Ranila Bhoyroo

BSc Hons (Psyc), MHRM

Ranila.Bhoyroo1@my.nd.edu.au

• Biography

  Ranila completed her Honours degree in Psychology at University of Mauritius in 2011 and a Master’s degree in Human Resource Management at Murdoch University in 2014. She accepted an offer for a CRN funded PhD scholarship position at Notre Dame late 2015.
  
  Ranila’s PhD will explore how children with and without Developmental Coordination Disorder (DCD) mentally represent and plan actions with commonly used imagined and actual motor tasks. She will assess how well these tasks conform to current theories for internal action modelling. Her focus will be on motor selection and motor prediction action models and she will also investigate if differences in these exist between DCD and typically developing children.  Ranila will then use this information to inform an fMRI study and identify the areas of the brain associated with these internal action models.
  
  PhD thesis title: Exploring the internal models in children with and without DCD: behavioural and neurological evidence

  Supervisors: Dr Adam Wigley, Prof Beth Hands
  Enrolled full-time through the School of Health Science