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Christopher Mark Wessinger

Liberal arts professor

Education

  • Ph.D., neuroscience, University of California, Davis
  • B.S., psychology, University of Florida

Credentials

  • Part-time professor of liberal arts, 2009–present, Savannah College of Art and Design, SCAD eLearning
  • Head of science, resident academic, and cognitive neuroscientist, 2011–present, Dynaread Special Education Corporation, Cranbrook, BC
  • Online instructor, 2010–present, Ashford University, Clinton, IA
  • Founder, 2010–present, CogNeuro Learning, Breckenridge, CO
  • Online instructor, 2006–present, Charter Oak State College, New Britain, CT
  • Online instructor, 2012–present, Grand Canyon University, Phoenix
  • Online instructor, 2008–present, University of Bridgeport, Bridgeport, CT
  • Online instructor, 2008–present, University of Phoenix, Phoenix
  • Online instructor, 2013–present, University of the Rockies, Colorado Springs, CO
  • Online instructor, 2008–10, Saint Joseph's College of Maine, Standish, ME
  • Online instructor, 2004–10, Department of Psychology, University of Nevada, Reno, NV
  • Online instructor, 2001–04, Department of Psychology, Gettysburg College, Gettysburg, PA
  • Visiting assistant professor, 1998–2001, Psychological and Brain Sciences, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
  • Research associate, 1996–97, Institute for Cognitive and Computational Sciences, Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington, DC
  • Postdoctoral fellow, 1995–96, Center for Neuroscience, University of California, Davis, CA

Publications and presentations

  • Scholar, B. and Wessinger, C. M., "Student Excuses: To Deceive or Inform," presented at the University of Phoenix, Phoenix, July 2017.
  • Scholar, B. and Wessinger, C. M., "Student Excuses: To Deceive or Inform," presented at the Center for Innovation in Research and Teaching, Grand Canyon University, Phoenix, AZ, Aug. 17, 2016.
  • Wessinger, C. M. and Scholar, B., "Student Excuses: To Deceive or Inform," presented at the Fifth Annual Research Symposium, University of Phoenix, Tempe, Ariz., June 4, 2016.
  • Clapham, E.S., Karst, A.T., and Wessinger, C.M., "A Standardized Set of 200 Full-Color, Real-World Pictures for Use in Psychology Research," North American Journal of Psychology, Vol. 16, No.3, 2014, pp. 427–440.
  • Dekkers, H.J.A. and Wessinger, C.M., "Understanding Dyslexia," Vancouver Family Magazine, 2012, pp. 16–18.
  • Wessinger, C.M., and Clapham, E.S., "Cognitive Neuroscience: An overview," Encyclopedia of Neuroscience, ed. L.R. Squire, v. 2, Amsterdam, Netherlands: Elsevier, 2009, pp. 1117–1122.
  • Wessinger, C.M., Lenzi, K.M., and VanMeter, J., "Modal and Amodal Processing Is Task- and Modality-Specific," Cognitive and Motor Control Workshop II Proceedings, 1, 2006, p. 13.
  • Wessinger, C.M. and Gazzaniga, M.S., "Blindsight: Hypotheses and Clinical Implications," Disorder of Visual Processing, ed. G.G. Celesia, v. 6, Amsterdam: Elsevier, 2005, pp. 441–450.
  • Wessinger, C.M., Fendrich R., and Gazzaniga M.S., "Cognitive Neuroscience: What Is It and Why?" Encyclopedia of Neuroscience, 3rd edition, eds. G. Adelman and B.H. Smith BH, Oxford: Elsevier, 2005.
  • "The Mind," Psychology, Volume 2: The Brain and the Mind, London, UK: Grolier/Brown Partworks, 2002.
  • Wessinger, C.M., VanMeter, J., Tian, B., Van Lare, J., Pekar, J., and Rauschecker, J.P., "Hierarchical Organization of Human Auditory Cortex Revealed by Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging," Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 13:1, 2001, pp. 1–7.
  • Fendrich, R., Wessinger, C.M., and Gazzaniga, M.S., "Speculations on the Neural Basis of Islands of Blindsight," Brain and Behaviour: Progress in Brain Research, 134, 2001, pp. 353–366.
  • Weeks, R.A., Horwitz, B., Aziz-Sultan, A., Tian, B., Wessinger, C.M., Cohen, L.G., Hallett, M., and Rauschecker, J.P., "A Positron Emission Tomographic Study of Auditory Localization in the Congenitally Blind," Journal of Neuroscience, 20, 2000, pp. 2664–2672.
  • Wessinger, C.M., Fendrich, R., Gazzaniga, M.S., "Variability of Residual Vision in Hemianopic Subjects," Restorative Neurology and Neuroscience, 15, 1999, pp. 243–253.
  • Cohen, Y.E., Wessinger, C.M., "Who Goes There?" Neuron, 24, 1999, pp. 769–771.
  • Weeks, R.A., Aziz-Sultan, A., Bushara, K.O., Tian, B., Wessinger, C.M., Dang, N., Rauschecker, J.P., and Hallett, M., "APET Study of Human Auditory Spatial Processing," Neuroscience Letters, 262, 1999, pp. 155–158.
  • "Those That Were Blind Can Now See," Nature Medicine, 4, 1998, pp. 1005–1006.
  • Wessinger, C.M., Fendrich, R., and Gazzaniga, M.S., "Islands of Residual Vision in Hemianopic Patients," Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 9, 1997, pp. 203–221.
  • Wessinger, C.M., Buonocore, M., Kussmaul, C.L., and Mangun, G.R., "Tonotopy in Human Auditory Cortex Examined with Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging," Human Brain Mapping, 5, 1997, pp. 18-25.
  • Wessinger, C.M., Fendrich, R., Ptito, A., Villemure, J-G., and Gazzaniga, M.S., "Residual Vision with Awareness in the Field Contralateral to a Partial or Complete Functional Hemispherectomy," Neuropsychologia, 34, 1996, pp. 1129–1137.
  • Wessinger, C.M., Fendrich, R., Gazzaniga, M.S., Ptito, A., and Villemure, J-G., "Extrageniculostriate Vision in Humans: Investigations with Hemispherectomy Patients," Progress in Brain Research, 112, 1996, 405–414.
  • Fendrich, R., Wessinger, C.M., and Gazzaniga, M.S., "Nasotemporal Overlap at the Retinal Vertical Meridian: Investigations with a Callosotomy Patient," Neuropsychologia, 34, 1996, pp. 637–646.
  • Gazzaniga, M.S., Eliassen, J.C., Nisenson, L., Wessinger, C.M., Fendrich, R., and Baynes, K., "Collaboration Between the Hemispheres of a Callosotomy Patient: Emerging Right Hemisphere Speech and the Left Hemisphere Interpreter," Brain, 119, 1996, pp. 1255–1262.
  • Fendrich, R., Wessinger, C.M., Marshall, D., and Johnson, C.A., "Stabilized Image Perimetry: Evaluating the Influence of Eye Movements on Perimetry Data," Vision Science and Its Applications: Optical Society of America Technical Digest Series, 1, 1995, pp. 254–257.
  • Baynes, K., Wessinger, C.M., Fendrich, R., and Gazzaniga, M.S., "The Emergence of the Capacity of the Disconnected Right Hemisphere to Control Naming: Implications for Functional Plasticity," Neuropsychologia, 33, 1995, pp. 1225–1242.
  • Lutsep, H.L., Wessinger, C.M., and Gazzaniga, M.S., "Cerebral and Callosal Organisation in a Right Hemisphere Dominant 'Split Brain' Subject," Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry, 59, 1995, pp. 50–54.
  • Kingstone, A., Fendrich, R., Wessinger, C.M., and Reuter-Lorenz, P.A., "Are Microsaccades Responsible for the Gap Effect?" Perception and Psychophysics, 57, 1995, pp. 796–801.