Jennifer Randerath

Postdoctoral Researcher 206 Melvin H Marx Building 573 882 3866 randerathj@missouri.edu https://sites.google.com/site/jenniferranderath/ Lab: Rehabilitation Neuroscience Laboratory

I am a postdoctoral researcher in Scott Frey’s research lab studying the neural mechanisms and cognitive processes responsible for complex human behaviors, such as planning actions involving tools and objects. For example, every day we skillfully grasp and use tools with a certain purpose, e.g. starting the day with picking up a toothbrush to clean our teeth, or getting the correct utensils out of the drawer and prepare breakfast with them. Brain damage caused by stroke can impair different aspects of such actions. My primary interest is in developing diagnostic tools to measure these impaired aspects, and furthermore to conduct research that has implications for rehabilitation approaches in this field. Importantly, while valuing the necessity of experimental precision in the laboratory, recognizing the differences between individuals in a clinical setting is of great significance to me. Our work makes use of behavioral testing in healthy and brain-injured adults, functional and structural MRI (including lesion analysis).

Since 11/2011: Postdoctoral Researcher in Prof. Scott Frey’s research lab, University of Missouri

2009-2011: Postdoctoral Researcher in Prof. Scott Frey’s research lab, University of Oregon

2009: Ph.D., RWTH Aachen University, Germany
emphasis: Apraxia – behavioral and neuronal correlates

2006-2009: Ph.D. student, Clinic for Neuropsychology - Munich Bogenhausen Hospital,
Supervision: Profs. Joachim Hermsdörfer, Georg Goldenberg, Will Spijkers
emphasis: Neuropsychology

2006: Master degree at the RWTH Aachen University, Germany
emphasis: Work & Organizational Psychology, and Neuropsychology.

Randerath, J., Goldenberg, G., Spijkers, W., Li, Y., & Hermsdörfer, J. (2011). From pantomime to actual use: How affordances can facilitate actual tool-use. Neuropsychologia.

Randerath, J., Goldenberg, G., Spijkers, W., Li, Y., & Hermsdörfer, J. (2010). Different left brain regions are essential for grasping a tool compared with its subsequent use. Neuroimage, 53(1), 171-180.

Randerath, J., Li, Y., Goldenberg, G., & Hermsdorfer, J. (2009). Grasping tools: effects of task and apraxia. Neuropsychologia, 47(2), 497-505.

publication-list is available at:
https://sites.google.com/site/jenniferranderath/home/publications