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MICHAEL
A. KISLEY, Ph.D.
EDUCATION: Ph.D., Neuroscience, University of Pennsylvania, 2000. M.S., Aerospace Engineering (Bioengineering Emphasis), University of Colorado, 1994 B.S., Aerospace Engineering Sciences, University of Colorado, 1992.
RESEARCH INTERESTS: Dr. Kisley studies perception and attention functions across the lifespan. He's particularly interested in how the person (and their brain) prioritizes which sensory stimuli in the environment should be attended to. This type of function changes with healthy aging, and this can have detrimental effects on an individual's daily life (e.g., increased distractibility). Recently though, Dr. Kisley's research team has begun studying potentially beneficial impacts these changes can have, including higher prioritization of "positive" stimuli and lower prioritization of "negative" ones. Dr. Kisley's laboratory employs both behavioral and neuroscience methodologies to study these issues.
PUBLICATIONS: Kisley, M.A., Wood, S., & Burrows, C.L. (2007) Looking at the sunny side of life: Age-related change in an event-related potential measure of the negativity bias. Psychological Science 18: 838-843.
Wood, S., & Kisley, M.A. (2006) The negativity bias is eliminated in older adults: age-related reduction in event-related brain potentials associated with evaluative categorization. Psychology and Aging 21: 815-820.
Kisley, M.A., & Cornwell, Z.M. (2006) Gamma and beta neural activity evoked during a sensory gating paradigm: Effects of auditory, somatosensory and cross-modal stimulation. Clinical Neurophysiology 117: 2549-2563.
Kisley, M.A., Davalos, D.B., Engleman, L.L., Guinther, P.M., & Davis, H.P. (2005) Age-related change in neural processing of time-dependent stimulus features. Cognitive Brain Research 25: 913-925. [ Erratum in Brain Research 1082: 205]
Kisley, M.A., Noecker, T.L., & Guinther, P.M. (2004) Comparison of sensory gating to mismatch negativity and self-reported perceptual phenomena in healthy adults. Psychophysiology 41: 604-612.
NON-ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES: Hiking, biking, camping, cross-country skiing, reading literature, and listening to music.
HOMETOWN: Denver, Colorado.
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