Marjolaine Cohen
Academic Interests
Reading acquisition
Rapid naming
Reading expertise development
Lexical access
Dyslexia
Background
October 2017 – July 2018
Research assistant
December 2016 – November 2017
SNSF Doctoral Fellow Project “Challenging the Double-Deficit Hypothesis in reading disabled and typically developing school-aged children using behavioral and ERP approaches“ – SNSF grant 100019_169768
Advisors: Pascal Zesiger and Marina Laganaro
November 2013 – November 2016
SNSF Doctoral Fellow Project “Rapid naming and reading skills in school-aged children: A behavioral and ERP approach to the contribution of the lexical‐phonological processes” – SNSF grant 1000014_149595
Advisors: Pascal Zesiger and Marina Laganaro
June 2013 – November 2013
Research assistant NIH project “The path to literacy”
Advisor: Pascal Zesiger
Education
PhD in Speech Therapy
November 2013 – May 2018
Defense on May 2nd 2018
“Which processes are necessary to become an expert reader: eye-tracking and electroencephalographic investigations through childhood”
Neuro-Psycho-Linguistic Lab - Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences (FPSE) - University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
Advisors: Prof. P. Zesiger & Prof. M. Laganaro
Master in Speech Therapy
September 2011 – June 2013
MSc research - “Electrophysiological correlates of reading and picture naming in children from 7 to 12.” Advisors: Prof. P.Zesiger & Prof. M.Laganaro Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences (FPSE) - University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
Bachelor in Psychology
September 2008 – June 2011
Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences (FPSE) - University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland Brief presentation of previous work experience and education ...
Awards/Scholarship
SNSF Grant - P2GEP1_184479 - "How does Rapid Automatized Naming intervention improve reading fluency?"
Advisor: Athanassios Protopapas
Publications