Dr. Fischer-Baum’s R21 grant to the National Institute of Deafness and Communication Disorder on the “Functional Reorganization of the Reading System following Stroke” just got funded!

The Neuroplasticity Lab, in collaboration with Michael Deem‘s group from Rice Bioengineering, has recently published two papers linking individual differences brain network organization to cognitive abilities. The first, Brain Modularity Mediates the Relation between Task Complexity and Performance, published in the September issue of the Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience with Qiuhai Yue as the first […]

First, we are enormously excited for research scientist Aurora Ramos Nunez, who has moved on to her first faculty position at the College of Coastal Georgia. We will miss her enormously. Congratulations to Hao Yan (a graduate student in Randi Martin’s Lab) for successfully defending his dissertation “Sentence processing in aphasic speakers with short-term memory […]

New paper from Fischer-Baum Lab available online at Cortex. Using representational similarity analysis, we mapped the transformation between different levels of representation during the course of single word reading. Thanks and congrats to the many undergraduate students who were involved in this project and have since graduated or left the lab (Emilio Tamez, Dorrie Bruggemann, Donald SP […]

Rice News put out a news article about out new paper in Neural Plasticity.

Yingying Tan (former Graduate Student, now a post-doc at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics) and Randi Martin (along with Julie Van Dyke from Haskins Laboratory) have a new paper in Frontiers in Psychology (Semantic and Syntactic Interference in Sentence Comprehension: A Comparison of Working Memory Models). In this paper, they take an individual difference […]

The Fischer-Baum Lab just published a paper in a special issue of the journal Neural Plasticity on the Neuroplasticity of the Language Network. In the paper, “The Cognitive Neuroplasticity of Reading Recovery following Chronic Stroke: A Representational Similarity Analysis Approach,” we developed a new method for mapping cognitive functions in the damaged brain following stroke and applied this novel method to a […]

Heather Dial (former graduate student, now a post-doc at UT-Austin) and Randi Martin just published a paper that challenges the prevailing neurocognitive model of speech perception using data from brain-damaged patients tested in our lab.

Members of the Neuroplasticity Lab will be presenting at the 57th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society in Boston, MA Talks: “Orthographic Units in the Absence of Visual Processing: Evidence From Sublexical Structure in Braille” Simon Fischer-Baum and Robert Englebretson Posters “Evaluating the Relationship Between Sublexical and Lexical Processing: Evidence From the Visual World Paradigm” Heather Dial, Bob McMurray […]

Qiuhai Yue, a graduate student working with Randi Martin, was awarded the September 2016 Cognitive Neuropsychology Student Travel Prize.  This is an international competition with typically only 3 winners.  Qiuhai’s application “was selected on the basis of its scientific merit and for the contribution to your research to the field of Cognitive Neuropsychology.”  Qiuhai will present his research […]