Recent News:
Congratulations to lab PhD student, Delaney Kelemen, on her third place award for her talk at the College of PHHP’s annual PHHP Days research conference! She did a wonderful job presenting our ongoing study, Ferris Wheel, focused on studying reading network development in dyslexia using an inverted text task.
— April 2024
We are hiring! The lab is looking for a full-time lab manager to join us in May 2024. The lab manager will be responsible for overseeing the daily operations of the lab, including recruiting families and community partners, implementing behavioral, neuroimaging, (primarily MRI and EEG), and neuromodulation (non-invasive vagus nerve stimulation) studies, managing data storage and processing, teaching and supervising undergraduate research assistants to implement studies and process data, coordinating IRBs and other research documentation, and managing lab equipment and the lab website.
This position is ideal for a student looking for additional research experience and training prior to beginning graduate or medical school. Reach out to Dr. Centanni with any questions and apply here by March 17, 2024 for full consideration: https://explore.jobs.ufl.edu/en-us/job/530491/ops-lab-manager
—Feb 2024
We are gearing up for this year’s ASHA convention!
Come see lab grad student, Delaney Evans, present her poster on Friday at 3 pm (8645L, Neural and Behavioral Correlates of Inverted Text Reading in Young Adults with Dyslexia).
Dr. Centanni will be presenting a technical research talk on neural specialization for print in English vs Arabic (Friday at 2:30 pm, 4582L) and a seminar on vagus nerve stimulation for language and reading (Friday at 1-:30 am, 1516).
— November 2023
The lab is built on studies of genetic and neural heterogeneity in dyslexia. See Dr. Centanni review what we know and what we should do next at her recent talk to the Language and Brain group at UF!
— September 2023
Dr. Centanni recently gave a talk on the lab’s work using taVNS for reading to the UF Rehab Sciences Seminar. You can watch the talk here!
— September 2023
Dr. Centanni was recently interviewed for the SLAS podcast New Matter. She discusses our work with vagus nerve stimulation and provides some thoughts about the future of AI in dyslexia diagnosis and intervention. Listen here: https://www.buzzsprout.com/951535/13505648
— September 2023
We are excited to announce that in summer 2023, the GAPP lab will be moving to the Speech, Language, Hearing Department at the University of Florida! We will greatly missed our Horned Frogs, but are excited about the opportunities ahead!
New pre-print describing neural responses to English vs Arabic print in first graders in UAE: https://osf.io/hgkv5/
—January 2023
Congratulations to lab graduate student, Logun Gunderson, for his successful Master’s Thesis proposal! Now to collect more data!!
— December 2022
Welcome to our new lab technician, Camden Burnsworth! Camden will be working on a variety of projects as she prepares for grad school. See her profile on our People page!
— July 2022
See the write up about our lab and our recent grant by Dallas Innovates: https://dallasinnovates.com/sound-check-tcu-auditory-perception-lab-gets-grammy-museum-grant/
— June 2022
The Centanni Lab has received funding from the GRAMMY Museum to study neural correlates of musical training on prediction responses in young adults with and without dyslexia! The funding will last two years and will support a project for which we are about to start data collection. Keep an eye on our ‘Research’ page for more details on this exciting new study!
Press release: https://www.recordingacademy.com/press-releases/grammy-museum-grant-program-awards-20-thousand-music-research-sound-preservation
— June 2022
We are excited to welcome incoming graduate student, Delaney Evans, to the lab! She will be joining us in Fall 2022! Keep an eye on our social media and ‘People’ page for her picture and bio - coming soon!
— March 2022