Joshua James New

Evolutionary Cognition Laboratory
Department of Psychology
Barnard College, Columbia University
415A Milbank Hall
3009 Broadway, New York, NY
E-mail: jnew@barnard.edu

Education

Ph.D. in Psychology, UC Santa Barbara (2006)
Advisors: Leda Cosmides and John Tooby

B.A. in Psychology, Highest Honors, UC Santa Barbara (1998) 

Professional Training

Post-Doctoral Fellow (2006 – 2009)
Perception and Cognition Laboratory
Department of Psychology
Yale University
Sponsor: Brian Scholl

Professional Experience in Higher Education

Assistant Professor (2009 – Present)
Department Representative
Department of Psychology
Barnard College, Columbia University

Course Instructor (2002 - 2003)
Department of Psychology
UC Santa Barbara

Teaching Assistant (1999 - 2004)
Department of Psychology
UC Santa Barbara

Academic Honors

National Research Service Award (2006 - 2009)
National Institute of Mental Health

National Finalist (2006)
Council of Graduate Schools Distinguished International Dissertation Competitio

Lancaster Award for Best Dissertation in Social Sciences in 2004-2006 (2006)
Graduate Division, UC Santa Barbara

President’s Dissertation Year Fellowship (2004)
Graduate Division, UC Santa Barbara

Summer Institute in Cognitive Neuroscience Fellow (2004)
Dartmouth College

Science and Engineering Research Grant (2003)
Graduate Division, UC Santa Barbara

Graduate Research Mentorship Fellowship (2002)
Graduate Division, UC Santa Barbara

 Humanities and Social Sciences Research Grant (2002-2003)
Graduate Division, UC Santa Barbara

Best Poster, “Selective attention in ancestral environments: A visual foraging hypothesis” (2001). Human Behavior and Evolution Society Conference, London UK

Journal Articles

New, J. J. & German, T. C. (in press with advance access). Spiders at the cocktail party: An ancestral threat that surmounts inattentional blindness. Evolution and Human Behavior.

Wang, S., Tsuchiya, N., New, J., Hurlemann, R., & Adolphs, R. (in press with advance access). Preferential attention to animals and people is independent of the amygdala. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience.

Krasnow, M. M., Truxaw, D., Gaulin, S. J. C., New, J., Ozono, H., Uono, S., Ueno, T., Minamoto, K. (2011).  Cognitive adaptations for gathering-related navigation in humans. Evolution & Human Behavior, 32(1), 1-12. 

New, J. J., Schultz, R. T., Wolf, J., Niehaus, J. L., Klin, A., German, T. C., & Scholl, B. J. (2010). The scope of social attention deficits in autism: Prioritized orienting to people and animals in static natural scenes. Neuropsychologia, 48, 51-59.

New, J. J. & Scholl, B. J. (2009). Subjective time dilation: Spatially local, object-based, or a global visual experience? Journal of Vision, 9, 1-11.

New, J., & Scholl, B. (2008). 'Perceptual scotomas': A functional account of motion-induced blindness. Psychological Science, 19, 653-659.

New, J., Cosmides, L., & Tooby, J. (2007).  Category-specific attention for animals reflects ancestral priorities not expertise. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 104, 16598-16603.

New, J., Krasnow, M. M., Truxaw, D., & Gaulin, S. J. (2007). Spatial adaptations for plant foraging: Women excel and calories count. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 274, 2679-2684.

Krasnow, M. M., Truxaw, D., New, J., & Gaulin, S. J. (2007). Shopping for explanations. Response. Science, 318, 745.

Duchaine, B., Nieminen-von Wendt, T., New, J., & Kulomäki, T. (2003). Dissociations of visual recognition in a developmental agnosic: Evidence for separate developmental processes. Neurocase, 9, 380-389.

Conference Presentations and Talks

New, J., & Han, E. (May, 2014). Virtual object tracking: The inference and tracking of invisible objects through effects on their surroundings. Poster presentation at the annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, St. Pete Beach, FL.

New, J. (2012).  Arresting perception: Animate objects capture attention and ‘slow’ time. Presentation at the symposium, “Evolutionary Cognitive Science”, at American Psychological Society conference, Chicago, IL.
    
New, J. (2012). Reading the lie in the eyes: A Machiavellian twist on gaze perception and deception. Presentation at the Cognitive Psychology Proseminar, Columbia University, New York, NY.
    
New, J., & Stiller, M. (2012). Arresting perception: Animate objects capture attention and ‘slow’ time. Poster presentation at Vision Sciences Society conference, Naples, FL.
   
New, J., & Glaser, E. (2011). Arresting perception: The ability of people and animals to implicitly capture attention also prolongs their subjectively experienced duration. Presentation at Human Behavior and Evolution Society Conference, Montpellier France.

Gao, T., New, J., & Scholl, B. (2011). Perceived biological agency in a Slithering Snake animation. Poster presentation at Vision Sciences Society, Naples FL.
                             
New, J., & *Glaser, E. (2011). Arresting perception: Animate objects capture attention and ‘slow’ time. Presentation at Department of Psychology Cognitive Lunch, Columbia University, New York NY.

New, J., Levine, M., & Cheimets, C. (2011). Reading the lie in the eyes: The production and detection of tactical gaze deception. Poster presentation at Vision Sciences Society, Naples FL.

New, J. (2010). Adaptive visual cognition. Presentation at Department of Psychology Colloquium, Columbia University, New York NY.

Gao, T., New, J., & Scholl. B. (2010). Perceived intentionality controls attentional tracking. Presentation at Object Perception, Attention, & Memory conference, St. Louis MO.

New, J. (2010). A functional account of motion-induced blindness:  The ‘perceptual scotoma’ hypothesis. Presentation at Human Behavior and Evolution Society conference, Eugene OR.

New, J. (2009). The functions of motion-induced blindness: Further explorations of the ‘perceptual scotoma’ hypothesis. Presentation at Vision Sciences Society, Naples FL.

New, J. (2008). Social attention in autism. Presentation at Caltech Emotion and Social Cognition Laboratory Seminar, Pasadena CA. 

New, J. (2008). Spatial adaptations for plant foraging: Women excel and calories count. Presentation at Yale Biological Anthropology Colloquium, New Haven CT.

New, J., Schultz, R., Wolf, J., Niehaus, J., Klin, A., German, T., & Scholl, B. (2008). The scope of social attention deficits in autism: Prioritized orienting to people and animals in static natural scenes. Presentation at Vision Sciences Society conference, Naples FL.

New, J., Schultz, R., Wolf, J., Niehaus, J., Klin, A., German, T., & Scholl, B. (2008). The scope of social attention deficits in autism. Presentation at Harvard-Yale Social Cognitive Development conference, Cambridge MA.

New, J. (2008). Adaptive visual cognition. Presentation at Yale Cognitive Psychology Lecture Series, New Haven CT.

Krasnow, M. M., Truxaw, D., New, J., & Gaulin, S.J. (2007). Foraging adaptations in spatial cognition: Toward a cognitive model. Presentation at Human Behavior and Evolution Society conference, Williamsburg VA.

New, J., & Scholl, B. (May, 2007). ‘Perceptual scotomas’: A functional account of motion-induced blindness. Presentation at Vision Sciences Society conference, Sarasota FL.

New, J., Cosmides, L., & Tooby, J. (June, 2006). Fractionating the visual architecture for natural category recognition using the "attentional blink" paradigm. Presentation at Human Behavior and Evolution Society conference, Philadelphia PA.

Krasnow, M., Truxaw, D., New, J., & Gaulin, S. (2006). Cognitive adaptations for foraging: female spatial advantage. Poster presentation at Human Behavior and Evolution Society conference, Philadelphia PA.

Niehaus, J., New, J., & German, T. (2006). Agency is assigned to objects with gravity-inconsistent motion. Poster presentation at Human Behavior and Evolution Society conference, Philadelphia PA.

New, J. & Scholl, B. (2006). The spatial distribution of subjective time dilation. Poster presentation at Vision Sciences Society conference, Sarasota FL.

Gaulin, S., Krasnow, M., Truxaw, D. & New, J. (2005). An ecologically valid foraging task yields a female spatial advantage and significant content effects. Poster presentation at Human Behavior and Evolution Society conference, Austin TX.

Truxaw, D., Krasnow, M., New, J., & Gaulin, S. (2005).  An ecologically valid task yields a female spatial advantage and content effects. Poster presentation at American Psychological Society conference, Los Angeles CA.

New, J. (2005). Category-specificity in spatial and temporal attention. Presentation at the Evolution Mind Behavior conference, Los Angeles CA.

New, J. & German, T. (2004). The attenuation of inattention blindness by biologically-important stimuli. Poster presentation at Vision Sciences Society conference, Sarasota FL.

New, J. & German, T. (2004). Capture and direction of attention by social cues. Poster presentation at Cognitive Neuroscience Society conference, San Francisco CA.

New, J. (2003). A content-specific attenuation of change blindness: Preferential attention to animate beings in natural scenes. Poster presentation at Vision Sciences Society conference, Sarasota FL.

New, J. (2003). Visual attention in ancestral environments:  The perceptual priority of animate beings. Presentation at Human Nature and Society conference, Los Angeles CA.

New, J. (2002).  An evolved bias in visual attention: The preferential detection and monitoring of animate objects in complex scenes.  Presentation at Human Behavior and Evolution Society conference, Rutgers NJ. 

New, J. (2001).  Selective attention in ancestral environments: A visual foraging hypothesis.  Poster presentation at Human Behavior and Evolution Society conference, London UK.