Neil D. Berg
300 S. Prospect St.
Bowling Green, OH 43402
Office Telephone: 419.372.4437
Cellular Telephone: 419.378.1622

Email: nberg@bgnet.bgsu.edu
neildberg@yahoo.com
Website: personal.bgsu.edu/~nberg

Objective
To undertake a position on a research team that will evaluate and guide the design process of consumer products

Profile
More than six years of training and experience in human research in the field of human factors. Strong desire to build a user experience career that applies research methods and human factors experience to the development of effective and marketable consumer products.

Education:

Ph.D. candidate, Cognitive/Experimental Psychology, Bowling Green State University (2004 expected)
M.A. (August 2002), Cognitive/Experimental Psychology, Bowling Green State University
B.A. (May 1999), Bowling Green State University. Major: Cognitive Psychology Overall GPA: 3.93; Major GPA 4.0

Research Interests:
Distributed cognition; goal-oriented behavior; understanding effects of internal and external representation on human performance; numerical cognition; auditory cognition; computing machinery; computer-human interaction; task-specific characteristics of human learning, attention, memory, and performance; the evolution and design of artificial systems.

Experience:

Writing Consultant
August 2003-May 2004; Bowling Green State University
Consulted with university students and faculty with across-discipline writing process, scientific/technical writing issues, and formal evaluation of class-related, degree-related, and scholarly writing.

Research Assistantship (Graduate)
August 2000-August 2003; Bowling Green State University
Collaborated on studies evaluating memory-based sequence smoothing, perception of correlation, auditory-system related perception and cognition, and several other topics.
Tasks included: data collection, analysis, documentation; setup, programming, and use of hardware and software for memory and auditory laboratories; experiment development, design, and execution.

Teaching Assistantship (Graduate)
August 2002-August 2003; Bowling Green State University
Assisted in instruction, aided curriculum development, and led laboratory sections for undergraduate research methodology courses.

Research Assistantship (Undergraduate)
August 1998-May 1999; Bowling Green State University
Principal researcher investigating misattribution of arousal in electronic media. Developed novel research proposal; planned, scheduled and conducted the experiment; data analysis.

Drug Education Evaluation Research team member
August 1998-December 1998
Bowling Green State University
Description: Aided the development of an effective scale of measurement for the evaluation of education programming in public schools.

• Over six years of statistical analysis training and experience
• Proficiency in technical and scientific writing
• Overall PC & mobile hardware/software competency
• Background in usability/user experience
• General automotive competency
  
  Experience with:
  
• Statistical software packages (SPSS focus)
• Web design
• Connectionist modeling
• National Instruments' LabVIEW
• PST's E-Prime
• OBD-II systems

Presentations and Publications:

Anderson, R.B., Doherty, M.E., Berg, N.D., & Friedrich, J.C. (in press) Sample size and the detection of correlation: A signal detection account. Psychological Review.

Berg, N.D. & Anderson, R.B.(November 2002). Categorical and magnitude representation in digit recall. Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Kansas City, MO.

Tweney, R.D., Mears, R.P., Spitzmuller, C. Gibby, R. Sun, Y. & Berg, N.D. (November 2002). Precipitate Replications: The Cognitive Analysis of Michael Faraday's Exploration of Gold Precipitates and Colloids. Presented at the BGSU Research Conference, Bowling Green, OH.

Berg, N.D. & Anderson, R.B. (November 2001). A new method for assessing memory-based sequence smoothing. Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Orlando, FL.

Berg, N.D. & Anderson, R.B. (November 2000). A representational analysis of memory-based sequence smoothing. Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, New Orleans, LA.

Professional Association Memberships:

ACM & (sigCHI) (student member)

Cognitive Science Society (student member)

SCCA (driver)

Projects:
Semantic Activation Overlap in the Numerical Distance Effect.
Theoretical Limitations on the Small-Sample Advantage in the Detection of Correlation.
Michael Faraday's Gold-Related Research: External Cognition and Digital Diary.
Non-Categorical Memory for Number: Task-based Representational Effects in a Digit Recall Task.
Analog Representations in Memory-based Sequence Smoothing Memory-based Sequence Smoothing.

Awards, Scholarships, and Assistantships:

2003-2004 Writers Laboratory Consultant Assistantship
2002-2003 Psychology Graduate Teaching Assistantship
1999-2003 Psychology Graduate Research Assistantship
1998-1999 Psychology Undergraduate Research Assistantship
1998 University Grant for International Study in Ghana, Africa
1997-1999 University Book Scholarship
1998 University Rising Junior Scholarship
1997 University Rising Sophomore Scholarship

References are available upon request.

Writing samples are available online at:

http://www.chilabs.com