Matthew J. Kmiecik, PhD

Education

Professional Positions

Publications

Papers

Kmiecik, M. J., Tu, F. F., Clauw, D. J., & Hellman, K. M. (2023). Multimodal Hypersensitivity Derived from Quantitative Sensory Testing Predicts Pelvic Pain Outcome: an Observational Cohort Study. PAIN, 164(9), 270-283. http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/j.pain.0000000000002909
Shlobin, A. E., Tu, F. F., Sain, C. R., Kmiecik, M. J., Kantarovich, D., Singh, L., Wang, C. E., & Hellman, K. M. (2023). Bladder Pain Sensitivity is a Potential Risk Factor for Irritable Bowel Syndrome. Digestive Diseases and Sciences, 68, 3092–3102. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10620-023-07868-7
Jones, L. L., Kmiecik, M. J., Irwin, J. L., Morrison, R. G. (2022). Differential effects of semantic distance, distractor salience, and relations in verbal analogy. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 29, 1480–1491. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13423-022-02062-8
Kmiecik, M. J., Tu, F. F., Silton, R. L., Dillane, K. E., Roth, G. E., Harte, S. E., Hellman, K. M. (2022). Cortical Mechanisms of Visual Hypersensitivity in Women at Risk for Chronic Pelvic Pain. PAIN, 163(6), 1035-1048. doi: 10.1097/j.pain.0000000000002469
Kmiecik, M. J., Perez, R., Krawczyk, D.C. (2021). Navigating Increasing Levels of Relational Complexity: Perceptual, Analogical, and System Mappings. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 33(3), 357-376. https://doi.org/10.1162/jocn_a_01618
Krawczyk, D. C., Han, K., Martinez, D., Rakic, J., Kmiecik, M. J., Chang, Z., Nguyen, L., Lundie, M., Cole, R., Nagele, M., Didehbani, N. (2019). Executive Function Training in Chronic Traumatic Brain Injury Patients: Study Protocol. TRIALS. 20:435 https://doi.org/10.21203/rs.2.273/v1
Kmiecik, M. J., Brisson, R. J., & Morrison, R. G. (2019). The time course of semantic and relational processing during verbal analogical reasoning. Brain and Cognition, 129, 25-34. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bandc.2018.11.012
Kmiecik, M. J., Rodgers, B. N., Martinez, D. M., Chapman, S. B., & Krawczyk, D. C. (2018). A method for characterizing semantic and lexical properties of sentence completions in traumatic brain injury. Psychological Assessment, 30(5), 645-655. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/pas0000510
Stockdale, L. A., Morrison, R. G., Kmiecik, M. J., Garbarino, J., & Silton, R. L. (2015). Emotionally anesthetized: media violence induces neural changes during emotional face processing. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 10(10), 1373-1382. doi: 10.1093/scan/nsv025

Books

Pongpipat, E. E., Miranda, G. G., Kmiecik, M. J. (2019). A Practical Extension of Introductory Statistics in Psychology using R. Free online textbook written in bookdown and R. Read it here: https://rpsystats.com/

Preprints

Stagaman, K., Kmiecik, M. J., Wetzel, M., Aslibekyan, S., Filshtein Sonmez, T., Fontanillas, P., Holmes, M., Walk, S., Houser, M., Norcliffe-Kaufmann, L. (2024) Oral and gut microbiome profiles in early Parkinson’s disease. Research Square. doi: https://doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-3750719/v1
Kmiecik, M. J., Micheletti, S., Coker, D., Heilbron, K., Shi, J., Stagaman, K., Filshtein Sonmez, T., Fontanillas, P., Shringarpure, S., Schloetter, M., Rowbotham, H. M., Cannon, P., Shelton, J. F., Hinds, D. A., Tung, J. Y., 23andMe Research Team, Holmes, M. V., Aslibekyan, S., Norcliffe-Kaufmann, L. (2023). Genetic Analysis and Natural History of Parkinson’s Disease Due to the LRRK2 G2019S Variant. MedRxiv, 2023.10.26.23297636. doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.10.26.23297636
Kmiecik, M. J., Tu, F. F., Clauw, D. J., Hellman, K. M. (2022). Multimodal Hypersensitivity Derived from Quantitative Sensory Testing Predicts Long-Term Pelvic Pain Outcome. MedRxiv, 2022.04.01.22272964. doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.04.01.22272964 GitHub Repo OSF Project
Kmiecik, M. J., Tu, F. F., Silton, R. L., Dillane, K. E., Roth, G. E., Harte, S. E., & Hellman, K. M. (2020). Cortical Mechanisms of Visual Hypersensitivity in Women At Risk for Chronic Pelvic Pain. MedRxiv, 2020.12.03.20242032. doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.12.03.20242032

Dissertation

Kmiecik, M. J. (2019). The Time Course of Meaning Construction with Varying Expectations.

Conference Participation

Papers

Kmiecik, M. & Morrison, R.G. (2013). Semantic Distance Modulates the N400 Event-Related Potential in Verbal Analogical Reasoning. In M. Knauff, M. Pauen, & N. Sebanz (Eds.), Proceedings of the 35th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.

Talks

Kmiecik, M. J., Tu, F. F., Silton, R. L., Dillane, K. E., Roth, G. E., Harte, S. E., & Hellman, K. M. (Sept. 2021). Cortical Mechanisms of Visual Hypersensitivity in Women At Risk for Chronic Pelvic Pain. Flash talk presented at The University of Chicago Postdoctoral Symposium.
Kmiecik, M. J., Tu, F. F., Silton, R. L., Dillane, K. E., Roth, G. E., Harte, S. E., & Hellman, K. M. (Dec. 2021). Cortical Mechanisms of Visual Hypersensitivity in Women At Risk for Chronic Pelvic Pain. Data blitz talk presented at the International Association for the Study of Pain (IASP) Neuropathic Pain SIG (NeuPSIG) webinar series. Link to talk here.
Kmiecik, M. J. (November, 2019). Effective Presentations of Quantitative Information: A Study in Edward Tufte. Talk presented at the inaugural UT Dallas BrainHack, Dallas, TX.
Kmiecik, M. J., Nagele, M., Sharma, R., Vaughn, A. Thakur, P., & Krawczyk, D. C. (December, 2018). A Method for Characterizing Semantic and Lexical Properties of Sentence Completions in Traumatic Brain Injury. Talk presented at the Brain Performance Institute’s Inaugural TBI Research Showcase. Dallas, TX.
Kmiecik, M. J. & Krawczyk, D. C. (2017, October). Reasoning With Complex Relational Structures. Talk given at the UT Dallas School of Behavioral and Brain Sciences Cognition and Neuroscience program annual Fall retreat. Dallas, TX.
Kmiecik, M. & Morrison, R.G. (2013, August). Semantic Distance Modulates the N400 Event-Related Potential in Verbal Analogical Reasoning. Paper presented at the 35th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Berlin, Germany.

Workshops

Dutcher, A., Kmiecik, M.J., & Beaton, D. (2016, April). Analyzing multi-block data: A tutorial of Multiple Factor Analysis in R. Workshop presented at the Society for Applied Multivariate Research, Dallas, Texas. (MFA Workshop Slides / MFA Workshop R Code )

Poster Presentations

Kmiecik, M. J., Micheletti, S., Coker, D., Heilbron, K., Shi, J., Stagaman, K., Filshtein Sonmez, T., Fontanillas, P., Shringarpure, S., Schloetter, M., Rowbotham, H. M., Cannon, P., Shelton, J., Hinds, D. A., Tung, J. Y., Holmes, M. V., Aslibekyan, S., Norcliffe-Kaufmann, L. (April, 2024). Genetic Analysis and Natural History of LRRK2 G2019S Parkinson’s Disease. Poster to be presented at the American Academy of Neurology annual meeting, Denver, CO.
Tu, P. L., Kmiecik, M. J., Burns, M., Adornetti, J., Onyeise, D., Crowley, S. J., Bohnert, A. M. (April 2024). Geocoded Urban Neighborhood Contexts, Discrimination Experiences, and Adolescent Sleep Health. Poster to be presented at the Society for Research on Adolescence annual meeting, Chicago, IL, USA.
Kmiecik, M. J., Coker, D., Heilbron, K., Aslibekyan, S., Shelton, J. F., Cannon, P., Norcliffe-Kaufmann, L. (August 2023). The natural history of Parkinson’s disease in LRRK2 G2019S carriers. Poster presented at the International Congress of Parkinson’s Disease and Movement Disorders, Copenhagen, Denmark. Movement Disorders, 38(S1), S455–521. https://doi.org/10.1002/mds.29543
Kmiecik, M. J., Tu, F. F., Darnell, S., Harber, K., Hellman, K. M. (2022, Nov.). Early cortical mechanisms of visual discomfort in premenarchal adolescents. Poster presented at the Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting, San Diego, California.
Kmiecik, M. J., Tu, F. F., Clauw, D. J., Hellman, K. M. (2022, Sept.). Multimodal Hypersensitivity Predicts Pelvic Pain Outcome 4 Years Later. Poster presented at the International Association for the Study of Pain (IASP) World Congress on Pain, Toronto, Canada.
Darnell, S., Tu, F. F., Harber, K., Sain, C., Kmiecik, M. J., Hellman, K. M. (2022, Sept.). Menstrual, Sensory, and Psychological Factors Predict New Onset Chronic Pelvic Pain. Poster to be presented at the International Association for the Study of Pain (IASP) World Congress on Pain, Toronto, Canada.
Kmiecik, M. J., Tu, F. F., Silton, R. L., Dillane, K. E., Roth, G. E., Harte, S. E., & Hellman, K. M. (2022, March). Cortical Mechanisms of Visual Hypersensitivity in Women At Risk for Chronic Pelvic Pain. Poster presented at the Chicago Chapter of the Society for Neuroscience annual meeting, Chicago, IL.
Kmiecik, M. J., Tu, F. F., Silton, R. L., Dillane, K. E., Roth, G. E., Harte, S. E., & Hellman, K. M. (2021, Oct.). Cortical Mechanisms of Visual Hypersensitivity in Women At Risk for Chronic Pelvic Pain. Poster presented at the 24th annual scientific meeting of the International Pelvic Pain Society (IPPS), Baltimore, MD.
Kmiecik, M. J., Kim, L. M., Maguire, M. J., Hart, J., Krawczyk, D. C. (2020, May). The Time Course of Meaning Construction with Varying Expectations. Poster presented virtually at the Cognitive Neuroscience Society’s annual conference, Boston, MA.
Kim, L. M., Lundie, M. J., Kmiecik, M. J., Dasara, H., & Krawczyk, D. C. (2020, May). The Nuances of Norepinephrine: Salivary Alpha Amylase’s Role as a Biomarker in tDCS - Directed Judgment & Decision Making. Poster presented virtually at the Cognitive Neuroscience Society’s annual conference, Boston, MA.
Kmiecik, M. J., Kim, L. M., Maguire, M. J., Hart, J., Krawczyk, D. C. (2020, March). The Time Course of Meaning Construction with Varying Expectations. Poster was to be presented at the Society for Neuroscience Chicago Chapter annual meeting, Chicago, IL. * Cancelled due to COVID-19
Kim, L. M., Lundie, M. J., Kmiecik, M. J., Dasara, H., & Krawczyk, D. C. (2020, February). A Nudge of Norepinephrine: Investigating Salivary Alpha Amylase as a Biomarker of tDCS - Augmented Decision Making. Poster to be presented at the Society for Personality and Social Psychology’s annual conference, New Orleans, LA.
Nagele, M., Kmiecik, M. J., Chang, Z., Martinez, D., Juarez, M., Khachaturyan, M., Lundie, M., Kim, L., Didehbani, N., & Krawczyk, D. C. (2019, August). Using the Virtual Multiple Errands Task (VMET) to Assess Executive Functioning in Traumatic Brain Injury. Poster presented at the Military Health System Research Symposium annual meeting, Kissimmee, FL.
Chang, Z., Kmiecik, M. J., Martinez, D., Nagele, M., Lundie, M., Cole, R., Kim, L., Khachaturyan, M., Balloun, B., Juarez, M., Didehbani, N., Clover, M., Rule, G., Scott, G., & Krawczyk, D. C. (2019, August). Using a Virtual-Reality Based Rehabilitation Program to Enhance Daily Functioning in Veterans Surviving Traumatic Brain Injury. Poster presented at the Military Health System Research Symposium annual meeting, Kissimmee, FL.
Nagele, M. M., Kmiecik, M. J., & Krawczyk, D. C. (2019, April). Self-Awareness of Executive Dysfunction in Traumatic Brain Injury. Poster presented at UT Dallas School of Behavioral and Brain Sciences Psychological Sciences annual meeting, Dallas, TX.
Kmiecik, M. J., Martin A. D., Kim, L. M., Perez, R., Martinez, D. M., Pongpipat, E. E., & Krawczyk, D. C. (2019, March). The Influence of Reasoning Ability and Relational Cueing in Solving Relational Match-to-Sample Problems. Poster presented at the Cognitive Neuroscience Society annual meeting, San Francisco, CA.
Kim, L. M., Kmiecik, M. J., Martinez, D. M., Martin A. D., & Krawczyk, D. C. (2019, March). The Similar Situations Task: Measuring Differing Levels of Reasoning Using Scene Analogies. Poster presented at the Cognitive Neuroscience Society annual meeting, San Francisco, CA.
Kais, L.A., Lee, C., Kmiecik, M.J., Silton, R.L. (2018, February). The Influence of Affect on Interference Processing in Blocked and Mixed Presentations of a Stroop Color-Word Task. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the International Neuropsychological Society: Washington, D.C.
Kmiecik, M. J., Perez, R., Dandu, H., Krawczyk, D. C. (2017, August). Reasoning with Complex Relational Structures. Poster presented at the Fourth International Conference on Analogical Reasoning, Paris, France.
Martinez, D. M., Kmiecik, M. J., Kamat, P. S., Schauer, G. F., Krawczyk, D. C. (2017, August). Aspects of Cognition and Clinical Symptomology in Analogical Reasoning. Poster presented at the Fourth International Conference on Analogical Reasoning, Paris, France.
Kmiecik, M.J., Martinez, D., Young, L.R., Krawczyk, D.C. (2016, November). Functional and Structural Neural Patterns in Mild-Moderate Chronic-Phase Traumatic Brain Injury. Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, 97(10), e55. doi: 10.1016/j.apmr.2016.08.167
Martinez, D., Kmiecik, M.J., Chapman, S., Krawczyk, D.C. (2016, November). Observing Changes in Cognition, Mood, and White Matter in Chronic TBI Using Multiple Factor Analysis After Cognitive Intervention. Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, 97(10), e75. doi: 10.1016/j.apmr.2016.08.229
Kmiecik, M.J., Schauer, G.F., Martinez, D., & Krawczyk, D.C. (2016, April). The Similar Situations Task: An Assessment of Analogical Reasoning in Healthy and Clinical Populations. Poster presented at the Cognitive Neuroscience Society annual meeting, New York, NY.
Kmiecik, M. J., Chapman, S., & Krawczyk, D., (2015). Executive Functioning in Traumatic Brain Injury: A Detailed Investigation of the Hayling Test. Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, 96(10), e97-e98. doi: 10.1016/j.apmr.2015.08.326
Stockdale, L., Morrison, R. G., Kmiecik, M., Palumbo, R., Garbarino, J., & Silton, R. L. (September, 2014). Negative valence systems distinctly influence bottom-up and top-down attentional processes. Paper presented at the Society for Psychophysiological Research, Atlanta, GA.
Palumbo, R. T., Stockdale, L., Kmiecik, M. J., Silton, R. L., Morrison, R. G. (2014, July). The effect of short-term exposure to film violence on emotional facial processing. Poster presented at the 36th annual meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Quebec City, Canada.
Brisson, R., Kmiecik, M.J., & Morrison, R. G. (2014, July). The effect of semantic and relational similarity on the N400 event-related potential in verbal analogical reasoning. Poster presented at the 36th annual meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Quebec City, Canada.
Irwin, J.L., Jones, L.L., Kmiecik, M.J., Unsworth, N., & Morrison, R. G. (2014, July). Attention to detail predicts better verbal analogy performance. Poster presented at the 36th annual meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Quebec City, Canada.
Jones, L.L., Irwin, J.L., Kmiecik, M.J., Unsworth, N., & Morrison, R. G. (2014, July). Working memory and interference control in verbal analogy. Poster presented at the 36th annual meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Quebec City, Canada.
Morrison, R. G., Kmiecik, M.J., Irwin, J.L., Unsworth, N., Jones, L.L. (2014, July). Working memory and crystallized knowledge in visual analogy. Poster presented at the 36th annual meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Quebec City, Canada.
Brisson, R.J., Kmiecik, M.J., Sweis, A.S. & Morrison, R.G. (2014, April). The Effect of Semantic and Relational Similarity on the N400 in Verbal Analogical Reasoning. Poster presented at the Cognitive Neuroscience Society annual meeting, Boston, MA.
Stockdale, L., Palumbo, R., Kmiecik, M., Silton, R.L. & Morrison, R.G. (2014, April). The Effects of Media Violence on the Neural Correlates of Emotional Facial Processing: An ERP Investigation. Poster presented at the Cognitive Neuroscience Society annual meeting, Boston, MA.
Kmiecik, M.J., Brisson, R.J., & Morrison, R.G. (2013, April). Semantic distance in verbal analogical reasoning modulates the N400 event-related potential. Poster presented at the Cognitive Neuroscience Society annual meeting, San Francisco, CA.
Morrison, R.G., Kmiecik, M. & Bharani, K.L. (2012, April). When analogy is like priming: The N400 in verbal analogical reasoning. Poster presented at the Cognitive Neuroscience Society annual meeting, Chicago, IL.
Morrison, R.G., Kmiecik, M. & Bharani, K.L. (2012, March). When analogy is like priming: The N400 in verbal analogical reasoning. Poster presented at the Society for Neuroscience Chicago Chapter 2012 annual meeting, Chicago, IL.

Conference Organization

Invited Talks

Parkinson’s Disease: Ancestry and the Microbiome (November 2023) American Parkinson’s Disease Association: Virginia Chapter
Cortical Mechanisms of Visual Hypersensitivity in Women at Risk for Chronic Pelvic Pain (March 2021) Neuroscience Seminar, Loyola University Chicago
Using Senseless Sentences to Study Cognition: Insights from Traumatic Brain Injury and Electrophysiology (April 2020) Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology Grand Rounds, Evanston Hospital
Using Senseless Sentences to Study Cognition: Insights from Traumatic Brain Injury and Electrophysiology (March 2020) Neuroscience Seminar, Loyola University Chicago
Using Senseless Sentences to Study Cognition: Insights from Traumatic Brain Injury and Electrophysiology (December 2019) Frontiers of BrainHealth Lecture Series, The University of Texas at Dallas
Steps Toward Graduate School (October 2016) Loyola Neuroscience Society, Loyola University Chicago