Publications

Jasińska, K., Kembou, S., Ogan, A., Wolf, S., Tanoh, F., & Guei, S. (2024). Best practices for implementing equitable and just large-scale randomized trials in Majority World countries. Developmental Psychology. doi: 10.1037/dev0001871(Link is external)


Wortsman, B., Brice, H., Capani, A., Ball, M-C., Zinszer, B., Tanoh, F., Akpé, H., Ogan, A., Wolf, S. & Jasińska, K. Risk and resilience factors for primary school dropout in Côte d’Ivoire. (2024). Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, 92. doi:10.1016/j.appdev.2024.101654(Link is external)


Wortsman, B., Bhattacharya, J., Lim, J., Tanoh, F., Shaheen, S. & Jasińska, K. Accelerating Progress Towards Eradicating Child Labor (SDG8.7) with Quality Education (SDG4): School Quality is Linked to Reduced Child Cocoa Labor in Côte D’Ivoire. (2024). Research in Comparative and International Education. doi: 10.1177/17454999241255182(Link is external)


Aurora, M., Whitehead, H., Mostafa, L., Wolf, S., Kembou, S., Ogan, A. & Jasińska, K. (2024). Parental factors, learning-related skills and academic skills in rural Côte d’Ivoire. Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology. doi: 10.1016/j.appdev.2024.101652(Link is external)


Cannanure, K., V., Ngoon, T., Wolf, S., Jasińska, K., Brown, T., Ogan, A. (2024). Understanding the Longitudinal Impact of a Chatbot to Facilitate a Virtual Community of Practice for Teachers in Rural Côte d’Ivoire. doi: doi.org/10.1145/36757(Link is external)


Ngoon, T. J., Cannanure, V.K.,  Jasińska, K., Wolf, S., & Ogan, A. (2024). “I believe I did not preach into the desert”: Opportunities & Challenges in Scaling Teacher Mentorship through Mobile Technology in Rural Côte d’Ivoire. Proceedings of Learning at Scale 2024. doi: 10.1145/3657604.3662035(Link is external)


Jasińska, K., Nematova, S., Brice, H. & Yang, X.C. (2024). Neural activation during phonological processing in primary-school children with limited reading exposure: Insights from rural Côte d’Ivoire. Mind, Brain, and Education. doi:10.1111/mbe.12411(Link is external)


Nematova, S., Zinszer, B. D., Morlet, T., Morini, G., Petitto, L., & Jasińska, K. (2024). Impact of ASL exposure on spoken phonemic discrimination in CI users. Neurobiology of Language. doi: 10.1162/nol_a_00143(Link is external)


Wolf, S., Kembou, S., Ogan, A. & Jasińska, K. (2024). Cash Transfers Improve Economic Conditions and Reduce Maternal Stress in Rural Côte d’Ivoire. Journal of Child and Family Studies. doi: 10.1007/s10826-024-02817-y(Link is external)


Khan, F., Wortsman, B., Whitehead, H., Hannon, J., Tanoh, F., Sulik, M., Ogan, A., Obradovic, J. & Jasińska, K. (2024). Modeling the associations between socioeconomic risk factors, executive function components, and literacy among children in rural Côte d’Ivoire. Cognitive Development, 70. doi: 10.1016/j.cogdev.2024.101436(Link is external)


Brice, H., Zinszer, B., Kablan, D., Tanoh, F., N’Goran, N., Bokossô, G. & Jasińska, K. (2024). Individual differences in leveraging regularity in emergent L2 readers in rural Côte d’Ivoire. Scientific Studies of Reading. doi: 10.1080/10888438.2024.2317934(Link is external)


Ball, M.C., Bhattacharya, J., Akpe, H., Zhao, M., Brogno, S. & Jasińska, K. (2024). Effective bilingual education in Francophone West Africa: Constraints and possibilities. International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism. doi: 10.1080/13670050.2023.2290482(Link is external)


Whitehead, H., Ball, M., Wolf, S., Kembou, S., Ogan, A., & Jasińska, K. (2024). Variability in the age of schooling contributes to the link between literacy and numeracy in Côte d’Ivoire. Child Development. doi: 10.1111/cdev.14018(Link is external)


Nematova, S., Zinszer, B. & Jasińska, K. (2024). Exploring audiovisual speech perception in monolingual and bilingual children in Uzbekistan. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology. doi: 10.1016/j.jecp.2023.105808(Link is external)


Zinszer, B, Hannon, J., Kouadio, E., Akpé, H., Tanoh, F., Seri, A., Qi, Z. & Jasińska, K. (2024). Statistical learning and children’s emergent literacy in rural Côte d’Ivoire. Developmental Science. doi: 10.1111/desc.13448(Link is external)


Zinszer, B, Hannon, J., Kouadio, E., Akpé, H., Tanoh, F., Hu, A., Qi, Z. & Jasińska, K. (2023). Does non-linguistic segmentation still predict literacy in an L2 education? Statistical learning in Ivorian primary schools. Language Learning. doi: 10.1111/lang.12603(Link is external)


Sobers, S. M., Nana, N., Ball, M. C., Tanoh, F., Akpé, H., & Jasińska, K. (2023). Is a Phone-Based Language and Literacy Assessment a Reliable and Valid Measure of Children’s Reading Skills in Low-Resource Settings? Reading Research Quarterly. doi:10.1002/rrq.511(Link is external)


Jasińska, K., Zinszer, B., Xu, Z., Hannon, J., Seri, A., Tanoh, F. & Akpé, H. (2022) Home Learning Environment and Nutrition Impact Children’s Executive Function Development and Literacy in Rural Côte d’Ivoire. Cognitive Development. doi: 10.1016/j.cogdev.2022.101265.(Link is external)


Jasińska, K., Akpé, H., Seri, A. B., Zinszer, B., Yoffo, R., Mulford, K., Curran, E., Ball, M.C., & Tanoh, F. (2022). Evaluating Bilingual Children’s Native Language Abilities in Côte d’Ivoire: Introducing the Ivorian Children’s Language Assessment Toolkit for Attié, Abidji, Baoulé, and Bété. Applied Linguistics. doi:10.1093/applin/amac025.(Link is external)


Cannanure, V.K., Avila-Uribe, E., Adji, Y.T., Wolf, S., Jasińska, K., Brown, T. X. & Ogan. A. (2022). “We dream of climbing the ladder, for getting there, we have to do our job better:” Designing for Teacher Aspirations in Rural Côte d’Ivoire. ACM SIGCAS Conference on Computing and Sustainable Societies (COMPASS ’22).(Link is external)


Allen, K., Bull, A., Harden, P., Hart, S., Koellinger, P., Kraftl, P., Martschenko, D., Mitchell, C., Noble, K., Nxumale, F., Obradovic, J., Porter. T., Steyer, L., Tefera, A., Wolf, S., Jasińska, K.*, and Williamson, B.* (2022). Individual Differences and the Influences on Learning. UNESCO International Science and Evidence-based Education (ISEE) Assessment. Future of Education. UNESCO.(Link is external)


Jasińska, K. & Guei, S. (2022). Interventions to Support Learning at the Bottom of the Pyramid in Côte d’Ivoire. In D. A. Wager, N. M. Castillo, and S. G. Lewis (Eds.), Learning, Marginalization, and Improving the Quality of Education in Low-income Countries (Learning at the Bottom of the Pyramid 2). doi: 10.11647/OBP.0256(Link is external)


Wang, D., Wang, S., Zinszer, B., Sheng, L. & Jasińska, K. (2022). Cross-Linguistic Differences in L1 Morphological Typology Influence Patterns of Neural Activation for L2 Morphosyntactic Processing: an fNIRS Study. Journal of Neurolinguistics, 63, 101063. doi: 10.1016/j.jneuroling.2022.101063(Link is external)


Ball, M.C., Curran, E., Tanoh, F., Akpé, H., Seri, A., Nematova, S.  & Jasińska, K. (2022). Learning to read in environments with high risk of illiteracy: the role of bilingualism and bilingual education. Journal of Educational Psychology. doi:10.1037/edu0000723(Link is external)


Janssena, T. W. P., Grammerb, J. K.,  Vatakis, A., Bulgarelli, C. , Zion-Golumbic, E. , Vassena, E., Davidesco, I. , Jasińska, K., Bleichner, M. G. , Siugzdaite, R., Dikker, S. & van Atteveldt, N. (2021).  Opportunities and limitations of mobile neuroimaging technologies in educational neuroscience. Mind, Brain, and Education. doi:10.1111/mbe.12302(Link is external)


Kizilcec, R., Chen, M., Jasińska, K., Madaio, M. & Ogan, A. (2021). Mobile Learning During School Disruptions in Sub-Saharan Africa. AERA Open, 7(1), 1-18. doi: 10.1177/23328584211014860(Link is external)


Akpé, H., Seri, A., Tanoh, F., Yoffo, R., & Jasińska, K. (2021). De l’introduction d’un kit d’évaluation linquistique à l’evaluation des competences orales chez les apprenants du primarie en langue Ivoirienne pour les langues Attié, Abidji, Baoulé, et Bété. La Revue Universitaire des Sciences de l’Education ASSEMPE, 17.


Jasińska, K., Shuai, S., Lau, A., Frost, S., Landi, N. & Pugh, K.R. (2020) Functional Connectivity in the Developing Language Network Predict Future Reading Ability in 4-year-old Children. Developmental Science. doi:10.1111/desc.13041(Link is external)


Mascheretti, S., Perdue, M., Feng, B., Andreola, C., Dionne, G., Jasińska, K., Pugh, K.R., Grigorenko, E., & Landi, N. (2020). From BDNF to reading: Neural activation and phonological processing as multiple mediators. Behavioural Brain Research. doi: 10.1016/j.bbr.2020.112859(Link is external)


Cannanure, V.K., Niweteto, J.S., Adji, Y.T., Akpe Y. H., Jasińska, K., Brown, T. X. & Ogan. A. (2020). “I’m fine where I am, but I want to do more:” Exploring Teacher Aspirations in Rural Côte d’Ivoire. ACM SIGCAS Conference on Computing and Sustainable Societies (COMPASS ’20). doi:10.1145/3378393.3403653(Link is external)


Madaio, M., Yarzebinski, E., Cannanure, V.K., Zinszer, B., Hannon, J., Tanoh, F., Akpe, H., Seri, A. B.,  Jasińska, K. & Ogan, A. (2020) Collective Support and Independent Learning with a Voice-Based Literacy Technology in Rural Communities. Proceedings of the 2020 ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems.(Link is external)


Jasińska, K. & Landi, N. (2019). Dyslexia and its Neurobiological Basis. In G. I. de Zubicaray and N. O. Schiller (Eds.), Oxford Handbook of Neurolinguistics. doi: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190672027.013.25(Link is external)


Jasińska, K., Wolf. S., Jukes, M. & Dubeck, M. (2019). Literacy Acquisition in Multi-lingual Educational Contexts: Evidence from Coastal Kenya. Developmental Science. doi: 10.1111/desc.12828(Link is external)


Madaio, M., Cannanure, V.K., Yarzebinski, E., Zasacky, S., Tanoh, F., Hannon, J., Cassell, J., Jasińska, K. & Ogan, A. (2019). “You Give a Little of Yourself”: Family Support for Children’s Use of an IVR Literacy System. ACM SIGCAS Conference on Computing and Sustainable Societies (COMPASS ’19). pp. 86-98. Note: Received Best Paper Award from ACM COMPASS(Link is external)


Madaio, M., Tanoh, F., Blahoua, A., Jasińska, K. & Ogan, A. (2019). Everyone Brings Their Grain of Salt”: Designing for Low-Literate Parental Support for a Mobile-Based Literacy Technology in Côte d’Ivoire. Proceedings of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. p. 465.(Link is external)


Ryherd, K., Jasińska, K., Van Dyke, J.A., Hung, Y., Baron, E., Mencl, W.E., Zevin, J. & Landi, N. (2018) Cortical regions supporting reading comprehension skill for single words and discourse. Brain and Language, 186, 32–43. doi:10.1016/j.bandl.2018.08.001(Link is external) (Link opens in new window)


Perdue, M., Mascheretti, S., Kornilov, S., Jasińska, K., Ryherd, K., Frost, S., Mencl, W.E., Grigorenko, E., Pugh, K.R. & Landi, N. (2018). Common variation within SETBP1 is associated with reading-related skills and patterns of functional neural activation. Neuropsychologia,doi: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2018.07.015.(Link is external) (Link opens in new window)


Jasińska, K., & Guei, S. (2018). Neuroimaging filed methods using functional Near Infrared Spectroscopy (fNIRS) to Study Global Child Development: Rural sub-Saharan Africa. JoVE, 132, doi:10.3791/57165.(Link is external) (Link opens in new window)


Jasińska, K. Molfese, P., Mencl, W.E., Pugh, K.R., Grigorenko, E. & Landi, N. (2017). The BDNF Val66Met Polymorphism is Associated with Structural Neuroanatomical Differences in Young Children. Behavioural Brain Research, 328, 48-56. doi:10.1016/j.bbr.2017.03.014.(Link is external) (Link opens in new window)


Jasińska, K. & Petitto, L.A. (2017). Age of Bilingual Exposure Predicts Distinct Contributions of Phonology and Semantics to Successful Reading Development. Child Development, 89 (1). doi:10.1111/cdev.12745.(Link is external) (Link opens in new window)


Jasińska, K., Berens, M. S., Kovelman, I., & Petitto, L. A. (2016). Bilingualism yields language-specific plasticity in left hemisphere’s circuitry for learning to read in young children. Neuropsychologia, 98, 34-45. doi: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2016.11.018.(Link is external) (Link opens in new window)


Jasińska, K. Molfese, P., Mencl, W.E., Pugh, K.R., Grigorenko, E. & Landi, N. (2016). Relations Between the BDNF Val/Met Polymorphism, Patterns of Neural Activation in the Developing Brain and Children’s Reading and Reading-Related Skills. PLOS One, 11(8), 1-25. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0157449.(Link is external) (Link opens in new window)


Jasińska, K., Frost, S., Molfese, P., Landi, N., Mencl, W. E., Rueckle, J., and Pugh, K. (2016). Neuroimaging Perspectives on Skilled and Impaired Reading and the Bilingual Experience. In A. Khateb and I. Bar Kochva (Eds.), Reading Fluency: Current Insights from Neuro-Cognitive Research and Intervention Studies. Haifa, Israel: Springer(Link is external)


Jasińska, K. & Petitto, L.A. (2014). Development of Neural Systems for Reading in the Monolingual and Bilingual Brain: New Insights from functional Near Infrared Spectroscopy Neuroimaging. Developmental Neuropsychology, 39(6), 421-39. doi: 10.1080/87565641.2014.939180.(Link is external) (Link opens in new window)


Jasińska, K. & Petitto, L.A. (2013). How Age of Bilingual Exposure Can Change the Neural Systems for Language in the Developing Brain: A functional Near Infrared Spectroscopy Investigation of Syntactic Processing in Monolingual and Bilingual Children. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 6, 87-101. doi: 10.1016/j.dcn.2013.06.005.(Link is external) (Link opens in new window)


Petitto, L.A., Berens, M.S., Kovelman, I., Dubins, M.H., Jasińska, K., & Shalinsky, M. (2012). The “Perceptual Wedge” hypothesis as the basis for bilingual babies’ phonetic processing advantage: New insights from fNIRS brain imaging. Brain and Language, 121(2), 142-155. doi:0.1016/j.bandl.2011.05.003(Link is external)