I got a B.S. in Psychology from University of Massachusetts, Amherst in 1998 and an M.S. in Psychology from the University of Pittsburgh in 2001. The primary focus of my research is understanding the acquisition and development of representations involved in reading. My research utilizes functional neuroimaging (fMRI) and behavioral techniques to study skilled and impaired reading of adults and children. Some behavioral work I've conducted includes: (1) cross-linguistic research of the phonological precursors to literacy acquisition in Korean and English; (2) the development of orthographic representations in the early years of reading instruction; and (3) the effects of decodability and context on learning novel word forms. Some recent fMRI work involves techniques of habituation and adaptation to investigate neural responses to various dimensions of word form stimulus events.