Vitae
CRAIG MARTIN BENNETT
Curriculum Vitae
Department of Psychology
University of California, Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, CA 93106-9660
Education
Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
PhD., Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, April, 2008
Dissertation: “The Integration of Higher Cognition and Internal State Across Development”
Advisors: Abigail A. Baird, George L. Wolford
University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS
B.S., Cognitive Psychology, May, 2003
Research Interests
My research interests are diverse but focus on issues in developmental cognitive neuroscience and magnetic resonance imaging methods. Specifically, I am interested in how emotional information is integrated with higher cognitive processes and how this integration matures across adolescence and young adulthood. I believe that this form of information processing is important for efficient cognition and may be related to developmental changes observed in adolescent choice behavior.
Academic Positions
Postdoctoral Researcher, University of California Santa Barbara, 2008-Present
Institute for Collaborative Biotechnologies
Advisor: Michael Miller
Research Assistant, University of Kansas, 2001-2003
Psycholinguistics & Event Related Potentials Lab
Sponsor: Dr. Ruth Ann Atchley
Research Assistant, University of Kansas, 2002
University of Kansas Child Memory Center
Sponsor: Dr. Andrea Greenhoot
Honors and Awards
Nominee, AAAS/Science Program for Excellence in Science, March 2008
Graduate Alumni Research Award, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, May 2007
Wisconsin Symposium on Emotion Fellow, HealthEmotions Research Institute, April 2007
Outstanding Oral Presentation, 21st Annual Neuroscience Day, Dartmouth College, February 2007
Invited Poster, Pittsburgh Brain Activity Interpretation Competition, Florence, Italy, June 2006
Honorable Mention, 2005 National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship
Travel Award, 2nd Conference on Emerging Adulthood, Miami, FL, February 2005
Honorable Mention, 2004 National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship
High Distinction, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences, University of Kansas, 2003
Bennett, CM, Baird AA. (2006). Anatomical Changes in the Emerging Adult Brain:
A Voxel-Based Morphometry Study. Human Brain Mapping. 27(9):766-777.
Bennett CM, Baird AA. The relation of neuroanatomical change and general emotional sensitivity in emerging adulthood. Manuscript in preparation.
Baird, A.A., Fugelsang, J.A., Bennett, C.M. “What were you thinking”? A neural signature associated with reasoning in adolescence. Manuscript in preparation.
Software
Bennett, CM. (2004). Zephyr: Data management and batch processing tool for neuroimaging with SPM2. http://diddy.dartmouth.edu/zephyr
Bennett, CM. (2002). Stat-FS: Web-based questionnaire administration, management, and analysis using a relational database management system.
Public Lecture and Symposium Presentations
Invited talk, Woodstock Conference on Educational Neuroscience, June 2007
Invited talk, VT Coalition of Runaway & Homeless Youth Programs, May 2007
Invited talk, VSAC Symposium on Gender and Education, March 2007
Invited testimony, NH House of Representatives, Criminal Justice Committee, February 2007
Oral presentation, 21st Annual Neuroscience Day, Dartmouth College, February 2007
Invited talk, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center School Health Symposium, January 2007
Functional MRI Brown Bag Series, Dartmouth College, January 2007
Invited talk, Planned Parenthood of Northern New England Education & Training, November 2006
Invited talk, Neuroscience SIG, American Educational Research Association Conference, April 2006
Cognitive Psychology Brown Bag Series, Dartmouth College, January & May 2006, February 2007
Symposium chair, 2nd Conference on Emerging Adulthood, Miami, FL, February 2005
Oral presentation, 19th Annual Neuroscience Day, Dartmouth College, February 2005
Social Brain Science Colloquium, Dartmouth College, January 2005
Graduate Research Roundtable, Dartmouth College, March 2004, May 2005, February 2006
Conference Poster Presentations
15th Annual Cognitive Neuroscience Society Meeting, San Francisco, CA, April 2008
13th Annual Meeting of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping, Chicago, IL, June 2007
14th Annual Cognitive Neuroscience Society Meeting, New York, NY, May 2007
21st Annual Neuroscience Day, Dartmouth College, February 2007
12th Annual Meeting of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping, Florence, Italy, June 2006
20th Annual Neuroscience Day, Dartmouth College, February 2006
11th Annual Meeting of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping, Toronto, Canada, June 2005
12th Annual Cognitive Neuroscience Society Meeting, New York, NY, April 2005
19th Annual Neuroscience Day, Dartmouth College, February 2005
Conference and Forum Participation
15th Annual Cognitive Neuroscience Society Meeting, San Francisco, CA, April 2008
22nd Annual Neuroscience Day, Dartmouth College, February 2008
UCLA Advanced Neuroimaging Summer School, Los Angeles, CA, August 2007
BrainVoyager Advanced Instruction Course, London, Ontario, June 2007
13th Annual Meeting of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping, Chicago, IL, June 2007
14th Annual Cognitive Neuroscience Society Meeting, New York, NY, May 2007
13th Annual Wisconsin Symposium on Emotion, Madison, WI, April 2007
21st Annual Neuroscience Day, Dartmouth College, February 2007
12th Annual Meeting of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping, Florence, Italy, June 2006
Advanced Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Course, Florence, Italy, June 2006
Dartmouth Team Leader, Pittsburgh Brain Activity Interpretation Competition, May 2006
13th Annual Cognitive Neuroscience Society Meeting, San Francisco, CA, April 2006
20th Annual Neuroscience Day, Dartmouth College, February 2006
11th Annual Meeting of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping, Toronto, Canada, June 2005
NA-MIC Slicer Short Course, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, 2005
12th Annual Cognitive Neuroscience Society Meeting, New York, NY, April 2005
Statistical Parametric Mapping Short Course, Yale University, New Haven, CT, April 2005
2nd Conference on Emerging Adulthood, Miami, FL, February 2005
19th Annual Neuroscience Day, Dartmouth College, February 2005
18th Annual Summer Institute in Cognitive Neuroscience, Hanover, NH, June 2004
11th Annual Cognitive Neuroscience Society Meeting, San Francisco, CA, April 2004
1st Conference on Emerging Adulthood, Boston, MA, November 2003
Peer Review
Article Reviewer, Neuroimage, 2007
Abstract Reviewer, 13th Annual Meeting of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping, 2007
Abstract Reviewer, 12th Annual Meeting of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping, 2006
Teaching Experience
Teaching Assistant, Developmental Psychology – Summer 2006
Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences, Dartmouth College
Teaching Assistant, Methods in Psychology – Winter 2006
Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences, Dartmouth College
Teaching Assistant: Abnormal Psychology - Spring 2004, Fall 2004
Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences, Dartmouth College
Science and Technology Instructor – Summer 1999-2008
Discover Technology Program, University of Kansas Educational Talent Search
Professional Affiliations
Society for Research on Adolescence 2003 - Present
Organization for Human Brain Mapping 2004 - Present
Cognitive Neuroscience Society 2004 - Present
Association for Psychological Science 2006 - Present
New York Academy of Sciences 2006 - 2008
American Psychological Association 2003 - 2008