CURRICULUM VITAE
Joseph L. Amaral PhD
Joseph L. Amaral PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Neurology
Division of Pediatric Neuropsychology
Department of Neurology
Division of Pediatric Neuropsychology
OFFICE ADDRESS: |
Children’s Wisconsin - Milwaukee Hospital |
8915 W Connell Court |
Milwaukee, WI 53226 |
EDUCATION: |
- 2006 B.S., Indiana University, Bloomington, IN |
- 2008 M.S.Ed., Indiana University, Bloomington, IN |
- 2015 Ph.D., University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH |
POSTGRADUATE TRAINING AND FELLOWSHIP APPOINTMENTS: |
- 2017 Postdoctoral Fellowship, Department of Psychiatry, Neuropsychology Division, Boston Children's Hospital/Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA |
- 2015 Psychology Internship, Department of Clinical and Health Psychology, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL |
FACULTY APPOINTMENTS: |
09/18/2017 - Present Assistant Professor, Department of Neurology, Division of Neuropsychology, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI |
BIBLIOGRAPHY |
Refereed Journal Publications/Original Papers |
1. Fitzpatrick, P., Romero, V., Amaral, J. L., Duncan, A. W., Barnard, H., Richardson, M. J., & Schmidt, R. C. (2017). Evaluating the Importance of Social Motor Synchronization and Motor Skill for Understanding Autism, Autism Research, 10(6). |
2. Fitzpatrick, P., Romero, V., Amaral, J. L., Duncan, A., Barnard, H., Richardson, M. J., & Schmidt, R. C. (2017). Social motor synchronization: Insights for understanding social behavior in autism. Journal of Autism & Developmental Disorders, 43(9) |
3. Amaral, J.L., Kloos, H., Romero, V., & Richardson, M.J. (2017). Complexity and autism spectrum disorder: Exploring hysteresis in a grasping task. AIMS Medical Science, 4(1), 113-130. |
4. Waber, D.P., Boiselle, E.C., Girard, J.M., Amaral, J.L., & Forbes P.W. (2016). Ascertaining educational outcomes after assessment in children with learning disorders. The Clinical Neuropsychologist, 12, 1-14. |
5. Romero, V., Amaral, J. L., Fitzpatrick, P., Schmidt, R. C., Duncan, A. W., & Richardson, M. J. (2016). Can low-cost motion-tracking systems substitute for a Polhemus system when researching social motor coordination in children? Behavior Research Methods, 48(1), np. |
6. Esbensen, A. J., Johnson, E., Amaral, J. L., Tan, C., & Macks, R., (2015). Differentiating aging among adults with down syndrome and comorbid dementia or psychopathology. American Journal on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, 121(1), 13-24. |
7. Nabors, L. A., Thomas, M., Vaughn, L., Adams, R., Amaral, J., & Olsen, B. T. (2011). Children’s attitudes about an overweight or non-overweight victim. Journal of Developmental and Physical Disabilities, 23(2), 87-98. |
8. Amaral, J.L., Kloos, H., Romero, V., & Richardson, M.J. (2015). Social cues affect grasping hysteresis in children with ASD. In D. C. Noelle, R., Dale, A. S. Warlaumont, J. Yoshimi, T. Matlock, C. D. Jennings, & P. P. Maglio (Eds.), Proceedings of the 37th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society. |
9. Romero, V., Amaral, J., Fitzpatrick, P., Schmidt, R. C., & Richardson, M. J. (2015). Capturing social motor coordination: A comparison of the Microsoft Kinect, video-motion analysis and the Polhemus Latus motion tracking system. In D. C. Noelle, R., Dale, A. S. Warlaumont, J. Yoshimi, T. Matlock, C. D. Jennings, & P. P. Maglio (Eds.), Proceedings of the 37th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society. |
10. Fitzpatrick, P., Schmidt, K., Romero, V., Amaral, J., Richardson, M. J., & Schmidt, R. C. (2015). Perceiving Movement synchronization differences in autism. In J. Weast-Knapp, M. Malone, & D. Abney (Eds.), Studies in perception and action XIII: Eighteenth international conference on perception and action, New York, NY: Psychology Press, Taylor & Francis Group. |
11. Amaral, J. L., Kloos, H., Collins, S., O’Connor, S., McAlister, S., & Luzzi, C. D. (2013). Shape categorization in autism: Does it follow a typical pattern of development?. Proceedings of the 35th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. Berlin, Germany: Cognitive Science Society. |
12. Lampi, A., Fitzpatrick, P., Romero, V., Amaral, J., & Schmidt, R.C. (2018). Understanding the influence of social and motor context on the co-occurring frequency of restricted and repetitive behaviors in autism. Journal of Autism & Developmental Disorders. Advance online publication. |
Books, Chapters, and Reviews |
1. Kloos, H., Morris, B. J., & Amaral, J. L. (Eds.) (2012). Current Topics in Children’s Learning and Cognition. ISBN 978-953-51-0855-9, InTech Publishing. |
2. Amaral, J. L., Collins, S., Bohache, K. T., & Kloos, H. (2012). Beyond the black-and-white of autism: How cognitive performance varies with context. In H. Kloos, B. J. Morris, & J. L. Amaral (Eds.), Current Topics in Children’s Learning and Cognition, InTech Publishing. |