Mauricio Garcia-Barrera
Professor & Associate Dean of Research and Graduate Studies
Psychology
- Contact:
- Office: COR A274 mgarcia@uvic.ca 250-472-5067
- Credentials:
- PhD (Georgia)
- Area of expertise:
- Clinical psychology
Interests
- clinical neuropsychology
- executive functioning
- sports concussions
Faculty bio
Understanding executive functioning has become a research goal and a passion for me. In a broad scope, the elusive nature of this construct intrigues me, thus I have found myself emerged in the study of human behaviour and cognitive processing that is "executive" in nature.
Most of my current research is conducted at CORTEX, where we are:
- developing a theoretical and evidence-based model of executive functioning that we call INTERACT
- developing ecological, psychometric and cross-culturally valid instruments to assess executive functioning
- exploring the associations between exercise, concussion history and executive functions, and
- a line of new community-engaged research examining the intersections between brain injury, mental health and addictions.