Dr Magdalena Ietswaart
Magdalena is a senior lecturer in the School of Psychology and Sport Sciences. She gained her PhD in the Neuropsychology of Action at Aberdeen University in 2001, and has worked as a researcher at the Universities of St Andrews, Aberdeen, and Durham. She joined Northumbria University in 2006.
Her research interests range from applied neuropsychological issues to fundamental cognitive neuroscience. Research topics include visuomotor interaction, imitation, motor imagery, visuospatial attention, and emotion recognition. She also has an interest in neurorehabilitation and brain plasticity, for which she secured major research funding from the Scottish Executive. She is currently engaged in collaborative research with the Universities of Utrecht (NL) and Aberdeen evaluating motor imagery as a rehab technique, and continues working with David Milner (Durham) on the interaction between perception and action.
Magdalena teaches at MSc level Research Philosophies and Research Planning. She is also responsible for the MSc research thesis.
More information about her research and publications can be found at
http://sites.google.com/site/magdalenaietswaart/
Recent publications
Ietswaart, M, Johnson, M, Dijkerman, HC, Joice, S, Scott, C., MacWalter, S., Hamilton, S. (2011) Mental practice with motor imagery in stroke recovery: randomised controlled trial of efficacy. Brain, 134, 1373-1386.
Cavina-Pratesi, C., Kuhn, G., Ietswaart, M., Milner, A.D. (2011) The magic grasp: motor expertise in deception. PlosONE, 6, e16568.
Bracci, S, Ietswaart, M, Peeling, MV, Cavina-Pratesi, C. (2010) Dissociable neural responses to hands and non-hand body parts in human left extrastriate visual cortex. Journal of Neurophysiology, 103, 3389-3397.
Cavina-Pratesi, C, Ietswaart, M, Humphreys, GW, Lestou, V, Milner, AD. (2010) Impaired grasping in a patient with optic ataxia: Primary visuomotor deficit or secondary consequence of misreaching? Neuropsychologia, 48, 226-234.
Dijkerman, HC, Ietswaart, M, Johnston, M. (2010) Motor imagery and the rehabilitation of movement disorders: an overview. In: A. Guillot, C. Collet (Eds) The Neurophysiological foundations of mental and motor imagery. Oxford: Oxford University Press: 127-144.
For a full list of publications please click here.
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