Intelligent behavior is the result of multiple thought (or cognitive) processes. I study how the brain manages to coordinate these processes.
In the past, I have used a variety of neurophysiological and behavioral methods in humans and animals (with Professor Larry Snyder at Washington University in St.Louis). I consider the contributions to the characterization of monkey executive control as some of my most important work. Currently, I am applying the insights from this research in human cognitive psychology.
In my current work, I use mental chronometry to characterize how people coordinate cognitive processes. I use a variety of experimental tasks, including the task-switching paradigm. Some of my work focuses on a better understanding "executive dysfunction" in people with neurological problems and mental disorders; some of my work looks at response-time distributions in task-switching paradigms; and some of my work addresses individual differences in a variety of tasks requiring visuo-spatial attention.
Further, I am carrying out a number of studies
into individual differences. The topic of "Individual differences"
is one of the core areas of psychological research. It addresses
the question of how people differ in a thought and behavior, and
what causes these differences.
| Education | |
| 1996-1998 | PhD. Psychology Summa Cum Laude, Max-Planck-Institute for Psychological Research and Ludwig Maximilians University (Munich, Germany) |
| Thesis: The role of feature integration in action planning | |
| Adviser: Bernhard Hommel | |
| 1989-1993 | M.A. Psychology, University of Groningen (The Netherlands) |
| Thesis: Natural language processing in neural networks | |
| Advisers: Gerhard Dalenoort and Hans Strohner | |
| Positions | |
| 2007-present | University of Leeds (UK) |
| 2006-2007 | University of the West of England (UK) |
| 1998-2006 | Washington University in St.Louis (USA) |
| 1996-1998 | Max-Planck-Institute for Psychological Research (Munich, Germany) |
| 1993-1995 | University of Bielefeld (Germany) |
| Honors and awards | |
| 2009 | Award from the Nuffield foundation for research support |
| 2009 | Award from the Experimental Psychological Society (EPS) for research support |
| 2005 | Nominated for the Hope Center for Neurological Disorders Prize |
| 2002 | Guest scientist at the Riken Brain Science Institute, Japan |
| 2000-2001 | Otto Hahn Postdoctoral Fellowship |
| 1998-2000 | McDonnell Center for Higher Brain Function Postdoctoral Fellowship |
| 1998 | Otto Hahn medal of the Max-Planck Society |
| 1996-1998 | Graduate Fellowship of the Max-Planck-Institute for Psychological Research |
| 1993-1994 | Graduate Fellowship of the German Science Council |
| Current administrative roles |
| - Chair of departmental ethics committee |
| - Coordinator of the intercalating programme in psychology for medical students |
Sex differences in the processing of flankers
Stoet, G. (in press). Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology.
[contact author for copy]
Neural correlates of executive control functions in the
monkey
Stoet, G. & Snyder, L.H. (2009). Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 13,
228-234.
[contact author for reprint]
Modification of response time variability in a decision-making
task
Stoet, G., Ruge, H., & Snyder, L.H. (2008). Neuroreport,
19,
1321-1324.
[download
pdf]
Dyslexia and attentional
shifting
Stoet, G., Markey, H., & López, B. (2007). Neuroscience
Letters, 427,
61-65.
[download
pdf]
Task-switching in human and non-human primates: Understanding
rule encoding and control from behavior to single neurons
Stoet, G. & Snyder, L.H. (2007).
In S.A. Bunge and
J.D. Wallis (Eds.), pp. 227-254. The Neuroscience of Rule-Guided
Behavior. Oxford University Press.
Extensive practice does not eliminate human switch
costs
Stoet, G. & Snyder, L.H. (2007). Cognitive, Affective, &
Behavioral Neuroscience, 7(3),
192-197.
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pdf]
Correlates of stimulus-response congruence in posterior parietal
cortex (PPC)
Stoet, G. & Snyder, L.H. (2007). Journal of
Cognitive Neuroscience, 19, 194-203. [see cover
right]
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pdf]
Effects of the NMDA antagonist ketamine on task-switching
performance: evidence for specific impairments of executive
control
Stoet, G. & Snyder,
L.H. (2006). Neuropsychopharmacology, 31,
1675-1681.
[download
pdf]
Attentional set mixing: effects on target selection and
selective response activation
Ruge, H., Stoet, G., & Naumann
E. (2006). Psychophysiology, 43,
413-421.
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pdf]
Single neurons in posterior parietal cortex (PPC) of monkeys
encode cognitive set
Stoet, G. & Snyder, L.H. (2004). Neuron,
42,
1003-1012.
[download
pdf]
Click
here to read David J. Freedman's introduction to this publication
in the same issue of Neuron.
Executive control and task-switching in monkeys
Stoet,
G. & Snyder, L.H. (2003). Neuropsychologia, 41,
1357-1364.
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pdf]
Task preparation in macaque monkeys (Macaca
mulatta)
Stoet, G. & Snyder, L.H. (2003). Animal
Cognition, 6,
121-130
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pdf]
Interaction between feature binding in perception and
action
Stoet, G. & Hommel, B. (2002). In W.Prinz & B.Hommel
(Eds.). Common mechanisms in perception and action: Attention and
Performance, Vol. XIX (pp. 538-552). Oxford: Oxford University
Press.
[download
pdf]
Action planning and the temporal binding of response
codes
Stoet, G. & Hommel, B. (1999). Journal of Experimental
Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 25,
1625-1640.
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pdf]
The role of feature integration in action
Stoet,
G. (1998). Dissertation. Munich, Germany.
Cognitive Compositionality: An Activation and Evaluation
Hypothesis
Strohner, H. & Stoet, G. (1999). In M.K. Hiraga,
C. Sinha & S.Wilcox (Eds.), Cultural, Psychological and Typological
Issues in Cognitive Linguistics (pp. 195-209). Amsterdam: John
Benjamins Publishing Co.
Kognitive Modellierung semantischer
Kompositionalität
Strohner, H. & Stoet,
G. (1994). Sprache und Datenverarbeitung, 18, 45-64.
Interferenzprozesse bei Adjektiv-Nomen-Kompositionen
Strohner, H. & Stoet, G. (1996). Sind geschälte Äpfel
eher weiß als rund? In C.Habel, S.Kanngießer &
G.Rickheit (Eds.), Perspektiven der Kognitiven Linguistik:Modelle
und Methoden (pp. 233-255). Opladen:Westdeutscher Verlag.
Task switching in children with autism
López, B. &
Stoet, G., (2008).
International Meeting for Autism Research
(IMFAR). London.
Human performance in repetitive tasks
Stoet, G.,
Ruge. H. & Snyder, L.H. (2007).
Joint meeting of the EPS and
Psychonomics Society. Edinburgh.
Switch costs in humans persist even after extensive
training.
Stoet, G. & Snyder, L.H. (2005).
Annual meeting of
the Psychonomic Society. Toronto.
A model of effects of ketamine, a NMDA glutamatergic antagonist,
on executive control in monkeys.
Stoet, G. & Snyder,
L.H. (2005). Schizophrenia Bulletin, 31(2), 311-311.
International
Congress on Schizophrenia Research (ICOSR). Savannah.
Effects of conflicting stimuli on neurons in posterior parietal
cortex (PPC).
Stoet, G. & Snyder, L.H. (2004).
Annual
meeting of the Society For Neuroscience. San Diego.
Effects of task interference on neurons in the posterior
parietal cortex (PPC).
Stoet, G. & Snyder, L.H. (2004).
Annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society. Minneapolis.
Additive factor logic used to reveal monkey preparation
strategy in a task-switching paradigm.
Stoet, G. & Snyder,
L.H. (2003).
Annual meeting of the Psychonomic
Society. Vancouver.
Knowledge transfer is a key element of university policies. It is mostly about transferring knowledge beyond the ivory tower of the university campus. I have contributed in various ways.
I contributed to a documentary on Ketamine, currenlty being rolled out throughout European cinemas. Click here to watch the trailer.
Further, I write for educational publications for British A-level students, as well as in sharing my open-source software project "PsyToolkit" via the Internet (see the software section below).
Below is a list of some of my educational publications:
Pay Attention!
Stoet, G. (2007). Psychology Review,
13 (1), 19-21.
Mean, median, and mode.
Stoet, G. (2008). Psychology
Review, 14 (2).
Distributions.
Stoet, G. (2008). Psychology
Review, 14 (3).
Communication.
Stoet, G. (2008). Psychology
Review, 14 (4).
PsyToolkit is an open-source software package for
creating and running psychological experiments using the Linux
operating system. Since it is free of charge, it is convenient for
use in a teaching environment in the classroom and at
home. Click here to have a
look at it.
PsyToolkit Manual
Stoet, G. (2009). Leeds University, Leeds.
[download pdf]
Richard Abrams.
Department of Psychology at Washington University in St.Louis,
USA.
Bernhard
Hommel.
Department of Psychology, Leiden University, The
Netherlands.
Beatriz
López.
Department of Psychology, University of Portsmouth,
UK.
Hannes Ruge.
Technische
Universität, Dresden, Germany.
Larry Snyder.
Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology at Washington University in
St.Louis, USA.
Hans Strohner (Requiescat
in pace).
Department of Literature and Linguistics at the
University of Bielefeld, Germany.
In my spare time, I enjoy programming my Linux
computer, reading, listening to classical music, hiking, and
socializing with friends.
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| Mail: | Institute of Psychological Sciences, University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2 9JT, UK |