Schneider, Walter
Professor, Department of Psychology
PhD, Indiana University
Cognitive Program, Cognitive Neuroscience Concentration Program
Contact
629 LRDC
412-624-7061
Fax: 412-624-3068
wws@pitt.edu
http://www.ebc.pitt.edu/index.htm
http//schneider.lrdc.pitt.edu
Research Interests: Cognitive neuroscience, cognitive control, semantic representation, attention and automaticity, skill acquisition, connectionist/hybrid modeling, brain imaging, brain activity interpretation
Accepting Graduate Students: Yes
Selected Publications
- Cole M.W., Schneider W. (2007). "The cognitive control network: Integrated cortical regions with dissociable functions", NeuroImage. doi: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2007.03.071
- Goldberg, R.F., Perfetti, C.A., Schneider, W. (2006). Distinct and common cortical activations for multimodal semantic categories. Cognitive, Affective, and Behavioral Neuroscience, 6(3),214-222. (Abstract-pdf)
- 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, 653-682.
- Chein, J. M. & Schneider W. (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. (Abstract-pdf)
- Schneider, W & Chein, J. M., (2003) Controlled & Automatic Processing: From Mechanisms to Biology. Cognitive Science, 27:525-559. (Abstract-pdf)
Graduate Student Advisees
- Hill, Nicole
- Phillips, Jeffrey