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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
Vanessa Cerda, Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology and Communication, Texas A&M International University
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
Carly Leannah, Postdoctoral Scholar, Department of Liberal Studies, Rochester Institute of 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
Jordan Bigio, Physician Epic Support, Salt Lake City
John Binzak, Senior Research Director, Pearson, Madison
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
Clara Plutzer, Doctoral Student, University of Maryland – College Park
Madeleine Reisgorzog, Lead Guide, Casa Montessori Child Development Center, Austin
Rachael Rice, Doctoral Student, University of South Carolina – Columbia
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
Christiana Werner, TBA
Ruth Zajicek, Clinical Research Associate, Total Child Health, Boulder
Masters Students
Christine Chen, Frontal and temporal functional connectivity during adolescent reading
Shaohan Li, Reasoning in different languages: Exploring emotional resonance and deliberative processing in the foreign language effect
Jake Kaufman, The relationship between language and number skills in preschool children
Yidan Zhang, Examining the role of working memory in second-language learning
Huiiia Zheng, The role of dorsal and ventral white matter tracts in phonological and semantic processing of language in pre-readers and beginning readers
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