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Adam Felton
Curriculum Vitae
Email: afelt001@ucr.edu
Department of Psychology
University of California, Riverside
Riverside, CA 92521
Education
2010 – Present
Doctoral Candidate, Cognitive Psychology, University of California
Riverside, Riverside, CA.
Anticipated graduation date: Spring 2016
2009, May
M.A., Cognitive and Social Processes, Ball State University.
Master’s Thesis: The Effect of Mood on Language Interpretation
Chair: Dr. Thomas Holtgraves, Department of Psychological Science
2005, March
B.A., Information Systems, Indiana Tech, Fort Wayne, IN.
2004, March
A.A.S., Computer Information Systems, Specialties in Networking,
CISCO Networking, and Programming, Ivy Tech, Fort Wayne, IN.
Honors and Awards
University of California Riverside Graduate Dean’s Dissertation Research Grant, 2014
University of California Riverside Chancellor’s Fellowship, 2010
Graduated Magna Cum Laude Indiana Tech, 2005
Indiana Tech Dean’s List, 2004-2005
Graduated Magna Cum Laude Ivy Tech, 2004
Ivy Tech Dean’s List 2001-2004
Allen County Scholarship, 2002-2003
Research Interests
Interhemispheric interaction and creativity
Degree of handedness and neural/behavioral correlates
Language and the brain
Involvement of the right hemisphere in the processing of pragmatics
Conformity
Research Experience
September 2010 – Present
Graduate Student, Cognitive Neuroscience Lab, Supervised by Dr.
Christine Chiarello
The association between interhemispheric interaction and cognitive processes, such as creativity
Differences in cognitive processes as a function of handedness
Analysis of structural MRI and reading/language tasks
August 2006 – July 2008
Research Assistantship, Department of Psychological Science, Ball
State University
Manipulation of hemispheric activation and relationship to pragmatics
Hemispheric lateralization as an individual difference
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Lateralization of pragmatics
Lateralization of emotion words via visual field lexical decision task
Research Skills
Psyscope
SAS, SPSS, R, and AMOS
SPM
Freesurfer
UNIX scripting
Matlab
E-prime (Psychology Software Tools)
Advanced statistics classes in data management and multivariate analysis
Teaching Experience
Teaching Assistantship, Department of Psychology, University of California Riverside, 2011 – present
Introductory Psychology 1 (neuro/cognitive);
Introductory Psychology 2 (developmental/personality/abnormal/social)
Psychological Methods – Statistical Procedures
Psychological Methods – Research Procedures
Human Neuropsychology
Skepticism and Pseudoscience in Psychology
Psychology and Sociology Instructor, School of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Ivy Tech Community
College, Fort Wayne, IN, 2008 – present
Introduction to Psychology
Lifespan Development
Introduction to Sociology
Introduction to Social Psychology
Introduction to Microcomputers
First Year Seminar
Critical Thinking
Online Learning Technologies
Online classes: Introduction to Psychology; Lifespan Development
Psychology Instructor, Indiana Tech, Fort Wayne, IN, Fall 2009
Understanding Diversity
Teaching assistantship, Department of Psychological Science, Ball State University, Muncie, IN, 2006 –
2008
Orientation to Psychology as a Major, instructor Kelly Fischer
Introduction to the Study of Personality, instructor Rachel Blalock
Guest lecturer (Evolutionary Psychology & Cognitive Components of Personality)
Abnormal Psychology, instructor Rachel Blalock
Guest lecturer (History of Psychopathology)
Psychology of Women, instructor Rachel Blalock
Service
Supervised undergraduate research projects University of California Riverside
Organized graduate student panel for undergraduates at University of California Riverside
Ball State University Psi Chi graduate student panels for undergraduate majors, 2006-2008
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Met with potential freshman and graduate students at Ball State University as liaison for department
Professional Memberships
Cognitive Neuroscience Society
Society for the Neurobiology of Language
Association for Psychological Science
Society for Personality and Social Psychology
Publications
Chiarello, C., Vazquez, D., Felton, A., & Leonard, C. (2013). Structural asymmetry of anterior
insula: Behavioral correlates and individual differences. Brain and Language, 126, 109-122.
Holtgraves, T., & Felton, A. (2011). Hemispheric asymmetry in the processing of negative and
positive words: A divided field study. Cognition and Emotion, 25, 691-699.
Submitted Publications
Vazquez, D., Ramos, A.I., Felton, A., Greene, M.R., McDowell, A., Hernandez, A.E., & Chiarello, C.
(SUBMITTED). Bilingualism influences structural indices of interhemispheric organization.
Cerebral Cortex.
Publications in Preparation
Chiarello, C., Felton, A., McDowell, A., & Vazquez, D. Variability of cortical structures.
Felton, A., & Sweeny, K. Conformity in the perceptions of attractiveness.
McDowell, A., Felton, A., Vazquez, D., & Chiarello, C. Neurostructural correlates of consistent and
weak handedness.
Presentations
1. Vaughn, K.A., Ramos-Nunez, A.I., Greene, M.R., Vazquez, D., Felton, A., Chiarello, C., &
Hernandez, A.E. (May, 2015). Cortical thickness in the cognitive control network, task
switching, and bilingualism. Poster presented at Workshop on Bilingualism and Executive
Function: An Interdisciplinary Approach. CUNY Graduate Center, New York.
2. Vazquez, D., Ramos, A.I., Felton, A., Greene, M.R., McDowell, A., Hernandez, A.E., &
Chiarello, C. (Forthcoming). Structural indices of interhemispheric organization: Influence
of bilingualism. Poster presented at the Montreal Bilingual Brain Initiative Symposium.
Montreal, Quebec.
3. Chiarello, C., Ramos, A.I., Vazquez, D., Greene, M.R., Felton, A., McDowell, A., Hernandez,
A.E. (March, 2015) Bilinguals demonstrate increased corpus callosum volume. Poster
presented at the 2015 Cognitive Neuroscience Society Annual Meeting. San Francisco, CA.
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4. Vazquez, D., Daily, A., Felton, A., & Chiarello, C. (November, 2014) . Vertex- and
parcellations-level analyses of IQ and cortical folding. Presented at the Psychonomic
Society, 55th Annual Meeting. Long Beach, CA.
5. Chiarello, C., Ramos, A.I., Vazquez, D., Ravid, M., Daily, A., Felton, A., & Hernandez, A.E.
(August, 2014). Thickness asymmetry in language-relevant cortex: Effects of bilingualism.
Presented at 6th Annual Meeting, Society of the Neurobiology of Language, Amsterdam.
6. Vingerhoets, G., Felton, A., Vazquez, D., Van der Haegen, L., & Chiarello, C. (2014). Different
insular asymmetry patterns in individuals with typical and atypical speech dominance. Poster to be
presented at the Organization for Human Brain Mapping annual meeting, Hamburg, Germany.
7. Felton, A., & Chiarello, C. (2014, April). Handedness differences in personality and creativity.
Poster presented at the Western Psychological Association, Portland, OR.
8. Felton, A., & Chiarello, C. (2014, April). Hand preference, hand performance, and creativity. Poster
presented at the Cognitive Neuroscience Society annual meeting, Boston, MA.
9. Vazquez, D., Ranasinghe, O., Felton, A., Daily, A., & Chiarello, C. (2014, April). Individual
variability in cortical structure I: Not uniform across cortical subregions. Poster presented at the
Cognitive Neuroscience Society annual meeting, Boston, MA.
10. Chiarello, C., Vazquez, D., Felton, A., & Daily, A. (2014, April). Individual variability in cortical
structure II: Investigating a potential role for degree of postnatal surface area expansion. Poster
presented at the Cognitive Neuroscience Society annual meeting, Boston, MA.
11. Daily, A., Vazquez, D., Felton, A., & Chiarello, C. (2014, April). Individual differences in cortical
structure III: Variability predicts degree of structural hemispheric asymmetry. Poster presented at the
Cognitive Neuroscience Society annual meeting, Boston, MA.
12. Felton, A., Holtgraves, T., & Vazquez, D. (2013, April). Handedness and creativity: Mixed handers
more creative. Poster presented at the Cognitive Neuroscience Society annual meeting, San
Francisco, CA.
13. Chiarello, C., Vazquez, D., Daily, A., Felton, A., Leonard, C. (2013, April). A whole-brain analysis
of cortical asymmetries. Poster presented at the Cognitive Neuroscience Society annual meeting, San
Francisco, CA.
14. Chiarello, C., Felton, A., Vazquez, D., Leonard, C. M. (2012, October). A factor analysis of cortical
surface area asymmetries. Poster presented at the Neurobiology of Language Conference annual
meeting, San Sebastian, Spain.
15. Chiarello, C., Vazquez, D., Felton, A., Leonard, C. (2012, March). Role of insular cortex in language
lateralization. Poster presented at the Cognitive Neuroscience Society annual meeting, Chicago, IL.
16. Felton, A., Sweeny, K., & Luther, D. (2012, January). Who’s hot and who’s not: Conformity in
attractiveness ratings. Poster presented at the Society for Personality and Social Psychology annual
meeting, San Diego, CA.
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17. Chiarello, C., Felton, A., Vazquez, D., Leonard, C. (2011, November). Gray matter correlates of
variation of adult reading skill. Poster presented at the Neurobiology of Language Conference,
Washington D.C.
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18. Felton, A., Vazquez, D., Leonard, C. M., & Chiarello, C. (2011, October). Neurostructural correlates
of adult reading skill. Poster presented at The Psychonomic Society annual meeting, Seattle, WA.
19. Chiarello, C., Felton, A., Vazquez, D., Leonard, C. (2011, March). Gray matter correlates of adult
reading skill: An exploratory voxel-based analysis. Poster presented at the Southern California
Cognitive Neuroscience Meeting, Irvine, CA.
20. Felton, A., & Holtgraves, T. (2010, May). Positive affect advantage in interpretation of politeness.
Poster presented at Association for Psychological Science, Boston, MA.
21. Markham, D., Felton, A., Jacobs, N., & Holtgraves, T. (2010, May). Question wording effects on
open-ended responses: Think vs. feel. Poster presented at the Midwestern Psychological Association
conference, Chicago, IL.
22. Felton, A. D., Waters, J., Cappaert, K., & Holtgraves, T. (2008, May). The right hemisphere: A
significant role in the comprehension of indirect replies. Poster presented at the 20th annual meeting
of the Association for Psychological Science, Chicago, IL.
23. Waters, J., Cappaert, K., Felton, A. D., & Holtgraves, T. (2008, May). Differential hemispheric
activation and creativity. Poster presented at the 20th annual meeting of the Association for
Psychological Science, Chicago, IL.
24. Cappaert, K., Holtgraves, T., McNamara, P., Felton, A., & Waters, J. (2008, May). Cognitive and
emotional correlates of asymmetric motor symptom severity in Parkinson’s disease. Poster presented
at the 20th annual meeting of the Association for Psychological Science, Chicago, IL.
25. Felton, A., Carr, F., Vandewalle, B., Frasure, A., McConnell, J., & Holtgraves, T. (2007, April).
Hemispheric lateralization, line perception, emotion, and pragmatic meaning. Poster presented at Ball
State University 15th Annual Psychological Science Department Research Conference.
26. Felton, A., & McConnell, J. (2007, March). Mental illness: Social factors vs. biological
determinants. Poster presented at Ball State University 12th Annual Student Symposium.
Supervised Research Projects
Sanchez, J., Felton, A., & Sweeny, K. (2012). Who’s hot and who’s not: Conformity in attractiveness
ratings.
Pangilinan, J. S. S., Tran, T. M., Saenz, C. E. Youssef, M. E., Tran, T., J., Felton, A. D., Vazquez, D., Daily,
A. J., & Chiarello, C. (2014). Early versus late bilingual interhemispheric interactions. University of
California Riverside Undergraduate Research Journal, 8, 45-49.
References
Available upon request.