Charles Folk

Education

• Ph.D. Johns Hopkins University (1985 — 1987)
• MA Johns Hopkins University (1983 — 1985)
• BA Gettysburg College (1977 — 1981)

Companies

• Professor, Director Cognitive Science Program Villanova University (1989)
• Editor, Visual Cognition Taylor & Francis Group (2012 — 2016)
• Adjunct Research Professor Syracuse University (1988 — 1989)
• NSF Research Fellow NASA - Ames Research Center National Research Council (1987 — 1988)

Teaching Areas

• Cognitive Psychology
• Human Factors Psychology
• Cognitive Science

Research

• Selective attention, cognitive control, cognitive aging
• Folk, C. L. (2016). Controlling spatial attention: Lessons from the lab and implication for everyday life. In J. Fawcett, E. F. Risko & A. Kingstone (Eds.) The Handbook of Attention. MIT press.
• Anderson, B., Folk, C. L., & Courtney, S. (2016). Neural mechanisms of goal-contingent task disengagement: Response-irrelevant stimuli activate the default mode network. Cortex, 81, 221- 230.
• Anderson, B., Folk, C. L., Garrison, R. & Rogers, L. (2016). Mechanisms of habitual approach: Failure to suppress irrelevant responses evoked by previously reward-associated stimuli. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 145, 796 – 805.
• Folk, C. L. & Remington, C. L. (2015). Unexpected abrupt onsets can override a top-down set for color. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception & Performance, 41, 1153 – 1165.
• Anderson, B. & Folk, C. L. (2014). Conditional Automaticity in Response Selection: Contingent Involuntary Response Inhibition with Varied Stimulus-Response Mapping. Psychological Science, 25, 547 – 554.