EDUCATION
- Ph.D., Psychology and Neuroscience, 2000, Indiana University, Bloomington Indiana
- Dissertation: “Electrophysiological effects of stimulating D1 and D2 dopamine receptors in the basal ganglia of freely moving rats.”
- B.S., Psychology, 1990, University of Florida, Gainesville Florida
- Concentration: Behavioral Neuroscience
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
- Instructor, Psychology Department
Coordinator, Behavioral Neuroscience Program
University of North Florida, Jacksonville FL, 2015-current - Visiting Assistant Professor, Psychology Department
University of North Florida, Jacksonville FL, 2009-2015 - Adjunct Instructor, Psychology Department
University of North Florida, Jacksonville FL, 2003-2009 - Instructor, School of Continuing Studies
Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, 2002-2008 - Adjunct Instructor, Psychology Department
Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, 1996-2003
TEACHING AWARDS
- Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching Award, 2019
- Disability Resource Center Professor Empowerment Award, 2012
- Nominated for Mentor of the Year Award, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
- Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society
- Society for Neuroscience
- Southeastern Psychological Association
PUBLICATIONS AND CONFERENCES
- Measuring Cognitive Control and the Reduction of Racial Bias with fNIRS
Gelman, T., Sheikh, M., Hooper, K.C., Palermo, K., Phillips, R., & Phills, C.E.
Southeastern Psychological Association Annual Meeting (SEPA, Virtual due to COVID), New Orleans LA, Summer 2020 - Examining Cortical Activation During A Self-Monitoring Task
Cohen, A., Fuglestad, P., Hooper, K.C., Suazo, I., Toledo, L., & Leone, C.
Southeastern Psychological Association Annual Meeting (SEPA, Virtual due to COVID), New Orleans LA, Summer 2020 - Using fNIRS to Measure Emotional Processing Following Mindful Meditation
Macyczko, J., Rosenberg, C.L., Wengert, A., & Hooper, K.C.
Southeastern Psychological Association Annual Meeting (SEPA, Virtual due to COVID), New Orleans LA, Summer 2020 - Measuring cognitive control and reducing racial bias with fNIRS
Gelman, T., Sheikh, M., Hooper, K.C., Palermo, K., Phillips, R., & Phills, C.E.
Showcase of Osprey Advancements in Research & Scholarship (SOARS, Virtual due to COVID), University of North Florida, Jacksonville FL, April 2020 - Examining the Neural Activity of Self-Monitoring Using fNIRS
Cohen, A., Fuglestad, P., Hooper, K.C., Suazo, I., Toledo, L., & Leone, C.
Showcase of Osprey Advancements in Research & Scholarship (SOARS, Virtual due to COVID), University of North Florida, Jacksonville FL, April 2020 - Using fNIRS to Measure Emotional Processing Following Mindful Meditation
Macyczko, J., Rosenberg, C.L., Wengert, A., & Hooper, K.C.
Showcase of Osprey Advancements in Research & Scholarship (SOARS, Virtual due to COVID), University of North Florida, Jacksonville FL, April 2020 - Examining the Neural Activity of Self-Monitoring Using fNIRS
Cohen, A., Fuglestad, P., Hooper, K.C., Suazo, I., Toledo, L., & Leone, C.
Florida Undergraduate Research Conference (FURC), Florida Gulf Coast University, Fort Myers FL, February 2020 - Using fNIRS to Measure Emotional Processing Following Mindful Meditation
Macyczko, J., Rosenberg, C.L., Wengert, A., & Hooper, K.C.
Florida Undergraduate Research Conference (FURC), Florida Gulf Coast University, Fort Myers FL, February 2020 - Using fNIRS in a Multrait-multimethod Investigation of Strategic Processing during Reading
Dinsmore, D.L., Macyczko, J., Greene, S., & Hooper, K.C.
The European Association for Research on Learning and Instruction (EARLI), RWTH Aachen University, Aachen Germany, August 2019 - Using fNIRS to Study College Students’ Reading Strategies
Macyczko, J., Greene, S., Dinsmore, D.L., & Hooper, K.C.
Showcase of Osprey Advancements in Research & Scholarship (SOARS), University of North Florida, Jacksonville FL, April 2019 - Evaluating Cortical Activity of False Memory and Deception in the DRM Paradigm using fNIRS
Surprenant, B., Gelman, T., Greene, S., Toglia, M., & Hooper, K.C.
Showcase of Osprey Advancements in Research & Scholarship (SOARS), University of North Florida, Jacksonville FL, April 2019 - Political Ideology, Personality, and Reactivity to Visual Stimuli
Volante, V., Fagen, S., Doyon, C., Macyczko, J., & Hooper, K.C.
Showcase of Osprey Advancements in Research & Scholarship (SOARS), University of North Florida, Jacksonville FL, April 2019 - Increasing Cognitive Control and Reducing Racial Bias Using Functional Near-Infrared Spectroscopy
Palermo, K., Hooper, K.C., Wolff, J.M., Gelman, T., & Phills, C.E.
Showcase of Osprey Advancements in Research & Scholarship (SOARS), University of North Florida, Jacksonville FL, April 2019 - Examining Cortical Activity During a Self-Monitoring Task
Cohen, A., Fulgestad, P., Leone, C., & Hooper, K.C.
Showcase of Osprey Advancements in Research & Scholarship (SOARS), University of North Florida, Jacksonville FL, April 2019 - Using fNIRS to Explore Students’ Strategy Use During Reading
Macyczko, J., Greene, S., Dinsmore, D.L., & Hooper, K.C.
Southeastern Psychological Association Annual Meeting, Jacksonville FL, March 2019 - False Memory and Deception in the DRM Paradigm using fNIRS
Surprenant, B., Toglia, M., & Hooper, K.C.
Southeastern Psychological Association Annual Meeting, Jacksonville FL, March 2019 - How Individual Traits Influence Cortical Responses to Emotional Imagery
Fagen, S., Doyon, C., Volante, V.S., Macyczko, J., & Hooper, K.C.
Southeastern Psychological Association Annual Meeting, Jacksonville FL, March 2019 - Exploring the Neural Correlates of Self-Monitoring with fNIRS
Cohen, A., Fulgestad, P., Leone, C., & Hooper, K.C.
Florida Undergraduate Research Conference (FURC), University of North Florida, Jacksonville FL, February 2019 - Increasing Cognitive Control and Reducing Racial Bias Using Functional Near-Infrared Spectroscopy
Palermo, K., Hooper, K.C., Wolff, J.M., Gelman, T., & Phills, C.E.
Florida Undergraduate Research Conference (FURC), University of North Florida, Jacksonville FL, February 2019 - Using fNIRS to Study College Students’ Reading Strategies
Macyczko, J., Greene, S., Dinsmore, D.L., & Hooper, K.C.
Florida Undergraduate Research Conference (FURC), University of North Florida, Jacksonville FL, February 2019 - Unpleasant Images Cause Neural Inhibition in the Prefrontal Cortex
Volante, V.S., Fagen, S., Doyon, C., Macyczko, J., & Hooper, K.C.
Florida Undergraduate Research Conference (FURC), University of North Florida, Jacksonville FL, February 2019 - Prefrontal Cortex Responses to Emotionally-Valenced Images
Doyon, C., Volante, V., Fagen, S., Macyczko, J., Carpenter, R., & Hooper, K.C.
Showcase of Osprey Advancements in Research & Scholarship (SOARS), University of North Florida, Jacksonville FL, April 2018 - Evaluating False Memory and Deception in a DRM Paradigm using fNIRS
Surprenant, B., Toglia, M., & Hooper, K.C.
Showcase of Osprey Advancements in Research & Scholarship (SOARS), University of North Florida, Jacksonville FL, April 2018 - Exploring Emotional Processing with fNIRS
Doyon, C., Volante, V., Fagen, S., Macyczko, J., Carpenter, R., & Hooper, K.C.
Florida Undergraduate Research Conference (FURC), East Florida State College, Melbourne FL, February 2018 - Evaluating Techniques to Reduce Test Anxiety and Improve Exam Scores
Fitzsimmons, C., & Hooper, K.C.
Showcase of Osprey Advancements in Research & Scholarship (SOARS), University of North Florida, Jacksonville FL, April 2017 - Using Functional Near-Infrared Spectroscopy to Examine Depression, Working Memory, and Resilience in a Clinical Sample
Carpenter, R., Hooper, K., Alloway, T., & Jennings, K.
Showcase of Osprey Advancements in Research & Scholarship (SOARS), University of North Florida, Jacksonville FL, April 2017 - The use of Functional Near-Infrared Spectroscopy in Understanding Lateralization of Emotional Processing
Guth, K., Nagle, L., Drury, T., & Hooper, K.
Showcase of Osprey Advancements in Research & Scholarship (SOARS), University of North Florida, Jacksonville FL, April 2017 - Evaluating Techniques to Reduce Test Anxiety and Improve Exam Scores
Fitzsimmons, C., & Hooper, K.C.
Southeastern Psychological Association Annual Meeting (SEPA), Atlanta, GA, March 2017 - Does Expressive Writing Improve Exam Scores?
Fitzsimmons, C., & Hooper, K.C.
Showcase of Osprey Advancements in Research & Scholarship (SOARS), University of North Florida, Jacksonville FL, April 2016 - Does Expressive Writing Improve Exam Scores?
Fitzsimmons, C., & Hooper, K.C.
Florida Undergraduate Research Conference (FURC), University of Tampa, Tampa FL, February 2016 - Sex Differences in Mood Perception During Hand Contractions: Do Males and Females Interpret Facial Emotions Differently?
Ho, J., Taft, E., & Hooper, K.C.
Showcase of Osprey Advancements in Research & Scholarship (SOARS), University of North Florida, Jacksonville FL, April 2015 - Impact of Brief Training on Emergency Department Nurses’ Competence in Care
Bass, S., Hawkins, L., & Hooper, K.C.
Showcase of Osprey Advancements in Research & Scholarship (SOARS), University of North Florida, Jacksonville FL, April 2015 - Sex Differences in Mood Perception During Hand Contractions
Ho, J., Taft, E., & Hooper, K.C.
Florida Undergraduate Research Conference (FURC), Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach FL, February 2015 - Sex Differences in Mood Perception During Hand Contractions
Ho, J., Taft, E., & Hooper, K.C.
Showcase of Osprey Advancements in Research & Scholarship (SOARS), University of North Florida, Jacksonville FL, April 2014 - Emergency Department Nurses and Psychiatric Patients: Enhancing Competency
Bass, S., Hawkins, L., & Hooper, K.C.
Showcase of Osprey Advancements in Research & Scholarship (SOARS), University of North Florida, Jacksonville FL, April 2014 - Dopamine depletion alters the electophysiological effects of D1 and D2 agonists in the basal ganglia of behaving rats
Hooper, K.C., Harbeson, C.J., & Rebec, G.V.
Society for Neuroscience 28th Annual Meeting, Los Angeles CA, November 1998 - Hooper, K.C., Banks, D.A., Stordahl, L.J., White, I.M., & Rebec, G.V. (1997) Quinpirole inhibits striatal and excites pallidal neurons in freely moving rats. Neuroscience Letters 237(2-3):69-72.
- Differential effects of quinpirole on striatal neurons in intact and dopamine-depleted freely moving rats
Hooper, K.C., Fender, A.S., Pacyga, M.D., Mosemiller, A.K., & Rebec, G.V.
Society for Neuroscience 26th Annual Meeting, Washington DC, November 1996 - White, I.M., Flory, G.S., Hooper, K.C., Speciale, J., Banks, D.A., & Rebec, G.V. (1995) Phencyclidine-induced increases in striatal neuron firing in behaving rats: reversal by haloperidol and clozapine. Journal of Neural Transmission 102(2):99-112.
- The D2 receptor agonist quinpirole excites neurons of the globus pallidus in freely moving rats
Hooper, K.C., Banks, D.A., & Rebec, G.V.
Society for Neuroscience 24th Annual Meeting, Miami Beach FL, November 1994 - Dizocilpine (MK-801) excites neostriatal neurons in the freely moving rat
Hooper, K.C., Banks, D.A., Johnson, L.L., & Rebec, G.V.
Society for Neuroscience 23rd Annual Meeting, Washington DC, November 1993 - D1 and D2 receptor agonists have differential effects on single-unit activity in the striatum of freely moving rats
Hooper, K.C., White, I.M., Johnson, L.L., & Rebec, G.V.
Chicago Chapter of the Society for Neuroscience Fall Scientific Meeting, Chicago IL, December 1992 - Quinpirole, but not SKF-38393 inhibits striatal neurons in freely moving rats
Hooper, K.C., White, I.M., Taylor, M.E., & Rebec, G.V.
Society for Neuroscience 22nd Annual Meeting, Anaheim CA, October 1992
