Brennan R Payne portrait
  • Adjunct Associate Professor, Communication Sciences & Disorders
  • Associate Professor, Psychology Department
  • Faculty, Center on Aging
  • Faculty, Neuroscience Program

Professional Service

  • National Institutes of Health. Panelist. FO1B Review Panel. “Learning and Memory, Language, Communica- tion and Related Neurosciences”. 03/2023 - 03/2024
  • Journal of Language and Aging Research. Associate Editor. 12/01/2022 - 12/31/2024
  • Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics. Special Issue Associate Editor. 11/01/2022 - present
  • Society for Psychophysiological Research. Role: Committee member. Bylaws committee. 12/01/2021 - 12/01/2024
  • Psychology of Learning and Motivation. Co-Editor of Volume 77 of the PLM serial titled "Current Issues in Cognitive and Brain Aging". 06/01/2021 - present
  • Psychology and Aging. Consulting Editor. 01/2018 - present
  • Society for Psychophysiological Research. Education and Training Committee. 01/2018 - 01/2021
  • Ad Hoc Reviewer. Ad Hoc Reviewer for the following journals: Aging, Neuropsychology, and Cognition; Applied Psycholinguistics; Brain Imaging and Behavior; Brain and Cognition; Clinical Interventions in Aging Research; Cognition; Cognitive Science; Cogni- tive Neuropsychology; Developmental Psychology; The Gerontologist; The International Journal of Aging and Human Development; Journal of Adolescent Health, Medicine, and Therapeutics; Jour- nal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance; Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition; Journal of Memory and Language; The Journals of Gerontology: Psychological Science; Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research; Journal of Research in Reading; Laboratory Phonology; Language, Cognition, and Neuroscience; Memory; Neurobiology of Aging; NeuroImage; Neuropsychologia; Neuroscience Letters; PLOS ONE; Pro- ceedings of the National Academy of Sciences; Psychophysiology; Psychology and Aging; Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology; Trends in Cognitive Science. 01/2011 - present

Internal Service

  • Scientific Mentor. VPCAT Program. 03/01/2022 - present. University service.
  • Graduate Committee. 01/2021 - present. Department service.
  • TEP Faculty Search Committee. Department of Neurobiology and Neuroanatomy. 01/2018 - present. University service.
  • Graduate Committee. 08/2017 - present. Department service.

Honors & Awards

  • Superior Researcher Award (Junior Faculty Category). College of Social and Behavioral Sciences, 03/2023
  • NIDCD Early Career Award (R21). National Institute of Deafness and other Communication Disorders, 12/2021
  • Rising Star Award. Association for Psychological Science, 12/2017
  • Vice President's Clinical and Translational Research Scholar. 12/2017
  • Fellow . Psychonomic Society, 11/2017
  • Early Career Award. Society for Experimental Psychology and Cognitive Science. 07/2017
  • Thomas and Margaret Huang Award for Research in Human-Computer Intelligent Interaction. 01/2015
  • Paul D. Doolen Fellow in the Study of Aging. 01/2013
  • NIH Training Fellow in the Cognitive Neuroscience of Language. 01/2012