Michelle Moore
Learning Research and Development CenterRoom 603
3939 O'Hara St.
Pittsburgh, PA 15260
TEL: 412-624-7083
FAX: 412-624-9149
EMAIL: mrm43@pitt.edu
I received a B.S. in both Life Science and Spanish at Penn State in 1998 and went on to earn my M.A. in Communication Sciences at Case Western Reserve in 2002. After working as a clinical speech–language pathologist for two years, in the fall of 2004 I began the doctorate program in Communication Science and Disorders at Pitt. In January, 2005 I joined the Fiez lab as a graduate student researcher.
My current research has utilized an interdisciplinary approach involving the use of behavioral, neuroimaging, and neuropsychological techniques to explore phonological and orthographic processing. In my dissertation work, I used a novel manipulation contrasting early–developing and late–developing phonemes as a way to assess the influence of long–term phonological knowledge in language and reading while controlling for other factors (e.g., lexical knowledge and memory demands). Additionally, I have been involved with the ongoing work in the lab investigating the neural bases of reading. For example, in a recent set of studies we have used a novel, face–based writing system to test competing accounts of the left–lateralization of the "visual word form area" (VWFA), a region that is thought to play an important role in orthographic processing. In future work, I plan on extending both lines of research to the study of language and reading impairments in children and to establishing effective methods for diagnosing and treating these impairments.
Selected Publications
Moore, M. W., Tompkins, C. A., & Dollaghan, C. A. (2010). Manipulating articulatory demands in nonword repetition: A “Late–8” nonword repetition task. Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics, 24(12), 997-1008Curriculum Vitae
Michelle W. Moore CV