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Participant List

Dima Amso

Assistant Professor

Cognitive, Linguistic, & Psychological Science

Brown University

Giorgio A. Ascoli

University Professor

Molecular Neuroscience

George Mason University

Paul Atchley

Professor

Psychology

University of Kansas

Cynthia S. Atherton

Program Director

Science Program

Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation

Lisa Aziz-Zadeh

Assistant Professor

Brain and Creativity Institute & Division of Occupational Science

University of Southern California

David Badre

Assistant Professor

Cognitive, Linguistic, and Psychological Science

Brown University

Richard G. Baraniuk

Victor E. Cameron Professor

Electrical and Computer Engineering

Rice University

Carole R. Beal

Professor of Information Science Technology & Arts

School of Information Science

University of Arizona

Suggested Citation:"Participant List." National Research Council. 2013. The Informed Brain in a Digital World: Interdisciplinary Research Team Summaries. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/18268.
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C. Gordon Bell

Principal Researcher

Microsoft Research

Robert M. Bilder

Tennenbaum Family Chair of Creativity Research

Department of Psychiatry & Biobehavioral Science

UCLA Semel Institute for Neuroscience & Human Behavior

Kim T. Blackwell

Professor

Molecular Neuroscience

George Mason University

Alison Bruzek

Science Writing Scholar

Graduate Program in Science Writing

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Jose M. Carmena

Associate Professor

Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences; Neuroscience

University of California, Berkeley

Tara T. Cataldo

Biological/Life Sciences Librarian

Marston Science Library

University of Florida

Vinton G. Cerf

Chief Internet Evangelist

Research

Google, Inc.

Fahmida N. Chowdhury

Program Director

Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences

National Science Foundation

Ann E. Christiano

Frank Karel Endowed

Chair in Public Interest

Communications and

Professor College of Journalism and Communications

University of Florida

John-Paul Clarke

Associate Professor

Aerospace Engineering

Georgia Institute of Technology

Mark Steven Cohen

Professor

Psychiatry, Neurology, Radiology, Psychology, Biomedical Engineering, Biomedical Physics

University of California, Los Angeles

Todd P. Coleman

Associate Professor

Bioengineering

University of California, San Diego

Suggested Citation:"Participant List." National Research Council. 2013. The Informed Brain in a Digital World: Interdisciplinary Research Team Summaries. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/18268.
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David C. Cook

Senior Economist

Department of Agriculture and Food

Government of Western Australia

Alan DJ Cooke

Associate Professor

Marketing

University of Florida

Jana Craig Hare

Assistant Research Professor

Center for Research on Learning

University of Kansas

Carolyn Crist

Science Writing Scholar

Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication

University of Georgia

Barbara J. Culliton President

The Culliton Group/Editorial Strategies

Robert J. Davenport

Associate Director

Brown Institute for Brain Science

Brown University

Vincent De Sapio

Research Scientist

Information and Systems Sciences Laboratory

HRL Laboratories, LLC

John Doyle

Professor

Control and Dynamical Systems

California Institute of Technology

Nicole B. Ellison

Associate Professor

School of Information

University of Michigan

Harvey V. Fineberg

President

Institute of Medicine

Paul A. Fishwick

Professor

Computer and Information Science & Engineering

University of Florida

Dorothy Fleisher

Program Director

W.M. Keck Foundation

Roxanne Ford

Program Director

W.M. Keck Foundation

Chris Forsythe

Distinguished Member of Technical Staff

Cognitive Science and Applications

Sandia National Laboratories

Richard N. Foster

Lux Capital

Yale University

Suggested Citation:"Participant List." National Research Council. 2013. The Informed Brain in a Digital World: Interdisciplinary Research Team Summaries. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/18268.
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Joseph T. Francis

Assistant Professor

Physiology and Pharmacology

SUNY Downstate Medical School

Felice C. Frankel

Research Scientist

Center for Materials Science and Engineering

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Kenneth R. Fulton

Executive Director

National Academy of Sciences

Adam Gazzaley

Associate Professor

Neurology, Psychiatry and Physiology

University of California, San Francisco

Michael S. Gazzaniga

Director

The Sage Center for the Study of the Mind

University of California, Santa Barbara

Apostolos Georgopoulos

Regents Professor and McKnight Presidential Chair in Cognitive Neuroscience

Brain Sciences Center

American Legion Brain Sciences Chair; Professor of Neuroscience, Neurology, and Psychiatry

Veteran Affairs Medical Center

Ricardo Gil da Costa

Salk Institute

Charles D. Gilbert

Arthur and Janet Ross Professor

Laboratory of Neurobiology

The Rockefeller University

Arnold L. Glass

Professor

Psychology

Rutgers University

Scott T. Grafton

Professor

Psychological & Brain Sciences

University of California, Santa Barbara

Robert A. Greenes

Ira A. Fulton Chair and Professor

Department of Biomedical Informatics

Arizona State University

Cathal Gurrin

SFI Stokes Lecturer

School of Computing

Dublin City University

David S. Hachen

Associate Professor

Sociology

University of Notre Dame

Todd F. Heatherton

Lincoln Filene Professor in Human Relations

Dartmouth College

Suggested Citation:"Participant List." National Research Council. 2013. The Informed Brain in a Digital World: Interdisciplinary Research Team Summaries. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/18268.
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Anne Heberger Marino

Sr. Program Associate

National Academies Keck Futures Initiative

Matthew K. Henley

Ph.D. Candidate

Educational Psychology

University of Washington

Zahra Hirji

Science Writing Scholar

Graduate Program in Science Writing

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

David M. Hondula

Research Staff

Department of Environmental Sciences

University of Virginia

Amalia M. Issa

Professor and Chair and Director Health Policy and Public Health

Program in Personalized Medicine & Targeted Therapeutics

University of the Sciences in Philadelphia

Michael A. Keller

Ida M. Green University Librarian; Director of Academic Information Resources

Cecil H. Green Library

Stanford University

Cristen A. Kelly

Associate Program Officer

National Academies Keck Futures Initiative

Steven Kotler

Director of Research

Flow Genome Project

Art Kramer

Director and Professor

Beckman Institute

University of Illinois

Shonali Laha

Associate Professor

Civil and Environmental Engineering

Florida International University

Annie Lang

Distinguished Professor

Telecommunications, Cognitive Science

Indiana University

Kenneth M. Langa

Professor of Medicine

Internal Medicine and Institute for Social Research

University of Michigan

Suggested Citation:"Participant List." National Research Council. 2013. The Informed Brain in a Digital World: Interdisciplinary Research Team Summaries. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/18268.
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Eva K. Lee

Director, NSF-Whitaker Center for Operations Research in Medicine and HealthCare; Co-Director, NSF-I/ UCRC Center for Health Organization Transformation; Professor, School of Industrial & Systems Engineering; Distinguished Scholar in Health

Georgia Institute of Technology

Jay Lee

Ohio Eminent Scholar and L.W. Scott Alter Chair Professor

School of Dynamic Systems

University of Cincinnati

Jin Hyung Lee

Assistant Professor

Neurology and Neurological Sciences, Bioengineering

Stanford University

Kalev H. Leetaru

Josie B. Houchens and University of Illinois Fellow

Graduate School of Library and Information Science

University of Illinois

Mark W. Lenox

Director of Imaging

Imaging Core

Texas A&M Institute for Preclinical Studies

Rachel Lesinski

Program Associate

National Academies Keck Futures Initiative

Jeffrey Liew

Associate Professor

Educational Psychology

Texas A&M University

John Linehan

Professor of Biomedical Engineering

Biomedical Engineering

Northwestern University

Julie Linsey

Assistant Professor

Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering

Georgia Institute of Technology

Taosheng Liu

Assistant Professor of Psychology

Psychology

Michigan State University

Ning Lu

Associate Professor

Electrical and Computer Engineering

North Carolina State University

Wei Lu

Associate Professor

Mechanical Engineering

University of Michigan

Suggested Citation:"Participant List." National Research Council. 2013. The Informed Brain in a Digital World: Interdisciplinary Research Team Summaries. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/18268.
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Jessica Luton

Science Writing Scholar

Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication

University of Georgia

Margaret Y. Mahan

Graduate Student

Biomedical Informatics and Computational Biology University of Minnesota

Andreas Malikopoulos

Alvin M. Weinberg Fellow

Energy & Transportation Science Division

Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Narayan B. Mandayam

Peter D. Cherasia Faculty Scholar and Professor of ECE

Electrical and Computer Engineering

Rutgers University

Gloria Mark

Professor

Department of Informatics, Interactive and Collaborative Technologies

Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences

University of California, Irvine

Dejan Markovic

Associate Professor

Electrical Engineering

University of California, Los Angeles

René Marois

Professor

Psychology

Vanderbilt University

Ulrich Mayr

Professor

Psychology

University of Oregon

Kirk McAlpin

Freelance Science Writer

John Devin McAuley

Associate Professor/Director, Interdisciplinary Cognitive Science Program

Psychology

Michigan State University

Todd J. McCallum

Associate Professor of Psychology

Psychological Sciences

Case Western Reserve University

David E. Meyer

Clyde Coombs Distinguished University Professor of Mathematical Psychology

Psychology/Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience

University of Michigan

Nikki Mirghafori

Senior Research Scientist

International Computer Science Institute at Berkeley

Suggested Citation:"Participant List." National Research Council. 2013. The Informed Brain in a Digital World: Interdisciplinary Research Team Summaries. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/18268.
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Jacquelyn F. Morie

Senior Research Scientist

Institute for Creative Technologies

University of Southern California

Hamid Najib

Information Technology and Program Support Specialist

National Academies Keck Futures Initiative

Clifford Nass

Thomas M. Storke Professor

Communication

Stanford University

Ani Nenkova

Assistant Professor

Computer and Information Science

University of Pennsylvania

Oded Nov

Assistant Professor

New York University–Polytechnic Institute

Meeko Mitsuko Karen Oishi

Assistant Professor

Electrical and Computer Engineering

University of New Mexico

Anthony C. Olcott

Scholar

Emerging Trends—Center for the Study of Intelligence

Central Intelligence Agency

Paromita Pain

Science Writing Scholar

Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism

University of Southern California

Chris Palmer

Science Writing Scholar

University of California, Santa Cruz

Satinderpall S. Pannu

Section Leader for the Center for Micro- and Nano-Technology

Engineering

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Roy Pea

David Jacks Professor of Education and Learning Sciences; Director, H-STAR Institute

Graduate School of Education/H-STAR Institute

Stanford University

Maria Pellegrini

Executive Director, Programs

W.M. Keck Foundation

Kimberly F. Raab-Graham

Assistant Professor

Center for Learning and Memory

University of Texas at Austin

Shriram Ramanathan

Associate Professor

Applied Physics

Harvard University

Suggested Citation:"Participant List." National Research Council. 2013. The Informed Brain in a Digital World: Interdisciplinary Research Team Summaries. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/18268.
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Adriane B. Randolph

Assistant Professor of Information Systems, KSU BrainLab Director

Information Systems

Kennesaw State University

Parthasarathy Ranganathan

HP Fellow

Hewlett Packard Labs

Ravishankar Rao

Research Staff Member

Computational Biology Center

IBM Research

Karin A. Remington

Chief Technology Officer

Arjuna Solutions

Matt Richtel

New York Times

Anna W. Roe

Professor

Psychology

Vanderbilt University

Aviva Rutkin

Science Writing Scholar

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Stephen Ryan

President, Doheny Eye Institute and Grace and Emery Beardsley Professor

Ophthalmology

Keck School of Medicine

University of Southern California

Paul Sajda

Professor

Biomedical Engineering

Columbia University

Terrence Sejnowski

Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute; Francis Crick Professor

Salk Institute for Biological Studies

Thomas Serre

Assistant Professor

Cognitive Linguistic & Psychological Sciences / Brain Institute

Brown University

Kelly Servick

Science Writing Scholar

University of California, Santa Cruz

Suggested Citation:"Participant List." National Research Council. 2013. The Informed Brain in a Digital World: Interdisciplinary Research Team Summaries. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/18268.
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Rina Shaikh-Lesko

Science Writing Scholar

Science Communication Program

University of California, Santa Cruz

Sam R. Sharar

Professor

Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine

University of Washington School of Medicine

Jonathan Z. Simon

Associate Professor

Electrical & Computer Engineering / Biology

University of Maryland, College Park

Eliot R. Smith

Chancellor’s Professor of Psychological and Brain Sciences

Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences

Indiana University

Daniel Stokols

Chancellor’s Professor

Department of Planning, Policy, and Design and Department of Psychology and Social Behavior

Program in Public Health and Department of Epidemiology

University of California, Irvine

David L. Strayer

Professor of Psychology

Department of Psychology

University of Utah

Aaron D. Striegel

Associate Professor

Department of Computer Science and Engineering

University of Notre Dame

Kimberly A. Suda-Blake

Senior Program Director

National Academies Keck Futures Initiative

Diane M. Sullenberger

Executive Editor

PNAS

National Academy of Sciences

Laura L. Symonds

Assistant Professor of Neuroscience; Undergraduate Neuroscience Director

Neuroscience

Michigan State University

Mercedes Talley

Program Director

W.M. Keck Foundation

Desney S. Tan

Principal Reseacher

Computational User Experiences

Microsoft Research

Ashley Taylor

Science Writing Scholar

New York University

Suggested Citation:"Participant List." National Research Council. 2013. The Informed Brain in a Digital World: Interdisciplinary Research Team Summaries. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/18268.
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Kelly Tucker

Science Writing Scholar

MS Program in Science & Technology Journalism

Texas A&M University

Matthew A. Turk

Professor

Computer Science, Media Arts and Technology

University of California, Santa Barbara

Yalda T. Uhls

Researcher; Regional Director

Psychology

Children’s Digital Media Center@LA

University of California, Los Angeles

Common Sense Media

Clara H. Vaughn

Science Writing Scholar

Philip Merrill College of Journalism

University of Maryland

Anthony D. Wagner

Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience

Psychology

Stanford University

Brian A. Wandell

Isaac and Madeline Stein Family Professor

Department of Psychology

Stanford University

Jun Wang

Research Assistant Professor

School of Information Studies

Syracuse University

Qi Wang

Assistant Professor Department of Biomedical Engineering

Columbia University

Brian Waniewski

Managing Director

Institute of Play

Jason M. Watson

Associate Professor

Psychology

University of Utah

Debra L. Weiner

Assistant Professor

Emergency Medicine

Boston Children’s Hospital/Harvard Medical School

Aaron L. Williams

Graduate Researcher

Systems and Information Engineering

University of Virginia

Kate Yandell

Science Writing Scholar

Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute

New York University

Suggested Citation:"Participant List." National Research Council. 2013. The Informed Brain in a Digital World: Interdisciplinary Research Team Summaries. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/18268.
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Michelle Yeoman

Science Writing Scholar

MS Program in Science & Technology Journalism

Texas A&M University

Byron M. Yu

Assistant Professor

Electrical and Computer Engineering / Biomedical Engineering

Carnegie Mellon University

Tian Zhang

Fellow in Hematology-Oncology

Medicine

Duke University Hospital

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Digital media provide humans with more access to information than ever before—a computer, tablet, or smartphone can all be used to access data online and users frequently have more than one device. However, as humans continue to venture into the digital frontier, it remains to be known whether access to seemingly unlimited information is actually helping us learn and solve complex problems, or ultimately creating more difficulty and confusion for individuals and societies by offering content overload that is not always meaningful.

Throughout history, technology has changed the way humans interact with the world. Improvements in tools, language, industrial machines, and now digital information technology have shaped our minds and societies. There has always been access to more information than humans can handle, but the difference now lies in the ubiquity of the Internet and digital technology, and the incredible speed with which anyone with a computer can access and participate in seemingly infinite information exchange. Humans now live in a world where mobile digital technology is everywhere, from the classroom and the doctor's office to public transportation and even the dinner table. This paradigm shift in technology comes with tremendous benefits and risks. Interdisciplinary Research (IDR) Teams at the 2012 National Academies Keck Futures Initiative Conference on The Informed Brain in the Digital World explored common rewards and dangers to Humans among various fields that are being greatly impacted by the Internet and the rapid evolution of digital technology.

Keynote speaker Clifford Nass of Stanford University opened the dialogue by offering insight into what we already know about how the "information overload" of the digital world may be affecting our brains. Nass presented the idea of the "media budget," which states that when a new media emerges, it takes time away from other media in a daily time budget. When additional media appear and there is no time left in a person's daily media budget, people begin to "double book" media time. Personal computers, tablets, and smartphones make it easy to use several media simultaneously, and according to Nass, this double-booking of media can result in chronic multitasking, which effects how people store and manage memory. Although current fast-paced work and learning environments often encourage multitasking, research shows that such multitasking is inefficient, decreases productivity, and may hinder cognitive function. National Academies Keck Future Initiative: The Informed Brain in a Digital World summarizes the happenings of this conference.

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