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Charles Geier, PhD

Charles Geier, PhD

Dr. Frances Keesler Graham Early Career Professorship, Associate Professor, Human Development and Family Studies
Penn State Neuroscience Institute
Scientific Program:Cancer Control
CFG2@psu.edu

Research Interests

  • Reward
  • Brain
  • Smoking
  • Child
  • Motivation
  • Food
  • Magnetic Resonance Imaging
  • Smokers
  • Risk-Taking
  • Weights and Measures
  • Short-Term Memory
  • Psychological Inhibition

Recent Publications

2023

Keller, KL, Pearce, AL, Fuchs, B, Hallisky, K, Rolls, BJ, Wilson, SJ, Geier, C & Rose, EJ 2023, 'Children with lower ratings of executive functions have a greater response to the portion size effect', Appetite, vol. 186, 106569. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.appet.2023.106569
Gunther, KE, Petrie, D, Pérez-Edgar, K & Geier, C 2023, 'Relations Between Executive Functioning and Internalizing Symptoms Vary as a Function of Frontoparietal-amygdala Resting State Connectivity', Research on Child and Adolescent Psychopathology, vol. 51, no. 6, pp. 775-788. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10802-023-01025-4
Chung, YI, White, R, Geier, CF, Johnston, SJ, Smyth, JM, Delgado, MR, McKee, SA & Wilson, SJ 2023, 'Testing the efficacy of real-time fMRI neurofeedback for training people who smoke daily to upregulate neural responses to nondrug rewards', Cognitive, Affective and Behavioral Neuroscience, vol. 23, no. 2, pp. 440-456. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13415-023-01070-y

2022

Gunther, KE, Petrie, D, Pearce, AL, Fuchs, BA, Pérez-Edgar, K, Keller, KL & Geier, C 2022, 'Heterogeneity in PFC-amygdala connectivity in middle childhood, and concurrent interrelations with inhibitory control and anxiety symptoms', Neuropsychologia, vol. 174, 108313. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2022.108313

2021

Adise, S, White, CN, Roberts, NJ, Geier, CF & Keller, KL 2021, 'Children's inhibitory control abilities in the presence of rewards are related to weight status and eating in the absence of hunger', Appetite, vol. 167, 105610. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.appet.2021.105610
Laskowitz, S, Griffin, JW, Geier, CF & Scherf, KS 2021, 'Cracking the Code of Live Human Social Interactions in Autism: A Review of the Eye-Tracking Literature', Proceedings of Machine Learning Research, vol. 173, pp. 242-264.
Fuchs, BA, Roberts, NJ, Adise, S, Pearce, AL, Geier, CF, White, C, Oravecz, Z & Keller, KL 2021, 'Decision-Making Processes Related to Perseveration Are Indirectly Associated With Weight Status in Children Through Laboratory-Assessed Energy Intake', Frontiers in Psychology, vol. 12, 652595. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.652595
Petrie, DJ, Chow, SM & Geier, CF 2021, 'Effective connectivity during an avoidance-based pavlovian-to-instrumental transfer task', Brain Sciences, vol. 11, no. 11, 1472. https://doi.org/10.3390/brainsci11111472
Frank, JL, Broderick, PC, Oh, Y, Mitra, J, Kohler, K, Schussler, DL, Geier, C, Roeser, RW, Berrena, E, Mahfouz, J, Levitan, J & Greenberg, MT 2021, 'The Effectiveness of a Teacher-Delivered Mindfulness-Based Curriculum on Adolescent Social-Emotional and Executive Functioning', Mindfulness, vol. 12, no. 5, pp. 1234-1251. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12671-021-01594-9

2020

Chaby, LE, Lasseter, HC, Geier, C & Jeromin, A 2020, 'Determining effects of adolescent stress exposure on risk for posttraumatic stress disorder in adulthood', Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences, vol. 36, pp. 79-89. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cobeha.2020.07.004
Kling, SMR, Pearce, AL, Reynolds, ML, Garavan, H, Geier, CF, Rolls, BJ, Rose, EJ, Wilson, SJ & Keller, KL 2020, 'Development and Pilot Testing of Standardized Food Images for Studying Eating Behaviors in Children', Frontiers in Psychology, vol. 11, 1729. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.01729
Pearce, AL, Adise, S, Roberts, NJ, White, C, Geier, CF & Keller, KL 2020, 'Individual differences in the influence of taste and health impact successful dietary self-control: A mouse tracking food choice study in children', Physiology and Behavior, vol. 223, 112990. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physbeh.2020.112990

2019

Roberts, NJ, Oravecz, Z, Sprague, BN & Geier, CF 2019, 'A novel hierarchical later process model: Evaluating latent sources of variation in reaction times of adult daily smokers', Frontiers in Psychiatry, vol. 10, no. JULY, 474. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2019.00474