Brittany Travers, PhD
Department of Kinesiology, Occupational Therapy Program
Associate Professor
Waisman Center
1500 Highland Avenue, Room 435
Madison, WI 53705
Biography
Keywords: Visual-motor integration, visual hypo- and hyper-sensitivity, balance, autism
Education:
BA 2006, Psychology, Spanish, Creighton University, Omaha, NE
MA 2008, Psychology, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL
PhD 2011, Psychology, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL
Postdoc 2014, Psychology, Waisman Center, University of Wisconsin–Madison, Madison, WI
Research Interests:
Dr. Travers vision-related research focuses on working with individuals with autism. She examines how visual presentation of a person’s balance may assist in improving balance overall. She has also looked at diagnostic group differences in visual-motor integration and corresponding brain regions. In collaboration with Dr. Ari Rosenberg, she has examined the learning of visual patterns in individuals with autism. In collaboration with Dr. Andrea Mason, she has examined visual-motor integration in reach-to-grasp paradigms. In collaboration with Dr. Karla Ausderau, she has examined visual hypo- and hyper-sensitivity in individuals with autism and the neural correlates of these behaviors.