Beatriz Luna ,Ph.D., is a developmental psychologist who is a faculty member in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Pittsburgh. She is interested in measuring changes in brain function (using fMRI) that are related to maturational changes in the neurophysiology of prefrontal cortex in late childhood and early adolescence using oculomotor tasks. lunab+@msx.upmc.edu

Publications:

Luna, B., Berman, R. A., McCurtain, B. J., Strojwas, M. H., Voyvodic, J., Thulborn, K. R., & Sweeney, J. A. (1996). fMRI studies of visual fixation in humans. Society of Neuroscience, 1996 Annual Meeting, Washington, DC.

Luna, B., Dobson, V., Scher, M. S., & Guthrie, R. D. (1995). Grating acuity and visual field development in infants following perinatal asphyxia. Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology, 40, 59-71.

Luna, B., Dobson, V., & Getz, L. (1993). Infants who experience perinatal asphyxia show decreased visual field size in the first three years of life. Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science, 34, 1420.