EDUCATION
Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
Ph.D. in Cognitive Psychology
Degree conferred: August, 2012
Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition, Pittsburgh, PA
Certificate conferred: August, 2012
The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA
Bachelor of Science in Psychology
Degree conferred: May, 2007
AWARDS
Elected as Fellow to Psychonomic Society, 2016
Joachim Herz Stiftung Fellowship to attend the Summer Institute on Bounded Rationality, 2014
Air Force Achievement Medal for meritorious service to the 112th Air Operations Squadron, 2012
NIMH Fellowship to attend Steve Luck’s ERP Bootcamp, 2009
Honorable Mention, NSF Graduate Research Fellowship, 2008, 2009
President’s Fund for Undergraduate Research, 2006
Paul Cornwell Memorial Fund in Psychology, 2006
Richard E. Thorn Memorial Scholarship, 2006
Mona Shibley Bird Memorial Scholarship in Psychology, 2005
Pennsylvania National Guard Fellowship, 2005
EXTERNAL FUNDING
FY16 (Co-PI) Real-time cognitive model-based fatigue monitoring. (AFRL Human Performance Wing Chief Scientist’s Office, Dr. Rajesh Naik; $100K)
FY16: (PI) Attentional trainer to improve control of unmanned systems (Naval Air Systems Command Small Business Innovation Research; $150K)
FY15-FY16: (Co-PI) Design, reconfigure, and evaluate autonomous models in training (Air Force Research Laboratory Small Business Technology Transfer Award; Phase I: $150K; Phase II: $750K)
FY13-FY14: (Co-PI) Computational approaches for understanding vigilance and mental fatigue (Air Force Office of Scientific Research; $257K)
FY12-FY14: Simple heuristics that make us smart: Using verbal protocol analysis to study the selection and application of decision strategies (National Research Council; $160K)
PUBLICATIONS
Walsh, M. M., Gunzelmann, G., & Anderson, J. R. (in press). Relationship of P3b single-trial latencies and response times in one, two, and three-stimulus oddball tasks. BP_2016
Zhang, Q., Walsh, M. M., & Anderson, J. R. (in press). The effects of probe similarity on retrieval and comparison processes in associative recognition. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. JOCN_2016
Anderson, J. R., Zhang, Q., Borst, J. P., & Walsh, M. M. (in press). The measurement of processing stages: Extension of Sternberg’s method. Psychological Review.
Walsh, M. M., Gunzelmann, G., & Van Dongen, H. P. A. (accepted pending minor revisions). Computational cognitive models of the temporal dynamics of fatigue from sleep loss. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review .
Manelis, A., Popov, V., Paynter, C., Walsh, M., Vogt, K., & Reder, L. (accepted pending minor revisions). Cortical networks involved in memory for temporal order. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience.
Walsh, M. M., Gluck, K. A., Gunzelmann, G., Jastrzembski, T., & Krusmark, M. (invited revision). Evaluating the theoretical adequacy and applied potential of computational models of the spacing effect.
Walsh, M. M., Gluck, K. A., Gunzelmann, G., Jastrzembski, T., Krusmark, M., Myung, J. I., Pitt, M. A., & Zhou, R. (submitted). The effects of spaced practice on retention and relearning.
Rawson, K., Vaughn, K., Walsh, M., & Dunlosky, J. (submitted). Successive relearning: The next frontier for educationally relevant memory research.
Walsh, M. M., Paynter, C. A., Zhang, Y., & Reder, L. M. (2016). Hitting the reset button: An ERP investigation of memory for temporal context. Brain Research, 1642, 524-531. BR_2016
Walsh, M. M., & Lovett, M. (2016). The cognitive science approach to learning and memory. In S. Chipman (Ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Cognitive Science: Part 2, Cognitive Science Perspectives on Classic Problems in Psychology. OH_2016
Walsh, M. M., & Gluck, K. A. (2016). Verbalization of decision strategies in multiple-cue probabilistic inference. Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, 29, 78-91. JBDM_2015
Walsh, M. M., & Gluck, K. A. (2015). Mechanisms for robust cognition. Cognitive Science, 39, 1131-1171. CS_2015
Gunzelmann, G., Veksler, B. Z., Walsh, M. M., & Gluck, K. A. (2015) Understanding and predicting the impact of sleep loss through simulation. Translational Issues in Psychological Science, 1, 106-115. TIPS_2015
Nie., A., Griffin, M., Keinath, A., Walsh, M. M., Dittmann, A., & Reder, L. (2014). ERP profiles for face and word recognition are based on their status in semantic memory and not their stimulus category. Brain Research, 1557, 66-73. BR_2014
Liu, X., Walsh, M. M., & Reder, L. M. (2014). An attentional adaptation account of spatial negative priming: Evidence from event-related potentials. Cognitive, Affective, and Behavioral Neuroscience, 14, 49-61. CABN_2014
Walsh, M. M., & Anderson, J. R. (2014). Navigating complex decision spaces: Problems and paradigms in sequential choice. Psychological Bulletin, 140, 466-486. PB_2014
Walsh, M. M., & Anderson, J. R. (2013). Electrophysiological responses to feedback during the application of abstract rules. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 25, 1986-2002. JOCN_2013A
Borst, J. P.*, Schneider, D. W.*, Walsh, M. M.*, & Anderson, J. R. (2013). Stages of processing in associative recognition: Evidence from behavior, electroencephalography, and classification. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 25, 2151-2166. JOCN_2013B
*Contributed equally to this work, order is alphabetical
Walsh, M. M., Einstein, E. H., & Gluck, K. A. (2013). A quantification of robustness. Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition, 2, 137-148. JARMAC_2013
Walsh, M. M., & Anderson, J. R. (2012). Learning from experience: Event-related potential correlates of reward processing, neural adaptation, and behavioral choice. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, 36, 1870-1884. NBR_2012
Walsh, M. M., & Anderson, J. R. (2011). Modulation of the feedback-related negativity by instruction and experience. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, 108, 19048-19053. PNAS_2011
Walsh, M. M., & Anderson, J. R. (2011). Learning from delayed feedback: Neural responses in temporal credit assignment. Cognitive, Affective, and Behavioral Neuroscience, 11, 131-143. CABN_2011
Walsh, M. M., & Rosenbaum, D. A. (2009). Deciding how to act is not achieved by watching mental movies. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 35, 1481-1489. JEPHPP_2009A
Walsh, M. M., & Anderson, J. R. (2009). The strategic nature of changing your mind. Cognitive Psychology, 58, 416-440. CP_2009
van der Wel, R., Eder, J. R., Mitchel, A. D., Walsh, M. M., & Rosenbaum, D. A. (2009). Trajectories emerging from discrete versus continuous processing models in a phonological competitor task: A commentary on Spivey, Grosjean, and Knoblich (2005). Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 35, 588-594. JEPHPP_2009B
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
Walsh, M., Blaha, L, Fisher, C., Gunzelmann, G., Setlur, V., & Veksler, B. (2017). The use of computational cognitive models to support real-time state assessment. Talk to be presented at 8th International Conference on Applied Human Factors and Ergonomics.
Walsh, M. (2016). Successive re-learning: The next frontier in educationally relevant psychology research. Poster presented at the 2016 Carnegie Mellon University Teaching and Learning Summit.
Collins, M., Gluck, K., Walsh, M., Krusmark, M., & Gunzelmann, G. (2016). Using prior data to inform model parameters in the Predictive Performance Equation. Poster presented at 38th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.
Fisher, C. R., Walsh, M. M., Blaha, L. M., Gunzelmann, G., & Veksler, B. (2016). Efficient parameter estimation of cognitive models for real-time performance monitoring and adaptive interfaces. Talk presented at 14th International Conference on Cognitive Modeling.
Rodgers, S., Walsh, M., & Oskorus, A. (2016). Revolutionizing personalized and optimized training. Talk presented at 2016 Training Officers Consortium Annual Institute.
Walsh, M. M. (2015, July). Spacing effects across multiple re-learning sessions. Talk presented at 22nd Annual ACT-R Workshop.
Walsh, M. M., Collins, M. A., & Gluck, K. A. (2015, July). Verbal reports reveal strategies in multiple-cue probabilistic inference. Talk presented at 37th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.
Fisher, C. R., Walsh, M. M., Blaha, L. M., & Gunzelmann, G. (2015, July). ACT-R and LBA model mimicry reveals similarity across levels of analysis. Talk presented at 37th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.
Myers, C. W., Harris, J., Gluck, K., Veksler, V., Mielke, T., Boyd, R., & Walsh, M. (2015). Robust decisions in aerospace environments with fast & frugal trees. Talked presented at 85th Annual Meeting of the Aerospace Medical Association.
Gunzelmann, G., Veksler, B. Z., Walsh, M. M., & Gluck, K. A. (2015, May). Fatigue risk mitigation in aerospace medicine: Simulating the effects of fatigue on cognitive processing. Talk presented at the 85th Annual Meeting of the Aerospace Medical Association.
Walsh, M. M., & Rodgers, S. (2015, May). Cognitive modeling for personalized training in military and medical domains. Talk presented at DoD Human Factors Engineering Technical Advisory Group (HFETAG) Meeting 69.
Walsh, M. M., Gunzelmann, G., & Van Dongen, H. P. A. (2014, July). Comparing accounts of psychomotor vigilance impairment due to sleep loss. Talk presented at 36th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Quebec City, Canada.
Walsh, M. M., & Gluck, K. A. (2014, July). Using process measures to track strategy use in probabilistic inference. Poster presented at 36th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Quebec City, Canada.
Jastrzembski, T., Gluck, K., Gunzelmann, G., Krusmark, M., Tang, Y., & Walsh, M. (2014, July). Modeling nuances of the spacing effect. Talk presented at 47th Annual Meeting of the Society for Mathematical Psychology, Quebec City, Canada.
Walsh, M. M., & Gluck, K. A. (2013, April). Quantifying and enhancing robustness of cognitive and behavioral systems. Poster presented at 23rd Annual Conference on Behavior Representation in Modeling and Simulation (BRiMS). Washington D.C.
Walsh, M. M., & Gluck, K. A. (2013, November). Robustness for human-machine systems. Poster presented at AHEAD Autonomy Research Showcase. Dayton, OH.
Walsh, M. M., & Gluck, K. A. (2013). Robustness: Quantification and application. Poster presented at 12th International Conference on Cognitive Modeling. Ottawa, Canada.
Walsh, M. M. (2013). Robustness as a guiding principle for the design of cognitive and behavior systems. In K. A. Gluck (Chair), Robustness in cognitive and behavioral systems. 22nd Annual Conference on Behavior Representation in Modeling and Simulation (BRiMS). Ottawa, Canada.
Liu, X., Walsh, M. M., & Reder, L. (2011, April). An attentional adaptation account of spatial negative priming: Evidence from ERP. Poster presented at the Cognitive Neuroscience Society Eighteenth Annual Meeting. San Francisco, CA.
Walsh, M. M., & Anderson, J. R. (2010, August). Neural correlates of temporal credit assignment. Talk presented at 10th International Conference on Cognitive Modeling. Philadelphia, PA. (Honorable mention: Allen Newell Award for Best Student Paper)
Walsh, M. M. (2010, July). Problems and paradigms in temporal credit assignment. Talk presented at Seventeenth Annual ACT-R Summer School. Pittsburgh, PA.
Anderson, J. R., & Walsh, M. M. (2009, July). Decision making in a cognitive architecture. Talk presented at Multi-modal Neuroimaging Training Program Symposium. Pittsburgh, PA.
Walsh, M. M., & Anderson, J. R. (2009, July). Tracking the course of algebra learning. Poster presented at 31st Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. Amsterdam.
Walsh, M. M., & Anderson, J. R. (2008, July). Strategy selection at the technological interface. Poster presented at 30th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. Washington D.C..
Walsh, M. M., & Anderson, J. R. (2008, July). Statistical learning and anticipatory start point selection. Talk presented at 16th Annual ACT-R Workshop. Pittsburgh, PA.
Walsh, M. M., & Rosenbaum, D. A. (2007, June). Path planning. Talk presented at Third International Workshop on Posture-Based Motion Planning. University Park, PA.
Von Der Heide, R. J., Wenger, M. J., Gilmore, R. O., Walsh, M. M., Sullivan, B. M., & Bittner, J. (2007, May). Developmental changes in the capacity to process faces. Poster presented at Vision Sciences Society 6th Annual Meeting. Sarasota, FL.
Walsh, M. M., & Rosenbaum, D. A. (2007, April). Planning for an uncertain future. Poster presented at Psi Chi Research Conference. University Park, PA.
Walsh, M. M., Schiller, C., van der Wel, R. & Rosenbaum, D. A. (2006, April). Control of manual positioning sequences at slow frequencies. Poster presented at Psi Chi Research Conference. University Park, PA.
Walsh, M. M., Mason, S., & Crnic, K. (2006, March). The relationship between caregiver’s locus of control and child’s cognitive development at 36 and 60 months. Poster presented at 39th annual Gatlinburg Conference on Research and Theory in Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities. San Diego, CA.
Biddle, J., Cohen, R. G., Schiller, C., Walsh, M. M., Hopkins, L., Miller, M., & Rosenbaum, D. A. (2005, April). Issues in obstacle avoidance. Talk presented at Second International Workshop on Posture-Based Motion Planning. University Park, PA.
INVITED COLLOQUIA
Gluck, K. A., & Walsh, M. W. (2015, July). Robustness: Definition, quantification, and mechanisms. 711 Human Performance Wing Commander’s Luncheon Series.
Walsh, M. M. & Gluck, K. A. (2014, March). Mechanisms for Robust Cognition. Air Force Institute of Technology. Dayton, OH.
Walsh, M. M., & Gluck, K. A. (2013, December). Mechanisms for robust cognition. Computational Cognition and Robust Decision Making Program Review. Washington D.C.
Gluck, K. A., & Walsh, M. M. (2013, September). Robustness as a selection criterion for human-machine systems. AFRL/AFIT Colloquium – Human Machine Systems.
Walsh, M. M. (2012, January). Behavioral and neural adaptation in reward learning. Naval Research Laboratory. Washington D.C.
Walsh, M. M. (2011, December). The error of our ways: Behavioral and neural correlates of reward learning. Air Force Research Laboratory. Dayton, OH.
Walsh, M. M. (2010, June). Neural prediction error in temporal credit assignment. Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition, Carnegie Mellon University and University of Pittsburgh. Pittsburgh, PA.
RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
TiER1 Performance Solutions
2015-Present Senior Solutions Consultant. Workgroup manager: Stu Rodgers
2014-2015 Senior Research Scientist
Air Force Research Laboratory
2012-2014 PALM Lab. Advisor: Kevin Gluck
Carnegie Mellon University
2014-Present Consultant, Department of Psychology
2007-2012 ACT-R Research Group. Advisor: John Anderson
2008-2012 Memory Lab. Advisor: Lynne Reder
The Pennsylvania State University
2004-2009 The Lab for Cognition and Action. Advisor: David Rosenbaum
2005-2007 Vision, Memory and Computational Neuroscience Lab. Advisor: Michael Wenger
2004-2006 The Collaborative Family Study. Advisor: Keith Crnic
Drew University
2004 Cognition Lab. Advisor: Patrick Dolan
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Carnegie Mellon University
2011 Guest lecturer to Laurie Heller (Research Methods in Cognitive Psychology)
2010 Teaching Assistant to David Plaut (Introduction to Parallel Distributed Processing)
2010 Co-instructor with Lynne Reder (Introduction to Event Related Potentials)
2009 Teaching Assistant to John Anderson (Cognitive Modeling)
2009 Guest lecturer to Chante Cox-Boyd (Research Methods in Social Psychology)
Private Instruction
2005-2006 Volunteers in Public School, State College, PA (AP Calculus and Statistics)
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
Ad hoc reviewer for the following journals (34 reviews total):
Biological Psychology · BMC Neuroscience · Brain and Cognition · Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience · Cognitive Science · Computational Psychiatry · Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition · Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience · Neuropsychologia · Neuroscience Letters · Neuroscience Research · PLOS Computational Biology · Psychiatry Research · Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging · Psychological Bulletin · Psychological Review · Psychonomic Bulletin & Review · Psychophysiology · Scandinavian Journal of Psychology · Scientific Reports
Ad hoc reviewer for the following conferences (23 reviews total):
Annual Cognitive Science Conference · Conference on Behavior Representation in Modeling and Simulation · EuroAsianPacific Joint Conference on Cognitive Science · International Conference on Cognitive Modeling · Human Factors and Ergonomics Society · Midwest Cognitive Science Conference
Ad hoc reviewer for the following organization (2 reviews total):
Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR)
Tutorial Committee: International Conference on Cognitive Modeling
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
Fellow, Psychonomic Society; 2016-Present
Member, Association for Psychological Science, 2016-Present
Member, Society for Judgment and Decision Making, 2014-Present
Member, Cognitive Science Society, 2007-Present
Member, Psi Chi, 2004-Present
Elected to Phi Beta Kappa, 2008
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