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

Michael 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. He received this award for his research on the relationship between developmental automaticity and intelligence. Michael was also winner of the Gold Medal Award in 1st, 2nd and 3rd Arts. Michael traveled to the U.S. after his undergraduate, where he spent a year working in a Brain Injury clinic as a life skills trainer. He returned the following year to accept a PhD fellowship award at NUI, Galway. His PhD topic was 'A critical analysis of Generalized Slowing and Common Cause Models of Ageing' (NUI, Galway, 2000). He continued his research in the field of ageing cognition as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Toronto where he worked with Lynn Hasher on the relationship between circadian arousal and learning in younger and older adults ( Experimental Ageing Research) and with Fergus Craik on the impact of attention switching on memory in younger and older adults ( Experimental Ageing Research). Michael returned to Ireland to work as a postdoctoral researcher at Trinity College Dublin. Working with Brian Lawlor and Ian Robertson he secured HRB funding for a research project that examined the relationship between event-related potential (ERP) variability and ageing memory (published in Brain Research). During this period he also accepted a visiting scholar position at the University of Tübingen, Germany, where he worked with Jochen Kaiser on EEG coherence changes in Alzheimer ’s disease (published in International Journal of Psychophysiology). He was appointed to the staff in NUI, Galway in 2001.

Michael’s research interests have broadened over time, but he maintains a core focus on lifespan development grounded in the philosophical framework of pragmatic systems science. Michael is currently working on his second book, which elaborates his developmental perspective. The book examines some of the problems and possibilities of human ageing and adaptation. The analysis is focused largely on adult development but is couched within a lifespan, evolutionary, ecological, and philosophical frame. The primary aim of the book is to further promote the synthesis of pragmatism and systems science in the field of psychological science. Specifically, there are forms of systems science rooted in pragmatism that focus on the design of problematiques that help individuals and groups to see the structure of problems and consider actions that will resolve problems. In the context of a discussion of emotional, cognitive, and social problems and possibilities, Michael will demonstrate the potential value of pragmatic systems science for those involved in the design of environments that impinge upon human ageing and adaptation. Michael has recently spent some time doing research at Harvard University (working with Kurt Fischer on EEG coherence and learning), Arizona State University (working with Alex Zautra and Mary Davis on resilience and mindfulness), Frankfurt University (working with Jochen Kaiser on EEG and ageing memory), and Aberdeen and Edinburgh (working with Roger Staff and Ian Deary on the role of the cerebellum in ageing cognition). Michael has published in the following broad areas: Systems Science and Integral Frameworks (in Systems Research and Behavioral Science); behavioral and electrophysiological aspects of executive control, learning and memory ( Experimental Ageing Research; Brain Research; International Journal of Psychophysiology; Cognitive Brain Research; Neuropsychobiology); Physical activity and ageing cognition ( International Journal of Human Ageing and Development); Emotion and Cognition in younger and older adults ( Experimental Ageing Research); Emotion and cardiovascular responding ( International Journal of Behavioral Medicine); The cerebellum and aging cognition ( Cortex); Positive Psychology ( The Journal of Positive Psychology); Critical Thinking and Education ( Educational Research and Reviews; Thinking Skills and Creativity); Argument Mapping ( Thinking Skills and Creativity); Chronic Pain ( PAIN; European Journal of Psychological Assessment); Spirituality ( Nova Science Publishers; Thinking Skills and Creativity); and Mindfulness ( The Irish Psychologist). Michael’s first book, The culture of our thinking in relation to spirituality, is now available at Amazon.com.

Publications

• Hogan, M.J. (2010). The Culture of Our Thinking in Relation to Spirituality. Nova Science Publishers, New York.




Students of psychology will find much to learn about spirituality in Michael Hogan's little gem. This is challenging terrain but there are many new things to be discovered along the way, and Michael Hogan clearly enjoys the challenge and the process of discovery. Professor Ellen Langer, Harvard University A highly original, well-informed and absorbing exploration of the meaning of spirituality in the contemporary world, and in particular of its potential role in education. It opens many new perspectives for studying a valued and central part of human consciousness. Professor Peter Coleman, University of Southampton. Michael Hogan is the hopeful Kierkegaard, providing a carefully reasoned existential philosophy of spirituality that even the most skeptical social scientist can embrace. Professor Alex Zautra, Arizona State University.



• Hogan, M.J., Staff, R.T., Bunting, B.P., Murray, A.D., Ahern, T.S., Deary, I. J., Whalley, L.J. (2010). Cerebellar brain volume accounts for variance in cognitive performance in older adults. Cortex (In Press).
• Hogan, M.J. & Stein, Z. (2010). Structuring Thought: An examination of four methods. In The Psychology of Thinking, Nova. New York (In Press)
• Dwyer, C., Hogan, M.J., Stewart, I. (2010). The evaluation of argument mapping as a learning tool: Comparing the effects of map reading versus text reading on comprehension and recall of arguments. Thinking Skills and Creativity, 5, 16 – 22.
• Dowd, H., Zautra, A., Hogan, M.J. (2010). Emotion, stress, and cardiovascular response: An experimental test of models of positive and negative affect. International Journal of Behavioral Medicine. (In Press).
• Fish, R.A., McGuire, B.A., Hogan, M.J., Morrison, T.G., Stewart, I. (2010). Validation of the Chronic Pain Acceptance Questionnaire (CPAQ) in an Internet sample and development and preliminary validation of the CPAQ-8. PAIN. (In Press).
• Hogan, M.J. (2010). The Evolution of the Forgiveness Instinct. The Journal of Positive Psychology. Volume 5 Issue 1, 97 – 100.
• Hogan, M.J. (2010). A secure base. Review of Mikulincer & Shaver, Attachment in adulthood: Structure, dynamics, and change. The Irish Psychologist.
• Hogan, M.J. (2010). Action Drivers. Review of Motivation and Action, Edited by Jutta Heckhausen and Heinz Heckhausen. The Irish Psychologist.
• Hogan, M.J. (2010). Mindful Health and the Power of Possibility. Positive Health, 162.
• Hogan, M.J. (2009). Mindfulness and Mindlessness. The Irish Psychologist. 53, 43- 49.
• Hogan, M.J. (2009). Implementing Intelligence. Review of, Bach, J. “Principles of Synthetic Intelligence, PSI : An Architecture of Motivated Cognition”. PsychCRITQUES Contemporary Psychology: APA Review of Books.
• Hogan, M.J. (2009). Review of Critical Thinking in Psychology, edited by Sternberg, R.J., Roediger, H.L. & Halpern, D.F. Cambridge University Press. Thinking Skills and Creativity.
• Hogan, M.J. (2009). On Spirituality and Education: Keynote Paper. Thinking Skills and Creativity. (In Press).
• 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

• The evaluation of Argument Mapping as a Learning Tool. 5th Annual Teaching and Learning Conference, Galway, June 2007
• 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

• Social Networks and Interactive Management: interdependent problems and interdependent solutions. DERI, May 2010
• Structural Equation Modelling of Brain-Behavior Relations. Frankfurt University. June 2009
• The Role of the Cerebellum in Ageing Cognition. Aberdeen University. December 2009.
• 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
• Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology

Conference Organisation

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

Teaching & Administration

Undergraduate Teaching

• PS124 Social Psychology
• PS214 Developmental Psychology [with Dr. Caroline Heary]
• PS321 Developmental Psychology 2 [with Dr. Caroline Heary]
• PS410 Thinking, Modelling, and Writing in Psychology

Postgraduate Teaching

• Lecturing
  • Adult Development; SPSS; AMOS
• Supervision (Completed)
  • Tadhg McCabe, MPhil Student. Start date Sept. 2005. Joint Supervisor (with Professor Jack James).
  • Michael Keane, PhD student. Joint Supervisor (with Professor Jack James).
• Supervision (Current)
  • 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).
  • Haulie Dowd, PhD student. Joint Supervision (with Dr. Brian McGuire and Dr. Kiran Sarma).

Administration

• European Science Foundation (ESF) Steering Committee member for European Research Network for Investigating Human Sensorimotor Function in Health and Disease (ERNI-HSF)
• Co-Director, Structured PhD in Perception, Cognition and Action
• Co-Director, Structured PhD in Learning Sciences
• Irish Centre for Social Gerontology, Management Team.
• Evening BA (academic co-ordinator, 2002 - 2006)
• 2BA Psychology (co-ordinator, 2006 – 2009)
• 1BA Psychology (co-ordinator, with Kiran Sarma and Briege Glynn, 2010 – present)
• Staff-Student Liaison Committee (chairperson, 2003 - 2006)
• Galway Neuroscience Group (member)
• Centre for Pain Research, NUI, Galway (member).
• Developmental and Social Research Cluster, NUI, Galway (member)

External Collaboration

• Ian Robertson Trinity College
• Brian Lawlor Trinity College
• Fergus Craik University of Toronto
• Lynn Hasher University of Toronto
• Jochen Kaiser Frankfurt University
• Kurt Fischer Harvard University
• Alex Zautra Arizona State University
• Mary Davis Arizona State University
• Richard Roche NUI Maynooth
• Don Barry University of Limerick
• Robert Horn Stanford University
• Tim Van Gelder, University of Melbourne
• Ulman Lindenberger, Max Planck Institute, Berlin
• Benjamin Broome, Arizona State University
• Roger Staff, University of Aberdeen
• Brendan Bunting, University of Ulster, Magee campus
• Ian Deary, Edinburgh University

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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