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Upcoming Workshop
The Neurocognition of
Developmental Language Disorders
A CBBC Workshop
Speaker Bios Peggy McCardle, Ph.D., MPH, is Chief, Child Development and Behavior Branch, Center for Research for Mothers and Children, at the National Institute for Child Health and Human Development (NICHD). She also directs the research program on Language, Bilingual and Biliteracy, which includes research on monolingual, bilingual and cross linguistic studies of language development and bilingual/ language minority reading.
Russell Poldrack, PhD, is Associate Professor in the Departments of Psychology and Psychiatry & Biobehavioral Sciences at UCLA, and holds the Wendell Jeffrey and Bernice Wenzel Term Chair in Behavioral Neuroscience. His work uses neuroimaging methods to examine the brain systems that support learning and memory, executive function, and decision making.
Monika S. Schmid, PhD, is a senior lecturer and Rosalind Franklin Fellow in the English Department of the Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, the Netherlands. Her research examines aspects of first language attrition, with a current focus on international co-operation, methodological issues and research design.
Darlene V. Howard, PhD, is the Davis Family Distinguished Professor of Psychology, and Co-Director of the Graduate Program in Developmental Science, at Georgetown University. Her research interests are in cognitive aging and the cognitive neuroscience of aging.
James H. Howard, Jr., PhD, is Professor of Psychology, Father Matthew Scholar and former department chair at the Catholic University of America; and Adjunct Professor of Neurology at Georgetown University. His research interests are in cognitive aging and the cognitive neuroscience of aging.
Christophe Pallier, PhD, heads the group on neuroimaging of spoken language in the Cognitive Neuroimaging Laboratory of the Institut de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale in Saclay, France. His main research interests include speech perception, bilingualism and second language learning.
Avi Karni, PhD, is Associate Professor at the Faculty of Science and The Department of Learning Dysabilities, Faculty of Education, University of Haifa, Israel. Using behavioral (psychophysics) and brain imaging (fMRI) techniques, his research focuses on studying what drives the ability of the human brain to change with experience and establish effective long-term memory.
Kara Morgan-Short, PhD, is an Assistant Professor at The University of Illinois Chicago, with a joint appointment in the Psychology Department and the Spanish, French, Italian and Portuguese Department. Her research, informed by the fields of applied linguistics and cognitive (neuro)science, takes an interdisciplinary approach in examining the cognitive underpinnings of adult second language acquisition.
Cristina Sanz, PhD, is Associate Professor in the Department of Spanish & Portuguese and Co-Director of the Center for the Brain Basis of Cognition at Georgetown University. She is currently working on The Latin Project, examining the interaction between external (type of input) and individual (cognitive capacity, bilingualism & aging) variables in adult acquisition of non-primary languages.
Michael Ullman, PhD, is Associate Professor in the Departments of Neuroscience, Psychology, Linguistics and Neurology; Director of the Brain and Language Lab; and Co-Director of the Center for the Brain Basis of Cognition at Georgetown University. His research examines the neurocognition of language and its relation to memory in first and second language and in brain disorders.