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Daniel M. Caggiano

George Mason University

David King Hall

4400 University Dr., MSN 3F5

Fairfax, VA 22030

Ph (703) 993-2613, Fax (703) 993-1359

I am currently a PhD candidate in the applied experimental psychology program at The Catholic University of America and a research affiliate of the ARCH Laboratory of George Mason University. I received my BA in psychology from Wake Forest University in 1998 prior to spending a year in Hiroshima prefecture of Japan as an Assistant English Teacher (AET) through the Japan Exchange and Teaching (JET) programme. I then worked as a research assistant for Dr. Mark D’Esposito in the neurology department of the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania before joining the Cognitive Science Laboratory at Catholic University in 2000 to pursue my PhD under the guidance of Dr. Raja Parasuraman. Our laboratory has since moved to George Mason University and merged with the Applied Research in Cognition and Human factors (ARCH) laboratory.

My research interests center on the topics of human development and mental workload, or the amount of effort required to perform a task, whether that task be searching a shelf for a particular book (visual search), detecting the moment that a traffic light has turned from red to green (sustained attention), or mentally calculating the proper gratuity at a restaurant (working memory). How does the brain manage these different sources of mental workload, and how is performance affected by variations in these demands? Do healthy elderly adults manage these sources of mental workload in the same way as do healthy young adults? To address these issues, I have used a variety of behavioral and physiological measures, including oculomotor measurements, electro-encephalography (EEG), and functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI).

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About Me:

· Education

· Awards and Honors

· Professional Memberships

· Professional Activities

· Publications

· Conference Presentations

· Teaching Experience

Links to Other Web Sites:

· Research and Educational Links

· Experimental Design Tools

· Data Analysis Tools

· Hardware and Software for Psychophysiology

· Psychological and Neuroscience Organizations

· Journal Web Sites

· Other Laboratories

EDUCATION:

2003 Doctoral Comprehensive Exams (honors), Applied Experimental Psychology

The Catholic University of America

2004 M. A., Applied Experimental Psychology

The Catholic University of America

1998 B. A., Psychology (cum laude)

Minor, Asian studies

Wake Forest University

AWARDS AND HONORS:

· Thomas Vernor Moore Full Scholarship, Catholic University of America (2000 – 2003)

· Fellow, The Dartmouth Summer Institute in Cognitive Neuroscience (2001)

· Honors distinction, PhD comprehensive exams, Catholic Univ. of America (2003)

· Graduate Research Assistantship, Catholic Univ. of America (2000 – 2004) &

George Mason University (2004 – present)

· Graduate Teaching Assistantship, Catholic Univ. of America (Spring & Fall 2004)

· Member, Psi Chi (1997)

· President, Wake Forest University Karate Club (1997 – 1998)

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS

· The American Psychological Society

· The Society for Neuroscience

· The Cognitive Neuroscience Society

· The Society for Psychophysiological Research

Professional activities

· Ad hoc reviewer:

Perception & Psychophysics

Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology

· Reviewer, APS student research presentation competition (2005)

· Reviewer, APS student grant proposal competition (2005)

· Conference reporter for the fMRI Experience IV, Bethesda, MD (2002)

· Manager of the Cognitive Science Laboratory library (2000 – 2004)

Publications:

Refereed Journal Articles:

BJORK, J. M., KNUTSON, B., FONG, G. W., HOMMER, D., CAGGIANO, D. M., BENNETT, S. M.

(2004). Incentive-elicited brain activation in adolescents: Similarities and differences from young adults.

The Journal of Neuroscience, 24, 1793-1802.

CAGGIANO, D. M., GREENWOOD, P. M., CHAVEZ KNOTT, C., & PARASURAMAN, R. (in preparation).

Age-related changes in attentional scaling: an eye movement analysis.

CAGGIANO, D. M., JIANG, Y., PARASURAMAN, R. (in press). Aging and repetition priming for targets and

distracters in a working memory task. Aging, Neuropsychology, and Cognition. (click here for abstract)

CAGGIANO, D. M., PARASURAMAN, R. (2004). The role of memory representation in the vigilance

decrement. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 11, 932-937.

FU, S., CAGGIANO, D. M., GREENWOOD, P. M., PARASURAMAN, R. (2005). Event-related

potentials reveal dissociable mechanisms for orienting and focusing visuospatial attention. Brain Research

Cognitive Brain Research, 23, 341-353.

Book Chapters:

PARASURAMAN, R., & CAGGIANO, D. (2002). Mental workload. In V. S. Ramachandran (Ed.),

Encyclopedia of the Human Brain. San Diego: Academic Press.

PARASURAMAN, R., & CAGGIANO, D. (2005). Neural and genetic assays of human mental workload. In D. K. McBride &

D. Schmorrow (Eds.), Quantifying Human Information Processing. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.

Conference Reports:

CAGGIANO, D. M., JOFFILY, M. (2002). Conference report: functional magnetic resonance imaging for

beginners – a review of the fMRI Experience IV, 13–14 May 2002, Natcher Conference Center, National

Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD. The Scientific World JOURNAL 2, 1803-1807.

INVITED PRESENTATIONS:

PARASURAMAN, R., & CAGGIANO, D. (2004). Neural and genetic assays of human mental workload. Presented at

the Quantifying Human Information Processing (QHIP) meeting, Arlington, VA.

POSTERS PRESENTED AT PROFESSIONAL MEETINGS:

Bjork JM, Knutson B, Caggiano DM, Fong G, Danube C, Hommer D. Incentive-Related Brain Activation in

Adolescent Children of Alcoholics: An fMRI Investigation. Presented at The Society for Neuroscience

Meeting, November 2003.

Bjork J, Knutson B, Fong G, Hommer D, Bennett S, Caggiano DM. Neural Responsiveness to Monetary Reward

in Adolescents: An fMRI Investigation. Presented at The Society for Neuroscience Meeting, Nov. 2002.

Caggiano DM, Fu S, Parasuraman R. Electrophysiological Evidence for Serial Attentional Shifts During

Discrimination Search: Data from Young Adults. Presented at The Cognitive Neuroscience Society

Meeting, April 2005.

Caggiano DM, Greenwood PM, Parasuraman R. Aging Alters the Role of Saccades in Attentional Scaling

Effects on Visual Search. Presented at The Cognitive Aging Conference, April 2002.

Caggiano DM, Greenwood PM, Parasuraman R. Eye Movements, Attentional Scale, and Search Speed in Young

and Elderly. Presented at The Society for Neuroscience Meeting, November 2001.

Caggiano DM, Parasuraman R. Spatial Working Memory Differentially Mediates the Vigilance Decrement.

Presented at The Society for Neuroscience Meeting, November 2003.

Caggiano DM, Parasuraman R, Jiang Y. Age-Related Differences in Tracking Familiar Items During Short-Term

Memory. To be presented at The Cognitive Neuroscience Society Meeting, April 2004.

Fu S, Caggiano DM, Greenwood PM, Parasuraman R. Validity and Scaling Effects of Visuospatial Attention

Revealed by Event-Related Potentials. Presented at The Society for Neuroscience Meeting, Nov. 2002.

Greenwood PM, Caggiano DM, Parasuraman R. The Fastest Search is not Accompanied by the Fewest

Fixations of the Eyes in Young or Old. Presented at The Cognitive Neuroscience Society Meeting, March

2001.

Luo YJ, Jiang Y, Caggiano DM, Parasuraman R. Event-Related Brain Potentials Are Correlated With Perception

of Visual Motion Sweeps. Presented at The Human Brain Mapping Meeting, June 2001.

Luo YJ, Jiang Y, Caggiano DM, Parasuraman R. Event-Related Brain Potentials Are Correlated With the

Perception of Visual Motion Sweeps. Presented at The Cognitive Neuroscience Society Meeting, March 2001.

Röttger S, Caggiano DM. (German) Verfälschen Instructionen Blickebewegungsdaten? In K. W. Lange, K.-H. Bäuml,

M. W. Greenlee, M. Hammerl & A. Zimmer (Hrsg.), Experimentelle Psychologie. Beiträge zur 47. Tagung

experimentell arbeitender Psychologen (S. 167). Lengerich: Pabst.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Instructor, PSY406: Learning Theory and Cognitive Psychology Overview (Summer 2004)

The Institute for Psychological Science, ArlingtonVA

- Developed course curriculum, organized and presented course lectures, and created and graded exams for an intensive four-day review course.

Instructor, PSY201: General Psychology (Spring & Fall 2004)

The Catholic University of America, Washington DC

- Developed course curriculum within the general guidelines of the department, organized and presented course lectures, and created and graded assignments and exams for the course.

Guest Lecturer, PSY201: General Psychology (Spring 2003)

The Catholic University of America, Washington DC

Topic: The electroencephalogram (EEG) and its experimental and clinical applications in psychology

Assistant English Teacher, The Japan Exchange and Teaching (JET) Programme (July 1998 – July 1999)

Yutaka Town Board of Education, Hiroshima JAPAN

- Developed and administered supplemental materials for junior high school and elementary English language classes to encourage cross-cultural understanding and interactive language usage

- Co-coached English language club at the junior high school, leading to several individual student awards at the county-level English speech contest

- Developed curriculum for and supervised adult English conversation society

Martial Arts Instructor (1997-1998)

Wake Forest University Karate Club, Winston-Salem, NC

- Co-designed the curriculum for students, organized club performances on campus, and assessed student

performance for promotion to higher rank

Teaching Assistant, HSS190: Karate (Fall 1995)

Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC

- Volunteered to assist Dr. Charles Richman with class instruction, resource preparation, and grading of written and

performance-based exams

RESEARCH & EDUCATIONAL LINKS:

· Basics of MRI, An excellent tutorial on everything a beginner might want to know about magnetic resonance imaging.

· Brain Sites – Several sites with pictures of different views of the brain and tutorials of basic brain anatomy.

1. The Virtual Hospital Brain Anatomy Tutorial – lots of picts and descriptions of what you’re looking at.

2. Dr. Katalin Hegedüs, Department of Neurology, University of Debrecen, Hungary – links to a variety of pages that focus on particular regions of the brain.

3. The Whole Brain Atlas, from Dr. Keith A. Johnson & Dr. J. Alex Becker, Harvard University – provides brain-related picts and tutorials on both healthy brains and diseased and injured brains.

4. The International Consortium for Brain Mapping – a resource based on a collaborative effort to define and map the ‘normal’ brain.

· Neuron, A computer simulation program of an action potential. It allows you to manipulate aspects of the extracellular and intracellular environment, as well as properties of the neuronal membrane, and observe how these manipulations affect the resulting action potential.

· PsychInfo, A search engine for psychology-related publications, including book chapters.

· Pub Med, A comprehensive search engine for medically-related journal articles.

· Signal Detection Theory Tutorial, A tool that explains the theoretical basics of signal detection theory and provides a method for using Excel to calculate d’.

· SMART, Created by Prof. Dan Fisk and colleagues at Georgia Tech, this is a database of common medications and their psychoactive, motor, and sensory side-effects. It is a particularly useful tool when screening potential subjects.

· Visual Illusions, A site with pictures of several of the more famous illusory stimuli studied by psychologists.

EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN TOOLS:

· E-Prime, A stimulus-presentation package for designing and implementing experiments.

· MRC Psycholinguistics Database, An outstanding database of English words that allows you to search and sort on a number of critical features, including frequency of word usage, number of syllables, parts of speech, etc.

· Psyscope, A stimulus-presentation package. I have found it a bit harder to use than E-prime and Superlab, but you can download it for free, and it allows for a great deal of flexibility in structuring your design.

· Superlab, A product whose initial development was co-sponsored by Dr. Parasuraman, this is the most user-friendly of the stimulus-presentation packages that I have worked with.