Biography

I am an Educational Research and Action Fellow investigating individual differences in language processing. My work focuses on the relationship between individual differences in working memory and other executive control functions and reading comprehension using behavioral paradigms.

Education

2022 — 2024

M.A.T. in French

Indiana University Bloomington

2018 — 2022

B.A. French, Linguistics

Indiana University Bloomington

Experience

2026 — Present

Education Research and Action Post-bac Fellow

University of Notre Dame

2024 — 2026

Spanish and History Teacher

Springville Community Academy

2022 — 2024

Associate Instructor of French

Indiana University Bloomington

Publications

Hierarchical neural processing in γ oscillations for syntactic and semantic operations accounts for first-and second-language epistemology

Laurent Dekydtspotter, A Kate Miller, Kyle Swanson, Jih-Ho Cha, Yanyu Xiong, Jae-Hyun Ahn, Jane A Gilbert, Decker Pope, Mike Iverson, Kent Meinert

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Current Research Projects

Current research focus and active behavioral studies.

Interactive Demo Masked Moving-Window SPR Paradigm

Press SPACE (or tap the button) to unmask each word:

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Interactive Demo A-Maze Paradigm

Click Start Task, then select the word that correctly continues the sentence using F (Left) / J (Right):

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Active Sentence Processing

A-maze versus Self-Paced Reading Paradigms: Capturing Individual Differences in Sentence Processing

Two widely used paradigms in sentence processing, A-maze and self-paced reading, have recently been used to investigate individual differences in sentence processing. This project aims to compare the reliability of each task across two testing sessions.

Collaborators: Matt Robison, Department of Psychology at the University of Notre Dame

Active Associative Learning

Raven Predicts Learning Rate in Associative Learning, but Not in Free Recall

Investigating the relationship between fluid intelligence and learning across three tasks.

Collaborators: Matt Robison, Department of Psychology at the University of Notre Dame

Active Word Recognition

Testing Predictive Effects of Distributed, Developmental Models of Word Recognition on Third-Grade Student Oral Reading Fluency (ORF) Error Profiles

Forthcoming...

Lead Student: Natalie Gildea, CLAD Lab at the University of Notre Dame