Augusto Buchweitz

Associate Professor

Psychological Sciences

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Education

Ph.D., 2006, Federal University of Santa Catarina

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Research Interests

• Early Literacy and EdTech
• Brain Development
• Dyslexia
• Bilingualism
• Brain Imaging

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Research Synopsis

Dr. Buchweitz research focuses on early literacy and brain development in underrepresented populations (Latin and Central America). More recently, he has been involved with the development of EdTech for Early Literacy and was the principal investigator responsible for the development of the Brazilian Portuguese version of GraphoGame. His past research involved investigating individual differences in bilingualism and reading, and the effects of exposure to violence on brain function.

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Teaching

• Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience
• Principles of Research in Psychology

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Additional Background

• Postdoctoral Research Associate, Center for Cognitive Brain Imaging
• Carnegie Mellon University
• Affiliated Researcher, Haskins Labs
• Councilperson for Brazil’s National Council of Education, Early and Elementary Education

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Publications

Representative

Buchweitz, A., Costa, A. C., Toazza, R., & others. (2019). Decoupling of the Occipitotemporal Cortex and the Brain’s Default-Mode Network in Dyslexia and a Role for the Cingulate Cortex in Good Readers: A Brain Imaging …. Developmental. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/87565641.2017.1292516

Buchweitz, A., de Azeredo, L. A., Sanvicente-Vieira, B., Metsavaht Cará, V., Bianchini Esper, N., Soder, R. B., da Costa, J. C., Portuguez, M. W., Franco, A. R., & Grassi-Oliveira, R. (2019). Violence and Latin-American preadolescents: A study of social brain function and cortisol levels. Dev. Sci., 22(5), e12799.https://doi.org/10.1111/desc.12799

Buchweitz, A., Keller, T. A., Meyler, A., Just, M. A., & Just M, A. (2012). Brain activation for language dual-tasking: Listening to two people speak at the same time and a change in network timing. Hum. Brain Mapp., 33(8), 1868–1882. https://doi.org/10.1002/hbm.21327

Buchweitz, A., Mason, R. A., Meschyan, G., Keller, T. A., & Just, M. A. (2014). Modulation of cortical activity during comprehension of familiar and unfamiliar text topics in speed reading and speed listening. Brain Lang., 139, 49–57. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bandl.2014.09.010

Buchweitz, A., Mason, R. A. R. A., Hasegawa, M., & Just, M. A. M. A. (2009). Japanese and English sentence reading comprehension and writing systems: An fMRI study of first and second language effects on brain activation*. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 12(02), 141–151. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1366728908003970

Buchweitz, A., Mason, R. A., Tomitch, L. M. B., & Just, M. A. (2009). Brain activation for reading and listening comprehension: An fMRI study of modality effects and individual differences in language comprehension. Psychol. Neurosci., 2(2), 111–123. https://doi.org/10.3922/j.psns.2009.2.003

Buchweitz, A., & Prat, C. (2013). The bilingual brain: Flexibility and control in the human cortex. Phys. Life Rev., 1, 1–16. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.plrev.2013.07.020

Cará, V. M., Esper, N. B., de Azeredo, L. A., Iochpe, V., Dalfovo, N. P., Santos, R. C., Sanvicente-Vieira, B., Grassi-Oliveira, R., Franco, A. R., & Buchweitz, A. (2019). An fMRI study of inhibitory control and the effects of exposure to violence in Latin-American early adolescents: Alterations in frontoparietal activation and performance. Soc. Cogn. Affect. Neurosci. https://doi.org/10.1093/scan/nsz092

Heinsfeld, A. S. A. S., Franco, A. R. A. R., Craddock, R. C. C., Buchweitz, A., & Meneguzzi, F. (2018). Identification of autism spectrum disorder using deep learning and the ABIDE dataset. NeuroImage: Clinical, 17, 16–23. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nicl.2017.08.017

Just, M. A., & Buchweitz, A. (2016). What brain imaging reveals about the nature of multitasking. Oxford Handbook of Cognitive Science. https://books.google.ca/books?hl=en&lr=&id=hD1dDgAAQBAJ&oi=fnd&pg=PA265&ots=SkotdvlCsu&sig=aOpsRRswTrROZ6JivGs5wssU1pw

Just, M. A., Cherkassky, V. L., Buchweitz, A., Keller, T. A., & Mitchell, T. M. (2014). Identifying autism from neural representations of social interactions: Neurocognitive markers of autism. PLoS One, 9(12), e113879. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0113879