I am a Professor of Psychology, and I am leading this project, which is part of my larger project on the brain basis of language and language disorders. I study language perception and its disorders, such as dyslexia. I am also interested in language development and the plasticity of the brain through learning and rehabilitation. My key goal is to find effective ways to alleviate language difficulties.
I am a doctoral student studying in the effect of music training on children’s cognitive function and the interaction between music and language. I started working in this project since May 2022 and will be coordinating the project implementation and data collection on school-aged children. I’m interested in investigating whether music experience can help with dyslexia and reading skills.
I am a Doctor of Psychology and work in the project as a Vice Director. In my PhD thesis, I used electroencephalogram to investigate the development of auditory abilities from infancy to adulthood and the impact of music practice on this development. In the context of the Lukivauva project, I study, for example, early language and auditory skills in babies and the factors that influence them, as well as neural processing of speech in individuals with dyslexia. I am also involved in supervising doctoral and MA theses.
I graduated in Biomedical Sciences and took my M.Sc. in Cognitive Neuroscience at the University of Barcelona (UB). Also, I conducted an internship training at the Brain Stimulation Lab at the UB Faculty of Medicine, where I completed my master’s theses.
My research interests are human cognition and brain development, as well as their impairments and plasticity, and that’s why in 2022 I will join the DyslexiaBaby Project as an early-stage (doctoral) researcher. My research will focus on early brain development in dyslexia. Concretely, my interest is to examine the maturation of neural auditory processing of speech in early infancy, as well as the influence of familial dyslexia risk on it. Also, I aim to disentangle the relations between these responses and language abilities/pre-reading skills.
Knowing more about these processes would help to improve the developmental path in language and reading-skill acquisition of children worldwide in the future.
I am a Professor of Molecular Genetics at Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, originally from Helsinki. Our group has discovered most of the known dyslexia susceptibility genes, starting with the first one, DYX1C1 gene. We want to understand the role of heredity in the development of dyslexia.
I work as a research nurse in this project, working in Professor Kere's team. I am responsible for collecting the samples needed for genetic studies. I have a long experience of working at the Children's Hospital. I am happy to answer any questions regarding genetic studies!