Laura T. Germine


Simches Research Center 6.252 | 185 Cambridge Street | Boston, MA 02114
lgermine (a) gmail.com

Education

  • PhD, Harvard University

  • 2007 - 2012
  • Psychology: Experimental Psychopathology
  • NSF Graduate Research Fellow
  • Advisor: Christine Hooker, Ph.D.

  • BA, University of California, Berkeley, CA

  • 1999 - 2004
  • Molecular and Cell Biology

    • Employment

  • Postdoctoral Research Fellow

  • PI: Jordan Smoller, MD, ScD
  • Center for Human Genetic Research / Psychiatry Department
  • Massachusetts General Hospital / Harvard Medical School
  • September 2012 - present

  • Postdoctoral Research Associate

  • PI: Jeremy Wilmer, PhD
  • Psychology Department. Wellesley College.
  • June 2012 - September 2012

  • Research Assistant

  • PI: Brad Duchaine, PhD
  • Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience/Psychology. University College London (UK).
  • November 2005 - August 2007

  • Research Assistant

  • PI: Sonia Bishop, PhD
  • Department of Experimental Psychology. University of Cambridge (UK).
  • October 2004 - September 2005

  • Undergraduate Research Assistant

  • PI: Christine Hooker, PhD, and Robert T. Knight, MD
  • Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute. University of California, Berkeley.
  • January 2002 - July 2004.

  • Undergraduate Research Apprentice

  • PI: Michael Ranney, PhD
  • Education Department, University of California, Berkeley.
  • August 2000 - Summer 2004

    • Honors and Awards

  • George W. Goethals Award for Excellence in Teaching - Spring 2011
  • George W. Goethals Award for Excellence in Teaching - Fall 2010
  • George W. Goethals Award for Excellence in Teaching - Spring 2010
  • George W. Goethals Award for Excellence in Teaching - Fall 2009

  • Bok Center Certificate of Distinction in Teaching - Spring 2011
  • Bok Center Certificate of Distinction in Teaching - Fall 2010
  • Bok Center Certificate of Distinction in Teaching - Spring 2010

  • National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship - 2007.

  • LL Chaikoff Award Nominee for outstanding achievement and excellence in Neurobiology - 2004.

  • Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship - 2003.

    • Teaching

  • Instructor, Harvard University

  • Contemporary Issues in Psychology - Intensive Cross-level Analyses for Social and Cognitive Neuroscience, Fall 2009 - Spring 2011.

  • Teaching Fellow, Harvard University

  • Abnormal Psychology, Fall 2008.

  • Teaching Assistant, University of California, Berkeley

  • Cognitive Psychology, Fall 2003.

    • Service

  • University/Department Service

  • Harvard Psychology Committee for Undergraduate Education 2010-2011

  • Editorial Service

  • Ad hoc reviewer for Clinical Psychological Science, Journal of Cognitive Psychology, Journal of Nervous and Mental Diseases, PlosONE, Psychiatry Research, Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging, Psychological Medicine, Schizophrenia Research, Drug and Alcohol Dependence

    • PUBLICATIONS

    Peer-reviewed manuscripts

  • *submitted

  • *Susilo, T., Germine, L., and Duchaine, B. (submitted) Face recognition ability matures late: Evidence from individual differences in young adults.

  • *Hartshorne, J., & Germine, L. (submitted) Heterogeneity in the maturation of of cognitive abilities: Why there is no such thing as an adult control.

  • *Tosto, M.G., Petrill, S.A., Halberda, J., Trzaskowski, M., Tikhomirova, T.N., Bogdanova, O.Y., Ly, R., Wilmer, J.B., Naiman, D.Q., Germine, L., Plomin, R., and Kovas, Y. (submitted) Why do we differ in Number Sense? Evidence from a genetically sensitive investigation.

  • Germine, L., Benson, T., Cohen, F., and Hooker, C. (in press) Psychosis-proneness and illusions of body ownership. Psychiatry Research. pdf

  • Wilmer, J., Germine, L., Chabris, C., Chatterjee, G., Gerbasi, M., and Nakayama, K. (in press) Isolating specific abilities as a window into human individuality: the example of face recognition. Cognitive Neuropsychology. pdf

  • Germine, L., Nakayama, K., Duchaine, B., Chabris, C., Chatterjee, G., and Wilmer, J. (2012) Is the web as good as the lab? Comparable performance from web and lab in cognitive/perceptual experiments. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 19(5): 847-857. pdf

  • Halberda, J., Ly, R., Wilmer, J., Naiman, D., and Germine, L. (2012) Number sense across the lifespan as revealed by a massive internet-based sample. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 109(28): 11116-11120. pdf

  • Germine, L., Garrido, L., Bruce, L., and Hooker, C. (2011) Social anhedonia is associated with neural abnormalities during face emotion processing. Neuroimage, 58(3): 935-945. pdf

  • Germine, L., Duchaine, B., and Nakayama, K. (2011) Where cognitive development and aging meet: Face learning ability peaks after age 30. Cognition, 118(2): 201-210. pdf

  • Germine, L. and Hooker, C. (2011) Face emotion recognition is related to individual differences in psychosis-proneness. Psychological Medicine, 41(5): 937-948. pdf

  • Germine, L., Cashdollar, N., Duzel, E., and Duchaine, B. (2011) A new selective developmental deficit: Impaired object recognition with normal face recognition. Cortex, 47: 598-607. pdf

  • Wilmer, J., Germine, L., Loken, E., Guo, X., Chatterjee, G., Nakayama, K., Williams, M., Chabris, C., and Duchaine, B. (2010) Response to Thomas: Is human face recognition ability entirely genetic? Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 107(24): E101. pdf

  • Wilmer, J., Germine, L., Chabris, C., Chatterjee, G., Williams., M., Loken, E., Nakayama, K., and Duchaine, B. (2010) Human face recognition ability is specific and highly heritable. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 107(11): 5238-5241. pdf

  • Hooker, C., Verosky, S., Germine, L., Knight, R.T., and D'Esposito, M. (2010) Neural activity during social signal perception correlates with self-reported empathy. Brain Research, 1308: 100-113. pdf

  • Duchaine, B., Jenkins, R., Germine, L., and Calder, A. (2009) Normal gaze discrimination and adaptation in seven prosopagnosics. Neuropsychologia, 47(10): 2029-2036. pdf

  • Hooker, C., Verosky, S., Germine, L., Knight, R.T., and D'Esposito, M. (2008) Mentalizing about emotion and its relationship to empathy. Social Cognitive Affective Neuroscience, 3: 204-217. pdf

  • Duchaine, B., Germine L., & Nakayama, K. (2007). Family Resemblance: Ten Family Members with Prosopagnosia and Within-Class Object Agnosia. Cognitive Neuropsychology, 24: 419-430. pdf

  • Hooker, C., Germine, L., Knight, R.T., and D'Esposito, M. (2006). Amygdala response to facial expressions reflects emotional learning. Journal of Neuroscience, 26(35): 8915-8922 pdf

    • Recent Abstracts and Presentations

  • Germine, L., Hartshorne, J., Wilmer, J., Chabris, C., Chatterjee, G., & Nakayama, K. (2013) Heterogeneity in cognitive maturation and aging: Why there is no such thing as an adult control. To be presented at the Vision Sciences Society annual conference 2013, Naples, Florida.

  • Germine, L., & Wilmer, J. (2012) Why we shouldn't be afraid of large sample sizes for individual differences research. VSS Satellite: Individual differences in Vision. Presented at the Vision Sciences Society annual conference 2012, Naples, Florida.

  • Germine, L., Benson, T., Cohen, F., & Hooker, C. (2012) Individual differences in somatosensory processing the recognition of complex emotional states. Presented at the Vision Sciences Society annual conference 2012, Naples, Florida. poster pdf

  • Germine, L., Benson, T., Cohen, F., and Hooker, C. (2010) Psychosis-proneness and illusions of body ownership. Presented at the Society for Research in Psychopathology annual conference 2010, Seattle, Washington. poster pdf

  • Benson, T., Germine, L., Lincoln, S.H., Tully, L.M., and Hooker, C. (2010) Social anhedonia predicts real world behaviors relevant to social functioning. Presented at the Society for Research in Psychopathology annual conference 2010, Seattle, Washington.

  • Germine, L., Garrido, L., Bruce, L., and Hooker, C. (2010) Abnormalities in face emotion processing in the psychosis-prone brain. Presented at the Association for Psychological Science annual conference 2010, Boston, Massachusetts. poster pdf

  • Germine, L., Nakayama, K., Loken, E., Duchaine, B., Chabris, C., Chatterjee, G., and Wilmer, J. (2010) Downloadable science: Comparing data from internet and lab-based psychology experiments. Presented at the Vision Sciences Society annual conference 2010, Naples, Florida. poster pdf

  • Germine, L., Garrido, L., Bruce, L., and Hooker, C. (2009) Abnormal regulation of brain activity in face emotion processing regions is related to psychosis-proneness. Presented at the Society for Research in Psychopathology annual conference 2009, Minneapolis, Minnesota. poster pdf

  • Germine, L., Duchaine, B., and Nakayama, K. (2009) Hitting your peak at 30: behavioral evidence for extended development of face learning ability. Presented at the Vision Sciences Society annual conference 2009, Naples, Florida. poster pdf

  • Wilmer, J., Germine, L., Williams, M., Nakayama, K., Chabris, C., and Duchaine, B. (2009) Genetic and environmental contributions to memory for faces: evidence from twins. To be presented at the Visions Sciences Society annual conference 2009, Naples, Florida.

  • Germine, L., Duchaine, B., and Nakayama, K. (2009) Is 30 the new 20? Behavioral evidence for protracted development of face processing. Presented at the Cognitive Neuroscience Society annual conference 2009, San Francisco. poster pdf

  • Germine, L., and Hooker, C. (2008). Facial expression recognition deficits associated with high schizotypy. Presented at the Society for Research in Psychopathology annual meeting, Pittsburgh. poster pdf

  • Germine, L., Cashdollar, N., Duzel, E., and Duchaine, B. (2008). Within-category object agnosia without prosopagnosia: a developmental case. Presented at the Cognitive Neuroscience Society annual conference, San Francisco. poster pdf

  • Germine, L., Cashdollar, N., Duzel, E., and Duchaine, B. (2008). Dude, where's my car? Developmental object agnosia without prosopagnosia. Presented at the Scene Understanding Symposium, MIT. poster pdf

  • Nakayama, K., Germine, L., & Duchaine, B. (2007) Human face learning peaks at age 30. Presented at the Society for Neuroscience annual conference, San Diego. poster pdf

    • Professional Memberships

  • Cognitive Neuroscience Society: 2007 - 2009

  • Society for Research in Psychopathology: 2008 - 2011

  • Vision Sciences Society: 2008 - present