Lisa Finkel joined the motor cognition lab with her master thesis in 2015/16. She received her PhD training from 2016 to 2019 and defended her cummulative thesis in the Zukunftskolleg on 10th of January 2020.
You can read some of her work here:
Finkel L., Schmidt K., Scheib J. & Randerath J. (2019) Does it still fit? - Adapting affordance judgments to altered body properties in young and older adults. PlosOne
Finkel L., Engler S. & Randerath J. (2019). Does it fit? - Trainability of affordance judgments in young and older adults. PLOS ONE.
Randerath, J., Finkel, L., Shigaki, C., Burris, J., Nanda, A., Hwang, P. & Frey S.H.. (2018). Does it fit? - Impaired affordance perception after stroke. Neuropsychologia.
Additionally to her thesis she was involved in the following studies in the MoCo-Lab:
Finkel L., Hogrefe, K., Frey, S.H., Goldenberg G. & Randerath J. (2018). It takes two to pantomime: communication meets motor cognition. NeuroImage: Clinical.
For this study she received the Kliniken Schmieder Award 2018.
Co-Authorships:
Buchmann I., Dangel M., Finkel L., Jung R., Makhkamova I., Binder A., Dettmers C., Herrmann L., Liepert J., Moeller C., Richter G., Vogler T., Wolf, C. & Randerath J. (2019). Limb apraxia profiles in different clinical samples. The Clinical Neuropsychologist.
Buchmann I., Finkel L., Dangel M., Erz D., Harscher K., Kaupp-Merkle M., Liepert J., Rockstroh B. & Randerath J. (2019). A combined Therapy for Limb Apraxia and related Anosognosia. Neuropsychological Rehabilitation.
She recently started her clinical training in behavioral therapy, but we are happy to announce that she will stay affiliated with academia and that there is more to come...
Congratulations, Lisa!