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Schneider, Walter
Senior Scientist
Professor of Psychology, Dept. of Psychology
PhD, Indiana University
Contact:
629 LRDC
412-624-7061
412-624-9149
wws@imap.pitt.edu
http://schneider.lrdc.pitt.edu/
http://spike.lrdc.pitt.edu/index.php
Summary:
Dr. Schneider investigates dynamic cortical processing in human behavioral and brain imaging studies and computer simulation models. Behavioral and brain imaging studies focus on the understanding of human learning, executive control and attention. Research examines cortical areas involved in learning including frontal, parietal, and cingulate cortex, subcortical structures (e.g., hippocampus) and sensory processing areas (e.g., thalamus and visual cortex). The brain imaging research utilizes functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) to produce high 3D spatial resolution (near millimeter) maps identifying the location and relative activation of stages of the visual system and Diffusion Tensor Imaging (DTI) to map cortical connectivity. These data provide the basis for detailed tracking of the dynamics of cortical processing. We are developing methods to map human network level cortical processing. Behavioral and brain imaging data details how rapidly and in what forms attention moves and what are the component structures of learning (goal popping, memory retrieval, feedback processing).
Research Interests: Cognitive neuroscience, cognitive control, semantic representation, attention and automaticity, skill acquisition, connectionist/hybrid modeling, brain imaging, brain activity interpretation
Projects/Labs
Publications
- Cole, M. W. & Schneider, W. (2007) The Cognitive Control Network: Integrated cortical regions with dissociable functions. NeuroImage.
- Goldberg, R.F., Perfetti, C.A., J. A. Fiez, Schneider, W (2007) Selective retrieval of abstract semantic knowledge In left prefrontal cortex. The Journal of Neuroscience 2007 • 27(14):3790 –3798
- Hill, N. M. & Schneider, W. (2006) Brain Changes in the Development of Expertise: Neurological Evidence on Skill-Based Adaptations in K. A. Ericsson, N. Charness, P. Feltovich, and R. Hoffman (Eds.) Cambridge Handbook of Expertise and Expert Performance. New York: Cambridge University pp 653-683.
- Goldberg, R.F., Perfetti, C.A., Schneider, W. (2006) Distinct and common cortical activations for multimodal semantic categories. Cognitive, Affective, and Behavioral Neuroscience. 6, 214-222.
- Goldberg, R.F., Perfetti, C.A., Schneider, W (2006) Perceptual Knowledge Retrieval Activates Sensory Brain Regions. J. Neuroscience. 26(18):4917– 4921
- Chein & Schneider (2005) Neuroimaging studies of practice-related change: fMRI and meta-analytic evidence of a domain-general control network for learning. Cognitive brain research. 25 (3), 607-623.
- Bolger, D. J., Perfetti, C. A., & Schneider, W. (2005). A cross-cultural effect on the brain revisited: Universal structures plus writing system variation. Journal of Human Brain Mapping, 25(1), 83-91. (Abstract-html)
- Schneider, W. & Chein, J. M., (2003). Controlled & Automatic Processing: From Mechanisms to Biology. Cognitive Science 27: 525–559.
- MacWhinney, B., St. James, J., Schunn, C., Li, P., Schneider, W. (2001). STEP – A system for teaching experimental psychology using E-Prime. Behavioral Research Methods, Instruments, & Computers, 33(2), 287-296.
- Schneider, W. & Oliver, W. L. (1991). An instructable connectionist/control architecture: Using rule-based instructions to accomplish connectionist learning in a human time scale. In K. Van Lehn (Ed.), Architectures for intelligence: The 22nd Carnegie Mellon symposium on cognition (pp.113-145). Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.
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