Project Research

P. Andrew Leynes

Curriculum Vita

*** ****** ******** ******** ****** Phone: 609 - 771 - 2624

Department of Psychology Lab Phone: 609 771 - 3222

The College of New Jersey Email: aboz87@r.postjobfree.com

P.O. Box 7718 web: www.tcnj.edu/~leynes

Ewing, N.J. 08628-0718

Education

1998, Ph.D. in Psychology (Biopsychology), University of Georgia

1995, M.S. in Psychology, University of Georgia

1991, B.S. in Psychology, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia

Tech)

Employment

9/2009 - present,

Professor of Psychology, The College of New Jersey

9/2003 - 2009, Associate Professor

of Psychology, The College of New Jersey

9/1998 - 9/2003, Assistant Professor of Psychology, The College of New Jersey

8/1997 - 8/1998, Post-Doctoral Fellow, University of Georgia, Dr. Joseph D. Allen

supervisor

Teaching (at The College of New Jersey

)

PSY 212 - Biological Psychology (formerly Physiological Psychology)

F-2008 (2); Sum-2008; Sum-2007; F-2006; F-2005; Sum-2005; F-2004; Sum-2004; S-2004; F-

2002; S-2002;

F-2001 (2); S-2001 (2); F-2000 (2); S-2000 (2); F-1999; S-1999 (2); F-1998 (2)

PSY 213 Learning and Memory (formerly Learning, Memory, and Motivation)

S-2012; S-2011; F-2010; S-2004 (2); Sum-2003; S-2003 (2); Sum-2002; Sum-2001; Sum-2000; F-

1999; Sum-1999; F-1998

PSY 203 - Design and Analysis (formerly Statistics for the Behavioral Sciences)

S-2008; F-2007 (2); F-2006; S-2005; F-2003; F-2002; S-2002; F-2001; S-2001

PSY 299 - Research Seminar in Cognitive Neuroscience (formerly Experimental Methods)

S-2009; S-2007; F-2005; F-2004; F-2002; S-2000; S-1999

PSY 346 - Cognitive Neuroscience

F-2009; S-2008; S-2007; S-2006; (as PSYC 390) F-2003

PSY 371 - Cognitive Seminar: Cognitive Neuroscience of Memory

Sum-2010

PSY 470 - Senior Topic Seminar: Memory

F-2008; S-2006

PSY 390/492 - Laboratory Learning (student-faculty research)

Each semester; (as PSYC 387) S-2003; S-2002

Awards

? Spring 2012, Recipient of a Phi Kappa Phi Student-Faculty Research Award

For Bhavika Kakadia s Honors Thesis project entitled, Event-Related Potential (ERP)

Correlates of Recollection and Other Types of

Judgments

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? Fall 2007, Recipient of a Phi Kappa Phi Student-Faculty Research Award

for Jessica Wong s Honors Thesis project entitled The Effects of Interruption and

Imagination on Source Confusions:

An ERP Study of Action Memory.

? Spring 2007, Recipient of a Phi Kappa Phi Student-Faculty Research Award

for Jenna Scisco s Honors Thesis project entitled Cardiovascular Fitness and Cognitive

Function.

? Fall 2006, Recipient of a Phi Kappa Phi Student-Faculty Research Award

for Vinaya Raj s Honors Thesis project entitled Brain Activity and Familiarity: Creating

Illusions of Memory Through

Perceptual Fluency.

? Fall 2006, Recipient of a Phi Kappa Phi Student-Faculty Research Award

for a project with Olga Rass entitled, The Ugly Stepsister of Memory. This work resulted

in a publication (see later

section) Rass & Leynes (2007).

? 2005, Inducted into Phi Kappa Phi National Honor Society as a Faculty Member.

? 2005, Selected for the ninth edition of Who s Who Among America s Teachers

? 2004, Council on Undergraduate Research (CUR) Posters on the Hill program.

Faculty Sponsor for students (Molly McGoldrick & Richard Addante)

? Spring 2004, Recipient of a Phi Kappa Phi Student-Faculty Research Award

for Rick Addante s Honors Thesis project entitled, Event-Related Potentials and the

Revelation Effect. This work

resulted in a publication (see later section) - Leynes, Landau, Walker & Addante (2005).

? 2004, Selected for the eighth edition of Who s Who Among America s Teachers

? Spring 2001, Recipient of a Phi Kappa Phi Student-Faculty Research Award

for Alyssa Cairns Honors Thesis project entitled Event-Related Potentials and Reality

Monitoring. This work

resulted in a publication (see later section) Leynes, Cairns, & Crawford (2005).

? Spring 2000, Recipient of a Phi Kappa Phi Student-Faculty Research Award

for Jessica Walker s Honors Thesis project entitled Event-Related Potentials and the

Revelation Effect. This work

resulted in a publication (see later section) - Leynes, Landau, Walker & Addante (2005).

? 1996, Recipient of the Outstanding Graduate Teaching Assistant Award

This award recognizes the top 10% of graduate instructors at the University of Georgia.

? 1996-1997, Herbert Zimmer Scholar in Psychology

This honor is awarded in recognition of outstanding research accomplishments and

potential for a research career in

psychology.

Grants

? 2002, Academic Lab Equipment Grant

Internal grant from the College of New Jersey to upgrade laboratory equipment. Award

amount 5,000.

?

Fall 2010, Dean Mini-Grant award

Research funds to conduct research, award amount $1128.74

? Fall 2009, Dean Mini-Grant award

Research funds to conduct research, award amount $1069.38

? Fall 2008, Dean Mini-Grant award

Research funds to conduct research, award amount $616.38

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? 2008-2011, SOSA sustained award

Internal grant from the College of New Jersey for alternate assignment of teaching time

to conduct research. Sustained

award for a period of three years.

? Fall 2007, Dean Mini-Grant award

Research funds to conduct research, award amount $810

? Fall 2006, Dean Mini-Grant award

Research funds to conduct research, award amount $712.97

? 2006, Summer Undergraduate Research Program

Internal grant from the College of New Jersey that included faculty and student stipends

and student housing for the

summer to support student-faculty research.

2005, Summer Undergraduate Research Program

Internal grant from the College of New Jersey that included faculty and student stipends

and student housing for the

summer to support student-faculty research.

Spring 2005, Dean Mini-Grant award

Research funds to conduct research, award amount $630

? 2005-2008, SOSA sustained award

Internal grant from the College of New Jersey for alternate assignment of teaching time

to conduct research. Sustained

award for a period of three years.

2004-2005, SOSA annual award

Internal grant from the College of New Jersey for alternate assignment of teaching time

to conduct research.

? Fall 2003, Dean Mini-Grant award

Research funds to conduct research, award amount $472.50

? 2003-2004, SOSA annual award

Internal grant from the College of New Jersey for alternate assignment of teaching time

to conduct research.

? 2002-2003, SOSA annual award

Internal grant from the College of New Jersey for alternate assignment of teaching time

to conduct research.

2002, Academic Lab Equipment Grant

Internal grant from the College of New Jersey for laboratory equipment. This grant

proposal equipped our lab with

psychophysiology recording equipment (heart rate, temperature, skin conductance, EEG,

EOG, respiration). Award amount

15,842.

? 2001-2002, SOSA annual award

Internal grant from the College of New Jersey for alternate assignment of teaching time

to conduct research.

2000-2001, FIRSL award

Internal grant from the College of New Jersey for alternate assignment of teaching time

to conduct research.

? 1999-200, FIRSL award

Internal grant from the College of New Jersey for alternate assignment of teaching time

to conduct research.

? 1998, NIMH B/start (Priority Score = 183, not funded)

Title of proposal Investigation of Brain Activity During Source Memory Retrieval.

Peer-Reviewed Publications

For all citations the First author in the list is the primary author. Student co-authors

are underlined. Publications are listed in

chronological order, with the most recent listed first

Other Publications:

21. Darryl Levy. How Does Visual Clarity Affect Fluency? An Event-Related Potential (ERP)

Investigation. Fall

2010 S2011.

20. Abigail Vachon. Religion as Defense Against Death: ERP Correlates to Terror

Management Theory. Fall

2010 S2011.

19. Kevin Zish. How Does Clarity Affect Recognition Judgments? An Event-Related Potential

(ERP)

Investigation. Fall 2010 S2011.

18. Jessica Jones. Refreshing: An Event-Related Potentials Investigation. F2009 S2010

17. Sweta Shah. Event-Related Potential Evidence for Episodic and Semantic Contributions

to Blocking. F2009

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S2010.

16. Jaime Brown. The Feeling of Blocking in the Memory Block Paradigm. F2008 S2009

15. Steve Dash. An Investigation of Executive Control Inhibition During the Memory Block

Effect. F2008

S2009

14. Cara O Neill. ERP Evidence that Gender Stereotypes Influence Memory Judgments. F2008

S2009

13. Anne Lewis. ERPs and Source Monitoring: Examining the Differences between Stereotype-

Consistent and

Inconsistent Sources. S2008 F2008

12. Heather McGowan. An ERP study of Imagination Inflation and Output Monitoring. F2007 -

S2008.

11. Jessica Wong. The Effects of Interruption and Imagination on Source Confusions: An

ERP Study of

Action Memory. F2007 - S2008.

10. Vinaya Raj. Brain Activity and Familiarity: Creating Illusions of Memory Through

Perceptual Fluency.

F2006 S2007.

9. Jenna Scisco. Cardiovascular Fitness and Cognitive Function. F2006 S2007.

8. Gottlieb, Jessica. Event-related potentials and forgetting. Spring 2006.

7. Rass, Olga. Event-related potentials and forgetting. S2006 F2006.

6. Phillips, Michelle. Partial recollection in source monitoring. F2005 S2006.

5. Addante, Richard. Event-related Potentials and the Revelation Effect. S2004 - F2004.

4. McGoldrick, Molly. Semantic Memory Brain Activation Related to Gender Stereotypes.

F2003 S2004.

3. Crawford, Jarret. He Said, She Said: An ERP Study of Stereotypes as Source Monitoring

Cues. F2002 -

S2003.

2. Cairns, Alyssa. Event-related Potentials during Reality Monitoring. S2001 - F2001.

1. Walker, Jessica. Event-related Potentials and the Revelation Effect. F1999 - S2000.

Research Posters

o National Science Foundation, Cognitive Neuroscience Program (2007)

? Book Review

o Reviewer for: McDaniel, M. & Einstein, G.O. (2007). Prospective Memory. Los Angeles,

CA: Sage

Publications.

? Textbook Review (ad-hoc):

o Prentice Hall Publishers

o McGraw Hill Publishers

o Oxford University Press

College Service

College-wide Committees and Service:

? Ad Hoc Committee on External Review for Promotion, Fall 2007

? College-wide representative on the Biology Hiring Committee, 2005, 2002

? Committee on Faculty Affairs, Fall 2008 Fall 2011

? Courseware Product Evaluation Committee, Fall 2001

? Culture and Society Undergraduate Research Council, Chair, F2010, Member, S2011

? Faculty Advisor to Sigma Pi Fraternity, 1999-2000.

? Faculty Senate, January 2009 April 2009.

? Faculty-Student Collaboration Committee, September 2010 - June2011.

? Faculty Mentoring Committee, 2006 - present

? IACUC, Chair, 2003 Fall 2006, Member, 2006 - 2010

? Medical Careers Advisory Committee, Member, 1999 2001

? Psychology Department Liaison for the Celebration of Student Achievement, Spring

1999.

? Student Information Systems Evaluation Committee, Spring 2002

Psychology Department Committees:

? Advisory Committee, 2005 2009

? Biopsychology Concentration/Focus Development Committee, Chair 2001 present

? Budget Committee, Member, 1998 2006, Chair 2002-2003

? Computer Committee, Member, 1998 2009 (Chair 2000-2001 AY)

? Curriculum Transformation Committee Member, 2002-2003

for Design & Analysis, Biopsychology, and Learning courses

? Department Chair, 2009 - present

? Grievance Committee, 2006, 2007

? Hiring Committee, Vice-Chair, 1999; Committee member 2000, 2002;

Chair, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008

? Independent Study Committee, Member, 1998 2009

? New Faculty Mentor for Martinetti, Kim-Prieto, Bireta

? PIPER (Psychology research pool) Coordinator, 2002 Fall 2007, Co-coordinator, F2007-

S2008

? Promotions Committee, 2005, 2006, 2007

? Space and Facilities Committee, Member, 1998 2003, Chair 2003 - 2008

? Student Awards and Scholarship Committee, Member, 1998 2009

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