The Plaut Lab, Carnegie Mellon University (Dr. David C. Plaut, Director): Post-Doctoral Fellow

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1 Dr. Sarah Laszlo, PhD Department of Psychology 4400 Vestal Parkway East Binghamton, NY (607) Employment History State University of New York, Binghamton: 2011-Present Assistant Professor of Psychology Assistant Professor of Linguistics Director, Brain and Machine Laboratory The Plaut Lab, Carnegie Mellon University (Dr. David C. Plaut, Director): Post-Doctoral Fellow The Cognition and Brain Laboratory, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (Dr. Kara D. Federmeier, Director): Graduate Student, Fellow The Productive Aging Laboratory, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (Dr. Denise C. Park, Director): 2005 Research Assistant The Banaji Laboratory for Social Cognition, Harvard University (Dr. Mahzarin Banaji, Director): 2004 Research Assistant The Wagner Laboratory for Learning and Memory, MIT (Dr. Anthony D. Wagner, Director): Undergraduate Research Assistant Education University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL PhD, Psychology May, 2009 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL MA, Psychology August, 2006 Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 1

2 B.S., Brain and Cognitive Science June, 2004 Grants Awarded TWC SBE : Collaborative Research: Brain Password: Exploring A Psychophysiological Approach for Secure User Authentication Principle Investigator: Zhanpeng Jin [Bioengineering] Role: Co-Investigator Total Costs: $300,000 Binghamton University ICG: Brain Password: Exploring a Psychophysiological Approach for Secure User Authentication Principle Investigator: Zhanpeng Jin [Bioengineering] Role: Co-PI Total Costs: $10,000 NSF REU: Research Experience for Undergraduates Supplement, Summer 2014 Role: Principle Investigator Total Costs: $6,000 Binghamton University Health Sciences TAE RFP Grants: A Novel Mobile Human- Computer Interaction Approach based on Wearable Eye-Controlled Glasses for Assisted Living and Health Care Principle Investigator: Zhanpeng Jin [Bioengineering] Co-Investigator: Sarah Laszlo Total Costs: $12,000 NSF CAREER BCS : Neural-Computational Analysis of Reading (and Reading Impairment) in Individuals Principle Investigator: Sarah Laszlo Total costs (Direct + Indirect): $400,000 Brain Vision LLC: Signal Analysis of the ActiCap Active Electrode System Principle Investigator: Sarah Laszlo Equipment Grant: ~$10, Market Retail NIH/NICHD 1F32HD062043: Physiologically Constrained Computational Modeling of Visual Word Recognition Principal Investigator: Sarah Laszlo Sponsor: David C. Plaut July 2010-September

3 Training Grants and Fellowships NIMH T32 MH019983, CMU: Combined Computational and Empirical approaches to the study of Cognitive Neuroscience Director: Lynne M. Reder NIMH T32 MHI9554, UIUC: Cognitive Psychophysiology Director: Gregory A. Miller University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign University Fellowship Awards Google Glass Explorer Winter, 2013 Harpur College Dean s Research Semester Fall, 2013 Sarah Mangelsdorf Award for Outstanding Female Graduate Student May, 2009 Finalist: Psychology Department Graduate Instructor Award competition The incomplete list of teachers ranked as excellent by their students, with distinction for an Outstanding rating For Fall 2008: Senior Honors Seminar in Psychology Hans Lukas Teuber Award for Excellence in Academics in Brain and Cognitive Sciences by a senior at MIT May 2004 MIT Brain and Cognitive Sciences Award for excellent academic record May 2003 Professional and Academic Societies 2010-Present Cognitive Science Society 2008-Present Women in Cognitive Science 2006-Present Society for Psychophysiological Research 2006-Present Cognitive Neuroscience Society 2004-Present Phi Beta Kappa 2004-Present Sigma Xi 3

4 Publications 1. Laszlo, S., Ruiz-Blondet, M., Khalifian, N., Chu, F., & Jin, Z. (2014). A Direct Comparison of Active and Passive Amplification Electrodes in the Same Amplifier System. Journal of neuroscience methods, 235, Laszlo, S., & Armstrong, B.C. (2014). PSPs and ERPs: Applying the dynamics of post-synaptic potentials to individual units in simulation of ERP reading data. Brain and Language, 132, Laszlo, S., & Federmeier, K. D. (2014). Never seem to find the time: evaluating the physiological time course of visual word recognition with regression analysis of single-item event-related potentials. Language, Cognition and Neuroscience, 29, Laszlo, S., & Plaut, D.C. (2012). A neurally plausible parallel distributed processing model of event-related potential word reading data. Brain and Language, 120, Laszlo, S., Stites, M., & Federmeier, K.D. (2012). Won't Get Fooled Again: An Event-Related Potential Study of Task and Repetition Effects on the Semantic Processing of Items without Semantics. Language and Cognitive Processes, 27, Laszlo, S., & Federmeier, K.D. (2011). The N400 as a snapshot of interactive processing: evidence from regression analyses of orthographic neighbor and lexical associate effects. Psychophysiology, 48, Federmeier, K.D. & Laszlo, S. (2009). Time for meaning: Electrophysiology provides insights into the dynamics of representation and processing in semantic memory. Psychology of Learning and Memory (B. Ross, Ed.), Vol. 51, (pp 1-44). Burlington: Academic Press. 8. Laszlo, S., & Federmeier, K.D. (2009). A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood: An Event-Related Potential study of lexical relationships in sentence context. Journal of Memory and Language, 61, Laszlo, S. & Federmeier, K.D. (2008). Minding the PS, queues, and PXQs: Uniformity of semantic processing across multiple stimulus types. Psychophysiology, 45, Laszlo, S. & Federmeier, K.D. (2007). The Acronym Superiority Effect. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 14(6),

5 11. Laszlo, S. & Federmeier, K.D. (2007). Better the DVL you know: Acronyms reveal the contribution of familiarity to single word reading. Psychological Science, 18(2), Conference Papers 1. Ruiz-Blondet, M., Khalifian, N., Armstrong, B.C., Jin, Z., Kurtz, K.J., & Laszlo, S. (2014). Brainprint: Identifying Unique Features of Neural Activity with Machine Learning. Proceedings of the 36 th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Mahwah, NH: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. 2. Ruiz-Blondet, M., Khalifian, N., Jin, Z., Kurtz, K.J., & Laszlo, S. (2014, April). Brainwaves as authentication method: Proving feasibility under two different approaches. In Bioengineering Conference (NEBEC), th Annual Northeast. IEEE. 3. Laszlo, S., & Armstrong, B.C. (2013). Applying the dynamics of post-synaptic potentials to individual units in simulation of temporally extended ERP reading data. Proceedings of the 35 th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Mahwah, NH: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. 4. Laszlo, S., & Plaut, D.C. (2011). Simulating Event-Related Potential Reading Data in a Neurally Plausible Parallel Distributed Processing Model. Proceedings of the 33 rd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. Patents 1. Jin, Z., & Laszlo, S. [USPTO Review] WEARABLE HEAD-MOUNTED, GLASS- STYLE COMPUTING DEVICES WITH EOG ACQUISITION AND ANALYSIS FOR HUMAN-COMPUTER INTERFACES. U.S. Patent and Trade Mark Office. Filed 5 November, Posters and Conference Presentations 1. Laszlo, S., Ruiz-Blondet, M., & Jin, Z. (2015, January). BRAINPRINT: Evaluating the uniqueness and permanence of a novel averaged EEG biometric. Presented at the 2015 Secure and Trustworthy Cyberspace PI s meeting, Washington, D.C. 2. Armstrong, B.C., Ruiz-Blondet, M., & Laszlo, S. (2014, November). A neural network method for simulating the time-course of simple context-sensitive word recognition simultaneously in the time and frequency domains. Presented at the 2014 Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, Washington, D. C. Poster presentation. 5

6 3. Sacchi, E., & Laszlo, S. (2014). Cortical Resource Allocation in Good vs. Poor Readers: An Event-Related Potential Study. Presented at the 54 th Annual Meeting of the Society for Psychophysiological Research, Atlanta, Georgia. 4. Bhamdeo, S., & Laszlo, S. (2014). What s UPS: An Event-Related Potential Study of Phonological Ambiguity Resolution. Presented at the 54 th Annual Meeting of the Society for Psychophysiological Research, Atlanta, Georgia. 5. Khalifian, N., & Laszlo, S. (2014). Predicting Individual Scholastic Reading Performance with Event-Related Potentials: Results of Year Two of the Binghamton Reading Brain Project. Presented at the 54 th Annual Meeting of the Society for Psychophysiological Research, Atlanta, Georgia. 6. Ruiz-Blondet, M.V., Khalifian, N., Greenwald, C., Kurtz, K.J., Jin, Z., & Laszlo, S. (2014). Brainprint: Assessing Biometric Uniqueness of EEG with Machine Learning. Presented at the 54 th Annual Meeting of the Society for Psychophysiological Research, Atlanta, Georgia. 7. Armstrong, B. C., & Laszlo, S. (2014). Putting emergence to the test: Modeling the effects of context in the time and frequency domain on the N400 Component. Poster presented at the 35th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Quebec City, Canada. 8. Bhamdeo, S., Chu, F., Khalifian, N., & Laszlo, S. (2014, April). Brain Bases of Reading Comprehension: Studies of Advanced, Developing, and Struggling Readers. Poster presented at Posters on the Hill in the New York State Capitol, Albany, NY. 9. Armstrong, B.C., & Laszlo, S. (2013, November). Examining the N400 Repetition Effect in the Frequency Domain with a Combined Empirical and Computational Approach. Poster presented at the 54 th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Toronto, Canada. 10. Khalifian, N., Federmeier, K.D., & Laszlo, S. (2013, November). An Event- Related Potential Investigation of Individual Differences in Visual Word Recognition. Poster presented at the 54 th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Toronto, Canada. 11. Chu, F., Khalifian, N., & Laszlo, S. (2013). Ups, Ups, and Away: An Event- Related Potential Study of Phonological Ambiguity Resolution in the Two Cerebral Hemispheres. Psychophysiology, 50, Supplement 1. 6

7 12. Khalifian, N., & Laszlo, S. (2013). An electrophysiological investigation of individual differences in reading development. Psychophysiology, 50, Supplement Mooney, K., Chu, F., Faigen, H., & Laszlo, S. (2012). How to elect your electrodes: a comparison of passive and active electrodes in the same amplification system. Psychophysiology, 49, Supplement Laszlo, S. (2011). What goes up, must come down: Multiple regression analysis of single-item ERPs reveals yoked oscillation of orthographic and semantic processing. Psychophysiology, 48, Supplement 1, S MacInnes, J., Laszlo, S., & Armstrong, B. (2010). Computational Evidence that Word Co-occurrence Models Predict Turing Test Humanness Judgments. 20 th conference of the Canadian Society of Brain, Behavior, and Cognitive Science. 16. Laszlo, S., Stites, M., & Federmeier, K.D. (2010). Task and Repetition Effects on the Semantic Processing of Items Without Semantics. Psychophysiology, 47, Supplement 1, S Laszlo, S., Armstrong, B. C., MacInnes, W. J., Plaut, D. C., & Federmeier, K. D. (2010). When dog is more wolf than bone: Computational and electrophysiological evidence for featural organization of semantic memory. Proceedings of the 31st Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. 18. Laszlo, S., Anaya, P., & Federmeier, K.D. (2009). Interacting effects of lexical variables on language-sensitive ERPs at the single-item level. Psychophysiology, 46, Supplement 1, S Gratton, C.G., Laszlo, S., & Federmeier, K.D. (2008). In whole or in part? An ERP analysis of Global / Local Processing Asymmetries with Naturalistic Objects. Psychophysiology, 45, Supplement 1, S Laszlo, S. & Federmeier, K.D. (2008). All for one and one for all: Homogeneity of semantic access for all written inputs. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, Supplement 1, Federmeier, K.D. & Laszlo, S. (2007). Deriving Meaning from ERPs... And Other Acronyms. Psychophysiology, 44, Supplement 1, S Laszlo, S. & Federmeier, K.D. (2007). How I learned to stop worrying and love the VCR: N400 processing of illegal strings in sentence context. Psychophysiology, 44, Supplement 1, S62. 7

8 23. Laszlo, S. and Federmeier, K. D. (2006). Acronyms reveal the effects of familiarity and regularity on the N400 ERP component. Psychophysiology, 43, Supplement 1, S Goh, J.O., Jenkins, L., Hebrank, A., Laszlo, S., & Park, D.C. (2006). Neural correlates of categorical and coordinate spatial processing. Journal of Neuroscience, 26, Supplement Park, D.C., Hebrank, A., Jenkins, L., Laszlo, S., Khanna, M., & Polk, T. (2006). Neural activation patterns in frontal, parietal, and ventral visual cortices predict cognitive behavior in old and young. Journal of Neuroscience, 26, Supplement Laszlo, S. & Federmeier, K. D. (2006). Breaking the rules : Acronyms reveal mechanisms of reading. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, Supplement 1, Jenkins, L., Hebrank, A., Laszlo, S., Polk, T., & Park, D.C. (2006). Age differences in neural activation patterns in frontal, parietal, and ventral visual cortex. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, Supplement 1, 206. Invited Addresses Laszlo, S. New Language of the Machine: How understanding the brain can help us build better computational models of reading. Basq ue Center on Cognition, Brain, and Language May, 2014 Laszlo, S. The Reading Brain Project: Exploring visual word recognition with electrophysiology, neural computation, and development. University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Brain & Cognition Lunch Seminar September, 2013 Laszlo, S. New Language of the Machine: How understanding the brain can help us build better computational models of reading. Bard College, Mind, Brain, and Behavior Program March, 2012 Laszlo, S. Words on the Brain: Challenging Classical Theories of Visual Word Recognition with Event-Related Potentials and Neurally Constrained Computational Modeling Lehigh University Neurocognition Series February, 2012 Laszlo, S. & Federmeier, K.D. The unstoppable juggernaut: Electrophysiology reveals the obligatory nature of semantic access 8

9 Society of Psychophysiological Research Annual Meeting October, 2009 Laszlo, S. & Federmeier, K.D. A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood: An ERP study of lexical relationships and sentential constraint Society for Psychophysiological Research Annual Meeting October, 2008 Laszlo, S. Neural predictors of cognitive function in aging Beartooth Neurology Conference on Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging December 2006 Teaching 2014 Psychology 473, Cognitive Approaches to Artificial Intelligence 2014 Psychology 351: Perception 2013 Psychology 607, Introduction to Computational Psychology in MATLAB Psychology 352, Perception Lab Psychology 473L, Models of Cognitive Function Psychology 498, Senior Honors Seminar Psychology 398, Junior Honors Seminar 2006 Psychology 593, Methods in Cognitive Neuroscience 2012, 2013 Summer Teaching Supervisor, Psychology Department Mentoring, Postdoctoral Present Dr. Mallory Stites Primary Advisor Mentoring, Graduate Students *Denotes Chair of Committee 2011-Present Negin Khalifian* Primary Advisor 2013-Present Elizabeth Sacchi* Primary Advisor 2013-Present Mavi Ruiz Blondet* Master s Thesis Committee (Bioengineering) Primary PhD Advisor (Psychology) 2013-Present Katie Burkhouse Dissertation Committee 2013-Present Stanislav Sajin Master s Thesis Committee 2013-Present Nolan Conaway Master s Thesis Committee 2013-Present Julie Gregg Master s Thesis Committee 2014-Present Garrett Honke Master s Thesis Committee Mentoring, Undergraduate Students *Denotes Chair of Committee 2011-Present Fanny Chu* Honor s Thesis Committee 9

10 2012-Present Hannah Weeks 2013-Present Stephanie Bhamdeo* 2013-Present Julia Soares Honor s Thesis Committee Honor s Thesis Committee Honor s Thesis Committee Senior Project Consultant, Computer Engineering Department Evan Kesten, Emotiv EEG Controlled Smartphone BRIDGES to the Baccalaureate participant Academic Service January 1, Present Associate Editor: Psychophysiology Ad hoc reviewer: Psychophysiology, Brain and Language, Human Brain Mapping, European Journal of Cognitive Psychology, Cerebral Cortex, Cognitive Science, Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, Applied Psycholinguistics, Experimental Brain Research, Language and Cognitive Processes, Frontiers in Psychology, Experimental Aging Research, Brain and Cognition, PLOS One, Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, Language Cognition and Neuroscience, Neuropsychologia, Brain Research Extra-mural Grant Reviewer: National Science Foundation (NSF) Perception, Action, and Cognition Section, German Research Foundation (DFG), Dutch Council for the Humanities Alumni Admissions Interviewer, Phillips Exeter Academy 2013, 2014, 2015 Admissions cohorts Society for Psychological Research Poster Award Committee 2010, 2011, 2012, 2014 Competitions 10