{"id":971,"date":"2015-07-07T11:40:39","date_gmt":"2015-07-07T15:40:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/ace\/?post_type=cu-people&#038;p=971"},"modified":"2021-12-20T15:27:24","modified_gmt":"2021-12-20T20:27:24","slug":"kathleen-van-benthem","status":"publish","type":"cu-people","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/ace\/people\/kathleen-van-benthem\/","title":{"rendered":"Kathleen Van Benthem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">Dr. Kathleen Van Benthem is a Senior Research Scientist at the ACE Lab and an Adjunct Research Professor at the Department of Cognitive Science. Her research involves the study of cognitive health and\u00a0<span class=\"gmail_default\">risk for older pilots and drivers<\/span>. She uses full-scale and virtual reality simulators to collect\u00a0<span class=\"gmail_default\">operator\u00a0<\/span>performance data. She has developed an online method for conducting research on pilot cognitive health. 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