Alumni

Post-doctoral Research Associates

      

Jerome Prado, Principal Investigator, French National Center for Scientific Research, Lyon Center for Neuroscience Research

Anna Banaszkiewicz, Post-doctoral Scholar, Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology, Polish Academy of Sciences

      

Tali Bitan, Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, Haifa University

    

Ilaria Berteletti, Associate Professor, Program in Educational Neuroscience, Galludet University

      

Donald Bolger, Associate Professor, Department of Educational Psychology, University of Maryland – College Park

   

Chris Brozdowski, Computational and Data Science Research Specialist, University of California, San Francisco

     

Douglas Burman, Project Manager for fMRI, Department of Radiology, NorthShore University HealthSystem

     

Tai-Li Chou, Professor, Psychology Department, National Taiwan University

     

Gillian Cooke, Senior Director for Research and Core Development, Interdisciplinary Health Sciences, University of Illinois – Champagne Urbana

      

Ozlem Ece Demir, Assistant Professor, University of Iowa

       

Amy Desroches, Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Winnipeg

 

Margaret Gullick, Director, Center for Human Services Research, Albany NY

      

Rubi Hammer, Research Scientist, Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology

       

Chris McNorgan, Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Buffalo

       

Macarena Suárez-Pellicioni, Assistant Professor, Educational Psychology, University of Alabama

      

Joel Voss, Professor, Department of Neurology, University of Chicago

     

Neelima Wagley, Assistant Professor, Speech and Hearing Science, Arizona State University

       

Jane Wang, Research Scientist, Google DeepMind, London

     

Yael Weiss-Zruya, Research Scientist, Institute for Brain and Learning Sciences, University of Washington

    

Brianna Yamasaki, Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, Emory University

Doctoral Students

      

Christine Brennan, Assistant Professor, Department of Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences, University of Colorado – Boulder

     

Fan Cao, Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Hong Kong

      

Nadia Cone, Director of Academic Technology, Rawson Saunders School – Austin

      

Yuan Deng, Associate Professor, Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences

      

Yue Gao, Graduate Student, Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience and Learning, Beijing Normal University

 

Shu-Hui Lee, Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan

      

Yanyan Li, Assistant Professor, Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

      

Melissa A. Randazzo, Assistant Professor, Communication Sciences And Disorders, Adelphi University

       

Li Liu, Associate Professor, Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience and Learning, Beijing Normal University.

       

Evar Strid, Assistant Professor, Department of Curriculum and Instruction, Northern Illinois University

   

Michael Tennekoon, Senior Program Manager, National Institute Neurological Disease and Stroke

    

Jin Wang, Post-Doctoral Scholar, Graduate School of Education, Harvard University

       

Jessica Younger, Senior Manager, Research Products, Public Broadcasting Service – DC

Full Time Project Coordinators

Emily Algert, Senior Associate, Marwood Group, New York City

Jordan Bigio, Physician Epic Support, Salt Lake City

John Binzak, Senior Research Director, Pearson, Madison

Hannah Cweigenberg, Operations Manager, Minicircle Inc, Austin

Dan Devor, American Sign Language Interpreter, Bridges Deaf and Hard of Hearing

Clara Ekerdt,  Postdoctoral Researcher, Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behavior, Netherlands

Yasuaki Harasaki, Physician, Neurosurgery, West Virginia Medicine

Stephanie Herrin, Medical Student, University of Cincinnati

Alyssa Lucio, Program Manager, Design & Research Operations, HEB, Austin

Marisa Lytle, Doctoral Student, Pennsylvania State University, State College

Kathy McGroarty-Torres, Dual Language Teacher, Highland Park, Illinois

Jennifer Minas, Director of Marketing and Communications, BrainFPV, Portland

Rachna Mutreja, Market Research Project Manager, RDA Group

Madeleine Reisgorzog, Lead Guide, Casa Montessori Child Development Center, Austin

Christine Saenz, Clinical and Behavioral Research Associate, Dell Medical School, Austin

Angela Scruggs, Owner, Counseling and Professional Solutions, Nashville

Rachel Watkins, Public Health Administrator, Tennessee Department of Health, Nashville

Ruth Zajicek, Clinical Research Associate, Total Child Health, Boulder

Masters Students

Christine Chen, Frontal and temporal functional connectivity during adolescent reading

Jake Kaufman, The relationship between language and number skills in preschool children

Yidan Zhang, Examining the role of working memory in second-language learning

Undergraduate Honors Students

Kristin Allison, Lateral dominance for music and word “rhyming” in novice and skilled musicians

Neha Awati, Multimodal integration and auditory modulation during reading

Kathleen Barlo, An investigation of letter-sound and sound-letter consistency effects across ability

Brynn Carlson, Neural specialization of semantic and phonological processing in four-year-old children

Jimmy Cheon, Effective connectivity during a phonological judgment task in children

Daniel Choi, Arithmetic processing in children and adults

Sarah Corbridge, Spatial and verbal working memory networks with immediate and delayed reward in typically developing children and adults

Juilin Dai, Mechanisms linking reading skill and anxiety symptoms

Nick Davenport, A neurological basis for differences in attention deficit hyperactivity disorder subtypes

Jordan Fox, Children learning to read an artificial script

Sweta Ghatti, Using semantic and syntactic specialization to predict growth in oral language

Emily Gilley, The neural substrate of selective attention and response inhibition deficits in children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder

Jayla Gray, Orthographic and phonological consistency effects in cortex differ in children with and without reading disability during spoken language processing

Stephanie Herrin, Investigating the effects of phonological awareness and semantic knowledge on the development of morpho-syntactic skills

Patricia Huie, The effect of intra- and cross-modal tasks on music chord position and tonality judgments

Kaitlin Kohlenbrener, Psychophysiological interaction between primary visual cortex and fusiform gyrus during visual rhyming in children

Grace Man, The role of neural numerical representations in arithmetic skill.

Rucha Mehta, Neural processing of mathematical processing

Jake McDermott, The role of the left inferior frontal gyrus in morphological processing

Caralynn Nowinski, Attention deficit disorder, electroencephalography, and intelligence/achievement: Is there a relationship?

Eugene Park, Effective connectivity of orthographic and phonological consistency effects in children

Nicole Pedroarena, Learning to read reorganizes the oral language network only in alphabetic writing systems

Amit Vira, Connectivity during phonological processing in the visual modality: Psychophysiological interaction of superior temporal gyrus and other regions in the language network

Stephanie Voss, The relation of crossmodal letter processing in reading skill

Rishi Zaveri, Orthographic and phonological cortical priming effects in children during spoken language processing