Curriculum Vita

 

Joseph B. Hopfinger

Personal Information:

 

            Date of Birth:    October 4, 1971

Address:           Department of Psychology; CB #3270 Davie Hall

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Chapel Hill, NC 27599

            Phone:              (919) 962-5085

            Email:               hopfinger@unc.edu

 

Education:

           

B.S.                  University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Psychology, 1994.

M.A.                University of California at Davis, Psychology, 1996.

Ph.D.               University of California at Davis, Psychology, 1998.

 

Professional Experience:

 

1991-1993         Undergraduate Research Assistant, Amnesia-Research Lab, University of Illinois (with Professor Neal Cohen).

1994-1998         Graduate Research Assistant, Department of Psychology and Center for Neuroscience, University of California at Davis

(with Professor G.R. Mangun).

1997                 Visiting doctoral student; Wellcome Department of Cognitive Neurology’s Functional Imaging Laboratory, University College London, U.K.

(with Professor Karl Friston).

1999-2000         Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Psychology, University of California at Davis (with Professor Andrew Yonelinas).

1999-2000                  Lecturer, Department of Psychology, University of California at Davis

            2000-present     Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

2001-present     Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Brain and Psychological Sciences, Duke University

2002-present     Graduate Faculty Member, Curriculum in Neurobiology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

 

Honors and Awards:

 

1994-95            McDonnell-Pew Fellowship in Cognitive Neuroscience, University of California at Davis

            1995-98            National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship

1997                 Fellow at the James S. McDonnell Foundation’s Summer Institute in Cognitive Neuroscience, Dartmouth College

2000                 Mason & Linda Stephenson Faculty Award, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

2001                 Junior Faculty Development Award, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

2004                 Johnston Center for Undergraduate Excellence Honors Course Development Award, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

 

Professional Activities:

 

Editorial Service:

Editorial Board:

Cognitive Brain Research (2002-present)

 

Ad hoc Reviewer:

Biological Psychology;  Brain;  Cerebral Cortex;  Cognitive, Affective, and Behavioral Neuroscience;  Consciousness and Cognition;  Cortex; Experimental Brain Research;  Human Brain Mapping;  Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience;  Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance;  Journal of Neurophysiology;  NeuroImage;  Neuropsychologia; Neuron;  NeuroReport;  Psychological Science;  Psychonomic Bulletin & Review;  Psychophysiology

 

Federal Government Advisory Panels:

National Science Foundation, Ad Hoc Grant Referee, Cognitive Neuroscience

Program (2002, 2003, 2004)

National Science Foundation, Ad Hoc Grant Referee, Social and Behavioral Sciences Minority Post-Doctoral Fellowship Program (2003)

                        NIMH Study Section, Ad Hoc member, COG: Cognitive Neuroscience (February, 2004)

                        NIMH Special Emphasis Panel, Translational Research Centers (March, 2004)

 

International Advisory Panels:

                        Ad Hoc Grant Referee for the Wellcome Trust (UK) (2003)

 

Society Membership:

American Psychological Society; Cognitive Neuroscience Society; Organization of Human Brain Mapping; Society for Neuroscience

 

Service at the University of North Carolina:

Psychology IRB member (2000-present)

Duke-UNC Brain Imaging and Analysis Center fMRI Proposal Review Committee (2000-2004)

Cognitive Faculty Search Committee (2001-2002; 2002-2003; 2003-2004)

“Cognitive Tea” Seminar Series, Organizer (2002)

Biomedical Imaging Research Task Force, UNC, member (2003)

Department of Psychology; Chair’s Advisory Committee (2003-present)

Department of Psychology; Chair Nominating Committee (2004)

UNC 3T MRI Users Group, Organizer (2004)

UNC Biomedical Research Imaging Center (BRIC) Advisory Board (2004-present)

 

 

Courses taught: (new departmental courses denoted by * )

 

Undergraduate Courses:

University of California, Davis                         Psyc132         “Language & Cognition”

University of California, Davis                         Psyc135         “Cognitive Neuroscience”

University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill         Psyc 20         “Intro to Cognitive Psychology”

University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill         Psyc 20H*     Honors “Intro to Cog. Psych.”

University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill         Psyc 100        “Topics in Cognition”

University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill         Psyc 132*      “The Brain & Cognition”

 

Graduate Courses:

University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill         Psyc 209c      “Sensation & Perception”

University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill         Psyc 209I*     “Cognitive Neuroscience”

University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill         Psyc 336        “Electrophysiology and Neuroimaging of Attention”

University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill         Psyc 336        “Neuroimaging of Cognition in Healthy and Special Populations”

 

Funded Projects:

Principal Investigator:

“Neural Substrates of Attentional Capture and Control Mechanisms”

Junior Faculty Development Award (PI: Hopfinger, J.B.) 12/15/00 – 12/14/01

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill                                 $5000

The major goals of this award were to gather pilot data investigating neural substrates of attentional control, to use to apply for funding for full project.

 

“Selective Attention and Control Mechanisms in the Brain”

R01 MH66034-02  (PI: Hopfinger, J. B.)                                    08/01/02 – 07/31/07      

NIMH                                                                                      $1,132,567  -- 5 year total

The major goals of this proposal are to elucidate the spatio-temporal neural dynamics of the control of selective attention.

 

Co-Investigator:

“The Neural Basis of Social Cognition in Schizophrenia: Does Amygdalar Hyperactivity Underlie Paranoia?”

NARSAD Individual Investigator Award (PI: Penn, D.)              09/01/03 – 08/31/05

National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia                         $98,799

And Depression                                                                                               

The primary goal of this proposal is to compare neural activation in persons with schizophrenia with persecutory delusions, to persons with schizophrenia without persecutory delusions and non-clinical controls during a social information-processing task.

 

Co-Sponsor

            “Neural Basis of Interactions Between Attention & Emotion”                  01/01/05 – 05/31/07

Predoctoral National Research Service Award (to Harlan Fichtenholtz, Duke University)

Co-Sponsors Kevin LaBar (Duke) & Joe Hopfinger (UNC)

           

Consultant/Scientific Advisor:

            “ERP and fMRI Studies of Visual Attention”

NIMH  (R01) PI: Mangun, G.R. (University of California at Davis)          04/01/01 – 03/31/06

The major goals of this proposal are to use ERPs and fMRI to investigate attentional selection mechanisms.

 

            “The Functional Anatomy of Involuntary Attention”

NINDS (P01)   PD: McCarthy, G.; PI Project 4, Belger, A. (Duke/UNC)            10/01/01-9/30/06

The major goal of this project is to examine the timecourse and neuroanatomical substrates of involuntary attention through the use of dual-task methodology.

 

“Human Functional Brain Anatomy”

NINDS P01      PD: McCarthy, G.; PI Project 2, Woldorff, M.                10/01/01-9/30/06

The major goal of Project 2 is to utilize fMRI to investigate the physiological basis of visual attention in humans. 

 

Publications:

 

Mangun, G. R., Hopfinger, J. B., Kussmaul, C., Fletcher, E., & Heinze, H. J. (1997). Covariations in ERP and PET measures of spatial selective attention in human extrastriate visual cortex. Human Brain Mapping, 5, 273-279.

  

Hopfinger, J. B. & Mangun, G. R. (1998). Reflexive attention modulates processing of visual stimuli in human extrastriate cortex. Psychological Science, 9, 441-447.

 

Mangun, G. R., Hopfinger, J. B., & Heinze, H. J. (1998). Integrating electrophysiology and neuroimaging in the study of human cognition. Behavior Research Methods, Instruments, & Computers, 30, 118-130.

 

Mangun, G. R., Jha, A. P., Hopfinger, J. B., & Handy, T. C. (2000). The timecourse and functional anatomy of attention and working memory systems: Effects on visual processing. In M. S. Gazzaniga (Ed.), The New Cognitive Neurosciences (pp. 701-710). Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press.

 

Hopfinger, J. B., Buonocore, M. H., & Mangun, G. R. (2000). The neural mechanisms of top-down attentional control. Nature Neuroscience, 3, 284-291.

 

Hopfinger, J. B., Büchel, C., Holmes, A. P., & Friston, K. J. (2000). A meta-analysis of multiple parameter spaces influencing the sensitivity of event-related fMRI analyses. NeuroImage, 11, 326-323.

        

Kiehl, K. A., Liddle, P. F., & Hopfinger, J. B. (2000). Error processing and the rostral anterior cingulate: An event-related fMRI study. Psychophysiology, 37, 216-223.

 

Hopfinger, J. B., Jha, A. P., Hopf, J. M., Girelli, M., & Mangun, G. R. (2000) Electrophysiological and neuroimaging studies of voluntary and reflexive attention. In J. Driver & S. Monsell (Eds.), Attention & Performance XVIII: The control over cognitive processes (pp. 125-153). Oxford: Oxford University Press.

 

Mangun, G. R., Hopfinger, J. B., and Jha, A. P. (2000). Integrating electrophysiology and neuroimaging in the study of human brain function. In P. Williamson, A. M. Siegel, D. W. Roberts, V. M. Thandi, & M. S. Gazzaniga  (Eds.), Neocortical Epilepsies (pp. 35-49). Philadelphia: Lippincott, Williams, & Wilkins.

 

Handy, T. C., Hopfinger, J. B., & Mangun, G. R. (2001). Functional neuroimaging of attention. In R. Cabeza & A. Kingstone (Eds.) Handbook on Functional Neuroimaging of Cognition (pp. 75-108). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

 

Yonelinas, A. P., Hopfinger, J. B., Buonocore, M. H., Kroll, N. E. A., & Baynes, K. (2001). Hippocampal, parahippocampal and occipital-temporal contributions to associative and item recognition memory: An fMRI study. NeuroReport, 12, 359-363.

 

Hopfinger, J. B. & Mangun, G. R. (2001). Tracking the influence of reflexive attention on sensory and cognitive processing. Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience, 1, 56-65.

 

Hopfinger, J. B., Woldorff, M. G., Fletcher, E., & Mangun, G. R. (2001). Dissociating top-down attentional control from selective perception and action. Neuropsychologia, 39, 1277-1291.

 

Hopfinger, J. B. & Mangun, G. R. (2001). Electrophysiological Studies of Reflexive Attention. In C. Folk & B. Gibson (Eds.), Attraction, distraction, and action: Multiple perspectives on attentional capture (pp. 3-26). Amsterdam: Elsevier Science.

 

Slotnick, S. D., Hopfinger, J. B., Klein, S. A., & Sutter, E. E. (2002). Darkness beyond the light: attentional inhibition surrounding the classic “spotlight.” NeuroReport, 13, 773-778.

 

Hopfinger, J. B., Luck, S. J., & Hillyard, S. A. (2004). Selective attention: Electrophysiological and neuromagnetic studies. In M. S. Gazzaniga (Ed.) The Cognitive Neurosciences III (pp. 561-574). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

 

Hopfinger, J. B., Khoe, W. & Song, A. (2005). Combining electrophysiology with structural and functional neuroimaging: ERPs, PET, MRI, and fMRI. In T. Handy (Ed.), Event-Related Potentials: A Methods Handbook (pp. 345-379). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

 

Giesbrecht, B., Kingstone, A., Handy, T. C., Hopfinger, J. B., and Mangun, G. R. (in press). The Functional Neuroimaging of Attention. To appear in R. Cabeza & A. Kingstone (Eds.) Handbook on Functional Neuroimaging of Cognition, 2nd Edition. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

 

Hopfinger, J. B. (in press). Electrophysiology of reflexive attention. To appear in L. Itti, G. Rees, & J. Tsotsos (Eds.), Neurobiology of Attention. San Diego: Academic Press / Elsevier.

 

Hopfinger, J. B. & Ries, A. J. (in press). Automatic versus contingent mechanisms of sensory-driven neural biasing and reflexive attention. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience.

 

 

Manuscripts (Submitted):

 

Hopfinger, J. B. & Ries, A. J. (submitted). Unmasking stimulus-driven attentional capture.

 

Hopfinger, J. B. & Maxwell, J. S. (submitted). Appearing and disappearing stimuli trigger a reflexive modulation of visual cortical activity.

 

 

Manuscripts (In Progress):

 

Ries, A. J. & Hopfinger, J. B. Electrophysiological measures of reflexive attention across multiple levels of stimulus salience. In preparation.

 

Hopfinger, J. B., & West, V. M. Early and late neural interactions between endogenous and exogenous attention. In preparation.

 

West, V. M. & Hopfinger, J. B. Eye-tracking measures of attentional dwell time reveal memory strategies. In preparation.

 

Jacobs, T., Yonelinas, A. P., Buonocore, M. H., Hopfinger, J. B., Kroll, N. E. A., & Baynes, K. Recollection- and familiarity-based recognition memory of visual objects: an event-related fMRI study. In preparation.

 

 

 

Conference Presentations and Published Abstracts:

 

Hopfinger, J. B. & Mangun, G. R. (1995). ERP measures of automatic attentional orienting. Society for Neuroscience Abstracts, 21, 938.

 

Hopfinger, J. B. & Mangun, G. R. (1996, March).  A topographic analysis of automatic attentional orienting. Cognitive Neuroscience Society, San Francisco, CA.

 

Mangun, G. R., Hopfinger, J. B., Kussmaul, C., Fletcher, E., & Heinze, H. J. (1996). PET and ERP studies of complex form analysis and luminance detection during spatial selective attention. Society for Neuroscience Abstracts, 22, 1198.

 

Mangun, G. R., Hopfinger, J. B., Kussmaul, C., Fletcher, E., & Heinze, H. J. (1997).  Combined PET and ERP analysis of spatial selective attention during discrimination and detection tasks. Cognitive Neuroscience Society, Boston, MA.

 

Mangun, G. R., Hopfinger, J. B., Girelli, M., Jha, A. P., Buonocore, M. (1997). Spatiotemporal analysis of visual processing during attention: Integration of PET and ERPs and comparison to fMRI. NeuroImage, 4.

        

Hopfinger, J. B. & Mangun, G. R. (1998).  Neural correlates of reflexive attentional orienting. Cognitive Neuroscience Society, San Francisco, CA.

 

Hopfinger, J. B., Mangun, G. R. (1998). Analyses of selective attention and attentive states during visual processing. Neuroimage, 7, s66.

 

Hopfinger, J. B. & Mangun, G. R. (1998). Neural consequences of reflexive attention. Society for Neuroscience Abstracts, 24, 506.

 

Slotnick, S. D., Hopfinger, J. B., Sutter, E. E., Klein, S. A., Carney, T. (1998). An electrophysiological analysis of the spatial distribution of attention. Society for Neuroscience Abstracts, 24, 1677.

 

Hopfinger, J. B., Buonocore, M. H., & Mangun, G. R. (1999, March). An event-related fMRI study of attentional orienting. Cognitive Neuroscience Society, Washington, DC.

 

Hopfinger, J. B., Buonocore, M. H., & Mangun, G. R. (1999). Attentional control systems separated from selective attention effects using event-related fMRI.  Society for Neuroscience Abstracts, 25, 287.

 

Mangun, G. R., Hopfinger, J. B., Woldorff. M. G., & Geisbrecht, B. (2000). Isolating the Neural Mechanisms of Spatial and Nonspatial Attentional Control. Neuroimage, 9, s66.

 

Kiehl, K. A., Liddle, P. F., & Hopfinger, J. B. (2000). Error Processing and the Rostral Anterior Cingulate: An Event-related fMRI Study. Cognitive Neuroscience Society, San Francisco, CA.

 

Hopfinger, J. B., Maxwell, J., & Mangun, G. R. (2000). Reflexive attention captured by the irrelevant appearance or disappearance of visual objects modulates early visual processing. Cognitive Neuroscience Society, San Francisco, CA.

 

Slotnick, S. D., Hopfinger, J. B., Klein, S. A., & Sutter, E. E. (2001, March). Human electrophysiological evidence for a center-surround organization of the spatial distribution of attention. Cognitive Neuroscience Society, New York, NY.

 

Yonelinas, A. P., Hopfinger, J. B., Buonocore, M. H., Kroll, N. E. A., & Baynes, K. (2001, March). Hippocampal, parahippocampal and occipital-temporal contributions to associative and item recognition memory: An fMRI study. Cognitive Neuroscience Society, New York, NY.

 

Nolan, E.C., Yonelinas, A.P., Hopfinger, J. B., Kroll, N. E., Baynes, K., Buonocore, M.H., Jagust, .J., & Jones, E.G. (2001, November). Functional brain activation during associative and item recognition in a patient with thalamic infarct. Society for Neuroscience Conference, San Diego, CA.

 

Nolan, E.C., Yonelinas, A.P., Hopfinger, J. B., Kroll, N. E., Baynes, K., Buonocore, M.H., & Jones, E.G. (2002, April). Left-frontal and hippocampal contributions to associative retrieval: Evidence from a case of diencephalic amnesia. Cognitive Neuroscience Society, San Francisco, CA.

 

Jacobs, T., Yonelinas, A., Kroll, N., Hopfinger, J., & Buonocore, M. (2002, April). Recollection and familiarity-based recognition of visual objects. Cognitive Neuroscience Society, San Francisco, CA.

 

Hopfinger, J. B. & Ries, A. J. (2002, November). Automatic modulation of extrastriate visual processing by reflexive attention across different attentional control settings. Society for Neuroscience, Orlando, FL.

 

Ries, A. J. & Hopfinger, J. B. (2003, March). Capacity limits of reflexive attentional control settings. Cognitive Neuroscience Society, New York, NY.

 

Hopfinger, J. B. & Ries, A. J. (2003, March). Electrophysiological evidence for contingent and non-contingent attentional capture. Cognitive Neuroscience Society, New York, NY.

 

Ries, A. J. & Hopfinger, J. B. (2004, February). Electrophysiological measures of reflexive attention across multiple levels of stimulus salience. Annual meeting of the North Carolina Cognition Group, Raleigh, NC.

 

West, V. M. & Hopfinger, J. B. (2004, February). Competitive and cooperative interactions between endogenous and exogenous attention. Annual meeting of the North Carolina Cognition Group, Raleigh, NC.

 

Jacobs, T., Yonelinas, A., Kroll, N., Ranganath, C., Hopfinger, J., & Buonocore, M. (2004, April). Functional neuroimaging of recollection and familiarity-based recognition: Convergence and divergence across methods. Cognitive Neuroscience Society, San Francisco, CA.

 

Ries, A. J. & Hopfinger, J. B. (2004, April). Electrophysiological measures of reflexive attention across multiple levels of stimulus salience. Cognitive Neuroscience Society, San Francisco, CA.

 

West, V. M. & Hopfinger, J. B. (2004, April). Competitive and cooperative interactions between endogenous and exogenous attention. Cognitive Neuroscience Society, San Francisco, CA.

 

 

 

Invited Lectures:

 

Hopfinger, J. B. (1997, October). A meta-analysis of multiple parameter spaces influencing the sensitivity of event-related fMRI analyses. Functional Imaging Laboratory colloquia, Wellcome Department of Cognitive Neurology; University College London.

 

Hopfinger, J. B. (1999, April). Event-related fMRI studies of attentional control and selective perception. Satellite symposium of the 1999 Cognitive Neuroscience Society meeting.

 

Hopfinger, J. B. (2000, June). Tracking the Influence of Reflexive Attention on Sensory & Cognitive Processing Using ERPs. Attraction, distraction, and action: An interdisciplinary conference and workshop on attentional capture. Villanova University.

 

 

Hopfinger, J. B. (2000, October). Functional Neuroimaging in Fragile X Syndrome. Research Symposium on Fragile X Syndrome. UNC Neurodevelopmental Disorders Research Center. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

 

Hopfinger, J. B. (2000, December). The Cognitive Neuroscience of Selective Attention. UNC Psychology Board of Advancement Meeting. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

 

Hopfinger, J. B. (2001, March). Tracking the Influence of Reflexive Attention on Sensory & Cognitive Processing: ERP Studies. Department of Psychology: Experimental, Duke University, Durham, NC.

 

Hopfinger, J. B. (2002, May). Reflexive attention mechanisms. Duke Cognitive Neuroscience Retreat; Carolina Inn, Chapel Hill, NC.

 

Hopfinger, J. B. (2002, July). Neural Mechanisms of Attentional Capture & Control. Cognitive Neuroscience Consortium Seminar Series; Sponsored by NINDS, NIA, NIMH, NIDA, NEI. Bethesda, MD.

 

Hopfinger, J. B. (2003, May). Top-down versus Bottom-up mechanisms of attention. Department of Neurobiology, Duke University, Durham, NC.

 

Hopfinger, J. B. (2003, July). Electrophysiological and Neuromagnetic Studies of Automatic and Contingent Mechanisms of Reflexive Attention. The 16th annual Summer Institute in Cognitive Neuroscience, Tahoe, California. Sponsored by the James S. McDonnell Foundation, the National Institute of Mental Health & The National Institute on Drug Abuse.

 

Hopfinger, J. B. (2004, March). Automatic and Contingent Mechanisms of Reflexive Attention. Department of Psychology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

 

Hopfinger, J. B. (2004, October). Electrophysiological Studies of Reflexive Attentional Capture. Olin Neuropsychiatry Research Center, Institute of Living; Yale University School of Medicine; Hartford, CT.