UMKC Psychology
in the College of Arts & Sciences

 

 

Diane Filion
Degrees:

PhD., 1990, University of Southern California
Post-doctoral Fellowship:

National Institute on Aging Post-doctoral Fellow (1990-1992), University of Southern California, Andrus Gerontology Center, and University of California - San Diego, Department of Psychiatry
Area:

Experimental Psychology
Research Interests:

1) Cognitive Psychology, 2) Cognitive Psychophysiology, 3) Physiological indices of attention and attention dysfunction, 4) the role of sensorimmotor gating in attentional function and dysfunction, 5) attentional function and dysfunction in schizophrenia, 6) attentional function and dysfunction in aging, 7) emotion regulation: physiological indices and individual differences
Professional Affiliations:

American Psychological Society; Psychonomic Society; Society for Psychophysiological Research
Representative Publications:

  • Filion, D.L., & Poje, A.B. (in press). Selective and nonselective attention effects on prepulse inhibition of startle: A comparison of task and no-task conditions. Biological Psychology.

  • McDowd, J. M., Filion, D., Pohl, P. S., Richards, L. G., & Stiers, W. (2003). Attentional abilities and functional outcomes following stroke. Journal of Gerontology: Psychological Sciences, 58, P45-P53.

  • Brown, C., Cromwell, R.L., Filion, D.L., Dunn, W., & Tollefson, N. (2002). Sensory processing in schizophrenia: missing and avoiding information. Schizophrenia Research, 55, 187-195.

  • Dawson, M.E., Schell, A.M., Hazlett, E.A., Nuechterlein, K.H., & Filion, D.L. (2000). On the clinical and cognitive meaning of impaired sensorimotor gating in schizophrenia. Psychiatry Research,96, 187-197.

  • Dawson. M.E., Schell, A.M., & Filion, D.L. (2000). The electrodermal system. In J.T. Cacioppo, & L.G. Tassinary (Eds.), Principles of psychophysiology: Physical, social, and inferential elements, 2nd Edition. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

  • Filion, D.L., Seljos, K.A., & Hazlett, E.A. (1999). Behavioral analogies of short lead interval startle inhibition. In M. Dawson, A. Schell, & A. Boehmelt (Eds.), Startle modification: Implications for neuroscience, Cognitive Science, and Clinical Science. Stanford, CA: Cambridge University Press.

  • Filion, D.L., Dawson, M.E., & Schell, A.M. (1998). The psychological significance of human startle eye-blink modification: a review. Biological Psychology, 47, 1-43.

  • Filion, D.L., Dawson, M.E., & Schell, A.M. (1994). Probing the orienting response with startle eyeblink and secondary reaction time. Psychophysiology, 31, 68-78.

  • Filion, D.L., Dawson, M.E., & Schell, A.M. (1993). Modification of the acoustic startle-reflex eyeblink: A tool for investigating early and late attentional processes. Biological Psychology, 35, 185-200.
Student Research Projects:
  • The psychological significance of Prepulse Inhibition of Startle
  • Laterality effects in Prepulse Inhibition
  • Emotion aftereffects of violent video game play
  • Selectivity vs generalization in emotion regulation
  • The Monitoring Coping Style and emotion regulation
  • Functional fitness and lifetime activity levels in community-dwelling seniors
 
Last updated: 6/4/03