CURRICULUM VITAE

 NAME: Ronald William SKELTON

 CITIZENSHIP: Canadian

 CURRENT POSITION

Associate Professor

Department of Psychology

University of Victoria

Box 3050

Victoria, British Columbia

V8W 3P5

 Recent Publications

1.   Goodrich-Hunsaker, N.J., Livingstone, S.A., Skelton, R.W. & Hopkins, R.O. (2009) Spatial Deficits in a Virtual Morris Water Maze Navigation Task in Amnesic Participants with Hippocampal Damage, DOI 10.1002/hipo.20651 PDF

2.   Mueller, S.C., Jackson, C.P.T., Skelton, R.W. (2008) Gender differences in a virtual water maze: an eye tracking and pupillometry study.  Behavioural Brain Research, 193(2), 209-215;  DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2008.05.017. PDF

3.      Livingstone, S.A. & Skelton, R.W. (2007) Virtual environment navigation tasks and the assessment of cognitive deficits in individuals with brain injury. Behavioural Brain Research, 185, 21–31. DOI:10.1016/j.bbr.2007.07.015 PDF

4.      Ross, S.P., Skelton, R.W. and Mueller, S. (2006) Gender differences in learning in virtual space: Implications when using virtual environments in instruction and assessment, Virtual Reality. Volume 10 (3-4), 175-184 Digital Object Identifier (DOI): 10.1007/s10055-006-0041-7 PDF

5.      Skelton, R.W., Ross, S.P., Nerad, L. and Livingstone, S.A. (2006) Human Spatial Navigation Deficits After Traumatic Brain Injury Shown In The Arena Maze, A Virtual Morris Water Maze, Brain Injury Vol 20 (2), 189-203. PDF

6.      Skelton, R.W., C. Bukach, H.E. Laurance, K.G.F. Thomas, & W. Jake Jacobs  (2000a) Humans with traumatic brain injuries show place learning deficits in computer-generated virtual space.  Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology, 22, 157-175.

7.      Pettersen, J.A. & Skelton, R.W. (2000) Glucose enhances long-term declarative memory in mildly head-injured varsity rugby players. Psychobiology,. 28 (1), 81-89.

8.      Skelton, R.W. (1998) Modeling recovery of cognitive function after traumatic brain injury: spatial navigation in the Morris water maze after complete or partial transections of the perforant path in rats. Behavioural Brain Research, 93 (1,2), 13-35.

9.      Hannesson, D.K, and Skelton, R.W.  (1998)  Recovery of spatial performance in the Morris water maze following bilateral transection of the fimbria/fornix in rats. Behavioural Brain Research, 90 (1) 35-56. 

Book Chapters

1.     Nadel, L., Thomas, K. G. F, Laurance, H. E., Skelton, R. W., Tal, T. S., & Jacobs, W. J.  (1998) Human spatial cognition in a virtual arena.  In: C. Freksa, C. Habel, & K. F. Wender (Eds.), Spatial cognition – An interdisciplinary approach to representation and processing of spatial knowledge. (pp. 399-427) Berlin: Springer-Verlag.

Conference Presentations

1.      Mueller, S. C., Jackson, C. P., Skelton, R. (2008) Gender Differences in Eye Movements during Spatial Navigation in Virtual Environments. International Neuropsychological Society, Hawaii, February 2008.

2.      Gandhi, M, Skelton, R., Livingstone, S., Gillingham, S (2007) Gender Differences in Spatial Navigation in a Virtual Water Maze: Negation by Landmarks.  Brain Behaviour and Cognitive Sciences, Victoria, BC, June.  Published in Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology Vol 6, pp 366-366

3.      Livingstone, S.A. & Skelton, R.W. (2007) Finding your way after TBI: Some strategies may work better than others.  Pacific Coast Brain Injury Conference, Vancouver, B.C., February.

4.      Ellis, J.J. & Skelton, R.W. (2006)  Are Men Really Better?  Gender Differences in Spatial Navigation.  Northwest Cognition and Memory Conference, Vancouver, BC, May.

5.      Goodrich-Hunsaker, N.J., Livingstone, S.A., Skelton, R.W. & Hopkins, R.O. (2006) Spatial Deficits in a Virtual Morris Water Maze Navigation Task in Amnesic Participants with Hippocampal Damage, Society for Neuroscience, Atlanta, GA, October.

6.      Livingstone, S.A. & Skelton, R.W. (2005) Finding your way after TBI: Some strategies may work better than others. Pacific Coast Brain Injury Conference, Vancouver, BC October.

7.      Price, J.R.& Skelton, R.W. (2005)  A Psychometric Analysis Of The Functional Outcome Profile, Pacific Coast Brain Injury Conference, Vancouver, BC, October.

8.      Baker, T.,  Price, J.R, & Skelton (2005) Vase Maze: A New Measure of Cognitive Function and Impulsivity in Children with Attention-Deficit/Hyper activity Disorder (ADHD) .  Northwest Cognition and Memory Conference, Bellingham, WA, May.

9.      Livingstone, S. A.  & Skelton, R.W. (2005) Virtual Environment Navigation Tasks & Cognitive Deficits After Brain Injury.  Northwest Cognition and Memory Conference, Bellingham, WA, May.

10.  Ross, S.P., Skelton, R.W., & Mueller, S.C. (2005) Spatial Learning Transfer Between Virtual and Real Environments.  Western Psychological Association, Portland, OR, April.

11.  Skelton, R.W., Price, J.R., & Joschko, M.J., (2005) Psychometric Validation of the Functional Outcome Profile (FOP) For Use in Rehabilitation After Acquired Brain Injury (ABI). International Neuropsychological Society, Dublin, Ireland, July Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society, Volume 11, Supplement S2, July 2005, pp 81.

12.  Mueller, S.C., Skelton, R.W. & Ross, S.P. (2005) Dissociating gender differences in spatial abilities using virtual environments. International Neuropsychological Society, Dublin, Ireland, July. Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society, Volume 11, Supplement S2, July 2005, pp 4

13.  Skelton, R.W. and Ross, S.P. (2003) Deficits in Spatial Cognition After TBI Revealed By Virtual Morris Water Maze. International Neuropsychological Society, Honolulu, HA, February, 2003.

14.  Skelton, R.W. and Joschko, M.J. (2003) Functional Outcome Profile: Assessing Brain Injury Impact on Survivors & Family. International Neuropsychological Society, Honolulu, HA, February, 2003.

15.  Skelton, R.W., Joschko, M.J. and Kodalen, K.M. (2001) Brain Injury: The Impact on Survivors and Families as Assessed by the Functional Outcome Profile (FOP). Pacific Coast Brain Injury Conference, Vancouver, October, 2001

16.  Joschko, M.J., & Skelton, R.W. (2001) The Functional Outcome Profile: Comprehensive Tracking of Functional Consequences of Acquired Brain Injury, 4^th World Congress on Brain Injury, Turin, Italy, May, 2001.

17.  Skelton, R.W., Hsu, M, Thomas, K., Nadel, L., Laurance, H., Biggan, S., McLean, S., Ryan, L., Trouard, T., and Jacobs, W.J. (2000b) Traumatic brain injury and hippocampal function in humans: initial results from fMRI, virtual environments and neuropsychological tests. Society for Neuroscience, New Orleans, November. {Neuroscience Abstracts, Vol 26, p. }

18.  Joschko, M.J., & Skelton, R.W. (2000) Evaluation of the functional outcome profile for use with a traumatically brain-injured population, National Conference on Brain Injury, Vancouver, B.C., October.

19.  Skelton, R.W. (1999) Wayfinding in virtual space: development of a new tool for detecting concussion, mild head injury, and residual deficits from traumatic brain injury.  Conference on Whiplash Associated Disorders, Vancouver, B.C., February.

    Updated:  December 2008