Assistant Professor of Psychological & Brain Sciences
Office: Psychology 365
Lab: Psychology 289
(812) 856-0839
sdnewman@indiana.edu
See also: http://mypage.iu.edu/~sdnewman/cnilab.html

• Ph.D. 1999 University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL.Biomedical Engineering
• M.S. 1996 University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL. Biomedical Engineering
• B.E. 1993 Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN. Electrical Engineering and Mathematics

2004 Mini-Residency Program, University of Pittsburgh Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center, Pittsburgh, PA

The focus of my research is to use fMRI and the study of language and frontal lobe processes to develop a better understanding of cortical networks. This includes not only attempting to enhance the characterization of individual cortical regions, but also obtain a better understanding of how these regions coordinate their individual processing to perform complex cognitive functions.

Newman, S. D., Twieg, D. (2001). Differences in auditory processing of words and pseudowords: An fMRI study. Human Brain Mapping 14:39-47. [pdf reprint]

Newman, S. D., Twieg, D., &; Carpenter, P. A. (2001) Baseline Conditions and Subtractive Logic in Neuroimaging.Human Brain Mapping 14: 228-235. [pdf reprint]

Newman, S. D., Just, M. A., &; Carpenter, P. A. (2002). The synchronization of the human cortical working memory network. NeuroImage 15: 810-822.[pdf reprint]

Mitchell,T., Hutchinson, R., Just, M., Newman, S., Niculescu,R.S., Periera,F. & Wang, X. (2002). Machine Learning of fMRI Virtual Sensors of Cognitive States. The 16th Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, Computational Neuroimaging: Foundations, Concepts & Methods Workshop.[pdf reprint]

Newman, S. D., Just, M. A., Keller, T. A., & Roth, J. K., & Carpenter, P. A. (2003) The differential effects of syntactic and semantic processing on the two subregions of Broca's area. Cognitive Brain Research , 16/2:297-307.[pdf reprint]

Newman, S. D., Carpenter, P. A ., Varma, S., & Just, M. A. (2003) Frontal and parietal participation in problem-solving in the Tower of London: fMRI and computational modeling of planning and high-level perception. Neuropsychologia., 41 (12):1668-1682.[pdf reprint]

Newman, S., D., Just, M. A., Mason, R. A. (2003). Understanding text with the right side of the brain: what functional neuroimaging has to say. In (L.M.B. Tomitch & C. Rodrigues, Eds.) Ensaios sobre a linguagem e o cérebro humano: Contribuições multidisciplinares. pp. 71-84.

Tomitch, L.M.B., Just, M.A., Carpenter, P.A. & Newman, S. D. (2003). A neuroimagem funcional na investigação do processo de leitura. In (L.M.B. Tomitch & C. Rodrigues, Eds.) Ensaios sobre a linguagem e o cérebro humano: Contribuições multidisciplinares. pp. 167-173.

Just, M. A., Newman, S. D., Keller, T. A., McElaney, A., & Carpenter, P. A. (2004). Imagery in sentence comprehension: An fMRI study.NeuroImage[pdf preprint]

Newman, S. D. & Just, M. A. (in press). The neural bases of intelligence: a perspective based on functional neuroimaging. In (R. Sternberg, J. Davidson & J. Pretz, Eds.) Cognition & Intelligence.

Mitchell, T. M., Hutchinson, R., Niculescu, R. S., Pereira, F., Wang, X., Just, M. & Newman, S. D. (accepted). Learning to decode cognitive states from brain images.

Tomitch, L. M. B., Newman, S. D., Carpenter, P. A., Just, M. A. (submitted). Comprehending the topic of a paragraph: A functional imaging study of a complex language process.

Newman, S. D., Just, M. A., Klatzky, R. L., & Lederman, S. J. (in preparation). An fMRI comparison of haptic and visual imagery processes.