Dr. Sharlene D. Newman
Assistant Professor of Psychology
Contact Information
Office: PY 365Office Phone: (812) 856-0839
Lab: PY 289
Lab Phone:(812) 856-1776
E-mail:
Web site: The Cognitive NeuroImaging Lab
Educational Background
1993 - B.E. Electrical Engineering, Vanderbilt University1996 - 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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