Chang - Pg 10
August 2013
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Chang - Pg 10
Education & Employment
2012-Present University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO
Position: Postdoctoral Fellow
Advisor: Tor Wager, PhD
2011 – 2012 University of California Los Angeles Semel Institute for Neuroscience, Los Angeles, CA
Position: Predoctoral Clinical Psychology Intern (Health Behavior Track)
Advisor: David Wellisch, PhD
2006 – 2012 University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
Degree: Doctor of Philosophy in Clinical Psychology (Minor: neuropsychology)
Advisor: Alan Sanfey, PhD, John Allen, PhD
Dissertation: Deconstructing the role of expectations in social decision-making with Decision Neuroscience
Committee: Alan Sanfey, PhD (Chair), John Allen, PhD, Lee Ryan, PhD, Dave Sbarra, PhD
2004 – 2006 New School for Social Research, New York, NY
Degree: Master of Arts in Psychology
Advisor: David Silbersweig, MD, Marcel Kinsbourne, DM
Thesis: The structural correlates of affect regulation: A voxel-based morphometric study of borderline personality disorder.
1998 – 2002 Reed College, Portland, OR
Degree: Bachelor of Arts in Psychology
Advisor: Jennifer Henderlong-Corpus, PhD
Thesis: Cheating and self-handicapping: An examination of the relationship between academic dishonesty, self-handicapping behaviors, motivational goals, self-esteem, and academic integrity.
Awards & Fellowships
Summer 2010 Cognitive Science Center Neuroeconomics Summer School, University of Amsterdam
2009 Graduate and Professional Student Council Student Showcase - 1st place in Social Sciences & Law, University of Arizona ($250)
2009 – 2012 National Research and Service Award, National Institute of Mental Health (priority score 131, 8.3 percentile, $91,746)
2009 Technology Research Initiative Fund Graduate Student Imaging Fellowship, University of Arizona ($3,500)
Summer 2008 Neuroimaging Training Program, University of California Los Angeles
Summer 2007 Summer Institute in Cognitive Neuroscience Fellowship, University of California Santa Barbara
2006 – 2007 Graduate Minority Fellowship, University of Arizona ($2,000)
2006 – 2007 Deans Fellowship, New School for Social Research ($73,224), Declined
2004 – 2006 University Scholars Award, New School for Social Research ($15,336)
Publications
1) Chang, L.J. & Koban, L. (2013). Modeling emotion and learning of norms in social interactions. Journal of Neuroscience, 33(18), 7615-7617. (Impact Factor: 6.9)
2) Chang, L.J., Yarkoni, T., Khaw, M.W., & Sanfey, A.G. (2013). Decoding the role of the human insula in human cognition: Functional parcellation and large-scale reverse inference. Cerebral Cortex, 23(3), 739-749. (Impact Factor: 6.8)
3) Chang, L.J., & Sanfey, A.G. (2013). Great expectations: Neural computations underlying the use of social norms in decision-making. Social Cognitive Affective Neuroscience, 8(3), 277-284. (Impact Factor: 5.0)
4) Brown, A.D., Root, J.C., Romano, T., Chang, L.J., & Hirst, W. (2013). The limits of memory and imagination: Overgeneralized autobiographical Memory and future thinking in combat veterans with posttraumatic stress disorder. Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry, 44(1), 129-134. (Impact Factor: 2.8)
5) Fareri, D.S., Chang, L.J., Delgado, M.R. (2012). Effects of experienced social information on trust decisions and neural reward circuitry. Frontiers in Decision Neuroscience, 6, 1- 17. (Impact Factor: NA)
6) Kahnt, T., Chang, L.J., Park, S.Q., Heinzle, J., Haynes, J.D. (2012). Connectivity based parcellation of the human orbitofrontal cortex. Journal of Neuroscience, 32(8), 6240-6250. (Impact Factor: 6.9)
7) Harle, K.M., Chang, L.J., van’t Wout, M., & Sanfey, A.G. (2012). The neural underpinnings of mood-driven biases in social economic decision-making. Neuroimage, 61(1), 32-40. (Impact Factor: 6.3)
8) Chang, L.J., Smith, A., Dufwenberg, M., & Sanfey, A.G. (2011). Triangulating the neural, psychological, and economic bases of guilt aversion. Neuron, 70, 560-572. (Impact Factor: 15.78)
9) Van’t Wout, M, Chang, L.J., & Sanfey, AG. (2010). Emotion regulation and social interactive decision-making. Emotion, 10(6), 815-821. (Impact Factor: 3.9)
10) Chang, L. J., Doll, B., Van’t Wout, M., Frank, M., Sanfey, A.G. (2010). Seeing is believing: Trustworthiness as a dynamic belief. Cognitive Psychology, 61(2), 87-105. (Impact Factor: 4.1)
11) Chang, L.J., & Sanfey, A.G. (2009). Unforgettable Ultimatums? Expectation violations promote enhanced social memory following economic exchange. Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 3, 1-12. (Impact Factor: 4.8)
12) Chang, L.J. & Sanfey, A.G. (2008). Emotion, decision-making, and the brain. In D. Houser & K. McCabe (Eds.), Neuroeconomics. Elsevier, 31-53. (Impact Factor: NA)
13) Sanfey, A.G. and Chang, L.J. Multiple systems in decision-making. (2008). In W.T. Tucker, S. Ferson, A. Finkel, T.F. Long, D. Slavin, P. Wright (Eds.), Strategies for risk communication: Evolution, evidence, experience. New York: Annals of the New York Academy of Science, 1128, 53-62. (Impact Factor: 4.4)
14) Protopopescu, X., Pan, H., Tuescher, O., Root, J., Chang, L., Altemus, M., Polanecsky, M., McEwen, B., Stern, E., & Silbersweig, D. (2008). Toward a Functional Neuroanatomy of Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder: Differential Amygdalar, Orbitofrontal and Ventral Striatal Activity. Journal of Affective Disorders, 108, 87-94. (Impact Factor: 3.3)
15) Butler, T., Pan, H., Tuescher, O., Engelien, A., Goldstein, M., Epstein, J., Weisholtz, D., Protopotescu, X., Root, J. C., Cunningham-Bussell, A.C., Chang, L., Xie, X.H., Chen, Q., Phelps, E.A., Ledoux, J.E., Stern, E., Silbersweig, D.A. (2007). Human fear-related motor neurocircuitry. Neuroscience, 150 (1) 1-7. (Impact Factor: 3.1)
16) Butler, T., Imperato-McGinley, J., Pan, H., Voyer, D., Cunningham-Bussel, A. C., Chang, L., Zhu, Y. S., Cordero, J., Stern, E., Silbersweig, D. (2007). Sex specificity of ventral anterior cingulate cortex suppression during a cognitive task. Human Brain Mapping, 28 (11), 1206-12. (Impact Factor: 6.9)
17) Root, J.C., Robbins, R., Chang, L., & Van Gorp, W.G. (2006). Detection of suboptimal effort on the California Verbal Learning Test, Second Edition: analysis and normative data for forced choice recognition. Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society, 12 (5), 688-96. (Impact Factor: 2.7)
Manuscripts In Preparation
Chang, L.J., Gianaros, P., Manuck, S., Krishnan, K., & Wager, T.D. Brain responses differentiate aversive experiences. Manuscript in Preparation.
Chang, L.J., Smith, A., Dufwenberg, M., Wager, T.D., & Sanfey, A.G. Computational substrates of guilt. Manuscript in Preparation.
Chang, L.J., Sanfey, A.G, Wager, T.D. Specifying the nonspecific: Cognitive neuroscientific mechanisms underlying expectations in psychotherapy. Manuscript in Preparation.
Krishan, A., Ruzic, L., Woo, C.W., Fan, J., Gu, X., Chang, L.J., Jackson, P., Wager, T.D. Somatic and observed pain are represented by distinct neural patterns. Manuscript in Preparation.
Fareri, D.S., Chang, L.J., Delgado, M.R. How real life prior experience modulates trust decisions and reward learning mechanisms.
Rossi, F., Chang, L.J., Fasel, I., & Sanfey, A.G. Decoding social retaliation from neural probabilities. Manuscript in Preparation.
Răţală, C.E., Chang, L.J., Çetinkaya, A., & Sanfey, A.G. The Social learning of trust. Manuscript in Preparation
Van’t Wout, M., Chang, L.J., Harle, K.M., & Sanfey, A.G. Specific neural responses in the nucleus accumbens to implicit trustworthiness facilitate initial trust decisions. Manuscript in Preparation.
Invited Talks
Apr 2013 University of Denver, Denver, CO
Jan 2013 University of Colorado, Boulder, CO
May 2012 UCLA, Department of Psychiatry, Los Angeles, CA
Apr 2012 Duke University, Durham, NC
Apr 2012 Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute, Roanoke, VA
Mar 2012 University of Colorado, Boulder, CO
Feb 2012 Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA
Jun 2010 Leiden University, Leiden, Netherlands
Sep 2009 The 5th Annual Society for Neuroeconomics Meeting, Evanston, IL.
Nov 2006 Clinical Psychology Datablitz, Tucson, AZ.
Presentations
1) Rossi, F., Chang, L.J., Fasel, I.R., Barlett, M.S., & Sanfey, A.G. Affective mechanisms of reinforcement learning. Poster submitted to the 1st Annual Multidisciplinary Reinforcement-Learning and Decision Making Meeting, Princeton, NJ.
2) Chang, L.J., Jepma, M., Jones, M., Yarkoni, T., & Wager, T.D. Dynamic representations of pain anticipation. Poster submitted to the 1st Annual Multidisciplinary Reinforcement-Learning and Decision Making Meeting, Princeton, NJ.
3) Rossi, F., Chang, L.J., Fasel, I.R., Barlett, M.S., & Sanfey, A.G. Affective mechanisms of reinforcement learning in social and non-social decision-making. Poster submitted to the 1st Annual Multidisciplinary Reinforcement-Learning and Decision Making Meeting, Princeton, NJ.
4) Chang, L.J., Woo, C.W., Yarkoni, T. Automated functional parcellation and meta-analytic decoding of fmri data with neurosynth. Poster to be presented at the 43rd Annual Society for Neuroscience Meeting, San Diego, CA.
5) Chang, L.J., Smith, A., Dufwenberg, M., Wager, T.D., & Sanfey, A.G. (April, 2013). A neuro-computational model of guilt. Poster presented at the 6th Annual Social Affective Neuroscience Meeting, San Francisco, CA.
6) Chang, L.J., Jepma, M., Yarkoni, T., & Wager, T.D. (April, 2013). Towards a computational understanding of how the brain learns to predict pain. Poster presented at the 20th Annual Cognitive Neuroscience Society Meeting, San Francisco, CA.
7) Fareri, D., Chang, L.J., & Delgado, M.R. (April, 2013). How real-life prior experience shapes trust decisions and reward learning mechanisms. Poster presented at the 20th Annual Cognitive Neuroscience Society Meeting, San Francisco, CA.
8) López-Solà, Jesús Pujol, Joan Deus, Alba Garcia, Oren Contreras-Rodriguez, Carles Soriano-Mas, Chang, L.J., & Wager, T.D. (April, 2013). Neural responses to pain predict Fibromyalgia status. Poster presented at the 20th Annual Cognitive Neuroscience Society Meeting, San Francisco, CA.
9) Rossi, F., Chang, L.J., Sanfey, A.G., Boksem, A.S. (September, 2012). A multi-voxel investigation of proposers’ heterogeneity in the ultimatum game. Poster presented at the 10th Annual Society for Neuroeconomics Meeting, Miami Florida.
10) Rossi, F., Chang, L.J., Fasel, I., & Sanfey, A.G. (June, 2012). Patterns of brain activity and social decision-making: An fMRI study. Poster presented at the 18th Annual Organization for Human Brain Meeting, Beijing, China.
11) Răţală, C.E., Chang, L.J., Çetinkaya, A., & Sanfey, A.G. (April, 2012). Social learning of trust. Poster presented at the 19th Annual Cognitive Neuroscience Society Meeting, Chicago, IL.
12) Rossi, F., Chang, L.J., Fasel, I., & Sanfey, A.G. (April, 2012). Machine learning of social decision-making: An fMRI study of the Ultimatum bargaining. Poster presented at the 19th Annual Cognitive Neuroscience Society Meeting, Chicago, IL.
13) Shisslak, C., Chang, L.J., Mason, A., Bismark, A., & Kogan, A. (October, 2011). Training Clinical Psychology Graduate Students In Collaborative Family Practice. Poster presented at the 13th Annual Collaborative Family Healthcare Association Meeting, Philadelphia, PA.
14) Răţală, C.E., Chang, L.J., Çetinkaya, A., & Sanfey, A.G. (May, 2011). Social learning of trust. Poster presented at the 9th Annual Dutch Endo-Neuro-Psycho Meeting, Lunteren, The Netherlands.
15) Chang, L.J., Yarkoni, T., Khaw, M.W., & Sanfey, A.G. (April, 2011). Functional parcellation of the human right insula using resting state fMRI. Poster presented at the 18th Annual Cognitive Neuroscience Meeting, San Francisco, CA.
16) Chang, L.J., Smith, A., & Sanfey, A.G. (October, 2010). Deconstructing the neural basis of expectations in social decision-making. Poster presented at the 6th Annual Society for Neuroeconomics Meeting, Evanston, IL.
17) Harle, K.M., Chang, L.J., van’t Wout, M., & Sanfey, A.G. (October, 2010). The neural antecedents of mood-driven biases in social economic decision-making. Paper presented at the 6th Annual Society for Neuroeconomics Meeting, Evanston, IL.
18) Chang, L.J., Smith, A., & Sanfey, A.G. (July, 2010). Deconstructing the neural basis of expectations in social decision-making. Poster presented at the 7th Annual Federation for European Neuroscience Society, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
19) Smith, A, Chang, L.J., Dufwenberg, M., & Sanfey, A.G. (November, 2009). Belief-Dependent Guilt: Behavioral, Psychological, and Neural Evidence. Paper presented to the 2009 North American Economic Science Association Meeting, Tucson, AZ.
20) Chang, L.J., Smith, A., Dufwenberg, M., & Sanfey, A.G. (October, 2009). The neural, psychological, and economic bases of guilt-aversion in social interaction. Poster presented at the 3rd Annual Social Affective Neuroscience Meeting, New York, NY.
21) Brown, A.D., Root, J.C., Carlton, D.A., Butler, T.B., Tuescher, O., Chang, L.J., LeDoux, J.E., Stern, E., Silbersweig, D.A. (August, 2009). Suggestibility in PTSD and schizophrenia during aversive conditioning using electrodermal stimulation. Poster presented at the 117th Annual American Psychological Association Convention, Toronto, CAN.
22) Chang, L.J., Smith, A., Dufwenberg, M., & Sanfey, A.G. (June, 2009). Beliefs, Guilt, and the Brain: Neural mechanisms underlying social cooperative behavior. Poster presented at the 15th Annual Organization for Human Brain Mapping Meeting, San Francisco, CA.
23) Brown, A.D., Chang, L.J., Coman, A., Root, J.C., Hirst, W. (May, 2009). Executive control of emotional memory. Poster presented at the 21st Annual Association for Psychological Science Meeting, San Francisco, CA.
24) Chang, L.J., Smith, A., Dufwenberg, M., & Sanfey, A.G. (March, 2009). Beliefs, Guilt, and the Brain: Neural mechanisms underlying social cooperative behavior. Poster presented at the 16th Annual Cognitive Neuroscience Meeting, San Francisco, CA.
25) Chang, L.J., Van’t Wout, M., Harle, K., & Sanfey, A.G. (June, 2008). Unforgettably unfair: An fMRI investigation of memory following social economic exchange. Poster presented at the 2nd Annual Social Affective Neuroscience Meeting, Boston, MA.
26) Van’t Wout, M., Chang, L.J., & Sanfey, A.G. (April, 2008). Neural activation to implicit trustworthiness judgments and its influence on social decision-making Poster presented at the 15th Annual Cognitive Neuroscience Society Meeting, San Francisco, CA.
27) Root, J., Tuescher, O., Pan, H., Chang, L., Protopopescu, X., Goldstein, M., Silverman, M., Epstein, J., Altemus, M., Cloitre, M., LeDoux, J., McEwen, B., Stern, E., & Silbersweig, D. (June, 2006). Association Between Frontolimbic Function and Cortisol Levels in Response to Traumatic Stimuli. Poster presented at the 12th Annual Meeting of the Organization of Human Brain Mapping, Florence, Italy.
28) Protopopescu, X., Pan, P., Tuescher, O., Root, J., Chang, L., Altemus, A., McEwen, B., Stern, E., & Silbersweig, D. (June, 2006). Differential Amygdalar, Orbitofrontal and Ventral Striatal Activity in Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder: an fMRI-Study. Poster presented at the 12th Annual Meeting of the Organization of Human Brain Mapping, Florence, Italy.
29) Morley, N. J., Root, J., Chang, L., Tuescher, O., Pan, H., Stern, E., & Silbersweig, D. A. (August, 2005). Fronto-Limbic Responses to Threat in Schizophrenia Subgroups: An fMRI Study. Poster presented at the 12th annual Gateway to the Laboratory Program, New York, NY.
30) Chang, L. & Henderlong-Corpus, J. (November, 2004). Cheating and self-handicapping: An examination of the relationship between academic dishonesty, self-handicapping behaviors, motivational goals, self-esteem, and academic integrity. Poster presented at the 1st annual Psychology Poster Session at the New School for Social Research, New York, NY.
Research Experience
Spring 2008 Research Assistant, Worth Publishers
Department of Psychology, University of Arizona