African Institute for Mathematical Science – Cape Town
Teaching “Statistics using R” course at the African Institute for Mathematical Sciences (AIMS) in Cape Town, South Africa. Also ran into some former students from AIMS-Senegal 2013, who are now graduate students in South...
Piloting Study in Cote d’Ivoire
The team has been busy with preparations for the first wave of data colleciton for our study of reading development in rural Côte d'Ivoire. We have developed language assessments in four Ivorian languages, including Attié, Abidji, Bété, and Baoulé. No small feat! Put...
Early experience and sensitive periods in development
Attended conference on Early Experiences and Sensitive Periods in Development, held in beautiful Erice, Sicily, Italy. Presented preliminary work on literacy development in rural Côte d'Ivoire. The conference also corresponded with the first meeting of the Jacobs...
Paper on BDNF gene, brain, and reading
The BDNF Val66Met Polymorphism Influences Reading Ability and Patterns of Neural Activation in Children. Paper out in PLOS One.
Research Team at African Linguistics School
Our Ivorian research team attended the African Linguistics School (ALS), held in Yamoussoukro, Côte d'Ivoire in July 2016. The course covered content in phonology, syntax, semantics of west African languages.
Meet our team for reading research in Côte d’Ivoire
I'm very pleased to introduce six new members of the research team for our Jacobs Foundation funded research program "Promoting Literacy Development in Children in Rural Cocoa Producing Communities". The team includes Dr. Clarisse Hager, and five Ivorian graduate...
PIONIRS
PIONIRS: Haskins Laboratories has a working group in fNIRS: PIONIRS (People Investigating and Observing with NIRS). The group has a bi-monthly journal club and data blitz for advances in NIRS analysis that we hope to share. Analysis blog is in the works--stay tuned.
Cognitive Neuroscience Society
Presenting some recent work on the relationships between BDNF gene (Brain Derived Neurotrophic Factor) and structural and functional changes in the developing brain in relation to reading. Our research group was well represented at CNS this year. Here are other...
Research Visit in Cote d’Ivoire
I am currently in Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire. Busy week of meeting everyone on the TRECC team in the local Abidjan office and Zurich-based team who came down to attend meetings and TRECC launch. Representatives from cocoa companies and groups, Ivorian government, Jacobs...
