Rotman Research Institute
Baycrest Centre
3560 Bathurst Street
Toronto, Ontario M6A 2E1

phone: (416) 785-2500 x3114

EDUCATION
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Brain & Cognitive Sciences. SB, 1987.
University of California, Berkeley, Department of Psychology. PhD, 1995.
Dissertation: Voluntary Attention Can Modulate fMRI Activation in Human MT/MST.

AWARDS
• Bunting Science Fellow, Mary Ingraham Bunting Institute at Radcliffe College, 1998-1999.
• Best Dissertation Award, International Society for Women in Cognitive Neuroscience. 1996.
• McDonnell Summer Institute in Cognitive Neuroscience Fellow, Hanover, NH. 1989.
• National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship. Fall, 1988 - Spring 1991.
• MIT Burchard Scholar. Fall, 1986.
• New England Life Undergraduate Research Award. Summer, 1986.

POSITIONS HELD
1/01- present. Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Toronto.
5/00 - present. fMRI Scientist. Rotman Research Institute, Baycrest Centre. fMRI of visual attention and object recognition.
5/98 - 7/00. Instructor in Psychology. Department of Radiology, Harvard Medical School. Assistant Cognitive Neuroscientist, Massachusetts General Hospital NMR Center. fMRI of Cognitive Influences on Extrastriate Areas. Object-based attention.
8/98 - 8/99 Bunting Science Fellow. Mary Ingraham Bunting Institute of Radcliffe College. Attention and Imagery in the Brain.
10/97 - present. Research Scientist. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences. fMRI of visual imagery of motion, faces, and places. Perception of near-threshold stimuli.
9/93 - 5/98. Postdoctoral Research Scientist. Rowland Institute for Science and MGH NMR Center. fMRI of attentional modulation in MT/MST. Using intermixed individual trials in fMRI. fMRI of stereopsis. Temporal resolution of fMRI. With Robert Savoy.
7/87 - 6/94 Graduate Research Assistant. University of California, Berkeley, Department of Psychology, Anne Treisman. Abstract coding of orientation as a visual feature. Tracking attention with the Shooting Line Effect. Negative Priming.
9/88 - 9/89 Graduate Research Assistant. University of California, Berkeley, Department of Psychology, Martin Banks. Binocular summation in infants prior to stereopsis.
1/85 - 5/87 Undergraduate Research Assistant. MIT, Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Jeremy Wolfe. Long-term Tilt Aftereffects. Anomalous binocular vision. Binocular rivalry. Adaptation of the resting states of visual accommodation.
5/84 - 5/85 Undergraduate Research Assistant. MIT, Infant Vision Laboratory. Richard Held, Shin Shimojo. Development of binocular vision in infants.

PUBLICATIONS
Wolfe J, & O'Craven K. (2001) Attention and the Brain. In: Geller E, editor. McGraw-Hill Yearbook of Science and Technology: 2001. New York: McGraw-Hill; 34-36.
O’Craven, K.M. and Kanwisher, N.K. (2000) Mental Imagery of Faces and Places Activates Corresponding Stimulus-Specific Brain Regions. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience 12(6):1013-23.
O’Craven, K.M., Downing, P. and Kanwisher, N.K. (1999) fMRI Evidence for Objects as the Units of Attentional Selection. Nature 401, 584-587.
Kennedy, D.N., O’Craven, K.M., Ticho, B.S., Goldstein, A.M., Makris, N. and Henson, J.W. (1999) Structural and functional brain asymmetries in human situs inversus totalis Neurology. 53, 1260-5.
Chee, M.W., Buckner, R.L., O’Craven, K.M., Bergida, R., Rosen, B.R., and Savoy, R.L. (1999) Auditory and Visual Word Processing studied with fMRI. Human Brain Mapping, 7, 15-28.
Casey, BJ, Cohen, JD, O'Craven. K, Davidson, R, Irwin, W, Nelson, CA, Noll, DC, Hu, X, Lowe, M, Rosen, B, Truwitt, C & Turski, P (1998) Reproducibility of fMRI Results Across Four Institutions using a Spatial Working Memory Task. Neuroimage, 8, 249-261.
Seidman, L.J., Breiter, H.C., Goodman, J.M., Goldstein, J.M., Woodruff, P.W.R., O’Craven, K.M., Savoy, R.L., Tsuang, M.T., and Rosen, B.R. (1998) A functional magnetic Resonance Imaging Study of Auditory Vigilance with Low and High Information Processing Demands. Neuropsychology, 12, 505-518.
O'Craven, K.M., Rosen, B.R., Kwong, K.K., Treisman, A., and Savoy, R.L. (1997) Voluntary Attention Modulates fMRI Activation in Human MT/MST. Neuron, 18, 591-598.
Buckner, R.L., Bandettini, P.A., O’Craven, K.M., Savoy, R.L., Petersen, S.E., Raichle, M.E., and Rosen, B.R. (1996) Detection of cortical activation during averaged single trials of a cognitive task using functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci., 93, 14878-14883.
Wolfe, J.M., Friedman, S., Stewart, M.I. and O'Connell, K.M. (1992) The role of categorization in visual search for orientation. Journal of Experiment Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 18, 34-49
O'Connell, K.M. (1987) The effects of field edges on light field measures of resting focus. S.B. thesis, MIT.
Wolfe, J.M. and O'Connell, K.M. (1986) Fatigue and Structural Change: Two Consequences of Visual Pattern Adaptation. Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science, 27, 538-543.
Wolfe, J.M. and O'Connell, K.M. (1987) Adaptation of accommodation: Light and dark field measures. Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science, 28, 992-996.
Shimojo, S., Bauer, J., O'Connell, K.M. and Held, R. (1986). Pre-stereoptic binocular vision in infants. Vision Research, 26, 501-510.

BOOK CHAPTERS
O’Craven, K.M., Rosen, B.R., Kwong, K.K. Savoy, R.L. and Treisman, A., Voluntary Attention Modulates fMRI Activation in Human MT/MST. In Key Readings in Cognition: Visual Perception. S. Yantis, ed.

INVITED TALKS AT CONFERENCES
O’Craven, K.M. (2003) Learning about Attentional Processes by Observing Neural Activity in
Extrastriate Cortex. Invited talk at the 13th Annual Rotman Conference: Neuroimaging of
Cognitive Function. Toronto, Ontario.
O’Craven, K.M. (2000) Category specificity in cortical activations during visual imagery. Invited talk at the International Neuropsychological Symposium, Thun, Switzerland.
O’Craven, K.M. and Kanwisher, N. (2000) Extrastriate Activity During Visual Imagery Is Content Specific. Invited talk presented at the Elsevier Vision2000 Meeting: Functional Neuroimaging in Vision (satellite to ARVO), Fort Lauderdale, FL.

SELECTED CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

Reinke, K.M and O’Craven, K.M. (2002) Neural Mechanisms of Perceptual Learning Investigated with ERP and fMRI. To be presented at Society for Neuroscience, Orlando.
O’Craven, K.M., Downing, P. and Kanwisher, N.K. (2001) fMRI Studies of Object-Based Attention. Presented at York International Conference Levels of Perception, Toronto.
O’Craven, K.M., Downing, P. and Kanwisher, N.K. (1999) Object-Based Attention: Enhancement of Both Attended and Unattended Attributes of Attended Objects. Talk presented at the Organization for Human Brain Mapping, Dusseldorf.
Savoy, R.L., O'Craven,K.M., Davidson,M., Diamond,A. (1999) Memory Load and Inhibition in Dorsolateral Prefrontal Cortex. Presented at the Organization for Human Brain Mapping, Dusseldorf.
O’Craven, K.M., Downing, P. and Kanwisher, N.K. (1999) fMRI Evidence for Object-Based Attention Enhancement of Both Attended and Unattended Attributes of Attended Objects. Talk presented at the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology, Fort Lauderdale, FL.
O’Craven, K.M., Kanwisher, N. (1999) Extrastriate Activity During Visual Imagery is Content Specific. Presented at Cognitive Neuroscience Society, Washington, DC.
O’Craven, K.M., Savoy, R.L, and Diamond, A. (1998) Working Memory and Inhibition in Dorsolateral Prefrontal Cortex. Presented at the Organization for Human Brain Mapping, Montreal.
O’Craven, K.M., Kennedy, D.N., Ticho, B.S., Goldstein, A.M., and Henson, J.W. (1998) Situs Inversus: If Body Organs Are Reversed, Are Brain Structure And Function Also Reversed? Presented at the Organization for Human Brain Mapping, Montreal.
O’Craven, K.M. and Kanwisher, N.G. (1997) Visual Imagery of Moving Stimuli Activates MT/MST. Talk presented at the Society for Neuroscience, New Orleans.
Ullman, M., Bergida, R., and O’Craven, K.M. (1997) Distinct fMRI Activation Patterns for Regular & Irregular Past Tense Production. Presented at the Organization for Human Brain Mapping, Copenhagen.
Chee, M.W., Buckner, R.L., O’Craven, K.M., Bergida, R., Rosen, B.R., and Savoy, R.L. (1997) Auditory and Visual Word Processing studied with fMRI. Presented at the Organization for Human Brain Mapping, Copenhagen.
Bush, G., Hodgson, J., Tootell, R.B.H., Rosen, B.R., Waber, D., O’Craven, K.M., and Savoy, R.L. (1997) The Human Visual Area V5/MT of patients with Dyslexia Reliably Activates in Response to Moving Stimuli. Presented at the Organization for Human Brain Mapping, Copenhagen.
O’Craven, K.M., Bergida, R., Buckner, R.L., and Savoy, R.L. (1997) Yes, You Can Intermix Trial Types in Functional Neuroimaging. Presented at the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, Boston, MA.

Bandettini, P.A., Buckner, R.L., O’Craven, K.M., Savoy, R.L. and Rosen, BR. (1996) fMRI Impulse Response Characteristics for Prefrontal Activation During Word Stem Completion. Presented at Society for Neuroscience, Washington, DC.
Weisskoff, R.M., O’Craven, K.M. and Savoy, R.L. (1996) Effects of Repetition Time. Presented at the Society for Magnetic Resonance, Washington DC.
O'Craven, K.M., Savoy, R.L. and Rosen, B.R. (1995) Voluntary Attention Modulates fMRI Activation in Human MT/MST. Talk presented at Society for Neuroscience.
O'Craven, K.M. and Savoy, R.L. (1995) Attention Can Modulate fMRI Activation in Human MT. Talk presented at the First International Conference on Functional Mapping of the Human Brain, Paris.
Savoy, R.L., Tootell, R., O'Craven, K.M. and Reppas, J. (1995) Stereopsis and the Parietal Lobe Examined via fMRI in Humans. Presented at Cognitive Neuroscience Society, San Francisco,CA.
Savoy, R.L., O'Craven, K.M., Weisskoff, R.M., Davis, T.L., Baker, J.A. and Rosen, B.R. (1994) Exploring the Temporal Boundaries of fMRI: Measuring Responses to Very Brief Visual Stimuli. Talk presented at Society for Neurosci., Miami Beach, FL.
O'Connell, K.M. and Treisman, A.M. (1990) Is all orientation created equal? Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology, Sarasota, FL.
DeSchepper, B., Wilson, M., Khurana, B. and O'Connell, K.M. (1990) What is Inhibited in Negative Priming? Recent Advances in Attention Research Conference, Eugene, OR.
O'Connell, K.M. (1989) Why do babies have two eyes? Binocular Development in Infants. Berkeley-Stanford Conference, Berkeley, CA.

PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES AND AFFILIATIONS

Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO)
American Psychological Association (APA)
American Psychological Society (APS)
Boston Area Neuroscience Group (BANG)
Canadian Association for Neuroscience
Cognitive Neuroscience Society (CNS)
Organization for Human Brain Mapping (OHBM)
Society for Neuroscience (SFN)

TEACHING & WORKSHOPS

Teaching Assistant for the following courses for undergraduate students. Duties involved leading
discussion sections, grading papers and exams.
Fall 89 MIT 9.00 Introduction to Psychology (Jeremy Wolfe)
Spr 90 UC Berkeley Psych 160 Social Psychology (Christina Maslach)
Fall 91 UC Berkeley Psych 126 Perception (William Prinzmetal)
Fall 92 UC Berkeley Psych 1 Introduction to Psychology (Martin Covington)

Instructor for the following course for undergraduate students. Sole responsibility for a class of 50
students, including syllabus construction and planning, all lectures, all discussion sections, creating and
grading exams, designing and evaluating three laboratory projects. Materials available upon request.
S93 UC Berkeley Psychology 1 Introduction to Psychology (Kathleen O’Craven)

Assistant Director for the following intensive mini-courses for senior investigators, medical doctors,
graduate students, and leaders of new fMRI centers, internationally. Responsibilities including organization
and planning curriculum, leading hands-on workshops in which participants designed, implemented, and ran
fMRI experiments, and giving lectures, and leading demonstrations of fMRI scanning sessions and
exploratory data analysis.
F94/W95/S95/F95 Mass General Hospital Visiting Fellowship Program in fMRI
W96/S96/F96 Mass General Hospital Visiting Fellowship Program in fMRI
W97S97/F97 Mass General Hospital Visiting Fellowship Program in fMRI
W98/S98/F98 Mass General Hospital Visiting Fellowship Program in fMRI
W99/S99/W00 Mass General Hospital Visiting Fellowship Program in fMRI

Also, the following short courses given in conjunction with conferences for cognitive neuroscientists (Robert Savoy, Director).
June 1996 fMRI 2day Organization for Human Brain Mapping
March 1997 fMRI4CNS Workshop Cognitive Neuroscience Society
July 1997 Oxford fMRI Workshop Oxford University, England