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EDUCATION
2006 July – present, New York City
Columbia
University
Medical
Center
College
of Physicians and Surgeons
Columbia
Neuroscience
Postdoctoral Research Associate in Primate
Cellular Electrophysiology
Dr. Michael
E. Goldberg’s Primate Electrophysiology
Lab
Area of Specialization: area LIP of the rhesus
monkey, saccade adaptation
Graduate coursework:
Neuro Basis of Decision-making, Fall 2008
Neuroanatomy, Spring 2007
2004 December - 2006 June, New York City
The City
College of the City University of New York
Postdoctoral Research Associate in Neuroscience
Dr.
Jay Edelman’s Eye Movement and Vision Lab
Areas of Specification: Neuroscience, saccadic
eye movements
Graduate coursework:
Digital Signal Processing, grade: A-, Spring
2006
Neuroscience I, grade: A, Fall 2005
Neuroscience II, grade: A, Spring 2005
Statistics for the Behavioral Sciences, grade: A-,
Spring 2005
1997 to January 2005, New Brunswick, NJ
Rutgers
University
Ph. D. in Philosophy
Area of Specification: Philosophy of Mind,
Language, and Neuroscience
Thesis Title: "Intentional States and Intentional State
Ascriptions: An Integrated Linguistic/Psychological Account."
Certificate in Cognitive Science
Project Title: “Cheater Detection or Logical Form? An
Investigation of the Wason Selection Task”
Advisor: Jerry
Fodor, Ph. D.
Committee: Robert Matthews (chair), Frances Egan, Brian
Loar, Peter Ludlow
M.A. in Philosophy, Rutgers University, 2000
1993-1997, Medford, MA
Tufts
University
B.A. in Mathematics and Philolosphy,
summa cum laude, highest thesis honors
Thesis Title: When Lions Talk: A Critique of Davidsonian Semantic
Theory
Advisor: Mark Richard
1995-1996, AY, England
Oxford
University
Visiting Student in Mathematics
and Philosophy
1992-1993, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany
Lohfelder Gymnasium in Bad Salzuflen
Pre-college exchange student
AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION
- Primate Cellular Electrophysiology
- Visual Psychophysics
- Saccadic Eye Movements
- Visual Search
HONORS AND GRANTS
- NRSA grant from NEI-NIH,
2009 and beyond
- ACMC
Award. Abstract selected for media package and press kit
of Neuroscience 2008,
the Society for Neuroscience's 38th annual meeting. Abstract
Title: The primate oculomotor system plans saccades
to objects not points
- Columbia University Neurobiology and Behavior
Training Grant, 2008
- Columbia University Vision Sciences NEI
Training Grant, 2007
- Fight
for Sight Vision Research Grant,
2006
- Graduate Student Prize, Central Division Meeting of the
American Philosophical Association, 2002.
- Graduate Student Prize, Pacific Division Meeting of the
American Philosophical Association, 2001.
- Rutgers Excellence Fellowship,
1997-1999 and 2000-2001.
- The Class of 1882 Prize Scholarship, awarded for "outstanding
potential in intellectual leadership",
Tufts University, Spring 1997.
- Summa cum laude, Tufts University, 1993-1997
- Phi
Beta Kappa, inducted Spring 1997.
- Highest Thesis Honors, Tufts University,
Spring 1997.
- Philosophy Departmental Honors, Tufts
University, Spring 1997.
- National Merit Scholarship, 1993-1997.
PUBLICATIONS AND PRESENTATIONS
Phillips M.H., Steenrod S.C., and Goldberg M.E. (2008) "The
primate oculomotor system plans saccades to objects not points"
Neuroscience 2008,
the Society for Neuroscience's 38th annual meeting.
Washington, DC: Society for Neuroscience Program No. 812.4
Phillips, M.H., Steenrod, S.C., & Goldberg, M.E. (2008).
"Saccade adaptation in monkeys is object-specific"
[Abstract]. Journal of Vision, 8(6):215, 215a, http://journalofvision.org/8/6/215/,
doi:10.1167/8.6.215.
Phillips MH, Edelman JA "The dependence of visual scanning
performance on search direction and difficulty". Vision
Research, in press (2008)
Phillips MH, Edelman JA "The dependence of visual scanning
performance on saccade, fixaiton, and perceptual metrics",
in press (2008).
Phillips M.H. and J.A. Edelman. "Performance on a structured
visual search task depends much more on perceptual span than
fixation duration". Journal of Vision 6(6):522, 522a,
http://journalofvision.org/6/6/522/,
submitted (2008).
Phillips M.H. and J.A. Edelman (2005). "Performance
and perceptual span in a constrained visual search task"
Abstract Viewer/Itinerary Planner. Washington, DC: Society
for Neuroscience Program No. 165.15.2005. Online.
Phillips MH (2005) "A conceptual complexity
account of theory of mind development". Proceedings of
the XXVII Annual Conference of the Cognitive
Science Society (CSS), Stresa, Italy,
July 2005.
Reply to Henry Jackman, “Holistic Atomism: Semantics
Between the Old Testament and New”, Pacific Division
Meeting of the American Philosophical Association, March 2005
“Some Cognitively-Oriented Research Projects in Motor
Control”, invited job talk, Computational Motor Control
lab, Johns Hopkins University, July 2004. Host: Dr. Reza Shadmehr
"From Philosophy to Neural States: An Integrated Account
of Propositional Attitude Ascriptions and Our Reasoning with
Them", invited job talk, Austin College, April 2004.
"An Integrated Linguistic and Psychological Theory of
Intentional State Ascriptions", informal presentation
to the Propositional Attitudes Task Force reading group, Smith
College, April 2004. Host: Jill de Villiers.
"De Re Mentalizing and the Simulation-Theory/Theory-Theory
Debate", Pacific Division Meeting of the American Philosophical
Association, March 2003.
"Measuring Propositional Attitudes", Central Division
Meeting of the American Philosophical Association, 2002.
"What a Solution to the Problem of Empty Names Cannot
Be", Pacific Division Meeting of the American Philosophical
Association, March 2001.
"Why Positive and Negative Conceivability Can’t
Save the Conceivability-Possibility Link", Buffalo Structures
of Consciousness Graduate Conference, 1999.
"Theories of Masses and Atomless Gunk", New Jersey
Regional Philosophical Association, 1999.
Reply to Kriegel, "Supervenience and Mental Representation",
at the 5th Annual Rutgers Graduate Student Conference, 1999
"Davidson on Convention", Syracuse Graduate Conference,
1999.
"What Does It Take to Make You Think Like a Logic Book",
presentation to the Rutgers Cognitive Science Club (undergraduate),
1998.
SKILLS
- Language: Speak, read and write Germany fluently;
some Latin and Chinese
- Extracellular electrophysiological recording
and behavioral training with primates
- MATLAB Programming, C and C++
programming, Statistics, Data
Structures and Modeling, Java Programming
- Mathematics: Discrete mathematics, linear
algebra, logic, algorithm design
& analysis, parsing, numerical analysis, digital
signal processing
- Experimental design: multi-target visual
search experiments, gaze-contingent display
paradigms, calibration, and data
analysis, for the EyeLink II video eyetracker
STUDY ABROAD EXPERIENCE
- Studied in Germany for 12 months, and
traveled independently to Italy, Sweden,
Switzerland, Denmark,
and Russia, AY 1992-1993
- Studied in England for 12 months AY
1995-1996
SERVICE
- Organizer of Vision Science Journal
Club (lead by Professor Joshua Wallman)
in the
City University of the City College of New York (CUNY),
Fall 2005
- Conference Co-organizer, 5th Annual Rutgers
Graduate Student Conference, 1999
- Faculty Adviser to the Rutgers University Chess Club,
Fall 1998 to Spring 2002
HOBBIES
- Boxing, Runner-Up in Oxford-RMA
Sandhurst match Fall 1995, Heavyweight division
- Rowing, 1993-1997. 9th place
in Head of the Charles 1994, Collegiate Eights;
set Tufts school record in 2000m sprint,
1997
- Chess, 12th place at
the National Championship, 13 and under,
1988
REFEREES:
Dr. Michael
E. Goldberg, David Mahoney Professor
of Brain
and Behavior in the Departments
of Neurology, Psychiatry,
Opthalmology,
Columbia
Neuroscience, and the Director of Mahoney
Center, Columbia
University College
of Physicians and Surgeons, Phone: 212-543-6931, E-mail:
meg2008@columbia.edu
Professor
Jay Edelman, Department
of Biology, The
City University of the City College of New York (CUNY),
Phone: (212) 650-8461, E-mail: jedelman@ccny.cuny.edu
Professor Jonathan
B. Levitt, Department
of Biology, The
City University of the City College of New York (CUNY),
Phone: (212)650-8539, E-mail: jbl@sci.ccny.cuny.edu
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