Michael James Lundie

• Doctor of Philosophy
• Cognitive Scientist at Applied Research Associates, Inc.

In human decision-making, a change-of-mind study analyzes the likelihood of changing the current response choice after conflicting evidence is presented. Several studies have shown that a participant's confidence state associated with the current response may predict change of mind on subsequent responses. Such studies are limited in that they requ...

Excited to showcase our hashtag#researchproject at the 2024 AIM (Academic, Industry, and Military) Health Research and Development Summit in San Antonio, Texas. Grateful for the opportunity to learn and grow as a researcher under the mentorship of Daniel Krawczyk, Ph.D., and Michael Lundie, Ph.D., in the hashtag#ReasoningLab at The University of Te...

Cyberattacks have become more complex and pervasive; associated costs are soaring; there is an urgent need for innovative solutions. Socially engineered attacks are escalating in scale, potency, and are increasing in frequency; defenses have not evolved and tactics currently deployed are passive, and arguably offer little deterrent value. Social en...

Our study addressed cognitive challenges experienced by individuals with chronic traumatic brain injury (TBI) by focusing on improving a set of cognitive skills relevant to daily life activities using a game-based intervention called Expedition. The Expedition program is a software tool that deliver cognitive skills training across several cognitiv...

The objective of this study was to measure the contribution of the left frontopolar cortex (FPC) to analogical reasoning. Our measure of analogical reasoning derives from performance on the radiation problem, a creative problem‐solving task first used in Gestalt psychology (Duncker, 1945). Success on this task is as low as 10 % without the presenta...

Investigations of the neural correlates of reflective judgement and decision making have revealed the importance of the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC) in attentional control and regulating impulsivity. Edgecumbe et al. (2019) determined that bifocal transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) of the right DLPFC facilitated performance on...

The locus coeruleus - norepinephrine system (LC-NE) – a primary dispenser of norepinephrine in the brain – modulates allocation of attention used in executive functioning and reasoning through connection tracts to the prefrontal cortex (PFC); however, the changes of norepinephrine related to decision-making when affected by transcranial direct curr...

Traumatic brain injuries (TBIs) occur when we receive a harmful blow to the head that results in disruptions to normal brain functioning. TBIs often cause cognitive deficits that include difficulties in concentration (e.g., mental fog), planning, and setting/achieving goals. These cognitive abilities are often classified more broadly as executive f...

Background: Some individuals who sustain traumatic brain injuries (TBIs) continue to experience significant cognitive impairments chronically (months to years post injury). Many tests of executive function are insensitive to these executive function impairments, as such impairments may only appear during complex daily life conditions. Daily life o...

In this study we used high-definition transcranial direct current stimulation (HD-tDCS) to investigate the functional role of the left frontopolar cortex (Brodmann Area 10) in judgment, decision-making, and analogical reasoning. According to one account, the left frontal pole mediate sensitivity to contextual details relevant to behavioral goals (B...

Background: Some individuals who sustain traumatic brain injuries (TBIs) continue to experience significant cognitive impairments chronically (months-to-years post-injury). Many tests of executive function are insensitive to these executive function impairments, as such impairments may only appear during complex daily life conditions. Daily life of...

Evolutionary psychology tends to be associated with a massively modular cognitive architecture. On this framework of human cognition, an assembly of specialized information processors called modules developed under selection pressures encountered throughout the phylogenic history of hominids. The coordinated activity of domain-specific modules carr...

Evolutionary Psychology tends to be associated with a massively modular cognitive architecture. On this framework of human cognition, an assembly of specialized information processors called modules developed under selection pressures encountered throughout the phylogenic history of hominids. Accordingly, the coordinated activity of domain-specific...

Our aim is to assess a game-based intervention called Expedition that presents ecologically valid measures of cognitive performance and executive function, including task-switching, strategic memory, and attentional control, in the mild to moderate traumatic brain injury (mTBI) population. We seek to determine how well the gameplay intervention may...

I evaluate the ethical implications of continued advances in biotechnology and psychopharmaceuticals that enable selective and precise interventions in our love lives. Earp et al. discuss the plausibility of the direct pharmacological manipulation of the neurophysiological structures undergirding "romantic" love (2013). They assert that there is a...

I evaluate the ethical implications of continued advances in biotechnology and psychopharmaceuticals that enable selective and precise interventions in our love lives. Earp et al. discuss the plausibility of the direct pharmacological manipulation of the neurophysiological structures undergirding "romantic" love (2013). They assert that there is a...