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Patricia A. Shewokis, PhD

Contact Information

Title: Associate Professor
Discipline: Movement Science, Statistics
Degrees: PhD
Office Location: 523 Bellet, Interdisciplinary Research Unit
Phone: 215-762-4442
Fax: 215-762-4080
Email: shewokis@drexel.edu

Dr. Patricia A. Shewokis is a tenured Associate Professor, Movement Scientist and Biostatistician in the College of Nursing and Health Professions at Drexel University and she has a joint appointment in the School of Biomedical Engineering, Science and Health Systems (BIOMED). Her PhD is in the Psychology of Motor Behavior which she earned from the University of Georgia with cognates in Biomechanics; Research Design/Statistics. Dr. Shewokis is part of the College’s Interdisciplinary Research Unit and is a Graduate Research Support Faculty member. She has extensive training and experience in research design and statistics and serves a biostatistician and methodologist for the College.

Her research foci are:

  • processes and mechanisms involved in the acquisition, retention, and
    transfer of cognitive and motor skills;
  • neural plasticity as a function of practicing tasks; and
  • attentional and neural mechanisms involved in brain-computer interface
    research employing biofeedback in learning paradigms.

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