Laura ann petitto phd stands

  • Laura Ann PETITTO, NSF Science of Learning Center, Co-PI, and Science Director | Cited by 5335 | of Gallaudet University, Washington, D.C. | Read 69.
  • The members of Mr. Kartheiser's dissertation committee included Professor Laura-Ann Petitto (Primary Advisor and Research Supervisor), Ph.D.
  • Presently, Petitto is the lead founder of the PhD in Educational Neuroscience Program (PEN) at Gallaudet University.

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    Geo Kartheiser successfully defended his dissertation on Tuesday, September 25 (Dr. Laura-Ann Petitto, advisor). Geo will be the PEN program’s second doctoral graduate.

    Geo Kartheiser, Dr. Laura-Ann Petitto’s doctoral student in Gallaudet University’s Ph.D. in Educational Neuroscience (PEN) program and a graduate research assistant in Dr. Petitto’s Brain & Language Laboratory for Neuroimaging (BL2), successfully defended his dissertation on “The Neuroplasticity of Spatial Working Memory in Signed Language Processing” on Tuesday, September 25, 2018.

    Mr. Kartheiser’s study took as a starting point that spatial cognition has been shown to be enhanced in early-exposed, deaf signers of signed languages, possibly because signed languages are spatial in nature. However, spatial cognition is generally considered malleable across the lifespan. Unlike human language that requires exposure during critical developmental periods in early life, it has been a long-standing

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    Dr. Ullman is Professor in the Department of Neuroscience, with secondary appointments in the Departments of Psychology and Neurology. He is Director of the Brain and Language Lab, and Director of the Georgetown EEG/ERP Laboratory.

    The Brain and Language Lab aims to elucidate how language is learned, represented, and processed in the mind and brain.  We focus especially on understanding how language learning and use depend on evolutionarily ancient learning and memory systems in the brain: declarative memory and procedural memory, which are respectively rooted in the hippocampus and the basal ganglia. We study both native and later-learned language/bilingualism. We are also interested in the neurocognition of math, reading, and music, and whether and how these also depend on the two learning and memory systems. We investigate between and within subject differences in the neurocognition of language and other domains, based on factors such as genetic variation, endocrine fluctuations