Storytime Sets Foundation for Reading Comprehension

Parent-child reading increases activation of brain networks supporting emergent literacy in 3-5 year-old children.

Hutton, J.S., Horowitz-Kraus, T., DeWitt, T. & Holland, S. (April, 2015). Parent-child reading increases activation of brain networks supporting emergent literacy in 3-5 year-old children: An fMRI study. Pediatric Academic Societies Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA.

Adding Words to the Brain's Visual Dictionary

Georgetown neuroscientists show how the brain learns sight words.

Glezer, L.S., Kim, J., Rule, J., Jiang, X. & Risenhuber, M. (2015). Adding words to the brain's visual dictionary: Novel word learning selectively sharpens orthographic representations in the VWFA. The Journal of Neuroscience, 35(12), 4965-4972.