Interesting work by Katrina R. Simon Dr. Sonya Troller-Renfree Dr. Kimberly Noble on the associations between noise exposure and SES on language development ISDP 🦋 @isdp.org.bsky.social #ISDP2021 🧠👶 🔊

Come join our clinical trial of poverty reduction! The Baby’s First Years study is seeking research assistants to join the incredible Dr. Eryn Adams, who is coordinating our New Orleans site. We would be especially delighted for local Black scholars to join the NOLA team.

Meet the 2021 Cattell Sabbatical Award recipients: Dr. Kimberly Noble from Teachers College, Columbia University Columbia University is one of the principal investigators of #BabysFirstYears, the first RCT to study how poverty reduction supports child cognitive, emotional & brain development. NEED Lab

MANUSCRIPT MONDAY! ✍️ Today we're highlighting a "hot off the press" article from the @BritoBabyLab 👶 “Paid Maternal Leave is Associated with Infant Brain Function at 3-months of Age”, published in Child Development 🙌 (1/4)

Congratulations to our amazing graduate student Emma Hart on being awarded the U.S. National Science Foundation #GRFP!

Congrats to Katrina R. Simon, whose first dissertation paper was published in Brain & Language today! In 5-9 yos, excessive home noise as measured by LENA were assoc w/ reduced cortical thickness in L IFG. sciencedirect.com/science/articl… Teachers College, Columbia University NEED Lab

A beautiful wrap-up to our PCI coding team with Gavkhar Abdurokhmonova, and Melissa Giebler (missing the awesome Benjamin Bravo). So excited for Gavkhar Abdurokhmonova who is headed to work with @RachelRRomeo for her PhD! So proud of you!

Loved seeing my fellow Baby’s First Years site coordinator Brian Rivera at Cog Dev Society! Awesome dissertation work! #CDS2022

A big congratulations to Dr. Sonya Troller-Renfree! We're so excited for you!

Grateful for such an amazing NEED Lab team!

Congratulations to Ph.D. students Emma Hart and Jessica Sperber (she/hers) on their poster presentations at IMBES!

Congratulations to our postdoc Dr. Molly Scott on her new job. While we are sad to see you leave us here at the NEED Lab we cannot wait to see what you do in your new role!!

Check out this exciting new work by 3rd year PhD student Jessica Sperber (she/hers) looking at pandemic exposure and child outcomes/maternal mental health!

Check out what NEED Lab members have been working on at #isdp2022!

New paper out testing the tried-and-true theory that stress drives SES differences in parent behaviors. We found null associations btwn maternal perceived stress & the home lang environment. w/ fab co-authors Dr. Sonya Troller-Renfree Jessica Sperber (she/hers) Dr. Kimberly Noble bit.ly/3Jjg0J5

Celebrating the beginning of summer with the world’s best lab! NEED Lab Teachers College, Columbia University

Nice work from Aislinn Sandre on associations between family income, education, and resting brain activity