Seth Kiser Email & Phone Number

Silver Spring, Maryland

Washington D.C. Metro Area

08/15-Present Adjunct Faculty The Catholic University of America – Psychology DepartmentWashington, DCLECTURERPSY 633: Techniques in EEG/Event-Related Potentials (Planned for Fall 2017)Graduate level course on psychophysiology research methods, including data capture of neural signals, introductory concepts on signal processing, pre-processing/data analysis, report writing, and topics on advanced data analysis.PSY 371: Sensation and Perception (Fall 2015, Spring 2017)Undergraduate level course on research and theory of how we experience the objects and events in our environment through our senses. Topics include psychophysics, vision, audition, speech perception, and the chemical senses.RESEARCHERCo-Investigator – “Individual Differences in Associative Learning” (P.I. Nancy Adleman, Ph.D.)GRADUATE STUDENT TEACHING ASSISTANTSHIPS:PSY 350: Research Methods (Spring 2012, 2013, & 2014)Duties: Undergraduate lab instructor – lecture preparation; teaching APA style, helping students develop, carry out, and write up experiments, assist students in research poster design and oral presentation, paper grading, outside mentoring.PSY 476: Cognitive Psychology Lab (Fall 2012, 2013, 2014)Duties: Undergraduate lab instructor – course designing with supervision, lecture preparation, helping students develop research written proposals, paper grading, outside mentoring, providing information about graduate school and research.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Psychophysiology LaboratoryCoordinated research projects utilizing Electroencephalography (EEG) / Event-Related Potentials (ERP) and behavioral techniques. Applied traditional ERP techniques as well as advanced non-parametric cluster-based permutations. Was responsible for maintenance and calibration of EEG equipment.Proficient in BioSemi ActiveView 5.4, EEGLab with ERPToolkit, FieldTrip, and EMSE-II software handling.Supervisor: James H. Howard Jr., Ph.D. (2009-2015); Rebecca L. M. FullerCognitive Aging LaboratoryDesigned Behavioral and EEG/ERP protocols for examining changes in brain behavior relationships associated with lifespan development.Duties included the development of sequence-learning tasks to investigate neural correlates of contextual priming and implicit learning; teaching research techniques for implementation of research protocol to MA level and undergraduate students; and direct supervisor of undergraduate research activities using EEG and ERP techniques.Supervisor: James H. Howard Jr., Ph.D.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Polytrauma ServicesDeveloped independent research study focusing on motor control and implicit learning in Veterans with traumatic brain injury. Obtained didactic training in grant writing and grant application process, authorship/manuscript preparation, panel-discussions and oral presentations/communication, financial budget maintenance, research ethics, patient privacy and confidentiality, brain injury recovery and plasticity, neuroscience and rehabilitation.Interdisciplinary Team Meeting: Polytrauma ServiceProvides research input at weekly meetings about emergent research findings related to patient care and treatment. Manages recruitment strategies for research enrollment and collaborate with cross-sectional team members to assess appropriateness for selection into clinical research studies. Supervisors: Barbara Schwartz, Ph.D., Michelle Harris-Love, PT, Ph.D., Michael Harris-Love, D.Sc., MPT, Joel Scholten, MD.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Assists in research implementation of novel treatments for upper extremity motor function after stroke using transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS); administer TMS protocol.Duties: Data collection, reduction, verification, and management; data interpretation under supervision of principal investigator.Supervisor: Michelle Harris-Love, PT, Ph.D.

Crystal City, Va

Developed measures to classify cognitive ability and aptitude in military service members of the United States Army. Performed analyses on and maintained large-scale national database.Supervisor: Joseph Psotka, Ph.D.

Lexington, Kentucky Area

Coordinated National Institute of Health funded research project across three laboratories:➢ Aging, Brain, and Cognition (P.I. Yang Jiang, Ph.D.)➢ Brain, Cognition, and Development (P.I Jane Joseph, Ph.D.) ➢ Behavioral Sciences Residential Research Facility (P.I. Thomas Kelly, Ph.D.). • Electroencephaography/Event-Related Potential and fMRI Research Technician• Subject population included individuals with drug addiction both high and low in sensation seeking. • Duties include development of cognitive tasks paired with EEG and functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI); design research protocols (using E-Prime and Siemens’ software); run participants through the fMRI protocol; collect DNA samples; perform drug and alcohol screening; data pre-processing and statistical analysis. Supervisor: Thomas H. Kelly, Ph.D.

Lexington, Kentucky Area

08/06-05/08 Aging, Brain and Cognition Lab Department of Behavioral Sciences - The University of Kentucky College of Medicine• Development of diagnostic criteria for working memory and attention using neuroimaging techniques for normal and pathological aging. In collaboration with Oak Ridge National Laboratory, TN. • Duties included working with EEG and fMRI, recording and analyzing neuroimaging and behavioral data • Patient population included individuals with Alzheimer’s disease, Dementia with Lewy Bodies, and Mild Cognitive Impairment. 08/07-05/08 Neuropsychology Assessment and Malingering ResearchDepartment of Psychology• Duties: administration of research protocols, being a confederate as a part of a an experimental design, scoring and data-entry of neuropsychological test batteries administered to patients withSupervisor: David T., R. Berry, Ph.D.

Doctor Of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Applied Experimental Psychology

Research focus on Cognitive Neuroscience

Master'S Degree, Applied Experimental Psychology

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Psychology (Capstone In Cognitive Neuroscience)

Bachelor Of Arts - Ba, Psychology, Magna Cum Laude

Activities and Societies: Clinical Research FencingCapstone in Cognitive Neuroscience Magna Cum Laude