Mary R. Newsome, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Graduate School: Doctor of Philosophy in Cognitive Psychology, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, 1999
Postdoctoral Research: Cognitive Neuropsychology, Rice University, Houston, Texas, 1999 - 2001
Sub-Specialty: Cognitive Neuropsychology
Research Interests: Working memory, psycholinguistics, and reasoning in adults and in populations following brain injury
Significant Professional Activities:
- Psychological Science, Ad Hoc Reviewer
- Online chapter on the neuropsychology of language in Multimedia Textbook in Neuropsychology. http://psych.rice.edu/mmtbn/, Ingles, L., Newsome, M. R., Tang, Z., Lane, D., Martin, R. C. (2002
- James S. McDonnell-Pugh Summer Institute in Cognitive Neuroscience
Selected Publications:
Newsome M.R., Scheibel R. S., Hunter J. V., Chu Z. J., Li X., and Levin H.S. (in press). Brain activation during working memory after traumatic brain injury in children. Neurocase.
Newsome MR, Scheibel R. S., Steinberg J. L., Troyanskaya M., Sharma R. G., Raunch R. A., and Levin H. S. (2007) Working memory brain activition following severe traumatic brain injury. Cortex, 43: 95 - 111.
Scheibel R. S., Newsome M. R., Steinburg J. L., Pearson D. A., Rauch R.A., Mao H., Troyanskaya M., Sharma R. G., Levin H. S. (2007). Altered brain activition during cognitive control in patients with moderate to severe traumatic brain injury. Neurorehabil Neural Repair, 21: 36 - 45.
Wilde E. A., Bigler E. D., Hunter J. V., Fering M. A., Scheibel R.S., Newsome M. R., Johnson J. S., Bachelvalier J., Li X., Pedroza C., Levin H. S. (2007). Hippocampus, amygdala, and basal ganglia morphometrics in children after moderate-to-severe traumatic brain injury. Developmental Medicine & Child Neurology, 49.
Newsome M. R., and Johnson-Laird P. N. (2006). Falsity dispels fallacies. Thinking and Reasoning, 12: 214 - 234.
Contact Information
Mary Newsome, Ph.D.
Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory
1709 Dryden Road, Ste 725, BCM635
Houston, TX 77030
Phone: 713-791-1414x5947
Fax: 713-798-6898
mnewsome@bcm.edu