Dan Norton, B.A.
Graduate Student




Background


Education: B.A. in Psychology from Gordon College

Research interests: Visual processing in psychiatric and aging populations.

Hobbies: Rock climbing, guitar.

Experience: Worked as a research assistant under Dr. Yue Chen at McLean hospital from 2005-2009. Studied vision in schizophrenia, healthy aging, and autism. Methods used were mostly psychophysical but also did some fMRI.


Publications


Original Articles:


Norton, D., Ongur, D., Stromeyer, C., Chen, Y. (2008) Altered temporal interaction in response to two light pulses in schizophrenia. Schizophrenia Research, 103, 275-82.

Norton, D., McBain, R., Chen, Y. (2009) Age-related decline in the detection of line drawn faces and its association with spatiotemporal visual processing. Journal of Gerontology: Psychological Sciences, 64, 328-34.

Norton, D., McBain, R., Holt, D., Öngür, D., Chen, Y. (2009) Association of impaired facial affect recognition with basic facial and visual processing deficits in schizophrenia. Biological Psychiatry, 65, 1094-8

Norton, D., McBain, R., Ongur, D., Chen, Y. (submitted) Perceptual learning strongly improves visual motion perception in schizophrenia.

McBain R., Norton, D., Chen Y. (2009) Females excel at basic face perception. Acta Psychologica, 130, 168-73

McBain, R., Norton, D., Chen, Y. (In press) A female advantage in basic face recognition absent in schizophrenia. Psychiatry Research

McBain, R., Norton, D., Chen, Y. (in preparation) Is visual motion processing vulnerable to early aging?

Hodges, B.H., Meagher, B., Norton, D., McBain, R., Kimball, A. (in preparation) Speaking from ignorance: An inverse-Asch effect.

Chen, Y., Norton, D., McBain R. (in press) Visual processing as trait and state markers for schizophrenia. In: M Ritsner (Ed) Neuropsychiatric Biomarkers, Endophenotypes, and Genes: Promises, Advances, and Challenges. Springer.

Chen, Y., Norton, D., Öngür, D. (2008) Reduced Center-Surround Interaction in Visual Motion Processing of Schizophrenia: Evidence for Altered Spatial Organization of the Visual System. Biological Psychiatry, 64, 74-7.

Chen, Y., Norton, D., McBain, R. (2008) Can persons with schizophrenia appreciate art? Schizophrenia Research, 105, 245-51.

Chen, Y., Norton, D., McBain, R., Öngür, D., Heckers, S. (2009) Visual and cognitive processing of face information in schizophrenia: Detection, discrimination and working memory. Schizophrenia Research, 107, 92-8.

Chen, Y., Norton, D., Öngür, D., Heckers, S. (2008) Inefficient face detection in schizophrenia. Schizophrenia Bulletin, 34, 367-74.

Chen, Y., Bidwell, L.C., Norton, D. (2006) Trait vs. state markers for schizophrenia: identification and characterization through visual processes. Current Psychiatry Reviews, 2, 431-8.


Abstracts, Papers, Posters Presented:


Norton, D., McBain, R., Kim, J., Chen Y. (2009) Improvement of deficient visual motion perception in schizophrenia through perceptual learning. Presented at Harvard Medical School Mysell Psychiatry Day.

Chen, Y., Norton, D., Mcbain, R., Gold, J., Frazier, J., Coyle, J. (2008) Basic face detection deficit in adolescents with autism spectrum disorders. Presented at Autism Consortium Annual Symposium.

Hodges, B.H., Norton, D. (2008) Dissent as Cooperation, and Carrying as Caring: Asch, Gibson, and Values. Presented at Society for Personality and Social Psychology

Norton, D.,, McBain, R., Holt, D., Öngür, D., Chen Y. (2008) Roles of emotional, facial and visual signals in emotion recognition in schizophrenia. Presented at conference for “the Biological Basis for Psychiatric Disease” at MIT McGovern Institute and Harvard Medical School Mysell Psychiatry Day

McBain, R., Norton, D., Ongur, D., Chen, Y. A female advantage in perceptual processing of facial information absent in schizophrenia. Presented at conference for “the Biological Basis for Psychiatric Disease” at MIT McGovern Institute and Harvard Medical School Psychiatry Day

Meagher, B., Dennis, A., McBain, R., Norton, D., Wu, J., Hodges, B. (2008) Speaking from ignorance: an inverse Asch effect. Presented at the meetings of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology.

Chen, Y., Norton, D., Öngür, D. (2007) Reduced center-surround interaction in motion processing of schizophrenia: evidence for altered spatial organization of the visual system. Schizophrenia Bulletin. 33 (2), 555.

Norton, D., Ongur, D., Stromeyer, C., Chen, Y. (2007). Altered temporal interaction in response to two light pulses in schizophrenia. Presented at Society for Research in Psychopathology.

Norton, D., Chen, Y. (2007) Dynamic and static visual functions in early and late stages of mental aging. Presented at Harvard Medical Mysell School Psychiatry Day.

Chen, Y., Norton, D., Ongur, D. (2007) Relationship between visual feature modulation and art appreciation in schizophrenia. Presented at Society for Research in Psychopathology.

Chen, Y., Norton, D., Öngür, D. (2006) Reduced Center-Surround Interaction in Visual Motion Processing of Schizophrenia: Evidence for Altered Spatial Organization of the Visual System. Neuropsychopharmacology 31 (supp. 1) s256.

Norton, D., Heckers, S., Ongur, D., Chen, Y. (2006) Perceptual priming of visual motion discrimination. Poster presented at annual meeting for the Society for Research in Psychopathology, and at Harvard Medical School Psychiatry Day.

Cook, K., Orton, P., Norton, D., Mendes, D. (2005) Khmer Buddhist and Christian: Qualitative descriptions of their moral landscapes. Presented at a conference for the Association for Moral Education.