Joanna Christodoulou, M.A., Ed.M. (Harvard Grad School of Education) 46-4037D jac765@mail.harvard.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) 46-4037C  kingl@mit.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.
	Joshua Manning (MIT) 46-4037 joshuam@mit.edu	Josh earned his B.F.A in music composition and M.S. in Public Policy from Carnegie Mellon University.  Josh is interested in the interaction between emotion, cognition, and behavior.  In particular, Josh is interested in effect of both incidental and non-incidental emotions on judgment and decision making processes and the neural correlates associated with cognition in states of emotional arousal.
	Irina Ostrovskaya (MIT) 46-4037 irinao@mit.edu	Irina is a second year student in the Speech, Hearing, Bioscience and Technology program at the HST division of MIT/Harvard, and is pursuing clinical work in Speech-Language Pathology at the MGH Institute of Health Professions.  Her interests center on the neural representation of language and its disorders. She is currently studying language development in normal and impaired populations, and is particularly interested in Specific Language Impairment. She received her bachelors degree from Boston University, where she studied cognitive neuroscience, psychology and visual art.
	Tyler Perrachione, M.A. (MIT) 46-4037D tkp@mit.edu	Tyler earned his M.A. in linguistics and B.A. in linguistics and cognitive science at Northwestern University, where his work focused on perceptual processes in human talker identification and acquisition of non-native speech sounds by adults.  Now a PhD student in BCS, Tyler's research addresses the neural representations of auditory information in spoken language processing.  In particular, he is investigating how variability in the structure and functional organization of human auditory cortex across development contributes to auditory expertise.  More information about Tyler's research, including ongoing projects and publications, can be found on his website: http://web.mit.edu/tkp/www/
	Zeynep Saygin (MIT) 46-4037 zsaygin@mit. edu	I received my B.S. in neuroscience in 2005 from Brown University, studying visual cognitive neuroscience and oil painting.  I am now a second year graduate student at the Brain and Cognitive Sciences Department at MIT.  My interests lie in the development of attentional and emotional regulation, and how they interact with each other.  I currently study this in the Gabrieli Laboratory in both pediatric and adult clinical populations (Pediatric Bipolar Disorder, Pervasive Developmental Disorder, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, and Social Anxiety Disorder) and healthy controls using multimodal imaging (functional and structural MRI, MRS, DTI).
	Todd Thompson (MIT) 46-4037C toddt@mit.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.