Gustavo Berumen-Salazar

707 Jos de Jess St. Zapopan, JAL, Mxico

45136. gustavoberumen@gmail.com

EDUCATION
B.S. in Psychology, Universidad de Guadalajara, Mxico. GPA 93.9/100

2009-2013

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
Clinical Neurophysiology Lab, Universidad de Guadalajara
2011- Present
Research Assistant. Advisor: Fabiola Gomez-Velazquez
Designed experimental tasks for EEG, recruited and assessed children through psychological
evaluations and EEG recording
Obtained permission from schools to evaluate children in the schools and later in the lab
Collected and analyzed data using Excel, EEG editor, and SPSS
Responsible for operational duties and made the lab run efficiently
Vision and Cognition Lab, Johns Hopkins University
Summer 2013
Summer intern. Advisor: Mark Schurgin & Jonathan Flombaum
Maintained a participant database, contact, and ran young-adults in behavioral experiments
Edited experiments using Psychtoolbox
Analyzed data using pivot tables and SPSS
Department of Educational Studies, Universidad de Guadalajara
02-10/2013
Research assistant. Advisor: Judith Suro-Sanchez
Helped to adapt Reading Acceleration Program software from Iberian to Mexican Spanish
Taught basics of SPSS to undergraduate students within this department
Neuroscience Project, UNAM
Summer intern. Advisor: Juan Silva-Pereyra
Collaborated to develop psycholinguistic experiments
Assisted on an articles corrections concerning syntactic incongruences.
Analyzed ERP signal through sLORETA

Summer 2012

Cognitive and Emotional Processes Lab, Universidad de Guadalajara

11/2010 - 05/2011
Research Assistant. Advisor: Luis Sanchez-Loyo
Assisted in interviewing, psychometric assessment, and EEG registering of adults who had attempted
suicide
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Numerical cognition, Group representation
PRESENTATIONS
Talks
Numerical magnitude comparisons in children with mathematical learning difficulties (2013). Mexican
Congress of Behavioral Analysis, Morelos, MEX
Posters
Processing of numerical magnitudes in children with different levels of mathematics achievement: an
ERP study (abstract submitted). Meeting of the Society for Psychophysiological Research, Atlanta, USA
Spatiotemporal continuity affects long-term memory representation of Objects (2013). Summer
symposium of the VCL & Child Developmental Lab. Baltimore, USA
The effect of an emotional stimulus on mathematical processing (2011). International Seminar on
Behavior and Behavioral Applications. Ocotlan, MEX
Assessment of Spanish orthographic difficulties in young adults (2011). Neurosciences in July meeting.
Guadalajara, MEX

OTHER EXPERIENCE
Instructor in summer camp for children with learning disabilities
Center for children with Special Education Needs
Waiter and Bartender
Restaurants and bars in the metropolitan area of Guadalajara
RELEVANT SKILLS
Programming languages:
Measuring techniques:
Stimulus presentation:
Data Analysis Software:

MATLAB, basic knowledge Python

EEG (ERPs)
Mind-Tracer, Psychtoolbox
SPSS
LANGUAGES
Spanish (native), English (fluent), and French (proficient)

Summer 2010
2006 - 2012