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Professor Behavioral Neuroscience, Aging and Dementia claudia.rodriguez-aranda@uit.no +4777645761 You can find me here

Claudia Rodríguez-Aranda

Job description

Professor - Research leader of Behavioral neuroscience, aging and dementia research group

  • Malin Gullsvåg, Claudia Rodríguez-Aranda :
    Effects of verbal tasks with varying difficulty on real-time respiratory airflow during speech generation in healthy young adults
    Frontiers in Psychology 2023 FULLTEKST / ARKIV / DOI
  • Olena Vasylenko, Marta Maria Gorecka, Knut Waterloo, Claudia Rodríguez-Aranda :
    Reduction in manual asymmetry and decline in fine manual dexterity in right-handed older adults with mild cognitive impairment
    Laterality: Asymmetries of Body, Brain and Cognition 2022 ARKIV / DOI
  • Marta Maria Gorecka, Olena Vasylenko, Knut Waterloo, Claudia Rodríguez-Aranda :
    Assessing a Sensory-Motor-Cognition Triad in Amnestic Mild Cognitive Impairment With Dichotic Listening While Walking: A Dual-Task Paradigm
    Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience 12. November 2021 ARKIV / DOI
  • Yoshihiro Itaguchi, Susana Angelica Castro Chavira, Knut Waterloo, Stein Harald Johnsen, Claudia Rodríguez-Aranda :
    Evaluation of error production in animal fluency and its relationship to frontal tracts in normal aging and mild Alzheimer's disease: A combined LDA and time-course analysis investigation
    Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience 2021 ARKIV / DOI
  • Inger Utne, Borghild Løyland, Ellen Karine Grov, Hege Lund Rasmussen, Ann Helen Torstveit, Steven M. Paul et al.:
    Age-related differences in self-report and objective measures of cognitive function in older patients prior to chemotherapy
    Nursing Open 2021 ARKIV / DOI
  • Susana Angelica Castro-Chavira, Marta Maria Gorecka, Olena Vasylenko, Claudia Rodriguez-Aranda :
    Effects of dichotic listening on gait domains of healthy older adults during dual-tasking: An exploratory observational study
    Human Movement Science 2021 ARKIV / DOI
  • Claudia Rodriguez-Aranda, Susana Angelica Castro Chavira, Ragna Espenes, Fernando A. Barrios, Knut Waterloo, Torgil Riise Vangberg :
    The role of moderating variables on BOLD fMRI response during semantic verbal fluency and finger tapping in active and educated healthy seniors
    Frontiers in Human Neuroscience 2020 ARKIV / DOI
  • Misba Riaz, Torgil Riise Vangberg, Olena Vasylenko, Susana Angelica Castro Chavira, Marta Maria Gorecka, Knut Waterloo et al.:
    What does hand motor function tell us about our aging brain in association with WMH?
    Aging Clinical and Experimental Research 2020 ARKIV / DOI
  • Marta Maria Gorecka, Olena Vasylenko, Claudia Rodriguez-Aranda :
    Dichotic listening while walking: A dual-task paradigm examining gait asymmetries in healthy older and younger adults
    Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology 2020 ARKIV / DOI
  • Susana Angelica Castro Chavira, Torgil Riise Vangberg, Marta Maria Gorecka, Olena Vasylenko, Knut Waterloo, Claudia Rodriguez-Aranda :
    White matter correlates of gait perturbations resulting from spontaneous and lateralized attention in healthy older adults: A dual-task study
    Experimental Gerontology 2019 ARKIV / DOI
  • Olena Vasylenko, Marta Maria Gorecka, Claudia Rodriguez-Aranda :
    Manual dexterity in young and healthy older adults. 2. Association with cognitive abilities
    Developmental Psychobiology 2018 ARKIV / DOI
  • Olena Vasylenko, Marta Maria Gorecka, Claudia Rodriguez-Aranda :
    Manual dexterity in young and healthy older adults. 1. Age- and gender-related differences in unimanual and bimanual performance
    Developmental Psychobiology 2018 ARKIV / DOI
  • Marta Maria Gorecka, Olena Vasylenko, Johan Jacob Espenes, Knut Waterloo, Claudia Rodriguez-Aranda :
    The impact of age-related hearing loss and lateralized auditory attention on spatiotemporal parameters of gait during dual-tasking among community dwelling older adults
    Experimental Gerontology 2018 ARKIV / DOI
  • Leslie Marion Decker, Fabien Cignetti, Nathaniel Hunt, Claudia Rodriguez-Aranda, Potter Jane, Nicholas Stergiou et al.:
    Effects of aging on the relationship between cognitive demand and step variability during dual-task walking.
    GeroScience 2017 OMTALE / FULLTEKST / DOI
  • Inger Utne, Ellen Karine Grov, Linn Elise Kjerland, Mette Rønning, Claudia Rodriguez-Aranda, Hege Lund Rasmussen et al.:
    Oversettelse og kulturell tilpasning av Attentional Function Index (AFI)
    Sykepleien Forskning 22. December 2017 ARKIV / DOI
  • Claudia Rodriguez-Aranda, Matthias Mittner, Lena Vasilenko :
    Association between executive functions, working memory, and manual dexterity in young and healthy older adults: An exploratory study
    Perceptual and Motor Skills 2016 FULLTEKST / DOI
  • Claudia Rodriguez-Aranda, Knut Waterloo, Stein Harald Johnsen, Odd Petter Eldevik, Sigurd Sparr, Gry Charlotte Wikran et al.:
    Neuroanatomical correlates of verbal fluency in early Alzheimer's disease and normal aging.
    Brain and Language 2016 DOI
  • Jan H Rosenvinge, Claudia Rodriguez-Aranda :
    Eldrepsykologi
    Gyldendal Akademisk 2011
  • Claudia Rodriguez-Aranda, Mona Lovise Kvalsvik Jakobsen :
    Differential Contribution of Cognitive and Psychomotor Functions to the Age-Related Slowing of Speech Production
    Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society 2011 DOI
  • Malin Gullsvåg, Claudia Rodríguez-Aranda :
    Real-time assessment of respiratory parameters during speech production in verbal tasks with varying degree of cognitive load
    2022
  • Olena Vasylenko, Marta Maria Gorecka, Knut Waterloo, Claudia Rodríguez-Aranda :
    Kinematic assessment of manual dexterity in mild cognitive impairment and normal aging: A cross-sectional and longitudinal investigation
    2022
  • Claudia Rodríguez-Aranda, Anders j Ågmo :
    Intervju på radioprogram: "Radio UAQ 89.5 FM Universidad, programa Sinapsis"
    02. September 2022 DATA
  • Claudia Rodriguez-Aranda :
    Hva skjer innen demensforskningen?
    2019
  • Marta Maria Gorecka, Susana A Castro-Chavira, Torgil Riise Vangberg, Olena Vasylenko, Knut Waterloo, Claudia Rodriguez-Aranda :
    Link of white matter tract integrity and dual-task costs on gait parameters in Mild Cognitive Impairment and normal aging
    2019
  • Marta Maria Gorecka, Susana A Castro-Chavira, Torgil Vangberg, Olena Vasylenko, Knut Waterloo, Claudia Rodriguez-Aranda :
    Association of White Matter Integrity and Dual-task Effects in Gait in a Sample of Community-Dwelling Older Adults
    2019
  • Claudia Rodriguez-Aranda :
    Praksis med eldre for profesjonsstudiet i psykologi i den kommunale helsetjenesten.
    Tidsskriftet aldring og helse 2018
  • Leslie M. Decker, Fabien Cignetti, Nathaniel Hunt, Claudia Rodriguez-Aranda, Jane F. Potter, Nicholas Stergiou et al.:
    Erratum to: Effects of aging on the relationship between cognitive demand and step variability during dual-task walking (AGE, (2016), 38, 4, (363-375), 10.1007/s11357-016-9941-y)
    GeroScience 2017 DOI
  • Susana Angelica Castro Chavira, Torgil Riise Vangberg, Marta Maria Gorecka, Olena Vasylenko, Knut Waterloo, Claudia Rodriguez-Aranda :
    Association of white matter integrity and gait speed during dual-tasking among community-dwelling elderly adults
    2017 FULLTEKST / ARKIV
  • Marta Maria Gorecka, Matilde Klaussen, Knut Waterloo, Claudia Rodriguez-Aranda :
    Changes in Attentional Control and Gait in MCI and Healthy Elderly during Dichotic Listening in Dual-Tasking
    2016
  • Claudia Rodriguez-Aranda :
    Den spreke eldrebølgen
    29. April 2016
  • Marta Maria Gorecka, Matthias Mittner, Vilde K. Byre, Amie Evjen, Knut Waterloo, Olena Vasylenko et al.:
    How does age-related hearing loss affect dual-task execution in cognitively healthy older adults?
    2016
  • Claudia Rodriguez-Aranda :
    Praksisstudier innen eldreomsorg for psykologistudenter ved UiT
    2015
  • Marta Maria Gorecka, Knut Waterloo, Claudia Rodriguez-Aranda :
    Interplay of auditory attention and gait in MCI and normal aging: A dual-task study
    2014
  • Claudia Rodriguez-Aranda :
    Eldre psykologi og praksis med eldre ved institutt for psykologi, UiT
    2014
  • Claudia Rodriguez-Aranda :
    Dedifferentiation of Cognitive and Motor Functions in Aging
    2013
  • Claudia Rodriguez-Aranda, Ragna Espenes, Marit Moe Holthe, Knut Waterloo, Torgil Riise Vangberg :
    Brain activation patterns during semantic verbal fluency in active and educated healthy seniors: A covert fMRI study
    2013
  • Claudia Rodriguez-Aranda, Mari Lise Eriksen :
    Addressing the link between age-related cognitive decline and fine motor dexterity in healthy elderly
    2013
  • Claudia Rodriguez-Aranda, Ann Helen Holmen, Guro Strand Thorbjørnsen, Stein Harald Johnsen, Knut Waterloo :
    Time course analysis of verbal fluency processing in mild AD patients: Storage loss, or retrieval slowing?
    2013
  • Claudia Rodriguez-Aranda :
    How many animals can you name?
    03. October 2013
  • Torgil Vangberg, Knut Waterloo, Petter Eldevik, Stein Harald Johnsen, Sigurd Sparr, Gry Charlotte Wikran et al.:
    MMSE score is associated with white matter integrity in early Alzheimer’s disease
    2012
  • Marta Maria Gorecka, Claudia Rodriguez-Aranda :
    Effects of walking on dichotic listening performance among young healthy adults
    2012
  • Claudia Rodriguez-Aranda, Knut Waterloo, Odd Petter Eldevik, Marta Maria Gorecka, Torgil Vangberg :
    The relationship between verbal fluency performance and white matter integrity in healthy aging individuals
    2011
  • Torgil Vangberg, Knut Waterloo, Petter Eldevik, Stein Harald Johnsen, Sigurd Sparr, Gry Wikran et al.:
    Association between specific deficits on verbal processing and white matter integrity in mild Alzheimer’s disease
    2010
  • Claudia Rodriguez-Aranda, Mona Jakobsen :
    Contribution of cognitive and psychomotor mechanisms to the age-related slowing of verbal processing
    2010
  • Claudia Rodriguez-Aranda, Leslie Decker, Sara Myers, Nick Stergiou :
    Evaluering av forholdet mellom gange og cognitive funksjoner: En modell for å studere fall
    2009
  • Leslie Decker, Claudia Rodriguez-Aranda, Sara Myers, Nick Stergiou :
    Verbal fluency tasks affect gait variability and asymmetry
    2009
  • Leslie Decker, Sara Myers, Claudia Rodriguez-Aranda, Jane Potter, Nick Stergiou :
    Task difficulty affects gait variability during dual task in healthy young and older adults
    2009
  • Claudia Rodriguez-Aranda, Ruth Elisabeth Bakken- Arnesen, Caroline Jota, Odd Petter Eldevik, Stein Harald Johnsen, Sigurd Sparr et al.:
    Can psychomotor decline on speech production in mild Alzheimer’s disease be due to reduced cerebellar gray matter?
    2009
  • Jennifer Yentes, Leslie Decker, Sara Myers, Claudia Rodriguez-Aranda, Jane Potter, Nick Stergiou :
    Aging and dual task alter amount and structure of lower limb kinematic variability during gait
    2009
  • Mira Momcilovic, Leslie Decker, Sara Myers, Claudia Rodriguez-Aranda, Jane Potter, Nick Stergiou :
    Performance of dichotic listening task under various attentional instructions have differential effects on gait asymmetry in young adults
    2009

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    Publications outside Cristin

    Vasylenko, O., Gorecka, M.M., Waterloo, K., Rodríguez-Aranda, C. Reduction in manual asymmetry and decline in fine manual dexterity in right-handed older adults with mild cognitive impairment. Laterality: Asymmetries of Body, Brain and Cognition 2022

    Y. Itaguchi; S.A. Castro-Chavira.; K. Waterloo; Johnsen, S.H. & C. Rodríguez-Aranda. Evaluation of error production in animal fluency and its relationship to frontal tracts in normal aging and mild Alzheimer's disease: A combined LDA and time-course analysis investigation. Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience, 12 January 2022 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fnagi.2021.710938

    Utne, Inger; Løyland, Borghild; Grov, Ellen Karine; Rasmussen, Hege Lund; Torstveit, Ann Helen; Paul, Steven M.; Ritchie, Christine Seel; Lindemann, Kristina Yvonne Kathe; Vistad, Ingvild; Rodriguez-Aranda, Claudia; Miaskowski, Christine. Age-related differences in self-report and objective measures of cognitive function in older patients prior to chemotherapy. Nursing Open 2021. ISSN 2054-1058.s doi: 10.1002/nop2.1141.

    Gorecka, M.M.; Vasylenko, O.; Waterloo, K.; Rodríguez-Aranda, C. Assessing a sensory-motor-cognition triad in amnestic mild cognitive impairment with dichotic listening while walking: A dual-task paradigm. Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience (accepted for publication October 2021).

    Castro-Chavira, S. A.; Gorecka, M. M.; Vasylenko, O.; Rodríguez-Aranda, C. Effects of dichotic listening on gait domains of healthy older adults during dual-tasking: An exploratory observational study. Human Movement Science 2021. ISSN 0167-9457.s doi: 10.1016/j.humov.2020.102720.

    Riaz, M., Vangberg, T.R., Vasylenko, O., Castro-Chavira, S.A., Gorecka, M.M., Waterloo, K., Rodríguez-Aranda, C. (2020). What does hand motor function tell us about our aging brain in association with WMH? Aging Clinical and Experimental Research. ISSN 1594-0667.s doi: 10.1007/s40520-020-01683-0.

    Gorecka, M. M., Vasylenko, O., & Rodríguez-Aranda C. (2020). Dichotic listening while walking: a dual-task paradigm examining gait asymmetries in healthy older and younger adults. Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology, 42, 794-810. doi: 101080/13803395.2020.1811207

    C. Rodríguez-Aranda, Castro-Chavira, S.A., Espenes, R., Barrios, F.A., Waterloo K., and Vangberg, T. (2020) The role of moderating variables on BOLD fMRI response during semantic verbal fluency and finger tapping in active and educated healthy seniors. Front. Hum. Neurosci. 14:203. doi: 10.3389/fnhum.2020.00203

    S.A. Castro-Chavira., T.R. Vangberg, M.M. Gorecka, O. Vasylenko, K. Waterloo & C. Rodríguez-Aranda (2019). White matter correlates of gait perturbations resulting from spontaneous and lateralized attention in healthy older adults: A dual-task study. Experimental Gerontology, 128, 110744

    M. M. Gorecka, O. Vasylenko, J. Espenes, K. Waterloo, and C. Rodríguez-Aranda (2018). The impact of age-related hearing loss and lateralized auditory attention on spatiotemporal parameters of gait during dual-tasking among community dwelling older adults. Experimental Gerontology, 111, 253-262.

    C. Rodríguez-Aranda (2018). Praksis med eldre for profesjonsstudiet i psykologi i den kommunale helsetjenesten. Tidsskriftet aldring og helse, 22 (1), 34-37.

    O. Vasylenko, M. Gorecka and C. Rodríguez-Aranda (2018). Manual Dexterity in Young and Healthy Older Adults. 1. Age- and Gender-Related Differences in Unimanual and Bimanual Performance.  Developmental Psychobiology, 60 (4), 407-427.

    O. Vasylenko, M. Gorecka and C. Rodríguez-Aranda (2018). Manual Dexterity in Young and Healthy Older Adults. 2. Association with Cognitive Abilities. Developmental Psychobiology, 60 (4), 428-439.

    I. Utne, E. Grov, L.E. Kjerland, M. Rønning, C. Rodríguez-Aranda, H.L. Rasmussen &  B. Løyland (2017). Oversettelse og kulturell tilpasning av Attentional Function Index. Sykepleien Forskning (on-line). 

    M. Decker, F. Cignetti, N. Hunt, C. Rodríguez-Aranda, J.F. Potter, N. Stergiou & S.A. Studenski, (2017). Effects of aging on the relationship between cognitive demand and step variability during dual-task walking. GEROSCIENCE, Vol 38, 363, 2016.

    C. Rodríguez-Aranda, K. Waterloo, S.H., Johnsen, P. Eldevik, S. Sparr, G.C. Wikran, M. Herder, and T. R.,Vangberg (2016). Neuroanatomical correlates of verbal fluency processing in early Alzheimer’s disease and normal aging. Brain and Language, 155-156, 24-35.

    Rodríguez-Aranda, C., Mittner, M. & Vasylenko O. (2016). Association between executive functions, working memory, and manual dexterity in young and healthy older adults: An exploratory study. Perceptual and Motor Skills, 122 (1), 165-192.

    Rodríguez-Aranda, C. & Jakobsen, M. (2011) Differential contribution of cognitive and psychomotor functions to the age-related slowing of speech production. Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society, 17 (5), 807-821 .

    Rosenvinge, J. & Rodríguez-Aranda, C. (2011). Eldrepsykologi. In F. Svartdal (Ed.), Psykologi: En innføring. Oslo: AdNotam/Gyldendal.

    Rodríguez-Aranda C. (2007). The significance of becoming “forgetful” (in Norwegian). Betydningen av “å være glemsk”. En kortfattet oversikt over forskningen om kognitive endringer ved aldringen. Norsk Tidsskrift for Logopedi, 4, 34-39.

    C. Rodríguez -Aranda, K. Waterloo, S. Sparr, and K. Sundet. (2006). Age-related psychomotor slowing as an important component of verbal fluency. Evidence from healthy individuals and Alzheimer’s patients. Journal of Neurology, 253 (11), 1414-1427.

    C. Rodríguez -Aranda, and K. Sundet. (2006). The frontal hypothesis of cognitive aging: factor structure and age effects on four “frontal tests” among healthy individuals. Journal of Genetic Psychology 167 (3), 269-287.

    C. Rodríguez-Aranda, and M. Martinussen. (2006). Age-related differences in performance of phonemic verbal fluency: A meta-analytic study. Developmental Neuropsychology, 30 (2), 697-717.

    B.J. Casey, M.C. Davidson, Y. Hara, K. M. Thomas, A. Martinez, A. Galvan, J. M. Halperin, C. Rodríguez-Aranda and N. Tottenham (2004). Role of the Caudate Nucleus in Development of Attention Switching. Developmental Science 7(5), 534-542.

    C. Rodríguez -Aranda (2003). Reduced writing and reading speed and age-related changes in verbal fluency tasks. The Clinical Neuropsychologist, 17 (2), 203-215.

    A. Ågmo, C. Belzung, and C. Rodríguez (1997). A rat model of distractibility: effects of drugs modifying dopaminergic, noradrenergic and GABAergic neurotransmission. Journal of Neural Transmission, 104, 11-29.

    Research interests

    Neuropsychology of aging; normal cognitive aging; MCI; biological aspects related to cognitive aging, Alzheimer's disease, age-related changes in the processing of information; age-related slowing; attention and psychomotor functions in aging; association between cognitive decline and motor decline in aging; myelin degeneration in normal and pathological aging. Lifespan changes in cognition and their association to psychobiological factors.

    Projects:

    1. Psychomotor decline of speech production in Alzheimer’s disease and normal aging and their association with myelin degeneration.

    2. Cognitive-motor declines (hand dexterity and gait) and brain changes in normal aging, MCI and early Alzheimer's disease.

    3. Dual-tasks and cognitive aging.

    4. Lung function and cognition in the lifespan.

    Teaching

    Geropsychology, neuropsychology of aging, cognitive aging and life-span developmental psychology.


    Member of research group

    Behavioral neuroscience, aging and dementia   English content

    Member of project

    Longitudinal umbrella project: Psychomotor functions, cognition and brain status in normal aging and MCI Gait, hearing and cognition Speech production Visuomotor adaptation and motor learning