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• Reading and Language Development

• Disorders of Reading and Language

• Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience

• Neuroimaging Genetics

Dr. Landi studies reading and language development using cognitive neuroscience approaches (ERP, MRI, neuroimaging genetics).

Meaghan Perdue

Kara Vlahcevic

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

Compton, D. L., Steacy, L. M., Petscher, Y., Rueckl, J. G., Landi, N., Frost, S. J., & Pugh, K. R. (2019). Linking behavioral and computational approaches to better understand variant vowel pronunciations in developing readers.  New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, 165, 55–71.

Ryherd, K. & Landi, N. (2019). Category learning in poor comprehenders. Scientific Studies of Reading, 23, 305-316.

Perdue, M. V., Mascheretti, S., Kornilov, S. A., Jasińska, K. K., Ryherd, K., Mencl, W. E., … & Landi, N. (2019). Common variation within the SETBP1 gene is associated with reading-related skills and patterns of functional neural activation. Neuropsychologia, 130, 44-51.

Ryherd, K., Jasinska, K., Van Dyke, J.A., Hung, Y.-H., Baron, E., Mencl, W.E., Cutting, L.E., Zevin, J., Landi, N. (2018). Cortical regions supporting reading comprehension skill for single words and discourse. Brain and Language, 186, 32-43.

Malins, J. G., Pugh, K. R., Buis, B., Frost, S. J., Hoeft, F., Landi, N., … & Sevcik, R. (2018). Individual Differences in Reading Skill are Related to Trial-by-Trial Neural Activation Variability in the Reading Network. Journal of Neuroscience, 0907-17.

Hong, T., Shuai, L., Frost, S. J., Landi, N., Pugh, K. R., & Shu, H. (2018). Cortical Responses to Chinese Phonemes in Preschoolers Predict Their Literacy Skills at School Age. Developmental Neuropsychology, 1-14.

Landi, N., Malins, J. G., Frost, S. J., Magnuson, J., Molfese, P., Ryherd, K., Rueckl,J.G., Mencl,W.E & Pugh, K. R. (2018). Neural representations for newly learned words are modulated by overnight consolidation, reading skill, and age. Neuropsychologia, 111,133- 144.

Earle, F. S., Landi, N., & Myers, E. B. (2018). Adults with language impairment fail to consolidate speech sounds during sleep. Neuroscience Letters, 666, 58-63.

Landi, N. & Cutting, L.E. (2017). Global Approaches to Early Learning Research and Practice: Integrative Commentary. New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, 158, 105-114.

Landi, N., Avery, T., Wu, J., Crowley, M. J., & Mayes, L. C. (2017). Prenatal cocaine exposure impacts language and reading into late adolescence: Behavioral and ERP evidence. Developmental Neuropsychology, 6, 369-386. 

Jasińska, K., Kornilov, S., Molfese, P., Frost, S., Lee, M., Mencl, W. E., Pugh, K. R., Grigorenko, E., & Landi, N. (2016). The BDNF Val⁶⁶Met Polymorphism influences reading ability and patterns of neural activation in children.  PLoS ONE, 11(8), e0157449.

Breen, M., Kaswer, L., Van Dyke, J. A., & Landi, N. (2016). Imitated prosodic fluency predicts reading comprehension ability in good and poor high school readers. Frontiers in Psychology, 7, 1026. doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2016.01026

Van Dyke, J. & Landi, N. (2016). The development of reading comprehension skill: Processing and memory. In E. Bavin, & L. Naigles (Eds.),  The Cambridge Handbook of Child Language, 2nd edition (pp. 740-761). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.

Kornilov, S. A., Magnuson, J. S., Rakhlin, N., Landi, N., & Grigorenko, E. L. (2015). Lexical processing deficits in children with developmental language disorder: An event-related potentials study. Development and Psychopathology, 27, 459-476. PMC4606961

Preston, J. L., Molfese, P. J., Gumkowski, N., Sorcinelli, A., Harwood, V., Irwin, J., & Landi, N. (2014). Neurophysiology of speech differences in childhood apraxia of speech. Developmental Neuropsychology, 39, 385-403. PMC4130155

Kornilov, S. A., Landi, N., Rakhlin, N., Fang, S-Y., Grigorenko, E. L., & Magnuson, J. S. (2014). Attentional but not pre-attentive neural measures of auditory discrimination are atypical in children with developmental language disorder. Developmental Neuropsychology, 39, 543-567. doi:10.1080/87565641.2014.960964

Landi, N., Frost, S. J., Mencl, W. E., Sandak, R., & Pugh, K. R. (2013). Neurobiological bases of reading comprehension: Insights from neuroimaging studies of word-level and text-level processing in skilled and impaired readers. Reading and Writing Quarterly, 29, 145-167. PMC3646421

Landi, N., Frost, S. J., Mencl, W. E., Preston, J. L., Jacobsen, L. K., Lee, M., Yrigollen, C., Pugh, K. R., & Grigorenko, E. L. (2013). The COMT Val/Met polymorphism is associated with reading-related skills and consistent patterns of functional neural activation. Developmental Science, 16, 13-23. PMC3655431

Landi, N., Crowley, M. J., Wu, J., Bailey, C., & Mayes, L. C. (2012). Deviant ERP response to spoken non-words among adolescents exposed to cocaine in utero. Brain and Language, 120, 209-216. PMC3633521

Landi, N., Mencl, W. E., Frost, S. J., Sandak, R., Chen, H., & Pugh, K. R. (2010). An fMRI study of multimodal semantic and phonological processing in reading disabled adolescents. Annals of Dyslexia, 60, 102-121. PMC3148012

Landi, N. (2010). An examination of the relationship between reading comprehension, higher-level and lower-level reading sub-skills in adults. Reading and Writing, 23, 701-717. PMC3117585

Frost, S., Landi, N., Mencl, W. E., Sandak, R. Fulbright, R. K., Jacobsen, L., Grigorenko, E., Constable, R. T., & Pugh, K. (2009). Phonological awareness predicts cortical activation patterns for print and speech. Annals of Dyslexia, 59, 78-97. PMC2720826

Landi, N. & Perfetti, C. A. (2007). An electrophysiological investigation of semantic and phonological processing in skilled and less skilled comprehenders. Brain and Language, 102, 30-45.

Landi, N., Perfetti, C. A., Bolger, D. J., Dunlap, S., & Foorman, B. R. (2006). The role of discourse context in developing word representations: A paradoxical relation between reading and learning. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 94, 114-133.

Perfetti, C.A., Landi, N., & Oakhill, J.V. (2005). The acquisition of reading comprehension skill. In M.J. Snowling & C. Hume (Eds.), The Science of Reading: Handbook of Reading Research. Oxford: Blackwell.