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Elizabeth A. Franz

Elizabeth A. Franz

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Psychology

D-Index
31
Citations
3781
World Ranking
11209
National Ranking
70

Overview

Elizabeth A. Franz is a researcher affiliated with the University of Otago in New Zealand. Their work spans the fields of Medicine and Neuroscience, with significant focus on Cognitive Neuroscience, Neurology, Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging, Clinical Psychology, and Biomedical Engineering.

Their research topics cover a range of areas including:

  • Advanced Neuroimaging Techniques and Applications
  • Neurological disorders and treatments
  • EEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces
  • Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
  • Neural dynamics and brain function
  • Parkinson's Disease Mechanisms and Treatments
  • Olfactory and Sensory Function Studies

Elizabeth A. Franz has contributed to several publications across a variety of journals. Notable recent papers include:

  • "Functional connectivity changes in patients with brain tumours-A systematic review on resting state-fMRI," 2020, published in Neurology Psychiatry and Brain Research
  • "The role of an individual's olfactory discriminability in influencing snacking and habitual energy intake," 2021, published in Appetite
  • "The utilisation of resting-state fMRI as a pre-operative mapping tool in patients with brain tumours in comparison to task-based fMRI and intraoperative mapping: A systematic review," 2021, published in European Journal of Cancer Care
  • "Cortical oscillatory dysfunction in Parkinson disease during movement activation and inhibition," 2022, published in PLoS ONE
  • "Does acute exercise benefit emotion regulation? Electrophysiological evidence from affective ratings and implicit emotional effects on cognition," 2022, published in Biological Psychology

Frequent publication venues for Elizabeth A. Franz include:

  • Experimental Brain Research
  • Neurology Psychiatry and Brain Research
  • PLoS ONE
  • Appetite
  • European Journal of Cancer Care

Their collaborations often involve coauthors such as Hanani Abdul Manan, Noorazrul Yahya, Rachel Ginieis, Mei Peng, and Yifan Zhang, each contributing to multiple joint publications. This collaborative network reflects a multidisciplinary approach to their research themes.

Best Publications

  • Spatial topological constraints in a bimanual task.

    Elizabeth A. Franz;Howard N. Zelaznik;George McCabe

  • Dissociation of Spatial and Temporal Coupling in the Bimanual Movements of Callosotomy Patients

    Elizabeth A. Franz;James C. Eliassen;Richard B. Ivry;Michael S. Gazzaniga

  • Effect of age on exercise-induced alterations in cognitive executive function: Relationship to cerebral perfusion

    Samuel J.E. Lucas;Philip N. Ainslie;Carissa J. Murrell;Kate N. Thomas

  • Spatial conceptual influences on the coordination of bimanual actions: when a dual task becomes a single task.

    Elizabeth A Franz;Howard N Zelaznik;Stephan Swinnen;Charles B Walter

  • Spatial Coupling in the Coordination of Complex Actions

    Elizabeth A. Franz

  • Bimanual coupling in amputees with phantom limbs

    Elizabeth A. Franz;V. S. Ramachandran

  • Hemispheric competition in left-handers on bimanual reaction time tasks.

    Yin-Chen Shen;Elizabeth A franz

  • The Effect of Callosotomy on Novel Versus Familiar Bimanual Actions: A Neural Dissociation Between Controlled and Automatic Processes?

    Elizabeth A. Franz;Karen E. Waldie;Melissa J. Smith

  • Evidence of Common Timing Processes in the Control of Manual, Orofacial, and Speech Movements.

    Elizabeth A. Franz;Howard N. Zelaznik;Anne Smith

  • John Hughlings Jackson's evolutionary neurology: a unifying framework for cognitive neuroscience.

    Elizabeth A. Franz;Grant Gillett

  • Experience-Dependent Effects in Unimanual and Bimanual Reaction Time Tasks in Musicians

    Charmayne M. L. Hughes;Elizabeth A. Franz

  • Fooling the brain into thinking it sees both hands moving enhances bimanual spatial coupling.

    Elizabeth A. Franz;Tamara Packman

  • Markers' influence on the duration discrimination of intermodal intervals.

    Simon Grondin;Richard B. Ivry;Elizabeth Franz;Lynn Perreault

  • Agency attribution: event-related potentials and outcome monitoring

    Jeffery G. Bednark;Jeffery G. Bednark;Elizabeth A. Franz

  • Differences in bimanual coordination associated with stuttering.

    Howard N Zelaznik;Anne Smith;Elizabeth A Franz;Michael Ho

  • Reduced timing variability in patients with unilateral cerebellar lesions during bimanual movements

    E. A. Franz;R. B. Ivry;L. L. Helmuth

  • Goal-related planning constraints in bimanual grasping and placing of objects

    Charmayne M. L. Hughes;Elizabeth A. Franz

  • The rubber hand illusion and its application to clinical neuroscience.

    Hari Ramakonar;Elizabeth A. Franz;Christopher R.P. Lind;Christopher R.P. Lind

  • Conceptual unifying constraints override sensorimotor interference during anticipatory control of bimanual actions

    Elizabeth A. Franz;Robert McCormick

  • The psychological refractory period effect following callosotomy: uncoupling of lateralized response codes.

    Richard B. Ivry;Elizabeth A. Franz;Alan Kingstone;James C. Johnston

Frequent Co-Authors

Jeff Miller
Jeff Miller University of Otago
James C. Eliassen
James C. Eliassen University of Cincinnati Medical Center
Michael S. Gazzaniga
Michael S. Gazzaniga University of California, Santa Barbara
Isabell Wartenburger
Isabell Wartenburger University of Potsdam
Alan Kingstone
Alan Kingstone University of British Columbia
James C. Johnston
James C. Johnston Ames Research Center
Thomas W. Schubert
Thomas W. Schubert University of Oslo
Christel Depienne
Christel Depienne Essen University Hospital
Guy A. Rouleau
Guy A. Rouleau Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital
Alexis Brice
Alexis Brice Institut du Cerveau

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