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Brittany Travers

Associate Professor

btravers@wisc.edu

(608) 263-0282

2185 Medical Sciences Center

1500 Highland Avenue

Madison, Wisconsin 53705

Travers, Brittany

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Education

  • Postdoctoral WI, Universiry of Wisconsin - Madison, 2013
  • PhD Cognitive Psychology, University of Alabama, 2011

Select Media Contributions

  • Adityarup Chakravorty, UW Communications, Video Game Improves Balance in Youth with Autism. (November, 2017). Media Link
  • Zawn Villines, GoodTherapy.org, Can Video Games Benefit Children on the Autism Spectrum?. (February, 2016). Media Link
  • Xiani Zhong, The Badger Herald, UW professors use innovative ways to help autistic children. (January, 2016). Media Link
  • Alicia Shoberg, The Daily Cardinal, Professor plays with ideas to assist autistic children using video games. (January, 2016). Media Link
  • Kelly Tyrell, UWMadScience, Video games, balance and autism: A Q&A with autism expert Brittany Travers. (January, 2016). Media Link

Select Publications

  • Surgent, O., Dean, D., Alexander, A. A., Guerrero-Gonzalez, J., Dadalko, O. I., Taylor, D., Skaletski, E., & Travers, B. G. (2021). Neurobiological and behavioral outcomes of balance training in autism: A randomized controlled trial. Brain Communications, 3(3), 1-17.
  • Surgent, O. J., Dadalko, O. I., Pickett, K. A., & Travers, B. G. (2019). Balance and the brain: A review of structural brain correlates of postural balance and balance training in humans. Gait & Posture doi:.
  • Ardalan, A., Assadi, A. H., Surgent, O. J., & Travers, B. G. (2019). Videogame play distinguishes youth with autism from youth with typical development. Scientific Reports, 9, 1-11. Link.
  • Dadalko, O. I., & Travers, B. G. (2018). Evidence for brainstem contributions to autism spectrum disorders. Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience, 12(47), 1-17. Online Publication/Abstract.
  • Travers, B. G., Mason, A., Mrotek, L. A., Ellertson, A., Dean, D. C., Engel, C., Gomez, A., Dadalko, O. I., & McLaughlin, K. (2017). Biofeedback-Based, Videogame Balance Training in Autism.. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders
  • Travers, B. G., Bigler, E. D., Duffield, T. C., Prigge, M. D., Froehlich, A., McLaughlin, K., Dadalko, O. I., Dean, 3rd, D. C., Tromp, D., Adluru, N., Destiche, D., Freeman, A., Zielinski, B. A., Lange, N., Anderson, J. S., Alexander, A. L., & Lainhart, J. E. (2017). Longitudinal development of manual motor ability in autism spectrum disorder from childhood to mid- adulthood relates to adaptive daily living skills. Developmental Science, 20(4)
  • Travers, B. G., Bigler, E., Duffield, T. C., Prigge, M. D. B., Froehlich, A., Lange, N., Alexander, A. L., & Lainhart, J. E. (2016). Longitudinal development of manual motor ability in Autism Spectrum Disorder from childhood to mid-adulthood relates to adaptive daily living skills. Developmental Science
  • Travers, B. G., Tromp, D. P. M., Adluru, N., Lange, N., Destiche, D., Ennis, C., Nielsen, J., Froehlich, A. L., Prigge, M. D. B., Fletcher, P. T., Anderson, J. S., Zielinski, B. A., Bigler, E. D., Lainhart, J. E., & Alexander, A. L. (2015). Atypical development of white matter microstructure of the corpus callosum in males with autism: A longitudinal investigation. Molecular Autism Online Publication/Abstract.
  • Travers, B. G., Bigler, E. D., Duffield, T. C., Tromp, D. P., Adluru, N., Lange, N., Destiche, D., Samsin, D., Froehlich, A., Prigge, M. D., Alexander, A. L., & Lainhart, J. E. (2015). Brainstem white matter predicts individual differences in manual motor difficulties and symptom severity in autism. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 45(9), 3030-3040.
  • Green, R., Bigler, E., Alyson, F. L., Molly, P. D. B., Travers, B. G., Cariello, A. N., Anderson, J. S., Zielinski, B. A., Alexander, A. L., Lange, N., & Lainhart, J. E. Beery VMI performance in Autism Spectrum Disorder. Child Neuropsychology

Select Presentations

  • Travers, B. G. (2020). What can motor challenges tell us about autism? Talk presented at the John D. Wiley Seminar, Madison, Wi.
  • Travers, B. G. (2020). What can motor difficulties tell us about autism?: Linking motor challenges, daily living skills, and neurobiological correlates. Talk presented at the Mind Institute, Davis, CA.
  • Travers, B. G. (2020). Motor challenges and early-developing brain structures in individuals on the autism spectrum. Talk presented at the , Glasgow, Scotland.
  • Travers, B. G. (2020). Underpinnings and implications of motor challenges in individual on the autism spectrum. Talk presented at the Sharon M. Guten Colloquium Series, Madison, WI.
  • Travers, B. G. (2020). Responsible authorship and publication. Talk presented at the Waisman Center Ethics and Professional Development Seminar.

Select Awards and Honors

  • Research Finalist, WARF innovation Awards (WIA) Competition, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2019
  • Teaching Academy Fellow, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2019
  • Austin Faculty Fellow, School of Education, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2017
  • Second most-cited Autism Research article over a five-year period, Google Scholar, (2016, 2017)
  • Nominated for Undergraduate Mentor Award, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2016
  • Young Investigator Award, International Society for Autism Research (INSAR), 2016
  • Selected Trainee, Interdisciplinary Training Conference in Developmental Disabilities, 2014
  • Morse Society Scholar, Waisman Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2013
  • Award for Excellence in Research by a Doctoral Student, University of Alabama, 2011