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Beatriz Luna

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Beatriz Luna's research interests include the brain basis of the development of cognitive and affective processes such as working memory, response inhibition, object processing and motivation through adolescence in healthy and clinical populations.

Luna has received the NIMH Research Career Award (1999)and the NARSAD Young Investigator Award (1997). In 2006, she was selected for the Presidential Early Career Award in Science and Engineering for her work on "Cognitive and Brain System Maturation Through Adolescence," focusing on how the brain and thought processes change and integrate from childhood through adulthood to support adult-level functioning and behavior control.

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