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Dr. Temple's research is in the emerging field of developmental cognitive neuroscience, which is the study of brain mechanisms underlying human cognition and how they develop. Her emphasis is on reading and reading disabilities. In this research she utilizes a number of methods including brain imaging techniques (i.e. functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI)) to explore the development of neural processes involved in reading and language. The goal of the current constellations of projects is to better understand the neural processing underlying reading and language, the development of those processes, how they can be injured, and how the brain compensates when injury or developmental disability occur. The hope is that through a better understanding of the development of these brain processes, we can help diagnose and treat individuals with learning disabilities as well as gain insight into what sorts of educational strategies may impact literacy and language development most profoundly.

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Selected Publications

• Temple, E. (2002). Brain mechanisms in normal and dyslexic readers. Current Opinion in Neurobiology, 12, 178-83.
  
  
• Temple, E., Poldrack, R.A., Salidis, J., Deutsch, G.K., Tallal, P., Merzenich, M., & Gabrieli, J.D.E. (2001). Disrupted neural responses to phonological and orthographic processing in dyslexic children: an fMRI study. Neuroreport, 12, 299-307.
  
  
• Temple, E., Poldrack, R.A., Protopapas, A., Nagarajan, S., Salz, T., Tallal, P., Merzenich, M.M., & Gabrieli, J.D.E. (2000). Disruption of the neural response to rapid acoustic stimuli in dyslexia: Evidence from functional MRI. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 97, 3907-3912.
  
  

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