Curriculum Vitae

Last Generated

August 28, 2025

Education

Doctoral Student: Psychology (Current, Since 2023) PhD Program in Brain, Behavior, and Cognition	Boston University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
Master of Arts: Psychology (2025) Conferred en route to PhD	Boston University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
Bachelor of Science: Computer Science (2020) Psychology and Mathematics Minors	University of Massachusetts Lowell Kennedy College of Sciences

Published Research

Retrieved from Google Scholar with the R Package scholar. Click to expand code.

# Retrieve  publication entries from Google Scholar and sort chronologically.
sid <- 'jSGgb-QAAAAJ'
pubs <- scholar::get_publications(sid)
pubs <- pubs[rev(order(pubs$year)), ]

# Format entries as a markdown unordered list.
lst <- paste0(
  ' - __[',     pubs$title, '](',  scholar::get_article_scholar_url(sid, pubs$pubid)
, ')__.',
  '  \n   ', pubs$author, '.',
  '  \n   _', pubs$journal, '_, ', pubs$year,  '.',
  collapse='\n'
)

# Within each author list, display my initials in bold.
lst <- stringr::str_replace_all(lst, 'M(ichael)?\\s*(P|Philip)?\\s*Pascale', '__\\0__')

cat(lst)

Understanding Adolescent Mental Health Symptom Progression in School-Based Settings: The Substance Use and Risk Factors (SURF) Survey.
MA Costello, M Pascale, K Potter, SJ Knoll, A Bodolay, J Kaur, R Du, ….
School Psychology, 2025.
What common error patterns can tell us about human problem solving.
C Ahn, Q Do, L Bakst, M Pascale, J Guo, JT McGuire, ME Hasselmo, ….
Cognitive Computational Neuroscience, 2024.
A Graph Neural Network Framework to Model Human Reasoning.
Q Do, C Ahn, L Bakst, M Pascale, JT McGuire, ME Hasselmo, CE Stern.
Cognitive Computational Neuroscience, 2024.
Intoxication due to Δ9-tetrahydrocannabinol is characterized by disrupted prefrontal cortex activity.
JMG Keerthana Deepti Karunakaran, Michael Pascale, Nisan Ozana, Kevin Potter ….
Neuropsychopharmacology, 2024.
Intention to quit or reduce e-cigarettes, cannabis, and their co-use among a school-based sample of adolescents.
J Liu, SJ Knoll, MP Pascale, CA Gray, A Bodolay, KW Potter, J Gilman, ….
Addictive Behaviors, 2024.
A pragmatic clinical effectiveness trial of a novel alternative to punishment for school-based substance use infractions: study protocol for the iDECIDE curriculum.
CA Gray, V Iroegbulem, B Deming, R Butler, D Howell, MP Pascale, ….
Frontiers in Public Health, 2023.
Development of cannabis use disorder in medical cannabis users: A 9-month follow-up of a randomized clinical trial testing effects of medical cannabis card ownership.
ME Cooke, KW Potter, J Jashinski, M Pascale, RM Schuster, ….
Frontiers in psychiatry, 2023.

Teaching

Introduction to Experimental Design Graduate Teaching Fellow	Fall 2025 CAS PS211, Boston University
Drugs and Behavior Graduate Teaching Fellow	Spring 2025 CAS PS333, Boston University
Physiological Psychology Graduate Teaching Fellow	Fall 2024 CAS PS336, Boston University
Introduction to Cognitive Psychology Graduate Teaching Fellow	Spring 2024 CAS PS231, Boston University

Public Talks

Wilford, M. M., Rabinovich, M., & Pascale, M. P. (2021, October 22). A demonstration of an interactive simulation of legal procedures. Video

Poster Format

denotes shared first author. denotes presenting author.

Ahn, C., Do, Q., Bakst, L., Pascale, M., McGuire, J. T., Hasselmo, M. E., & Stern, C. E. (2024). What can errors in reasoning tell us about inductive biases in human abstract rule learning? Organization for Human Brain Mapping.

Bakst, L., Ahn, C., Do, Q., Pascale, M., Stern, C. E., Hasselmo, M. E., & McGuire, J. T. (2024). Gaze patterns associated with efficient few-shot rule-learning. Society for Neuroeconomics Conference.

Do, Q., Bakst, L., Ahn, C., Pascale, M., McGuire, J. T., Hasselmo, M. E., & Stern, C. E. (2024). A graph-theoretic approach to analyzing gaze data in a suite of abstract reasoning tasks. Society for Neuroscience Conference.

Pascale, M., Ozana, N., Potter, K., Kendzior, B., Pachas, G. N., & Evins, A. E. (2022, September 15). Identification of ∆9-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) impairment using resting-state neuroimaging. Mass General Neuroscience Day. PDF

Knoll, S. J. , Pascale, M. P., Potter, K., Tervo-Clemmens, B., Ruiz, P. J., Torquati, M. S., Schuster, R. M. (2022, October).

Jashinski, J., Pascale, M., Evohr, B., Potter K., Cather, C., Pachas, G. N., Grossman, E., Quaye, A., Schuster, R., Evins, A. E., & Gilman, J. M. (2022, October). A randomized, pragmatic, waitlist-controlled trial of cannabis added to prescription opioid support on opioid dose reduction and pain in adults with chronic non-cancer pain: Baseline data. Massachusetts General Hospital Clinical Research Day. Boston, MA.

Holcomb, J. M., Knoll, S. J., Pascale, M. P., Pachas, G. N., Torquati, M. S., Ruiz, P. J., Edgington, E. J., Gray, C. A., Maximus, D. R., Potter, K., & Schuster, R. M. (2022, October). Characteristics of School-Based Youth in Distress and Connection to Mental Health Services in the Wake of COVID-19. Massachusetts General Hospital Clinical Research Day. Boston, MA.

Sutherland, K., Smalarz, L., Wilford, M., Wang, Y., & Pascale, M. (2021). Does Knowledge of Coercive Plea Offers Reduce the Tendency to Infer Guilt from a Guilty Plea? PDF

Wilford, M. M., Rabinovich, M., & Pascale, M. P. (2022, August 6). Customizing an interactive simulation of legal procedures for both research and education.

Meeting Attendance

2025 Society for Neuroeconomics (Boston, MA)
2024 Curiosity, Information Seeking, Exploration (Providence, RI)
2024 Cognitive Computational Neuroscience (Cambridge, MA)
2024 Neuroscience of the Everyday World (Boston, MA)
2024 New England Research on Decision Making (Cambridge, MA)

Previous Experience

Massachusetts General Hospital Center For Addiction Medicine	Programmer March 2021 — July 2023
University of Massachusetts Lowell Applied Cognition Lab	Programmer May 2020 — May 2021
University of New Hampshire Affect, Cognition and Computation Lab	Research Assistant September 2020 — March 2021
University of Massachusetts Lowell Applied Cognition Lab	Research Assistant January 2020 — May 2020
Teledyne Technologies Inc. Teledyne DALSA	Software Engineer Intern June 2019 — September 2019

Technical Skills

Computer Programming
R, JavaScript/TypeScript, Python, C/C++
Data Wrangling
Tidyverse, Excel, Pandas, SQL
Data Visualization
ggplot2, Three.js
Development Environments
Visual Studio Code, RStudio, Jupyter, MATLAB, JetBrains
Web Development
HTML/CSS, Shiny, Django, Vue, PHP, Express
Electronic Data Collection
REDCap, Qualtrics, PsychoPy, E-Prime