[Last Updated: May 2016; I've moved to pattishih.com]

CURRICULUM VITAE
Patricia Shih

Neuroscience Graduate Program, Brown University
Box GL-N, 185 Meeting Street, Providence, RI 02912
Office: (401) 863-2544 • Mobile: (XXX) XXX-XXXX

Personal

Citizenship: United States

 

Education

2016

MSc, Neuroscience
Brown University
Advisor: David Badre

2011

MA, Psychology
San Diego State University
Advisor: Ralph-Axel Mueller

2008

BSc, Psychology
BSc, Biology
Revelle College, University of California, San Diego

 

Research Experience

Sept 2012– May 2016

Graduate Student
Badre Lab, Department of Cognitive, Linguistic, and Psychological Sciences, Brown University
Advisor: David Badre, PhD

Summer 2012

Rotating Neuroscience Graduate Student
Moore Lab, Department of Neuroscience, Brown University
Advisor: Christopher I Moore, PhD

Sept 2011– June 2012

Rotating Neuroscience Graduate Student
Badre Lab, Department of Cognitive, Linguistic, and Psychological Sciences, Brown University
Advisor: David Badre, PhD

Summer 2011

Rotating Neuroscience Graduate Student
Sheinberg Lab, Department of Neuroscience, Brown University
Advisor: David Sheinberg, PhD

2008–2011

Post-baccalaureate Research Assistant
(since 2009) Graduate Research Assistant
Brain Development Imaging Lab, Department of Psychology, SDSU
Advisor: Ralph-Axel Mueller, PhD

Masters thesis: Atypical maturation and functional differentiation of superior temporal sulcus in autism: A functional connectivity MRI study

Spring 2008

Undergraduate Research Assistant (course credit)
Cognitive Neuroscience Lab, Department of Psychology, UCSD
Advisor: Adam R. Aron, PhD

Senior project: High working memory load elicits a trade-off between going and stopping

Winter 2008

Undergraduate Research Assistant (course credit)
Brain & Cognitive Development Lab, Department of Psychology, UCSD
Advisor: David Liu, PhD

Project: The development of distrust: Do four-year-olds use trait inferences to detect lies?

2004–2005

Undergraduate Research Assistant
Saier Lab Bioinformatics Group
, Department of Biology, UCSD
Principle Investigator: Milton H. Saier Jr., PhD

Project: Lysophospholipid flipping across the E. coli inner membrane catalyzed by a transporter (LplT) belonging to the major facilitator superfamily

2003–2004

Undergraduate Lab Assistant
Frisch Lab, Burnham Institute for Medical Research, La Jolla, CA
Principle Investigator: Steven M. Frisch, PhD

 

Publications

# indicates shared authorship position number
§ indicates performed under my mentorship

Manuscripts Under Review / In Preparation

Shih, P., Nyhus, E., & Badre, D. EEG evidence of sequential and parallel processing of hierarchical rules. In preparation.

Minicucci, D., Guediche, S., Shih, P., & Blumstein, S.E. Feature this: The neural system is sensitive to abstract properties of speech. In revision.

 

Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles

  1. 1Nair, A., 1Keown, C.L., Datko, M., Shih, P., Keehn, B., & Mueller, R.A. (2014). Impact of methodological variables on functional connectivity findings in autism spectrum disorders. Human Brain Mapping, 35(8):4035-48. doi:10.1002/hbm.22456
  2. §Keown, C.L., Shih, P., Nair, A., Peterson, N., & Mueller, R.A. (2013). Local functional overconnectivity in posterior brain regions is associated with symptom severity in autism spectrum disorders. Cell Reports, 5(3):567-72. doi:10.1016/j.celrep.2013.10.003
  3. Cardinale, R.C., 1Shih, P., Fishman, I., Ford, L.M., & Mueller, R.A. (2013). Pervasive rightward asymmetry shifts of functional networks in autism spectrum disorder: An fMRI study using independent component analysis. JAMA Psychiatry, 70(9), 975-82. doi:10.1001/jamapsychiatry.2013.382
  4. Nair, A., Treiber, J., Shukla, D.K., Shih, P., & Mueller, R.A. (2013). Impaired thalamocortical connectivity in autism spectrum disorder: A study of functional and anatomical connectivity. Brain, 136(6), 1942-55. doi:10.1093/brain/awt079
  5. Shen, M.D., Shih, P., Oettl, B., Keehn, B., §Leyden, K., Gaffrey, M.S., & Mueller, R.A. (2012). Atypical lexicosemantic function of extrastriate cortex in autism spectrum disorder: Evidence from functional and effective connectivity. Neuroimage, 62(3), 1780-91. doi:10.1016/j.neuroimage.2012.06.008
  6. Keehn, B., Shih, P., Brenner, L.A., Townsend, J., & Mueller, R.A. (2012). Functional connectivity for an "island of sparing" in autism spectrum disorder: An fMRI study of visual search. Human Brain Mapping, 34(10), 2524-37. doi:10.1002/hbm.22084
  7. Shih, P., Keehn, B., Oram, J.K., Leyden, K.M., §Keown, C.L., & Mueller, R.A. (2011). Functional differentiation of posterior superior temporal sulcus in autism: A functional connectivity MRI study. Biological Psychiatry, 70(3), 270-7. doi: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2011.03.040
  8. Mueller, R.A., Shih, P., Keehn, B., Deyoe, J., Leyden, K.M., & Shukla, D. (2011). Underconnected, but how? A survey of functional connectivity MRI studies in autism spectrum disorders. Cerebral Cortex, 21(10), 2233-43. doi:10.1093/cercor/bhq296
  9. Shih, P., Shen, M., Oettl, B., Keehn, B., Gaffrey, M.S., & Mueller, R.A. (2010). Atypical network connectivity for imitation in autism spectrum disorder. Neuropsychologia, 48(10), 2931-9. doi:10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2010.05.035

 

Commentaries and Perspectives

^ indicates invited review

^Mueller, R.A., Shih, P., & Keown, C.L. (2012). A functional connectivity-based classification approach to autism spectrum disorder: Only as good (or bad) as available diagnostic criteria. Future Neurology, 7(3), 259-62. doi:10.2217/fnl.12.18

 

Conference Presentations

§ indicates performed under my mentorship

  1. Shih, P., & Badre. D. The representational capacity of the human prefrontal cortex: A high-resolution fMRI study. Poster and data-blitz presentation at the 22nd annual meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, San Francisco, CA, March 28-31, 2015.
  2. Shih, P., Nyhus, E., Masters, S., Duan, L., & Badre, D. EEG evidence of sequential dynamics in hierarchical cognitive control. Poster presentation at the 21st annual meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, Boston, MA, April 5-8, 2014.
  3. Gagne, C., Bhandari, A., Shih, P., Chatham, C., & Badre, D. The magic number 57 plus or minus 3%: Why is multi-voxel pattern classification success so low in the lateral prefrontal cortex? Poster presentation at the 21st annual meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, Boston, MA, April 5-8, 2014.
  4. Keown, C.L., Shih, P., Peterson, N., Nair, A., Datko, M., & Mueller, R.A. Atypical local and long-distance functional connectivity in autism spectrum disorder: An fcMRI study. Poster presentation at the 42nd annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, New Orleans, LA, October 13-17, 2012.
  5. Mueller, R.A., Nair, A., Datko, M.C., Shih, P., Keown, C.L., Maximo, J.O., Keehn, B., & Fishman, I. Is the resting state the royal road to intrinsic functional connectivity? The impact of methods on fcMRI results in autism. Poster presentation at the 3rd biennial Resting State Conference, Magdeburg, Germany, September 5-7, 2012.
  6. Keown, C.L., Nair, A., Datko, M.C., Keehn, B., Shih, P., & Mueller, R.A. Effects of methodological variables on resting state functional connectivity findings in autism spectrum disorders. Poster presentation at the 3rd biennial Resting State Conference, Magdeburg, Germany, September 5-7, 2012.
  7. Khan, A.J., Nair, A., Keown, C., Shih, P., Keehn, B., & Mueller, R.A. Cerebro-cerebellar resting state functional connectivity for motor and prefrontal networks in adolescents with autism spectrum disorders. Poster presentation at the International Meeting for Autism Research, Toronto, Ontario, May 17-19, 2012
  8. Nair, A., Keown, C.L., Datko, M.C., Keehn, B., Shih, P., & Mueller, R.A. Impact of methodological variables on functional connectivity MRI findings for autism spectrum disorders. Poster presentation at the International Meeting for Autism Research, Toronto, Ontario, May 17-19, 2012
  9. Ghane, M., Nair, A., Keehn, B., Keown, C., Shih, P., Townsend, J., & Mueller, R.A. Attention networks in autism spectrum disorders: A functional connectivity MRI study. Poster presentation at the 19th annual meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, Chicago, IL, March 31 - April 3, 2012.
  10. Keehn, B., Shih, P., Nair, A., Khan, A., Westerfield, M., Lincoln, A.J., Townsend, J., & Mueller, R.A. Attentional capture in ASD: A combined fMRI-EEG study. Poster presentation at the International Meeting for Autism Research, San Diego, CA, May 12-14, 2011.
  11. §Cardinale, R.C., Shih, P., §Keown, C.L., Keehn, B., & Mueller, R.A. Atypical lateralization of networks in autism spectrum disorder, as detected by independent component analysis. Oral presentation at the 40th annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, San Diego, CA, November 13-17, 2010.
  12. §Keown, C.L., Shih, P., Keehn, B., & Mueller, R.A. Investigation of functional networks with independent component analysis in autism spectrum disorder. Oral presentation at the 40th annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, San Diego, CA, November 13-17, 2010.
  13. §Oram, J.K., Shih, P., Moore Parks, E.N., Burns, E.L., & Mueller, R.A. Functional connectivity of Broca's area in children and adults. Poster presentation at the 40th annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, San Diego, CA, November 13-17, 2010.
  14. Shih, P., Keehn, B., §Oram, J.K., §Leyden, K.M., §Keown, C.L., & Mueller, R.A. Atypical maturation and functional differentiation of the posterior superior temporal sulcus in autism spectrum disorder. Oral presentation at the 40th annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, San Diego, CA, November 13-17, 2010.
  15. Keehn, B., Shih, P., Brenner, L.A., Lincoln, A.J., & Mueller, R.A. Functional activation and connectivity of dorsal and ventral attention networks in autism spectrum disorder: An fMRI study of visual search. Poster presentation at the International Meeting for Autism Research, Philadelphia, PA, May 20-22, 2010.
  16. Shih, P., Keehn, B., §Oram, J., §Leyden, K.M., & Mueller, R.A. Reduced differentiation of functional networks subserved by posterior superior temporal sulcus in autism spectrum disorder. Poster presentation at the International Meeting for Autism Research, Philadelphia, PA, May 20-22, 2010.
  17. Oettl, B., Shen, M., Shih, P., Gaffrey, M.S., & Mueller, R.A. Effective connectivity of language networks in autism: A structural equation modeling approach. Poster presentation at the 39th annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, Chicago, IL, October 17-21, 2009.
  18. Shih, P., Shen, M., Oettl, B., Keehn, B., Gaffrey, M.S., & Mueller, R.A. Functional and effective connectivity of the mirror neuron system in autism spectrum disorder. Poster presentation at the 15th annual meeting of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping, San Francisco, CA, June 18-23, 2009.
  19. Shukla, D.K., Keehn, B., Brenner, L.A., Shih, P., & Mueller, R.A. Regional homogeneity of fMRI activation in autism. Poster presentation at the 38th annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, Washington, DC, November 15-19, 2008.
  20. Shen, M., Gaffrey, M., Keehn, B., Villalobos M., Shukla, D., Shih, P., & Mueller, R.A. Functional connectivity of extrastriate cortex in autism: An fcMRI study of semantic decision. Oral presentation at the 38th annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, Washington, DC, November 15-19, 2008.

 

Professional Memberships

Cognitive Neuroscience Society, 2013–2017

Society for Neuroscience, 2009–2017

Organization for Human Brain Mapping, 2009–2017

 

Honors & Awards

Rebecca B. Bryson-Kissinger Thesis Award (Psychology, San Diego State University), 2011

National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship, Honorable Mention, 2009, 2011

 

Student Research Advising

(status while under my mentorship) Ð latest achievement

2014–2015

Sara Palasits (Undergraduate RA, Brown)

2012–2013

Lucy Duan (Undergraduate RA, Brown) - BSc in Chemical Engineering

2010–2011

Chris Keown (Computational sciences graduate RA, SDSU) - PhD program in Cognitive Science, UC San Diego  

2010–2011

Ryan Cardinale (Undergraduate RA, NIMH-COR & McNair Scholar, SDSU) - PhD program in Clinical Psychology, University of Michigan

2009–2011

Jessica Oram (Undergraduate RA, SDSU) - BSc in Psychology, SDSU

2009–2010

Kelly Leyden (Undergraduate RA, SDSU) - MRes in Psychology, University of Birmingham; Neuroanatomy Imaging Specialist at CorTechs Labs

 

Teaching

Computer Modeling of the Brain. Summer@Brown course for adv. high school students with Ryan Maloney (primary instructor), Brown University, Summer 2015

Biology of Hearing (NEUR 0650). TA, Brown University, Spring 2013

Crash course in functional connectivity MRI analysis. Three-day intensive workshop (25 attendees) co-organized and taught with Chris Keown, San Diego State University, January 29-31, 2011

Presenting your data: Creating publishable figures. Tutorial presented to the SDSU neuroimaging community, San Diego State University, November 5, 2010

 

University Service

Organizing committee for annual neuroscience graduate program retreat, Brown University, 2012

Moderator for psychology undergraduate honors thesis presentations, San Diego State University, 2011