News & Resources
IPN Student Seminar
November 11th, 2024
Mia Coutinho
Cortical thickness differences in bilingual and monolingual children
Mentor: Dr. Guinevere Eden
Conference Presentation
September 2024
Fetal, Infant, & Toddler Neuroimaging Group, Baltimore, MD
Trevor Day
Abstract title: Differences in the distribution of the BOLD signal in infants and toddlers and the impact on connectivity
Fellowship Awarded
August 2024
Sara Dyslin has been awarded an F31 NRSA fellowship! Her research will focus on understanding how damage to language-processing networks influences activity in the brain's visual word form area (VWFA), a region critical for word recognition. Congratulations, Sara!
Title: Investigating functional changes to the visual word form system in post-stroke alexia
Mentors: Dr. Peter Turkeltaub & Dr. Andrew DeMarco
Postdoc Appointment
July 2024
Sarah Phillips, PhD, has been appointed as a GHUCCTS TL1 Postdoctoral Fellow starting September 1st, 2024. Congratulations, Sarah!
Title: Assessing prosody processing deficits between Black and White stroke survivors
Mentorship Team: Anna Greenwald (Mentor), Andrew DeMarco & Abby Marsh (Co-mentors)
Postdoc Appointment
July 2024
Lillian Chang, PhD, has been appointed as a Postdoctoral Fellow in Dr. Max Riesenhuber's Lab. Congratulations, Lillian!
Appointment of new scholar
June 30th, 2024
Iria Gutierrez-Schieferl has been appointed as our fourth predoctoral scholar. Congratulations, Iria!
Appointment of new scholar
June 23rd, 2024
Elizabeth Anderson has been appointed as our fourth postdoctoral scholar. Congratulations, Elizabeth!
Thesis Defense
June 7th, 2024
Lillian Chang
Mentor: Dr. Max Riesenhuber
Appointment of new scholar
June 1st, 2024
Trevor K.M. Day has been appointed as our third postdoctoral scholar. Congratulations, Trevor!
Award
May 2024
International Symposium on Bilingual and L2 Processing in Adults and Children, Swansea University, UK
Mia Coutinho
Awarded second place in the ISBPAC poster competition
Invited Talk
May 2024
Linguistics Department, UCLA
Sarah Phillips
Title: No escape from morphemes in the bilingual mind
Invited Talk
March 2024
Language Science Program, Virginia Tech
Sarah Phillips
Title: Prosody: What may lie between composition and control
Where we publish
Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience • Neurobiology of Language • Public Library of Science One
IPN Student Seminar
January 30th, 2024
Sara Dyslin
The role of the vOTC in reading: Insights from post-stroke Alexia
Mentor: Dr. Peter Turkeltaub
Conference Presentation
November 2023
Society for Neuroscience, Washington, District of Columbia
Lillian Chang
Abstract title: A direct connection from auditory to visual word form areas bridges the auditory and written speech networks: evidence from fMRI and MEG connectivity
IPN Student Seminar
September 26th, 2023
Mia Coutinho
The Neuroanatomical correlates of Language Balance in early Spanish-English Bilinguals
Mentor: Dr. Guinevere Eden
IPN Student Seminar
September 25th, 2023
Lillian Chang
Mentor: Dr. Max Riesenhuber
Invited Talk
September 2023
Cognitive Science Seminar Series, University of Arizona
Sarah Phillips
Title: Constraining what is combinatorially possible using 'heads'
Invited Talk
September 2023
Diversity Speaker Series, Vanderbilt University
Sarah Phillips
Title: The Good, the Bad, and the Diverse: Investigating the consequences of diverse linguistic experiences on the mind and brain
Conference Presentation
July 2023
Organization of Human Brain Mapping, Montreal, Canada
Mia Coutinho
Abstract title: Gray matter volume in bilinguals is related to language balance, but not when controlling for language proficiency
Appointment of new scholar
July 1st, 2023
Mia Coutinho has been appointed as our third predoctoral scholar. Congratulations, Mia!
Invited Talk
March 2023
Psychology Speaker Series, University of New Mexico
Sarah Phillips
Title: What can bilinguals teach us about executive control?
Invited Talk
February 2023
ILST Seminar in Language and Communication Sciences, University of Pennsylvania
Sarah Phillips
Title: When processing meets theory: A general strategy for building code-switching expressions
Appointment of new scholar
January 1st, 2023
Christian Navarro-Torres has been appointed as our second postdoctoral scholar. Congratulations, Christian!
Conference Presentation
November 2022
Society for Neuroscience, San Diego, California
Lillian Chang
Abstract title: Visual speech processing interfaces with areas selective for spoken words in ventral and dorsal speech pathways
Conference Presentation
October 2022
Society for the Neurobiology of Language, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Lillian Chang
Abstract title: Selective neural tuning to spoken words in the dorsal auditory stream
Appointment of new scholar
September 1st, 2022
Lillian Chang has been appointed as our second predoctoral scholar. Congratulations, Lillian!
Appointment of first scholars
June 6th, 2022
Sara Dyslin, MS, and Sarah Phillips, PhD, have been appointed as our first predoctoral and postdoctoral scholars. Congratulations, Sara and Sarah!
Where we present
Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing • Cognitive Neuroscience Society
Human Sentence Processing • Organization of Human Brain Mapping
Society for the Neurobiology of Language • Society for Neuroscience
Resources
Responsible Conduct of Research
Provides face-to-face training for predoctoral students, postdoctoral fellows and early career investigators in the responsible conduct of research. The course is designed for predocs, post-docs, and junior faculty who are recipients for the NIH and other training awards that require Responsible Conduct of Research. This course covers topics in the principles and expectations for conducting biomedical research; and promotes ethical, rigorous and reproducible science. For the next scheduled training, please view the event calendar here: http://www.ghuccts.org/news-events/event-calendar.
Mentor Training Workshop Series
GHUCCTS offers training opportunities to engage new and experienced faculty to develop a strong mentoring culture across departments, and amongst partner institutions. Our Entering Mentoring workshops developed by the Wisconsin Program for Scientific Teaching at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, provide resources to enhance mentoring skills – including communication, career planning, and collaboration. To be informed of our next workshop, please contact ghuccts.education@georgetown.edu.
Grant Writing Workshop Series
This 6-month interactive workshop focuses on applying knowledge of clinical trials design, biostatistics, and research ethics to trainee-specific proposals. Each participant will develop, revise, and prepare to submit an F-, K-, or R-series NIH grant application, or equivalent over the course of this in-person workshop with constructive input from facilitators and participants. Participants will hone their grant writing skills through attending lectures on best practices for individual grant components and by giving and receiving constructive feedback from their peers. These workshops are embedded within our Translational Biomedical Science evening series on Thursdays rotating between Georgetown and Howard Universities. This workshop is designed to align with the NIH submission cycle deadline. For more information, visit http://www.ghuccts.org/education/seminars-and-workshops.