VITAE Jane Ashby. Contact. Department of Psychology, 137 Sloan Hall Central Michigan University /

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1 VITAE Jane Ashby Contact Rank Department of Psychology, 137 Sloan Hall Central Michigan University / Assistant Professor Education 2006 University of Massachusetts Cognitive Psychology Ph.D University of Massachusetts Cognitive Psychology M.S Harvard Graduate School of Education Teaching & Curriculum Ed.M Ohio State University English Literature B.A. Additional Training 2002 Visiting Fellowship Program in fmri Massachusetts General Hospital, MGH-NMR Center Reading Disabilities Therapist Certificate Massachusetts General Hospital, Language Disorders Unit Employment present Assistant Professor, Psychology Central Michigan University Research Associate/ Post-Doc Initiated an independent research program funded by NIH (HD ). Supervised graduate and undergraduate research assistants conducting eye movement studies and ERP research Manager, Departmental EEG Lab Established and managed a Bio-Semi EEG lab. Coordinated experimenter training and administration Consultant National Institute for Literacy Developed website for adult education teachers Manager, Eye-tracking Lab Coordinated the training, scheduling, and supplies for a three-eyetracker lab Instructor, School of Cognitive Science Hampshire College, Amherst J. Ashby CV, 3/15/10 1

2 Employment (cont d) NRSA-funded Researcher Conducted eye movement experiments and ERP studies Research Assistant for Keith Rayner Conducted eye movement experiments and provided training for data-processing software Research Assistant in the Somerville Public Schools Maryanne Wolf Eliot-Pearson Department of Child Development, Tufts University Consultant Massachusetts Department of Education Director The Language Training Institute, Columbus OH Adult Basic Education Teacher Jobs for Youth, Boston MA Educational Assessment, School Functions Program Children s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Cambridge MA Research Assistant in the Cambridge Public Schools Colette Daiute Harvard Graduate School of Education, Cambridge MA University Teaching Experience Undergraduate Courses Learning and Memory Research Methods I Cognitive Psychology The Reading Brain Language and the Brain Meanings of Literacy Cognitive Neuroscience Graduate Courses Teaching Reading to Children with Learning Difficulties Cognitive Psychology Developing Reading in Adults J. Ashby CV, 3/15/10 2

3 Publications Refereed Journal Articles Ashby, J. (2010). Phonology is fundamental in skilled reading: Evidence from ERPs. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review,17, Ashby, J., Sanders, L.D., Kingston, J. (2009). Skilled readers begin processing phonological features by 80 ms: evidence from ERPs. Biological Psychology, 80, Ashby, J. & Martin, A.E. (2008). Prosodic phonological representations early in visual word recognition. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception & Performance, 34, Ashby, J. (2006). Prosody in silent skilled reading: Evidence from eye movements. Journal of Research in Reading, 29, Ashby, J., Treiman, R., Kessler, B., & Rayner, K. (2006). Vowel processing during silent reading: Evidence from eye movements. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, & Cognition, 32, Rayner, K., Chace, K. Slattery, T., Ashby, J. (2006). Eye movements as reflections of comprehension processes in reading. Scientific Studies of Reading, 10, Ashby, J. & Clifton, C., Jr.(2005). The prosodic property of lexical stress affects eye movements during silent reading. Cognition, 96, B89-B100. Ashby, J., Rayner, K., & Clifton, C., Jr. (2005). The reading patterns of highly-skilled and average readers: Evidence from eye movements. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology: Section A, 58, Ashby, J. & Rayner, K. (2004). Representing syllable information in word recognition during silent reading: Evidence from eye movements. Language and Cognitive Processes, 19, Rayner, K., Ashby, J., Pollatsek, A. & Reichle E. (2004). The effects of frequency and predictability on eye fixations in reading: Implications for the EZ Reader model. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 30, Rayner, K., Juhasz, B., Ashby, J. & Clifton, C., Jr. (2003). Inhibition of saccade return in reading. Vision Research, 43, Rayner, K., Binder, K.S., Ashby, J. & Pollatsek, A. (2001). Eye movement control in reading: word predictability has little influence on initial landing position. Vision Research, 41, Book Chapters and Other Publications Clifton, C., Jr., & Ashby, J. (2010). Language Comprehension, in Corsini Encyclopedia of Psychology (4th Ed.). John Wiley & Sons. Ashby, J., & Rayner, K. (2005). Literacy development: Insights from research on skilled reading (Chapter 4). In D. Dickinson & S.B. Neuman (Eds.), Handbook of Early Literacy Research, Vol. 2, NY: Guilford Press. Wolf, M. & Ashby, J. (2007). A brief history of time, phonology, and other explanations of developmental dyslexia. In K. W. Fischer, J. H. Bernstein, & M. H. Immordino-Yang (Eds.), Mind, brain, and education in learning disorders. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press. Conference Presentations- International Ashby, J., Kingston, J., Sanders, L.D. (2009). Phonology is full and fast in visual word recognition: Evidence from ERPs. The Neurobiology of Language Conference, Chicago, Illinois. Ashby, J., Sanders, L.D., Kingston, J. (2008). Phonological feature congruency effects appear before the Phonological Mapping Negativity in visual word recognition: Evidence from masked priming. The 15 th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, San Francisco, CA. J. Ashby CV, 3/15/10 3

4 Conference Presentations- International(cont d) Ashby, J. and Kingston, J. (2007). Are phonological features processed during visual word recognition? European Conference on Eye Movements (ECEM). Potsdam, Germany. Ashby, J., Sanders, L.D., Kingston, J. (2007). Phonological features are processed during visual word recognition: Evidence from eye movements and ERPs. Architecture and Mechanisms of Language Conference (AMLAP), Turku, Finland. Ashby, J.(2007). Vowel processing in visual word recognition: Evidence for multi-layered phonological representations. The Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, New York. Ashby, J., Treiman, R., Kessler, B., Martin, A. & Rayner, K. (2005). Vowel processing during silent reading. The 13 th European Conference on Eye Movements, Berne, Switzerland. Ashby, J. Martin, A. & Florack, J.(2004). Syllable effects in English word recognition: An ERP investigation. The Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, San Francisco. Ashby, J. & Clifton, C. (2003). Representing lexical stress during silent reading: Evidence from eye movements. The 12 th European Conference on Eye Movements, Dundee, Scotland. Ashby, J. & Rayner, K.(2002). The role of syllable structure in word recognition during silent reading: Evidence from eye movements. The Architectures and Mechanisms of Language Processing Conference, Tenerife, Spain. Ashby, J. & Rayner, K. (2001). Eye movement control in reading: Effects of frequency and predictability. The 11 th European Conference on Eye Movements, Turku, Finland. Conference Presentations- National Roncero, C., Ashby, J. & de Almeida, R. (2009). Metaphors need no explanations. 50 th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Boston, MA. Ashby, J. (2009). Neural mechanisms of reading: Phonology is fundamental at any age. Society for the Scientific Studies of Reading Conference, Boston, MA. Ashby, J. and Kingston, J. (2007). Processing phonological features during visual word recognition: Evidence from eye movements and ERPs. The 48 th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Long Beach, CA. Ashby, J. (2006). Do early phonological representations in visual word recognition include prosodic information? The 46 th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Houston. Ashby, J., Treiman, R., Kessler, B., Martin, A. & Rayner, K.(2004). The minimality principle reconsidered: Evidence for the early use of elaborated phonological representations during silent reading. The 45 th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Minneapolis. Ashby, J., Martin, A. & Florack, J. (2003). Syllable effects in English word recognition: An ERP investigation. The 44 th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society. Vancouver, Canada. J. Ashby CV, 3/15/10 4

5 Conference Presentations- National(cont d) Ashby, J., Treiman, R., Kessler, B. & Rayner, K.(2003). Parafoveal processing of vowel contexts: Evidence from eye movements. The 44 th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Vancouver, Canada. Christianson, K., Ashby, J. & Rayner, K.(2003). Transposed letters in masked primes facilitate naming within, but not across, morpheme boundaries. The 44 th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Vancouver, Canada. Ashby, J. & Rayner, K. (2001). Eye movements and reading skill: Differential effects of frequency and predictability. The Society for the Scientific Study of Reading, Boulder. Ashby, J. & Rayner, K. (2001) Eye movements and reading skill: Differential effects of frequency and predictability. The 42 nd Annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Orlando. Invited Talks 2010 What eye movements tell us about skilled reading. LETRS Annual Summit, New Orleans Parafoveal phonological processing in skilled word recognition. The 3 rd China International Conference on Eye Movement Studies 2004 Phonological processing at the reading/ language interface. The Max Plank Institute for Human Cognitive Neurosciences, Germany. Research Grants & Fellowships The Nature and Time Course of Phonological Representations in Reading National Institutes of Child Health and Human Development This grant (R01 HD ) funded my post-doctoral work. I designed the proposed experiments, wrote the proposal, and submitted non-competing renewals. Keith Rayner served as the nominal PI Kirschstein National Research Service Award, Individual Pre-doctoral Grant National Institutes of Child Health and Human Development Traineeship in Psycholinguistics National Institutes of Child Health and Human Development 2002 International Travel Grant for Graduate Students Academic Service Reviewer for Refereed Journals Attention, Perception & Psychophysics Biological Psychology Brain Research British Journal of Experimental Psychology Cognition Language and Cognitive Processes Journal of Educational Psychology J. Ashby CV, 3/15/10 5

6 Reviewer for Refereed Journals (cont d) Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied Journal of Experimental Psychology: General Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society Journal of Memory and Language Memory & Cognition Optometry and Vision Sciences Psychological Review Psychological Science Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology Reading Psychology Science Scientific Studies of Reading Reviewer for Grant Agencies Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Department Committees & Theses 2010 Doctoral Dissertation Committee Paula Louchart, Chair: Mike Hixson 2010 Kulhavi Professorship Committee (meeting 03/18/10) Central Michigan University Graduate Studies Committee Department of Psychology, University of Massachusetts Community Service Linden Hills School in Northfield, Massachusetts 2008 Presented professional development workshops for teachers of children with reading disabilities. The Town of Amherst, Massachusetts Public Transportation and Bicycle Committee, Chair Zoning Board of Appeals Town Meeting Member 2004 Citizen Advisory Committee to Select the Town Manager Present and Past Professional Affiliations American Association for the Advancement of Science Cognitive Neuroscience Society International Mind, Brain, and Education Society Psychonomic Society Society for the Scientific Studies of Reading J. Ashby CV, 3/15/10 6