| Current Research | |
| Current research focuses on alcohol and other drug effects on neurocognitive functioning in social drinkers and chronic alcoholic patients, using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to study neurocognitve changes associated with alcohol challenge and due to chronic alcohol abuse, understanding the interaction of alcohol and stress, and prevention and intervention of alcohol and drug related problems in high school, college students, and chemically dependent individuals. | |
| Awards | |
| 2008 | Faculty Academic Service Increment Program (Merit Award) |
| 2007, May | Received an Early Career Investigator Travel Award to attend the pre-conference and annual meeting of The Society For Prevention Research held at Washington, D.C. May 29-June 1. |
| 2008, Jan | Received a travel award to attend and present at the 2nd International Conference on Applications of NeuroImaging in Alcoholism. Sponsored by NIAAA and Yale Center for the Translational Neuroscience of Alcoholism, held at Yale University School of Medicine, January 19-20, New Haven, CT. |
| Education | ||||
| M.S. and Ph.D | Rutgers | Cognitive Psychology | ||
| Representative Publications | |
Ray, S., & Bly, B. M. (2008). Two routes for activation in the priming of categorical co- ordinates. The Journal of General Psychology, 135, 65-83. Vaschillo, E., Bates, M. E., Vaschillo, B., Lehrer, P., Udo, T., Mun, E. Y., & Ray, S. (2008) Heart rate variability response to alcohol, placebo, and emotional picture cue challenges: Effects of 0.1 Hz stimulation. Psychophysiology, 45, Online. Ray, S., & Bates, M. E. (2007). Acute effects of alcohol on intrusion errors in free recall tasks. International Journal on Disability and Human Development, 6, 201 – 205. Ray,S., & Bly, B. M. (2007). Investigating long-term semantic priming of middle- and low- familiarity category exemplars. The Journal of General Psychology, 134, 453 - 466. Reich, W. A., & Ray, S. (2006). Domain specific effects of central traits in impression formation. Psychological Reports, 98, 885 – 891. Ray, S., & Bates, M. E. (2006). Acute alcohol effects on repetition priming and word recognition memory with equivalent memory cues. Brain and Cognition, 60, 118 – 127. Ray, S., Bates, M. E., & Bly, B. M. (2004). Alcohol’s dissociation of implicit and explicit memory processes: Implications of a parallel distributed processing model of semantic priming. Experimental and Clinical Psychopharmacology, 12, 118 – 125. |
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| Teaching | |
| 2005 - Present | Faculty, Rutgers School of Alcohol and Drug Studies (Summer Courses: Alcohol and Memory Processes: Theory, Research, and Application; Cognitive Processes in Alcohol/Substance Use) |