Scholars@Duke

• Background
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  Education, Training, & Certifications

  • Ph.D., University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill 2011
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  Previous Appointments & Affiliations

  • Lecturing Fellow in the Thompson Writing Program, Thompson Writing Program, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2015 - 2017
• Recognition
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  Awards & Honors

  • Award for Excellence in Teaching Writing. Trinity College of Arts & Sciences. 2018
• Research
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  Fellowships, Supported Research, & Other Grants

  • Writing Studies Research Grant awarded by Thompson Writing Program, Duke University 2020
  • Collaborative Project Courses Faculty Fellow awarded by Bass Connections & Learning Innovations, Duke University 2019
  • David L. Paletz Award for Innovative Course Enhancement awarded by Trinity College of Arts & Sciences, Duke University 2017
• Publications & Artistic Works
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  Selected Publications

  • Academic Articles

    • Parks, E. L. (2020). Joining the conversation: Teaching students to think and communicate like scholars. Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1037/stl0000193
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    • Meyer, K. N., Du, F., Parks, E., & Hopfinger, J. B. (2018). Exogenous vs. endogenous attention: Shifting the balance of fronto-parietal activity. Neuropsychologia, 111, 307–316. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2018.02.006
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    • Madden, D. J., Parks, E. L., Tallman, C. W., Boylan, M. A., Hoagey, D. A., Cocjin, S. B., … Diaz, M. T. (2017). Sources of disconnection in neurocognitive aging: cerebral white-matter integrity, resting-state functional connectivity, and white-matter hyperintensity volume. Neurobiol Aging, 54, 199–213. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neurobiolaging.2017.01.027
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    • Madden, D. J., Parks, E. L., Tallman, C. W., Boylan, M. A., Hoagey, D. A., Cocjin, S. B., … Diaz, M. T. (2017). Frontoparietal activation during visual conjunction search: Effects of bottom-up guidance and adult age. Hum Brain Mapp, 38(4), 2128–2149. https://doi.org/10.1002/hbm.23509
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    • Parks, E. L., Kim, S.-Y., & Hopfinger, J. B. (2014). The persistence of distraction: a study of attentional biases by fear, faces, and context. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 21(6), 1501–1508. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13423-014-0615-4
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    • Madden, D. J., Parks, E. L., Davis, S. W., Diaz, M. T., Potter, G. G., Chou, Y.-H., … Cabeza, R. (2014). Age mediation of frontoparietal activation during visual feature search. Neuroimage, 102 Pt 2, 262–274. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2014.07.053
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    • Parks, E. L., & Madden, D. J. (2013). Brain connectivity and visual attention. Brain Connect, 3(4), 317–338. https://doi.org/10.1089/brain.2012.0139
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    • Hopfinger, J. B., Camblin, C. C., & Parks, E. L. (2010). Isolating the internal in endogenous attention. Psychophysiology. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1469-8986.2010.00981.x
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    • Parks, E. L., & Hopfinger, J. B. (2008). Hold it! Memory affects attentional dwell time. Psychonomic Bulletin &Amp; Review, 15(6), 1128–1134. https://doi.org/10.3758/pbr.15.6.1128
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  • Book Sections

    • Hopfinger, J., & Parks, E. (2012). Involuntary Attention. In G. R. Mangun (Ed.), The Neuroscience of Attention: The Neuroscience of Attention Attentional Control and Selection (pp. 30–53). Oxford University Press.
    • Madden, D. J., & Parks, E. L. (n.d.). Age differences in structural connectivity: Diffusion tensor imaging and white matter hyperintensities. In R. Cabeza, L. Nyberg, & D. C. Park (Trans.), Cognitive neuroscience of aging: Linking cognitive and cerebral aging (2nd Ed.).

  • Conference Papers

    • Madden, D. J. (n.d.). Frontoparietal activation during visual conjunction search: Effects of bottom-up guidance and adult age. In E. L. Parks, C. W. Tallman, M. A. Boylan, D. A. Hoagey, S. B. Cocjin, M. A. Johnson, … M. T. Diaz (Eds.). Presented at the 15th Cognitive Aging Conference, Atlanta, GA.
• Teaching & Mentoring
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  Recent Courses

  • WRITING 101: Academic Writing 2022
  • WRITING 101: Academic Writing 2021
  • WRITING 101: Academic Writing 2020

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