Gabrieli Laboratory

Graduate Students

General lab telephone numbers:

4th floor (617) 324-2898

5th floor (617) 324-3722

Asaf Bachrach

MIT

Office: 46-4037

Asaf Bachrach is a graduate student in the Department of Linguistics at MIT. He is conducting fMRI research in the Gabrieli Lab on the neural correlates of lexical access.

Xiaoqian (Jenny) Chai

UC Berkeley

Office: 46-5081

Email: xiaoqian at mit dot edu

Jenny Chai is a visiting Ph.D. student in psychology from the University of California Berkeley. Her research focuses on human spatial memory and she is involved in experiments using fMRI to look at hippocampal activation during different spatial navigation tasks. She is also part of the Gabrieli Lab research team investigating the development of memory.

Joanna Christodoulou, M.A., Ed.M.

Harvard Grad School of Education

Office: 46-4037D

Email: christjo at gse dot harvard dot edu

Joanna Christodoulou joins the Gabrieli Lab from the Harvard Graduate School of Education. There, she is a doctoral student studying reading and reading disabilities via brain, mind, behavior, and culture. Across these factors, she investigates the developmental trajectories of reading proficiency in terms of subskills, systems, pathways, and performance. She explores the connections between cognitive neuroscience and education within the framework of reading and reading difficulties. Her interests have been informed by experiences as a reading teacher, clinician, and researcher with students who have reading and learning difficulties.

Livia King

MIT

Office: 46-4037C

Email: kingl at mit dot edu

Livia spent four years at Harvard getting a B.A. in biochemical sciences before she finally saw the light and came to BCS at MIT. Her major research interests revolve around reading and the visual word form area. When she's not looking at brain pictures, Livia is probably singing, eating, west coast swing dancing, sleeping, or reading a children's fantasy novel.

Irina Ostrovskaya

MIT

Office: 46-4037

irinao at mit dot edu

Irina is a second year student in the Speech, Hearing, Bioscience and Technology program at the HST division of MIT/Harvard. Though many aspects of cognition and emotion intrigue me, my current interests lie in the neural representation of language and its disorders, and I am working on studies of dyslexia and Specific Language Impairment. I hope to eventually integrate my research with clinical work in Speech Language Pathology. Prior to coming to MIT, I got my undergrad degree from Boston University , where I studied cognitive neuroscience, psychology and visual art. When not in classes or doing homework, I love all sorts of art (especially visual arts and drama), literature, independent movies, music, and spending time outdoors.

Zeynep Sagin

MIT

Office: 46-4037

zsaygin at mit dot edu

Todd Thompson

MIT

Office: 46-4037C

Email: toddt at mit dot edu

Todd Thompson is a graduate student in the Brain and Cognitive
sciences department. His primary interest is in the plasticity of
executive function, and he hopes to find ways to improve working memory, attention, and inhibitory control in both healthy and patient populations. He is currently conducting research in the Gabrieli Lab on the neural correlates of adult sentence processing and comprehension.

Malathi Thothathiri

Harvard University

Email: malathi at wjh dot harvard dot edu

Malathi Thothathiri is a graduate student in the Department of Psychology at Harvard University. She is conducting research in the Gabrieli Lab on the neural correlates of syntactic processing.