The Catholic University of America - Psychology Department

Curriculum Vitae

Pamela M. Greenwood

Research Associate Professor

Associate Director,

The Catholic University of America

Washington, D.C. 20064

Education                                      Degree              Year Conferred               Field of Study

University of Illinois                            B.S.                        1969                            Psychology

State University of New York           Ph.D.                       1977                     Physiological Psychology
at Stony Brook

Professional Experience

1976 -1978: Postdoctoral Associate (faculty) in Neurology Department, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT

1978-1981: Research and Development Associate, Neuropsychology Laboratory, V.A. Medical Center, West Haven, CT

1981-1982: Postdoctoral Fellow, Burke Rehabilitation Hospital and Cornell Medical College, White Plains, N.Y.

1986-1995: Research Associate Professor, Cognitive Science Laboratory, Catholic University of America, Washington, D.C.

1986-1995: Research Associate Professor, Cognitive Science Laboratory, Catholic University of America, Washington, D.C.

1995-present: Research Associate Professor, Psychology Department, Catholic University of America, Washington, D.C.

2000: Associate Director, Cognitive Science Laboratory, Catholic University of America, Washington, D.C.

Awards and Professional Activities

1978-1981:
Medical Research Service Career Development Award V.A. Research and Development Award.

1985 to present:
Reviewer for Journal of International Neuropsychological Society, Neuropsychology, Neuropsychologia, Psychology & Aging, Aging, Neuropsychology and Cognition, Brain.

1998 to present:
Reviewer for Alzheimer Disease Research Centers study section, NIH and reviewer for BBBP-3 study section, and BBBP-5 study section, NIH, reviewer for SBIR study section.

Funding

Research Projects ongoing within the last 3 years

"Spatially-cued visual processing over the adult lifespan"
Principal Investigator: P.M. Greenwood, PhD
Agency: NIA
Type: R01 (AG12387, years 1 to 5) Period: July 1, 1994 to December 31, 2000.

"Visual attention/Perception and APOE risk for AD"
Principal Investigator: Gene Alexander, PhD, Co-investigator, P.M. Greenwood
Agency: NIMH
Type: R03 (MH63416) Period: 9/1/01-8/31/04.

"Apolipoprotein, Cognition, and Alzheimer's Disease"
Principle Investigator: Raja Parasuraman, PhD, Co-investigator, P.M. Greenwood
Agency: NIA Type: R01 Period: 9/1/01-8/31/06.

Publications

Papers Presented

Rotkin, L.G., Greenwood, P.M., Gazzaniga, M.S. (1977) Psychophysics with "split-brain" patient. Perceptual asymmetries and verbal mediation in sensory judgments. Eastern Psychological Association.

Fischer, M.A. & Greenwood, P.M. (1978) Visual field effects in the mental rotation of two-dimensional figures. Annual Meeting of the International Neuropsychological Society.

Greenwood, P.M. & Goff, W.R. (1981) Interictal recovery functions of the somatosensory evoked potential in epileptics. Electroencephalography and Clinical Neurophysiology, 51, 22p.

Greenwood, P.M. & Tweedy, J.R. (1983) Effects of diffuse brain injury on network representations of semantic similarity. International Neuropsychological Society.

Reding, M., Luby, R., Wagner, M. and Greenwood, P. (1984) The P300 response to a written oddball stimulus-recognition task allows for sensitive, objective serial measurements of language dysfunction. American Foundation for Clinical Research.

Greenwood, P.M., Parasuraman, R., & Haxby, J. (1989, October) Covert attentional shifts and cerebral metabolism in Alzheimer's disease and normal aging. Society for Neuroscience, Phoenix, Az.

Greenwood, P.M., Parasuraman, R. & Haxby, J. (1991, February) Shifts of visual attention in mild and moderate Alzheimer's disease. Presented at the International Neuropsychological Society.

Greenwood, P.M., Parasuraman, R. and May, P. (1992, April). Visuospatial attention is altered in 75-85 year olds. Cognitive Aging Society Conference, Atlanta, Georgia.

Greenwood, P.M., Parasuraman, R., Panicker, S. & Haxby, J.V. (1992, October). Effects of size of attentional focus on visual search in aged adults. Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting, Anaheim, CA.

Berardi, A., Gaillard, F., Haxby, J.V., Greenwood, P.M. and Parasuraman, R. (1992, November). Age-related differences in sustained attention for a high event-rate visual digit discrimination task. American Geriatrics Society Annual Conference, Washington, D.C..

Panicker, S., Greenwood, P.M., Parasuraman, R. and Haxby, J.V. (1993, November). Cued visual search in Alzheimer's disease. Presented at the Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C.

Panicker, S., Greenwood, P.M. and Parasuraman, R. (1994, November). Effects of age on the distribution of visuospatial attention. Presented at the Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting, Miami, FL.

Hardy, D.L., Greenwood, P.M., Parasuraman, R. (1995, June) Effect of distractors on visuospatial attention processes in normal elderly. Presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Psychological Society, NYC.

Greenwood, P.M., Parasuraman, R. & Alexander, G.E. (1995, November) Effects of normal aging on the spatial distribution of visuospatial attention in visual search. Presented at the Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA.

Johnson, S.R., Greenwood, P.M., Hicks, L. & Parasuraman, R. (1996, April) Age effects on intermodal spatial attention. Presented at the Cognitive Aging Conference, Atlanta, Georgia.

Greenwood, P.M. & Parasuraman, R. (1996, April). Control of the focus of visuospatial attention in healthy aging. Presented at the Cognitive Aging Conference, Atlanta, Georgia.

Greenwood, P.M. & Parasuraman, R. (1996, November). Healthy aging slows dynamic adjustment of the scale of the attentional focus. Presented at the Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting, Washington, DC.

Jiang, Y., Greenwood, P., Parasuraman, R. (1997, April) Temporal dynamics of 3-D motion priming in young and older adults. Presented at the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, San Francisco.

Greenwood, P.M., Parasuraman, R. & Alexander, G.E. (1997). Changes in the ability to dynamically adjust the attentional focus from youth to old age to Alzheimer Disease. Presented at the Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA.

Levy, J. , Parasuraman, R., Greenwood, P., Dukoff, R., Lasser, R. & Sunderland, T. (1998, February). Acetylcholine affects the spatial distribution of attention: Evidence from Alzheimer's Disease. Presented at the International Neuropsychological Society,

Greenwood, P.M., Parasuraman, R. (1998) Aging delays the development but increases the magnitude of effects of precue precision in visual search. Presented at the Cognitive Aging Conference, Atlanta, Georgia.

Alexander, G.E., Greenwood, P.M., Szczepanik, J., Levine, B. Pietrini, P., et al. (1998) Functional brain response in right prefrontal cortex with increasing distraction during visual selective attention. Paper presented at the International Conference on Functional Mapping of the Human Brain, June, Montreal.

Greenwood, P.M. Alexander, G.E., Parasuraman, R. (1998) Visual search in healthy aging and Alzheimer Disease. Paper presented at the Society for Neuroscience, November, Los Angeles.

Chavez, C.M., Greenwood, P.M. & Parasuraman, R. (1998) Benefits of location cue validity for luminance detection increase over the adult lifespan. Paper presented at the Society for Neuroscience, November, Los Angeles.

Greenwood, P.M., Parasuraman, R. & Sunderland, T. The ability to shift and to scale visuospatial attention is impaired in aging, but only in the presence of the apoE e4 allele. Paper presented at the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, April, 1999.

Luo, Y., Greenwood, P.M., & Parasuraman, R. Electrophsiological correlates of the scaling of the focus of visuospatial attention. Paper presented at the Society for Neuroscience, November, 1999.

Greenwood, P.M., Alexander, G.E., & Parasuraman, R. Progression in early Alzheimer disease increases costs but not benefits of cue validity in visuospatial attention. Paper presented at the Society for Neuroscience, November, 1999.

Chavez, C., Greenwood, P.M., & Parasuraman, R. Visual search accuracy benefits from a larger attentional focus in young and old. Paper presented at the Society for Neuroscience, November, 2000.

Greenwood, P.M., Caggiano, D., & Parasuraman, R. The fastest search is not accompanied by the fewest fixations of the eyes in young or old. Paper presented at Cognitive Neuroscience Society, March, 2001.

Greenwood, P.M., R., Friz, J. Lambert, C. & Sunderland, R Parasuraman. Focussing attention at the boundary of healthy and pathologic aging. Paper presented at the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, San Francisco, CA, April 2002.

Chapters

Greenwood, P.M. & Gazzaniga, M.S. (1985). Human brain injury and recovery: Psychometric clues to mechanism. In A. Bignami, F.E. Bloom, C.L.Bolis & A.Adeloye (Eds.) Central Nervous Plasticity and Repair. Raven Press, New York.

Parasuraman, R. & Greenwood, P.M. (1996). Functional brain imaging and selective attention in early Alzheimer's disease. In B. Vellas, L.J. Fitten, B. Dubois, J.L Alborede (Eds.) Facts and Research in Gerontology. Springer, NewYork

Greenwood, P.M. & Parasuraman, R. (1997). Attention in aging and Alzheimer’s Disease: Behavior and neural systems. In J. Burack and J. Enns, Attention, development and Psychophysiology, Guilford Press, NY.

Parasuraman, R. & Greenwood, P.M. (1997). Attention and brain function in aging and Alzheimer’s disease. In I.L Singh & R. Parasuraman (Eds.) Recent Advances in Cognition: A Multidisciplinary Perspective. New Delhi: Sage.

Parasuraman, R. & Greenwood, P.M. (1998). Selective attention in aging and dementia. In R. Parasuraman (Ed.) The Attentive Brain. MIT Press, Cambridge.

Papers

Greenwood, P.M. & Singer, J.J. (1974) Cortical spreading depression induced state dependency. Behavioral Biology, 10, 345-351.

Greenwood, P.M., Wilson, D.H.,& Gazzaniga, M.S. (1977) Dream report following commissurotomy. Cortex, 13, 311-316.

Greenwood, P.M., Rotkin, L.G., Wilson,D.H. & Gazzaniga, M.S. (1980) Psychophysics with the split-brain subject: On hemispheric differences and numerical mediation in perceptual matching tasks. Neuropsychologia, 18, 419-434.

Greenwood, P.M. & Goff, W.R. (1987) Modification of median nerve somatic evoked potentials by prior median nerve, peroneal nerve and auditory stimulation. Electroencephalography and Clinical Neurophysiology, 68, 295-302.

Parasuraman, R., Nestor, P. and Greenwood, P.M. (1989) Sustained-attention capacity in young and old adults. Psychology and Aging, 4, 339-345.

Greenwood, P. & Parasuraman, R. (1991) Effects of aging on the speed of attentional cost of cognitive operations. Developmental Neuropsychology, 7, 421-434.

Parasuraman, R., Greenwood, P.M., Haxby, J.V. & Grady, C.L. (1992) Visuospatial attention in dementia of the Alzheimer type. Brain, 115, 711-733.

Greenwood, P.M., Parasuraman, R., & Haxby, J.V. (1993) Directed visual attention over the adult life span. Neuropsychologia, 31, 471-485.

Greenwood, P.M. & Parasuraman, R. (1994) Attentional disengagement deficit in nondemented elderly over 75 years of age. Aging and Cognition, 1, 188-202.

Parasuraman, R., Greenwood, P.M. & Alexander, G.E. (1995) Selective impairment of spatial attention during visual search in Alzheimer’s Disease. Neuroreport, 6, 1861-1864.

Greenwood, P.M., Parasuraman, R. & Alexander, G.E. (1997) Controlling the focus of spatial attention during visual search: Effects of advanced aging and Alzheimer Disease. Neuropsychology, 11, 3-12.

Greenwood, P.M. & Parasuraman, R. (1999) Scale of attentional focus in visual search: Effects of adult aging. Perception and Psychophysics. 61, 837-859.

Jiang, Y., Greenwood, P.M. & Parasuraman, R. (1999) Age-related reduction in 3-D visual motion priming. Psychology and Aging, 14, 619-626.

Levy, J.A., Parasuraman, R., Greenwood, P.M., Dukoff, R. Sunderland, T. (2000) Acetylcholine affects the spatial scale of attention: Evidence from Alzheimer’s Disease. Neuropsychology, 14, 288-298.

Parasuraman, R., Greenwood, P.M. & Alexander, G.E. (2000) Alzheimer disease constricts the dynamic range of spatial attention in visual search. Neuropsychologia, 38, 1026-1135

Greenwood, P.M. (2000) The frontal aging hypothesis evaluated. Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society, 6, 730.

Greenwood, P.M. (2000) Reply to West. Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society, 6, 730.

Greenwood, P.M., Sunderland, T. Friz, J., Parasuraman, R. (2000) Genetics and visual attention: Selective deficits in healthy adult carriers of the e4 allele of the apolipoprotein E gene. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 97, 11661-11666.

Luo, Y.-J., Greenwood, P.M., Parasuraman, R. (2001) Dynamics of the spatial scale of visual attention revealed by brain event-related potentials. Cognitive Brain Research, 12, 371-381.

Parasuraman, R. & Greenwood, P. & Sunderland, T. (2002) The apolipoprotein E gene, attention, and brain function. Neuropsychology, 16, 254-274

Parasuraman, R. & Greenwood, P. & Alexander, G.E. (submitted) Attention shifting deficit in a visual discrimination task increases with progression of early Alzheimer’s Disease.

Greenwood, P.M. & Parasuraman, R. (submitted) Top-down information guiding visual search: Elderly are slower to employ it but more dependent upon it.