Elizabeth Franz (scientist)

Elizabeth A. 'Liz' Franz is a New Zealand academic neuroscientist, as of 2019 is a full professor at the University of Otago.

Academic career
After a 1988 MSc titled  'An examination of the spatial and temporal limitations in bimanual coordination.'  at the Purdue University, further PhD, and post-docs at UC Berkeley, Franz moved to the University of Otago, rising to full professor.

Since 2004 Franz has directed the cognitive neuroscience programme at Otago.

Selected works

 * Franz, Elizabeth A., Howard N. Zelaznik, and George McCabe. "Spatial topological constraints in a bimanual task." Acta Psychologica 77, no. 2 (1991): 137–151.
 * Franz, Elizabeth A., James C. Eliassen, Richard B. Ivry, and Michael S. Gazzaniga. "Dissociation of spatial and temporal coupling in the bimanual movements of callosotomy patients." Psychological Science 7, no. 5 (1996): 306–310.
 * Franz, Elizabeth A., Howard N. Zelaznik, Stephan Swinnen, and Charles Walter. "Spatial conceptual influences on the coordination of bimanual actions: When a dual task becomes a single task." Journal of Motor Behavior 33, no. 1 (2001): 103–112.
 * Franz, Elizabeth A., and V. S. Ramachandran. "Bimanual coupling in amputees with phantom limbs." Nature Neuroscience 1, no. 6 (1998): 443.