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Email: eschu@gatech.edu

Background and Biography:
Eric Schumacher is an Assistant Professor in the School of Psychology at Georgia Tech. Prior to joining the Tech faculty, Dr. Schumacher received his PH.D. from the University of Michigan and served as a post-doctoral research fellow at the University of Pennsylvania and the University of California, Berkeley. Dr. Schumacher's primary research interests are in understanding the neural mechanisms underlying attention, memory and neural plasticity.

Publications:

Reorganization of visual processing is related to eccentric viewing in patients with macular degeneration (2009). Schumacher, E. H., Jacko, J. A., Primo, S. A., Main, K. L., Moloney, K. P., Kinzel, E. N., & Ginn, J. Restorative Neurology and Neuroscience, 26, 391-402.

Schumacher, E. H. & Schwarb, H. (2009). Parallel response selection disrupts sequence learning under dual task conditions. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 138, 270-290.

Schwarb, H.* & Schumacher, E. H. (2009). Neural evidence of a role for spatial response selection in the learning of spatial sequences. Brain Research, 1247, 114-125.

Seymour, T. S. & Schumacher, E. H. (2009). Electromyographic evidence for response conflict in the exclude recognition task. Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience, 9, 71-82.

Seymour, T. S. & Schumacher, E. H. (2009). Electromyographic evidence for response conflict in the exclude recognition task. Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience, 9, 71-82.

Landau, S. M.,* Garavan, H., Schumacher, E. H., & DEsposito, M. (2007). Regional specificity and practice: Dynamic changes in object and spatial working memory. Brain Research, 1180, 78-79.

Schumacher, E. H., Cole, M. W., & D'Esposito, M. (2007). Selection and maintenance of stimulus-response rules during the preparation and performance of a spatial choice-reaction task. Brain Research, 1136, 77-87.