Kathleen Marie "Katie" Gates is an American neuroscientist, quantitative psychologist, and faculty member in the L. L. Thurstone Psychometric Laboratory at the

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. She is known for her contributions to

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, time series analysis, and

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toward the development and dissemination of methods for quantifying intra-individual change and person-specific processes as they unfold across time. She and

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are co-inventors of GIMME, an

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for finding

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s of

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processes across time.

Career

A native of

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, Gates earned a bachelor's degree from

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, a master's degree in forensic psychology from the

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at the

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, and a PhD in human development and family studies with a focus in

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from

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. She joined the Psychology and Neuroscience faculty at the

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in 2013. She is an elected member of the Society of Multivariate Experimental Psychology.

Research

Gates publishes statistical methods for the analysis of intensive longitudinal data. Her primary source of funding is the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering.Dr. Kathleen Gates Awarded National Institute of Biomedical Imaging Grant
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Selected publications

* Gates, K. M., Molenaar, P. C., Hillary, F. G., Ram, N., & Rovine, M. J. (2010). "Automatic search for fMRI connectivity mapping: an alternative to Granger causality testing using formal equivalences among SEM path modeling, VAR, and unified SEM". ''NeuroImage'', ''50''(3), 1118–1125. * Gates, K. M., Molenaar, P. C., Hillary, F. G., & Slobounov, S. (2011). "Extended unified SEM approach for modeling event-related fMRI data". ''NeuroImage'', ''54''(2), 1151–1158. * Gates, K. M., & Molenaar, P. C. (2012). "Group search algorithm recovers effective connectivity maps for individuals in homogeneous and heterogeneous samples". ''NeuroImage'', ''63''(1), 310–319. * Gates, K. M., Molenaar, P. C., Iyer, S. P., Nigg, J. T., & Fair, D. A. (2014). "Organizing heterogeneous samples using community detection of GIMME-derived resting state functional networks". ''PLOS ONE'', ''9''(3), e91322. * Gates, K. M., Gatzke‐Kopp, L. M., Sandsten, M., & Blandon, A. Y. (2015). "Estimating time‐varying RSA to examine psychophysiological linkage of marital dyads". ''Psychophysiology'', ''52''(8), 1059–1065. * Gates, K. M., & Liu, S. (2016). "Methods for quantifying patterns of dynamic interactions in dyads". ''Assessment'', ''23''(4), 459–471.

References

External links

Gates Research Group
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Gates, Kathleen Living people American neuroscientists American women neuroscientists University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill faculty Year of birth missing (living people) American women academics 21st-century American women scientists Quantitative psychologists 21st-century American scientists