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Phone

250-371-5558

Email

cgonzalez@tru.ca

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Dr. Claudia Gonzalez

Assistant Professor

Faculty of Arts
Psychology

Summary

My primary research aims are to provide further understanding of the factors that affect cognitive and visuomotor function across healthy aging populations and in disease (such as mild cognitive impairment, Alzheimer’s disease and others), by implementing a variety of behavioural and brain imaging techniques.

Expertise, interests and research

  Neuroscience/Cognitive Science    Cognitive Aging    Brain Imaging    Eye Tracking    Motor Control    Motor Behaviour    Vision Science    Kinesiology

Languages

English and Spanish


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