Micah Allen, PhD Wellcome Trust Center for Neuroimaging

University College London 12 Queens Square, London WC1N

Tel: +44 7473513511 Email: micah.allen@ucl.ac.uk www.neuroconscience.com

EDUCATION AND TRAINING 2013 – present Wellcome Trust Post-Doctoral Fellow University College London; ICN & WTCN Supervisor: Geraint Rees 2012 – 2013 Post-Doctoral Researcher,

Aarhus University Hospital, MindLab & Interacting Minds Centre Supervisors: Andreas Roepstorff, Jonathan Smallwood

2009 – 2012 PhD in Cognitive Neuroscience

Aarhus University Mental Training and Neuroplasticity: Theoretical and Empirical Insights Supervisors: Antoine Lutz, Andreas Roepstorff

2008-2009 MA Philosophy and Cognitive Science

University of Hertfordshire 2004-2008 BSc Psychology (Honors in the Major); Cognitive Science Minor

University of Central Florida

PUBLICATIONS

Allen, M., Smallwood, J., Roepstorff, A., Lutz, A. (2013). The balanced mind: the variability of task-

unrelated thoughts predicts error monitoring. Frontiers in Neuroscience.

Allen, M., Dietz, M., Blair, K., Van Beek, M., Vestergaard-Poulsen, P., Rees, G., Lutz, A., &

Roepstorff, A. (2012). Cognitive-affective neural plasticity following active-controlled mindfulness intervention. The Journal of Neuroscience.

Ma, Y., Bang, D., Wang, C., Allen, M., Frith, C. Roepstorff, A., Han, S. (2012). Sociocultural

patterning of neural activity during self-reflection. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience. Tylen, K., Allen, M., Hunter, B., & Roepstorff, A. (2012). Interaction versus Observation: distinctive

modes of social cognition in human brain and behavior? Frontiers in Human Neuroscience. Allen, M. & Williams, G. (2011). Consciousness, plasticity, and connectomics: the role of

intersubjectivity in human cognition. Frontiers in Psychology. Tylen, K. Allen, M. (2009). Interactive Sense-Making in the Brain. In A. Carassa, F. Morganti,

and G. Riva (eds.), Proceedings from the International workshop Enacting Intersubjectivity: paving the way for a dialogue between cognitive science, social cognition and neuroscience, Lugano, Switzerland.

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FUNDING AND AWARDS Funding 2012 – 2018 Welcome Trust Postdoctoral Fellow 2010 – 2011 “Meta-cognitive monitoring as a mechanism for adaptive change”. Mind & Life

Institute Varela Award (Research Grant) 2009 – 2012 Aarhus University, Institute of Clinical Medicine 3 year PhD Scholarship

Awards 2013 Henry Outreach Award, Center of Functionally Integrative Neuroscience 2012 Aarhus University Health Sciences Travel Award 2009 Travel Award, “European Neuroscience and Society Mini-Neuroschool”, Vienna 2008 Travel Award, “Social Cognitive Neuroscience and Narrative Summer School”, BASIC 2008 Showcase of Undergraduate Research Excellence, Honorable Mention

PRESENTATIONS AND REVIEWING

Presentations

2013 Mindlab Presentation, CFIN, Aarhus University 2012 Society for Neuroscience, Poster presentation 2011 Blakemore Lab, UCL 2011 Music in the Brain Presentation, CFIN, Aarhus University 2011 Interacting Minds Presentation, CFIN, Aarhus University 2009 Poznan Cognition Forum Keynote 2009 Bentley Joint Attention Conference, Boston, USA 2008 European Association for Research on Learning and Instruction, Ioannina, Greece 2008 Narrative and Social Cognition, San Marino

Ad hoc reviewing

Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, Perspectives in Psychological Science, Acta Physiologica, Consciousness and Cognition, Frontiers in Psychology, Frontiers in Neuroscience, Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience

TEACHING AND CLINICAL EXPERIENCE 2010-2012 Supervision and training of (3) Masters Students (Research Internships, Aarhus

School of Biomedical Engineering) and (5) Undergraduate Research Assistants 2009-2010 Childcare Assistant, Conductive Education Center of Orlando (CECO) 2006-2007 Teaching Assistant, University of Central Florida.