Jason Chein

Jason Chein

  • College of Liberal Arts

    Psychology and Neuroscience

    Professor

    Programs
    • Neuroscience

    Director of Temple University Brain Research & Imaging Center

    Programs
    • Temple University Brain Research & Imaging Center
Office Location

Weiss Hall

Expertise

fMRI, Working memory, Cognitive control, Decision making, Adolescence, Neuroimaging, Cognition

Biography

Dr. Chein is a Professor in the Department’s Cognition and Neuroscience area. He directs the Temple University Brain Research & Imaging Center (TUBRIC), and is the Principal Investigator of the Control & Adaptive Behavior Laboratory (CAB Lab). Dr. Chein earned his PhD in cognitive psychology with a specialization in cognitive neuroscience from the University of Pittsburgh and completed his post-doctoral research at Princeton University. Broadly, research in Dr. Chein's lab at Temple explores the development, training, and deployment of self-regulatory control (sometimes called "executive functioning") in the service of adaptive behavior. The lab studies how this uniquely human ability affects how we learn, problem solve, navigate the physical and social world, and make decisions, especially under conditions of distraction, emotional arousal, and social influence. Work in Dr. Chein's lab uses a convergent methodologies approach that features traditional behavioral experimentation, longitudinal and training studies, and functional and structural brain imaging using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI).

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Selected Publications

  • Chein, J.M., & Weisberg, R.W. (in press). Working memory, insight, and restructuring in verbal problems: Analysis of compound remote associate problems. Memory & Cognition.
  • Logue, S. Chein, J., Gould, T, Holliday, E., & Steinberg (in press). Adolescent mice, unlike adults, consume more alcohol in the presence of peers than alone. Developmental Science
  • Weigard, A., Chein, J., Smith, A., Albert, D., & Steinberg, L. (in press). Effects of Anonymous Peer Observation on Adolescents’ Preference for Immediate Rewards. Developmental Science.
  • Smith, A. Chein, J., & Steinberg (2013). Impact of socio-emotional context, brain development, and pubertal maturation on adolescent decision-making. Hormones and Behavior, 64(2), 323-332.
  • Strang, N., Chein, J, & Steinberg, L.(2013). The value of the dual systems model of adolescent risk-taking. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience. 7:223. doi:10.3389/fnhum.2013.00223
  • Albert, D., Chein, J., & Steinberg, L. (2013). Peer influences on adolescent neurocognition. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 22(2), 80-86.
  • Morrison, A. & Chein, J.M. (2012). The controversy over Cogmed. Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition. 1(3), 208–210.
  • Chein, J. & Schneider, W. (2012). The brain’s learning and control architecture. Current Directions in Psychological Science. 21(2), 78-84.
  • Eagan, D.E. & Chein, J.M., (2012). Overlap of phonetic features as a determinant of the between-stream phonological similarity effect. Journal of Experimental Psychology; Learning Memory & Cognition, 38(2):473-81.
  • Richmond, L., Morrison, A., Chein, J., & Olson, I. (2011). Complex working memory span training in older adults. Psychology and Aging, 26(4):813-22.
  • O’Brien, L., Albert, D., Chein, J.M., & Steinberg, L. (2011). Adolescents prefer more immediate rewards when in the presence of their peers. Journal of Research on Adolescence, 21(4), 747-753.
  • Chein, J., Albert, D., O’Brien, L., Uckert, U., & Steinberg, L. (2011). Peers influence adolescent risk-taking by heightening sensitivity to reward. Developmental Science, 14(2), F1-F10.
  • Berryhill, M.E., Chein, J.M., & Olson, I.R. (2011). At the intersection of attention and memory: the mechanistic role of the posterior parietal lobe in working memory. Neuropsychologia, 49(5), 1306-1315.
  • Morrison, A.B. & Chein, J.M. (2011). Does working memory training work? The promise and challenges of enhancing cognition by training working memory. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 18(1), 46-60.
  • Chein, J.M., Moore, A.B., & Conway, A.R.A. (2011). Domain general mechanisms of complex
  • working memory span. Neuroimage, 54, 550-559.
  • Chein, J.M., Weisberg, R.W., Streeter, N., & Kwok, S. (2010). Working memory and insight in the 9-dot problem. Memory & Cognition, 38(7), 883-892.
  • Chein, J.M. & Morrison, A.B. (2010). Expanding the mind’s workspace: Training and transfer effects with a complex working memory span task. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 17(2), 193-199.
  • Chein, J.M., & Fiez, J.A. (2010). Evaluating models of working memory: FMRI and behavioral evidence on the effects of concurrent irrelevant information. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 139(1), 117-137.
  • Chein, J.M. & Schneider, W. (2005). Neuroimaging studies of practice-related change: fMRI and meta-analytic evidence of a domain-general control network for learning. Cognitive Brain Research, 25(3), 607-623.

Courses Taught

  • Graduate Topical Seminar on Human Cognitive Neuroimaging
  • Graduate Core in Cognition
  • Honors Cognitive Psychology
  • Graduate Core in Neuroscience
  • Foundations in Cognitive Psychology