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Professional History for Dr. Valerie Stone

• Director, Continuing Education, Answers About Competency, Dec 2007-present
• Advisory Board, Guardianship Alliance of Colorado, June 2008-present
• Adjunct faculty, School of Psychology, University of Queensland, Australia
• Senior Lecturer, tenured, Social Neuroscience, School of Psychology, University of Queensland, 2003-2008
• Assistant Professor, Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience Program, University of Denver, 1998-2003
• Visiting Scholar, Dept. of Psychology, Cambridge University, England, 1997-98
• Postdoctoral research fellow, Center for Neuroscience, UC Davis, 1993-97
• Postdoctoral research fellow, University of Michigan, 1990-91
• Project Director, Prevention Sciences Group, UCSF, 1992-93
• Ph.D., Psychology, Stanford University, 1990
• A.B., Physics, Cum Laude, Harvard, 1985

A Sampling of Relevant Publications

• Stone, V.E. (2008). Some social safety rules for adults and teens with Asperger syndrome.
• Stone, V.E. (2008). Competency in Financial Decision-Making: Understanding Brain Disorders.
• Stone, V.E. (2008). Protecting Elders’ Financial Assets. Published on EzineArticles.com
• Pinsker, D., Stone, V.E., Pachana, N. & Greenspan, S. (2006). Social Vulnerability Scale for older adults: A validation study. Clinical Psychologist, 10(3), pp. 109-119.
• Stone, V.E. (2006). The moral dimensions of human social intelligence. Philosophical Explorations, 9(1), pp. 55-68.
• Stone, V.E., Baron-Cohen, S., Calder, A.C., Keane, J. & Young, A.W. (2003). Acquired theory of mind impairments in individuals with bilateral amygdala lesions. Neuropsychologia, 41, pp. 209-220.
• Stone, V.E., Cosmides, L., Tooby, J., Kroll, N. & Knight, R.T. (2002). Selective impairment of reasoning about social exchange in a patient with bilateral limbic system damage. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, USA, 99(17), pp. 11531-11536.
• Gregory, C. , Lough, S., Stone, V.E., Erzinclioglu, S., Martin, L., Baron-Cohen, S. & Hodges, J. (2002). Theory of mind in frontotemporal dementia and Alzheimer's disease: Theoretical and practical implications. Brain, 125, pp. 752-64.
• Hargrave, R., Maddock, R.J., & Stone, V.E. (2002). Impaired recognition of facial expressions of emotion in Alzheimer’s disease. Journal of Neuropsychiatry & Clinical Neurosciences, 14(1), 64-71.
• Other articles by Dr. Stone are listed below.

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Other Useful Articles

• Interviewing alleged victims with intellectual disabilities. Journal of Intellectual Disability Research, 52(1), pp. 49-58. Cederborg, A.C; Lamb, M. (2008).
• Systematic patterns in bullying and victimization. School Psychology International, 27(3), pp. 352-369. Chan, J.(2006).
• Sexuality and people living with physical or developmental disabilities: A review of key issues. Canadian Journal of Human Sexuality, 12(1), pp. 53-68. Di Giulio, G. (2003).
• Sexual abuse treatment for persons with developmental disabilities. Professional Psychology: Research & Practice, 23(5), pp. 404-409. Mansell, S., Sobsey, D. & Calder, P. (1992).
• Self- and informant report of financial abilities in patients with Alzheimer’s Disease: Reliable & valid? Journal of the American Geriatric Society, 51(11), pp. 1621-26. Wadley, VG, Harrell, LE, & Marson, DC (2003).
• Cognitive correlates of financial abilities in mild cognitive impairment. Journal of the American Geriatric Society, 54(11), pp. 1745-50. Okonkwo, OG, Wadley, VG, Griffith, HR, Ball, K, & Marson, DC (2006).
• Police officers and disability: Perceptions and attitudes. Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, 45(1), pp. 60-63. Modell, SJ & Cropp, D. (2007).
• A Preliminary Assessment of Police Officer’s Knowledge and Perceptions of Persons with Disabilities. Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, 46(3) pp. 183-189. Modell, SJ & Mak, S (2008).
• Crime victims with developmental disabilities: A review essay. Criminal Justice & Behavior, 28(6), pp. 655-694. Petersilia, JR (2001).

Dr. Stone - Professional Honors

• Associate Editor, Social Neuroscience and Cortex.
• Research Grant, "Validation of a competency assessment method for persons with dementia," with Drs. Nancy Pachana, Jill Wilson, Cheryl Tilse, & Gerard Byrne, 2008-2010, National Health & Medical Research Council, Australia.
• Research Grant, "The Neuropsychology of Skills for Independent Living: Social Competence and Insight in Older Adults and Neurological Patients," with Dr. Nancy Pachana, 2004-05.
• Research Grant, "The Cognitive Architecture of Human Social Intelligence," 2004.
• Research Grant, "Investigating Social Vulnerability in the Elderly", 2002-03.
• Teaching Grant, "Integrating Technology into the Psychology Curriculum," with Drs. J. Keenan, D. McIntosh, Y. Munakata, C. Reed, C. Reichardt, P. Winkielman, 2000-02
• Research Grant, "Measuring the Social Deficits in Autism," 1997-98, Baker Fund for Autism.
• Young Investigator Award, "The Role of the Frontal Lobes and Amygdala in the Social Deficits in Autism," Cure Autism Now Foundation, 1998-2000.
• National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke Postdoctoral Fellowship, 1995-98.
• National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship, 1986-89.

Complete Publication List - V.E. Stone

• Stone, V,E. (in press). Recursion, iteration, and metarepresentation. In PC Hogan, Ed., Cambridge Encyclopedia of the Language Sciences. Cambridge UK: Cambridge University Press.
• Stone, V.E. (2007). An evolutionary perspective on social intelligence. In E. Harmon-Jones & P. Winkielman (Eds.) Social Neuroscience: Integrating Biological and Psychological Explanations of Social Behavior (pp. 316-352), NY: Guilford Press.
• Stone, V.E. (2007). The evolution of ontogeny and human cognitive uniqueness: Selection for extended brain development in the hominid line. In S. Platek, J.P. Keenan, & T. Shackleford. (Eds.) Evolutionary Cognitive Neuroscience. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
• Reed, C., Beall, P., Stone, V.E., Kopelioff, L., Pulham, D., & Hepburn, S. (2007). Perception of body posture-- what individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder might be missing. Journal of Autism & Developmental Disorders, 37(8), 1576-1584.
• Stone, V.E. & Gerrans, P. (2006).  What's domain-specific about theory of mind?  Social Neuroscience, 1(3-4),   309-319.
• Stone, V.E. & Gerrans, P. (2006). Does the normal brain have a theory of mind? Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 10(1), 3-4.
• Reed, C.L., Stone, V.E., Grubb, J.D., & McGoldrick J.E.. (2006).Turning configural processing upside down: part and whole body postures.Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 32,  67-83.
• Stone, V.E. (2005). Theory of mind and the evolution of social intelligence. In J. Cacciopo (Ed.) Social Neuroscience: People Thinking About Thinking People. Cambridge, Massachusetts, MIT Press.
• Slaughter, V., Stone, V.E. & Reed, C. (2004). Perception of faces and bodies: Similar or different? Current Directions in Psychological Science, 13(6), 219-223.
• Stone, V.E. (2003). Footloose and fossil-free no more: Evolutionary psychology needs archaeology. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 25(3), 420-421.
• Reed, C., Stone, V.E., Bozova, S. & Tanaka, J. (2003). The body inversion effect: Comparing recognition of bodies, faces and objects. Psychological Science, 14(4), 302-308.
• Stone, V.E. (2000). The role of the frontal lobes and the amygdala in theory of mind. In S. Baron-Cohen, H. Tager-Flusberg & D. Cohen (Eds.), Understanding Other Minds: Perspectives from Autism and Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• Baron-Cohen, S., O’Riordan, M., Jones, R., Stone, V.E. & Plaisted, K. (1999). A new test of social sensitivity: Detection of faux pas in normal children and children with Asperger syndrome. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 29, 407-418.
• Baron-Cohen, S., Wheelwright, S., Stone, V.E. & Rutherford, M. (1999). A mathematician, a physicist, and a computer scientist with Asperger Syndrome: performance on folk psychology and folk physics tests. Neurocase, 5, 475-483.
• Stone, V.E., Baron-Cohen, S. & Knight, R.T. (1998). Frontal lobe contributions to theory of mind. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 10, 640-656.
• Stone, V.E., Nisenson, L., Eliassen, J.C. & Gazzaniga, M.S. (1996). Left hemisphere representations of emotional facial expressions. Neuropsychologia, 34, 23-29.
• Stone, V. E. (1993). Social interaction and social development in virtual environments. Presence: The Journal of Teleoperators and Telepresence, 2, 153-161.
• Pavel, M., Cunningham, H., & Stone, V. E. (1992). Extrapolation of linear motion. Vision Research, 32, 2177-2186.
• Stone, V.E. (1992). Classroom-in-a-Box: A Multimedia Workbook on Statistics (1st Ed.). Los Altos, California: Sociometrics Corporation.
• Turvey, T., Stone, V.E., Broderick, M. Haverty, L. & Rothenberg, D. (1985). Let’s Go: The Budget Guide to Britain and Ireland. New York: NY, St. Martin’s Press/Harvard Student Agencies.
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