Elizabeth Hirshorn

 

Contact Information

  • Meliora 414
  • Brain & Cognitive Sciences
  • University of Rochester
  • Rochester, NY 14627-0268
  • (585) 275-3075

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Education

2003 BA, Cognitive Science and Spanish, Wellesley College

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Research Overview

Reading and deafness; phonological awareness and reading; working memory and short-term memory; language and the brain.

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Selected Publications

Conference Presentations

  • Elizabeth A Hirshorn, Merri Mani, Arnaud Guidon, and Daphne Bavelier. (2008). White Matter pathways underlying reading skills in profoundly deaf adults. Poster to be presented at the Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting, Washington, DC.
  • Elizabeth A. Hirshorn., Matthew W.G. Dye, Peter C., Hauser, and Daphne Bavelier. (2008). Routes to achieving literacy in deaf readers: The case of native American Sign Language (ASL) users. Poster presented at the Cognitive Neuroscience Society Annual Meeting, San Francisco.
  • Elizabeth A. Hirshorn, Geoffrey K. Aguirre, and Sharon L. Thompson-Schill (2005). Proactive and reactive cognitive control during semantic retrieval. Poster presented at the Cognitive Neuroscience Society Annual Meeting, New York City, NY.
  • Tatiana T. Schnur, Elizabeth A. Hirshorn, and Sharon L. Thompson-Schill (2005). Mapping semantic interference during picture naming: an fMRI study. Poster presented at the Cognitive Neuroscience Society Annual Meeting, New York City, NY.
  • Ranjani Prabhakaran, Melissa Brandon, Elizabeth A. Hirshorn, Amishi P. Jha, and Sharon L. Thompson-Schill, (2005). An event-related fMRI investigation of proactive interference resolution in a nonverbal working memory task. Poster presented at the Cognitive Neuroscience Society Annual Meeting, New York City, NY.
  • Elizabeth A. Hirshorn, Julia C. Lemos, and Sharon L. Thompson-Schill (2004). Role of the left inferior frontal gyrus in covert word retrieval: Neural correlates of switching during verbal fluency. Human Brain Mapping Annual Meeting, Budapest, Hungary.
  • Melissa Brandon, Elizabeth A. Hirshorn, Amishi P. Jha, and Sharon L. Thompson-Schill (2004). Proactive interference resolution during nonverbal working memory: Evidence for domain-general processing in LIFG. Cognitive Neuroscience Society Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA.

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