Hannah R. Snyder

Publications

Snyder, H.R., & Munakata, Y. (2008). So many options, so little time: The roles of association and competition in underdetermined responding. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 15(6), 1083-1088. PDF

Snyder, H.R., Feigensen, K., & Thompson-Schill, S.L. (2007). Prefrontal cortical response to conflict during semantic and phonological tasks. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 19(5), 761-775. PDF

Derryberry, W.P., Snyder, H., Wilson, T., & Barger, B. (2006). Moral judgment differences in Education and Liberal Arts majors: Cause for concern? Journal of College & Character, 7 (4). PDF

Derryberry, W.P., Wilson, T., Snyder, H., Norman, A., & Barger, B. (2005). Moral judgment differences between gifted youth and college students. Journal of Secondary Gifted Education, 17(1)

Conference Presentations

Snyder, H.R., Hutchison, N., Nyhus, E., Curran, T., & Munakata, Y. (2009). So many options: roles of neural inhibition and abstract representations in selection. Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (Amsterdam, July 2009).

Snyder, H.R. & Munakata, Y. (2009). Becoming self-directed: abstract representations support endogenously cued switching in children. Society for Research in Child Development (Denver, April 2009). PDF

Snyder, H.R., Hutchison, N., & Munakata, Y. (2009). Mechanisms for retrieval and selection during language production. Cognitive Neuroscience Society Annual Meeting (San Francisco, March 2009). PDF

Snyder, H.R., Greene, B., & Thompson-Schill, S.L. (2007). Effects of conflict and grammatical class on LIFG activation during object and action naming. Cognitive Neuroscience Society Annual Meeting (New York, May 2007). PDF

Snyder, H. R., Feigenson, K., & Thompson-Schill, S. L. (2005). The role of inhibition demands in left inferior frontal gyrus activation during semantic and phonological tasks. Cognitive Neuroscience Society Annual Meeting (New York, April 2005).PDF

Snyder, H.R. & Derryberry,W.P. (2004). Moral judgment differences in Education and Liberal Arts majors: Cause for concern? Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association (San Diego, April 2004).

Research Interests

How do we make decisions when faced with multiple options? My research investigates the mechanisms involved in retrieving a response when nothing is automatically activated and selecting between competing alternative responses. During language production, words must constantly be retrieved and selected for production in the face of multiple possible alternatives. There is broad consensus that our ability to respond in such underdetermined situations requires cognitive control and relies on left ventrolateral prefrontal cortex (VLPFC). However, there has been little investigation, or even speculation, as to specific mechanisms that may support retrieval and selection of responses. Along with my advisor, Dr. Yuko Munakata, and many collaborators at the University of Colorado at Boulder, I attempt to probe potential mechanisms using a mixture of behavioral, individual differences, developmental, neuroimaging, neural network modeling, and pharmacological methods.

Education & Training

2006-present: Ph.D. candidate (MA 2008) Dr. Yuko Munakata’s lab at the University of Colorado at Boulder.

2004-2006: Research assistant, Thompson-Schill lab, University of Pennsylvania

2000-2004: Oberlin College, Psychology and Neuroscience majors (BA 2004)

Research Support

NIH Predoctoral NRSA, “Prefrontal Mechanisms for Retrieval and Selection in Cognitive Control” (1F31MH087073-01, 2009-2011)

Contact:

Hannah Snyder

Dept. of Psychology & Neuroscience

Muenzinger D244

345 UCB

University of Colorado