Cyma Van Petten

Van Petten received a B.A. in Psychology with honors at Reed College in 1981. As an undergraduate, she engaged in research on pain sensitivity.{{Cite journal|last1=Van Petten|first1=Cyma|last2=Roberts|first2=William J.|last3=Rhodes|first3=Dell L.|date=1983|title=Behavioral test of tolerance for aversive mechanical stimuli in sympathectomized cats|journal=Pain|language=en|volume=15|issue=1|pages=177–189|doi=10.1016/0304-3959(83)90017-9|pmid=6844026|s2cid=8087850|issn=0304-3959}} After graduating, she worked as a research assistant with Martha Neuringer at the Oregon Regional Primate Research Center, where she studied effects of dietary omega-3 fatty acid deficiency on vision.{{Cite journal|last1=Neuringer|first1=M|last2=Connor|first2=W E|last3=Van Petten|first3=C|last4=Barstad|first4=L|date=1984-01-01|title=Dietary omega-3 fatty acid deficiency and visual loss in infant rhesus monkeys.|journal=Journal of Clinical Investigation|language=en|volume=73|issue=1|pages=272–276|doi=10.1172/JCI111202|issn=0021-9738|pmc=425011|pmid=6317716}}

Van Petten attended graduate school at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) and obtained a Ph.D in Neurosciences in 1989 under the supervision of Marta Kutas.{{Cite web|url=http://bingweb.binghamton.edu/~cvanpett/vanpetten-web-cv.htm|title=Cyma Van Petten CV|last=|first=|date=|website=bingweb.binghamton.edu|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190418191205/http://bingweb.binghamton.edu/~cvanpett/vanpetten-web-cv.htm|archive-date=2019-04-18|access-date=2019-05-04|url-status=dead}} With Kutas, Van Petten did pioneering work in neurolinguistics. One of their first works examined neural responses to ambiguous words (e.g., bank) in a semantic priming task.{{Cite journal|last1=Van Petten|first1=Cyma|last2=Kutas|first2=Marta|date=1987|title=Ambiguous words in context: An event-related potential analysis of the time course of meaning activation|journal=Journal of Memory and Language|language=en|volume=26|issue=2|pages=188–208|doi=10.1016/0749-596X(87)90123-9|citeseerx=10.1.1.423.5713}} Their collaborative focused on specific evoked response potentials such as the N400 that are differentially responsive to word frequency.{{Cite journal|last1=Van Petten|first1=Cyma|last2=Kutas|first2=Marta|date=1990|title=Interactions between sentence context and word frequencyinevent-related brainpotentials|journal=Memory & Cognition|language=en|volume=18|issue=4|pages=380–393|doi=10.3758/BF03197127|pmid=2381317|issn=0090-502X|doi-access=free}} Van Petten remained at UCSD as a post-doctoral fellow in the Department of Cognitive Science, where she collaborated with Seana Coulson on ERP studies of conceptual/semantic integration and metaphor comprehension.{{Cite journal|last1=Van Petten|first1=Cyma|last2=Coulson|first2=Seana|last3=Rubin|first3=Susan|last4=Plante|first4=Elena|last5=Parks|first5=Marjorie|date=1999|title=Time course of word identification and semantic integration in spoken language.|journal=Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition|language=en|volume=25|issue=2|pages=394–417|doi=10.1037/0278-7393.25.2.394|pmid=10093207 |issn=1939-1285}}{{Cite journal|last1=Coulson|first1=Seana|last2=Van Petten|first2=Cyma|date=2002-09-01|title=Conceptual integration and metaphor: An event-related potential study|journal=Memory & Cognition|language=en|volume=30|issue=6|pages=958–968|doi=10.3758/BF03195780|pmid=12450098|issn=1532-5946|doi-access=free}}

Van Petten became a faculty member in the Psychology Department at the University of Arizona in 1991, and remained there until moving to Binghamton University in 2008. Much of her work has focused on source memory (i.e., recall of when or where something was learned), its underlying neural mechanisms, and the impact of aging on source versus item memory.{{Cite journal|last1=Senkfor|first1=Ava J.|last2=Van Petten|first2=Cyma|date=1998|title=Who said what? An event-related potential investigation of source and item memory.|journal=Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition|language=en|volume=24|issue=4|pages=1005–1025|doi=10.1037/0278-7393.24.4.1005|pmid=9699305 |issn=1939-1285|citeseerx=10.1.1.465.5513}}{{Cite journal|last1=Swick|first1=Diane|last2=Senkfor|first2=Ava J.|last3=Van Petten|first3=Cyma|date=2006|title=Source memory retrieval is affected by aging and prefrontal lesions: Behavioral and ERP evidence|journal=Brain Research|language=en|volume=1107|issue=1|pages=161–176|doi=10.1016/j.brainres.2006.06.013|pmc=2365725|pmid=16828722}}

Van Petten's research program has been funded by grants from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke,{{Cite web|url=https://projectreporter.nih.gov/project_info_details.cfm?aid=2268797&icde=0|title=Project Information - NIH RePORTER - NIH Research Portfolio Online Reporting Tools Expenditures and Results|website=projectreporter.nih.gov|access-date=2019-05-07}} the National Institute on Aging,{{Cite web|url=https://projectreporter.nih.gov/project_info_details.cfm?aid=7115731&icde=0|title=Project Information - NIH RePORTER - NIH Research Portfolio Online Reporting Tools Expenditures and Results|website=projectreporter.nih.gov|access-date=2019-05-07}} and the National Institute of Mental Health.{{Cite web|url=https://projectreporter.nih.gov/project_info_details.cfm?aid=7046884&icde=0|title=Project Information - NIH RePORTER - NIH Research Portfolio Online Reporting Tools Expenditures and Results|website=projectreporter.nih.gov|access-date=2019-05-07}}

• Folstein, J. R., & Van Petten, C. (2008). Influence of cognitive control and mismatch on the N2 component of the ERP: A review. Psychophysiology, 45(1), 152–170.
• Van Petten, C. (2004). Relationship between hippocampal volume and memory ability in healthy individuals across the lifespan: Review and meta-analysis. Neuropsychologia, 42(10), 1394–1413.
• Van Petten, C., & Luka, B. J. (2006). Neural localization of semantic context effects in electromagnetic and hemodynamic studies. Brain and language, 97(3), 279–293.
• Van Petten, C., & Kutas, M. (1990). Interactions between sentence context and word frequency in event-related brain potentials. Memory & Cognition, 18(4), 380–393.
• Van Petten, C., Kutas, M., Kluender, R., Mitchiner, M., & McIsaac, H. (1991). Fractionating the word repetition effect with event-related potentials. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 3(2), 131–150.
• Van Petten, C., & Senkfor, A. J. (1996). Memory for words and novel visual patterns: Repetition, recognition, and encoding effects in the event‐related brain potential. Psychophysiology, 33(5), 491–506.

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