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UCSF MC 2240 Joaquin A. Anguera
Mission Bay – Genentech Hall Room N474 Joaquin A. Anguera
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San Francisco, CA 94158-2330 Joaquin A. Anguera

email: joaquin.anguera [at] ucsf.edu Joaquin A. Anguera
lab: 415-476-2164 Joaquin A. Anguera

Curriculum Vitae (pdf)

Biography:  Joaquin grew up in San Diego, and in 2000 completed his undergraduate degree in Animal Physiology/Neuroscience at UCSD.  While working on his Bachelor’s of Science and for some time after, he worked in a physical therapy clinic where the majority of the patients were senior citizens. At this clinic, there were some patients that made very little improvements, and it was not always clear why certain interventions worked better for some patients and not others.  Intrigued by this, he decided to continue his education at California State University at Northridge where he completed a Master’s degree in Kinesiology in 2004.  There he studies biomechanical aspects of walking and realized that he was eager to pursue a career in academia.  Eager to see how the weather might differ outside of southern California, Joaquin then pursued a PhD under the mentorship of Rachael Seidler in the School of Kinesiology at the University of Michigan.  His research examined how different cognitive processes contribute to motor learning in both young and older adults, primarily using fMRI and EEG methodologies to probe these questions.  After graduating in the fall of 2008, Joaquin searched for a laboratory where he would gain more experience in the realm of cognitive aging…and came across the Gazzaley lab, where he started working in January of 2009. 

Research Description:  The overarching aim of Joaquin’s research is to study how mechanisms of motor inhibition change with the aging process.  Given that nearly all other experiment in the Gazzaley lab focus on the changes in sensory suppression, the examination of motor inhibitory deficits independent of sensory inhibitory changes would allow for a better characterization of inhibitory processes in each respective domain.  More specifically, this line of research will examine i) how the neural basis of motor inhibition deficits potentially map onto the sensory inhibition deficits, and ii) how these relationships change with age. Joaquin will tackle these questions using both fMRI and EEG experiments to examine how aging affected the network(s) involved.

Funding: Joaquin A. Anguera
Joaquin is currently supported by a UCSF Institutional Research and Career Development Award (IRACDA), and was previously supported by an NIH Minority Postdoctoral Supplement for Underrepresented Minorities (2009-July 2010).

Publications and Chapters: Joaquin A. Anguera

Goble DJ, Anguera JA. (in press). Plastic changes in hand proprioception following force-field motor learning. J Neurophys. [ epub ahead of print ]

Anguera, J.A., Bo, J., Seidler, R.D. (in press) Aging effects on motor learning. Invited review chapter for Encyclopedia of the Sciences of Learning. N. Seel, ed. Springer Publishing.

Anguera, J.A., Reuter-Lorenz, P.A., Willingham, D.T., and Seidler, R.D. (in press) Failure to engage spatial working memory contributes to age-related declines in visuomotor learning.  J Cog Neuroscience. [epub ahead of print ]

Anguera, J.A., Reuter-Lorenz, P.A., Willingham, D.T., and Seidler, R.D. (2010). Contributions of spatial working memory to visuomotor learning.  J Cog Neuroscience. Sept. 22(9): 197-30. [epub ahead of print ]

Anguera, J.A., Seidler, R.D., & Gehring, W.J. (2009). Changes in performance monitoring duirng sensorimotor adaptation.  J Neurophysiol. Sep;102 (3):1868-79. [ link ]

Anguera, J.A., Russell, C.A., Noll, D.C., & Seidler, R.D. (2007). Neural correlates associated with intermanual transfer of sensorimotor adaptation. Brain Research, 1185: 136-51. [pdf]

Seidler, R. D., Bangert, A. S., Anguera, J.A., & Walsh, C. M. Motor Performance, pp.801 - 806. Invited review chapter for Encyclopedia on Aging. R. Schulz, L. Noelker, K. Rockwood, R. Sprott, eds. Springer Publishing, 2006.

Seidler, R. D., Bangert, A. S., Anguera, J.A., & Walsh, C. M. Motor Control, pp. 228-236. Encyclopedia of Gerontology (Second Edition): Age, Aging and the Aged. J. Birren, editor. Elsevier press, 2006.

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