Curriculum Vitae Matthew Finkbeiner Department of Cognitive Science Macquarie University Sydney, Australia email: matthew.finkbeiner@gmail.com Education 2003-2006 Postdoctoral Fellow, Cognitive Neuropsychology Laboratory, Harvard University. Advisor: Professor Alfonso Caramazza. 2003 Ph.D. in Cognitive Science and L2 Processes, University of Arizona. Advisors: Professors Kenneth Forster and Janet Nicol 1997 Bachelor of Arts (Chinese), Arizona State University 2013 continuing Employment Associate Professor, Cognitive Science, Macquarie University, Sydney 2008-2013 Senior Research Fellow, Cognitive Science, Macquarie University, Sydney 2006-2008 Macquarie Research Fellow, Cognitive Science, Macquarie University, Sydney 2003-2006 Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Psychology, Harvard University 2004 Visiting Lecturer, Department of Psychology, Northeastern University 2002-2003 Associate Research Scientist, Cognitive Science, University of Arizona 2000-2002 Graduate Associate Teacher, Department of Psychology, University of Arizona (Psychology 101, 290, 297) 2000-2002 Graduate Associate Teacher, Department of Linguistics, University of Arizona (Linguistics 101, 211) Honors, Grants and Awards 2014-2016 Faculty Research Centre Scheme, Faculty of Human Science. Perception in Action Research Centre (PARC). $45,000. 2013-2016 Australian Future Fellowship, Australian Research Council. Dynamics of word recognition: New insight from the reach-to-touch paradigm. $586,198 2013 Macquarie Start-Up Grant Towards Future Fellowship. $99,217. 2012 Macquarie University Research Infrastructure Block Grant Scheme. Portable eye-tracker for clinical purposes. $48,288. 2011 Macquarie University Research Infrastructure Block Grant Scheme. Eye monitoring and tactile stimulations for a magnetic resonance imaging
environment. $50,000 2010 Macquarie University Research Infrastructure Block Grant Scheme. A virtual reality setup for studying hand movements. $70,000 Macquarie University Research Infrastructure Block Grant Scheme. A dual pulse magnetic stimulator for the study of brain excitation and inhibition in human movement studies. $75,000 2009 Macquarie University Research Development Grant Scheme. Developing a new technique to reveal cognitive processes in real time: initial application to visual word recognition. $49,452 Macquarie University Research Infrastructure Block Grant Scheme. Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation. $73,000 Macquarie University Research Infrastructure Block Grant Scheme. Integrating EEG and Motion Capture to better understand movements and their underlying electrophysiology. $80,000. 2008-2013 Australian Research Fellowship, Australian Research Council. Attention, Intention and Automaticity. $465,000. 2008 Award for Excellence in Research, Division of Linguistics and Psychology, Macquarie University $2,000. Macquarie University Research Infrastructure Block Grant Scheme. SonoSite Micromax Ultrasound. $62,000 Macquarie University Research Infrastructure Block Grant Scheme. 64- Channel EEG acquire and analysis system and special MEG-compatable electrode caps and cable system. $80,000 2006 Macquarie University Research Grant. Language in Action. $19,881. 2000-2002 Research Fellowship, Cognitive Science Program, The University of Arizona. 1998-99 Graduate College Fellowship, University of Arizona Linguistic Institute Tuition Scholarship, Linguistic Society of America 1996-97 Regents Graduate Tuition Scholarship 1996 H.C. Hu Award given for excellence in Chinese studies Publications Special Issues Finkbeiner, M. & Coltheart, M. (2009). Letter Recognition: From Perception to Representation. Cognitive Neuropsychology, Volume 26, Issue 1. Psychology Press. Hartsuiker, R., Costa, A. & Finkbeiner, M. (2008). Bilingualism: Functional and neural perspectives. Acta Psychologica, Volume 128, Issue 3. Journal Articles Al-Janabi, S. & Finkbeiner, M. (under review). Masked arrow cueing: an attentional or motoric effect? Quek, G. & Finkbeiner, M. (2014). Face-sex categorisation is better above-fixation than below: Evidence from the Reach-to-Touch paradigm. Cognitive, Affective and Behavioral Neuroscience, 1-13.
Al-Janabi, S. & Finkbeiner, M. (2014). Responding to the direction of the eyes: In search of the masked gazecueing effect. Attention, Perception and Psychophysics, 76(1), 148-161. Finkbeiner, M., Coltheart, M. & Coltheart, V. (2014). Pointing the way to new constraints on the dynamical claims of computational models. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance 40(1), 172-185. Finkbeiner, M. & Coltheart, M. (2014). Dismissing subliminal perception because of its famous problems is classic 'baby with the bathwater'. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 37(1), 27-27. Ocampo, B. & Finkbeiner, M. (2013). The negative compatibility effect with relevant masks: a case for automatic motor inhibition. Frontiers in Psychology 4. Langdon. R., Finkbeiner, M., Connors, M., & Connaughton, E. (2013). Masked and unmasked priming in schizophrenia. Consciousness and Cognition 22(4), 1206-1213. Friedman, J., Brown, S.D. & Finkbeiner, M. (2013). Linking cognitive and reaching trajectories via intermittent movement control. Journal of Mathematical Psychology, 57(3-4), 140-151. Kahlid, S., Finkbeiner, M., König, P., Ansorge, U. (2013). Subcortical Human Face Processing? Evidence from Masked Priming. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance 39(4), 989-1002. Quek, G. & Finkbeiner, M. (2013). Spatial and temporal attention modulate face processing: Behavioural evidence from a reaching paradigm. PLoS ONE, 8(2):e57365. Al-Janabi, S. & Finkbeiner, M. (2012). Effective processing of masked eye gaze requires volitional control. Experimental Brain Research, 216(3), 433-443. Finkbeiner, M. & Friedman, J. (2011). The flexibility of nonconsciously deployed cognitive processes: Evidence from masked congruence priming. PLoS ONE, 6(2):e17095. Finkbeiner, M. (2011). Subliminal priming with nearly perfect performance in the prime-classification task. Attention, Perception and Psychophysics, 73(4), 1255 1265 Zopf, R., Truong, S., Finkbeiner, M., Friedman, J., & Williams, M.A. (2011). Viewing and feeling touch modulates hand position for reaching. Neuropsychologia, 49(5), 1287-1293. Janssen, N., Melinger, M., Mahon, B., Finkbeiner, M. & Caramazza, A. (2010). The word class effect in the picture-word interference paradigm. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 63, 1233-1246. Mousikou, P., Coltheart, M., Finkbeiner, M., & Saunders, S. (2010). Can the dual-route cascaded computational model of reading offer a valid account of the masked onset priming effect? Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 63, 984-1003. Finkbeiner, M. & Coltheart, M. (2009). Letter recognition: From perception to representation. Cognitive Neuropsychology, 26, 1-6. Finkbeiner, M. & Palermo, R. (2009). The role of spatial attention in nonconscious processing: A comparison of face and non-face stimuli. Psychological Science, 20, 42-51. Hartsuiker, R., Costa, A. & Finkbeiner, M. (2008). Bilingualism: Functional and neural perspectives. Acta Psychologica, 128, 413-415. Knobel, M., Finkbeiner, M., & Caramazza, A. (2008). The many places of frequency: Evidence for a novel locus of the lexical frequency effect in word production. Cognitive Neuropsychology, 25, 256-286.
Finkbeiner, M., & Caramazza, A. (2008). Modulating the masked congruence priming effect with the hands and the mouth. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 34, 894-918. Finkbeiner, M., & Forster, K. I. (2008). Attention, intention and domain-specific processing. Trends in Cognitive Science, 12, 59-64. Finkbeiner, M., Song, J. H., Nakayama, K., Caramazza, A. (2008). Engaging the motor system with masked orthographic primes: A kinematic analysis. Visual Cognition, 16, 11-22. Almeida, J., Knobel, M., Finkbeiner, M., & Caramazza, A. (2007). The locus of the frequency effect in picture naming: When recognizing is not enough. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 14, 1177-1182. Finkbeiner, M., Slotnick, S. D., Moo, L. R., & Caramazza, A. (2007). Involuntary capture of attention produces domain-specific activation. Neuroreport, 18(10), 975-979. Finkbeiner, M., & Caramazza, A. (2006). Lexical selection is not a competitive process: A reply to La Heij, Kuipers and Starreveld. Cortex, 42, 1032-1035. Finkbeiner, M., & Caramazza, A. (2006). Now you see it, now you don t: On turning semantic interference into facilitation in a Stroop-like task. Cortex, 42 (6), 790-796. Finkbeiner, M., Almeida, J., Janssen, N., & Caramazza, A. (2006). Lexical selection in bilingual speech production does not involve language suppression. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory and Cognition, 32 (5), 1075-1089. Finkbeiner, M., Almeida, J. & Caramazza, A. (2006). Letter identification processes in reading: Distractor interference reveals a left-lateralized, domain-specific mechanism. Cognitive Neuropsychology, 23(8), 1083-1103. Finkbeiner, M., Gollan, T. & Caramazza, A. (2006). Bilingual lexical access: What s the (hard) problem? Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 9 (2), 153-166. Finkbeiner, M., Forster, K. I., Nicol, J., & Nakamura, K. (2004). The role of polysemy in masked semantic and translation priming. Journal of Memory and Language, 51, 1-22. Finkbeiner, M., & Nicol, J. (2003). Semantic category effects in second language word learning. Applied Psycholinguistics, 24(3), 369-383. Finkbeiner, M., Nicol, J., Nakamura, K., & Greth, D. (2002). The role of language in memory for actions. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 31 (5), 447-457. Guo, Moruo (1999). Marx Enters the Confucian Temple (Finkbeiner, M., & Wixted, J. T., Trans.). Renditions, 51, 77-86. Published Conference Proceedings Friedman, J., Finkbeiner, M. (2010). Temporal dynamics of masked congruence priming: evidence from reaching trajectories. In W. Christensen, E. Schier, and J. Sutton (Eds.), ASCS09: Proceedings of the 9th Conference of the Australasian Society for Cognitive Science (pp. 98-105). Sydney: Macquarie Centre for Cognitive Science. Finkbeiner, M. (2005). Task-Dependent L2-L1 Translation Priming: An Investigation of the Separate Memory Systems Account. In Cohen, J., McAlister, K., Rolstad, K., & MacSwan, J. (Eds.), ISB4: Proceedings of the 4th International Symposium on Bilingualism (pp. 741-750). Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.
Submitted Conference Presentations Scholarly Presentations Al-Janabi, S. & Finkbeiner, M. (2012). Effective Processing of masked eye gaze requires volitional control. European Conference on Visual Perception, Alghero, Italy. Quek, G. L., & Finkbeiner, M. (2012). Finding a single guy: The role of attention in masked face priming under conditions of high attentional load. ACNS-2012 Australasian Cognitive Neuroscience Conference. Al-Janabi S and Finkbeiner M (2012). Moving to the direction of the eyes: finding the masked gaze cueing effect. ACNS-2012 Australasian Cognitive Neuroscience Conference. Al-Janabi, S. & Finkbeiner, M. (2012). Effective Processing of masked eye gaze requires volitional control. 39th Australasian Experimental Psychology Conference, Sydney, Australia Quek, G. & Finkbeiner, M. (2012). The timecourse of subliminal priming for faces is position-dependent: A reaching study. 39th Australasian Experimental Psychology Conference, Sydney, Australia Finkbeiner, M. (2012). Using reaching trajectories to reveal the dynamics of stimulus categorization. 39th Australasian Experimental Psychology Conference, Sydney, Australia Finkbeiner, M. (2011). Revealing the temporal dynamics of lexical processing through "changes of mind". 52 nd Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Seattle, USA. Finkbeiner, M. (2011). Subliminal priming with near-perfect performance in the prime-classification task. 38th Australasian Experimental Psychology Conference, Auckland, New Zealand Al-Janabi, S. & Finkbeiner, M. (2011, April). Do eye-gaze cues automatically orient spatial attention? Evidence from a masked-cueing task. 38th Australasian Experimental Psychology Conference, Auckland, New Zealand Quek, G. & Finkbeiner, M. (2011). Pointing to the locus of attentional effects in subliminal priming. 38th Australasian Experimental Psychology Conference, Auckland, New Zealand Finkbeiner, M. & Friedman, J. (2010). Reaching trajectories and the time course of masked congruence priming. 37th Australasian Experimental Psychology Conference, Melbourne, Australia. Quek, G. & Finkbeiner, M. (2010, April). The effect of attention on nonconscious processing. Comparing faces and non-faces. 37th Australasian Experimental Psychology Conference, Melbourne, Australia. Friedman, J. & Finkbeiner, M. (2010, February). Temporal dynamics of decision making revealed through the submovement decomposition of hand trajectories. Australasian Mathematical Psychology Conference, Margaret River, Australia. Friedman, J. & Finkbeiner, M. (2010, January). Temporal dynamics of decision making revealed through the submovement decomposition of hand trajectories. ANS-AuPS Sensorimotor Satellite Meeting, Prince of Wales Hospital, Sydney, Australia. Zopf, R., Truong, S., Finkbeiner, M., Friedman, J., & Williams, M. (2009, September). The Effect of the Rubber Hand Illusion on Action. HCSNet Workshop on Movement and Motion Capture, Macquarie University, Australia. Finkbeiner, M. (2009). Reaching trajectories and the temporal dynamics of masked congruence priming. 50 th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Boston, USA. Finkbeiner, M. (2009). Temporal dynamics of masked congruence priming: evidence from reaching trajectories. 9 th Meeting of the Australasian Society for Cognitive Science, Sydney, Australia. Finkbeiner, M. (2008). Visual awareness of unbound features. 49 th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic
Society, Chicago, USA. Finkbeiner, M. & Palermo, R. (2008). Spatial attention and masked priming. Paper presented at the 35th Australasian Experimental Psychology Conference, Perth, Australia. Finkbeiner, M. & Palermo, R. (2007). Spatial Attention and Masked Priming: Biological Relevance Matters. 48 th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Long Beach, USA. Finkbeiner, M. (2007). How extensive is the processing of subliminally presented primes? It depends on the response modality. Experimental Psychology Conference, Canberra, Australia. Nakayama K, Song J-H., Finkbeiner M., & Caramazza A. (2007) Hand trajectories reveal cognitive states. 6th Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, Florida Finkbeiner, M. & Caramazza, A. (2006). Modulating the masked congruence effect with the hands and the mouth. 47 th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Houston, USA. Finkbeiner, M. (2005). Letter identification processes: fmri indicates attentional capture by letters modulates processing in left but not right fusiform. 4 th Annual Lexical Processing Workshop, London, Canada. Finkbeiner, M. & Caramazza, A. (2005). Asymmetrical language switching costs: Is this really evidence for language suppression? 46 th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Toronto, Canada. Finkbeiner, M. & Caramazza, A. (2005). Asymmetrical language switching: What does it mean? 1 st Annual Rovereto Workshop on Bilingualism, Rovereto, Italy. Finkbeiner, M. (2003). Asymmetrical translation priming effects (with masked primes) are not due to asymmetrical form-meaning connection strengths. 4 th International Symposium on Bilingualism, Tempe, Arizona. Finkbeiner, M. (2003). Semantic priming shows that bilinguals are not just slow monolinguals. American Association of Applied Linguistics Conference, Washington D.C. Finkbeiner, M. & Forster, K. I. (2002). Masked Translation Priming. 3 rd annual lexical processing workshop, Tucson, Arizona. Finkbeiner, M. (2002). Word learning: Just how important is it to suppress L1? Second Language Research Forum, University of Toronto. Finkbeiner, M., & Nicol, J. (2002). Semantic category effects in L2 word learning. American Association of Applied Linguistics Conference, Salt Lake, Utah. Finkbeiner, M. (2002). Since when does home prime family? An investigation of L2 form-meaning mappings. Form-Meaning Connections Conference, Chicago, Illinois. Finkbeiner, M. (2000). Early L2 lexical representation: An episodic memory explanation. Second Language Research Forum, University of Wisconsin, Madison. Invited Talks Finkbeiner, M. (2012). Attention and subliminal priming. Psychology Colloquium Series, University of Newcastle. Finkbeiner, M. (2011). Revealing the dynamics of categorization through reaching trajectories. Psychology Colloquium Series, Sydney University. Finkbeiner, M. (2010). Temporal dynamics of simple perceptual decisions: Evidence from reaching trajectories. Psychology Colloquium Series, University of New South Wales. Finkbeiner, M. (2009). Reaching trajectories and simple perceptual decisions. Harvard University. Finkbeiner, M. (2009). The temporal dynamics of nonconscious priming effects. Colloquium Series, University of Newcastle. Finkbeiner, M. (2009). Dynamics of nonconscious information processing: Evidence from reaching
trajectories. Colloquium Series, University of Western Australia. Finkbeiner, M. (2009). Attention and Awareness. Consciousness and Attention Workshop, Australian National University. Finkbeiner, M. (2008). Object substitution masking and feature binding. CCN LunchBox, Duke University. Finkbeiner, M. (2007). Information is information is information. Or is it? University of New South Wales, Sydney Australia. Finkbeiner, M. (2007). Determining the extent of nonconscious processing: Apparently response modality matters. MARCS Colloquium, University of Western Sydney. Finkbeiner, M. (2006). Domain-specific processing in the left fusiform gyrus: Evidence from distractor interference and extinction. CBB Research Seminar, Harvard University. Finkbeiner, M. (2006). On the continuity of perception and action: Evidence from masked priming and kinematics (Keynote address). Human Communication Science Network workshop on Perception and Action, Sydney, Australia. Finkbeiner, M. (2004). Asymmetrical masked translation priming and the Sense Model. The Psycholinguistics Supper, CUNY. Finkbeiner, M. (2003). The role of polysemy in masked semantic and translation priming. Cognition, Brain & Behavior Research Seminar, Harvard University. Finkbeiner, M., Nicol, J., Greth, D., & Nakamura, K. (2002). The role of language in memory for actions. Cognitive Science Brownbag, University of Arizona. Courses Taught Practical Statistics for Cognitive Psychologists Macquarie University Psychology 464 Psychology of Language (Northeastern University) Psychology 101 Introduction to Psychology (Mind and Behavior) (Arizona) Psychology 290 Research Methods, Psychology (Arizona) Psychology 297 Research Methods, Psychology (Lab component) (Arizona) SLA 596 Proseminar (language processes component) (Arizona) Linguistics 101 Introduction to Linguistics (Arizona) Linguistics 211 Meaning in Language and Society (Arizona) Research Interests Response selection and action o Attention and Control o Kinematics Visual awareness and attention in object recognition o Masked priming Supervision Professional Activities
Postdoctoral fellows Dr. Jason Friedman (2009~2012; co-supervised with Mark Williams) PhD Students Manjunath Narra (PhD, commenced 2012) Shahd Al-Janabi (PhD, finished 2014) Genevieve Quek (PhD, finished 2014) Rocco Chiu (PhD, finished 2013; co-supervised with Anina Rich) Marissa Calleja (PhD, finished 2012; co-supervised with Anina Rich) Betty Mousikou (PhD, finished 2009; co-supervised with Max Coltheart) Honours Students Samantha Parker (projected to finish in 2014) Daniell Steinberg (projected to finish in 2014) Anthony Espinosa (Honours [First Class], finished in 2013) Lucy Shi (Honours [First Class], finished in 2013) Christopher Gresham-Britt (Honours [First Class], finished 2012) Genevieve Quek (Honours [First Class], finished 2009) Deepa Bapat (Honours [First Class], finished 2008) Linda Larsen (Honours, finished 2007) Research Assistants Dr. Amael Arguel (2011) Marina Butko (2011- ) Shermin Akther (2011-2012) Dr. Brenda Ocampo (2012-2013) Anthony Espinosa (2012-2013) Irene Chork (2014- ) Research Interns Anthony Espinosa, Lucy Shi, Laura Pogatchnik, Maggie Ward, Shahd Al-Janabi, Nadine Heyworth, Dustin Deunert, Aino-Maria Huilla, Caspar Goeke, Nick Commins, Lisa Wyburd, Samantha Parker Committees and Groups Co-Director of the Perception in Action Research Centre (Faculty of Human Science, 2013-2016) Human research ethics committee (Faculty of Human Science, 2010-2013) Departmental Hiring Committee (2013) Faculty promotions committee (Faculty of Human Science) Cognition in Action Lab Oversight Committee, Chair (Department of Cognitive Science) Executive committee of the Perception in Action Group (Department of Cognitive Science) Curriculum and Teaching Steering Committee (Department of Cognitive Science) Workshops Organized: 2006-2008 Rovereto Workshop on Bilingualism (Rovereto, Italy) 2009 HCSNet Movement and Motion Capture Workshop (co-organized with Bill Thompson) 2011 Workshop on basic research with Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) Ad hoc reviewer for Psychological Science, Trends in Cognitive Science, Neuroscience Letters, Cognitive Neuropsychology, Cognition, Consciousness and Cognition, Journal of Experimental Psychology, Neuropsychologia, Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, Memory and Cognition, Journal of Memory and Language, Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, Language and Cognitive Processes, Applied Psycholinguistics, Frontiers in Neuroscience, PLoS, Acta Psychologica Psychonomic Society, member
Guest Editor, Acta Psychologica (Special Issue: Lexical and Sentence Processing in Bilinguals: Functional and Neural Perspectives) Guest Editor, Cognitive Neuropsychology (Special Issue: Letter Recognition: From perception to representation)