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Cyma Van Petten
NationalityAmerican
OccupationProfessor of Psychology
AwardsSociety for Psychophysiological Research Early Career Award (1994)
Academic background
Alma mater
Doctoral advisorMarta Kutas
Academic work
DisciplineNeuroscientist
Sub-disciplineCognitive neuroscience
InstitutionsBinghamton University

Cyma Kathryn Van Petten is an American cognitive neuroscientist known for electrophysiological studies of language, memory, and cognition. She is Professor of Psychology at the State University of New York at Binghamton where she directs the Event-Related Potential Lab.[1] Van Petten was recipient of the Early Career Award from the Society for Psychophysiological Research in 1994.[2]

Biography

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Van Petten received a B.A. in Psychology with honors at Reed College in 1981. As an undergraduate, she engaged in research on pain sensitivity.[3] After graduating, she worked as a research assistant with Martha Neuringer at the Oregon Regional Primate Research Center, where she studied effects of dietary omega-3 fatty acid deficiency on vision.[4]

Van Petten attended graduate school at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) and obtained a Ph.D in Neurosciences in 1989 under the supervision of Marta Kutas.[5] With Kutas, Van Petten did pioneering work in neurolinguistics. One of their first works examined neural responses to ambiguous words (e.g., bank) in a semantic priming task.[6] Their collaborative focused on specific evoked response potentials such as the N400 that are differentially responsive to word frequency.[7] Van Petten remained at UCSD as a post-doctoral fellow in the Department of Cognitive Science, where she collaborated with Seana Coulson on ERP studies of conceptual/semantic integration and metaphor comprehension.[8][9]

Van Petten became a faculty member in the Psychology Department at the University of Arizona in 1991, and remained there until moving to Binghamton University in 2008. Much of her work has focused on source memory (i.e., recall of when or where something was learned), its underlying neural mechanisms, and the impact of aging on source versus item memory.[10][11]

Van Petten's research program has been funded by grants from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke,[12] the National Institute on Aging,[13] and the National Institute of Mental Health.[14]

Representative Publications

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  • Folstein, J. R., & Van Petten, C. (2008). Influence of cognitive control and mismatch on the N2 component of the ERP: A review. Psychophysiology, 45(1), 152–170.
  • Van Petten, C. (2004). Relationship between hippocampal volume and memory ability in healthy individuals across the lifespan: Review and meta-analysis. Neuropsychologia, 42(10), 1394–1413.
  • Van Petten, C., & Luka, B. J. (2006). Neural localization of semantic context effects in electromagnetic and hemodynamic studies. Brain and language, 97(3), 279–293.
  • Van Petten, C., & Kutas, M. (1990). Interactions between sentence context and word frequency in event-related brain potentials. Memory & Cognition, 18(4), 380–393.
  • Van Petten, C., Kutas, M., Kluender, R., Mitchiner, M., & McIsaac, H. (1991). Fractionating the word repetition effect with event-related potentials. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 3(2), 131–150.
  • Van Petten, C., & Senkfor, A. J. (1996). Memory for words and novel visual patterns: Repetition, recognition, and encoding effects in the event‐related brain potential. Psychophysiology, 33(5), 491–506.

References

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  1. ^ "Cyma K. Van Petten - Our Faculty - Psychology | Binghamton University". Psychology - Binghamton University. Retrieved 2019-04-18.
  2. ^ "Early Career Award Addresses - Society for Psychophysiological Research". sprweb.org. Retrieved 2019-04-18.
  3. ^ Van Petten, Cyma; Roberts, William J.; Rhodes, Dell L. (1983). "Behavioral test of tolerance for aversive mechanical stimuli in sympathectomized cats". Pain. 15 (1): 177–189. doi:10.1016/0304-3959(83)90017-9. ISSN 0304-3959. PMID 6844026. S2CID 8087850.
  4. ^ Neuringer, M; Connor, W E; Van Petten, C; Barstad, L (1984-01-01). "Dietary omega-3 fatty acid deficiency and visual loss in infant rhesus monkeys". Journal of Clinical Investigation. 73 (1): 272–276. doi:10.1172/JCI111202. ISSN 0021-9738. PMC 425011. PMID 6317716.
  5. ^ "Cyma Van Petten CV". bingweb.binghamton.edu. Archived from the original on 2019-04-18. Retrieved 2019-05-04.
  6. ^ Van Petten, Cyma; Kutas, Marta (1987). "Ambiguous words in context: An event-related potential analysis of the time course of meaning activation". Journal of Memory and Language. 26 (2): 188–208. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.423.5713. doi:10.1016/0749-596X(87)90123-9.
  7. ^ Van Petten, Cyma; Kutas, Marta (1990). "Interactions between sentence context and word frequencyinevent-related brainpotentials". Memory & Cognition. 18 (4): 380–393. doi:10.3758/BF03197127. ISSN 0090-502X. PMID 2381317.
  8. ^ Van Petten, Cyma; Coulson, Seana; Rubin, Susan; Plante, Elena; Parks, Marjorie (1999). "Time course of word identification and semantic integration in spoken language". Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition. 25 (2): 394–417. doi:10.1037/0278-7393.25.2.394. ISSN 1939-1285. PMID 10093207.
  9. ^ Coulson, Seana; Van Petten, Cyma (2002-09-01). "Conceptual integration and metaphor: An event-related potential study". Memory & Cognition. 30 (6): 958–968. doi:10.3758/BF03195780. ISSN 1532-5946. PMID 12450098.
  10. ^ Senkfor, Ava J.; Van Petten, Cyma (1998). "Who said what? An event-related potential investigation of source and item memory". Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition. 24 (4): 1005–1025. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.465.5513. doi:10.1037/0278-7393.24.4.1005. ISSN 1939-1285. PMID 9699305.
  11. ^ Swick, Diane; Senkfor, Ava J.; Van Petten, Cyma (2006). "Source memory retrieval is affected by aging and prefrontal lesions: Behavioral and ERP evidence". Brain Research. 1107 (1): 161–176. doi:10.1016/j.brainres.2006.06.013. PMC 2365725. PMID 16828722.
  12. ^ "Project Information - NIH RePORTER - NIH Research Portfolio Online Reporting Tools Expenditures and Results". projectreporter.nih.gov. Retrieved 2019-05-07.
  13. ^ "Project Information - NIH RePORTER - NIH Research Portfolio Online Reporting Tools Expenditures and Results". projectreporter.nih.gov. Retrieved 2019-05-07.
  14. ^ "Project Information - NIH RePORTER - NIH Research Portfolio Online Reporting Tools Expenditures and Results". projectreporter.nih.gov. Retrieved 2019-05-07.
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