Simon M. McCrea, Ph.D.
Curriculum Vitae
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Graduate Education:
1995-1997 University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada.
Master of Science in Educational Psychology (1998)
MSc. Thesis: Development of executive functions in children. 
Supervisors: John H. Mueller, Ph.D., Division of Applied Psychology, University of Calgary,
Calgary, Canada.
Eva M. Pajurkova, Ph.D., C. Psych. (AB.). Department of Neuropsychology,
Foothills Hospital, Calgary, Canada.
1997-2001 University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
Doctor of Philosophy in Educational Psychology (2001)
Ph.D. Thesis: A multiple case study examining neuropsychological properties of the Cognitive
Assessment System.
Supervisors: Thomas J. Snyder, Ph.D., C. Psych. (AB.), Director of the Division of Clinical
Neuropsychology, University of Alberta Hospital, Edmonton, Canada.
Mark J. Gierl, Ph.D., Canada Research Chair in Educational Measurement and
Director of the Center for Research in Evaluation and Measurement (CRAME),
Department of Educational Psychology, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada.
Post-Graduate Research and Clinical Fellowships:
2001-2003 Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada.
National Science and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC)
Post-Doctoral Fellowship (#241750) 2001-2003 awarded to Simon McCrea, Ph.D.
Supervisor: Christian Beaulieu, Ph.D., 1064 Research Transition Facility, University of Alberta,
Edmonton, Canada.
2004-2005 Division of Cognitive Neurology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA.
National Institute of Health (NIH)-Funded Post-Doctoral Fellowship (NS48130-01)
awarded to H. Branch Coslett, MD.
Supervisor: H. Branch Coslett, MD., Chair of the Division of Cognitive Neurology, University of
Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA.
2006-2007 Departments of Neurology and Neuroopthalmology, University of British Columbia,
Vancouver, Canada. National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)-Funded Post-
Doctoral Fellowship (R01-MH069898) awarded to Jason J.S. Barton, MD., Ph.D.
Supervisor: Jason J.S. Barton, MD., Ph.D., Canada Research Chair in Neuropsychology,
Department of Opthalmology and Visual Sciences, Eye Care Center, Vancouver
General Hospital, Vancouver, Canada.
March/July 2009 Temporarily Licenced Clinical Psychologist Post-Doctoral Fellowship, Evans &
Associates, PSC., Psychotherapeutic Services, Ashland, Kentucky, USA.
Supervisor: Andrea D. Evans, Psy.D., CEO of Evans and Associates, PSC., Ashland, Kentucky,
USA.
Publications:
McCrea, S.M. (2009). Intuition, insight and the right hemisphere. Psychology Research and Behavior
Management. In Press.
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(2): 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. (2009). 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. In Press.
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. (2007). Visual-auditory motor remapping within and between the hemispheres:
A state-of-the-art theoretical overview of visuomotor functioning across domains.
Journal of Vision. 7. Abstract 872, Page 872a.
McCrea, S.M. (2006). A review of Lynn 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.
McCrea S.M. (2005). An examination of the neuropsychological properties of the Cognitive
Assessment System: A comparison of PASS theory, factor analytic, cluster and ipsative models
in focal brain lesion patients. Presented as a poster at the XVI Annual Meeting of the American
Neuropsychiatric Association from February 26th – March 1st in Miami, Florida.
McCrea, S.M. (2005). Spatial Representation of the Body Schema: A blood-oxygen level dependent
functional magnetic resonance imaging study. Presented as a poster at the XII Annual
Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society from April 10th-12th in New York, New York.
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.
Beaulieu, C., McCrea, S. & Allen, P.S. (2002). Magnetic resonance imaging of the white matter
development and its relation to reading ability. First Annual Meeting of the Canadian Language
and Literacy Research Network, (Ottawa, Ontario).
McCrea, S.M. & Scott, M. (2001). A case study of strategic infarct dementia investigated with the
Cognitive Assessment System. XI Annual Meeting of the Rotman Research Institute
Conference on Dementia: Biological and Clinical Advances. March 2001 (Toronto, Canada).
McCrea, S. (August 29th, 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.
McMaster, G. (2001). University of Alberta's Center for Research in Literacy to head national research.
Express Staff News. April 6th, 2001 [Commentary on Drs. Christian Beaulieu and Simon
McCrea’s award of CLLRnet grant as part of a $6,000,000 Canada-wide research network
in education].
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.
McCrea, S.M., Das, J.P., Short, R.H., Shuaib, A., Jeerakathil, T. and R. Ashforth. (1999). Cognitive
developmental sequelae of stroke as assessed with the Cognitive Assessment System:
Preliminary Investigations. Presented Friday, January 29th, 1999 at the Developmental
Lunch at the Department of Psychology at the University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada.
McCrea, S., Das, J.P., Short, R., Shuaib, A., Jeerakathil, T. & Ashforth, R. (1999). Cognitive profiles of
stroke patients: Differential recovery on PASS scales. VI Annual Meeting of the Cognitive
Neuroscience Society. (Washington, DC).
McCrea, S., Short, R., Jeerakathil, T., Ashforth, R. & Shuaib, A. (1999). Cognitive status assessment
in neurological studies. Canadian Journal of Neurological Sciences. 26: 54 (Edmonton,
Canada).
McCrea, S. M. (1999). Book review: Something’s wrong with my child! A valuable resource in helping
children with disabilities. Developmental Disabilities Bulletin. 27: 305-308.
Silbey, R. (1997). Bitter pill: Psychologists split over right to prescribe: Prescribing drugs is the way
of the future, proponents say. Commentary on article by McCrea, Pettifor and Enman (1997)
appearing in Canadian Psychology 38: (49-51) in the Ottawa Citizen, Sunday 17 August 1997
front-page.
McCrea, S., Mueller, J. & Pajurkova, E. (1997). A cross-sectional cutoff design study of the
development of executive functions in young children. VII Annual Meeting of the Canadian
Society for Brain, Behaviour and Cognitive Science. (Winnipeg, Canada).
McCrea, S., Shuaib, A., Wishart, T., Miyashita, H., Ijaz, S. & Howlett, W. (1997). Acute ethanol
administration and transient global ischemia. Society for Neuroscience Abstracts. 23: p.833.
(New Orleans, USA).
McCrea, S., Wishart, T., Miyashita, H., Ijaz, S., Howlett, W. & Shuaib, A. (1996). Prior ethanol treatment
decreases glutamate release during ischemia and potentiates glutamate release post-
ischemia in gerbil hippocampus. Society for Neuroscience Abstracts. 22(2). p 953.
(Washington, DC).
Teaching Experiences:
*Participant in the University of Alberta teaching Program from 2000-2001. The University Teaching
Program allows for graduate students to acquire and develop teaching skills that parallel the
development of research skills. This course consisted of 60 hours of specialized graduate
teaching theory and methods with videotaped teaching portfolio work samples analyzed in
conjunction with two professor mentors.
*I taught a first year introductory psychology class at Grant McEwan Community College in
Edmonton, Alberta in the fall of 2000.
*I taught a third year undergraduate course offered through the Department of Psychology at the
University of Alberta on the ‘Neurobiology of Learning and Memory’ in the winter session of
2002.
*Participant in the Teaching Enhancement Workshop Sept 26th-27th, 2001 Offered by the Division of
Studies in Medical Education in the Faculty of Meddicine at the University of Alberta.
.
Visiting Fellow, Research, Training Experiences and Conferences:
*Completed a course on functional neuroimaging entitled ‘Theoretical and practical issues involved
in conducting functional MRI imaging experiments: An introductory course for basic and clinical
researchers’ June 1-June 3, 2000 at the Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
*Completed a Visiting Fellowship program in Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging at the
Massachusetts General Hospital at Harvard University from June 17th-June 21st, 2002.
*Completed the Summer Institute in Cognitive Sciences on Categorization at the University
of Quebec at Montreal from June 30th to July 11th, 2003.
*Invited talk at the Division of Cognitive Neurology at the University of Pennsylvania on August 22nd,
2005 for Drs. Branch Coslett and Anjan Chatterjee's Monthly Laboratory Meeting Group entitled:
"Reference frames for spatial cognition: Different brain areas are involved in viewer-, object-,
and landmark-centered judgements about object location"
*Visiting Fellow at the MIND Institute at the Center for Mind and Brain at the University of
California at Davis in November 2007 invited by Dr. Susan Rivera and Dr. David Hessl.
I gave a talk on the topic of “Integration of What and Where and Binding in the Cerebral Cortex”.
*Completed the Summer Institute on Social Cognition – Minds and Societies at the University
of Quebec at Montreal from June 27th to July 6th, 2008.
External Funding:
*Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada
*Province of Alberta Graduate Fellowships
*Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC)
*National Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC)
*Canadian Language and Literacy Research Network (CLLRNET)
*Network Centers of Excellence of Canada (NCE)
*National Institute of Health (NIH) USA
*National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) USA
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
Professional Memberships:
*Canadian Psychological Association - Regular Member
*American Psychological Association – Regular Member
*National Academy of Neuropsychology – Professional Member
*International Neuropsychological Society – Regular Member
References:
Jason J.S. Barton, MD, Ph.D.
Professor of Neurology and Neuroopthalmology
Canada Research Chair in Neuropsychology
Department of Opthalmology and Visual Sciences
Faculty of Medicine
University of British Columbia
Eye Care Center
Vancouver General Hospital
2550 Willow Street
Vancouver, British Columbia
Canada V5Z 3N9
Ph: 604-875-4339
Email: jasonbarton@shaw.ca
Website:
H. Branch Coslett, MD.
Professor of Neurology
Director of Cognitive Neurology
Department of Neurology
University of Pennsylvania
3400 Spruce Street
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
USA 19104-4283
Ph: 215-349-8275
Email: hbc@mail.med.upenn.edu
Website:
Thomas J. Snyder, Ph.D., C. Psych (AB.)
Clinical Professor of Psychiatry
Clinical Neuropsychologist
Neuropsychology Services
Comprehensive Epilepsy Program
OPR 3T1.32
University of Alberta Hospital
1A5 WC Mackenzie Health Sciences Centre
8440 – 112th Street
University of Alberta
Edmonton, Alberta
Canada T6G 2B7
Ph: 780-407-8329
Email: thsnyder@ualberta.ca
Website:
John H. Mueller, Ph.D.
Emeritus Professor of Applied Psychology
Division of Applied Psychology
University of Calgary
2500 University Drive NW
Calgary, Alberta
Canada T2N 1N4
Ph: 403-220-5664
Email: mueller@ucalgary.ca
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