Brennan R Payne, PhD

Postdoctoral Researcher, Cognition and Brain Lab

Beckman Institute 405 N Mathews Ave Urbana, IL
E-mail: payne12@illinois.edu Phone: +1 315.403.4325 Web: brennanpayne.com

Education and Training

Postdoctoral Research Associate
The Cognition and Brain Laboratory
Department of Psychology and Neuroscience Program
The Beckman Institute (Cognitive Neuroscience Group)
PI: Dr. Kara Federmeier
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

2014-Present

PhD, MS
Cognitive Science of Teaching and Learning
Minor: Quantiative and Statistical Methodology
Department of Educational Psychology
PhD Advisor: Elizabeth A.L. Stine-Morrow
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

2009-2014

BA
Psychology and Cognitive Science
State University of New York at Oswego

2005-2009

Professional Appointments and Experience

Beckman Institute Graduate Research Fellow
Human Perception and Performance and Cognitive Neuroscience
The Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology

2013-2014

National Institutes of Health Training Fellow

Language Processing: A Training Program. T32-HD055272
Research Specialization: Cognitive Neuroscience of Language

2011-2013

Graduate Research Assistant

The Adult Learning Lab
The Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

2009-2014

Undergraduate Research Assistant

Psychology of Language Lab
SUNY Oswego

2008-2009

Lab Manager
Lifespan Developmental Research Lab
SUNY Oswego

2007-2009

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Publications
Citations: 260
H-Index: 8
i10-Index: 8
Peer Reviewed Journal Articles
Reprints available at brennanpayne.com
1. Payne, B.R. & Federmeier, K.D. (accepted). Pace yourself: Intraindividual variability in
context use during reading revealed by self-paced event-related brain potentials. Journal of
Cognitive Neuroscience.
2. Gross, A.L., Payne, B.R., Cassanova, R., Davoudzadeh, P, Dzierzewski, J, Farias,
S.Giovannetti, T., Ip, E., Marsiske, M., Rebok, G., Schaie, W., Thomas, K., & Willis, S., &
Jones, R.N. (accepted). The ACTIVE conceptual framework as a structural equation model.
Experimental Aging Research.
3. Payne, B.R., Stites, M.C., & Federmeier, K.D. (2016). Out of the corner of my eye: Foveal
semantic load modulates parafoveal processing in reading. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance. In press.
4. Payne, B.R., Gross, A. L., Hill, P.L., Parisi, J., Rebok, G., & Stine-Morrow, E.A.L. (2016).
Decomposing the relationship between cognitive ability and self-referent memory beliefs in
older adulthood: Whats memory got to do with it? Aging, Neuropsychology, and Cognition.
In press.
5. Liu, X., Chin, J., Payne, B.R., Fu, W-T., Morrow, D., & Stine-Morrow, E.A.L. (2016).
Adult age differences in information foraging in an interactive reading environment. Psychology and Aging, 31, 211-223
6. Payne, B.R. & Stine-Morrow, E.A.L. (2016). Risk for mild cognitive impairment is associated with semantic integration deficits in sentence processing and memory. The Journal of
Gerontology: Psychological Sciences, 71, 243-253. 1
7. Stine-Morrow, E.A.L. & Payne, B.R. (2016). Age differences in language segmentation.
Experimental Aging Research, 42, 107-125.2
8. Payne, B.R., Lee, C-L., & Federmeier, K.D. (2015). Revisiting the incremental effects
of context on word processing: Evidence from single-word event-related brain potentials.
Psychophysiology, 52, 1456-1469.
9. Chin, J., Payne, B.R., Gao, X., Stine-Morrow, E.A.L., Morrow, D.G., Conner-Garcia, T.,
Graumlich, J.F., & Murray, M.D. (2015). Knowledge influences comprehension and memory for health information among older adults: Distinguishing domain-general and domainspecific knowledge effects. Memory, 23, 577-589.
10. Chin, J., Payne, B.R., Fu, W.T., Morrow, D.G., & Stine-Morrow, E.A.L. (2015). Information foraging across the lifespan: Search and switch in unknown patches. Topics in Cognitive
Science, 3, 428-450.
1 Editors
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Choice
issue on Age, Hearing, and Speech Comprehension. A Festschrift in honor of Dr. Arthur Wingfield.

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11. Payne, B.R., Gross, A.L, Parisi, J.M., Sisco, S., Stine-Morrow, E.A.L., Marsiske, M., &
Rebok, G.W. (2014). Modeling longitudinal changes in older adults memory for spoken
discourse: Findings from the ACTIVE cohort. Memory, 22, 990-1001.
12. Stine-Morrow, E.A.L., Payne, B.R., Roberts, B.W., Kramer, A.F., Morrow, D.G., Payne,
L., Hill, P.L., Jackson, J.J., Gao, X., Noh, S.R., Janke, M., & Parisi, J.M. (2014). Training
versus engagement as paths to cognitive optimization with aging. Psychology and Aging, 29,
891-906.
13. Payne, B.R. & Stine-Morrow, E.A.L. (2014). Age differences in wrap-up during sentence understanding: Evidence from ex-Gaussian distributional analyses of reading time. Psychology
and Aging, 29, 213-228.
14. Payne, B.R., Grison, S., Gao, X., Christianson, K., Morrow, D.G., & Stine-Morrow, E.A.L.
(2014). Aging and individual differences in binding during sentence understanding: Evidence
from temporary and global syntactic attachment ambiguities. Cognition, 130, 157-173.
15. Hill, P.L., Payne, B.R., Jackson, J.J., Stine-Morrow, E.A.L. & Roberts, B.W. (2014). Perceived social support predicts increased conscientiousness during older adulthood. The Journal of Gerontology: Psychological Sciences, 69, 543-547.
16. Chin, J., Payne, B.R., Battles, A., Fu, W.T., Morrow, D.G., & Stine-Morrow, E.A.L.
(2012). Information foraging in unknown patches across the lifespan. in Proceedings of the
34th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, eds Miyake N., Peebles D., Cooper R.
P., editors. (Sapporo: Cognitive Science Society), 14041409.
17. Payne, B.R. & Stine-Morrow, E.A.L (2012). Aging, parafoveal preview, and semantic
integration in sentence processing: Testing the cognitive workload of wrap-up. Psychology
and Aging, 27, 638-649.
18. Jackson, J.J., Hill, P.L., Payne, B.R., Roberts, B.W., & Stine-Morrow, E.A.L. (2012). Can
an old dog learn (and want to experience) new tricks? Cognitive training changes openness
in older adults. Psychology and Aging, 27, 286-292.
19. Payne, B.R., Gao, X., Noh, S.R., Anderson, C.J., & Stine-Morrow, E.A.L. (2012). The
effects of print exposure on sentence processing and memory among older adults: Evidence
for efficiency and reserve. Aging, Neuropsychology, and Cognition, 19, 122-149.3
20. Payne, B.R., Jackson, J.J, Hill, P.L., Gao, X., Roberts, B.W., & Stine-Morrow, E.A.L.
(2012). Memory self-efficacy predicts responsiveness to inductive reasoning training in older
adults. The Journal of Gerontology: Psychological Sciences, 67, 27-35.
21. Payne, B.R., Jackson, J.J., Noh, S.R., & Stine-Morrow, E.A.L. (2011). In the zone: Flow
state and cognition in older adults. Psychology and Aging, 26, 738-743.
Edited Book Chapters
22. Payne, B.R., Ng, S., & Federmeier, K.D. (to appear). Event-related brain potentials and
language: The Ns and Ps. The Bilingual Brain Unraveled.
23. Payne, B.R. & Hill, P.L. (2016). Experimental research methods in lifespan human development. The SAGE Encyclopedia of Lifespan Human Development.
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issue on Compensatory Mechanisms for Age-Related Cognitive Decline.

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24. Stine-Morrow, E. A. L. & Payne, B.R. (2015). Education and learning: Lifespan perspectives. In J. D. Wright (Ed.) International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences
(Second edition), Oxford: Elsevier.
Other Publications
25. Payne, B. R. (2014). The effects of verbal working memory training on language comprehension in older adulthood (Doctoral dissertation). Retrieved from IDEALS. http://hdl.handle.
net/2142/50700
Manuscripts Under Review
1. Payne, B.R. & Stine-Morrow, E.A.L. (under review). The effects of home-based cognitive
training on verbal working memory and language comprehension in older adulthood. Frontiers
in Aging Neuroscience.
2. Payne, B.R. & Federmeier, K.D. (under review). Event related brain potentials reveal age
related changes in foveal-parafoveal integration during reading. Brain and Language.
3. Stites, M.C., Payne, B.R., & Federmeier, K.D. (under revision). Getting ahead of yourself: Parafoveal word expectancy modulates the N400 during sentence reading. Cognitive,
Affective, and Behavioral Neuroscience.
4. Hill, P.L. & Payne, B.R. (under review). Dispositional antecedents of healthy cognitive
aging and dementia prevention: A comment on Smith (2016). American Psychologist.
5. Ng, S., Payne, B.R., Steen. A.A., Federmeier, K.D., & Stine-Morrow, E.A.L. (under review).
Use of contextual information by struggling adult readers: Evidence from reading time and
event-related brain potentials. Scientific Studies of Reading.
6. Lewis, N.A., Turiano, N.A., Payne, B.R., & Hill, P.L. (under revision). Purpose and
cognitive functioning from middle to older adulthood: Findings from the MIDUS study. Aging,
Neuropsychology, and Cognition.
7. Jackson, J.J., Hill, P.L., Payne, B.R., Parisi, J., & Stine-Morrow, E.A.L. (under review).
Linking openness to cognitive ability in older adulthood: The role of diversity in daily behavior. Journal of Research in Personality.
8. Parisi, J.M., Payne, B.R., & Stine-Morrow, E.A.L. (under review). In the zone: Flow is not
just a state, but a habit of mind. Assessment.
9. Farias, S., Giovannetti, T., Payne, B.R.,Marsiske, M., Rebok, G.,Thomas, K., Schaie, W.,
Willis, S., & Gross, A.L. (under review). The longitudinal association between cognition and
everyday function among older adults in ACTIVE. Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society.
Forthcoming Manuscripts
1. Payne, B.R. & Federmeier, K.D. Age-related changes in incremental semantic processing:
Evidence from single-word event-related brain potentials.
2. Payne, B.R., Steen, A., Federmeier, K.D., & Stine-Morrow, E.A.L. Eye-movement control
during reading in adult literacy learners.

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3. Payne, B.R., Kutas, M., & Federmeier, K.D. Structural constraints on lexical associative
priming in sentence processing: Evidence from eye-movements and event-related brain potentials.
4. Lohani, M., Payne, B.R., & Issacowitz, D. Physiological-emotional coherence during sadness
reactivity and regulation in older adulthood.
5. Steen, A., Ng, S., Payne, B.R., Federmeier, K.D., & Stine-Morrow, E.A.L. Use of contextual
constraint among adult readers varying in age and literacy skill.
6. Ng. S., Payne, B.R., Steen, A.A., Stine-Morrow, E.A.L., & Federmeier, K.D. Use of contextual information and prediciton by struggling readers in speech comprehension: Evidence
from event-related brain potentials.

Awards and Fellowships

2015
1. Travel Scholarship, National Institutes of Health. The Event-Related Brain Potential Bootcamp, Center for Mind and Brain, Davis, CA.
2. The Thomas and Margaret Huang Award for Research in Human Computer Intelligent Interaction, Huang Fund, Beckman Institute, University of Illinois. Inaugural Award.
2014
3. CGS/Proquest Distinguished National Dissertation Award Nominee, Behavioral and Social
Sciences. Representative of University of Illinois.
4. Travel Scholarship, National Institutes of Health. Advanced Psychometrics in Cognitive Aging, University of Washington Friday Harbor Laboratory, San Juan Islands, WA.
5. Federal Block Grant Scholarship.
2013
6. Beckman Institute Graduate Research Fellowship, Human Perception and Performance &
Cognitive Neuroscience. University of Illinois.
7. The Paul D. Doolen Fellow of Research in the Study of Aging, University of Illinois.
2012
8. National Institutes of Health Training Fellowship, Language Processing: A Training Program
T32-HD055272.
9. The William Chandler Bagley Doctoral Scholarship, University of Illinois.
10. The Ray Simpson Memorial Award, Awarded to Top Graduate Student in the Department
of Educational Psychology, University of Illinois.
2011
11. Raymond W. Kulhavy Scholarship for Research in the Cognitive Science of Learning, University of Illinois.
12. Federal Block Grant Scholarship.

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2009
13. The Helen B. Daly Award for Excellence in Psychological Research, SUNY Oswego.
14. Sigma Xi Research Societys Best Oral Presentation in Psychology Award, SUNY Oswego.

External Grant Funding (Awarded)

Current
Neurocognitive Aging and Individual Differences in Language
Comprehension and Memory (LRP-CR) (2015-2017)
National Institute on Aging: Loan Repayment Program for Clinical Research
Awarded: PI, $30,750
Completed
The Effects of Working Memory Training on Language Comprehension
among Younger and Older Adults (2012-2013)
Campus Research Board (CRB-13060)
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Awarded: PI, $20,420

Presentations
Selected Invited Talks and Symposia
1. Payne, B.R. (2016). Aging and attentional control in language processing. Department of
Psychology. University of Birmingham, UK.
2. Payne, B.R. (2016). Its all under control: The role of spatial and temporal attention in
reading comprehension. Educational Neuroscience Program, University of Alabama.
3. Payne, B.R. (2015). Intraindividual variability in sentence processing: Neural and behavioral
indices. The Department of Psychology, University of Illinois.
4. Payne, B.R. (2015). Gerolinguistics: Multimethod approaches. Beckman Institute External
Review of Biological Intelligence and Human-Computer Intelligent Interaction.
5. Payne, B.R. (2015). Out of the corner of my eye: Event-related brain potentials reveal fovealparafoveal dynamics during reading. The Cognitive Neuroscience Seminar Series. University
of Illinois.
6. Payne, B.R., & Stine-Morrow, E.A.L. (2015). Home-based cognitive training improves language comprehension in older adults. Illinois Learning Sciences Design Laboratory Data Blitz.
Urbana, IL. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mLM3VChCsos
7. Payne, B.R. (2014). Aging and sentence comprehension: The role of segmentation mechanisms in on-line language processing. Department of Psychology and Cognitive Science
Program. University of Richmond, Richmond, VA.
8. Stine-Morrow, E.A.L. & Payne, B.R. (2014). Age differences in language segmentation:
What, how, and why? WingfieldFest: A Festschrift in honor of Arthur Wingfield. Volent
Center for Complex Systems. Brandeis University.

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9. Stine-Morrow, E.A.L., Payne, B.R., & Giffin, L. (2013). Everyday engagement as a source
of cognitive vitality? Lessons learned from the Senior Odyssey Project. In (Chairs), Plasticity and Real-Life Interventions. Symposium presented at the 66th annual meeting of the
Gerontological Society of America. Orlando, FL.
10. Payne, B.R. (2013). Publishing in experimental psychology: A graduate students perspective.
In D. Morrow, F. Durso, & Brewer, N. (Chairs). How to publish papers that matter. Symposium presented at the annual meeting of the American Psychological Association. Honolulu,
HI.
11. Payne, B.R., Hill, P.L., & Stine-Morrow, E.A.L. (2012). Memory self-efficacy and cognitive plasticity in the context of cognitive interventions: Findings from Senior Odyssey and
ACTIVE. In J. Berry & R. West (Chairs), Theoretical and empirical advances in memory
self-efficacy research. Annual meeting of the American Psychological Association. Orlando,
FL.
12. Payne, B.R. (2012). Memory beliefs and cognitive training interventions in the elderly. In N.
Sciolino & E. Pavlova (Chairs), American Psychological Association Conventions 6th Annual
Science DataBlitz Presentation. Annual meeting of the American Psychological Association.
Orlando, FL. 4
13. Stine-Morrow, E. A. L., Payne, B. R., Gao, X., Chui, H., Jackson, J., & Hill, P. (2011).
Engagement as an organizing principle for cognitive resilience. In P. Hartman-Stein (Chair),
Innovative interventions for cognitive enhancement. Symposium presented at the annual
meeting of the American Psychological Association. Washington, DC.
Selected Presentations and Abstracts
1. Payne, B.R. & Federmeier, K.D. (2016; upcoming). As far as the eye can see: Eventrelated brain potentials reveal dynamics of visuospatial attention allocation during reading.
56th Annual Meeting of the Society for Psychophysiological Research. Minneapolis, MN.
2. Payne, B.R. & Federmeier, K.D. (2016). Co-registration of event-related single-trial EEG
and reading time reveal intraindividual variability in context use in language processing. Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society. New York City, New York.
3. Payne, B.R. & Federmeier, K.D. (2016). Event-related brain potentials reveal age-related
changes in the recruitment of parafoveal visual attention in reading. The Cognitive Aging
Conference. Atlanta, GA.
4. Steen, A., Ng, S., Payne, B.R., Federmeier, K.D., & Stine-Morrow, E.A.L. (2016). The
effects of age and literacy skill on eye-movement control during lexical ambiguity resolution.
The Cognitive Aging Conference. Atlanta, GA.
5. Ng, S., Payne, B.R. Stine-Morrow, E.A.L. & Federmeier, K.D. (2016). Literacy skill modulates age differences in the use of context in language processing: Evidence from ERPs. The
Cognitive Aging Conference. Atlanta, GA.
6. Payne, B.R. & Stine-Morrow, E.A.L. (2016). Mild cognitive impairment and semantic
integration in language processing. CLEAR Initiative: Cognition, Lifespan Engagement,
Aging, and Resilience. Beckman Institute, Urbana, IL.
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of 15 nominated speakers. Representing division 20- Adult Development and Aging.

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7. Payne, B.R. & Federmeier, K.D. (2015). Multiple effects of sentential context on lexical
processing: Evidence from single-item event-related brain potentials. Annual Meeting of the
Psychonomic Society. Chicago, IL.
8. Payne, B.R. & Federmeier, K.D. (2015). Risky readers? Event-related brain potentials
reveal age-related changes in the recruitment of parafoveal visual attention in reading. Society
for the Neurobiology of Language. Chicago, IL.
9. Payne, B.R. & Federmeier, K.D. (2015). Pace yourself: Intraindividual variability in context
use revealed by self-paced event-related brain potentials. 55th Annual Meeting of the Society
for Psychophysiological Research. Seattle, WA.
10. Steen, A., Ng, S., Payne, B.R., Federmeier, K.D., & Stine-Morrow, E.A.L. (2015). Use of
contextual constraint among adult readers varying in age and literacy skill. Annual Meeting
of the American Psychological Association. Toronto, ON, Canada.
11. Gross A.L., Payne, B.R., Casanova, R., Dvoudzadeh, P., Dzierzewski, J., Farias, S., Giovannetti, T., Ip, E., Marsiske, M., Rebok, G., Schaie, W., Thomas, K., Willis, S., Jones, K.
(2015). The ACTIVE conceptual diagram as a structural equation model. Annual Meeting
of the Gerontological Society of America. Orlando, FL.
12. Payne, B.R., Stites, M.C., & Federmeier, K.D. (2015). Out of the corner of my eye: Eventrelated potentials reveal effects of foveal load on parafoveal word processing during reading.
Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society. San Francisco, CA.
13. Stites, M.C., Payne, B.R., & Federmeier, K.D. (2015). Getting ahead of yourself: Parafoveal
word expectancy modulates the N400 during sentence reading. Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society. San Francisco, CA.
14. Lewis, N., Turiano, N., Payne, B.R., & Hill, P. (2014). Purpose and cognitive functioning
from middle to older adulthood. 67th Annual Meeting of the Gerontological Society of America.
Washington, DC.
15. Payne, B.R. & Stine-Morrow, E.A.L. (2014). RT distributional analyses of age differences
in wrap-up during sentence comprehension. The Cognitive Aging Conference. Atlanta, GA.
16. Payne, B.R. & Stine-Morrow, E.A.L. (2014). The iTrain project: Effects of home-based
verbal working memory training on language comprehension in older adults. The Cognitive
Aging Conference. Atlanta, GA.
17. Chin, J., Payne, B.R., Fu, W-T, Morrow, D.G., Stine-Morrow, E.A.L. (2014). Information
foraging across the lifespan: Search and switch in unknown patches. The Cognitive Aging
Conference, Atlanta, GA.
18. Payne, B.R., James, A., Stine-Morrow, E.A.L., & Watson, D. (2014). Eye movements
during reading reflect subsequent sentence memory: Evidence from subject and object relative
clauses. CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, Columbus, OH.
19. Giffin, L., Payne, B.R., & Stine-Morrow, E.A.L. (2013). Dispositional flow: A resource for
successful aging. The 66th Annual Meeting of the Gerontological Society of America, New
Orleans, LA.
20. Payne, B.R., Hill, P.L., Gross, A.L., Parisi, J.M., Rebok, G.W., & Stine-Morrow, E.A.L.
(2013). Bifactor modeling of subjective memory beliefs and cognitive function in older adulthood: Whats memory got to do with it? The 121st Annual Meeting of the American Psychological Association, Honolulu, HI.
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21. Payne, B.R. & Stine-Morrow, E.A.L. (2012). Aging and parafoveal word processing at clause
and sentence boundaries: An eye-movement study. The 2012 Cognitive Aging Conference,
Atlanta, GA.
22. Chin, J., Payne, B.R., Morrow, D., Stine-Morrow, E.A.L., Gao, X., Conner-Garcia, T.,
Graumlich, J., & Murray, M. (2012). Effects of domain: General and health knowledge effects
on sentence processing and recall among older adults. The 2012 Cognitive Aging Conference,
Atlanta, GA.
23. Gao, X., Grison, S., Payne, B.R., Christianson, K., Morrow, D.G., & Stine-Morrow, E.A.L.
(2012). Aging and text integration across sentence boundaries: An eye-movement study. The
2012 Cognitive Aging Conference, Atlanta, GA.
24. Chin, J., Payne, B.R., Battles, A., Fu, W., Morrow, D.G, & Stine-Morrow, E.A.L. (2012).
Age differences in information foraging: Search and switch in word search puzzles. The 2012
Cognitive Aging Conference, Atlanta, GA.
25. Grison, S., Payne, B.R., Christianson, K., Morrow, D.G., & Stine-Morrow E.A.L. (2012).
Aging and underspecification of syntactic ambiguity resolution. The 2012 Cognitive Aging
Conference, Atlanta, GA.
26. Payne, B.R. (2012). Language experience moderates sentence comprehension in adulthood.
HABITS Initiative: Health, Attitudes, Biology, Information, Technology, Society, Urbana, IL
27. Payne, B.R., Jackson, J.J., Hill, P.L., Gao, X., Roberts, B.W. & Stine-Morrow, E.A.L.
(2011). Memory self-efficacy predicts responsiveness to inductive reasoning training in older
adults. The 64th meeting of the Gerontological Society of America, Boston, MA.
28. Chui, H., Gao, X., Payne, B.R., Hill, P., Jackson, J.J., Kramer, A.F., & Stine-Morrow,
E.A.L. (2011). Social support moderates the effect of attentional inconsistency on fluid ability
in older adults. The 119th annual convention of the American Psychological Association,
Washington, DC.
29. Payne, B.R. (2011). Memory beliefs in older adulthood: Individual differences in non-target
cognitive training outcomes. The Lifelong Brain and Cognition Proseminar, Urbana, IL.
30. Payne, B.R. (2011). Cognitive reserve in language processing across the lifespan: The role
of print exposure. The Beckman Institute Innovation Summit on Educational Neuroscience:
Minds, Brains, and New Literacies, Urbana, IL.
31. Payne, B.R. (2010). Cognitive plasticity in older adulthood: The role of self-efficacy beliefs
in cognitive training. The Cognitive Science of Teaching and Learning Proseminar, Urbana,
IL.
32. Gao, X., Payne, B.R., & Stine-Morrow, E.A.L. (2010). Memory self-efficacy predicts longitudinal changes in resource allocation and text memory in reading. The Gerontologist, 50,
149.
33. Payne, B.R., Gao, X., & Stine-Morrow, E.A.L. (2010). Measures of reading skill dissociate
online language processes among older adults. The Gerontologist, 50, 148.
34. Jackson, J.J, Hill, P.L., Payne, B.R., Roberts, B.W., & Stine-Morrow, E.A.L. (2010). Can
an old dog learn (and want to experience) new tricks? Cognitive training increases openness
in older adults. The 15th annual European Conference on Personality, Brno, Czech Republic.

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35. Payne, B.R., Noh, S.R., & Stine-Morrow, E.A.L. (2010). In the zone: Flow and cognition
in older adults. The 2010 Cognitive Aging Conference, Atlanta, GA.
36. Noh, S.R., Shake, M.C., Payne, B.R., & Stine-Morrow, E.A.L. (2010). Age differences in
the detection of textbase or situational inconsistency during narrative comprehension: An
eye movement study. The 2010 Cognitive Aging Conference, Atlanta, GA.
37. Payne, B.R. (2009). Cognition and activity engagement in adulthood. The Cognitive
Science of Teaching and Learning Proseminar, Urbana, IL.
38. Payne, B.R., Smiler, A.P., & OBrien, C. (2009). You are what you watch: Identity and media usage. The 117th annual convention of the American Psychological Association, Toronto,
ON, Canada.
39. Payne, B.R. (2008). Investigating the occurrence of change deafness and inattentional
deafness in musical auditory scenes. The Cornell University Sigma Xi Conference, Ithaca,
NY.

Teaching Experience and Mentorship

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
2012. Instructor of Record. Applied Hierarchical Linear Modeling with Lab. Graduate course
and lab section on conceptualization and application of linear mixed- effects models in
Psychological Research.
2013. Workshop Instructor. Longitudinal Data Analysis with SAS & R. 6 week workshop on
methods for longitudinal data analysis in Psychology
2015. Guest Lecturer. Research Methods in Cognitive Neuroscience
2015. Workshop Co-Instructor. Linear Mixed-Effects Modeling of Event-Related Brain Potential Data. 2 week workshop on the application of mixed-effects models to electrophysiological data analysis.
2016. Guest Lecturer. Neuroscience II. Core course for first-year graduate students in Neuroscience.
2016. Workshop Instructor. Electrophysiology in Cognitive Neuroscience Short Course. 3 week
course for first-year graduate students on EEG and ERP methods in Cognitive Neuroscience.
Student Research Mentorship and Supervision
2009-2015. Supervised, trained, and/or served as mentor of research for over 20 undergraduate
research assistants
Supervised Research Projects
2016. M. Coeffel. Co-registration of electrophysiology and pupillometry in language processing.
Note: Awarded Laura Bolton Undergraduate Research Scholarship for this work.
2015. G. Wajda. Parafoveal processing in reading in older adults: Evidence from eye tracking.
2014. K. Payne. A Bayesian diffusion decision model of executive control in aging.

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2013. T. Deegan. A mobile cognitive training program via iPad tablet computers.
2012. A. Battles. Machine learning approaches to computerized adaptive cognitive training.
State University of New York at Oswego
2008. Teaching Assistant. Statistical Analysis of Psychological Data
2006. Office of Learning Services. Provided tutoring for introductory courses in Cognitive Science,
Psychology, Chemistry, and Statistics

Professional Service and Affiliations

Ad Hoc Reviewer
Psychophysiology
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Psychology and Aging
Journal of Memory and Language
The Journals of Gerontology: Psychological Science
Cognitive Science
Memory
Aging, Neuropsychology, and Cognition
Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology
The Gerontologist
Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research
Laboratory Phonology
The Journal of Adolescent Health, Medicine, and Therapeutics
Clinical Interventions in Aging Research
The International Journal of Aging and Human Development
Professional Affiliations and Memberships
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Society for Psychophysiological Research

Cognitive Neuroscience Society
Psychonomic Society
Gerontological Society of America
Society for the Neurobiology of Language
Society for Text and Discourse
Cognitive Science Society
American Psychological Association

Other Service
Beckman Initiative Member (2016). The Illinois Language and Literacy Initiative (ILLI) and
The Cognition Lifespan Engagement and Resilience (CLEAR) Initiative. University of Illinois
at Urbana-Champaign
Faculty Search Committee (2014). Cognitive Science of Learning Search Committee. University
of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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Co-organizer (2013). NIH Sponsored Language Processing Seminar Series. Beckman Institute
for Advanced Science and Technology. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Fellowship Search Committee (2013). Paul D. Doolen Fellow for Research in the Study of Aging.
University of Illinois System (Urbana-Champaign, Chicago, & Springfield)
Community Outreach and Science Education (2011, 2013, 2015). Beckman Institute Open House

Technical Skills
Human electrophysiology. EEG, event-related brain potentials, and time-frequency analysis of
neural oscillations.
Eye tracking and pupillometry.
Competency in statistical modeling. Generalized linear mixed models, multivariate statistics,
latent variable methods, longitudinal/time-series data analysis, nonparametric statistics, statistical computing, and signal processing
Programming, analysis, other software. R Language for Statistical Computing, MATLAB,
Python (some experience), SAS, MPlus, Presentation (neurobehavioral systems), EyeLink,
Superlab, Praat (and ToBI System), XCode IDE (some experience).

Tools and Scales

The AFSS (Activity Flow State Scale) (with Elizabeth A.L. Stine-Morrow, Soo Rim Noh, and
Joshua Jackson). Available from PsycTESTS. doi: 10.1037/t06855-000.
The iTrain Working Memory App for iPad (with Elizabeth A.L. Stine-Morrow & Thomas Deegan).
Source Code available at: https://github.com/TALL1532/itrain

Additional Training and Education

The Event-Related Brain Potential Boot Camp (2015). Center for Mind and Brain, UC-Davis.
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Fast Optical Brain Imaging Summer School (2015). The Cognitive Neuroimaging Laboratory,
Beckman Institute, University of Illinois
Advanced Psychometrics Methods in Cognitive Aging (2014). Friday Harbor Laboratory.

Structural Equation Modeling and Latent Growth Curve Modeling Workshop (2011). Harvard
Medical School
Applied Multilevel Analysis using Linear and Generalized Linear Mixed Models (2010). University of Illinois

In The News
ImpactStory Summary: https://impactstory.org/u/0000-0001-6732-6599/
Article Hyperlinks available at brennanpayne.com
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by National Institutes of Health. By invitation only

by National Institutes of Health. By invitation only

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Word Economic Forum. What is cognitive reserve, and how do we increase it?
CNN. Study: Challenging seniors brains can also change their personality
Science Daily. Enhancing cognition in older adults also changes personality
Elderbranch. Interview: Memory for language in older adulthood
Futurity. Brainy tasks keep seniors mentally fit
Illinois News Bureau. Doolen scholarships awarded to continue studies in gerontology
BI News. Power of positive thinking in older adulthood

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