Personnel
Elizabeth Olson
I am a 4th year graduate student in Monica Luciana's lab. I am interested in developmental neuroeconomics, particularly in how the development of the prefrontal cortex over the course of adolescence affects behavior on neuroeconomic games. My research uses diffusion tensor imaging and psychophysiological methods to investigate neural correlates of development on these tasks. I came to Minnesota via Haverford College and a research assistant position at Harvard University. My work is currently funded by a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship.
Publications and Posters
Olson, E., Stark, M., Chatterjee, A. (2003). Evidence for a unimodal somatosensory attention system. Experimental Brain Research, 151, 15-23.
Stone, W.S., Faraone, S.V., Seidman, L.J., Olson, E.A., Tsuang, M.T. (2005). Searching for the liability to schizophrenia: concepts and methods underlying genetic high-risk studies of adolescents. Journal of Child and Adolescent Psychopharmacology, 15, 403-17.
Tsuang, M.T., Stone, W.S., Olson, E.A. (2005). Conceptualisation et identification de la schizotaxie. Vers une definition du syndrome prédisposant à la schizophrénie.. PRISME, 45, 44-60.
Olson, E., Collins, P., & Luciana, M. (2006, April). Neurobehavioral development of cooperative behavior in adolescence. Poster session presented at the annual meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, San Francisco, CA.
Olson, E., Collins, P., Hooper, C., Muetzel, R., & Luciana, M. (2007, May). Relationships between white matter development and delay/ probability discounting in adolescence. Poster session presented at the annual meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, New York, NY.
Olson, E.A., Hooper, C.J., Collins, P., & Luciana, M. (in press). Adolescents' performance on delay and probability discounting tasks: contributions of age, intelligence, executive functioning, and self-reported externalizing behavior. Personality and Individual Differences.