Address:
Brandon Barakat
UCLA Psychology Department
7531 Franz Hall
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1563

Email:
bkbarakat@gmail.com

Phone:
(310) 267-2141

Research Interests:
Multisensory integration, hemispheric asymmetry/interaction, brain imaging, neural basis of sensation/perception, neural basis of consciousness, age-related differences in cognition

Papers

• Cherry, B. J., Weiss, J., Barakat, B. K., Rutledge, D. N., & Jones, C. J. (in press). Physical performance as a predictor of attention and processing speed in fibromyalgia. Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation.
• Cherry, B. J., Barakat, B.K., Romero, R., Apodaca, D., Patel, U., & Hellige, U. J. (manuscript in preparation). Age differences in interhermispheric collaboration: Digits and dots.
• Barakat, B. K. (2009). Interhemispheric collaboration using cross-modal stimuli (Master’s thesis). California State University, Fullerton.

• Vardanyan, T., Brookhart, S., Apodaca, D., Barakat, B. K., Romero, R., Goode, T., Patel, U. J., Hellige, J. B., & Cherry, B. J. [poster]. Aging and interhemispheric collaboration: Digits and Dots. Cognitive Aging Conference, Atlanta, GA. April, 2008.
• Miyahara, E., Lopez, C., Barakat, B. K., Martin, B., & Seal, S. [poster]. The effect of hearing behaviors on auditory thresholds. The 88th Annual Convention of the Western Psychological Association, Irvine, CA. April, 2008.
• Barakat, B. K., Norga, V., Christian, T., & Miyahara, E. [poster]. Hearing behavior and auditory thresholds. The 19th Annual Convention of the Association for Psychological Science, Washington, DC. May, 2007.

Awards and Fellowships

• 2009, UCLA Distinguished University Fellowship
• 2007, CSUF Undergraduate Travel Award
• 2006, CSUF FDC Faculty-Student Research Grant