kayleigh.ryherd@gmail.com
Dissertation: Exploring the role of language in two systems for categorization
Thesis: Word and concept learning in poor comprehenders
Minors: Speech and Hearing; Logic
Research focus: Semantic processing, comprehension impairment, learning & consolidation
Research focus: Time of day effects on literacy learning
IBRAIN fellows help BIRC users design and implement experimental procedures for fMRI, EEG, tDCS, TMS and other methodologies, assist in recruitment and prepping of participants, provide resources for data analysis, and oversee use of equipment by others.
Research focus: Working memory load, cognitive control, conflict monitoring
Research focus: Gender stereotypes, fricative perception
Research focus: Sentence planning and word production using eyetracking methods
Ryherd, K., Jasinska, K., Van Dyke, J. A., Hung, Y.-H., Baron, E., Mencl, W. E., … Landi, N. (2018). Cortical regions supporting reading comprehension skill for single words and discourse. Brain and Language, 186, 32–43. doi:10.1016/j.bandl.2018.08.001
Landi, N., Malins, J. G., Frost, S. J., Magnuson, J. S., Molfese, P., Ryherd, K., … Pugh, K. R. (2018). Neural representations for newly learned words are modulated by overnight consolidation, reading skill, and age. Neuropsychologia, 111, 133–144. doi:10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2018.01.011
Irwin, J., Avery, T., Brancazio, L., Ryherd, K., Turcios, J., & Landi, N. (2017). Electrophysiological indices of audiovisual speech perception: beyond the McGurk effect speech in noise. Multisensory Research. doi: 10.1163/22134808-00002580
Munson, B., Ryherd, K., & Kemper, S. (2017). Implicit and explicit gender priming in English lingual sibilant fricative perception. Linguistics, 55(5). 1073-1107. doi: 10.1515/ling-2017-0021
Landi, N., & Ryherd, K. (2017). Understanding specific reading comprehension deficit: A review. Language and Linguistics Compass, 11(2), 1–24. doi:10.1111/lnc3.12234
Ryherd, K., Johns, C., Jahn, A., Van Dyke, D., & Landi, N. Structural brain differences in good and poor comprehenders identified through a regression-based quantitative method. (November, 2017). Poster presented at the 9th Annual Meeting of the Society for the Neurobiology of Language, Baltimore, MD.
Ryherd, K., Breen, M., Van Dyke, J., & Landi, N. Prosodic comprehension in specific reading comprehension deficit. (April 2017). Poster presented at the 8th University of Connecticut Language Festival, Storrs, CT.
Gutierrez, A., Timakondu, N., Ryherd, K., Richie, R., Coppola, M., Breen, M., …, Landi, N. (April 2017). Prosodic boundary perception and reading comprehension ability: an ERP study. (April 2017) Poster presented at the 8th University of Connecticut Language Festival, Storrs, CT.
Ryherd, K., Johns, C., Van Dyke, J., & Landi, N. (April 2016). Definition of poor comprehenders. Poster presented at the 7th University of Connecticut Language Festival, Storrs, CT.
Khan, S., Patel, V., Vhora, M., Ryherd, K., & Landi, N. (April 2016). Characterizing novel concept learning in poor comprehenders. Poster presented at the 7th University of Connecticut Language Festival, Storrs, CT.
Lasto, C., Halas, L., Bell., S., Puglisi, C., Ryherd, K., Brancazio, L., Turcios, J., Avery, T., Irwin, J., & Landi, N. (April 2016). Neural correlates of audio-visual speech processing: implications for children diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder. Poster presented at the 7th University of Connecticut Language Festival, Storrs, CT.
Ryherd, K., Hung, Y-H., Baron, E., Jasinska, K., Mencl, W.E., & Landi, N. (April 2016). Individual differences in activation and functional connectivity across modality and processing level. Poster presented at the Twenty-Third Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, New York.
Mencl, W. E., Frost, S., Rothman, D., Hoeft, F., Ryherd, K., Landi, N., Molfese, P., Grigorenko, E., Jacobsen, L., Seidenberg, M., Fulbright, R., & Pugh, K.R. (October 2015). Glutamate and Choline Levels Predict Individual Differences in Reading Ability. Poster presented at the Seventh Annual Meeting of the Society for the Neurobiology of Language, Chicago.
Ryherd, K., Baron, E., Jasinska, K., Mencl, W.E., & Landi, N. (October 2015). Reading comprehension ability and semantic activation to single words and discourse: an fMRI -partial least squares analysis. Poster presented at the Seventh Annual Meeting of the Society for the Neurobiology of Language, Chicago.
Ryherd, K., Baron, E., Jasinska, K., Mencl, W.E., & Landi, N. (May 2015). Neural activation of semantic networks contributes to reading comprehension skill. Poster presented at the 27th Association for Psychological Science Annual Convention, NYC.
Ryherd, K., Baron, E., Jasinska, K., Mencl, W.E., & Landi, N. (April 2015). Written and spoken language: An fMRI partial least squares analysis. Poster presented at the 6th University of Connecticut Language Festival, Storrs, CT.
Ryherd, K., Magnuson, J., & Landi, N. (April 2015). A novel paradigm for examining semantic learning in poor comprehenders. Poster presented at the 6th University of Connecticut Language Festival, Storrs, CT.
Baron, E., Ryherd, K., Jasinska, K., Molfese, P., Mencl, W. E., Landi, N. (February 2015). Neurobiological representations of semantic processing during online passage comprehension. Poster presented at the 2015 Northeast Under/graduate Research Organization for Neuroscience at Quinnipiac University, Hamden, CT.
Ryherd, K., & Munson, B. (August 2013). Gender and fricative perception in an /s/ - /ʃ/ task. Poster presented at the 12th Annual Poster Symposium at the Research Experience for Undergraduates Program at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN.
Ryherd, K. (August 2018). An exploratory fixation-related fMRI study of text reading in adolescents with varying reading comprehension ability. Talk presented at the 8th International Summer School on Literacy Research, Egmond aan Zee, The Netherlands.
Ryherd, K. & Landi, N. (July 2017). Characterizing novel word and concept learning in poor comprehenders. Talk presented at the Twenty-Fourth Annual Meeting of the Society for the Scientific Study of Reading (SSSR), Halifax, Nova Scotia.
Statistics: Multivariate and Univariate ANOVA and Regression, Linear Mixed Effects Modeling, Partial Least Squares (PLS)
Programming: R, Python, SQL, Shell, Stata
Software: E-Prime, AFNI, NetStation, Eye-Link, WordPress