EBRL is very proud to be the home to a large amount of talented individuals. Over time sadly those people may come and go, but we are always overjoyed to celebrate their successes along the way. This is the start of so many wonderful things for so many people in our lab and we couldn’t be happier for them.
Congratulations 2019 graduates! Onwards ever higher!
Jump up on your feet and get your steps in today! The first Wednesday in April is National Walking Day! Here at Vanderbilt we got out and took a short break from doing research to go and stretch our legs with a good long walk!
As we all know, exercise and especially walking is good for your health and especially good for your brain! So we all hope you got to get out and enjoy the weather and take a good long walk with your friends and family!
You never know who you might run into!
Dr. Laurie Cutting to Lecture at Ohio State University’s Science Sundays’ Lecture Series
Find out more about her lecture and future Science Sunday lectures at the event page here: https://ccbbi.osu.edu/events/science-sundays
Mirroring the information provided there here:
Brain Blast 2019 was an outstanding success for EBRL!
The team was there, bright and early before all of the patrons, setting up our stations, a fun journey through the reading brain. We brought our handy-dandy “portable MRI” so the kids could all see what it was like to be a part of one of our research studies, and played they scanner noises so people could know what an MRI sounded like. Then, they got to color their way through each part of the reading network, and play a fun game for each part! At the very end, they got to even make their own reading network. The day was filled with fun and learning about the brain and the visitors never stopped!
Not to worry if you missed the event this year, there’s always the next! We will definitely be there!
Dr. Laurie Cutting was invited to deliver the DeHirsh Grand Rounds (“Cognitive Neuroscience of Reading Development”) at Columbia University on January 19th, 2019.
Find out more details here from Columbia University’s website:
https://www.columbia.edu/content/events/cognitive-neuroscience-reading-development
Interested in knowing how our longitudinal study of Reading Comprehension is going? Find out the same way our participants already have:
RC3Newsletter_2018FINALMembers from the lab are set to attend and present at the conference this year!
Conference: SSSR (2019) in Toronto
Symposium Title: The interaction of domain-general mechanisms and reading development: from word to text
Chair: Katherine Aboud
Authors: Sayako Earle, Tin Nguyen, Tehil Nugiel, and Katherine Aboud
Discussant: Laurie Cutting
Abstract: Recent evidence increasingly points to domain-general processes, such as executive functions and memory, as critical to reading development. This symposium will present diverse evidence for the flexible, multi-dimensional nature of domain-general contributions to developmental reading skill, from single word reading to full texts. Specifically, the authors will discuss (1.) the dependence of reading acquisition on procedural/declarative memory, (2.) the predictive relationship of executive functions on reading fluency in complex texts, (3.) the recruitment of domain-general areas during sentence comprehension as a key predictor of intervention gains in struggling readers, and (4.) the recruitment of distinct domain-general brain networks for different text types. Each talk will speak to how non-language processes help scaffold reading ability, and will provide evidence that the presence/absence of this domain-general scaffolding is a key factor in reading outcomes across different reading processes.
Find out more about the conference here: https://www.triplesr.org/important-dates-twenty-fifth-annual-meeting
The Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Health and Human Development recently featured EBRL with this tweet:
#NICHD grantee Dr. Laurie Cutting @VanderbiltU educational neuroscientist studying outcomes of a reading program for children with #Neurofibromatosis1, a genetic disorder associated with a greater risk of learning disabilities. https://t.co/YRX9A1IkxX @ChildrensTumor
— NICHD News & Info (@NICHD_NIH) December 14, 2018
Citing this article:
https://www.ctf.org/news/vanderbilt-university-educational-study-seeking-young-people-with-nf1
Referencing to our continuing campaign recruiting young children with Neurofibromatosis 1 for our research study. We thank them for highlighting one of our current studies and hope it continues to attract more families to contact us for participation. If you are interested, please read the short article above highlighting our NF1 project and if you would like to participate, please contact us by email or phone (contact information is available at the bottom of the page and on our “Contact Us” page).
For more information on our current studies, please visit:
As we all know, the life of a grad or phd student is a difficult one. Much of your time is spent delicately balancing life and important research that will far outlive you. Many days and nights are spent on the edge of delirium and sleep deprivation, all to get that degree and learn a little more. One person in our lab has neared the end of this chapter of his education and we couldn’t be happier to our very own – Doctor – Stephen Kent Bailey. Although you may be leaving our lab soon, you’ll be taking our well wishes with you, along with our undying knowledge that you will continue to succeed and exceed our wildest hopes for you.
Congratulations on your accomplishment from everyone here at EBRL Dr. Bailey!