Department of Human Development and Quantitative Methodology
Joseph Dien, Ph.D
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My primary research and teaching interests is in cognitive neuroscience, the approach of integrating the theories and paradigms of cognitive psychology with the frameworks and methods of neuroscience. My primary topic of interest is the laterality of expectancy processes, guided by my Janus model (Dien, 2008) that the left hemisphere is focused on anticipating the future and the right hemisphere is focused on responding to the (recent) past. My primary experimental designs are semantic priming and oddball paradigms. Studies are also in progress examining the hypothesis that anxiety and stress differentially affect these processes. More generally, I am interested in individual differences in these processes, which has led me to become interested in the role of these processes in the cultural domain (cultural neuroscience) and autism. I use both electrophysiological (event-related potentials) and regional cerebral blood flow (functional magnetic resonance imaging) methods to study these issues. I also have an active line of research advancing the multivariate statistical techniques used to interpret such data, especially how to co-register them. I am the sole developer of the EP Toolkit, a full-featured open source Matlab software suite for ERP analysis used by hundreds of users around the world.
EDUCATION
University of Oregon: M.S. and Ph.D. in Psychology, 1995
Stanford University: A.B. in Psychology/B.S. and M.S. in Biological Sciences, 1988
Positions
10/17-present Visiting Scholar Senior Research Scientist. Department of Human Development and Quantitative Methodology, University of Maryland, College Park.
12/15-10/17 Visiting Scholar Senior Research Scientist. Maryland Neuroimaging Center, University of Maryland, College Park
8/14-11/15 Research Associate. Department of Neurology, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore.
5/13-8/14 Senior Research Scientist. Maryland Neuroimaging Center, University of Maryland, College Park.
8/09-5/13 Senior Research Scientist. Center for Advanced Study of Language, University of Maryland, College Park.
8/08-7/09 Visiting Professor. Birth Defects Center, University of Louisville.
7/03-5/08 Assistant Professor. Psychology Dept., University of Kansas, Lawrence.
7/99-6/03 Assistant Professor. Psychology Dept., Tulane University, New Orleans.
9/97-6/99 Post-doc. Center for Neuroscience (Mangun), U. of California, Davis.
8/95-8/97 Post-doc. Psychology Dept. (Donchin and Coles), U. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.Editing and Reviewing
1/21- co-Editor-In-Chief of Biological Psychology. 21 Special Issue Editor - Cultural Neuroscience: New Ideas and New Directions, Biological Psychology.
1/07-7/11, 1/17-12/20 Associate Editor of Biological Psychology.
11/16 Action Editor - Journal of Experimental Psychology: General.
8/10 Guest Editor - Journal of Speech, Language and Hearing Research.
09 Special Issue Editor - Learning to Read: Early Latency Language ERPs, Developmental Neuropsychology.
08 Special Issue Editor - Before the N400: Early Latency Language ERPs, Biological Psychology.
3/05-? Editorial Board of Clinical Neurophysiology.
5/07-11/14 Editorial Board of Cognitive, Affective and Behavioral Neuroscience.
Consulting Editor and Reviewing : Advances in Cognitive Psychology, Behavioral and Brain Functions; Behavioral Brain Research; Biological Psychology; BMC Neuroscience; Brain and Cognition; Brain and Language; Brain Research; Brain Research Bulletin; Brain Topography; Cerebral Cortex; Clinical Neurophysiology; Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience; Cognitive Brain Research; Cognitive Neuropsychology; Cognitive Therapy and Research; Cortex; Current Directions in Psychological Science; Emotion; European Journal of Neuroscience; Human Brain Mapping; IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems & Rehabilitation Engineering; International Journal of Psychophysiology; Journal of Alzheimer's Disease; Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience; Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition; Journal of Neuroscience; Journal of Neuroscience Methods; Journal of Personality and Social Psychology; Journal of Psychophysiology; Journal of Zhejiang University - Science; Language, Cognition, and Neuroscience; Language and Cognitive Processes; Neuroimage; Neuroimage; Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews; Neuroscience Letters; Progress in Neurobiology; Psychiatry Research; Psychological Reports; Psychological Science; Psychonomic Bulletin and Review; Psychophysiology; Scientific Reports; Social, Cognitive, and Affective Neuroscience; Social Neuroscience.
Outside Reviewer: Veterans Affairs Medical Center Merit Grant , NSERC Research Grant, National Science Foundation, Israel Science Foundation, Canada Foundation for Innovation.
3/10, 11/10, 3/11 Cognition, Language and Perception Fellowship Study Section (F12A-E), Center for Scientific Review, National Institutes of Health.
3/10, 6/13, 3/14 National Institutes of Mental Health Special Emphasis Panel, Center for Scientific Review, National Institutes of Health.Society Activities
Symposium Chair, Early Latency Event-Related Reading Potentials: At The Intersection Of Lexical And Semantic Processing Society for Psychophysiological Research (2010).
Symposium Chair, Levels Of Meaning: Current Neural Perspectives On The N400, Society for Psychophysiological Research (2009).
Symposium Chair, Making Sense Of Frontal Language ERPs, Society for Psychophysiological Research (2008).
Tursky Award Committee - Society for Psychophysiological Research (2007).
Symposium Chair, How Early Is Semantics? Electrophysiological Correlates Of Semantic Processing Peaking Earlier Than The N400, Society for Psychophysiological Research (2007).
Ad Hoc Committee on the Needs of ERP/EEG Psychophysiologists - Society for Psychophysiological Research (2005-6).
Symposium Chair, Electrophysiological Studies of Lateralized Semantic Processing, Society for Psychophysiological Research (2004).
Program Committee - Society for Psychophysiological Research (2003).
PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS (ISI are rankings in year of publication; italics were non-PhD co-authors when first written)
- Developing an EEG-based Instantaneous Neural Feedback System for Neuroadaptive Research (Joseph Dien, co-investigator), General Research Funding, University Grants Committee, Hong Kong, 2022-25, $129,000.
- Cognitive and Neural Precursors to Semantic Word Learning and Math Development (Joseph Dien, co-investigator.), Brain and Behavior Initiative, University of Maryland at College Park, 2018-19, $51,198.
- Personalized Complex Data Exploration (Joseph Dien subcontract P.I.), Lockheed Martin, University of Maryland at College Park, 2013-14, $40,000.
- Priming of Cultural Perspectives (Joseph Dien, P.I.), U.S. Department of Defense, University of Maryland at College Park, 2010-13, $1,253,774.
- Tone Aptitude (Anita Bowles, P.I.; Joseph Dien, co-investigator), U.S. Department of Defense, University of Maryland at College Park, 2011-2012, $308,693.
- Research in Language, Regional Expertise, and Culture (Amy Weinberg, P.I.; Joseph Dien, co-P.I.) , U.S. Department of Defense, University of Maryland at College Park, 2010-11, $573,919.
- Divergent Thinking in Text Interpretation (Henk Haarmann, P.I.; Joseph Dien, co-investigator), U.S. Department of Defense, University of Maryland at College Park, 2009-12, $1,116,812.
- Neuroimaging of Distorted Materials (Joseph Dien, P.I.), Center for Advanced Study of Language, University of Maryland at College Park, 2010-11, $442,201.
- Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging of Semantic Priming Mechanisms (Dien, P.I.), General Research Fund, University of Kansas, 2005-06, $14,711.
- Elucidating Varieties of Semantic Priming Through Electrophysiological Measures (Dien, P.I.), Kansas NSF EPSCoR First Award, University of Kansas, 2005-06, $50,000.
- Neural Substrates of Semantic Priming (Dien, P.I.), Louisiana Board of Regents Research Competitiveness Subprogram (LEQSF-RD-A-27), Tulane University, 2002-04, $95,309.
- Council of Research Summer Fellowship, Tulane University, 2000, $4000.
- Establishing a Leading Edge Position for Louisiana Neuroimaging, Enhancement Program (Dien, P.I.), Louisiana Board of Regents Support Fund (LEQSF-ENH-TR-76), Tulane University, 2000-02, $96,043.
- Mechanisms of Selective Attention to Neural Channels (Dien, P.I.), Individual National Research Service Award, NIMH (MH11751), University of California at Davis, 1997-98 , $29,600.
- Fellowship, Cognitive Psychophysiology Training Grant, NIMH (MH19554), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1995-97.
- Finalist, Cattell Dissertation Award, 1995.
- APA Dissertation Award, 1995.
- Best Student Presentation, meeting of the Pacific division of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, San Francisco, 1994.
- Graduate Research Grant, University of Oregon, 1994.
- Fellowship, Emotions Research Training Grant, NIMH, University of Oregon, 1992-1994.
- University scholarship, University of Oregon, 1991-1992.
- Stanford Small Grant, Stanford University, 1986.
CHAPTERS, CONFERENCE PAPERS, EDITORIALS, AND LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
- Xiang, D., Dien, J., and Bolger, D. J. (submitted). Testing Models of the Visual Word Form Area Using Combined ERP and fMRI Using the Special Properties of Chinese Characters.
- Dien, J. (2024). Multi-Algorithm Artifact Correction (MAAC) Procedure Part One: Algorithm and Example. Biological Psychology. (ISI 2.6)
- Dien, J., Gwizdka, J., Kogut, P., Lo, L.-C., Oh, H., Jaquess, K. J., and Hatfield, B. D. (submitted). Multi-Algorithm Artifact Correction (MAAC) Procedure Part Two: Is Independent Components Analysis Really Always the Best Artifact Correction Method?
- Dien, J. and O'Hare, A. (submitted). Multi-Algorithm Artifact Correction (MAAC) Procedure Part Three: Choosing the Wrong Preprocessing Program Can Destroy Your Experiment.
- Ouyang, G., Dien, J., and Lorenz, R. (2022). Handling EEG artifacts and searching individually optimal experimental parameter in real time: a system development and demonstration. Journal of Neural Engineering, 19(1), 016016.
- Wu, J., Chang, J., Qiu, Y., and Dien, J. (2020). The Temporal Process of Visual Word Recognition of Chinese Compound: Behavioral and ERP Evidences Based on Homographic Morphemes. Acta Psychologica Sinica, 52(2) 113-127. (ISI n/a)
- Dien, J., Karuzis, V., and Haarmann, H. J. (2018). Probing Culture In The Head: The Neural Correlates of Relational Models. Social Neuroscience, 13(6) 648-666. (ISI 2.154)
- Dien, J. (2017). Best Practices for Repeated Measures ANOVAs of ERP Data: Reference, Regional Channels, and Robust ANOVAs. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 111(1)42-56. (ISI 2.868)
- O’Rourke, P., Haarmann, H.J., George, T., Smaliy, A., Grunewald, K. and Dien, J. (2015). Hemispheric alpha asymmetry and self-rated originality of ideas. Laterality, 20(6) 685-98. (ISI 1.239)
- Dien, J., Brian, E., Molfese, D. L., and Gold, B. T. (2013). Combined ERP/fMRI Evidence For Early Word Recognition Effects In The Posterior Inferior Temporal Gyrus. Cortex, 49(9) 2307-2321. (ISI 6.042)
- Haarmann, H.J., George, T., Smaliy, A., and Dien, J. (2012). Remote Associates Test and Alpha Brain Wave, 4(2) 66-93. Journal of Problem Solving. (ISI n/a)
- Dien, J. (2012). Applying Principal Components Analysis to Event Related Potentials: A Tutorial. Developmental Neuropsychology, 37(6) 497-517. (ISI 2.899)
- Foti, D., Weinberg, A., Dien, J., and Hajcak, G. (2011). EEG activity in the basal ganglia differentiates rewards from non-rewards: Temporospatial principal components analysis and source localization of event-related potentials. Human Brain Mapping, 32(12)2207-16. (ISI 5.880)
- Dien, J., Franklin, M. S., and Michelson, C. A. (2010). Separating the Visual Sentence N400 Effect from the P400 Sequential Expectancy Effect: Cognitive and Neuroanatomical Implications. Brain Research, 1355:126-140. (ISI 2.623)
- Dien, J. (2010). The ERP PCA Toolkit: An Open Source Program For Advanced Statistical Analysis of Event Related Potential Data. Journal of Neuroscience Methods, 187(1)138-145. (ISI 2.100)
- Dien, J. (2010). Evaluating Two-Step PCA Of ERP Data With Geomin, Infomax, Oblimin, Promax, And Varimax Rotations. Psychophysiology, 47(1)170-183. (ISI 3.263)
- Foti, D., Hajcak, G., and Dien, J. (2009). Differentiating Neural Responses to Emotional Pictures: Evidence from Temporal-spatial PCA. Psychophysiology, 46(3)521-30. (ISI 3.926)
- Dien, J. (2009). The Neurocognitive Basis of Reading Single Words As Seen Through Early Latency ERPs: A Model of Converging Pathways. Biological Psychology, 80(1)10-22. (ISI 4.363)
- Dien, J. (2009). A Tale Of Two Recognition Systems: Implications Of The Fusiform Face Area And The Visual Word Form Area For Laterality Theories. Neuropsychologia, 47:1-16. (ISI 4.345)
- O'Hare, A.J. and Dien, J. (2008). The Fear Survey Schedule as a Measure of Anxious Arousal: Evidence from ERPs. Neuroscience Letters, 441(3)243-7. (ISI 2.494)
- Dien, J. and O'Hare, A.J. (2008). Evidence for Automatic Sentence Priming in the Fusiform Semantic Area: Convergent ERP and fMRI findings. Brain Research, 1243:134-145. (ISI 2.441)
- Dien, J., Franklin, M. S., Michelson, C. A., Lemen, L. C., Adams, C. L., and Kiehl, K. A. (2008). fMRI Characterization of the Language Formulation Area. Brain Research, 1229:179-192. (ISI 2.843)
- Dien, J. (2008). Looking both ways through time: The Janus model of lateralized cognition. Brain and Cognition, 67(3)292-323. (ISI 2.477)
- O'Hare, A. J., Dien, J., Waterson, L., and Savage, C. R. (2008). Activation of the Posterior Cingulate by Semantic Priming: A Co-Registered ERP/fMRI Study. Brain Research, 1189(2)97-114. (ISI 2.494)
- Frishkoff, G.A., Frank, R. M., Rong, J., Dou, D., Dien, J., and Halderman, L. K. (2007). A Framework to Support Automated Pattern Classification and Labeling. Computational Intelligence and Neuroscience, 2007:13 pages. (ISI n/a)
- Franklin, M. S., Dien, J., Neely, J. H., Huber, E., and Waterson, L. D. (2007). Semantic Priming Modulates the N400, N300, and N400RP. Clinical Neurophysiology, 118(5)1053-68. (ISI 2.468)
- Dien, J., Khoe, W., and Mangun, G. R. (2007). Evaluation of PCA and ICA of simulated ERPs: Promax versus Infomax rotations. Human Brain Mapping, 28(8)742-63. (ISI 6.151)
- Dien, J., Franklin, M., May, C. (2006). Is "Blank" a suitable neutral prime for event-related potential experiments? Brain and Language, 97:91-101. (ISI 2.317)
- Dien, J., Beal, D.J., and Berg, P. (2005). Optimizing principal components analysis of event-related potentials: Matrix type, factor loading weighting, extraction, and rotations. Clinical Neurophysiology, 116(8)1808-1825. (ISI 2.257)
- Dien, J., Spencer, K. M., and Donchin, E. (2004). Parsing the "Late Positive Complex": Mental chronometry and the ERP components that inhabit the neighborhood of the P300. Psychophysiology, 41(5)665-678. (ISI 2.066)
- Dien, J., Spencer, K. M., and Donchin, E. (2003). Localization of the event-related potential novelty response as defined by principal components analysis. Cognitive Brain Research, 17:637-650. (ISI 2.865)
- Curran, T. and Dien, J. (2003). Differentiating amodal familiarity from modality-specific memory processes: An ERP study. Psychophysiology, 40:979-988. (ISI 2.986)
- Dien, J., Frishkoff, G. A., Cerbone, A., and Tucker, D. M. (2003). Parametric event-related potential analysis of expectancy and meaningfulness: Evidence for parallel mechanisms in word comprehension. Cognitive Brain Research, 15:137-153. (ISI 2.865)
- He, B., Lian, J., Donchin, E., Spencer, K., and Dien, J. (2001). Exploration of P300 and Novelty P3 Components by Means of the Cortical Imaging Technique. Human Brain Mapping, 12(2)120-130. (ISI 5.688)
- Spencer, K. M., Dien, J., and Donchin, E. (2001). Spatiotemporal Analysis of the Late ERP Responses to Deviant Stimuli. Psychophysiology, 38(2)343-358. (ISI 3.035)
- Spencer, K. M., Dien, J., and Donchin, E. (1999). A Componential Analysis of the ERP Elicited by Novel Events Using a Dense Electrode Array. Psychophysiology, 36:409-414. (ISI 3.006)
- Dien, J. (1999). Differential lateralization of trait anxiety and trait fearfulness: Evoked potential correlates. Personality and Individual Differences, 26(2)333-356. (ISI 0.728)
- Dien, J. (1998). Addressing Misallocation of Variance in Principal Components Analysis of Evoked Potentials. Brain Topography, 11(1)43-55. (ISI 0.577)
- Dien, J. (1998). Issues in the application of the average reference: Review, critiques, and recommendations. Behavior Research Methods, Instruments, and Computers, 30(1)34-43. (ISI 0.731)
- Holroyd, C. B., Dien, J., and Coles, M. G. H. (1998). Error-Related Scalp Potentials Elicited by Hand and Foot Movements: Evidence for an Output-Independent Error-Processing System in Humans. Neuroscience Letters, 242(2)65-68. (ISI 1.934)
- Potts, G. F., Dien, J., Hartry-Speiser, A. L., McDougal, L. M., and Tucker, D. M. (1998). Dense sensor array topography of the event-related potential to task-relevant auditory stimuli. Electroencephalography and Clinical Neurophysiology, 106(5)444-456. (ISI 2.450)
- Dien, J., Tucker, D. M., Potts, G., and Hartry-Speiser, A. (1997). Localization of auditory evoked potentials related to selective intermodal attention. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 9(6)799-823. (ISI 4.844)
GOVERNMENT DELIVERABLE AND WHITE PAPERS
- Coderre, E. L. and Dien, J. (2017). The Electroencephalogram. Wenzel, A. (ed). The SAGE Encyclopedia of Abnormal and Clinical Psychology. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications.
- Foti, D., Weinberg, A., Dien, J., and Hajcak, G. (2011). EEG activity in the basal ganglia differentiates rewards from non-rewards: response to commentary. Human Brain Mapping, 32(12)2267-9. (ISI 5.880)
- Dien, J. (2010). Foreword to the Special Issue "Learning to Read: Early Latency Language ERPs" Developmental Neuropsychology, 35(4) 353-6. (ISI 2.440) Editorial.
- Dien, J. (2009). Foreword to the Special Issue "Before the N400: Early Latency Language ERPs." Biological Psychology, 80(1)1-3. (ISI 4.363) Editorial.
- Dien, J. (2006). Progressing towards a consensus on PCA of ERPs. Clinical Neurophysiology, 117(3):699-702. (ISI 2.718) Letter to the Editor.
- Glass, K. A., Frishkoff, G. A., Frank, R. M., Davey, C., Dien, J., Malony, A. D., and Tucker, D. M. (2004). A Framework for Evaluating ICA Methods of Artifact Removal from Multichannel EEG. ICA 2004, 1033-1040. Conference Paper.
- Dien, J. and Santuzzi, A. (2004). Application of repeated measures ANOVA to high-density ERP datasets: A review and tutorial. In: Handy, T. (Ed.), Event-Related Potentials: A Methods Handbook, Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press.
- Dien, J. and Frishkoff, G. A. (2004). Principal components analysis of event-related potential datasets. In: Handy, T. (Ed.), Event-Related Potentials: A Methods Handbook, Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press.
- Dien, J., Frishkoff, G. A., and Tucker, D. M. (2000). Differentiating the N3 and N4 electrophysiological semantic incongruity effects. Brain and Cognition, 43:148-152. (ISI 0.630) Conference Paper.
- Donchin, E., Spencer, K. M. and Dien, J. (1997). The varieties of deviant experience: ERP manifestations of deviance processors. In: van Boxtel, G.J.M. and Bocker, K.B.E. (Eds) Brain and Behavior: Past, Present, and Future, Tilburg University Press, Tilburg, pp. 67-91.
- Dien, J. and Tucker, D. M. (1994). Arousal: Crossroads of neuropsychology and social psychology. In Wentworth, W. M. and Ryan, J. (Eds.), Social Perspectives on Emotion, Vol. II, JAI Press.
PRESENTATIONS
- Dien, J., Kogut, P, Gwizdka, J., Hatfield, B., Gentili, R. J., Oh, H., Lo, L.-C., Jaquess, K. J. (2017). Cognitive augmentation for coping with open-source intelligence (OSINT) overload. Decadal Survey of Social and Behavioral Sciences for National Security.
- Bowles, A. R., Corbett, R., Chang, C., Karuzis, V., Donavos, D., and Dien, J. (2013). A Talent for Tone: Interim Report of Validity Testing.
- Dien, J., Mathis, A., Glazer, S., Blok, S., Barnes, M., Karuzis, V., Fiske, T., Weiss, H., Pavisic, I., Haarmann, H. J. (2013). Mapping the Cultural Space of Human Influence Situations: Building a Foundation for Cultural Awareness Training Methods.
- Haarmann, H. H., O’Rourke, P., Dien, J., George, T., and Grunewald, K. (2012). The effect of unilateral muscle contractions on divergent thinking.
- Hamedani, N. G., Purvis, T. M., Glazer, S., and Dien, J. (2012). Ways of manifesting collectivism: An analysis of Iranian and African cultures.
- Haarmann, H. J., Berens, M. S., O’ Rourke, P., Blok, S. V., Smaliy, A., George, T. G., Grunewald, K. E., Cook, J., Dien, J., and Freynik, S. (2011). Improving assessment of analyst-relevant divergent thinking: Test validation, automated scoring, and brain signature.
- Dien, J., Blok, S., & Glazer, S. (2011). Cultural Priming: Adopting the Adversary’s Mindset to Improve Analysis.
- Dien, J., Weinberg, A., Blok, S., O’Rourke, P., Kayton, K., & Hamedani, N. (2011). Cognitive Neuroscience of Second Language Acquisition: The Department of Defense Research Landscape.
- Haarmann, H. J., George, T. G., Dien, J., Chrabaszcz, J., Smaliy,l A., Freynik, S., and Novick, J. M. (2009). Right-brain Alpha Neurofeedback Improves Verbal Creative Problem Solving.
- McLaren, M., Dien, J., and Bolger, D.J. (October, 2022). Does the Recognition Potential Display the Frequency by Regularity Interaction? Poster presented at the meeting of the Society for Psychophysiological Research, Online.
- Ballentine, H., Dien, J., and Bolger, D.J. (October, 2021). The Recognition Potential May Be an Indicator of Addressed Phonology. Poster presented at the meeting of the Society for Psychophysiological Research, Online.
- Dien, J. (September, 2019). Cognitive Enhancement Via EEG and Eye-Tracking While Freely Reading Paragraphs. Invited talk at the meeting of the Society for Psychophysiological Research, Washington, District of Columbia.
- Ouyang, T., Xiang, D., Dien, J., and Bolger, D.J. (September, 2019). A Chinese Language ERP/FMRI Study of the N450 Rhyming Effect. Poster presented at the meeting of the Society for Psychophysiological Research, Washington, District of Columbia.
- Shrout, K., Dien, J., and Bolger, D.J. (September, 2019). Electrophysiological Correlates of Associative and Semantic Similarity Relations. Poster presented at the meeting of the Society for Psychophysiological Research, Washington, District of Columbia.
- Dien, J. (April, 2016). Individual Differences in Adult Reading Style: A Neuroscience Perspective. Invited talk, School of Foreign Languages, Northwestern Polytechnic University, Xian, China.
- Bowles, A. R., Karuzis, V., Shafer, V., and Dien, J. (April, 2013). Predicting Tone Language Aptitude with the Mismatch Negativity. Poster presented at the meeding of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, San Francisco, California.
- Dien, J. (October, 2012). Individual Differences in Adult Reading Style: A CNS Perspective. Talk presented at the meeting of the Society for Psychophysiological Research, New Orleans, Louisiana.
- Dien, J. (May, 2012). Individual Differences in Adult Reading Style: A CNS Perspective. Invited talk, Department of Linguistics, University of Stockholm, Sweden.
- Karuzis, V., Dien, J., Berens, M., O’Rourke, P. and Haarmann, H. (April, 2012). ERP Evidence For Distinguishing Between Orthographic/Phonological And Balanced Adult English Readers. Poster presented at the meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, Chicago, Illinois.
- Dien, J. (April, 2012). Beyond Broca and Wernicke: ERP/fMRI Studies of the Functional Neuroanatomy of Reading. Invited talk, Department of Neurology, University of California Medical School, Irvine, California.
- O’Rourke, P., George, T., Smaliy, A., Grunewald, K., Dien, J., and Haarmann, H. (March, 2012). Verbal Creativity And Alpha: A Brain Wave Entrainment Study. Poster presented at the meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, Chicago, Illinois.
- O’Hare, A.J., Dien, J., Gillath, O., Heller, W., & Stetler, D. (January, 2012). MAOA, Trait Anxiety, and Interference on an Emotional Flanker Task. Poster presented at the annual Determinants of Executive Function and Dysfunction meeting, Boulder, Colorado.
- Smaliy, A. A., Berens, M. S., Dien, J., Karuzis, V., Freynik, S., Osthus, P., and Haarmann, H. J. (November, 2011). Brain signature of Comprehending Sentences with Acoustic Noise: An fMRI Study. Poster presented at the Neurobiology of Language Conference, Annapolis, Maryland.
- Karuzis, V., Dien, J., Berens, M., O'Rourke, P., and Haarmann, H.J. (november, 2011). ERP Evidence for Distinguishing Between Orthographic/Phonological and Balanced Adult English Readers. Poster presented at the Neurobiology of Language Conference, Annapolis, Maryland.
- Dien, J., Brian, E., Molfese, D. L., and Gold, B. T. (September, 2011). Combined ERP/fMRI Evidence For Lexical Effects In The Language Formulation Area. Poster presented at the International Conference on Cognitive Neuroscience, Palma de Mallorca, Spain.
- Haarmann, H., George, T., Smaliy, A., and Dien, J. (April, 2011). Alpha Brain Entrainment Through Acoustic Beats. Poster presented at the meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, San Francisco, California.
- Dien, J., Brian, E., Molfese, D. L., and Gold, B. T. (April, 2011). Combined ERP/fMRI Evidence For Lexical Effects In The Language Formulation Area. Poster presented at the meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, San Francisco, California.
- Dien, J., Brian, E., Molfese, D. L., and Gold, B. T. (October, 2010). Combined ERP/fMRI Evidence For Lexical Effects In The Language Formulation Area. Talk presented at the meeting of the Psychonomics Society, Saint Louis, Missouri.
- Dien, J., Brian, E., Molfese, D. L., and Gold, B. T. (October, 2010). Combined ERP/fMRI Evidence For Lexical Effects In The Language Formulation Area. Talk presented at the meeting of the Society for Psychophysiological Research, Portland, Oregon.
- Haarmann, H., George, T., Dien, J., Chrabaszcz, Smaliy, A., Freynick, S., and Novick, J. (April, 2010). Creative Cognition Benefits from Incubation with Neurofeedback. Poster presented at the meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, Montreal, Canada.
- O’Hare, A., Gillath, O., Dien, J., Canterberry, M., and Stetler, D. (April, 2010). Anxiety and MAOA Interactions for Cognitive Control: An ERP Study. Poster presented at the meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, Montreal, Canada.
- Dien, J. (October, 2009). Varieties of N400: An Attentional Perspective on Semantic Processing. Talk presented at the meeting of the Society for Psychophysiological Research, Berlin, Germany.
- O'Hare, A. J., Dien, J., Gillath, O., Canterberry, M., and Stetler, D. (October, 2009). A Multi-Level Multi-Method Analysis of Conflict Resolution: Genes, Personality and ERPs. Poster presented at the meeting of the Society for Psychophysiological Research, Berlin, Germany.
- Dien, J. and O'Hare, A. J. (April, 2009). Lateralized Expectancy Mechanisms: A Test of the Janus Model. Talk presented at the meeting of EPIC, Bloomington, Indiana.
- Dien, J. and O'Hare, A. J. (March, 2009). Neural Correlates of Local and Global Expectations: A Test of the Janus Model. Poster presented at the meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, San Francisco, California.
- O'Hare, A. J., Wolcott, C., and Dien, J. (November, 2008). An investigation of global and local expectancy using ERPs. Poster presented at the meeting of the Psychonomics Society, Chicago, Illinois.
- O'Hare, A. J., Wolcott, C., and Dien, J. (October, 2008). The P3a as an Index of Task Switching: Evidence from Novel, Task Switch, and No-Go Stimuli. Poster presented at the meeting of the Society for Psychophysiological Research, Austin, Texas.
- Foti, D., Hajcak, G., and Dien, J. (October, 2008). Parsing Emotion: A Temporospatial Analysis of ERPs During Affective Picture Processing. Poster presented at the meeting of the Society for Psychophysiological Research, Austin, Texas.
- Dien, J., Gibson, L., and Waterson, L. D. (October, 2008). Double Dissociation of the P2 and the N400 by Subject Task: Implications for Strategic Processing in Sentences. Talk presented at the meeting of the Society for Psychophysiological Research, Austin, Texas.
- O'Hare, A. J., Wolcott, C., and Dien, J. (April, 2008). What Cognition Do Novel, No-go, and Task Switch Stimuli Have in Common? An Investigation of the P3a ERP. Poster presented at the meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, San Francisco, California.
- Gibson, L., Daniels, L., Huber, E., and Dien, J. (April, 2008). N170 and Strategic Effects in Sentence Comprehension. Poster presented at the meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, San Francisco, California.
- Dien, J., O'Hare, A.J., and Savage, C.R. (November, 2007). Neural Correlates of Sentence Priming: Convergent ERP and fMRI Findings. Talk presented at the meeting of the Psychonomics Society, Long Beach, California.
- Dien, J., O'Hare, A.J., and Savage, C.R. (October, 2007). Responsiveness Of The Recognition Potential To Sentence Context: Convergent ERP And fMRI Findings. Talk presented at the meeting of the Society for Psychophysiological Research, Savannah, Georgia.
- O'Hare, A.J. and Dien, J. (October, 2007). The Fear Survey Schedule as a Sensitive Measure of Anxious Arousal: Evidence from ERPs. Poster presented at the meeting of the Society for Psychophysiological Research, Savannah, Georgia.
- O'Hare, A.J., Dien, J., and Savage, C.R. (May, 2007). Responsiveness of the recognition potential to sentence context: Convergent ERP and fMRI findings. Poster presented at the meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, New York, New York.
- Huber, E. and Dien, J. (May, 2007). The recognition potential in a sentence reading paradigm. Poster presented at the meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, New York, New York.
- Dien, J., Franklin, M.S., Michelson, C.A., Lemen, L.C., Adams, C.L., and Kiehl, K.A. (November, 2006). ERP/fMRI characterization of the language formulation area: Implications for dyslexia. Poster presented at the meeting of the Psychonomics Society, Houston, Texas.
- Dien, J. (October, 2006). Optimization of Source Localization Efforts Using Multivariate Decomposition Techniques. Talk presented at the meeting of the Society for Psychophysiological Research, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
- Dien, J., Franklin, M.S., Michelson, C.A., Lemen, L.C., Adams, C.L., and Kiehl, K.A. (June, 2006). Localizing the N400 semantic cloze effect: Parametric ERP and fMRI analysis. Poster presented at the meeting of the Organization of Human Brain Mapping, Florence, Italy.
- O'Hare, A. J., Waterson, L. D., Dien, J., and Savage, C. R. (April, 2006). Contrasting symmetrical primes and unrelated primes using fMRI. Poster presented at the meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, San Francisco, California.
- Dien, J. (January, 2006). Optimizing source localization via PCA pre-processing. Invited talk at the Carmel Workshop, Tampa, Florida.
- Waterson, L. D and Dien, J. (April, 2005). The N3 and the N410: Contrasting lateralized semantic components. Poster presented at the meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, New York, New York.
- Dien, J., Franklin, M.S., and May, C. (November, 2004). Will the true N400 please stand up? Talk presented at the meeting of the Psychonomics Society, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
- Dien, J., Franklin, M.S., Michelson, C.A., Lemen, L.C., Kiehl, K.A., Adams, C.L., and Waterson, L.D. (October, 2004). A combined ERP and fMRI examination of lateralized processing of semantic expectancy and meaningfulness. Talk presented at the meeting of the Society for Psychophysiological Research, Santa Fe, New Mexico.
- Dien, J., Franklin, M. S., Michelson, C. A., Lemen, L.C., Adams, C. L., and Waterson, L. D. (April, 2004). Combined ERP and fMRI examination of lateralized processing of semantic expectancy and meaningfulness. Poster presented at the meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, San Francisco, California.
- Frishkoff, G., Tucker, D., and Dien, J. (April, 2004). Dissociation of frontal and posterior N400: Parametric analyses of event-related potentials in semantic priming. Poster presented at the meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, San Francisco, California.
- Michelson, C., Franklin, M., and Dien, J. (October, 2003). Parametric analysis of the recognition potential and the meaning recognition potential. Poster presented at the meeting of the Society for Psychophysiological Research, Chicago, Illinois.
- Dien, J., Spencer, K., Donchin, E., Beal. D., and Berg, P. (July, 2003). Localization of the P300 using principal components analysis: Simulated and real data. Poster presented at the meeting of the International Brain Research Organization, Prague, Czech Republic.
- Franklin, M., Malone, K., Dien, J., and Neely, J. (April, 2003). An analysis of the N400 in backward and forward associative priming. Poster presented at the meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, New York, New York.
- Frishkoff, G., Dien, J., Tucker, D., and Westbury, C. (April, 2003). Effects of orthographic set size on event-related brain potentials during lexical access: Parametric analysis of words and pseudowords in a lexical decision task. Poster presented at the meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, New York, New York.
- Dien, J. (November, 2002). Cognitive Neuroscience Studies of Anxiety and Stress. Invited talk at the Department of Psychology, University of Texas, Arlington.
- Dien, J., Frishkoff, G. A., May, C., Franklin, M., and Tucker, D. M. (October, 2002). Source Localization of the N400: Separating the Wheat from the Chaff. Talk presented at the meeting of the Society for Psychophysiological Research, Washington, D.C.
- May, C., Franklin, M., & Dien, J. (April, 2002). Disentangling the N400. Poster presented at the meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, San Francisco, California.
- Franklin, M., Dien, J., & Neely, J. (April, 2002). Event-related potential analysis of expectancy processes in semantic priming. Poster presented at the meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, San Francisco, California.
- Jensen, A. M., Kaufman, B., and Dien, J. (October, 2001). Selective attention to color and speed: A view from event-related potentials. Poster presented at the meeting of the Society for Psychophysiological Research, Montreal, Canada.
- Santuzzi, A. M., Kwok, L., & Dien, J. (2001, June). Detecting Faces in Crowds: Gender, Trait Fear, and Anxiety as Moderators. Paper presented at the 13th Annual Convention for the American Psychological Society, Toronto, Canada.
- Dien, J., Buonocore, M. H., Hopfinger, J., and Mangun, G. R. (June, 2001). Combined functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) and event-related potential (ERP) analysis of selective and divided attention to color, shape, and speed. Poster presented at the meeting of Human Brain Mapping, Brighton, U.K.
- Dien, J. (May, 2001). Components of Semantic Processing: An Event-Related Potential Analysis. Invited talk at the Department of Psychology, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois.
- Franklin, M. S., and Dien, J. (March, 2001). Event-related potential analysis of automatic versus controlled semantic priming. Poster presented at the meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, New York, New York.
- Jensen, A. M., and Dien, J. (March, 2001). Event-related potential analysis of selective and divided attention to color and speed. Poster presented at the meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, New York, New York.
- Hough, M., Frishkoff, G., Dien, J., and Tucker, D. M. (March, 2001). Componential analysis of the N400 response to semantic anomaly. Poster presented at the meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, New York, New York.
- Dien, J. (November, 2000). Localizing semantic systems using parametric principal components analysis. Invited talk at the 4th Pan-Pacific Workshop on Brain Topography, Irvine, California.
- Donchin, E., Spencer, K., Dien, J., and Goldstein, A. (November, 2000). Dimensionality reduction of DEA data. Talk presented at the meeting of the Society for Psychophysiological Research, San Diego.
- Dien, J., Cerbone, A., Frishkoff, G. A., and Tucker, D. M. (April, 2000). The microgenesis of meaning. Poster presented at the meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, San Francisco.
- Dien, J. (September, 1998). Addressing misallocation of variance in PCA of ERPs. Talk presented at the meeting of the Society for Psychophysiological Research, Denver.
- Jha, A. P., Buonocore, M., Girelli, M., and Mangun, G. R. (October, 1997). FMRI and ERP studies of the organization of spatial selective attention in human extrastriate visual cortex. Talk presented at the meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, New Orleans.
- Spencer, K., Dien, J., Donchin, E. (October, 1997). Temporal-spatial analysis of the late positivecomponents of the ERP. Poster presented at the meeting of the Society for Psychophysiological Research, Cape Cod.
- Dien, J. (October, 1997). Addressing misallocation of variance in principal components analysis of evoked potentials. Poster presented at the meeting of the Society for Psychophysiological Research, Cape Cod.
- Dien, J. (October, 1995). Evoked potential correlates of trait fearfulness. Poster presented at the meeting of the Society for Psychophysiological Research, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
- Tucker, D. M., and Dien, J. (October, 1995). Dipolar evoked potential fields in statistical space. Poster presented at the meeting of the Society for Psychophysiological Research, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
- Dien, J. (September, 1995). Enhancement of object recognition evoked potentials by trait anxiety. Poster presented at the meeting of the American Electroencephalographic Society, Washington, D. C.
- Dien, J., Potts, G., Tucker, D. M. (March, 1995). What's the difference? The O-wave and the Slow Wave. Poster presented at the meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, San Francisco.
- Dien, J., Doran, S., Potts, G., and Tucker, D. M. (October, 1994). Ventral recording sites are more informative about the P300 than Cz and Pz. Talk presented at the meeting of the Society for Psychophysiological Research, Atlanta.
- Dien, J., Potts, G., Hartry, A., and Tucker, D.M. (June, 1994). Spatio-temporal PCA analysis of the auditory ERP. Talk presented at the Cognitive Neuroscience symposium, meeting of the Pacific division of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, San Francisco. Shared first place for best student presentation.
- Nunez, P., Wijesinghe, R., Westdorp, A., Cao, G., Tucker, D. M., Russell, G., Dien, J., Luu, P., Potts, G., and Compton, P. (October, 1993). Evaluation of dipole localization, spline laplacian, and PCA algorithms with data simulating event related potentials. Poster presented at American Electroencephalographic Society meeting, New Orleans.
- Luu, P., Dien, J., McDougal, L., and Tucker, D. M. (May, 1993). Principal components analysis of the N400. Poster presented at TENNET IV, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
- Dien, J., Luu, P., McDougal, L., and Tucker, D. M. (May, 1993). Topographical analysis of the N400. Poster presented at TENNET IV, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
- Dien, J. and Tucker, D. M. (May, 1992). Event-related Potentials of Connotative Meaning. Poster presented at TENNET III, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
- Dien, J. and Balsam, K. (May, 1992). Components of Attitudinal Affect. Poster presented at the meeting of the Western Psychological Association, Portland.
- Dien, J. (June, 1991). Elements of Affective Meaning. Poster presented at the meeting of the Pacific division of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Utah.
SOFTWARE
EP Tookit - is a full-featured open source Matlab toolkit for performing EEG analyses in both the time and frequency domains, including PCA, eyeblink correction, and robust inferential statistics.