Herve Abdi

Professor - School of Behavioral and Brain Sciences
Tags: Cognition and Neuroscience

Professional Preparation

HDR: Habilitation - Methematical Psychology / Cognitive Science
Université de Bourgogne - 1988
Ph.D. - Mathematical Psychology
Université d'Aix En Provence - 1980
M.S. - Neurology
University Louis Pasteur in Strasbourg - 1977
M.S. - Economics / Econometrics
University of Clermond-Ferrand - 1976
M.S. - Psychology
University of Franche-Comt - 1975

Research Areas

Research Interests
 My research is organized around three areas: psychology of memory, neural networks, and statistics. The psychology of memory research is mainly directed toward the modeling of long term semantic memory (e.g., scripts, schema, concepts) and memory for faces. The neural networks research is directed at finding a generalization of auto-associative networks and to the analysis of the statistical properties of connectionist models. My work with statistics is oriented towards two domains: analysis of variance (experimental design) and analysis of qualitative data (correspondence analysis, additive tree analysis).
  •  Face processing and computational models of face processing.
  •  Neural networks.
  •  Computational and statistical models of cognitive processes (especially memory and learning).
  •  Experimental design.
  •  Multivariate statistical analysis (including simple and multiple correspondence analysis, PLS regression, STATIS, multiple factor analysis. etc.).
  •  Statistical analysis of brain imaging data.
  •  Olfaction, smell, taste, flavor, etc.
  • Statistical Methodology.

Publications

Beaton, D., Chin Fatt C.R., & Abdi, H. (in press, 2014). An ExPosition of multivariate analysis with the Singular Value Decomposition in R. Computational Statistics & Data Analysis . 2014 - Publication
Abdi, H., & Williams, L.J. (in press, 2012). Partial least squares methods: Partial least squares correlation and partial least square regression. In: B. Reisfeld & A. Mayeno (Eds.), Methods in Molecular Biology: Computational Toxicology. New York: Springer Verlag. pp. 549-579. 2013 - Publication
Bécu, J.M., Pelé, J., Rodien, P., Abdi, H., & Chabbert, M. (in press, 2012). Structural evolution of G-protein-coupled receptors: A sequence space approach. In: P. M. Conn, (Ed.), Methods in Enzymology: G Protein Coupled Receptors. New York: Academic Press. pp. 49-66. 2013 - Publication
Jerger, S., Damian, M.F., Mills, C., Bartlett, J., Tye-Murray, N., & Abdi, H. (in press, 2012).  Effects of perceptual load on semantic acces by speech in children. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 55. 2013 - Publication
Churchill, N., Oder, A., Abdi, H., Tam, F., Lee, W., Thomas, C., Graham, S., & Strother, S. (2012). Optimizing correction of head motion and physiological noise in single-subject fMRI analyses: 1. Standard temporal-based methods. Human Brain Mapping, 33, 609-627. 2012 - Publication
Abdi, H., Williams, L.J., Valentin, D., & Bennani-Dosse, M. (2012). STATIS and DISTATIS: Optimum multi-table principal component analysis and three way metric multidimensional scaling.Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Computational Statistics, 4, 124-167. 2012 - Publication
A95. Pinkham, A.E., Sasson, N.J., Beaton, D., Abdi, H., Kohler, C.G., & Penn, D.L. (in press, 2012). Qualitatively distinct factors contribute to elevated rates of paranoia in autism and schizophrenia.Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 121. 2012 - Publication
Connolly, A., Guntupalli, J.S., Gors, G., Hanke, M., Halchenko, Y., Wu, Y.C., Abdi, H., & Haxby, J.V. (2012). Representation of biological classes in the human brain. Journal of Neuroscience, 32, 2606-2618. 2012 - Publication
Abdi, H., Williams, L.J., Beaton, D., Posamentier, M., Harris, T.S., Krishnan, A., & Devous, M.D. (in press, 2012). Analysis of regional cerebral blood flow data to discriminate among Alzheimer's disease, fronto-temporal dementia, and elderly controls: A multi-block barycentric discriminant analysis (MUBADA) methodology. Journal of Alzheimer Disease, 31. 2012 - Publication
Williams, L.J., Dunlop, J.P., & Abdi, H. (2012).Effect of age on the variability in the production of text-based global inferences. PLoS One, 7(5): e36161. doi:10.1371/ journal.pone.0036161 (pp.1-9). 2012 - Publication

Appointments

Adjunct Professor
University of Texas-Southwestern Medical Center [2001–2016]
Professor
The University of Texas at Dallas [1994–2020]
Associate Professor
The University of Texas at Dallas [1989–1994]
Professor
Université de Bourgogne [1988–1998]
Visiting Professor
Brown University [1986–1987]
Associate Professor
Universite de Bourgogne [1983–1988]
Assistant Professor
Universite de Besançon [1979–1983]

Awards

Fullbright Scholar - Brown University / Université de Bourgogne [1987]
Fullbright Scholar - Brown University / Université de Bourgogne [1986]

Additional Information

Honors and Awards
Fullbright scholar (1986-1987). Center for Cognitive Sciences, Brown University, Providence, Rl., U.S.A.
Personal Statement
 Hervé Abdi received an MS in Psychology from the University of Franche-Comté (France) in 1975, an MS (D.E.A.) in Economics from the University of Clermond-Ferrand (France) in 1976, an MS (D.E.A.) in Neurology from the University Louis Pasteur in Strasbourg (France) in 1977, and a PhD in Mathematical Psychology from the University of Aix-en-Provence (France) in 1980.

 He was an assistant professor in the University of Franche-Comté (France) in 1979, an associate professor in the University of Bourgogne at Dijon (France) in 1983, a full professor in the University of Bourgogne at Dijon (France) in 1988. He is currently a full professor in the School of Behavioral and Brain Sciences at The University of Texas at Dallas and an adjunct professor of Radiology at The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas.

 Dr. Abdi was a Fullbright scholar and visiting associate professor of Cognitive and Linguistic Sciences at Brown University in 1986 and 1987; he has been, also, a visiting professor at the University of Geneva (Switzerland), Chuo University (Japan), Université de Dijon (France), Université de la Sorbonne (Paris), the "Conservatoire Nationale des Art et Métiers" (Paris) and the Rotman institute (Canada).

Honors and Awards
The European Institutes for Advanced Study (EURIAS) Fellow at the Paris Institute of Advanced Studies (2014-2015).

Affiliations

Current Ph.D. Students
  • Shelia Meldrum
  • Ju-Chi Yu
  • Luke Moraglia
Some Former Ph.D. Students
  • Lucile Chanquoy (now Professor at the Universit de Nice, France) 
  • Patrick Lemaire (now Professor at the Universit de Marseille, France).
  •  Dominique Valentin (now Associate Professor at the Universit de Bourgogne a Dijon, France) 
  • Betty Edelman (now Senior Lecturer at UTD). 
  • Fan Yang (now Associate Professor at the Universit de Bourgogne à Dijon, France) 
  • Mette Posamentier (now Assistant Dean of assessment, Engineering & Computer Science, UTD).
  • Nils Pénard (now senior statistical scientist at UCB BIOSCIENCES GmbH, Monheim, Germany).
  • Dana Roark (now senior lecturer at UTD).
  • Marsha Neville-Smith. (now professor at TWU-Dallas Campus).
  • Jun Yi Wang (now postdoctoral scholar at University of California at Davis).
  • Anjali Krishnan (now assistant professor, Brooklyn College, New York).
  • Joseph Dunlop (now research scientist, SAS Institute).
  • Derek Beaton (now post-doctoral fellow, Rotman Institute, Toronto, Canada).
  • Cherise Chin Fatt (nowAssistant Professor UTSW, Dallas, Texas).
  • Michael Kriegsman (now CEO Michael Kriegsman Consulting).