Professor of
Psychology University of Pittsburgh
Senior
Scientist LRDC Faculty Cognitive
Program CNBC BIRC
Contact Email wws@pitt.edu (use when possible)
Phone office 412-624-7061
Address 629
Learning Research and
Administrative support Lori Koerbel lkrbl+@pitt.edu 412-624-9903
Current Research Projects Schneider
Dept Web Page
Recent Conference Presentations {Related Papers]
April, 2008 Cognitive Neuroscience San Francisco CA. (Authors, Titles and main figures)
The Neural Basis of
Rapid Instructed Task Learning.
Nov 18 2007 Psychonomics Long Beach CA
The Control And Representation Systems Of The Human Brain And Cognition
Oct 11 2007 CMU Cognitive Modeling course
Identifying the anatomy that supports the synergy of symbolic and connectionist computation
Sept 29 2007
Regional Conference on MRI
Mapping Brain System
Specialization and Connective Topology with fMRI and DSI.
July 30 2007 International Conference of Cognitive Modeling
Ann Arbor Michigan Keynote Address
July 11 2007 Special
Links for OHBM 2007 presentations
July 2007 Summer
fMRI Lab Data Acquisition and Analysis 
Research Project Web Site Brain Competition Experience
Based Cognition Lab Web Page
Classes: Fall 2007 Brain Executive/Emotional Control Systems Fall 2006 Attention PSY 2465 Spring 2007 Cognitive Neuroscience of Learning P2476
Links of common use Schneider Calendar Digital Lib Research E-Journals Scholar SCI
Misc Acuraweather Google Wikipedia
Research Interests: Cognitive neuroscience, cognitive control, semantic representation, attention and automaticity, skill acquisition, connectionist/hybrid modeling, brain imaging, brain activity interpretation
Dr. Schneider investigates dynamic cortical processing in human behavioral and brain imaging studies and computer simulation models. Behavioral and brain imaging studies focus on the understanding of human learning, executive control and attention. Research examines cortical areas involved in learning including frontal, parietal, and cingulate cortex, subcortical structures (e.g., hippocampus) and sensory processing areas (e.g., thalamus and visual cortex). The brain imaging research utilizes functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) to produce high 3D spatial resolution (near millimeter) maps identifying the location and relative activation of stages of the visual system and Diffusion Tensor Imaging (DTI) to map cortical connectivity. These data provide the basis for detailed tracking of the dynamics of cortical processing. We are developing methods to map human network level cortical processing. Behavioral and brain imaging data details how rapidly and in what forms attention moves and what are the component structures of learning (goal popping, memory retrieval, feedback processing).
Review Paper Cognitive Science 2003 Controlled & automatic processing: behavior, theory, and biological mechanisms
Current Research Projects Dept
Web Page
Brain processing of experience Attention and workload in skilled performance
Biological and computational understanding of skill acquisition Semantic representation in cortex
Biology of Cortex Control System and Learning Network Methods development in fMRI and computerized experimentation
Attentional effects in learning and biology of reading development
Misc Psychology Software Tools Schneider Pond [Slide Version] Family web Sabbatical Pictures