Nicole Landi

Professor and Director of Developmental Psychology

Psychological Sciences

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Education

Ph.D., Cognitive Psychology, 2005, University of Pittsburgh

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Research Interests

Dr. Landi studies reading and language development using cognitive neuroscience approaches (ERP, MRI, neuroimaging genetics). Her other interests include: 

• Reading
• Reading and Language Disorders
• Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience
• Neuroimaging Genetics

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Teaching

Undergraduate 

PSYC 2400: Developmental Psychology

PSYC 3450W: Advanced Laboratory in Developmental Electrophysiology

PSYC 3440: Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience

Graduate

PSYC 5424/COGS 5150: Cognitive Neuroscience of Language

PSYC 5425: Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience

IBACS Grant Writing Workshop

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Publications

Recent 

Landi, N., Kleinman, D., Agrawal, V., Ashton, G., Coyne-Green, A., Roberts, P., Blair, N., Russell, J., Stutzman, A., Scorrano, D., Frazier, N., Pugh, K.R., & Hoeft, F. (2022). Researcher-practitioner partnerships and in-school laboratories facilitate translational research in reading. Journal of Research in Reading, 45(3), 367-384.

Perdue, M. V., Mahaffy, K., Vlahcevic, K., Wolfman, E., Erbeli, F., Richlan, F., & Landi, N. (2022). Reading intervention and neuroplasticity: A systematic review and meta-analysis of brain changes associated with reading intervention. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 132, 465-494.

Koirala, N., Perdue, M. V., Su, X., Grigorenko, E. L., & Landi, N. (2021). Neurite density and arborization is associated with reading skill and phonological processing in children. NeuroImage, 241, 118426.

Perdue, M.V., Mednick, J., Pugh, K. & Landi, N. (2020). Gray matter structure is associated with reading skill in typically developing young readers. Cerebral Cortex, 30, 5449-5459.

Landi, N. & Perdue, M.V. (2019). Neuroimaging genetics studies of specific reading disability and developmental language disorder: A review. Language and Linguistics Compass. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/lnc3.12349

Ryherd, K., Jasinska, K., Van Dyke, J.A., Hung, Y.-H., 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.