Last Monday Meaghan successfully defended her master’s thesis entitled “Associations between cortical structure and reading skills in beginning readers.” Great work, Meaghan!
News
Kaja wins Early Investigator Award from the Society for fNIRS
Kaja Jasińska (former LandiLab postdoc) is the 2018 recipient of the Society for fNIRS Early Investigator Award! Congratulations Kaja!!
LandiLab presents at NERDY
The LandiLab was well-represented at this year’s New England Research on Dyslexia conference. Thanks to Nicole and Meaghan for taking the lead in organizing!
Meaghan Perdue wins 2017 NSF GRFP
All congratulations to Meaghan Perdue, who has been selected for a 2017 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship. This prestigious award comes with three years of funding. Great work, Meaghan!
LandiLab welcomes new graduate student, Meaghan Perdue
Meaghan Perdue, a new Ph.D student in Developmental Psychology, will be joining the lab this fall semester as well as the IGERT program as a fellow. She comes to us most recently from Dr. Nadine Gaab’s lab at Boston Children’s Hospital. Meaghan has experience studying both typical and atypical early reading development using multiple methods. For more info on her, see our people page. The Landi lab enthusiastically welcomes Meaghan!
LandiLab says goodbye to Emily Baron
Emily Baron, an RA for the LandiLab at Haskins for over two years, left this summer to pursue a MSW at Boston College. She will be dearly missed, but we congratulate her on this next step. Great work Emily, and good luck!
Dr. Landi presents at SSSR 2016
Nicole presented a poster at this year’s SSSR meeting. See below for the citation.
Hudson, N.S., Landi, N., & Cutting, L.E. (2016, July). Word Learning in Good and Poor Comprehenders: Evidence of a Specific Reading Comprehension Deficit Profile. Poster session presented at the 23rd Annual Society for the Scientific Study of Reading Meeting, Porto, Portugal.
LandiLab presents at Cognitive Neuroscience Society
Kayleigh and Kaja both presented posters at the 23rd annual meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society held in New York City on April 2-5.
Kayleigh’s poster: Individual differences in activation and functional connectivity across modality and processing level
LandiLab presents at Society for Neurobiology of Language
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Nicole, Kayleigh, and Olivia presented posters at the Seventh Annual Meeting of the Society for the Neurobiology of Language in Chicago, IL, along with many colleagues from Haskins and UConn.
Nicole’s poster: Neural Evidence for Cortical Consolidation After a Period of Offline Sleep
Olivia’s poster: N300 and P300 Responses are Associated with Reading Ability in Children
Kayleigh’s poster: Reading Comprehension Ability and Semantic Activation to Single Words and Discourse: An fMRI Partial Least Squares Analysis