New York University
Ph.D., September 2011
Psychology: Cognition & Perception
Dissertation: Emotional Modulation of Visual Attention
Advisors: Dr. Elizabeth Phelps and Dr. Marisa Carrasco
Master of Arts, January 2009
Psychology: Cognition & Perception
University of California, at Berkeley
Bachelor of Arts, May 2004
Major: Cognitive Science, neuroscience emphasis
Minor: Anthropology, social-cultural emphasis
Post-doctoral Scholar, Affective Cognitive Neuroscience Lab, Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute, UC Berkeley
Advisor: Dr. Sonia Bishop
Berkeley, CA (2011 - 2012)
Graduate Research Assistant, Phelps Lab, Psychology Department, NYU
Advisor: Dr. Elizabeth Phelps
New York, NY (2006 - 2011)
Research Assistant & Lab Manager, Perception and Neuroscience Lab, Psychology Department, Vanderbilt University
Advisor: Dr. Frank Tong
Nashville, TN (2004 - 2006)
Undergraduate Research Assistant, Emotion and Social Interaction Lab, Psychology Department, UC Berkeley
Advisors: Dr. June Gruber and Dr. Ann Kring
Berkeley, CA (2003 - 2004)
Instructor for Cognition (Summer 2010)
Teaching Assistant: Robert Colner
Teaching Assistant for Perception (Fall 2009)
Instructor: Dr. Michael Landy
Teaching Assistant for Cognition (Summer 2009)
Instructor: Robert Colner
Teaching Assistant for Introduction to Psychology (Summer 2009)
Instructor: Dr. Edgar Coons
Teaching Assistant for Introduction to Psychology (Summer 2008)
Instructor: Dr. Edgar Coons
Teaching Assistant for Cognition (Spring 2007)
Instructor: Dr. Andrew Hilford
Association for Psychological Science, 2010-present
Cognitive Neuroscience Society, 2007-present
New York Academy of Sciences, 2006-present
Social Affective Neuroscience Society, 2009-present
Vision Sciences Society, 2005-present
Douglas and Katharine Fryer Thesis Fellowship, NYU, 2010
Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Travel Award, NYU, 2009
Summer Institute in Cognitive Neuroscience Fellowship, 2007
MacCracken Fellowship, NYU, 2006-2011
Dean's List, College of Letters and Science, UC Berkeley, 2002
American Association of University Women Scholarship, 2000
Truckee Community Scholarship, 2000
Stanley, D.A., Ferneyhough, E., & Phelps, E.A. (2009). Neural Perspectives on Emotion: Impact on Perception, Attention and Memory. In G.G. Berntson & J.T. Cacciopo (Eds.), Handbook of Neuroscience for the Behavioral Sciences. New York: John Wiley & Sons.
Ferneyhough, E. & Phelps, E.A. (under review). The role of intraparietal sulcus in emotional costs of temporal attention.
Ferneyhough, E., Kim, M.K., Phelps, E.A., & Carrasco, M. (2012). Anxiety modulates the effects of emotion and attention on early vision. Cognition and Emotion, DOI:10.1080/02699931.2012.689953.
Ferneyhough, E., Stanley, D.A., Phelps, E.A., & Carrasco, M. (2010). Cueing effects of faces are dependent on handedness and visual field. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 17:529-535; doi:10.3758/PBR.17.4.529 [pdf].
Meng, M., Ferneyhough, E., & Tong, F. (2007). Dynamics of perceptual filling-in of visual phantoms revealed by binocular rivalry. Journal of Vision, 7(13):8, 1-15, http://jov.arvojournals.org/article.aspx?articleid=2122003, doi:10.1167/7.13.8
Kim, M.K., Ferneyhough, E., Carrasco, M., & Phelps, E.A. (2011). How emotion and attention affect perception: perceptual consequences of anxiety and negative affect in response to fearful and neutral facial expressions. [Poster]. 37th Annual NYU Undergraduate Research Conference, New York, NY.
Ferneyhough, E., McClave C.H., & Phelps, E.A. (2011). The role of intraparietal sulcus in emotional costs to temporal attention. [Poster]. NYU Neuroscience Retreat, New Paltz, NY.
Ferneyhough, E., McClave C.H., & Phelps, E.A. (2011). The role of intraparietal sulcus in emotional costs to temporal attention. [Poster]. Cognitive Neuroscience Society 18th Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA.
Ferneyhough, E., Stanley, D.A., Phelps, E.A., & Carrasco, M. (2010). Negative affect mediates emotion's effect on perception [Poster]. Social Affective Neuroscience Society 4th Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL. [pdf]
Ferneyhough, E., Stanley, D.A., Phelps, E.A., & Carrasco, M. (2010). Interaction effects of emotion and attention on contrast sensitivity correlate with measures of anxiety [Abstract]. Journal of Vision, 10(7): 249; http://jov.arvojournals.org/article.aspx?articleid=2138331, doi:10.1167/10.7.249. [pdf]
Ferneyhough, E., Stanley, D.A., Phelps, E.A., & Carrasco, M. (2009). Effects of faces as exogenous cues are dependent on visual field and handedness [Abstract]. Journal of Vision, 9(8):125, 125a, http://jov.arvojournals.org/article.aspx?articleid=2135509, doi:10.1167/9.8.125. [pdf].
Ferneyhough, E., Meng, M., & Tong, F. (2006). Interactions between binocular rivalry and perceptual filling-in of visual phantoms [Abstract]. Journal of Vision, 6(6):45, 45a, http://jov.arvojournals.org/article.aspx?articleid=2133410, doi:10.1167/6.6.45.
Cognitive Science
Cortex
Emotion
Frontiers in Perception Science
Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology
Vision Research
Emotional Modulation of Visual Attention, Dissertation defense, NYU, June 2011
The Role of Intraparietal Sulcus in Emotional Costs to Temporal Attention, Center for Brain Imaging User Group Meeting, NYU, April 2011
Emotional Modulation of Visual Attention, Bishop Lab, UC Berkeley, August 2010
Emotion and the Attentional Blink, Cognition & Perception Brown Bag, April 2009
Faces as Attentional Cues: Visual Field and Handedness, Cognition & Perception Miniconvention, Sept. 2008
Investigating the Interaction of Emotion and Attention, Cognition & Perception Miniconvention, Sept. 2007
Mapping Retinotopic Visual Areas on Flattened Brains, fMRI Methods Workshop, Vanderbilt University Institute of Imaging Science, March 2006 [pdf]
Poster Judge for MA Psychology Research Conference, April 2010
Cognition & Perception Graduate Student Representative, Fall 2009 - Summer 2010
Cognition & Perception Graduate Student Brown Bag Coordinator, Fall 2008 - Spring 2009
Python Bootcamp, UC Berkeley, January 2012
Science Writing Workshop, NYU Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute, Nov. 2010
Teaching & Learning Certificate Program, NYU Graduate School of Arts & Sciences, Spring 2010
BrainVoyager QX Training Course, NYU Psychology, May 2007
MATLAB (& Psychophysics Toolbox), Python (& Vision Egg), R, Ruby, BrainVoyager, FSL
HTML, CSS
Sofie Valk (University of Amsterdam visiting Masters student), Feb 2012 - July 2012
O'Min Kwon (UC Berkeley Undergraduate Research Assistant), Jan 2012 - July 2012
Min Kyung Kim (NYU Undergraduate Honors Thesis Student), Sept 2010 - May 2011
Caroline McClave (NYU Undergraduate Research Assistant), July 2010 - May 2011
Rita Ludwig (NYU Undergraduate Research Assistant), January 2009 - January 2010
Cognitive Science Peer Advisor, UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, January 2004 - May 2004