silence: Musical imagery reactivates primary auditory cortex. Nature, 434, 158. PDF

 

Fugelsang, J., Stien, C., Green, A., & Dunbar, K. (2004). Theory and data interactions of the scientific mind: Evidence from the real world and the cognitive laboratory. Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology, 58, 86-95. PDF

 

Submitted:

 

Green, A., Fugelsang, J., Shamosh, N., Kraemer, D.J.M., & Dunbar, K. (submitted). Are we really that bad at Analogical Transfer?

 

Kraemer, D.J.M., Green, A., Cross, E., Lee, Y.-S., & Kelley, W. (submitted). The role of modality-specific cortex in the retrieval and selection of perceptual knowledge.

 

In preparation:

 

Green, A., Kraemer, D.J.M., Fugelsang, J., Gray, J.R., & Dunbar, K. (in preparation). Where do good ideas come from? Neural substrates of generating analogical solutions.

 

Green, A., Gray, J.R., & Dunbar, K. (in preparation). The effect of analogy on memory: Testing the micro-category account of analogy.

 

Fan, J., Fossella, J., & Green, A. (in preparation). fMRI, ERP, and genotypic correlates of anterior cingulate activity during executive attention.

 

DeYoung, C., Green, A., Shamosh, N., & Gray, J.R. (in preparation). DRD4 Genotype predicts neural response in a delay of gratification task.

 

Fugelsang, J., Roser, M., Green, A., Stein, C., Gazzaniga, M., & Dunbar, K. (in preparation). Examining how task set modulates impressions of causality.

 

Green, A., Fugelsang, J., & Dunbar, K. (in preparation). Neural correlates of divergent thinking in the uses of objects task.

 

 

Posters & Presentations:

 

Kim, J., Cohen, M., DeYoung, C., Green, A, Braver, T., & Gray, J. Individual differences in emotional awareness moderate the effects of affective stimuli on working memory performance.  Poster to be presented at the Cognitive Neuroscience Society annual meeting (2009).

 

Green, A., Kraemer, D.J.M., Gray, J.R., & Dunbar, K. Where do good ideas come from? Neural substrates of generating analogical solutions. Poster presented at the Cognitive Neuroscience Society annual meeting (2008).

 

Green, A., Fugelsang, J., Kraemer, D.J.M., & Dunbar, K. Frontopolar cortex and creative thinking: an fMRI study of the Uses of Objects task. Poster presented at the Cognitive Neuroscience Society annual meeting (2007).

 

Green, A., Fugelsang, J, & Dunbar, K. The micro-category account of analogy. Poster presented at Psychonomic Society annual meeting (2006).

 

Green, A., Kraemer, D.J.M., Fugelsang, J., & Dunbar, K. Frontopolar cortex becomes more active for more abstract analogies. Poster presented at the Cognitive Neuroscience Society annual meeting (2006).

 

Fugelsang, J., Green, A., & Dunbar, K. Mapping the shift from controlled to automatic processing in the brain. Poster presented at the Cognitive Neuroscience Society annual meeting (2006).

 

Fugelsang, J., Green, A., & Dunbar, K. Facilitation, Interference, and Abstract Thought. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Canadian Society for Brain, Behaviour and Cognitive Science (2006).

 

Green, A., Fuglesang, J., & Dunbar, K. Priming category relations during analogical reasoning. Poster presented at the Psychonomic Society annual meeting (2005)

 

Green, A., Fugelsang, J., & Dunbar, K. Behavioral and fMRI evidence for automatic categorization during analogical reasoning. Poster presented at the Cognitive Neuroscience Society annual meeting (2005).

 

Kraemer, D.J.M., Macrae, C. N., Green, A., & Kelley, W. The sound of silence: Musical imagery reactivates primary auditory cortex. Poster presented at the Cognitive Neuroscience Society annual meeting (2005).

 

Fugelsang, J., Roser, M., Green, A., Stein, C., Gazzaniga, M., & Dunbar, K. Examining how task set modulates impressions of causality. Poster presented at the Cognitive Neuroscience Society annual meeting (2005).

 

Fugelsang, J., Roser, M., Stein, C., Green, A., Gazzaniga, M., & Dunbar, K. Dissociating perceptual and inferential components of causality in the brain. Poster presented at Canadian Society for Brain, Behaviour and Cognitive Science (2005).

 

Green, A., & Dunbar, K. Analogical Priming of Abstract relations. Poster presented at the Psychonomic Society annual meeting (2004).

 

Green, A., Fugelsang, J., Shamosh, N., & Dunbar, K. The roles of distinct prefrontal regions in categorization and abstract relational integration during analogical reasoning. Poster presented at the Cognitive Neuroscience Society annual meeting (2004).

 

Green, A., Evans, C., Cameron, J., & Grafman, J. Script Generation in Older and Younger Adults. Paper presented at meeting of the Johns Hopkins University Honors Society for Neuroscience (2001).

 

Cameron, J., Fantie, B., Green, A., & Grafman, J. Script Knowledge in Cortical Dementia. Paper presented at the Johns Hopkins University Honors Society for Neuroscience poster session (2001).

 

 

Symposia Chaired and Organized:

Vertically integrating molecular-genetics, cognitive neuroscience, and psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience Society annual meeting (2009).

Chair: Green, A.


Speakers: Fossella, J., Papassotiropoulos, A., Callicott, J., DeYoung, C.

 

 

Invited Talks:

Decennial International Conference on Analogy, Symposium on Brain Mechanisms of Analogy, Sofia, Bulgaria, July 2009

 

Cognitive Neuroscience Society annual meeting, Symposium on Reasoning and Decision Making, San Francisco, March 2009

 

Department of Psychology, Georgetown University, February 2009

 

Department of Psychology, Yale University, October 2007

 

Sackler Institute for Developmental Psychobiology, Weill Medical College of Cornell University, January 2007

 

 

Honors and Awards (Selected):

Michael S. Applestien Scholarship for academic achievement awarded by The Johns Hopkins University

 

Phi Beta Kappa

 

Graduated with Highest University and Departmental Honors

 

Psi Chi; Nu Rho Psi (Honors Society for Neuroscience)

 

National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate (NDSEG) Fellowship (Honorable Mention)

  

Community Service Enthusiasm Awarded by the Circle K community service organization for most hours volunteered in region

 

 

Professional Service:

Grant Review: Economic and Social Research Council, UK

 

Journal Review: Neuroimage, Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience