The Education and Brain Sciences Research Lab has moved to a new building!
Last week we moved to 1400 18th Avenue South, Nashville TN, just a few blocks away from our old office.
It’s been a hectic few weeks, but we are all excited to continue our research and study in our brand new home!
The lab would like to publicly congratulate our intern Walden Ferrell on her excellent poster presentation over some of the preliminary findings of the lab. Walden has been working with the lab for some time and has been a valuable asset. Working closely with lab member Tin Nyugen, Walden generated this poster to present with her classmates as a part of her continued internship. A small crowd and a steady stream of inquiring minds were always present at her poster, which she handled wonderfully. We can’t wait for her to return in the fall to continue working with us, and we wish her continued academic success!
Location: Hilton Brighton Metropole (Brighton, United Kingdom)
Dates: July 18-21, 2018
Program Chair: Robert Savage
https://www.triplesr.org/twenty-fifth-annual-meeting
Poster Presentation –
*presenting authors
Neena Saha*, Stephen Bailey, & Laurie Cutting. Initial Validation Evidence for the Decoding System Measure (DSyM): A Measure of Decoding Difficulty.
Tin Nguyen*, Stephanie Del Tufo, & Laurie Cutting. Executive Functions and Brain Structural Development Support the Growth of Readers’ Self-Correction Probability.
Invited Symposium –
Topic: Reading Comprehension Across the Ages: Learning to Read and Reading to Learn
Mercedes Spencer & Laurie Cutting*. “Considering the Role of Executive Function in the Simple View of Reading.”
Symposium –
*presenting author
Topic: New Insights into the Genetic and Environmental Contributions to Reading Development and Disability
Daniel Leopold, Andrew Reineberg, Kai Wang, Marie Banich, Erik Willcutt, Lee Thompson, Laurie Cutting, & Stephen Petrill. “Prediction of Individual Differences in Adolescent Reading Ability Using A Priori Neuroanatomy and Task-Based fMRI.”
Topic: Neuroimaging the Typical and Atypical Development of Reading Over Time
Laurie Cutting*. “Longitudinal Changes in Brain Connectivity During Reading Development.”
Stephen Bailey, Vanderbilt University
Katherine gave a talk to the VUIIS retreat on the afternoon of June 8th and won an award for best presentation. We are so proud here in the lab and aren’t shocked in the least! Congrats Katherine!!
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For more information, download the VUIIS Retreat 2017 APP: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=vanderbilt.retreat2017&hl=en_US
How do we build meaning from texts? An fMRI study of adult sentence reading
Friday, June 8
Vanderbilt University
See the talk that critics are calling “Pretty Good…” Featuring Katherine Aboud as Katherine Aboud, a plucky neuroscientist out to change the world, one conference at a time.
Katherine Aboud received her B.S. in Mathematics and English from Virginia Tech, and an M.F.A. in Poetry at George Mason. Katherine is particularly interested in using multiple types of neuroimaging approaches to examine the neural correlates of semantic processing, and how deficits in these processes contribute to reading difficulties.
Dr. Laurie Cutting is scheduled to give a talk at
St. Petersburg, Russia
May 28—June 1, 2018.
The meeting will include various language-related topics with targeted speakers in language evolution, genetic and environmental etiology, typical development, language disorders, bi/multilingualism, and various types of literacy. The symposium will be supported primarily by two laboratories led by Elena Grigorenko and Yury Shtyrov, both recently established at the St. Petersburg University (SPbSU), Russia, within the framework of so-called “Mega-grant projects” aimed at giving a major boost to Russian sciences (http://www.p220.ru/en/).
In addition, both funding and other administrative support, including the venue for the conference, was provided by SPbSU. A number of philanthropic organizations will be supporting various aspects of the event, including The Dyslexia Foundation, the Russian Dyslexia Association, and the Way Out Foundation. In addition to a scientific exchange of ideas among leading scientists, the event will feature three free public lectures open to all and a round table for practitioners with participating educators from independent schools, representatives of the Russian Ministry of Science and Education, and social Russian social entrepreneurs interested in starting independent schools.
Congratulations are in order for lab member Stephen Bailey and his wife Danielle on the birth of their second child, William. The lab wishes them all the luck in the world and hopefully as much sleep as possible.
For more information: http://vkc.mc.vanderbilt.edu/events/6063
Wednesday, April 25, 7:30-9:00 p.m.
The Windward School
Westchester Middle School
40 West Red Oak Lane
White Plains, NY 10604
Educational neuroscience is an emerging field of research that draws upon the disciplines of cognitive neuroscience, education, and psychology, with the goal of examining neurobiological processes as related to education. In this lecture, the neural mechanisms of reading, mathematics, and attention will be discussed as well as insights about how this emerging field can influence instructional practice. In addition, neurobiological approaches that may inform and refine our understanding of how to identify and treat reading difficulties will be discussed.
For more information: http://vkc.mc.vanderbilt.edu/events/6063
Biostatistics and Bioinformatics Core Seminar: Brain Development and Aging through the Lens of Inter-Network Relationships: Application of Statistical Methods to Neuroimaging Data
Monday, April 9, 12:00-1:00 p.m.
Room 241, Vanderbilt Kennedy Center/One Magnolia Circle Building
Laurie Cutting, Ph.D., Patricia and Rodes Hart Professor of Special Education; Professor of Psychology, Radiology, and Pediatrics; Associate Director, Vanderbilt Kennedy Center
Hakmook Kang, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Biostatistics
A light lunch will be offered. Please register by Thursday, Apr. 5, for accurate catering count.
For more information, contact Elizabeth Turner at (615) 322-8240.