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Doctoral Studies:

1997-2001 "A multiple case study examining neuropsychological properties of the Cognitive Assessment System" (SSHRC) Department of Educational Psychology, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada.

Post-Doctoral Studies:

2001-2003 "Diffusion tensor magnetic resonance imaging studies of reading disability in children and adults" (NSERC) Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada.

2004-2005 "Cognitive neuroscience of body knowledge" (NIH) awarded to Branch H. Coslett, MD. Division of Cognitive Neurology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA.

2006-2007 "Perceptual encoding and imagery in prosopagnosia" (NIMH) awarded to Jason J.S. Barton, MD, Ph.D. Division of Neuroophthalmology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada.

Publications:

McCrea, S.M. and Robinson, T.P. (2011). Visual puzzles, figure weights and cancellation: Some preliminary hypotheses on the functional and neural substrates of these three new WAIS-IV subtests. ISRN Neurology. Article ID 123173, 19 pages, doi: 10.5402/2011/123173.

McCrea, S.M. (2010). Intuition, insight and the right hemisphere: Emergence of higher sociocognitive functions. Psychology Research and Behavior Management.3: 1-39.

McCrea, S.M. (2009). A review and empirical study of the composite scales of the Das-Naglieri Cognitive Assessment System. Psychology Research and Behavior Management. 2: 59-79.

McCrea, S.M. (2009). A cognitive-neuropsychological examination of the Das-Naglieri Cognitive Assessment System subtests: A report of three stroke cases studied longitudinally during recovery.International Journal of Neuroscience. 119: 553-599.

McCrea, S.M. (2008). Bipolar disorder and neurophysiologic mechanisms. Neuropsychiatric Disease and Treatment. 4: 1129-1153.

McCrea, S.M. (2007). Measurement of recovery after traumatic brain injury: A cognitive-neuropsychological comparison of the WAIS-R with the Cognitive Assessment System (CAS) in a single case of atypical language lateralization. Applied Neuropsychology.14: 296-304.

McCrea, S.M. (2007). A functional magnetic resonance imaging study of the body schema using full human line-drawing figures in an on-line verbal naming and localization task of single body part words. Behavioural Brain Research. 180: 235-240.

McCrea, S.M., Buxbaum, L.J. & Coslett, H.B. (2006). Illusory conjunctions in simultanagnosia: coarse coding of visual feature information? Neuropsychologia. 44: 1724-1736.

McCrea, S. M. (2006). A nonparametric study of the performance of cortical lesion patients on the Cognitive Assessment System. Archives of Clinical Neuropsychology 21: 321-325.

McCrea, S. & Scott, M. (2002). A case study of strategic infarct dementia investigated with the Cognitive Assessment System. Brain and Cognition. 49: 207-210.

McCrea, S., Miyashita, H., Wishart, T., Ijaz, S., Howlett, W. & Shuaib, A. (2000). Acute ethanol administration and transient ischemia: A behavioural and neuropathological study. Life Sciences.66: 1337-1344.

McCrea, S., Mueller, J.H. & Parrila, R.K. (1999). Quantitative analysis of schooling effects on executive function development in young children. Child Neuropsychology. 5: 242-250.

McCrea, S., Enman, M. & Pettifor, J. (1997). The Canadian Code of Ethics and the prescription privilege debate. Canadian Psychology. 38: 49-51.

McCrea, S., Wishart, T., Miyashita, H., Ijaz, S., Howlett, W. & Shuaib, A. (1997). Attenuated glutamate release in ethanol-administered gerbils. NeuroReport. 8: 3385-3388.

McCrea, S., Shuaib, A., Wishart, T. & Ijaz, S. (1994). Mortality in gerbils with repetitive ischemia: CGS-19755/hypothermia therapy. Neuroscience Letters. 170: 133-135.

Wishart, T., McCrea, S., Ijaz, S. & Shuaib, A. (1994). Comparisons of repetitive- and single insult ischaemia: Effects on regional brain damage and behavior. NeuroReport. 5: 1541-1544.

Abstracts, Book Reviews, and Presentations:

McCrea, S.M. (2010). Neuropsychology and cerebral lateralization: A long history and renewed vigor.A book review of K. Hugdahland R. Westerhausen (Eds.). "The two halves of the brain: Information processing in the cerebral hemispheres. PsycCritiques. December 15, Vol. 55, Release 50, Article 8.

McCrea, S.M. (2010). An emerging scientific consensus on a multi-disciplinary approach towards understanding consciousness? A book review of T. Bayne, A. Cleeremans and P. Wilken (Eds.). "The Oxford companion to consciousness."PsycCritiques.March 10, Vol. 55, Release 10, Article 4.

McCrea, S.M. (2008). Insights on neuroimaging: Past, present and future. A book review of R.A Hurley and K.H. Taber (Eds.). Windows to the brain: Insights from neuroimaging. PsycCritiques. October 15, Vol. 53, Release 42, Article 5.

McCrea, S.M. (2008). Mechanisms of non-locality and its implications to physics and the study of consciousness. A book review of B. Alan Wallace, Ph.D. "Hidden dimensions: The unification of physics and consciousness." PsycCritiques. May 28, Vol. 53, Release 22, Article 2.

McCrea, S.M. (2006). A review of Dr. Robertson's Space, Objects, Minds, and Brains. Cognitive and Behavioral Neurology. 19(4): 237-238.

Westbury, C., McCrea, S. & Binder, J. (2006). Is there privileged access to semantics for mirror neuron related verbs: A functional magnetic resonance imaging study. Brain and Cognition. 60: p 322.

Snook, L., Paulson, L.A., Roy. D., Bhagat, Y.A., McCrea, S.M., Phillips, L & Beaulieu, C. (2004). Diffusion tensor imaging of neurodevelopment in adolescents and young adults. XII Annual Meeting of the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine. May 15-21, Japan.

Beaulieu, C., Plewes, C., Paulson, L.A., Roy , D., Snook, L., McCrea, S. & Phillips, L. (2004). Regional correlation of fractional anisotropy in brain with reading ability in children. XII Annual Meeting of the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine. May 15-21^st Kyoto, Japan.

McCrea, S. (August 29^th, 2001). Review of J.P. Byrnes Minds, brains and learning: Understanding the psychological and educational relevance of neuroscientific research. New York: Guilford Press. In the Educational Review.

McCrea, S. (2001). Diffusion tensor magnetic resonance imaging and learning disabilities. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. Suppl. p. 76. VIII Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, New York City, New York.

Ad-hoc Professional Reviewer:

*Contemporary Psychology: APA Review of Books (PsycCritiques)

*Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society

*Child Neuropsychology

*Archives of Clinical Neuropsychology

*Cognitive and Behavioral Neurology

*Rehabilitation Psychology

*Psychology Research and Behavior Management

*Neuropsychiatric Disease and Treatment

*Biological Psychiatry

*Journal of Pain Research

*Pragmatic and Observational Research

Professional Memberships:

*Canadian Psychological Association - Regular Member

*American Psychological Association Regular Member

*National Academy of Neuropsychology Professional Member

*International Neuropsychological Society Regular Member