CURRICULUM VITAE
                               Steven A. Finney
                               www.sfinney.com




EDUCATION

Ph.D., Cognitive Science, May, 1999.
Dissertation: Disruptive effects of delayed auditory feedback on motor sequencing.
(Bill Warren, Advisor)
Brown University, Providence, RI

B.A., Linguistics, May, 1990.
Thesis: Case assignment, verb agreement, and empty categories in modern German.
University of California, Santa Cruz

B.A., Computer and Information Science, May, 1980.
University of California, Santa Cruz

HONORS AND AFFILIATIONS

Associate Member, Psychonomic Society, 1999-present.
University Fellowship, Brown University, 1992-1993.
College Honors, Crown College, UC Santa Cruz, 1990.
Phi Beta Kappa, UC Santa Cruz, 1990.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Post-doctoral Research Fellow in Music Psychology.
The Ohio State University.
April 1999-present

Research Assistant for Professor Michael Tarr.
Brown University.
Maintained and enhanced the RSVP experimental software package for the Macintosh.
1998-1999
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Teaching Assistant, Brown University, 1993-1997.
Responsibilities included lecturing, grading, leading sections, supervising 
class projects, holding office hours, and preparing exams, handouts, and 
lab experiments for the following undergrad uate classes (class numbers 
below 100 are introductory classes, above 100 are upper division):
    Introduction to Cognitive Science (CG1) (enrollment: 70) (twice)
    Introduction to Statistics (CG9) (enrollment: 180)
    Visual Perception (CG44) (enrollment: 30)
    Semantics (CG111) (enrollment: 20)
    Human Cognition (CG152) (enrollment 25) (twice)
    Cognitive Psychology Laboratory (CG153) (enrollment: 20) (Computer-based 
       experimental laboratory) (twice)


RESEARCH AND TRAINING RELATED EXPERIENCE

Co-investigator, International Foundation for Music Research grant proposal. 
"Nature of Memory in Music Performance", C. Palmer and S. A. Finney.
1999.

Teacher Training Seminars, Center for the Advancement of College Teaching, 
Brown University.
1996-1998

Massachusetts General Hospital Visiting Fellowship, Functional Magnetic 
Resonance Imaging, Boston.
October 18-21, 1995

PUBLISHED PAPERS

Finney, S.A. (2001b). "Real-time programming in Linux: A case study". 
Behavior Research Methods, Instruments, and Computers, 33, 167-173.

Finney, S.A. (2001a). "FTAP: A Linux-based program for tapping and music 
experiments". Behavior Research Methods, Instruments, and Computers, 33, 65-72.

Protopapas, A., Finney, S.A., and Eimas, P.D. (1999). "Baseline conditions 
in structural induction: Comments on Pitt, Smith, and Klein". Journal of 
Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 25, 1472-1475.

Finney, S.A. (1997). "Auditory feedback and musical keyboard performance". 
Music Perception, 15, 153-174.

Finney, S.A., Protopapas, A., and Eimas, P.D. (1996). "Attentional 
allocation to syllables in American English". Journal of Memory and 
Language, 35, 893-909.

                                           
SUBMITTED PAPERS

Finney, S.A., and Palmer, C. "Auditory feedback and memory for music 
performance: Sound evidence for an encoding effect". (Submitted to Memory and Cognition).

Finney, S.A., and Warren, W.H. "Delayed auditory feedback and rhythmic tapping: 
Evidence for a critical interval shift". (revision under review, 
Perception and Psychophysics).

Protopapas, A., Finney, S.A., and Eimas, P.D. "Attentional allocation to 
syllabic boundaries in English first-syllable stress words". (under 
revision, Memory and Cognition).

PUBLISHED ABSTRACTS AND PRESENTATIONS

Finney, S.A., and Palmer, C. (2000). "Music performance and theories of memory".
Abstracts of the Psychonomic Society, 5, 70.

Finney, S.A., and Warren, W.H. (1999). "Delayed auditory feedback: Evidence 
for a critical interval shift". Abstracts of the Psychonomic Society, 4, 48.

Finney, S.A. (1999). "Timing relationships in rhythmic tapping and music 
performance with delayed auditory feedback". Journal of the Acoustical 
Society of America, 106, 2260.

ADDITIONAL PRESENTATIONS

Finney, S.A. (2000). "Real-time data collection in Linux: A case study." 
Society for Computers in Psychology, New Orleans, LA.

Finney, S.A. (1999). "Auditory feedback in tapping, music and speech". 
MusicCog/99, Columbus, OH.

Finney, S.A. (1999). "Delayed auditory feedback and rhythmic tapping". 
New England Sequencing and Timing Association, Providence, RI.

Finney, S.A. (1997). "Auditory feedback and musical keyboard performance". 
Invited colloquium, Rhode Island College, Providence, RI.

Finney, S.A. (1997). "Auditory feedback and musical keyboard performance", 
New England Sequencing and Timing Association, Providence, RI.

Allopenna, P.D., Protopapas, A., Finney, S.A., and Eimas, P.D. (1996). 
"Investigating syllabic effects in the on-line processing of English". 
CUNY Sentence Processing Conference, New York.



RESEARCH INTERESTS

Auditory feedback control of action, sequence planning, music performance, 
auditory imagery, auditory and motor memory, perceptual feedback and learning.

RELATED INTERESTS

Serious amateur clarinet player; Balkan music, languages, and travel.

REFERENCES

Peter Eimas, Fred N. Seed Emeritus Professor, Cognitive and Linguistic Sciences.
Brown University, Providence, RI.

William Warren, Professor, Cognitive and Linguistic Sciences.
Brown University, Providence, RI.

Michael Tarr, Associate Professor, Cognitive and Linguistic Sciences.
Brown University, Providence, RI.

Caroline Palmer, Associate Professor, Psychology.
Ohio State University, Columbus, OH.