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John F. Shelley-Tremblay, Ph.D.
Associate Professor

Ph.D., City University of New York, 2003 - Cognitive Neuroscience
M.A., New School for Social Research, 1998 - General Psychology
B.S., Colorado State University, 1995 - Psychology

Office: LSCB 384
Phone: 251.460.6883
Home Phone: 251.643.7388
Email:
JSTremblay@usouthal.edu

Discipline: Cognitive Neuroscience
Others: Psychology of Reading, Psychophysiology

Curriculum Vitae

Research Interests

 

Founder and Coordinator of Psychophysiology Laboratory. Electrophysiological investigation of language and cognitive processes. Event-Related Potentials. Language and Cognition. biological and attentional basis of reading disabilities. Molecular and Behavioral Neuroscience. Neuropsychological testing research and diagnosis. Psycholinguistics.

I am the director of the Experimental Event-related Potentials Laboratory. My research investigates the interaction between visual attention and reading processes. I have three current areas, employing psychophysiological, neuropsychological, and educational methodologies. One of my most promising directions combines my basic and applied research interests and involves visual training for persons with reading disability. I am fascinated by the possibility of understanding some of the contributories of disordered visual processing to reading disability, and to this end I have worked with my collaborators to develop novel approaches to assessment and intervention. I am using infra-red based eye tracking equipment to provide a quantitative record of eye movements and reading fluency, and correlating this information with comprehension and vocabulary levels.

Selected Publications

 

Shelley-Tremblay, J., Langhinrichsen-Rohling, J., & Eyer, J. (In Press) Attention Therapy Improves Reading Comprehension in Adjudicated Teens in a Residential Facility. Journal of Correctional Education.

Deichert, N., & Shelley-Tremblay, J.F. (2011) R You Ready? An interactive guidebook for the R statistical package. Great River Technologies press, Dubuque, IA.

Reidy, D.R., Shelley-Tremblay, J.F., & Lilienfeld, S.O. (2011) Psychopathy, Reactive Aggression, and Precarious Proclamations: A Review of Behavioral, Cognitive, and Biological Research. Aggression and Violent Behavior, 16, 512-524.

Shelley-Tremblay, J.F., Syklawer, S., & Ramkissoon, I.  (2011) The Effects of Magno-Parvocellular Integration Training on Fluency and Visual Evoked Potentials in Poor Readers. Journal of Behavioral Optometry, 22;2:31-3.

Shelley-Tremblay, J.F. (2010) Theories of Semantics. In Guendouzi, J., Loncke, F., & Williams, M. Eds. The Handbook of Psycholinguistic & Cognitive processes: Perspectives in Communication Disorders. Taylor & Francis, New York, N.Y.

Shelley-Tremblay, J.F. (2010) Breakdown of Semantics in Aphasia and Alzheimer's Dementia: A Role for Attention? In Guendouzi, J., Loncke, F., & Williams, M. Eds. The Handbook of Psycholinguistic & Cognitive processes: Perspectives in Communication Disorders. Taylor & Francis, New York, N.Y.

Shelley-Tremblay, J.F., & Eyer, J. (2009) Effect of the Reading Plus Program on Reading Skills in Second Graders. Journal of Behavioral Optometry, 20(3), 59 – 66.

Shelley-Tremblay, J. F., Ernst, A., & Kline, J. P. (2009). Carbohydrate Consumption is Associated with Left-frontal activation and Anger in Persons with Fibromyalgia Syndrome. The Journal of Musculoskeletal Pain, 17(4).

Ernst, A., Shelley-Tremblay, J.F., (2009) Fibromyalgia Syndrome and Carbohydrates. Springer - Verlad, VDM. Berlin.

Shelley-Tremblay, J., O’Brien, N., & Langhinrichsen-Rohling, J. (2007) Reading Disability in Adjudicated Youth: Prevalence Rates, Current Models, Traditional and Innovative Treatments. Aggression and Violent Behavior, 12, 376–392.

Solan H.A., Shelley-Tremblay, J., Hansen, P., & Larson, S. (2007) Is there a Common Linkage Among Reading Comprehension, Visual Attention, and Magnocellular processing? Journal of Learning Disabilities, 40, 270 - 278.

O’Brien, N., Langhinrichsen-Rohling, J., & Shelley-Tremblay, J.F.  (2007) Reading Problems, Attentional Deficits, and Current Mental Health problems in Adjudicated Adolescent Males. Journal of Correctional Education, 58, 3. 

Solan, H.A., Shelley-Tremblay, J., & Larson, S. (2007) Vestibular function, sensory integration, and cognitive and balance abnormalities: a brief literature review. Journal of Optometric Vision Development, 38, 1 - 5.

Solan H.A., Shelley-Tremblay, J., Larson S., & Mounts, J. (2006) Silent Word Reading Fluency and Temporal Vision Processing: Differences Between Good and Poor Readers. Journal of Behavioral Optometry, 17, 1-9.

Solan H.A., Shelley-Tremblay, J., Hansen, P., Larson S., and Ficcara, A.P. (2004) M-Cell Deficits and Reading Disability: A Preliminary Study on The Effects of Temporal Vision Processing Therapy. Optometry, Journal of the American Optometric Association, November, 2004; 75.

Deacon, D., Grose-Fifer, J., Hewitt, S., Nagata, M., Shelley-Tremblay, J., and Yang, C.M. (2004). Physiological evidence that a masked unrelated intervening item disrupts semantic priming: implications for theories of semantic representation and retrieval models of semantic priming. Brain and Language, Vol. 89 (1), 38-46.

Solan H.A., Shelley-Tremblay J, Larson S. Effect of Visual attention therapy on reading comprehension. (2003) Journal of Learning Disabilities Nov. Vol. 36.

Solan, H.A., Hansen, P., Shelley-Tremblay, J.F., & Ficarra, A. Coherent motion threshold testing for M-Cell deficit differentiates above and below average grade 6 readers. Optometry, Journal of the American Optometric Association Nov.,2003; 74.

Solan, H.A., Larson, S., Shelley-Tremblay, J.F., Silverman, M, & Ficcara, A.P. (2001) The role of visual attention in cognitive control of oculomotor readiness in learning disabled 6th graders. Journal of Learning Disabilities, 24 (2), 107-118.

Deacon, D., & Shelley-Tremblay, J. (2000) How automatically is meaning accessed: A review of the effects of attention on semantic processing. Frontiers in Bioscience (5), e82-94.

Shelley-Tremblay, J.F., & Mack, A. (1999) Attention modulates metacontrast masking. Psychological Science,10,508-515.

Shelley-Tremblay, J.F., & Rosen, L.A. (1996) Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder: An Evolutionary Perspective. Journal of Genetic Psychology, 157 (4), 443-444

Classes Taught

•     Introduction to Psychology (120)

•     Research design and Analysis I (220)

•     Research Design and Analysis II (320)

•     History and Systems of Psychology (412)

•     Cognitive Psychology (416)

•     Creativity, Problem Solving and Narrative (Honors 490)

•     Advanced Physiological Psychology (510)

 

 

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