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New paper on the challenges in connecting reading science and educational practice

July 10, 2020 July 10, 2020News, Recent Events & Activities

LCNL researchers Mark Seidenberg and Matt Cooper Borkenhagen along with Devin Kearns at UConn have a new paper, titled, “Lost in Translation? Challenges in Connecting Reading Science and Educational Practice”. In the paper they ask how much of what we’ve learned from the “science of reading” is useful to teachers? Abstract Can the…

Elise Hopman wins Graduate Women In Science scholarship for her dissertation research

June 22, 2020 January 5, 2021News

Congratulations to graduate student Elise Hopman, who has been awarded the Ruth Dickie Scholarship by the Madison Graduate Women in Science chapter for her planned dissertation research. The Ruth Dickie Scholarship is named after the late Ruth Dickie, a UW-Madison professor who cared passionately about graduate education and research efforts…

Explaining our science to kids

May 1, 2020 May 1, 2020News, Recent Events & Activities

Are you looking for a fun way to incorporate science into homeschooling your children during this pandemic? If so, here’s a suggestion: LCNL researchers Charles Rojas, Elise Hopman, and Maryellen MacDonald published an article today explaining their language learning research to kids. Their article, “How can you get better at learning…

PhD student Mark Koranda’s outreach project Skilled Reflection at UW-Madison

February 17, 2020 February 17, 2020News, Recent Events & Activities

LCNL student Mark Koranda created a student organization, “Skilled Reflection,” designed to use language and writing as a tool for self-exploration and reflection. Mark designs meetings with concrete, grounded writing prompts, encouraging members to use real-time quiet journaling. The purpose is ultimately to help students find answers to questions about…

Maryellen MacDonald and Mark Seidenberg invited to speak at UIUC Dept of Psychology

February 12, 2020 March 4, 2020News

Maryellen MacDonald and Mark Seidenberg are invited to speak on February 14, 2020 at the University of Illinois Department of Psychology. Prof. MacDonald’s talk is at 12:00 p.m.: “Language production is not just for producing language” The talk relates language to other aspects of cognition, for example how language production processes…

LCNL and collaborators at Psychonomics “Plan Reuse in Motor and Language Production”

November 7, 2019 November 7, 2019News, Recent Events & Activities

LCNL and collaborators from Penn State’s Language and Cognition Lab will present “Plan Reuse in Motor and Language Production” at the 60th annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society in Montreal on Thursday, November 14, 2019. Authors: Amy L. Lebkuecher, Pennsylvania State University, Natalie Schwob, Pennsylvania State University, Misty Kabasa and…

Cassandra Jacobs to present at Psychonomics: MathPsych Pre-Conference Nov 14

October 30, 2019 October 30, 2019News, Recent Events & Activities

LCNL postdoctoral researcher Cassandra Jacobs will present at the 60th annual meeting of the Psychononic Society in Montreal. Her talk is “The Lexical Context Model: A continuous bag of words model of semantic and episodic memory”. It will be part of the Psychonomic Society Pre-Conference, Current Trends in Mathematical Psychology.…

Mark Seidenberg answers 13 questions for Reading Rockets [video]

August 30, 2019 October 17, 2019News, Recent Events & Activities

Mark Seidenberg spoke with Reading Rockets to answer 13 important questions about the science of reading. Launched in 2001, Reading Rockets is an education initiative of WETA, the flagship public television and radio station in the nation’s capital. Reading Rockets is a national public media literacy initiative offering information and…

Mark Seidenberg gives keynote talk at MIT’s Science of Reading symposium [video]: “The Science and Politics of Learning to Read”

July 1, 2019 October 17, 2019News

Mark Seidenberg gave a keynote address for the Science of Reading symposium at MIT on June 04, 2019.

From the event website: “MIT Integrated Learning Initiative (MITili) and the McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT co-hosting a symposium on literacy and research science to start a meaningful conversation about the achievement gap in reading, and what we can learn from emerging research on how children learn to read. By convening experts in education and neuroscience, we hope to determine new paths toward ensuring students are not only learning to read, but taught to read through more effective, rigorously researched methods.”
Read more about the event here: http://news.m it.edu/2019/bridging-gap-between-research-classroom-science-of-reading-0627

Congratulations to LCNL’s 2018-2019 academic year graduates!

May 8, 2019 June 30, 2019News

Congratulations to this year’s graduates! & Congratulations to LCNL alumni beginning new chapters! December 2018 Graduates Natalie Ghaffari-Nikou graduated in December 2018 and is currently working with the U.S. Department of Justice. Jamie Dawson graduated in December 2018. Jamie delivered the student address at the 2018 Winter…