Candice T. Stanfield-Wiswell

Candice T. Stanfield-Wiswell

Candice T. Stanfield-Wiswell

Academic Advisor

Academic advising, career counseling, neurodivergent student support, sustainable goal-setting, and preparing college students for their education and beyond.

Candice is an Academic Advisor for EVSS and HDFS students in the School of Integrative Studies and a proud Mason alum, having earned her PhD in Psychology (Cognitive-Behavioral Neuroscience) from George Mason University in 2023. She previously served as an academic advisor for psychology students at Mason from 2020 to 2023, during which time she was nominated for the V. Ann Lewis Academic Advisor of the Year Award multiple years.


Candice is passionate about helping students recognize and reach their full potential — particularly students who think and learn differently. She specializes in supporting neurodivergent students, bringing a background in trauma-informed practice to her work. She is also a certified coaching candidate working toward her board certification in professional coaching, with a focus on goal-setting that she draws on to help students map out concrete plans for their academic and career paths.


Outside of advising, Candice is a writing coach, developmental editor, and published writer. She holds an MA in Psychological Research from Texas State University and a BA in Psychology (with a minor in Philosophy and honors distinction) from Northern Kentucky University, where she was an active member of the Psi Chi and Phi Sigma Tau honor societies.

Selected Publications

Published as C. T. Stanfield and C. T. Stanfield-Wiswell

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Stanfield-Wiswell, C. T.,  & Wiener, M. (In Preparation). The effect of an unexpected modality on time reproduction: Clock speed or memory mixing?

Mioni, G., Shelp, A., Stanfield-Wiswell, C. T., Gladhill, K. A., Bader, F., & Wiener, M. (2020). Modulation of individual alpha frequency with tACS shifts time perception. Cerebral Cortex Communications, 1(1), tgaa064.

Stanfield-Wiswell, C. T., & Wiener, M. (2019). State-dependent differences in the frequency of TMS-evoked potentials between resting and active states. bioRxiv Preprint. doi:10.1101/614826v4

Trujillo, L. T., Stanfield, C. T., & Vela, R. D. (2017). The effect of electroencephalogram (EEG) reference choice on statistical measures of the complexity and integration of EEG signals. Frontiers in Neuroscience, 11, 1-22. doi: 10.3389/fnins/2017.004252

Stanfield, C. T. (2016). Context-dependent top-down influences supersede object location in visual attention (Unpublished master's thesis). Texas State University, San Marcos, TX.

Stanfield, C. T., Hogan, D., Goddard, P., Ginsburg, H. J., & Ogletree, S. M. (2015). The inexplicable sex differences: A proposed new paradigm of implicit cognitive systems. Journal of Social Sciences Research, 9, 1765-1779. doi.org/10.24297/jssr.v9i1.3766

Mogull, S. A., & Stanfield, C. T. (2015, July). Current use of visuals in scientific communication. In Professional Communication Conference (IPCC), 2015 IEEE International (pp. 1-6). IEEE. doi: 10.1109/IPCC.2015.7235818

Courses Taught

PSYC 417 - Science of Well-Being

PSYC 415 - Psychological Factors in Aging

PSYC 317 - Cognitive Psychology

PSYC 301 - Research Methods in Psychology (lecture)

PSYC 301 - Research Methods in Psychology (lab)

Education

Ph.D., Psychology: Cognitive & Behavioral Neuroscience, George Mason University, 2023

M.A., Psychological Research, Texas State University, 2016

B.A. (Cum Laude) Major in Psychological Science // Minor in Philosophy, Northern Kentucky University, 2013

Recent Presentations

Presentations while attending George Mason University

Vision Sciences Society Annual Meeting (2022): St. Pete Beach, Florida, USA

Neuroscience Conference (2018): Society for Neuroscience (SfN), San Deigo, California, USA

    • Poster presentation: TMS-evoked oscillations in human cortical circuits: A search for natural frequencies

Annual Neurosymposium (2018): Students in Neuroscience & Neuroscience Graduate Student Organization research conference, George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia, USA

    • Poster presentation: TMS-evoked oscillations in human cortical circuits: A search for natural frequencies

In the Media

News article: "COVID-19's impact felt by researchers"

  • Interviewed by Dr. Stephen Ramos, who served as the 2020-2022 health psychology representative to the APA Science Student Council.

Podcast interview