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THAD A. POLK Curriculum Vitae

Department of Psychology University of Michigan

530 Church St. Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1043 Email: [email protected] Phone: (734) 763-0343

http://polklab.psych.lsa.umich.edu

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

2020-PRESENT Samuel D. Epstein Collegiate Professor of Psychology 2006-PRESENT Arthur F. Thurnau Professor 2011-PRESENT Professor of Psychology 2015-2020 Associate Chair, Department of Psychology 2005, 2011-17 Visiting Scientist Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin 2003 Associate Professor of Psychology and EECS 1996 Assistant Professor of Psychology 1992-1996 Post-Doctoral Fellow in Cognitive Neuroscience Advisor: Dr. Martha Farah, University of Pennsylvania SUMMER 1988 Research Scientist MRC Applied Psychology Unit, Cambridge, England SUMMER 1987 Research Scientist Honeywell Systems & Research Center, Minneapolis, MN 1984-1986 Research Assistant National Radio Astronomy Observatory, Charlottesville, VA

EDUCATION

1986-1992 Interdisciplinary Ph.D. in Psychology and Computer Science Advisor: Dr. Allen Newell, Carnegie Mellon University 1982-1986 B.A. Mathematics with Distinction University of Virginia

GRADUATE STUDENTS

Charles Behensky, Paul Hamilton, Heather Pond, Robert Drake, Matthew Jones, Patrick Simen, Maya Khanna, Lee Newman, Joonkoo Park, Emre Demiralp, Agnes Jasinska, Cheng Wang, Rebecca Rhodes, Joshua Carp, Steven Tenaglia, Poortata Lalwani, Kaitlin Cassady, Fatemeh Noohi, Dalia Khammash Thesis committees: Seth Rogers, Greg Stevens, Sayan Bhattacharyya, Leeann Fu, Scott Wallace, Mazin As-Sanie, Angela Hall, James Nelson, Andrew Nuxholl, Bob Marinier, Adam Krawitz, Scott Lathrop, Nick Gorski, Tiffany Love, Yongjia Wang, Jonathan Sorg, Youngbin Kwak, Patrick Pruitt, Ziyong Lin, Rebecca Marks, Chenxu Hao, Steven Jones


GRANTS

2019-2021 MCubed grant, The impact of non-invasive stimulation on brain networks, $60,000 direct costs

2016-2021 NIH grant 1R01AG050523, Age-related changes in neural distinctiveness: Scope, causes, and consequences (PI), $1,952,149 direct costs.

2017-2019 NIH grant 1F31AG057205, Somatosensory dedifferentiation in the aging brain (PI, but fellowship is for Kaitlin Cassady), $80,445 direct costs.

2015-2017 MCubed grant, Probing GABAergic function with transcranial magnetic stimulation, $60,000 direct costs.

2013-2017 NIH grant R01CA180015, Neural predictors of receptivity to health communication and behavior change (PI on UM subcontract), $423,122 direct costs.

2008-2015 NIH grant 2P50CA101451, Center for Excellence in Cancer Communications Research (Co-PI and Director of Social & Cognitive Neuroscience Core), $7,500,000 direct costs.

2010-2012 NIH grant 1R21HD064983-01, Exploring neural markers of dyslexia as candidate endophenotypes (PI), $275,000 direct costs.

2009-2010 Office of the Vice President of Research Grant, U of M. Exploring neural markers of dyslexia as candidate endophenotypes (PI), $15,000 direct costs.

2009-2013 NSF grant, Building flexible, robust, and autonomous agents (Co-PI), $644,844 direct costs.

2007-2011 NIH Grant 5R21DA024429, Neural bases of effectiveness of individually-tailored smoking cessation messages (PI), $372,400 total costs.

2007 Rackham Spring/Summer Research Grant, A neurocomputational account of category-specific deficits in brain-damaged patients (PI), $4000 direct costs.

2006-2011 NIH Grant 5R37AG006265, Neuroimaging of dedifferentiation and memory across the lifespan (Consultant), $2,187,234 direct costs.

2005-2006 DARPA grant FA8650-05-C-7253, Extending the Soar Cognitive Architecture (Co-PI), $807,131 direct costs.

2001-2006 NIH Grant, R01 AG06265, Imagery, visual memory, and aging, Denise Park and Thad Polk (Co-PI), $1,663,522 direct costs.

2000-2004 NIH Grant, R01-DC04205, Environmental effects on the neural organization of cognition, (PI), $550,000 direct costs.

2000-2005 NIH Grant, R01-MH60655-01A1, Executive processes: Behavioral and neuroimaging studies (Co-PI), $1,175,000 direct costs.

1998-2000 Office of the Vice President of Research Grant, U of M. The neural substrates underlying different languages in bilinguals. (PI), $12,500 direct costs.

1996-1999 ONR Grant N00014-96-0537, Visuospatial working memory and its role in problem solving, PI: John Jonides, $295,613 direct costs.

1997-1998 Rackham Graduate School Grant/Fellowship, U of M. Experiential influences on brain architecture. (PI), $15,000 direct costs.

1993-1996 McDonnell-Pew Cognitive Neuroscience Grant T92-02649-012. The role of reading in the functional architecture of cognition. (PI), $60,000 direct costs.

1991-1994 ONR Grant N00014-91-J-1527, Analysis of Symbolic Parameter Models, PI: Allen Newell, $218,963 direct costs.


UNDERGRADUATE RAS IN LAB (>100)

Dana Abufarha, Adam Aleska, Abbas Alhassan, Amol Amladi, Elizabeth Andrews, Caroline Bartholomew, Ian Bernstein, Hailey Brew, Kayt Brinker, Richard Bryck (now PhD), Alexis Burke, Sirenna Burks, Michael Cantley, Charmaine Carmody, Samuel Cass, Jordan Chamberlain (now PhD student), Josephina Chang, Jordan Chick, Brian Cleary, Kelsey Collins, Julie Conley, Kelly Conlon, Jade Cook, Susan Daron, Kevin Day, Joseph Doe, Julie Dressler, Tracey Ederer, Franny Elson, Lauren Fell, Jessica Florey, Erik Furman, Alison Giehle, Christina Goff, Steven Goldenthal, Gina Goldfaden, Daniel Gorovets, Rachel Golin, Zachary Guren (now PhD student), Aakash Gupta, Adam Hafeez, Sarah Hallinen, Laura Harness, Dustin Hartz, Marin Hoplamazian, Natalie Hsiao, Abby Johnson, Courtney Jones, Anna Kirman, David Krauss (now PhD), Sally Hollister, Jennifer Kaufman, Shannon Kelley, Ryan Kelly, Daniel Kessler, Nellie Kippley, Max Kubitz, Sarah Leitman, Inbar Lev, Steven Levenbrook, Jamie Lewis, Casey Lindberg, Jessica Loechli, Kristen Loeher (now PhD), Jamie Loundy, Leeann Mallorie (now MA), Hania Maqbool, Kiara Marshall, Blair Matthew, Shannon McBride, Colleen McGowan, Michelle Mirkin, Serene Mirza, Saachi Mittal, Kasey Morden, Annalisa Morgan, Chandan Morris, Steven Nair, Wei Siong Neo (now PhD student), Michael Ni, Elsy Nouna, Jordan Orley, Bashair Pasha, Rasika Patil, Kristin Pearson-Fuhrhop (now PhD student), Jamie Pescovitz, Jillian Plonsker, Amrisha Prakash, Melanie Racenstein, Aarti Raheja (now MD), Nadir Rehman, Ryan Rich, John Rose, Brooke Rothberg, Scott Rothenberg, Marisa Rothman, Samantha Roy, Matt Rubinstein, Matthew Sanders, Heather Schaar, Alyssa Skelton, Olga Slavin, Robert Slater, Gina South, Louise Stanczak, Srdjan Stakic, Jessica Steyers, Todd Stincic (now PhD), Sean Stringer, Jeff Stupak, Alla Taborisskaya, Jolan Terner (now PhD), Lynn T’Niemi, Andrew Tong, Tim Trudeau, Shawn Van de Vyver, Danielle Vanzura, Alekya Vinta, Allison Vogel, Aaron Weiss, Lydia Weykamp, Andrea Wilk Mizrahi, Alex Wiltchko, Tommy Wydra, Chloe Yang, Wai Ying Wong, Emily Yagihashi, Chloe Yang, Tanmayee Yenumula, Brandon Yousif, Xinhao Yu, Ali Zacharias, Izabella Zant, Eszter Zavodsky

HONORS, AWARDS, RECOGNITION

2020 Samuel D. Epstein Collegiate Professor of Psychology 2019 Earl & Louise Tumarkin Zazove Lectureship in Family Medicine 2018 Osher Life Long Learning distinguished lecture 2016 Selected to give TedX talk

(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wrTIS0uKg6o&t=7s) 2012 Best 300 Professors in the U.S., Princeton Review 2006-PRESENT Arthur F. Thurnau Professor, outstanding contributions to undergrad education 2011-PRESENT Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science 2011-2018 Visiting Scientist, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin 2011, 2012 Selected by Michigan Mortar Board Society for P.R.O.F.S. lecture 2008 Osher Life Long Learning lecture 2006 Ann Arbor News Cover Story: www.umich.edu/~tpolk/EmailAANews.pdf (3/21) 2005 Visiting Scientist, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin 2005 Invited speaker, 6th Schloessmann Seminar, Doelln, Germany 2004 Ann Arbor News column: www.umich.edu/~tpolk/DinnersAANews.pdf (12/22) 2003 Cohn Family Research Fellow 2003 Selected by Michigan Mortar Board Society for P.R.O.F.S. lecture 2002 Instructional Development Award (Center for Research on Learning and

Teaching) 2001 Featured in VP for Research’s report to regents

www.research.umich.edu/research/research_guide/annual_reports/FY01/01regentsreport-I.html

1999 Excellence in Education Award, U of M College of LSA 1995, 1998 Fellow: McDonnell-Pew Cognitive Neuroscience Summer Institute 1994-1996 Krasnow Institute Post-Doctoral Fellow (at Penn) 1992-1996 Institute for Research in Cognitive Science Post-Doctoral Fellow (at Penn) 1988-1991 Kodak Graduate Fellow (at Carnegie Mellon) 1982-1986 University of Virginia Echols Scholar, Phi Beta Kappa National Honor Society,

University of Virginia Raven Honor Society, Omicron Delta Kappa National Honor Society, Sigma Xi


SERVICE

2015-2020 Associate Chair, Department of Psychology 2013-PRESENT Chair, Health Sciences and Behavioral Sciences Institutional Review Boards

(IRB-HSBS) 2016-PRESENT NIH Study Section: Cognition and Perception (standing member) 2015-PRESENT Executive Committee, Weinberg Institute for Cognitive Science 2015-PRESENT Curriculum Committee, Weinberg Institute for Cognitive Science 2013-PRESENT Institutional Review Board Advisory Committee 2013-PRESENT Institutional Review Board Council 2015-2017 Member, Rackham Integrity Board 2018 Chair, 21st Interdisciplinary Conference on Human Performance 2014-2016 Transforming Learning for the Third Century Committee 2013-2015 LSA Academic Judiciary Committee 2012 CCN Admissions Committee 2011-2015 Program Committee, Cognitive Neuroscience Society Annual Meeting 2011 Review of Learning Disabilities Research Centers (LDRC) proposals for NICHD 2010 NIH Study Section: Cognition and Perception (ad hoc) 2009-2016 NIH Study Section: Sensory, Motor and Cognitive Neuroscience Fellowships 2008-2013 IRB Behavioral Sciences, Expedited Reviewer and Board Member 2008-2009 Chair, Cognition & Perception Area Admissions Committee 2008-2010 Advisory Board, UM Center for Research on Learning and Teaching 2007-2009 Ombudsperson, UM Psychology Department 2006-2009 Co-director, UofM Center for Cognitive Architectures 2006-2007 Co-organizer, 2007 International Conference on Cognitive Modeling (ICCM) 2006-2008 Chair, Cognition & Perception Graduate Recruitment Committee 2005-2007 UM Psychology Augmented Executive Committee 2005 Cognition & Perception Admissions Committee 2005 Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship Selection Committee 2004-2007 UM Psychology Undergraduate Committee 2005 Chair, 9th Interdisciplinary Conference on Human Performance (Fallbrook, CA) 2004-2012 Director, Cognitive Science Cognitive Neuroscience (CSCN) Program 2004-2006 PI on Cognitive Neuroscience Training Grant Application 2004 NIH Study Section: Cognition and Perception 2003 NIH Study Section: Integrative, Functional, & Cognitive Neuroscience 5 2002 NIH Study Section: Multimodal Research in Cognitive Neuroscience 2000 NIH Study Section: Integrative, Functional, & Cognitive Neuroscience 8� 1998-2004 Co-director, Cognitive Science Cognitive Neuroscience (CSCN) Program 2001-2012 UM fMRI Lab Operations Committee 2003-2004 Neuroscience Program Admissions Committee 2002-2003 Chair, Cognition & Perception Social Committee 1996-2002 Chair, Cognition and Perception Forum Series 1999-2000 Psychology Augmented Executive Committee, 1999-2000 1998-2003 Arranged CSCN workshops on fMRI, neuropsychology & modeling 2001-2003 Students For the Advancement of Neuroscience (SFAN), Faculty Mentor 1999-2000 University Mentorship Program, Faculty mentor 1997-1998 Psychology Executive Committee 1997 Co-chair, Cognition & Perception Area Admissions Committee


PUBLICATIONS

BOOKS/DVD/ Polk, T.A. (2020). Shocking Psychological Studies. 6-lecture course for The THESIS Great Courses.

Polk TA (2018). The Learning Brain. 24-lecture course for The Great Courses.

Polk, T.A. (2016). The Aging Brain. 12-lecture course for The Great Courses.

Polk, T.A. (2015). The Addictive Brain. 12-lecture course for The Great Courses. Guadagnoli, M., Benjamin, A., DeBelle, S., Etnyre, B. & Polk, T.A. (eds.) (2008). Human Learning: Biology, Brain, and Neuroscience. Elsevier Science. Lewis, R.L., Polk, T. A., Laird, J. E. (Eds.) (2007). The Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Cognitive Modeling. Psychology Press/ Taylor & Francis. Polk, T.A. & Seifert, C. (eds.) (2002). Cognitive Modeling. MIT Press. Polk, T.A. (1992). Verbal reasoning. Ph.D. thesis. Technical Report CMU-CS-92-178.

JOURNAL Garrett DD, Epp S, Kleemeyer M, Lindenberger U, & Polk TA (2020). ARTICLES Higher performers upregulate brain signal variability in response to more

feature-rich visual input. Neuroimage, 217:116836. doi: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2020.116836

Iordan AD, Cooke, KA, Moored KD, Katz B, Buschkuehl M, Jaeggi SM, Polk TA, Peltier SJ, Jonides J, & Reuter-Lorenz PA (2020). Neural Correlates of Working Memory Training: Evidence for Plasticity in Older Adults. Neuroimage, 217:116887. doi: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2020.116887

Cassady K, Gagnon H, Freiburger E, Lalwani P, Simmonite M, Park D, Peltier

SJ, Taylor SF, Weissman DH, Seidler RD, & Polk TA (2020). Network segregation varies with neural distinctiveness in sensorimotor cortex. NeuroImage, 212:1166632. doi: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2020.116663

Koch C, Li SC, Polk TA, & Schuck NW (2020). Effects of aging on encoding

of walking direction in the human brain. Neuropsychologia, 141:107379. doi: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2020.107379

Noohi F, Kinnaird C, DeDios Y, Kofman IS, Wood S, Bloomberg J, Mulavara A,

Sienko K, Polk TA, & Seidler R (2019). Deactivation of somatosensory and visual cortices during vestibular stimulation is associated with older age and poorer balance. PLoS One. PLoS ONE 14(9): e0221954. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0221954

Simmonite M & Polk TA (2019). Independent components of neural activation before and after 100 days of cognitive training. Journal of

Cognitive Neuroscience, 31(6), 808-820.

Lalwani P, Gagnon H, Cassady K, Simmonite M, Peltier SJ, Seidler RD, Taylor SF, Weissman DH, & Polk TA (2019). Neural distinctiveness declines with age in auditory cortex and is associated with auditory GABA levels. NeuroImage, 116033.


JOURNAL Khammash D, Simmonite M, Polk TA, Taylor SF, & Meehan SK (2019). ARTICLES Probing short latency cortical inhibition in the visual cortex with transcranial (CONTINUED) magnetic stimulation: A reliability study. Brain Stimulation, 12(3), 702-704.

Khammash D, Simmonite M, Polk TA, Taylor SF, & Meehan SK (2019). Temporal dynamics of corticocortical inhibition in human visual cortex: A TMS study. Neuroscience, 421 (Nov 21):31-38. Gagnon H, Simmonite M, Cassady K, Chamberlain J, Freiburger, E, Lalwani, P, Kelley S, Foerster B, Park D, Petrou M, Seidler RD, Taylor SF, Weissman DH, Polk TA (2019). Michigan Neural Distinctiveness (MiND) project: Investigating the scope, causes, and consequences of age-related neural dedifferentiation. BMC neurology, 19(1), 61.

Simmonite M, Carp J, Foerster B, Ossher L, Petrou M, Weissman D, Polk TA

(2019). Age-related declines of occipital GABA are associated with reduced fluid processing ability. Academic Radiology. 26(8), 1053-1061. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.acra.2018.07.024

Cassady K, Gagnon H, Lalwani P, Simmonite M, Foerster B, Park D, Peltier SJ, Petrou M, Taylor SF, Weissman DH, Seidler RD, Polk TA, (2019). Sensorimotor network segregation declines with age and is linked to GABA and

to sensorimotor performance. Neuroimage, 186:234-244. Kang Y, Cooper N, Pandey P, Scholz C, O’Donnell MB, Lieberman MD, Taylor SE, Strecher VJ, Dal Cin S, Konrath S, Polk TA, Resnicow K, An L, & Falk EB (2018). Effects of self-transcendence on neural responses to health messages

and behavior change. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 115(40):9974-9979. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1805573115

Iordan AD, Cooke KA, Moored KD, Katz B, Buschkuehl M, Jaeggi SM, Jonides J, Peltier S, Polk TA, Reuter-Lorenz PA (2017). Aging and network properties: stability over time and links with learning during working memory training. Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience, 9(419):1-18. doi: 10.3389/fnagi.2017.00419 Kleemeyer MK, Polk TA, Schaefer S, Bodammer NC, Brechtel L, Lindenberger U (2017). Exercise-induced fitness changes correlate with changes in neural specificity in older adults. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 11(123):1-8.

Schuck NW, Doeller CF, Polk TA, Lindenberger U, & Li SC (2015). Human aging alters the neural computation and representation of space. Neuroimage, 117:141-150. Park J, Park DC, Polk TA (2013). Parietal functional connectivity in numerical cognition. Cerebral Cortex, 23(9):2127-2135.

Jasinska AJ, Ho SS, Taylor SF, Burmeister M, Villafuerte S, Polk TA (2012). Task difficulty modulates the impact of emotional stimuli on neural response in cognitive control regions. Frontiers in Psychology, 3:345.

Park J, Carp J, Kennedy KM, Rodrigue KM, Bischof GN, Huang CM, Rieck JR, Polk TA, Park DC (2012). Neural broadening or neural attenuation? Investigating age-related dedifferentiation in the face network in a large lifespan

sample. Journal of Neuroscience, 32(6):2154-2158.

Park J, Park DC, Polk TA (2012). Investigating unique environmental contributions to the neural representation of written words: A monozygotic twin study. PLoS One 7(2):e31512.


JOURNAL Jasinska AJ, Chua HF, Ho S, Polk TA, Rozek LS, Strecher VJ (2012). ARTICLES Amygdala response to smoking-cessation messages mediates the effects of (CONTINUED) serotonin transporter gene variation on quitting. Neuroimage, 60:766-773.

Jasinska AJ, Ho SS, Taylor SF, Burmeister M, Villafuerte S, Polk TA (2012). Influence of threat and serotonin transporter genotype on interference effects. Frontiers in Psychology, 3:139.

Huang CM, Polk TA, Goh JO, Park DC (2012). Both left and right parietal activations contribute to compensatory processes in normal aging. Neuropsychologia, 50:55-66.

Park J, Hebrank A, Polk TA, & Park DC (2012). Neural dissociation of number from letter recognition and its relationship to parietal numerical processing. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 24(1):39-50. Park J, Shedden K, & Polk TA (2012). Correlation and heritability in neuroimaging datasets: A spatial decomposition approach with application to an fMRI study of twins. Neuroimage, 59(2):1132-42.

Chua H.F., Ho, S.H., Jasinska, A.J., Welsh, R.C., Polk, T.A., Liberzon, I., & Strecher, V.J. (2011). Self-related processing of tailored smoking-cessation messages predicts successful quitting. Nature Neuroscience, 14(4):426-427.

Carp J, Park J, Hebrank A, Park DC, Polk TA (2011). Age-related neural dedifferentiation in the motor system. PLoS One, 6(12): e29411. doi:10.1371/ journal.pone.0029411

Carp, J.M., Polk, T.A., Park, J., & Park, D.C. (2011). Age differences in neural distinctiveness revealed by multi-voxel pattern analysis. Neuroimage, 56(2):736-743.

Park, J., Carp, J., Hebrank, A.C., Park, D.C., & Polk, T.A. (2010). Neural specificity predicts fluid processing ability in older adults. Journal of Neuroscience, 30(27):9253–9259.

Simen, P. & Polk, T.A. (2010). A symbolic/subsymbolic interface protocol for cognitive modeling. Logic Journal of IGPL, 18(5):705-761.

Park, D.C., Polk, T.A., Hebrank, A.C., & Jenkins, L. (2010). Age differences in default mode activity on easy and difficult spatial judgment tasks. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience.

Berman, M.G., Park, J., Gonzalez, R., Polk, T.A., Gehrke, A., Knaffla, S., & Jonides, J. (2010). Evaluating functional localizers: The case of the FFA. Neuroimage, 50:56-71.

Resnicow, K., Strecher, V., Couper, M., Chua, H., Little, R., Nair, V., Polk, T.A., & Atienza, A.A. (2010). Methodological and design issues in patient-centered eHealth research. American Journal of Preventive Medicine, 38(1):98-102.

Park, J., Newman, L.I., & Polk, T.A. (2009). Face processing: The interplay of nature and nurture. The Neuroscientist. 15(5):445-449.

Polk, T.A., Lacey, H.P., Nelson, J.K., Demiralp, E., Newman, L.I., Krauss, D., Raheja, A., & Farah, M.J. (2009). The development of abstract letter representations for reading: Evidence for the role of context. Cognitive

Neuropsychology, 26(1):70-90.


JOURNAL Polk, T.A., Drake, R.M., Jonides, J., Smith, M.R., & Smith, E.E. (2008). ARTICLES Attention enhances the neural processing of attended features and suppresses (CONTINUED) the neural processing of unattended features in humans: An fMRI study of the

Stroop task. Journal of Neuroscience, 28(51):13786-13792. Polk, T.A., Park, J., Smith, M.R., & Park, D.C. (2007). Nature vs. nurture in ventral visual cortex: A functional magnetic resonance imaging study of twins. Journal of Neuroscience, 27(51):13921-13925.

Yoon, C., Gutchess, A.H., Feinberg, F., & Polk, T.A. (2006). A functional magnetic resonance imaging study of neural dissociations between brand and person judgments, Journal of Consumer Research, 33(1):31-40. Hamilton, J. P., Mirkin, M., & Polk, T. A. (2006). Category-level contributions to the alphanumeric category effect in visual search, Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 13(6):1074-1077. Vannest, J., Polk, T.A., & Lewis, R.L. (2005). Dual-route processing of complex words: New fMRI evidence from derivational suffixation. Cognitive, Affective, and Behavioral Neuroscience, 5(1):67-76. Park, D.C., Polk, T.A., Park, R., Minear, M., & Savage, A., & Smith, M.R. (2004). Aging reduces neural specialization in ventral visual cortex. PNAS, 101(35):13091-13095.

Park, D.C., Welsh, R.C., Marshuetz, C., Gutchess, A.H., Mikels, J., Polk, T.A., Noll, D.C., & Taylor, S.F. (2003). Working memory for complex scenes: Age differences in frontal and hippocampal activations. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 15(8):1122-1134. Peltier, S., Polk, T.A., & Noll, D.C. (2003). Detecting low-frequency functional connectivity in fMRI using a self-organizing map (SOM) algorithm. Human Brain Mapping, 20(4):220-226.

Polk, T. A., & Farah, M. J. (2002). Functional MRI evidence for an abstract, not perceptual, word-form area. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 131(1), 65–72. Park, D.C., Polk, T.A., Mikels, J., Marshuetz, C., & Taylor, S. (2001). Cerebral aging: The integration of behavioral and neurobiological models of cognitive function. Dialogues in Clinical Neuroscience, 3(3):151-165.

Polk, T.A. & Farah, M. (1998). The neural development and organization of letter recognition; Evidence from functional neuroimaging, computational modeling, and behavioral studies. PNAS, 95:847-852.

Polk, T.A. & Farah, M. (1997). A simple common contexts explanation for the development of abstract letter identities. Neural Computation, 9(6):1275-1287.

Polk, T.A. & Farah, M. (1995). Late experience alters vision. Nature, 376(6542):648-649.

Polk, T.A. & Farah, M. (1995). Brain localization for arbitrary stimulus categories: A simple account based on Hebbian learning. PNAS, 92:12370-12373.


Polk, T.A. & Newell, A. (1995). Deduction as verbal reasoning. Psychological Review, 102(3):533-566. Polk, T.A. (1993). Mental models: More or less. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 16(2):362-363.

REFEREED Kang, Y., Pandey, P., Cooper, N., Scholz, C., O'Donnell, M. B., Elliott, A. M., CONFERENCE Pegors, T. K., Lieberman, M. D., Taylor, S. E., Strecher, V. J., Dal Cin, S. PAPERS Konrath, S., Polk, T., Resnicow, K., An, L., & Falk, E. B (2017). Increasing

Receptivity to Health Communications: Effects of Self-Transcendence and Affirmation Priming on Neural Responses to Health Messages and Behavior Change. International Communication Association.

Simen, P., Van Vugt, M., Balci, F., Freestone, D. & Polk, T. (2010). Toward an analog neural substrate for production systems. Proceedings of the 2010 International Conference on Cognitive Modeling, 223-228.

Newman, L.I., Polk, T.A., & Preston, S.D. (2008). Revealing individual differences in the Iowa Gambling Task, In B. C. Love, K. McRae, & V. M. Sloutsky (Eds.), Proceedings of the 30th Annual Conference of the Cognitive

Science Society, pp. 1067-1072.

Simen, P., Polk, T.A., Lewis, R.L., & Freedman, E. (2002). Goal management in a recurrent neural network. Intl Conference on Computational Intelligence, pp. 504-508. Jones, M. & Polk, T.A. (2001). An attractor network model of serial recall. Proceedings of the International Conference on Cognitive Modeling, vol. 4, pp. 121-126. (Runner-up for best student paper) Polk, T.A. & Farah, M. (1995). The statistics of the environment affect the functional architecture of vision in adulthood: A reduced alphanumeric category effect in Canadian-mail sorters. Proceedings of the Cognitive Science Society, vol. 17, 704-708.

Polk, T.A. & Farah, M. (1994). A simple co-occurrence explanation for the development of abstract letter identities. Proceedings of the Cognitive Science Society, vol. 16, 728-732.

Polk, T.A., Newell, A., & Lewis, R.L. (1989). Toward a unified theory of immediate reasoning in Soar. Proceedings of the Cognitive Science Society, vol. 11, 506-513.

Lewis, R.L., Newell, A., & Polk, T.A. (1989). Toward a Soar theory of taking instructions for immediate reasoning tasks. Proceedings of the Cognitive Science Society, 514-521.

Polk, T.A. & Newell, A. (1988). Modeling human syllogistic reasoning in Soar. Proceedings of the Cognitive Science Society, vol. 10, 181-187.

Steier, D.M., Laird, J.E., Newell, A., Rosenbloom, P., Flynn, R.A., Golding, A., Polk, T.A., Shivers, O.G., Unruh, A., Yost, G.R. (1987). Varieties of learning in Soar: 1987. Proceedings of the International Workshop on Machine Learning, vol. 4, 300-311.

BOOK Newman, L.I. & Polk, T.A. (2008). The computational cognitive neuroscience CHAPTERS of learning and memory: Principles and models. In Guadagnoli, M., Benjamin,

A., DeBelle, S., Etnyre, B. & Polk, T.A. (Eds.). Human Learning: Biology, Brain


and Neuroscience. Elsevier Science, pp. 77-99.

Polk, T.A. (2008). Cognitive neuroscience of learning and memory. In Guadagnoli, M., Benjamin, A., DeBelle, S., Etnyre, B. & Polk, T.A. (Eds.). Human Learning: Biology, Brain and Neuroscience. Elsevier Science.

Polk, T.A. & Hamilton, J.P. (2006). Reading, writing, and arithmetic in the brain:

Neural specialization for acquired functions. In Baltes, P., Rosler, F., and Reuter-Lorenz, P. (Eds.), Lifespan development and the brain: The perspective

of biocultural co-constructivism.

Polk, T.A. (1996). Reasoning matters. In Steier, D.M. and Mitchell, T. M. (eds.), Mind Matters. Erlbaum: Mahwah, NJ.

Polk, T.A., VanLehn, K., & Kalp, D. (1995). ASPM2: Progress toward the analysis of symbolic parameter models. In Nichols, P., Chipman, S. and Brennan, R. (eds.), Cognitively Diagnostic Assessment. Erlbaum.

Polk, T.A. & Rosenbloom, P. (1994). Task-independent constraints on a unified theory of cognition. Boller, F. & Grafman J. (eds.), The Handbook of Neuropsychology (vol. 9). Elsevier: Amsterdam.

Lehman, J.F., Newell, A., Polk, T.A., & Lewis, R.L. (1993). The role of language in cognition: A computational inquiry. In Harman, G. (ed.), Conceptions of the Human Mind. Erlbaum: Hillsdale.

Newell, A., Young, R., Polk, T.A. (1993). The approach through symbols. Broadbent, D. (ed.), The Simulation of Human Intelligence, Blackwell.

TALKS/ Lalwani P, Garrett D, Polk TA (2020). Age-related decline in brain signal ABSTRACTS variability: Cause and consequence. Annual Meeting of the Cognitive

Neuroscience Society.

Kelley, Plass J, Bender AR, Polk TA (2020). Age-related differences in white matter: Comparing fixel-based and tensor-based analyses. Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society.

Iordan AD, Moored KD, Katz B, Cooke KA, Buschkuehl M, Jaeggi SM, Polk TA, Peltier SJ, Jonides J, Reuter-Lorenz PA (2020). Age differences in functional network reconfiguration with working memory training. Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society.

Polk TA (2020). Understanding memory: How it works and how to improve it.

One Day University, Kansas City, MO. Polk TA (2020). Understanding memory: How it works and how to improve it.

One Day University, Philadelphia, PA. Polk TA (2020). The neuroscience of temptation: Your brain on porn. LCMS

Council of Presidents, Santa Fe, NM.

Polk TA (2019). Brain aging and what you can do about it. Talk presented at the Innovations in Aging Symposium, Jewish Family Services, Ann Arbor, MI. Polk TA (2019). Understanding memory: How it works and how to improve it. Talk presented at University of Michigan Psychology Department Community Talk, Ann Arbor District Library.


Simmonite M, Khammash D, Beltz A, Polk TA (2019). Reliable, person-specific functional architecture derived from human connectome project task data. Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience.

Iordan AD, Cooke KA, Moored KD, Katz B, Buschkuehl M, Jaeggi SM, Polk TA, Peltier SJ, Jonides J, Reuter-Lorenz PA (2019). Aging and working memory training: Testing the compensation related utilization of neural circuits

hypothesis (CRUNCH). Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience.

Polk TA (2019). Age-related changes in neural distinctiveness: Consequences, scope and cause. Talk presented at LIFE Fall Academy, International Max Planck Research School on the Life Course, Zurich. Polk TA (2019). Understanding memory: How it works and how to improve it. Talk presented at University of Michigan Urology Centennial – Nesbit Society Reunion Dinner.

Polk TA (2019). Brain aging and what you can do about it. Bridgewater by Del Webb community lecture, Brownstown, MI.

Polk TA (2019). Mapping the neural architecture of cognition in individual participants using dense fMRI. Talk presented at the Interdisciplinary Conference on Human Performance, Orlando, FL.

Koch C, Polk TA, Li SC, Schuck N (2019). How aging shapes neural

representations of space: fMRI evidence for broader direction tuning functions in older adults. Conference on Cognitive Computational Neuroscience, Berlin, Germany. Polk TA (2019). Brain aging and what you can do about it. Fifth annual Earl and Louise Tumarkin Zazove, M.D., Lectureship in Family Medicine. Polk TA (2019). Understanding memory: How it works and how to improve it. Talk presented to Family Medicine residents at the University of Michigan School of Medicine. Polk TA, Simmonite M, Beltz A, Khammash D (2019). Dense, person-specific imaging. Talk presented at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany. Polk TA (2019). Understanding memory: How it works and how to improve it. One Day University, Detroit, Michigan.

Lalwani P, Cassady K, Simmonite M, Garrett D, Polk TA (2019). The role of GABA in modulating brain signal variability. Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society.

Polk TA (2019). Brain aging and what you can do about it. University of

Michigan Club of St. Petersburg, FL. Polk TA (2019). Brain aging and what you can do about it. University of

Michigan Club of Dallas, TX. Cassady KE, Gagnon H, Lalwani P, Simmonite M, Foerster B, Park DC, Peltier

SJ, Petrou M, Taylor SF, Weissman DH, Seidler RD, Polk TA (2019). Sensorimotor network segregation declines with age, is linked to GABA, and predicts sensorimotor performance. Dallas Aging and Cognition Conference.


Chamberlain JD,Gagnon H, Lalwani P, Cassady K, Simmonite M, Foerster B, Petrou M, Seidler RD, Weissman DH, Park DC, Polk TA (2019). GABA levels in ventral visual cortex decline with age and predict neural distinctiveness. Dallas Aging and Cognition Conference.

Iordan AD, Cooke KA, Moored KD, Katz B, Buschkuehl M, Jaeggi SM, Polk TA, Peltier SJ, Jonides J, Reuter-Lorenz PA (2019). The compensation related utilization of neural circuits hypothesis (CRUNCH): Evidence that working

memory training benefits younger and older adults. Dallas Aging and Cognition Conference.

Lalwani PS, Cassady K, Simmonite M, Garrett D, Polk TA (2019). Older adults who modulate BOLD-signal variability more, have higher GABA levels and better fluid processing abilities. Dallas Aging and Cognition Conference.

Polk TA (2019). Age-related neural dedifferentiation: Consequences, scope and cause. Dallas Aging and Cognition Conference. Iordan AD, Cooke KA, Moored KD, Katz B, Buschkuehl M, Jaeggi SM, Peltier SJ, Polk TA, Jonides J, Reuter-Lorenz PA (2018). Working memory training reduces neural recruitment in older adults: Support for the Compensation

Related Utilization of Neural Circuits Hypothesis (CRUNCH). Annual Meeting of the Psychonomics Society.

Koch C, Polk TA, Li SC, Schuck N (2018). How aging shapes neural representations: Evidence for broader tuning functions in older adults. DZNE Interdisciplinary Symposium on Spatial Cognition in Aging and

Neurodegeneration (iSCAN). Khammash D, Simmonite M, Polk TA, Taylor SF, Meehan SK (2018).

Assessing optimal transcranial magnetic stimulation parameters for probing inhibitory function in the visual cortex. Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience. Cassady KE, Gagnon HC, Lalwani PS, Simmonite M, Foerster BC, Petrou M, Taylor SF, Weissman DC, Seidler RD, Polk TA (2018). Sensorimotor network segregation declines with age, is linked to neural distinctiveness, and predicts sensorimotor performance. Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience. Simmonite M, Cassady KE, Gagnon HC, Lalwani PS, Taylor SF, Weissman DC, Seidler RD, Polk TA (2018). Age-related neural dedifferentiation extends beyond visual cortex and is driven by less reliable neural activation. Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience.

Polk TA (2018). Addiction: From opioids to video games. Healthy families workshop on mental health. Fishers, Indiana.

Polk TA (2018). Brain aging and what you can do about it. Southeastern Michigan Health Information Management Association. Polk TA (2018). The Opioid Epidemic. Southeastern Michigan Health Information Management Association.

Polk TA (2018). Brain aging and what you (and your patients) can do about it. University of Michigan Medical Scientist Training Program (MSTP) Scientific Retreat.

Polk TA (2018). Age-Related Neural Dedifferentiation: Scope, Cause, and Consequences. Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society.


TALKS/ Iordan AD, Cooke KA, Moored KD, Katz B, Rajen S, Buschkuehl M, Jaeggi ABSTRACTS SM, Jonides J, Peltier SJ, Polk TA, Reuter-Lorenz PA (2018). Behavioral and (CONTINUED) brain-imaging predictors of working memory plasticity in younger and older

adults. Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society.

Lalwani P, Gagnon H, Cassady K, Simmonite M, Petrou M, Foerster B, Seidler RD, Taylor SF, Weissman DH, Polk TA (2018). Age-related declines in GABA levels in the auditory cortex are associated with neural distinctiveness and auditory perception. Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society.

Cassady KE, Gagnon HC, Lalwani PS, Simmonite M, Foerster BC, Park D, Petrou M, Seidler RD, Taylor SF, Weissman DC, Polk TA (2018). Aging in the sensorimotor system: Lower GABA levels are associated with decreased

network segregation and impaired behavior. Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society.

Polk, TA (2018). Brain aging and what you can do about it. Ossher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI) Distinguished Lecture.

Polk TA (2018). Using the make command to manage neuroimaging analyses. UM Psychology Department Methods Hour.

Lalwani PS, Gagnon, H, Cassady, KE, Chamberlain JD, Simmonite, M, Foerster B, Petrou, M, Seidler RD, Taylor SF, Weissman D, & Polk TA (2017). Age-related declines in neural distinctiveness and GABA concentrations in auditory cortex. Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience.

Cassady, KE, Gagnon, H, Chamberlain JD, Lalwani PS, Simmonite, M, Foerster B, Petrou, M, Seidler RD, Taylor SF, Weissman D, & Polk TA (2017). Aging in the somatosensory system: Neural distinctiveness, GABA concentration and tactile function. Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience.

Simmonite M, Lövdén M, Lalwani PS, Chamberlain JD, Polk TA (2017). Independent components of neural activation before and after 100 days of cognitive training. Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience.

Chamberlain JD, Gagnon, H, Lalwani PS, Cassady, KE, Simmonite, M, Foerster B, Petrou, M, Seidler RD, Taylor SF, Weissman D, & Polk TA (2017). Neural distinctiveness and GABA concentrations in the aging ventral visual

cortex. Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience. Khammash D, Simmonite, M, Polk, TA, Taylor, SF, & Meehan, SK (2017). Probing GABAergic function in the visual cortex with transcranial magnetic stimulation. Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience.

Simmonite M., Lövdén M., Lalwani P., Chamberlain J., & Polk T.A. (2017). Independent components of neural activation before and after 100 days of cognitive training. Dallas Aging and Cognition Conference.

Kang, Y., Pandey, P., Cooper, N., Scholz, C., O'Donnell, M. B., Elliott, A. M., Pegors, T. K., Lieberman, M. D., Taylor, S. E., Strecher, V. J., Dal Cin, S., Konrath, S., Polk, T., Resnicow, K., An, L., & Falk, E. B (2017). Increasing

receptivity to health communications: Effects of self-transcendence and


affirmation priming on neural responses to health messages and behavior change. International Communication Association, San Diego, California.

Cooke K.A., Iordan A.D., Moored K.D., Katz B., Buschkuehl M., Jaeggi S.M., Polk T.A., Peltier S.J., Jonides J., & Reuter-Lorenz P.A. (2017). Evaluating CRUNCH: Age differences in the neural response to varying working memory demand. Dallas Aging and Cognition Conference. Polk T.A., Carp J.M., Foerster B.R., Ossher L., Petrou M., Simmonite M., & Weissman D.H. (2016). GABA levels in occipital cortex decline with age and correlate with fluid processing ability. Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience.

Polk, T.A. (2016). Independent components of neural activation during COGITO tasks. The COGITO Study: Looking at 100 Days Ten Years After. MPI for Human Development, Berlin, Germany. Simmonite M., Wang C., & Polk, T.A. (2016). Independent components of

neural activation during reading and their relationship to behavior. Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience.

Cooke K.A., Iordan A.D., Moored K.D., Katz B., Buschkuehl M., Jaeggi S.M., Polk T.A., Peltier S.J., Jonides J., & Reuter-Lorenz P.A. (2016). Neural response to varying working memory demand in young and old adults: Evidence for CRUNCH. Annual Meeting of the Psychonomics Society. Polk, T.A. (2016). Age-related changes in neural distinctiveness. Symposium on the Optimization of Learning and Teaching. Mississippi State University.

Polk, T.A. (2016). Age-related changes in neural distinctiveness: Scope, causes, and consequences. Max Planck Institute for Human Development. Berlin, Germany.

Polk, T.A. (2016). Age-related changes in neural distinctiveness: Scope,

causes, and consequences. Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience Forum, University of Michigan.

Polk T.A. (2016). What will our legacy be? Keynote Address at the University of

Michigan Honors Convocation.

Polk, T.A. (2016). Aging: It’s not what you think. TEDxUofM (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wrTIS0uKg6o&t=7s). Polk, T.A. (2015). The effects of nature, nurture, and age on neural specialization. Invited talk at Cognitive Development Society preconference

(Early development, conceptual change, and continuity: Insights from cognitive neuroscience).

Cooke K.A., Katz B., Moored K.D., Buschkuehl M., Jaeggi S.M., Peltier S.J., Polk T.A., Jonides J., & Reuter-Lorenz, P.A. (2015). Practice based

malleability of verbal working memory performance. Annual Meeting of the Psychonomics Society.

Polk, T. A. (2015). Age-related changes in neural distinctiveness: Scope,

causes, and consequences. Interdisciplinary Conference on Human Performance.

Polk, T. A. (2015). Brain aging and what you can do about it. Center for Forensic Psychiatry, Saline, MI.


Polk, T.A. (2015). Brain aging and what you can do about it. Ann Arbor District Library Community Talk Series, Ann Arbor, MI. Polk, T.A. (2015). Brain aging and what you can do about it. Derbyshire Baptist Church, Richmond, VA. Kleemeyer, M., Polk, T. A., Schaefer, S., Brechtel, L., Krüll, M., & Lindenberger, U. (2014). Training-induced fitness changes correlate with changes in neural distinctiveness in old age. Paper presented at the Human Brain Mapping meeting.

Schuck NW, Doeller CF, Polk TA, Lindenberger U, & Li SC (2013). Human aging alters neural computations and representations during spatial navigation. Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience.

Polk TA (2013). The science of effective practice. CogFog Meeting, UCLA

Psychology Department.

Polk TA (2013). The influence of nature and nurture on the neural processing of words and numbers. CogFog Meeting, UCLA Psychology Department.

Polk TA (2013). The neuroscience of consciousness. Amaizin’ Blue Preview Event, University of Michigan.

Polk TA (2013). The influence of nature and nurture on the neural processing of words and numbers. Interdisciplinary Conference on Human Performance.

Polk TA (2012). Candidate neural endophenotypes of reading and dyslexia. Interdisciplinary Conference on Human Performance. Polk TA (2012). The neuroscience of temptation. All-Pastors conference of the Michigan District, Lutheran Church Missouri Synod. Polk TA (2012). The neuroscience of consciousness. Professors Reaching Out For Students (PROFS) lecture series. Mortar Board Honor Society, University of Michigan. Polk TA (2012). The effects of age on brain specialization. Invited talk in the Institute of Gerontology Series, Wayne State University. Park J, Park D, & Polk, T (2012). Parietal functional connectivity in numerical cognition. Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience.

Jasinska AJ, Yasuda M, Rhodes RE, Wang C, & Polk TA (2012). Impact of threat and reward distracters on neural correlates of cognitive control. Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience. Haemmerer D, Schuck NW, Heekeren HR, Lindenberger U, Polk TA, & Li SC (2012). Adult age differences in the attentional control of representational distinctiveness. Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience.

Wang C, Jasinska A, Park J, Burmeister M, Carlisle J, Craig H, Hensel S, Liu J, Morrison F, Nair S, Plonsker J, Welsh R, & Polk TA (2012). Comparing different neural markers of developmental dyslexia and reading ability. Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society.


Polk TA (2011). The effects of age on brain specialization. Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience Forum Series, University of Michigan Psychology Department. Wang C, Jasinska A, Park J, Carlisle J, Craig H, Hensel S, Leitman S, Morrison F, Nair S, Plonsker J, & Polk TA (2011). An analysis of the ability of different neural markers to predict reading ability. Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society. Polk TA (2011). Five questions about dedifferentiation and age. Invited colloquium at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany.

Polk TA (2011). The General Linear Model. UofM Training Course in fMRI. Polk TA (2011). Introduction to Neuroscience and Neuroimaging. University of Michigan Summer Institute in Cultural Neuroscience.

Polk, T.A. (2011). The Social & Cognitive Neuroscience Core of the Michigan

Center for Excellence in Cancer Communications Research (CECCR). Annual Meeting of the University of Michigan CECCR.

Jasinska AJ, Chua HF, Ho SS, Polk TA, Rozek LS, Angstadt M, Strecher VJ. (2011). Neural mediators of serotonin transporter gene effects on smoking cessation. Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society. Polk TA (2011). Review of statistical fundamentals. UofM Training Course in fMRI. Polk TA (2011). The effects of age on brain specialization. Invited colloquium at the Internationales Begegnungszentrum der Wissenschaft e.V. (IBZ), Berlin, Germany. Polk, T.A. (2010). The influence of nature, nurture, and age on the neural architecture of vision. Invited talk at the UCLA Department of Psychology. Park, J., Polk, T.A., Hebrank, A., & Park, D.C. (2010). Neural segregation of letters and numbers. Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience. Jasinska, A.J., Chua, H.F., Ho, S.H.S., Polk, T.A., Rozek, L. & Strecher, V.J. (2010). Activation within the self-related processing network to tailored health messages mediates the influence of the STin2 genotype on smoking cessation outcome. Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience.

Jasinska AJ, Chua HF, Ho SS, Rozek LS, Polk TA, Strecher VJ. (2010). Impact of genetic variation in the serotonin system on smoking cessation: Identifying the brain mediators with functional MRI. 60th Annual Meeting of the American

Society of Human Genetics. Jasinska AJ, Chua HF, Ho SS, Polk TA, Rozek LS, Strecher VJ. (2010). The response in the dorsomedial prefrontal cortex to tailored health messages mediates the influence of STin2 genotype on smoking cessation outcome.

Annual Meeting of the Michigan Chapter of the Society for Neuroscience.

Park, J., Shedden, K., & Polk, T.A. (2010). Intraclass correlation of spatial datasets: An application to a neuroimaging study of twins. Human Brain Mapping.


Polk, T.A. (2010). The influence of nature, nurture, and age on the neural architecture of vision. CCN Area Forum, University of Michigan. Polk, T.A. (2010). Age-related decline in neural specialization and its behavioral consequences. Dallas Aging and Cognition Conference. Park, J., Carp, J., Hebrank, A., Park, D.C., & Polk, T.A. (2010). Neural specialization predicts fluid processing ability (but not crystallized knowledge) in older adults. Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society. Park J., Shedden, K., & Polk, T.A. (2010). Intraclass correlation of spatial datasets: An application to a neuroimaging study of twins. Annual Meeting of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping.

Jasinska, A., Polk, T.A., Fitzgerald, K.D, & Taylor, S.F. (2010). Dissociable effects of threat-related distracters during high and low cognitive interference: Threat-distracter MSIT. Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society.

Polk, T.A. (2009). Neural specialization and aging. Invited talk at the Center for Vital Longevity. University of Texas at Dallas. Carp, J.M., Polk, T.A., Park, J., Park, D.C. (2009). Age-related decline in visual coding is revealed by multi-voxel pattern analysis. Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience.

Polk, T.A. (2009). What cognitive psychology can teach us about teaching. Center for Research on Learning and Teaching, University of Michigan.

Polk, T.A. (2009). Attention enhances the neural processing of relevant features and suppresses the processing of irrelevant features in humans: An fMRI study of the Stroop task. Interdisciplinary Conference on Human Performance. Houston, TX.

Polk, T.A., Drake, R., Jonides, J., Smith, M., Smith, E. (2009). Attention enhances the neural processing of relevant features and suppresses the processing of irrelevant features in humans: An fMRI study of the Stroop task.

Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society.

Polk, T.A. (2009). Nature, nurture, and age in the neural architecture of cognition. Institute for Creative Technology at the University of Southern California. Newman, L.I. & Polk, T.A. (2009). How nature shapes nurture: A computational account of genetic influences on the neural substrates of face processing. Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society. Park, J., Zhu, J., & Polk, T.A. (2009). A better approach to identifying functional regions of interest: Using ridge logistic regression for voxel selection. Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society.

Polk, T.A. (2008). Podcasting 101. Center for Research on Learning and Teaching, University of Michigan.

Polk, T.A. (2008). What cognitive psychology can teach us about teaching. Center for Research on Learning and Teaching, University of Michigan. Polk, T.A. (2008). Using technology to promote peer editing. Provost’s Seminar on Teaching, University of Michigan.


Polk, T.A. (2008). What science has, and hasn’t, taught us about consciousness. Lecture in the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute Lecture Series. Polk, T.A., Park, J., Smith, M., & Park, D.C. (2008) Nature vs. nurture in ventral visual cortex: An fMRI study of twins. Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society. Newman, L.I. & Polk, T.A. (2008). The emergence of semantic topography and category-specific impairments in a neurally-inspired computational model. Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society. Hall, J.L., Berman, M.G., Magnotta, V.A., Damasio, H., Polk, T.A., & Preston, S.D. (2008). Behavioral and neural correlates of empathy in depression. Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society.

Polk, T.A. (2007). Neural reorganization in humans: Neuroimaging, behavioral, and computational studies. Interdisciplinary Conference on Human Performance. Lakeside, CA.

Polk, T.A. (2007). Are humans meat machines? What cognitive neuroscience has, and hasn’t, taught us about consciousness. UM Socratic Club. Newman, L.I. & Polk, T.A. (2006). The emergence of semantic representations from topographic sensory maps. Annual Conference on Computational Cognitive Neuroscience.

Polk, T.A. (2006). Are humans meat machines? What science has, and hasn’t, learned about consciousness. Science & Christianity Lecture Series, U of Mich.

Polk, T.A. (2005). The effects of age and experience on the neural architecture of high-level vision. 6th Schloessmann Seminar on the Cognitive Neuroscience of Human Ontogeny. Polk, T.A. (2005). Nature and nurture in the neural organization of high-level vision. Interdisciplinary Conference on Human Performance.

Polk, T.A. (2005). Nature and nurture in the neural organization of high-level vision. Cognition & Perception Forum Series, University of Michigan Psychology Department.

Polk, T.A., Park, D.C., & Smith, M.R. (2004). The role of heredity in cortical responses to faces, places, and words: An fMRI study of identical and fraternal twins. Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience. Behensky. C.K., Polk, T.A., Shatz, M., & Lewis, R.L. (2004). An fMRI investigation of how age of acquisition & proficiency affect the neural organization of first- and second-language production. Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society.

Drake, R.M., Polk, T.A., Jonides, J., Smith, E.E., & Smith, M.R. (2004). The neural substrates of attention effects in the Stroop task. Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society.

Polk, T.A. (2004). Nature and nurture in the neural organization of high-level vision. Fall Symposium of the UofM functional MRI Laboratory.

Hamilton, J.P., Polk, T.A., & Smith, M.R. (2004). Neural specialization for an acquired visuomotor skill: An fMRI study of typing. Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society.


Polk, T.A. (2003). A hands-on introduction to fMRI data analysis. Weeklong workshop at the University of Michigan. Minear, M., Polk, T.A., Welsh, R.C., & Park, D.C. (2003). Activation of the fusiform face area in older and younger adults: Does the age of faces matter? Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience. Khanna, M.M., Smith, M.R., Vannest, J., & Polk, T.A. (2003). Domain specific knowledge systems in the brain: The case for numbers. Society for Neuroscience. Simen, P.A., Freedman, E.G., Lewis, R.L., & Polk, T.A. (2003). Sequence learning in model frontostriatal circuits. Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience. Polk, T.A. (2003). Age-related and experience-dependent changes in the neural architecture of cognition. Spring Academy of the International Max Planck Research School “The Life Course: Evolutionary and Ontogenetic Dynamics (LIFE)”.

Polk, T.A. (2003). Changes in the neural organization of cognition: Neuroimaing, computational, and behavioral studies. Brain, Mind, & Culture Conference. Berlin, Germany.

Polk, T.A., Park, D.C., Park, R.P., Minear, M., & Savage, A.E. (2003). Aging reduces neural selectivity in ventral visual cortex. Interdisciplinary Conference on Human Performance.

Vannest, J., Polk, T.A. & Lewis, R. L. (2003). Decompositional processing of derived words: An fMRI study. Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society. Lewis, R. L., Vannest, J. & Polk, T.A (2003). Bilateral effects of varying syntactic working memory load: An fMRI study of reading center-embedding and garden path sentences. Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society. Vannest, J., Lewis, R. L. & Polk, T.A. (2003). Imaging the neural correlates of processing difficulty in center-embeddings and garden paths: What matters is structural working memory load, not ambiguity. Poster presentation at the 2003 CUNY Conference on Sentence Processing.

Simen, P., Polk, T.A., Lewis, R. L., & Freedman, E. (2003). Modeling executive control, problem solving, and sequencing in neural networks. Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society.

Polk, T.A. (2003). Using neuroimaging to watch the brain think. Michigan Mortar Board’s Professors Reaching Out For Students (PROFS) lecture.

Vannest, J., Lewis, R.L. and Polk, T.A. (2002). Neural correlates of sentence processing difficulty. Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience.

Simen, P., Polk, T. A., Lewis, R. L., & Freedman, E. (2002). An explicit model of executive control in complex cognition. Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience. Behensky, C.K., Polk, T.A., Pond, H., Shatz, M., Zhang, J., & Frisch, S.A. (2002). The neural substrates of language production in late bilinguals: A


functional magnetic resonance imaging study. Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience. Park, D.C., Minear, M., Park, R.P., Savage, A.E., & Polk, T.A. (2002). Decreased neural selectivity with age for faces, places, and pseudowords in ventral visual cortex. Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience. Hamilton, P. & Polk, T.A. (2002). Reasserting the role of category differences in the alphanumeric category effect. Annual Meeting of the Psychonomics Society. Polk, T.A. (2002). The effects of experience on cognitive brain organization. Fall Symposium of the UofM Functional MRI Laboratory.

Park, D., Welsh, R., Marshuetz, C., Mikels, J., Hall-Gutchess, A., & Polk, T. A. (2002). Age differences in maintenance and retrieval of pictures in working

memory. 9th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society.

Jones, M. & Polk, T.A. (2002). A recurrent network model of verbal working memory. 9th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society. Polk, T.A. (2002). Neural specialization for letter recognition. 9th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society.

Polk, T.A. (2002). A computational approach to control in complex cognition. Invited talk at Cognitive Neuroscience Society Satellite Symposium.

Simen, P., Polk, T.A., Lewis, R.L., & Freedman, E. (2002). A recurrent network model of executive control in the Tower of London task. 9th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society. Polk, T.A. (2002). Environmental effects on the neural organization of cognition: Behavioral, computational, and fMRI studies. University of Illinois Psychology Department.

Polk, T.A. (2002). Using Powerpoint in Teaching. Talk presented at Michigan teaching workshop entitled, Using PowerPoint to Enhance Classroom Lectures and Demonstrations.

Polk, T.A., Behensky, C., Pond, H., Frisch, S., Shatz, M., & Zhang, J. (2001). Differential lateralization in first- versus second-language processing: An fMRI study. Annual Meeting of the Psychonomics Society. Polk, T.A., & Jones, M. (2001). An explicit model of verbal working memory in serial recall. 31st Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience.

Park, D.C., Marshuetz, C., Welsh, R.C., Hall-Gutchess, A., Mikels, J., Noll, D., Polk, T.A., & Taylor, S.F. (2001). On patterns of neural activity when performance is matched: An event-related fMRI study of the maintenance of

complex scenes in working memory in young and old. 31st Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience.

Polk, T.A. (2001). Building a Unified Theory of Cognition from the brain up. 21st Soar Workshop. Polk, T.A. (2001). The attraction of attractors for verbal working memory. University of Michigan AI Seminar.


Polk, T.A. (2001). Reading in the brain. Talk presented to Dean Shirley Neumann as part of Psychology Department presentations. Polk, T.A. (2000). The attraction of attractors for working memory and executive control. Cognitive Science and Cognitive Neuroscience Program Workshop. Polk, T.A. (2000). The attraction of attractors for cognitive science. International Conference on Human Performance. Behensky, C., Polk, T.A., Gonzalez, R., & Smith, E. (2000). Understanding and manipulating asymmetries in similarity judgment. 7th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society.

Polk, T.A., Reed, C.L., Keenan, J., Hogarth, P., & Anderson, C.A. (1999). A semantic deficit for numbers: A case of acalculia. 29th Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience.

Polk, T.A., Wallace, S., & Windeler, B. (1999). An explicit model of verbal working memory in serial recall. Annual Meeting of the Psychonomics Society. Polk, T.A., Lewis, R.L., & Hamilton, J.P. (1999). An explicit model of prefrontal control and deficits. 6th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society. Polk, T.A. (1999). Environmental influences on the neural organization of cognition. International Conference on Human Performance.

Polk, T.A. (1998). Environmental influences on the neural organization of cognition. Conferences Jacques Monod, Aussois, France.

Polk, T.A., Lewis, R.L., & Hamilton, J.P. (1998). An explicit model of prefrontal executive control. 28th Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience. Polk, T.A., Krauss, D., Nelson, J., Pond, H., Raheja, A., & Farah. M.J. (1998). The development of abstract letter identities: Evidence for a contextual hypothesis. Annual Meeting of the Psychonomics Society. Geva, A. & Polk, T.A. (1998). Testing the dual route reading hypothesis using functional magnetic resonance imaging. 5th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society. Reed, C., Polk, T.A., Keenan, J., Hogarth, P. & Anderson, C. (1998). A case of acalculia. 5th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society. Polk, T.A. & Farah, M.J. (1997). The development of abstract letter and word forms: Theory and model. 4th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society.

Polk, T.A., Stallcup, M., Aguirre, G., Alsop, D., D’Esposito, M., Detre, J., Zarahn, E., & Farah, M.J. (1996). Abstract, not just visual, orthographic knowledge encoded in extrastriate cortex: An fMRI study. 26th Annual Meeting

of the Society for Neuroscience.

Farah, M.J., Polk, T.A., Stallcup, M., Aguirre, G., Alsop, D., D’Esposito, M., Detre, J., & Zarahn, E. (1996). Localization of a fine-grained category of shape: An extrastriate letter area revealed by fMRI. 26th Annual Meeting of

the Society for Neuroscience.


Polk, T.A. & Farah, M. (1996). The genesis of ‘letter’ and ‘digit’ areas in visual cortex: Behavioral evidence from Canadian-mail sorters. Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society.

Polk, T.A. & Farah, M. (1993). The development of modularity for arbitrary stimulus categories in a Hebbian self-organizing network. 23rd Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience.

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