Charles Geier

Associate Professor of Human Development and Family Studies

Charles Geier

Research Summary

Adolescent neurodevelopment and risky decision making; emergence of substance use; fMRI methods

Huck Affiliations

Publication Tags

Reward Brain Smoking Motivation Child Food Magnetic Resonance Imaging Inhibition (Psychology) Nicotine Corpus Striatum Risk Taking Adolescence Smokers Ventral Striatum Hyperphagia Individuality Health Weights And Measures Decision Making Oxygen Longitudinal Studies Feeding Behavior Reinforcement (Psychology) Self Control Cognitive Control

Most Recent Papers

Determining risk for stress-linked psychiatric illness following adolescent stress exposure

Lauren Chaby, Heather Lasseter, Charles Geier, Andreas Jeromin, Current Opinions in Behavioral Sciences on p. 79-89

The Effectiveness of a Teacher Delivered Mindfulness-Based Curriculum on Adolescent Social-Emotional and Executive Functioning

J Frank, Patricia Broderick, Yoonkyung Oh, Joy Mitra, Deborah Schussler, Kimberly Kohler, Charles Geier, Elaine Berrena, Julia Mahfouz, Joseph Levitan, Robert Roeser, Mark Greenberg, 2021, Mindfulness

Individual differences in the influence of taste and health impact successful dietary self-control

Alaina L. Pearce, Shana Adise, Nicole J. Roberts, Corey White, Charles F. Geier, Kathleen L. Keller, 2020, Physiology and Behavior

Development and Pilot Testing of Standardized Food Images for Studying Eating Behaviors in Children

Samantha M.R. Kling, Alaina L. Pearce, Marissa L. Reynolds, Hugh Garavan, Charles F. Geier, Barbara J. Rolls, Emma J. Rose, Stephen J. Wilson, Kathleen L. Keller, 2020, Frontiers in Psychology

Food or money? Children's brains respond differently to rewards regardless of weight status

S. Adise, C. F. Geier, N. J. Roberts, C. N. White, K. L. Keller, 2019, Pediatric obesity

A novel hierarchical later process model

Nicole J. Roberts, Zita Oravecz, Briana N. Sprague, Charles F. Geier, 2019, Frontiers in Psychiatry

Is brain response to food rewards related to overeating? A test of the reward surfeit model of overeating in children

Shana Adise, Charles Geier, Nicole J. Roberts, Corey N. White, Kathleen Loralee Keller, 2018, Appetite on p. 167-179

Age-Varying Associations Between Cigarette Smoking, Sensation Seeking, and Impulse Control Through Adolescence and Young Adulthood

David M. Lydon-Staley, Charles F. Geier, 2018, Journal of Research on Adolescence on p. 354-367

Incentives facilitate developmental improvement in inhibitory control by modulating control-related networks

Michael Nelson Hallquist, Charles Geier, Beatriz Luna, 2018, NeuroImage on p. 369-380

Extending the Balloon Analogue Risk Task to Assess Naturalistic Risk Taking via a Mobile Platform

R. Ross MacLean, Aaron L. Pincus, Joshua M. Smyth, Charles F. Geier, Stephen J. Wilson, 2018, Journal of Psychopathology and Behavioral Assessment on p. 107-116

Most-Cited Papers

Developmental changes in brain function underlying the influence of reward processing on inhibitory control

Aarthi Padmanabhan, Charles F. Geier, Sarah J. Ordaz, Theresa Teslovich, Beatriz Luna, 2011, Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience on p. 517-529

Effects of incentives, age, and behavior on brain activation during inhibitory control: A longitudinal fMRI study

David J. Paulsen, Michael Nelson Hallquist, Charles Geier, Beatriz Luna, 2015, Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience on p. 105-115

The Teenage Brain

Beatriz Luna, David J. Paulsen, Aarthi Padmanabhan, Charles Geier, 2013, Current Directions in Psychological Science on p. 94-100

Developmental Effects of Incentives on Response Inhibition

Charles Geier, Beatriz Luna, 2012, Child Development on p. 1262-1274

Dissociated effects of anticipating smoking versus monetary reward in the caudate as a function of smoking abstinence

Maggie M. Sweitzer, Charles F. Geier, Danielle L. Joel, Patrick McGurrin, Rachel L. Denlinger, Erika E. Forbes, Eric C. Donny, 2014, Biological Psychiatry on p. 681-688

Smoking Abstinence-Induced Changes in Resting State Functional Connectivity with Ventral Striatum Predict Lapse during a Quit Attempt

Maggie M. Sweitzer, Charles Geier, Merideth A. Addicott, Rachel Denlinger, Bethany R. Raiff, Jesse Dallery, F. Joseph McClernon, Eric C. Donny, 2016, Neuropsychopharmacology on p. 2521-2529

Enhancing response inhibition by incentive

Tammy Chung, Charles Geier, Beatriz Luna, Stefan Pajtek, Robert Terwilliger, Dawn Thatcher, Duncan B. Clark, 2011, Drug and Alcohol Dependence on p. 43-50

Blunted striatal response to monetary reward anticipation during smoking abstinence predicts lapse during a contingency-managed quit attempt

Maggie M. Sweitzer, Charles F. Geier, Rachel Denlinger, Erika E. Forbes, Bethany R. Raiff, Jesse Dallery, F. J. McClernon, Eric C. Donny, 2016, Psychopharmacology on p. 751-760

Modulation of reward-related neural activation on sensation seeking across development

Samuel W. Hawes, Rajpreet Chahal, Michael N. Hallquist, David J. Paulsen, Charles F. Geier, Beatriz Luna, 2017, NeuroImage on p. 763-771

Adolescent exposure to nicotine results in reinforcement enhancement but does not affect adult responding in rats

Matthew T. Weaver, Charles Geier, Melissa E. Levin, Anthony R. Caggiula, Alan F. Sved, Eric C. Donny, 2012, Drug and Alcohol Dependence on p. 307-312