Department Member, Fetal-Neonatal Neuroimaging & Developmental Science Center
Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Optics Division
Brigham and Women's Hospital, Newborn Medicine
Harvard University, Harvard Graduate School of Education
About
My research interests include infant and child perception and cognition, brain development, neural plasticity, and multimodal neuroimaging.
As a study coordinator at Children's Hospital Boston, Massachusetts General Hospital, and Brigham and Women's Hospital, I work with Dr. P. Ellen Grant and Dr. Maria Angela Franceschini on studies using noninvasive optical methods (frequency-domain and continuous wave near infrared spectroscopy and diffuse correlation spectroscopy) to investigate infant brain development.
As a student researcher at Harvard University, I work with Daniel Hyde in the Laboratory for Developmental Studies on a project using optical imaging to characterize the neural correlates of infants' understanding of intentional actions.
I previously spent two years as a project coordinator in Dr. Helen Tager-Flusberg's Laboratory of Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience at Boston University, where I was involved in projects using MRI, DTI, EEG, and behavioral testing to examine social, affective, and language processing in children and adults with Autism Spectrum Disorders, including a multi-modal, multi-site study with Dr. Charles Nelson's Labs of Cognitive Neuroscience, Dr. John Gabrieli's laboratory at MIT, and Dr. Tal Kenet in the TRANSCEND Research Group at Massachusetts General Hospital.
While completing my Psychology B.A. at Boston University, I worked as a student research assistant on studies of adult visual attention in Dr. David Somers' Perceptual Neuroimaging Laboratory.
