Aurora, M., Whitehead, H., Mostafa L., Wolf, S., Kembou, S., Ogan, A., Jasińska, K.K. (Dec 7, 2024) Parental Factors, Learning-Related Skills, and Academic Skills in Rural Côte d’Ivoire. APHD Research Gala, Toronto, ON, Canada.
Abdulrasul, H., Capani, A., Brice, H., Jasińska, K.K. (April, 2024). Impact of Interrupted Schooling on Functional Connectivity for Reading in Resettled Syrian Refugee Children in Canada. Cognitive Neuroscience Society Annual Meeting, Toronto, ON, Canada.
Brice, H., Zinszer, B., Hannon, J., Tanoh, F., Nana N’Goh Anicet, K., Jasińska, K.K. (April, 2024). Predicting Literacy in Emergent Readers in Rural Côte d’Ivoire: A Longitudinal fNIRS Study. Cognitive Neuroscience Society Annual Meeting, Toronto, ON, Canada.
Whitehead, H., Bugden, S., Tanoh, F., Wolf, S., Ogan, A., Kembou, S., Jasińska, K.K. (April, 2024). Exploring the neural basis of symbolic and non-symbolic magnitude processing in rural school children from Côte d’Ivoire. Cognitive Neuroscience Society Annual Meeting, Toronto, ON, Canada.
Brice, H., Zinszer, B., Hannon, J., Tanoh, H., N’Goran, N. & Jasińska, K. (2023, October). Predicting Literacy in the Brain in Emergent Readers in Rural Côte d’Ivoire: A Longitudinal Study. WestNIRS, London, ON, Canada.
Whitehead, H., Abdulrasul, H., Wolf, S., Tanoh, F., Bugden, S., Ogan, A., Kembou, S. & Jasińska, K. (2023, September). Relations between multiple dimensions of poverty and infant and toddler resting state brain networks using fNIRS. Yale fNIRS Workshop, New Haven, CT.
Brice, H., Zinszer, B., Hannon, J., Tanoh, H., N’Goran, N. & Jasińska, K. (2023, September). Predicting Literacy in the Brain in Emergent Readers in Rural Côte d’Ivoire: A Longitudinal Study. Yale fNIRS Workshop, New Haven, CT.
Whitehead, H, Ball. M.C., Wolf, S., Ogan. A., Kembou, S. & Jasińska, K. (2023, March). Variability in the age of schooling contributes to the link between literacy and numeracy in Côte d’Ivoire. Society for Research in Child Development, Salt Lake City, UT.
Khan, F., Wortsman, B., Whitehead, H., Hannon, J., Sulik, M., Obradovic, J. & Jasińska, K. (2023, March). Modeling the associations between socioeconomic risk factors, executive function components, and literacy among children in rural Côte d’Ivoire. Society for Research in Child Development, Salt Lake City, UT.
Abdulrasul, H., Ball, M. -C., Whitehead, H. L., Buhôt, L., Capani, A., & Jasińska. K. K. (2022, October 13). Impact of interrupted schooling on the development of the brain’s capacity for reading: Examining neural systems for reading in Syrian refugee children in Canada. 2022 Society for functional Near Infrared Spectroscopy Biennial Meeting, Boston, MA.
Whitehead, H., Buhôt, L., Capani, A., Ball, M.C., & Jasińska, K.K. (2022, September 26-28). Impact of interrupted schooling on the development of the brain’s capacity for reading. WestNIRS, London, ON, Canada.
Yang, X.C., Nematova, S. & Jasińska, K.* (2021, Oct). Neural activation during phonological processing in primary-school children with limited reading exposure: Insights from rural Côte d’Ivoire. Society for Neurobiology of Language. Note: Abstract received an honorable mention for the Abstract Merit Award.
Akpé, H., Ball, M.C. N’Goh, N., Tanoh, F., Hannon, J. & Jasińska, K.* (2021, July). How does Family Literacy Support Children’s Reading Development? Insights from low-literacy communities in rural Côte d’Ivoire. Society for the Scientific Study of Reading.
Hannon, J., Khan, F. & Jasińska, K.* (2021, July). Differential Contribution of Executive Functions to Reading Across Development: Insights from Older Emergent Readers in Rural Côte D’Ivoire. Society for the Scientific Study of Reading.
Sobers, S.M., N’Goh, N., Tanoh, F., Akpé, H., Ball, M.C. & Jasińska, K.* (2021, July). Is a Phone-Based Literacy Assessment a Reliable and Valid Measure of Children’s Reading Skills for Low-Resource Settings. Society for the Scientific Study of Reading.
Nematova, S., Zinszer, B., Richard, K., Morlet, T., Morini, G., & Jasińska, K.* (2021, April). Combining eye-tracking and functional near-infrared spectroscopy to assess children’s word recognition skills. Society for Research in Child Development.
Ball, M., Curran, E., Tanoh, F., Akpe, H., Nematova, S., & Jasińska, K.* (2021, April). Bilingual Home and School Environments Impact Children’s Language and Literacy Outcomes in Sub-Saharan Africa. Society for Research in Child Development. [virtual] ] Note: Poster was nominated for SRCD Student and Early Career Council Poster Award
Nematova, S., Zinszer, B., Morlet, T., Morini, G., Petitto, L.A. & Jasińska, K.* (2020, October). Early-life signed language exposure does not impede the development of spoken language: A functional near infrared spectroscopy investigation of phonemic discrimination in cochlear implant (CI) users. Society for the Neurobiology of Language.
Hannon-Cropp, J., Zinszer, B., Seri, A., Tanoh, F., Akpé, H., Earle, F. S., & Jasińska, K.* (2020, October). The Role of Procedural Learning for Emergent Reading: Insights from Côte d’Ivoire. Society for Neurobiology of Language.
Jasińska, K., Zinszer, B., Tanoh, F., Hannon-Cropp, J., & Akpé, H. (2020, July). Field functional Near Infrared Spectroscopy fNIRS Neuroimaging for Global Child Development. Organization for Human Brain Mapping.
Wang, D., Wang, S., Zinszer, B., Sheng, L.*, & Jasińska, K.* (2020, May). Cross-Linguistic Differences in L1 Morphological Typology Influence Patterns of Neural Activation for L2 Inflectional Processing: an fNIRS Study. Cognitive Neuroscience Society.
Nematova, S., Zinszer, B., Morlet, T.*, Morini, G.*, Petitto, L.A.,* & Jasińska, K.* (2020, May). Early signed language exposure does not harm phonemic discrimination for individuals with cochlear implants (CIs): Evidence from fNIRS neuroimaging. Cognitive Neuroscience Society.
Matteson, J., Wang, J., Bobowska, V., Zinszer, B., Jasińska, K.* (2020, May). Using a deep learning classifier of fNIRS neuroimaging data to understand the neurobiology of literacy among children growing up in low-literacy environments: Insights from field neuroimaging in rural Ivory Coast. Cognitive Neuroscience Society.
Hannon-Cropp, J., Earle, F. S., Seri, A., Tanoh, F., Akpé, H. & Jasińska, K.* (2019). The Impact of Declarative and Procedural Memory Systems on Late Childhood Literacy Development. Society for Research in Child Development, Baltimore, MD.
Kampa, A., Papafragou, A., & Jasińska, K.* (2019). Scalar Implicature Derivation in 4- and 5-Year-Olds is Supported by Language and Executive Function Networks. Society for Research in Child Development, Baltimore, MD
Akpé, H., Seri, A., Tanoh, F. & Jasińska, K.* (2019). Evaluating Children’s Language Abilities in Côte d’Ivoire: Introducing the Ivorian Children’s Language Assessment Toolkit. Society for Research in Child Development, Baltimore, MD.
Seri, A., Tanoh, F., Akpé, H. & Jasińska, K.* (2019). The impact of child labor on children’s reading outcomes in rural cocoa-producing communities in Côte d’Ivoire. Society for Research in Child Development, Baltimore, MD
Tanoh, F., Seri, A., Akpé, H. & Jasińska, K.* (2019). Impact of Poverty on Brain Development, Executive Functions, and Literacy in Rural Cocoa Communities in Côte d’Ivoire. Society for Research in Child Development, Baltimore, MD.
Jasińska, K., Seri, A., Tanoh, F. & Guei, S. (2018, August). How the brain learns to read in environments with high-risk of illiteracy: an fNIRS study of EF and reading development in rural Côte d’Ivoire. Neurobiology of Language, Quebec City, Canada.
Jasińska, K., Shuai, L., Lau, A., Landi, N. & Pugh, K. (2017). Using psychophysiological interactions with fNIRS Neuroimaging to Predict 4 year-old Reading Ability. Organization for Human Brain Mapping, Vancouver, Canada.
Jasińska, K., Shuai, L., Lau, A., Mulder, H., Landi, N. & Pugh, K. (2017). Neural Connectivity During Language Processing in 4 Year-Olds Predicts Later Reading Ability. Society for Research in Child Development, Austin, TX.
Jasińska, K., Hager, C., Amon, A., Guei, S., Kakou, C., Koffi, S., & Seri, A. (2017) Literacy Development in Rural Cocoa Communities. Society for Research in Child Development, Austin, TX.
Jasińska, K., Molfese, P., Mencl, W.E., Frost, S., Lee, M., Pugh, K.R., Grigorenko, E. & Landi, N. (2016). The BDNF Val66Met Polymorphism is Associated with Structure and Function in the Developing Brain with Implications for Children’s Cognitive Abilities. Cognitive Neuroscience Society. New York, NY.
Lau, A., Jasińska, K., Shuai, L., Bortfeld, H., Landi, L., & Pugh, K. (2016). Functional Near Infrared Spectroscopy (fNIRS) Investigation of Emerging Reading Pathways in Children with Poor Phonological Awareness. Cognitive Neuroscience Society. New York, NY.
Ryherd, K., Hung, Y-H., Baron, E., Jasinska, K., Mencl, W.E., & Landi, N (2016, April). Individual differences in activation and functional connectivity across modality and processing level. Cognitive Neuroscience Society, New York, NY.
Ryherd, K., Baron, E., Jasinska, K., Mencl, W.E., & Landi, N. (2015, October). Reading comprehension ability and semantic activation to single words and discourse: an fMRI -partial least squares analysis. Society for the Neurobiology of Language, Chicago, IL.
Jasińska, K., Buis, B., Cort, B., Molfese, P., Mencl, E., Bortfeld, H & Pugh, K. (2015, June) Neural Representations for Spoken and Written Language In Beginning Readers: Insights from fNIRS and fMRI Neuroimaging. Organization for Human Brain Mapping. Honolulu, HI.
Ryherd, K., Baron, E., Jasińska, K., Mencl, E., Landi, N. (2015, April). Neural Activation of Semantic Networks Contribute to Reading Comprehension Skill. Association for Psychological Science. New York, NY.
Jasińska, K., Parbhu, B., Shaw, K, Bortfeld, H & Pugh, K. (2015, March) Neural Representations for Spoken and Written Language during Emergent Literacy. Society for Research in Child Development. Philadelphia, PA.
Jasińska, K. Berens, M. S., Kovelman, I., & Petitto, L. A. (2014). Shedding new light on reading in Spanish-English and English-French bilingual school children: an fNIRS investigation. Cognitive Neuroscience Society. Boston, MA.
Landi, N., Kornilov, S. Molfese, P., Jasińska, K., Lee, M., Mencl, W.E., Hoeft, F., Pugh, K. & Grigorenko, E. (2014). Common but impactful genetic polymorphisms in COMT and BDNF are associated strongly with reading and related skills and associated patterns of neural activity. Cognitive Neuroscience Society. Boston, MA.
Jasińska, K. Langdon, C. & Petitto, L.A. (2013). Does early exposure to a visual signed language “hurt” auditory language tissue development: Evidence from fNIRS neuroimaging of language processing in deaf individuals Cochlear Implants. Society for Neuroscience. San Diego, CA.
Jasińska, K. & Petitto, L.A. (2013). Age of Bilingual Exposure Predicts Distinct Contributions of Phonological and Semantic Knowledge to Successful Reading Development. Society for Research in Child Development. Seattle, WA.
Jasińska, K. & Petitto, L.A. (2012). Temporal Dynamics of Bilingual Language Processing as a New Lens into Human Brain Lateralization: an fNIRS study. Society for Neuroscience. New Orleans, LA.
Jasińska, K. & Petitto, L.A. (2011, November). Dual language exposure in infancy can change neural and language processing in the developing brain: an fNIRS investigation. Society for Neuroscience . Washington, DC. Note: Presentation was selected for the Society for Neuroscience official Press Book.
Jasińska, K., Jowkar-Baniani, G., Ahmed, F., Forster, E., Bhasin-Laceman, S., Naimi, A, Petitto, L.A., and Dunbar, K.N. (2011, November). Simultaneous imaging of neural activations of women and men in real-time conversation using fNIRS. Society for Neuroscience. Washington, DC.
Jasińska, K., Malkowski, M., & Petitto, L.A. (2011, April). How the Bilingual Reading Experience Can Change a Developing Brain: New Insights from fNIRS. Society for Research in Child Development. Montreal, QC.
Jasińska, K., Malkowski, M., & Petitto, L.A. (2010, November). Neural Correlates of Syntactic Processing in Monolingual and Bilingual Children using event-related functional Near Infrared Spectroscopy (fNIRS) Imaging. Society for Neuroscience. San Diego, CA.
Skarakis-Doyle, E., Campbell, W., Jasińska, K., Terry, A., Gillespie, S., Archibald, L., Theurer, J., & Schidowka, J. (2010, June). The cooperative principle and theory of mind children with language impairment. Symposium for Research in Child Language Disorders. Madison, Wisconsin.
Skarakis-Doyle, E., Campbell, W., Terry, A., Jasińska, K., & Gillespie, S. (2008, June). The cooperative principle and theory of mind in preschool children: understanding others’ intentions and beliefs. Symposium for Research in Child Language Disorders conference. Madison, Wisconsin.T