Aurora, M., Whitehead, H., Mostafa L., Wolf, S., Kembou, S., Ogan, A., Jasińska, K.K. (Dec 7, 2024) Parental Factors, Learning-Related Skills, and Academic Skills in Rural Côte d’Ivoire. APHD Research Gala, Toronto, ON, Canada.


Abdulrasul, H., Capani, A., Brice, H., Jasińska, K.K. (April, 2024). Impact of Interrupted Schooling on Functional Connectivity for Reading in Resettled Syrian Refugee Children in Canada. Cognitive Neuroscience Society Annual Meeting, Toronto, ON, Canada.


Brice, H., Zinszer, B., Hannon, J., Tanoh, F., Nana N’Goh Anicet, K., Jasińska, K.K. (April, 2024). Predicting Literacy in Emergent Readers in Rural Côte d’Ivoire: A Longitudinal fNIRS Study. Cognitive Neuroscience Society Annual Meeting, Toronto, ON, Canada.


Whitehead, H., Bugden, S., Tanoh, F., Wolf, S., Ogan, A., Kembou, S., Jasińska, K.K. (April, 2024). Exploring the neural basis of symbolic and non-symbolic magnitude processing in rural school children from Côte d’Ivoire. Cognitive Neuroscience Society Annual Meeting, Toronto, ON, Canada.


Brice, H., Zinszer, B., Hannon, J., Tanoh, H., N’Goran, N. &  JasiÅ„ska, K. (2023, October). Predicting Literacy in the Brain in Emergent Readers in Rural Côte d’Ivoire: A Longitudinal Study. WestNIRS, London, ON, Canada.


Whitehead, H., Abdulrasul, H., Wolf, S., Tanoh, F., Bugden, S., Ogan, A., Kembou, S. & Jasińska, K. (2023, September). Relations between multiple dimensions of poverty and infant and toddler resting state brain networks using fNIRS. Yale fNIRS Workshop, New Haven, CT.


Brice, H., Zinszer, B., Hannon, J., Tanoh, H., N’Goran, N. &  JasiÅ„ska, K. (2023, September). Predicting Literacy in the Brain in Emergent Readers in Rural Côte d’Ivoire: A Longitudinal Study. Yale fNIRS Workshop, New Haven, CT.


Whitehead, H, Ball. M.C., Wolf, S., Ogan. A., Kembou, S. & Jasińska, K. (2023, March). Variability in the age of schooling contributes to the link between literacy and numeracy in Côte d’Ivoire. Society for Research in Child Development, Salt Lake City, UT.


Khan, F., Wortsman, B., Whitehead, H., Hannon, J., Sulik, M., Obradovic, J. & Jasińska, K. (2023, March). Modeling the associations between socioeconomic risk factors, executive function components, and literacy among children in rural Côte d’Ivoire. Society for Research in Child Development, Salt Lake City, UT.


Abdulrasul, H., Ball, M. -C., Whitehead, H. L., Buhôt, L., Capani, A., & Jasińska. K. K. (2022, October 13). Impact of interrupted schooling on the development of the brain’s capacity for reading: Examining neural systems for reading in Syrian refugee children in Canada. 2022 Society for functional Near Infrared Spectroscopy Biennial Meeting, Boston, MA.


Whitehead, H., Buhôt, L., Capani, A., Ball, M.C., & Jasińska, K.K. (2022, September 26-28). Impact of interrupted schooling on the development of the brain’s capacity for reading. WestNIRS, London, ON, Canada.


Yang, X.C., Nematova, S. & Jasińska, K.* (2021, Oct). Neural activation during phonological processing in primary-school children with limited reading exposure: Insights from rural Côte d’Ivoire. Society for Neurobiology of Language. Note: Abstract received an honorable mention for the Abstract Merit Award.


Akpé, H., Ball, M.C. N’Goh, N., Tanoh, F., Hannon, J. & Jasińska, K.* (2021, July). How does Family Literacy Support Children’s Reading Development? Insights from low-literacy communities in rural Côte d’Ivoire. Society for the Scientific Study of Reading.


Hannon, J., Khan, F. & Jasińska, K.* (2021, July). Differential Contribution of Executive Functions to Reading Across Development: Insights from Older Emergent Readers in Rural Côte D’Ivoire. Society for the Scientific Study of Reading.


Sobers, S.M., N’Goh, N., Tanoh, F., Akpé, H., Ball, M.C. & Jasińska, K.* (2021, July). Is a Phone-Based Literacy Assessment a Reliable and Valid Measure of Children’s Reading Skills for Low-Resource Settings. Society for the Scientific Study of Reading.



Ball, M., Curran, E., Tanoh, F., Akpe, H., Nematova, S., & Jasińska, K.* (2021, April). Bilingual Home and School Environments Impact Children’s Language and Literacy Outcomes in Sub-Saharan Africa. Society for Research in Child Development. [virtual] ] Note: Poster was nominated for SRCD Student and Early Career Council Poster Award



Hannon-Cropp, J., Zinszer, B., Seri, A., Tanoh, F., Akpé, H., Earle, F. S., & Jasińska, K.* (2020, October). The Role of Procedural Learning for Emergent Reading: Insights from Côte d’Ivoire. Society for Neurobiology of Language.





Matteson, J., Wang, J., Bobowska, V., Zinszer, B., Jasińska, K.* (2020, May). Using a deep learning classifier of fNIRS neuroimaging data to understand the neurobiology of literacy among children growing up in low-literacy environments: Insights from field neuroimaging in rural Ivory Coast. Cognitive Neuroscience Society.























Note: Presentation was selected for the Society for Neuroscience official Press Book.






Skarakis-Doyle, E., Campbell, W., Terry, A., Jasińska, K., & Gillespie, S. (2008, June). The cooperative principle and theory of mind in preschool children: understanding others’ intentions and beliefs. Symposium for Research in Child Language Disorders conference. Madison, Wisconsin.