Description
Dr. Michael (Mike) Posner has been researching the construct of attention for over 50 years. His work has been cited nearly 170,000 times according to Google Scholar, firmly cementing his place as one of the most prolific scholars in cognitive neuroscience. For this course, Dr. Jeremy Sharp of The Testing Psychologist talks with Dr. Posner about Attention - it's etiology, theories on attention, current research, and where the research is taking us.
Interview conducted: October 2021
CE Content Category: Testing/Assessment; Clinical
Target audience: Psychologists, mental health counselors, marriage and family therapists, social workers, addiction counselors, nurses, case managers.
This CE course is designated as intermediate.
There is no known conflict of interest or commercial support.
Format: Asynchronous, distance learning. Non-interactive. Recorded audio with transcript.
Author Bio
ABOUT DR. MICHAEL POSNER
For more than fifty years Michael Posner has studied how mental operations, particularly those related to attention, are carried out by neural networks. He has used cognitive, imaging, and genetic methods. In 1998 he was founding director of the Sackler Institute at Weill Medical College. He continues research as Prof. Emeritus of Psychology at the University of Oregon and Adjunct Prof. at Weill Medical College. He has received many honors including elect to NAS 1981, 2009 the medal of science by President Obama, and in 2017 he was awarded the Franklin Medal in Computer and Cognitive Science.
Get in touch:
email: mposner@uoregon.edu
ABOUT DR. JEREMY SHARP
Dr. Jeremy Sharp is a licensed psychologist and Clinical Director at the Colorado Center for Assessment & Counseling, a private practice that was founded in 2009 and has grown to include nine licensed clinicians, three clinicians in training, and a full administrative staff. Dr. Sharp earned his undergraduate degree in Experimental Psychology from the University of South Carolina before getting his Master’s and PhD in Counseling Psychology from Colorado State University. These days, Dr. Sharp specializes in psychological and neuropsychological evaluation with kids and adolescents.
As the host of the Testing Psychologist Podcast, Dr. Sharp provides private practice consulting for psychologists and other mental health professionals who want to start or grow psychological testing services in their practices. He lives in Fort Collins, Colorado with his wife (also a therapist) and two young kids.
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Learning Objectives
Based on the content of this course, I can:
- Discuss the history of attention research
- Explain the evolution of cognitive neuroscience and imaging studies
- Describe Dr. Posner's theory of attention and its components
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