Most, Steven B. Updated 11th February, 2019 Steven B. Most [email protected] School of Psychology https://motivatedattentionlab.wordpress.com UNSW Sydney Sydney NSW 2052 Twitter: @SBMost Australia Current Appointments Senior Lecturer, School of Psychology, UNSW Sydney, 2012-present Affiliated Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Delaware, 2013-present Education Ph.D. in Psychology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA, 2002. Advisor: Daniel J. Simons Title: Sustained inattentional blindness: What you see is what you set Honors: James McKeen Cattell Dissertation Award from the New York Academy of Sciences, 2003 B.A. in Psychology, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA, USA, 1994. Previous Appointments • Expert Advisor to the Australian Road Research Board on driver distraction & inattention research, 2017-2018 • Associated Investigator, ARC Centre of Excellence in Cognition and its Disorders, 2015-2018 • Australian Research Council Future Fellow, UNSW Sydney, 2012-2016 • Associate Professor of Psychology (tenured), University of Delaware, 2013 (on leave) • Assistant Professor of Psychology, University of Delaware, 2006-2013 (on leave 2012-13) • Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Pennsylvania, 2009 (sabbatical) • NIH Post-doctoral Research Fellow, Yale University, New Haven, CT, 2003-2006 • Post-doctoral Research Fellow, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, 2002-2003 Selected Fellowships and Academic Awards Research fellowships and awards • Future Fellowship, Australian Research Council, 2012-2016 • NIH postdoctoral National Research Service Award (NRSA), 2003-2006 • James McKeen Cattell Dissertation Award, New York Academy of Sciences, 2003 • Center for Integrative & Cognitive Neuroscience fellowship, Vanderbilt University, 2002-2003 • Eliot Dissertation Completion Fellowship, Harvard University, 2001-2002 • Children's Studies Mentoring Award, Harvard University, Summer 1998 • Elsie Hopestill Stimson Award, Harvard University, 1997 Teaching & mentoring awards • Outstanding Postgraduate Supervisor Award, Arc @ UNSW Student Life, 2016 One of only three awarded across the university and only the 2nd in Psychology since creation of the award in 2012 • Postgraduate Supervisor Award, Arc @ UNSW Student Life, 2016 • Alpha Lambda Delta Excellence in Teaching Award, University of Delaware, 2010 Awarded by a national honor society of students achieving a 3.6 GPA in their freshman year, in recognition of “outstanding commitment to teaching”, “exemplary performance in the classroom”, and “positive and lasting impact” on students. • Nominated for Excellence in Teaching Award, University of Delaware, 2008 • Nominated for Excellence in Teaching Award, University of Delaware, 2007 • Derek Bok Teaching Award, Harvard University, Spring 2000 • Derek Bok Teaching Award, Harvard University, Fall 1999 1 Most, Steven B. Updated 11th February, 2019 Awards received by my students • Center for Open Science Preregistration Challenge Prize (USD$1000), 2019 – Sandersan Onie (UNSW) • Object Perception, Attention, & Memory workshop Travel Award, 2018 – Sandersan Onie (UNSW) nd • 2 Place Psychology Award, 1-minute thesis competition, Faculty of Science, UNSW – Sandersan Onie (UNSW) • School of Psychology Exchange Program Scholarship, 2017 – Jenna Zhao (UNSW) • Best student talk, Australasian Society for Experimental Psychology, 2017 – Jenna Zhao (UNSW) • Highly commended student talk, Australasian Society for Experimental Psychology, 2017 – Vera Newman (UNSW) • Winner, 1-minute thesis competition, Faculty of Science, UNSW – Vera Newman (UNSW) • Third place winner, 3-minute thesis competition, UNSW – Vera Newman (UNSW) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AfYyW2mDxjc • Best student presentation, Australasian Society for Experimental Psychology, 2016 – Jenna Zhao (UNSW) • Best presentation, Sydney Postgraduate Psychology Conference, 2015 – Sandersan Onie (UNSW) First honours thesis student ever to win this award at this postgraduate student conference • Best presentation, Sydney Postgraduate Psychology Conference, 2012 – Briana Kennedy (UNSW) • Student travel award, Australasian Society for Experimental Psychology, 2011 – Briana Kennedy (U. Delaware) RESEARCH Research Grants Research Infrastructure Scheme: Supporting Collaborative Research. “3D Virtual Prototyping System”. 2018. (AU $85,972). Chief Investigators: Del Favero, Bednarz, Loo, Stevens, Lenette, Wake, Han, Ortmann, Sammut, Pagnucco, Waller, Dixit, Oliver, Van Kranendonk, & Most. ARRB Client: Transport for NSW Centre for Road Safety. “Warning signs and lights for school buses”. 2017 (AU $102,000). Chief Investigators: Cunningham, Xiong, Regan, Dixit, & Most. Australian Research Council. DP170101715. “Capture and control: Overcoming distraction by reward-related stimuli”. 2017-2019. (AU $393,000 direct costs). Chief Investigators: Le Pelley & Most. Australian Research Council. LP160101021. “Understanding impact of autonomous vehicles on behavior and interactions”. 2016- 2018. (AU $458,000 direct costs). Chief Investigators: Dixit, Waller, Bliemer, Most, Rakotonirainy. UNSW Silver Star Award. “Linking post-input attentional competition and emotion dysfunction”. 2016. (AU $25,000). Chief Investigator: Most. UNSW School of Psychology Small Grants Scheme. “Virtual Reality Approaches to Human Cognition”. 2015. (AU $9,695 total costs). Chief Investigator: Most. UNSW Major Research Equipment & Infrastructure Scheme. “Appareo Vision 1000 flight data acquisition system and the Mobile Eye gaze tracking system”. 2014. (AU $97,163 total costs). Investigators: M. Regan, C. Caponecchia, & S. Most. Australian Research Council. FT120100707. “How emotion shapes perception: Delineating structural, temporal, and representational properties of emotion-induced blindness”. 2012- 2016. (AU $702,850 direct costs). Chief Investigator: Most. NIMH. R03 MH091526. “Emotion’s impact on mechanisms of conscious perception”. 2010-2012 (US $153,000 total costs). Principle Investigator: Most. Delaware INBRE (NIH-NCRR 2 P20 RR016472-09). “Neuro-cognitive self-regulation mechanisms and their relation to childhood and adolescent obesity”. 2009-2012 (US $345,212 total costs). Principle Investigator: Most. UD Research Foundation, “Using fMRI to investigate neural mechanisms of cognition-emotion interactions”, 2007-2010 (US $28,500). Principle Investigator: Most. NIMH/National Research Service Postdoctoral Award, “Attentional guidance by emotional salience”, #F32MH66572, 2003-2006 (US $125,472). Principle Investigator: Most. 2 Most, Steven B. Updated 11th February, 2019 Publications & Outputs Books Most, S.B. & Chun, M.M. (under contract). Cognitive Psychology. Textbook under contract Oxford University Press. Papers in the Pipeline (* PhD student in my lab; ** undergraduate student in my lab; # lab staff) * Zhao, J.L. & Most, S.B. (under review). Evidence for mutual inhibition between emotional stimuli: Multiple emotional distractors reduce emotion-induced blindness. * Zhao, J.L., Grimshaw, G.M., & Most, S.B. (under review). Temporal expectancies induce cognitive control of target but not distractor processing in emotion-induced blindness. * Newman, V., Liddell, B.J., & Most, S.B. (under review). Probing cognitive consequences and concomitants of emotion regulation. * Watson, P., Pearson, D., Chow, M., Theeuwes, J., Wiers, R.W., Most, S.B., & Le Pelley, M.E. (under review). Capture and control: Working memory modulates attentional capture by reward-related stimuli. Newman, V., Liddell, B.J., Beesley, T., & Most, S.B. (under review). Failures of attention when at a height: Negative height-related appraisals are associated with poor executive function during a virtual height stressor. * Newman, V., Most, S.B., Begg, D.P., & Liddell, B.J. (in revision). Trait levels of cognitive reappraisal influence stress reactivity. * Watson, P., Pearson, D., Most, S.B., Theeuwes, J., Wiers, R.W., & Le Pelley, M.E. (in revision). Attentional under review & in revision in & review under capture by reward-signaling distractors persists when rewards are removed. * Kennedy, B.L. & Most, S.B. (in revision). Emotional stimuli disrupt visual awareness regardless of task goals. ** Le, L., Most, S.B., *Kennedy, B.L., & White, E. (in revision). Localized conceptual interference is driven by intrinsic, not extrinsic, emotional value: An emotion-induced blindness study. Most, S.B., Kristjánsson, A, & Wyble, B. (in preparation). Towards a taxonomy of temporal attentional bias. * Onie, S., Most, S.B., Peterson, M.A., & Le Pelley, M.E. (in preparation). Reward history does not modulate figure-ground assignment. ** Yuen, W.S., * Onie, S., Nickerson, A., Kimonis, E.R., Newby, J.M., & Most, S.B. (in preparation). Spontaneous memory encoding, but not perceptual prioritization, predicts intrusive memories from a separate trauma analogue. ** De Torres, C., * Onie, S., * Zhao, J., Li, S., Graham, B.M., & Most, S.B. (in preparation). No evidence for an impact of women’s hormonal cycle on perceptual prioritization or spontaneous memory encoding of emotional pictures. ** Smith, V.M. & Most, S.B. (in preparation). The impact of acute aerobic exercise and emotion on memory. * Onie, S., **Gong, S., **Manwaring, E., **Grageda, D., **Webb, K., **Yuen, W.S., Wiers, R., & Most, S.B. (in preparation). Development and validation of an Australian Beverage Picture Set. * Onie, S. & Most, S.B. (in preparation). Contribution of valence and arousal to two forms of attentional bias. * Onie, S., Donkin, C., & Most, S.B. (in preparation). Can emotion-induced blindness