A5070693206- Reading and Literacy Development
- Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism
- Language Development and Disorders
- Cognitive and developmental aspects of mathematical skills
- Neuroscience and Music Perception
- Multisensory perception and integration
- Neuroscience, Education and Cognitive Function
- Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior
- Hearing Loss and Rehabilitation
- Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
- Autism Spectrum Disorder Research
- Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
- Infant Health and Development
- Genetics and Neurodevelopmental Disorders
- Craniofacial Disorders and Treatments
- Tactile and Sensory Interactions
- Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
- Cleft Lip and Palate Research
- EEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces
- Text Readability and Simplification
- Infant Development and Preterm Care
- Neonatal and fetal brain pathology
- Second Language Acquisition and Learning
- Writing and Handwriting Education
- Child Development and Digital Technology
Yale University
2014-2025
University of Connecticut
2016-2025
Haskins Laboratories
2015-2024
Google (United States)
2012-2023
Southern Connecticut State University
2021
University of Pennsylvania
2020
University of New Haven
2018-2020
John Wiley & Sons (United States)
2020
Michigan State University
2020
Hudson Institute
2020
Substance abuse in pregnant and recently post-partum women is a major public health concern because of effects on the infant ability adult to care for infant. In addition negative teratogenic substances fetal development, substance use can contribute difficulties associated with social behavioral aspects parenting. Neural circuits parenting behavior overlap involved addiction (e.g., frontal, striatal, limbic systems) thus may be co-opted craving/reward cycle less available The current study...
Early language development sets the stage for a lifetime of competence in and literacy. However, neural mechanisms associated with relative advantages early communication success, or disadvantages having delayed development, are not well explored. In this study, 174 elementary school-age children whose parents reported that they started forming sentences 'early', 'on-time' 'late' were evaluated standardized measures language, reading spelling. All oral written revealed consistent patterns...
Purpose The purpose of this study was to evaluate the efficacy a treatment program that includes ultrasound biofeedback for children with persisting speech sound errors associated childhood apraxia (CAS). Method Six ages 9–15 years participated in multiple baseline experiment 18 sessions during which focused on producing sequences involving lingual sounds. Children were cued modify their tongue movements using visual feedback from real-time images. Probe data collected before, during, and...
Reading disability is a brain-based difficulty in acquiring fluent reading skills that affects significant numbers of children. Although neuroanatomical and neurofunctional networks involved typical atypical are increasingly well characterized, the underlying neurochemical bases individual differences development virtually unknown. The current study first to examine neurochemistry children during critical period which neurocircuits support skilled still developing. In longitudinal pediatric...
Becoming a skilled reader requires building functional neurocircuitry for printed-language processing that integrates with spoken-language-processing networks. In this longitudinal study, MRI (fMRI) was used to examine convergent activation printed and spoken language (print-speech coactivation) in selected regions implicated (the reading network). We found print-speech coactivation across the left-hemisphere network beginning readers predicted achievement 2 years later beyond effects of...
Parental reflective functioning refers to the capacity for a parent understand their own and infant's mental states, how these states relate behavior. Higher levels of parental may be associated with greater sensitivity infant emotional signals in fostering adaptive responsive caregiving. We investigated this hypothesis by examining associations between neural correlates face cry perception using event-related potentials (ERPs) sample recent mothers. found both early late ERPs were different...
Abstract Functional neuroimaging studies indicate that a primary marker of specific reading disability (RD) is reduced activation left hemisphere (LH) posterior regions during performance tasks. However, the severity this disruption, and extent to which these LH systems might be available for under any circumstances, unclear at present. Experiment 1 examined cortical effects stimulus manipulations (frequency, imageability, consistency) have known facilitative on both nonimpaired (NI) RD...
Infant cries and facial expressions influence social interactions elicit caretaking behaviors from adults. Recent neuroimaging studies suggest that neural responses to infant stimuli involve brain regions process rewards. However, these have yet investigate individual differences in tendencies engage or withdraw motivationally relevant stimuli. To this, we used event-related fMRI scan 17 nulliparous women. Participants were presented with novel of two distress levels (low high) unknown faces...
Abstract Understanding how pre‐literate children's language abilities and neural function relate to future reading ability is important for identifying children who may be at‐risk problems. Pre‐literate are already proficient users of spoken their developing brain networks become highly overlapping with that emerge during literacy acquisition. In the present longitudinal study, we examined abilities, activation connectivity within network in (mean age = 4.2 years). We tested activation,...
Although developmental science has always been evolving, these times of fast-paced and profound social scientific changes easily lead to disorienting fragmentation rather than coherent advances. What directions should pursue meaningfully address real-world problems that impact human development throughout the lifespan? conceptual or policy shifts are needed steer field in directions? The present manifesto is proposed by a group scholars from various disciplines perspectives within spark...
ABSTRACT Substance use may influence mothers’ responsiveness to their infants and negatively impact the parent–infant relationship. Maternal substance co‐opt neural circuitry involved in caregiving, thus reducing salience of infant cues diminishing sense reward experienced by caring for infants. Gaps understanding exist with regard mechanisms which operates processing how this translates caregiving. Therefore, we examined might relate maternal responses using event‐related potentials (ERPs)....
Recent work using fMRI inter-subject correlation analysis has provided new information about the brain's response to video and audio narratives, particularly in frontal regions not typically activated by single words. This approach is very well suited study of reading, where narrative central natural experience. But since past reading paradigms have primarily presented words or phrases, influence on semantic processing brain - how that might change with ability remains largely unexplored. In...
Abstract For accurate reading comprehension, readers must first learn to map letters their corresponding speech sounds and meaning, then they string the meanings of many words together form a representation text. Furthermore, master complexities involved in parsing relevant syntactic pragmatic information necessary for interpretation. Failure this process can occur at multiple levels, cognitive neuroscience has been helpful identifying underlying causes success failure single comprehension....
Recent work has suggested that variability in levels of neural activation may be related to behavioral and cognitive performance across a number domains offer information is not captured by more traditional measures use the average level brain activation. We examined relationship between reading skill school-aged children during functional MRI task after taking into account activity. The involved matching printed spoken words pictures items. Single trial estimates were used calculate mean...