David J. Paulsen, Ph.D Curriculum vitae Department of University of Pittsburgh 110 Loeffler Bldg Pittsburgh, PA 15232 541.510.1840 [email protected]

Education Ph.D., Psychology & , Duke University, 2012 Dissertation: Development of Decision-Making Under Risk

M.S., Psychology, University of Oregon, 2006 Thesis: The Processing of Non-Symbolic Numerical Magnitudes as Indexed by ERPs

B.S., Psychology, Philosophy, University of Oregon, 2003 Thesis: The Process of Meaning: James’ Fringe Revisited

Academic Employment 2012- University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Laboratory of Neurocognitive Development, Postdoctoral Scholar 2003-2007 University of Oregon, Brain Development Lab, Research Associate 2002-2003 Electrical Geodesics Inc., Brain Electrophysiology Lab, Research Assistant

Honors and Awards 2012 T-32 Training Program in the Neurobiology of Substance Use and Abuse, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry 2012 Mortimer D. Sackler Summer Institute for Developmental Neuroscience 2010-2012 F32 National Research Service Award, National Institute on Drug Abuse 2011 Honorarium, Scientific Research Network on Decision Neuroscience & Aging 2011 Vertical Integration Program Summer Fellowship, Duke University 2009 Vertical Integration Program Summer Fellowship, Duke University 2005-2006 Graduate Teaching Fellowship, University of Oregon 2003 Phi Beta Kappa, Honors in Philosophy, Cum Laude 2003 George Rebec Prize for outstanding essay in philosophy 2002 George Rebec Prize for outstanding essay in philosophy

Publications

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Jones, S.M., Pearson, J., DeWind, N.K., Paulsen, D.J., Tenekedjieva, A., Brannon, E.M. (in press). Lemurs and macaques show similar numerical sensitivity. Animal Cognition.

Luna, B., Paulsen, D.J., Padmanabhan, A., Geier, C. (2013). The teenage brain: cognitive control and motivation. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 22(2), 94-100.

Paulsen, D.J., Platt, M.L., Huettel, S.A., & Brannon, E.M. (2012). From risk-seeking to risk-averse: The development of economic risk preference from early childhood to adulthood. Frontiers in Psychology, 3(313).

Stevens, C., Paulsen, D., Yasen, A., Mitsunaga, L., & Neville, H. (2012). Electrophysiological evidence for attenuated auditory recovery cycles in children with Specific Language Impairment, Brain Research 1438, 35-47.

Paulsen, D.J., Carter, R.M., Platt, M.L., Huettel, S.A., & Brannon, E.M. (2011). Neurocognitive development of risk aversion from early childhood to adulthood, Frontiers in Human Neuroscience (5)178.

Paulsen, D.J., Platt, M.L., Huettel, S.A., & Brannon, E.M. (2011). Decision-making under risk in children, adolescents, and young adults. Frontiers in Psychology, 2(72).

Paulsen, D.J., Woldorff, M.G., Brannon, E.M. (2010) Individual differences in non- verbal number discrimination correlate with event-related potentials and measures of probabilistic reasoning. Neuropsychologia, 48(13), 3687-3695

Paulsen, D.J., & Neville, H.J. (2008). The processing of non-symbolic numerical magnitudes as indexed by ERPs. Neuropsychologia, 46(10), 2532-2544.

Neville, H., Andersson, A., Bagdade, O., Bell, T., Currin, J., Fanning, J., Klein, S., Lauinger, B., Pakulak, E., Paulsen, D., Sabourin, L., Stevens, C., Sundborg, S., Yamata, Y. (2007). Effects of music training on brain and cognitive development in under-privileged 3- to 5-year-old children: preliminary results. New York.

Publications (in prep or under-review) Stevens, C., Paulsen, D., Yasen, A., & Neville, H. (under review). Atypical auditory recovery cycles in children from lower socio-economic backgrounds: ERP evidence for a role of selective attention. Paulsen, D.J., Hallquist, M., Geier, C., Luna, B. (in preparation). Developmental changes in mechanisms of incentivized inhibitory control: A longitudinal fMRI study. Paulsen, D.J., Platt, M.L., Huettel, S.A., Brannon, E.M. (in preparation). Eye-tracking reveals information processing differences between children and adults during decision-making under risk.

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Paulsen, D.J., Platt, M.L., Huettel, S.A., Brannon, E.M. (under revision). Risk preference, feedback learning, and probability, in economic decision-making from childhood to young adulthood.

Teaching and Mentoring Experience 2010-2011 Mentor - Undergraduate Independent Study Project 2010 Student-Athlete Tutor - Biological Basis of Behavior 2010 Student-Athlete Tutor - Intro to Statistical Methods in Psychology 2010 Teaching Assistant - Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging 2009-2010 Mentor - Undergraduate Honors Student 2009 Teaching Assistant - Biological Basis of Behavior 2009 Teaching Assistant - Cognitive Psychology 2008 Teaching Assistant - Developmental Psychology 2008 Mentor - Undergraduate Independent Study Project 2006-2007 Independent Tutor - Intro to Psychology,

Related Professional Experience Yoldas, P., Paulsen, D. Limbique (Acryllic installation). Worth Ryder Gallery, Berkely, CA (September, 2010); VisWeek Art Show, Providence, RI (October, 2011); BrainArt Project, Awarded Best in Category (2012) http://pinaryoldas.info/limbique/

Waves of Mu (Multimedia Installation). Duke University, Durham, NC (October, 2010), http://www.amycaron.com/Waves_of_Mu/Home.html - contributing visual artist

Changing brains: Effects of experience on development. (2009) video recording, www.changingbrains.org - contributing writer

Presentations Developmental changes in incentive processing during inhibitory control: A longitudinal fMRI study – D. Paulsen, C. Geier, B. Luna, International Congress for Integrative Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience. Pittsburgh, PA, 2013.

Developmental changes in incentive processing during inhibitory control: A longitudinal fMRI study – D. Paulsen, C. Geier, B. Luna, Organization for Human . Seattle, WA, 2013.

Eye-tracking reveals information processing differences between children and adults during decision-making under risk. – D. Paulsen, M. Platt, S. Huettel, & E. Brannon, Society for Neuroscience. New Orleans, LA, 2012

Reinforcement, probability, risk, and gambling, in participants ages 5-years-to-adult – D. Paulsen, M. Platt, S. Huettel, E. Brannon, Cognitive Neuroscience Society. Chicago, IL, 2012

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Reinforcement learning predicts gambling behavior in participants aged 5-years-to-adult – D. Paulsen, M. Platt, S. Huettel, E. Brannon, Society for . Evanston, IL, 2011

Risky decision making and development: Neural recruitment from childhood to adulthood – D. Paulsen, M. Carter, S. Huettel, M. Platt, E. Brannon Society for Research on Child Development. Montreal, QB, 2011

Risky decision-making and development: Neural recruitment from childhood to adulthood – D. Paulsen, M. Carter, S. Huettel, M. Platt, E. Brannon, Society for Neuroeconomics. Evanston, IL, 2010

Risky decision-making and development: Neural recruitment from childhood to adulthood – D. Paulsen, M. Carter, S. Huettel, M. Platt, E. Brannon Society for Neuroscience. San Diego, CA, 2010

Risky decision-making in young children activates prefrontal and posterior parietal regions. – D. Paulsen, M. Carter, S. Huettel, M. Platt, E. Brannon, Cognitive Neuroscience Society, Montreal, QB, 2010

ERP evidence for attentuated auditory recovery cycles in children with SLI – C. Stevens, D. Paulsen, L. Misunaga, A. Yasen, & H. Neville, Cognitive Neuroscience Society. Montreal, QB, 2010

Neurometrics of risky decision-making in 6- to 7-year-old children – D. Paulsen, M. Carter, S. Huettel, M. Platt, E. Brannon, Society for Neuroeconomics, Evanston, IL, 2009

Heterogeneity in risky decision-making behavior in 6- to 7-year-old children – D. Paulsen, M. Carter, S. Huettel, M. Platt, E. Brannon, Society for Research on Child Development, Denver, CO, 2009

Event-related potential signatures of detecting numerical difference – D. Paulsen, M. Woldorff, E. Brannon, Society for Neuroscience, Washington DC, 2008

Heterogeneity in risky decision making in 6- to 7-year-old children – D. Paulsen, S. Huettel, M. Platt, E. Brannon, Society for Neuroeconomics, Park City, UT, 2008

Kindergarten children at-risk for reading failure: Electrophysiological measures of selective auditory attention before and after the Early Reading Intervention (ERI) – C. Stephens, J. Currin, D. Paulsen, B. Harn, D. Chard, D. Larson, D. Parisi, H. Neville, Cognitive Neuroscience Society, San Francisco, CA, 2008

Processing of non-symbolic numerical magnitudes as indexed by ERPs – D. Paulsen, H. Neville, Cognitive Neuroscience Society, New York, NY, 2007

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Parent training enhances children’s neurocognitive function – J. L. Fanning, D. Paulsen, L. Sabourin, H. Neville, Cognitive Neuroscience Society, New York, NY, 2007

Event-related potential evidence for speech segmentation in children – L. Sanders, D. Paulsen, H. Neville, Cognitive Neuroscience Society, San Francisco, CA, 2006

Semantic and syntactic processing in children from different familial socioeconomic status as indexed by ERPs – E. Pakulak, L. Sanders, D. Paulsen, H. Neville, Cognitive Neuroscience Society, New York, NY, 2005

Frontal and posterior event-related potentials to fast semantic priming with and without awareness – D. Paulsen, G. Frishkoff, D. Tucker, Cognitive Neuroscience Society, San Francisco, CA, 2004

Ad Hoc Review Current Directions in Psychological Science, Brain and Cognition, Frontiers in Decision Neuroscience, Neuropsychologia, Biological Psychology, Learning and Individual Differences, Cortex, Behavior

Professional Affiliations Society for Neuroeconomics, 2008-2012 Society for Neuroscience, 2008- Cognitive Neuroscience Society, 2003-2007, 2009- Society for Judgment and Decision Making, 2011-2012 Society for Research on Child Development, 2009-2011

References Dr. Beatriz Luna [email protected] 412-383-8167 Dr. Elizabeth Brannon [email protected] 919-668-6201 Dr. Scott Huettel [email protected] 919-668-5286 Dr. Michael Platt [email protected] 919-668-0332 Dr. Helen Neville [email protected] 541-346-4260

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