Awarded in 2019
Home Department: Education
Faculty Advisors: Bruce McCandliss (Education) and Anthony Norcia (Psychology)

Research Title: Imaging the Emergence of Letter-Sound Cortical Associations in Children within Schools

Research Description: Learning to read requires a reorganization of cortical networks to create pathways linking visual and language circuits. This process is critical for students’ educational trajectories, but rarely studied within actual school contexts. Lindsey has proposed a school-based research project using short training studies to measure changing cortical responses to audiovisual (AV) integration, a process known to reflect children’s reading ability. Using school-based electroencephalography (EEG), Lindsey will measure evoked responses specific to the integration of letters and speech sounds. This will demonstrate how dynamic AV integration links to literacy gains with a future goal of informing how we help children learn to read.

WHERE IS SHE NOW?

Lindsey is looking for her next role at the intersections of education, psychology, and neuroscience research.