Laurie Cutting
Patricia and Rodes Hart Professor, Department of Special Education
Professor, Psychology and Human Development
Professor of Pediatrics, School of Medicine
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Cognitive neuroscience, Reading and language development, Cognitive development, Classroom language
Laurie E. Cutting, Ph.D., is the Patricia and Rodes Hart Chair Professor of Neuroscience at Vanderbilt University in the Departments of Special Education, Psychology and Human Development, Radiology, Pediatrics, and Electrical and Computer Engineering. She is also an Associate Provost in the Office of the Vice Provost for Research and Innovation (2023-2025), Associate Director of the Vanderbilt Kennedy Center, a member of the Vanderbilt Brain Institute, and training faculty for Vanderbilt’s Neuroscience Ph.D. program. Her work focuses on brain-behavior relations in children and adolescents, with a particular emphasis on academic and cognitive development. Currently, she is the principal investigator of several NIH- and other federally funded research projects examining the neural underpinnings of cognitive development, academic achievement, and learning.