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. |