Nicolas Davidenko

Department of Psychology

Jordan Hall, Building 420, Room 416

Stanford, CA 94107

ndaviden@psych.stanford.edu

Education

Ph.D. in Psychology, Stanford University, Sep 2006

M.S. in Statistics, Stanford University, Jun 2004

M.A. in Psychology, Stanford University, Sep 2003

A.B. in Mathematics, cum laude, Harvard University, Jun 1998

Awards and Honors

National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship 2001-2004

H&S Fellowship 2000-2001

CFO Fellowship 2000-2001

Harvard College Scholarship, 1995-1998

John Harvard Scholarship, 1995-1998

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Medal for Math and Science, 1994

Professional Experience

Postdoctoral Fellow, Stanford University, Sep 2006 – Present

·          Advisors: Dr. Michael Ramscar and Dr. Kalanit Grill-Spector

Masters Coordinator, Psychology Dept, Stanford University, Sep 2005 – Jun 2006

Graduate Researcher, Palo Alto Research Center, Nov 2002 – April 2003

·          Advisor: Dr. Stuart Card

Graduate Researcher, UC Berkeley, Jan 2000 – Sep 2000

·          Advisor: Dr. Martin Banks

Student advisor, MTBI, Cornell University, Jun – Aug 1999

·          Advisor: Dr. Carlos Castillo-Chavez

Project Support Specialist, SUNY Health Science Center, Sep 1998 – Feb 1999

·          Advisors: Dr. Jose Jalife and Dr. Jacques Beaumont

Project Aide, SUNY Health Science Center, Jun – Aug 1994, 1995, 1996

·          Advisors: Dr. Jose Jalife and Dr. Jacques Beaumont

Teaching Experience

Course Instructor, Department of Psychology, Stanford University

·          Introduction to Cognitive Psychology, Jun – Aug 2004, 2005

·          The Science of Consciousness, Jun – Aug 2003

Teaching Assistant, Department of Psychology, Stanford University

·          Psychology of Language, Jan – Mar 2004

·          Introduction to Cognitive Development, Sep – Dec 2003

·          Introduction to Statistical Methods, Jan – Mar 2003

·          Introduction to Psychology, Sep – Dec 2001, Apr – Jun 2002

·          Introduction to Cognitive Psychology, Jan – Mar 2002

Instructional Assistant, Mathematics Department, Santa Monica College

·          Algebra and Calculus, Oct – Dec 1999

Course Assistant, Mathematics Department, Harvard University

·          Integral Calculus, Sep – Dec 1997, Feb – Jun 1998

·          Differential Calculus, Sep – Dec 1996

Publications

Davidenko, N., & Ramscar, M. (under review). What makes a face memorable? The distinctiveness effect reconsidered. Submitted to Cognition.

Davidenko, N. (2007). Silhouetted face profiles: a new methodology for face perception research. Journal of Vision, 7(4):6, 1-17, http://journalofvision.org/7/4/6/, doi:10.1167/7.4.6.

Davidenko, N., & Ramscar, M. (2006). The distinctiveness effect reverses when using well-controlled distractors. Visual Cognition 14, 89-92.

Davidenko, N., & Ramscar, M. (2005). Distinctiveness effects in face memory vanish with well-controlled distractors. In Proceedings of the 27th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

Davidenko, N., Beaumont, J., Davidenko, J.M., and Jalife, J. (1997)  Spatio-temporal evolution of spiral wave activity. Biophys. J. 72:2 A370, June 1997.

Beaumont, J., Davidenko, N., Davidenko, J.M., and Jalife, J. (1995). A model study of changes in excitability of ventricular muscle cells with repetitive stimulation. Inhibition, facilitation, and hysteresis. Am. J. Physiol. 268; 37:H1-H14, 1995.

Academic Talks

Davidenko, N. (2006). Using parameterized face silhouettes to study face representation. Colloquium presented for the Cognitive Science department at UC Merced, CA, September 2006.

Davidenko, N., & Ramscar, M. (2006). A reverse distinctiveness effect in face memory. Talk presented at the Bay Area Memory Meeting in Berkeley, CA, August 2006.

Davidenko, N. (2006). Silhouetted face profiles: A new methodology for studying face representation. Talk presented at the Berkeley-Stanford Cognitive & Neuroscience Talks, April 2006.

Davidenko, N., & Ramscar, M. (2005). The distinctiveness effect reverses when using well-controlled distractors. Talk presented at the Object Perception Attention and Memory conference in Toronto, in November, 2005.

Oppenheimer, D.M., & Davidenko, N. (2002). Instructional Manipulation Checks: How to Maintain Statistical Power with up to 30% Fewer Subjects. Talk presented at the meeting of the Association for Psychological Science, New Orleans, LA, June 2002.

Conference Abstracts and Posters

Davidenko, N., Witthoft, N., & Winawer, J. (2007). Gender aftereffects in face silhouettes depend on face-specific processes. Poster to be presented at the Vision Sciences Society meeting in Sarasota, FL, May 2007.

Davidenko, N., Winawer, J., Witthoft, N., & Ramscar, M. (2006). Implicit gender aftereffects in the perception of face silhouettes. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Vancouver, 2006.

Davidenko, N., Winawer, J., & Witthoft, N. (2006). Gender aftereffects in the perception of silhouetted face profiles [Abstract]. Journal of Vision, 6(6), 1068a, http://journalofvision.org/6/6/1068/, doi:10.1167/6.6.1068.

Davidenko, N., & Ramscar, M. (2005). The distinctiveness effect reconsidered: Poorer recognition of distinctive face silhouettes [Abstract]. Journal of Vision, 5(8), 981a, http://journalofvision.org/5/8/981/, doi:10.1167/5.8.981.

Davidenko, N. (2004). The distinctiveness effect reexamined: poorer recognition of distinctive face silhouettes. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Minneapolis, MN, November 2004.

Davidenko, N., (2004). Modeling face-shape representation using silhouetted face profiles [Abstract]. Journal of Vision, 4(8), 436a, http://journalofvision.org/4/8/436/, doi:10.1167/4.8.436.

Davidenko, N., & Yarlett, D.G. (2004). Age and gender labels affect facial attractiveness. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Austin, TX, January 2004.

Davidenko, N., & Ramscar, M. (2003). Age and gender: similarly cued from silhouetted face profiles. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Boston, MA, July 2003.

Davidenko, N., & Tenenbaum, J.B. (2001). Concept generalization from multiple exemplars in separable and integral stimulus spaces. Poster presented at the Cognitive Science Society meeting in Edinburgh, Scotland, August 2001.

Sibigtroth, M., Banks, M.S., & Davidenko, N. (2000). The effect of perspective transformation on self-path perception. Poster presented at the ARVO conference in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, May 2000.

Aguirre, E., Davidenko, N., Smith, T., & Stancil, J. (1999). A differential equation model of neoadjuvant chemotherapy treatment for stage III breast cancer patients. Presented at the SACNAS conference in Portland, Oregon, October 1999.

Beaumont, J., Davidenko, N., Davidenko, J.M., & Jalife, J. (1998). Stable spiral wave activity in a two-dimensional model of the ventricular muscle. Biophysical J. 75:1-14, July 1998.

Barrera, J., Cintron, A., Davidenko, N., Denogean, L., & Franco, S. (1997). A discrete-time susceptible-infectious-susceptible population model. Poster presented at the annual SACNAS conference in Portland, Oregon, October 1997.

Acosta, B., Barrera, J., Clarke, E., Davidenko, N., & Ting, D. (1997). Tumor growth dynamics: a deterministic and stochastic analysis of the interaction between normal and abnormal cells. Studies in Theoretical Biology: A Collection of Undergraduate Research. BU-1425-M, 1997.

Goodwin, A., Beaumont, J., Davidenko, N., & Jalife, J. (1997). Ionic mechanisms underlying the formation of an unexcited core of a vortex of excitation waves in the cardiac muscle. Poster presented at Upstate New York Cardiac Electrophysiology Society, October 1997.

Beaumont, J., Davidenko, N., Davidenko, J.M., & Jalife, J. (1995). Model study of vertex-like activity in cardiac muscle. PACE 18(4) Abs: 934, 1995.