School of Psychology: Academic Staff

  DR. MICHAEL HOGAN

  Office Rm. 222, St. Anthony's
  Telephone 353-91-493455         
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Dr. Michael Hogan BA, CNA, PhD

Mike Hogan graduated with First Class Honours from NUI, Galway. In his undergraduate years he was the PSI's Young Irish Psychologist of the year 1994, while winning the Gold Medal Award in 1st, 2nd and 3rd Arts. His PhD topic was 'A critical analysis of Generalized Slowing and Common Cause Models of Ageing' (NUI, Galway, 2000). He continued his research at the University of Toronto and Trinity College Dublin. He was appointed to the staff in NUI,Galway in 2001. Michael has recently published a book, The culture of our thinking in relation to spirituality.

Research Interests

Mike Hogan's research interests include the following: Systems Science and Integral Frameworks; Human Action and Development; Dynamic Integration of Cognition and Emotion; Executive Control; Learning and Memory; Electrophysiology of Mind; Modelling Intra-individual Variability; The Cerebellum; Circadian Arousal; Positive Psychology; Argument mapping; Creativity.

Publications

• Hogan, M.J. (2009). The culture of our thinking in relation to spirituality. Nova. New York.
• Hogan, M.J. (2009). Enlightened happiness and pragmatic systems science – positive psychology meets Colin Feltham’s anthropathology thesis. The Irish Psychologist. 35, 138-148.
• Hogan, M.J., Kelly, A.M.C., Verrier, D., Newell, J., Hasher, L. & Robertson, I.H. (2009). Optimal time-of-day and consolidation of learning in younger and older Adults. Experimental Aging Research. 35: 107-128.
• Hogan, M.J. (2009). The Evolution of the Forgiveness Instinct. The Journal of Positive Psychology. (In Press)
• Hogan, M.J. (2009). Attending to the Environment. Review of, Schaie, K.W., Abeles, R.P. “Social Structures and Aging Individuals: Continuing Challenges”. PsychCRITQUES Contemporary Psychology: APA Review of Books..
• Hogan, M.J. (2008). The Stuff of Thought. Review of, Pinker, S., Executive Functions and the Frontal Lobes: A Lifespan Perspective 2008. The Irish Psychologist.
• Hogan, M.J. (2008).Executive Function. Review of, Anderson, V., Jacobs, R. and Anderson, P.J. “Executive Functions and the Frontal Lobes: A Lifespan Perspective”. PsychCRITQUES – Contemporary Psychology: APA Review of Books. 53 (40).
• Hogan, M.J. (2008). Intuition. Review of, Sadler-Smith, E. “Inside Intuition”. PsychCRITQUES – Contemporary Psychology: APA Review of Books. 53 (40)
• Hogan, M.J. (2008). The great weave of emotional life. Review of, Corrigan, J. (Ed.) “The Oxford Handbook of Religion and Emotion”. PsychCRITQUES – Contemporary Psychology: APA Review of Books. 53 (32)
• Hogan, M.J. (2008). Between a rock and a hard place. Review of Roberts, M.J. (Ed.) “Integrating the Mind: Domain general versus domain specific processes in higher cognition.” PsychCRITQUES – Contemporary Psychology: APA Review of Books, 53(27).
• Keane, M.A., James, J.E., & Hogan, M.J. (2008). Effects of Dietary Caffeine on Topographic EEG after Controlling for Withdrawal and Withdrawal Reversal. Neuropsychobiology, 56, 197 – 207.
• Hogan, M.J. (2008). On Spirituality: Deconstructing, Grappling, and Moving in the Field of Others. The Irish Psychologist, 34 (7), 187–197.
• Hogan, M.J. (2008). Modest Systems Psychology: A Neutral Complement of Positive Psychological Thinking. Systems Research and Behavioural Science . 25, 717-732
• Hogan, M.J. (2008). On Spirituality: Free Movement. The Irish Psychologist, 34(10), 292-301.
• Hogan, M.J. (2008). Advancing the dialogue between inner and outer empiricism. New Ideas in Psychology, 26, 55-68.
• Hogan, M.J. (2007). Advancing the way of the positive psychologist. Ong, A.D. and van Dulmen M.H.M. “The Oxford Handbook of Methods in Positive Psychology”. PsychCRITQUES – Contemporary Psychology: APA Review of Books.
• Hogan, M.J. and Hogan, V.J. (2007). Work-life integration. The Irish Psychologist, 22(10), 246-254.
• McGuire, B.E., Hogan, M.J., Morrison, T.G. (2007). Dimensionality and Reliability Assessment of the Pain Patient Profile Questionnaire. European Journal of Psychological Assessment. 24, 22-26.
• Hogan M.J. (2007). Thinking about thinking. Review of Bialystok, E., & Craik, F.I.M. (Eds). Lifespan Cognition: Mechanisms of Change". PsychCRITQUES – Contemporary Psychology: APA Review of Books.
• Hogan M.J. (2007). The point below. Review of Peterson, C. "A Primer in Positive Psychology". PsychCRITIQUES – Contemporary Psychology: APA Review of Books, 52(3).
• Hogan M.J. (2007). Leibniz and Spinoza. Review of Stewart, M. "The Courtier and the Heretic: Leibniz, Spinoza, and the fate of God in the modern world". PsychCRITIQUES – Contemporary Psychology: APA Review of Books, 52(4).
• Hogan M.J. (2006). Consciousness of brain. The Irish Psychologist, 33(5,6), pp.126–130.
• Hogan, M.J., Carolan, L., Roche, R.A.P., Dockree, P.M., Kaiser, J., Bunting, B.P., Robertson, I.H. & Lawlor, B.A. (2006). Electrophysiological and information processing variability predicts memory decrements associated with normal age-related cognitive decline and Alzheimer’s disease (AD). Brain Research, 1119, pp.215–226.
• Hogan, M.J. (2006). Infusing life with value and understanding. The Journal of Positive Psychology, 1(4), 230 – 33.
• Hogan, M.J. (2006). Against didacticism. Educational Research and Reviews, 1(7), 206-212.
• Hogan, M.J. (2006). Grappling with gene-culture co-evolution. The Irish Psychologist, 32 (11) , 290 - 297.
• Hogan, M.J. (2006). Cultivating Thought-full and Creative Thinkers: A comment on quality merging Costa with Claxton et al. Thinking Skills and Creativity, 1, 152-154.
• Hogan M. J., Kelly C., Craik F., (2006). The interactive effects of attention switching and type of encoding on recognition memory in younger and older adults. Experimental Aging Research, 32 (2), 153 - 185.
• Hogan M.J. (2006). Expanding awareness of dynamic system function: The potential marriage of RFT and Skill Theory. The Irish Psychologist, 32(9), 224 – 225.
• Lavin, K.E., McGuire, B.E. & Hogan, M.J. (2006). Age at death of people with a learning disability in Ireland. Journal of Intellectual Disabilities, Vol. 10, No. 2, 155-164.
• Hogan, M.J. & Hogan, V.J. (2006). When I’m older, it will be so great. Review of Malcolm L. Johnson, in association with Vern L. Bengtson, Peter G. Coleman, and Thomas B.L. Kirkwood. "The Cambridge Handbook of Age and Aging". PsychCRITIQUES – Contemporary Psychology: APA Review of Books.
• Dowd, H. & Hogan, M. J. (2005). Complexity of affect and optimism: The effect of stress and trait anxiety. Psychology and Health, 20 (1), 70.
• Hogan, M.J. (2005). The way of the positive psychologist. Review of William C. Compton "Introduction to positive psychology". PsychCRITIQUES – Contemporary Psychology: APA Review of Books, (50) 44.
• Hogan, M.J. (2005). Physical and cognitive activity and exercise for older adults: a review. International Journal of Aging and Human Development, 60(2), 95 - 126.
• Hogan, M.J. (2005). If only I were, then I am. Review of Ruth M.J. Byrne "The rational imagination". PsychCRITIQUES – Contemporary Psychology: APA Review of Books (50) 49.
• Hogan, M.J., Kelly, A.M.C., Carolan, L., Newell, J. & Robertson, I. (2005). Learning curves of younger and older adults in the morning and the evening. Brain Impairment: A multidisciplinary journal of the Australian Society for the Study of Brain Impairment, 6(2), 150.
• Hogan, M.J. (2005). Zautra’s Terror – Thinking about emotions, stress, and health. The Irish Psychologist, 32 (1), 1 - 8.
• Hogan, M.J. (2005). The Generic Art of Judgement. British Medical Journal. Letters, 17 December.
• Hogan, M.J. (2005). The choice of character. Review of Lapsley, D. L. and Power, F. C (Eds) "Character psychology and character education". PsychCRITIQUES – Contemporary Psychology: APA Review of Books (50) 51.
• Hogan, M.J. (2005). Disputing the undisputed facts - a constructive reply to Hughes’s Presidential Address to PSI. The Irish Psychologist, 31 (8), 219.
• Hogan, M.J. (2004). The cerebellum in thought and action: a fronto-cerebellar ageing hypothesis. New Ideas in Psychology, 22, 97 – 125.
• Dockree, P. M., Kelly, S. P., Roche, R. A., Hogan, M.J., Reilly, R. B., & Robertson, I.H. (2004). Behavioural and physiological impairments of sustained attention after traumatic brain injury. Cognitive Brain Research, 20(3), 403-414.
• Mc Guire, B., Lavin, E., Hogan, M.J. (2004). Life expectancy in people with intellectual disability. Journal of Intellectual Disability Research, 48, 488.
• Hogan, M.J. (2004). Dialogue and Transparent Rhetoric. British Medical Journal. Letters, 7 May.
• Hogan, M.J. (2003) Divided Attention in Older but not Younger Adults is impaired by Anxiety. Experimental Aging Research, 29 (2), 111 - 136.
• Hogan, M.J., Gregory R.J. Swanwick, G.R.J., Kaiser, J., Rowan, M., Lawlor, B. (2003), Memory-related EEG power and coherence reductions in mild Alzheimer's Disease. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 49, 147 - 163.
• Hogan, M.J. (2003). Average speed or variable speed – what do older adults really need? Irish Journal of Psychology, 24 (3-4), 161- 183.
• Barry, D. & Hogan, M.J. (2002). A comparison of responses to a health and lifestyle questionnaire completed before and then after blood pressure screening. Journal of Exposure Analysis and Environmental Epidemiology, 12 (4), 1 – 8.
• Hogan, M.J. (2002). Cognitive and Emotional benefits of exercise may mediate fall reduction. British Medical Journal. Letters, 20 Jul.

Presentations

Conference

• Stress, expectations, emotions and cardiovascular response: An experimental test of bivariate models of positive and negative affect. Psychology, Medicine and Health Conference, Galway, April, 2006.
• Inhibiting distractions in the morning and the evening: a learning curve analysis of younger and older adults. International conference on Neuropsychological Rehabilitation, Galway, July, 2005.
• The utility of measures of electrophysiological and information processing variability in distinguishing between normal age-related cognitive decline, Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI) and Alzheimer’s disease (AD). 1st European Congress of Neuroscience and Ageing., Mallorca, October, 2004.
• Memory-related EEG power and coherence reductions in mild Alzheimer's Disease. International Psychogeriatric Association Conference, Rome, April, 2003.

Invited

• Successful Ageing. The active retirement associations of Galway City. April, 2005.
• Preparing for Exams. The mind, body, and soul group, NUI, Galway, March, 2006.
• Understanding Happiness. Easter Camp for Children: Access, NUI, Galway, April 2006.

Editorial Boards

• PsychCRITIQUES - Contemporary Psychology: APA Review of Books.

Professional Membership

• International Psychogeriatric Association, 2002 – present.
• Behavioral and Brain Sciences Associate, 2004 - present.
• Psychological Society of Ireland, 2001 – present.

Community Involvement

NUIG

• Community Knowledge Initiative (ALIVE, course development, 2003)

External

• Galway City Development Board. NUIG representative on Health Forum.
• Galway City, World Health Organization, Healthy Cities project management team.
• Irish Centre for Social Gerontology, Management Board.

Reviewing

• International Journal of Psychophysiology
• Aging and Mental Health
• Psychological Science
• Neurobiology of Aging
• Quality of Life Research
• Thinking Skills and Creativity
• Psychology and Aging
• Personality and Individual Differences

Conference Organisation

• Healthy Ageing in Galway City, November 14th, 2006. Clybaun Hotel, Galway.

Teaching & Administration

Undergraduate Teaching

• PS100 Social Psychology
• PS214 Developmental Psychology [with Dr. Caroline Heary]
• PS321 Developmental Psychology 2 [with Dr. Caroline Heary]
• PS410 Thinking, Modelling, and Writing in Psychology
• PS418 Issues in Cognitive Neuroscience [with Dr. Mark Elliott]

Postgraduate Teaching

• Lecturing
  • Adult Development; SPSS
• Supervision
  • Tadhg McCabe, MPhil Student. Start date Sept. 2005. Joint Supervisor (with Professor Jack James).
  • Rosemary Fish, PhD student. Start date Sept. 2005. Joint Supervisor (with Dr. Brian McGuire and Dr. Ian Stewart). NUI Galway Arts faculty funding.
  • Christopher Dwyer, MPhil student. Start date Sept. 2006. Joint Supervisor (with Dr.Ian Stewart).
  • Michael Keane, PhD student. Joint Supervisor (with Professor Jack James).

Administration

• Evening BA (academic co-ordinator, 2002 - 2006)
• 2BA Psychology (co-ordinator, 2006 – present)
• Staff-Student Liaison Committee (chairperson, 2003 - 2006)
• Galway Neuroscience Group (member)

External Collaboration

• Ian Robertson Trinity College
• Brian Lawlor Trinity College
• Richard Roche NUI Maynooth
• Gisela Labouvie-Vief Wayne State University
• Fergus Craik University of Toronto
• Lynn Hasher University of Toronto
• Jochen Kaiser Frankfurt University
• Don Barry University of Limerick
• Alex Zautra Arizona State University
• Jeremy Schmahmann Harvard Medical School
• Robert Horn Stanford University
• Tim Van Gelder, University of Melbourne
• Ulman Lindenberger, Max Planck Institute, Berlin

Links

Ageing

• National Council on Ageing and Older People (Ireland)
• Age Action Ireland
• The Max Planck Institute for Human Development
• National Institute on Aging (U.S).
• International Psychogeriatric Organization

Other

• Argument mapping ( a, b)
  • Mapping consciousness
  • Can computers think?
• Psychonomic Society
• Millennium Ecosystem Assessment

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