This Project Grant award of $1,220,412 from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) under CFDA 93.865 (Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research) will support a study to predict intervention outcomes in reading disabled students using in-school cognitive neuroscience. The study aims to: 1) establish trajectories and predictors of reading gains in reading disabled students at learning disability schools using standardized measures and school-based...
This $662,034 federal Project Grant award from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865) supports a deep phenotyping study of dyslexia. The study aims to characterize the role of visual processing and executive functions in reading difficulties, beyond just phonological awareness. The award supports the development of an open-source online assessment platform, as well as a...
This federal Project Grant award in the amount of $542,304 was provided by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865). The award supports research into the neural processes underlying young children's acquisition and retention of vocabulary, as well as the environmental factors that contribute to individual differences in vocabulary development. The research will leverage novel fMRI...
This $435,264 project grant from the National Institutes of Health's National Institute of Child Health and Human Development will fund research at the University of Denver exploring mechanisms underlying reading avoidance in children with reading difficulties. Specifically, the grant will support experiments assessing potential information processing biases related to attention, associative learning, and automatic tendencies that could contribute to reading avoidance and reading anxiety. If...
This Project Grant award of $160,000 from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), under CFDA 93.865 Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program, will support a study investigating the nature and correlates of specific reading comprehension deficit (SRCD) in children and adolescents. The project aims to (1) examine the prevalence and characteristics of SRCD in large representative samples, and (2) identify domain-specific, domain-general, and...
This Project Grant award from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865), provides $571,311 to support research on the development of episodic future thinking (EFT) in early childhood. The primary goals are to: Quantify the processing capacity of EFT during memory retrieval and planning in 3- and 4-year-olds, examining how capacity changes with age, and identifying the neural...
This federal Project Grant award, valued at $132,867.00 and awarded by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865), supports research to investigate how individual differences in statistical learning impact the cross-modal transfer from auditory materials in spoken language to written text during the initial stages of reading development. The primary research objectives are to: 1) establish...
This Project Grant award from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (CFDA 93.865 - Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research) provides $149,804 in funding to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) from April 1, 2025 through March 31, 2028. The project aims to use functional neuroimaging and computational modeling techniques to investigate how language experience shapes the development of the brain's language network across childhood and adolescence....
This $497,194 Project Grant award from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865) will fund a 1-year longitudinal study examining the development of white matter pathways and their relationship to reading abilities in bilingual and monolingual children. The primary recipient, Trustees of Boston University, will leverage the large-scale Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development (ABCD)...
This federal Project Grant award from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865), provides $134,568 to the Regents of the University of Michigan to support research aimed at understanding the cognitive neural signatures of childhood maltreatment in adolescents. The primary objectives are to: 1) develop data-driven approaches to identify cohorts of adolescents affected by childhood...
This federal Project Grant award, provided by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865), aims to examine the recruitment and connectivity of executive function skills in relation to reading and math abilities in 7-8 year old children. The $128,250 award, effective September 17, 2024 through August 31, 2026, will support behavioral and neuroimaging research at Vanderbilt University to gain insight into the underlying cognitive mechanisms that facilitate or hinder academic development in these critical domains. The research findings are expected to inform the development of effective interventions for struggling learners and enhance understanding of how executive function may differ across child development.