Bruce McCandliss

My lab's research program leverages electrophysiology (via EEG), behavioral data, and standard cognitive assessments to study educational transformations in key cognitive skills such as language, literacy, and mathematics. My early work in the language and literacy domains focused on neural correlates of language learning and associated failures in learning. Since then, I have published extensively on speech perception as it relates to nonnative speech, habituation, and dishabituation phenomena. In addition, I have published experimental work on interactions between auditory speech perception and its neural correlates in the Visual Word Form Area. Currently, in conjunction with our local partner school, we aim to address questions regarding the neural basis of learning and education in children, with a goal of using these insights to continually improve the educational process and landscape.