research

“Your brain. That’s all there is.”

Attentional Priority and Strategic Control of Attention
PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
*denotes Undergraduate student mentee
McKinney, M.R., Lee, D.S., Anderson, B.A. (2024). Does anticipated effort modulate attentional biases for aversively conditioned stimuli? Annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, St. Petersburg, Florida.
*Topping, T.A., McKinney, M.R., Lee, D.S., Anderson, B.A. (2024). Are attentional biases for aversive stimuli modulated by anticipated physical effort? Annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, Texas A&M University satellite conference.
*Joseph, N.A., McKinney, M.R., Lee, D.S., Anderson, B.A., (2023). Learned inefficiency and its effects on strategic attentional control. Annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, Texas A&M University satellite conference.
McKinney, M.R., Lee, D.S., Anderson, B.A. (2023). Effort-Driven Attentional Capture. Annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, St. Petersburg, Florida; Annual meeting of the Object Perception, Attention & Memory (OPAM); Annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society.
McKinney, M. R., Zhang, T., Irons, J. L., Leber, A. B. (2021). Further evidence of a divergence between cognitive ability and attentional control strategy. Annual meeting of the Object Perception, Attention & Memory (OPAM), Virtual meeting.
Zhang, T., McKinney, M. R., Irons, J. L., Leber, A. B. (2021). Attentional strategy and effort avoidance: the role of display enumeration. Annual meeting of Object Perception, Attention & Memory (OPAM), Virtual meeting.
Li, W. Y., McKinney, M. R., Irons, J. L., Leber, A. B. (2020). How universal is suboptimal visual search strategy? Annual meeting of Object Perception, Attention & Memory (OPAM), Virtual meeting.
McKinney, M. R., Hansen, H. A., Irons, J. L., Leber, A. B. (2020). Motivating strategic attentional control with monetary reward. Annual meeting of Object Perception, Attention & Memory (OPAM), Virtual meeting. 
McKinney, M. R., Hansen, H. A., Irons, J. L., Leber, A. B. (2019). An exploration of ability and personality trait variables predicting goal-directed attention in visual search. Annual meeting of Object Perception, Attention, & Memory (OPAM), Montréal, Québec, Canada.
McKinney, M. R., Hansen, H. A., Irons, J. L., Leber, A. B. (2019). An exploration of trait variables predicting the goal-directed control of visual attention. Denman Undergraduate Research Forum; Center for Cognitive and Brain Sciences - CogFest; Psychology Undergraduate Research Colloquium, Columbus, Ohio.
AWARDS
2024-2028 Availés-Johnson Graduate Fellowship
2023 Vision Sciences Society Travel Award Recipient
2022-2024 NIDA NIH Postbacc Research Fellowship (NIH R01-DA046410) 
2019 The Ohio State University Plum Endowment Fund & Access to Success Scholarship Recipient
2017-2018 NSF Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) Supplement (NSF BCS 1632296) 
2018 Center for Cognitive and Brain Sciences Undergraduate Summer Institute Fellowship
TEACHING AND LEADERSHIP EXPERIENCE 
TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY
2024 Academy for Future Faculty Fellow
THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY 
2019 Introduction to Psychopharmacology | Teaching Assistant
2018 Neuroscience Honors Survey | Teaching Assistant
OUTREACH AND VOLUNTEER EXPERIENCE 
PEER-REVIEWER
2023 Visual Cognition
2024 Visual Cognition
PUBLIC OUTREACH
Present Senator | Graduate and Professional Student Government (GPSG), Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences (PBSI), Texas A&M University
Serve as the representative for the needs and concerns of the PBSI Graduate Student population at biweekly meetings, hold regular office hour meetings to hear and record student needs and concerns, design proposals to present to GPSG for consideration
Present Pride Mentor, Texas A&M University
2020-2022 Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion Founding Committee Member, Center for Cognitive and Behavioral Brain Science, The Ohio State University
Address issues and launch initiatives to support the center’s mission of advancing diversity in neuroimaging, and begin to address the structural inequities inherent in our academic system
2020 Neurohackademy, Participant, (Virtual) Summer school in Neuroimaging & Data Science
Focus on analysis of human neuroscience data, open science, ethics, and reproducibility, ending the conference with participant-led collaboration sessions on topics of interest
2017-2022 OnNeuro, Chief Marketing Officer, Online Neuroscience & Psychology Platform
Collaboration with Center for Cognitive and Behavioral Brain Imaging, second in command for all operations related but not limited to brand marketing and executive decisions for the business
2016-2019 Neuroscience Ambassador Program, The Ohio State University
Volunteer representative and acting mentor for undergraduate students in the Neuroscience Program
2016-2022 Center for Cognitive and Brain Sciences (CCBS) | Cogfest, The Ohio State University, Volunteer, Photographer
Cogfest: a film presentation with expert panel discussion across disciplines relating to Cognitive Neuroscience followed by a day of Cognitive Science Undergraduate Poster Presentations
2016-2019 Defend Our Future, Columbus, Ohio
Volunteer advocate for non-partisan environmental awareness campaigns
2017-2022 Denman Undergraduate Research Forum, The Ohio State University
Volunteer for Undergraduate Presenter assistance, Volunteer panelist and reviewer


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