Paul, MN. He is the director of the Wesley and Lorene Artz Cognitive Neuroscience Research Center. His central research interests concern the neural substrates of belief and doubt, egocentric biases, prejudice, ERN, N400, and prefrontal cortex function. Dr. Asp received his Ph.D. in Neuroscience from the University of Iowa in 2012. His dissertation garnered the University of Iowa’s Graduated Dean’s Distinguished Dissertation Award in 2014. Dr. Asp has also done postdoctoral work at the University of Chicago’s Center for Cognitive and Social Neuroscience Lab, investigating the neural bases of social and physical pain, and at the University of Iowa’s Psychiatry Iowa Neuroimaging Consortium Group, researching functional connectivity abnormalities in schizophrenia.