Aymee Alvarez-Rivero, Ph.D. | postdoctoral Visiting Fellow
Aymee Alvarez-Rivero is a post-doctoral associate at the University of Western Ontario and visiting-fellow at the Gaab Lab. Aymee’s research has explored the relationships between arithmetic and reading abilities using multiple neuroimaging techniques. She is also interested in understanding how inter-generational influences shape the neural substrate that supports the acquisition of academic abilities. Aymee completed her undergraduate degree in Psychology at the University of Havana, Cuba. After graduating, she worked for five years and the Cuban Cognitive Neurosciences Centre, developing technologies for screening and assessment of specific learning disorders. She later pursued her Master’s and PhD degrees at the University of Western Ontario at the Numerical Cognition Lab.