Dr Liana Machado
Email liana@psy.otago.ac.nz
Phone 64 3 479 7622
Dr Liana Machado’s primary areas of expertise are neuropsychology and cognitive psychology. Research in her laboratory investigates the mechanisms and machinery underlying healthy brain functions and the cognitive deficits that emerge as a result of brain disease and healthy aging. Dr Machado has published over 25 research articles in high impact international journals. Together, these articles have been cited over 350 times in other research articles. She collaborates with scientists in Europe and the USA, as well as within New Zealand.
In addition to lecturing on her areas of expertise to university students, Dr Machado serves the community through presentations as well as her role as an invited member of the Neurological Foundation Scientific Advisory Committee.
Liana earned a bachelor’s degree in psychology at UCLA in 1994 and a PhD in Neuroscience at UC Davis in 1998. After conducting postdoctoral research for five years in the laboratory of a neurologist in the UK, she joined the Department of Psychology at the University of Otago in 2003.
Teaching
Research Interests
- Mechanisms and machinery underlying healthy brain functions
- Cognitive deficits that emerge as a result of brain disease and healthy aging
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