Education

Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh (Cognitive Psychology & Cognitive Neuroscience), 2005.

Representative Publications:

Perfetti, C.A., Landi, N., & Oakhill, J.V. (2005). The acquisition of reading

comprehension skill. In M.J. Snowling & C.Hume (Eds.),The Science of Reading: Handbook of Reading Research. Oxford: Blackwell.

Landi, N., Perfetti, C.A., Bolger, D.J., Dunlap, S. & Foorman, B.R. (2006). The

role of discourse context in developing word representations: A paradoxical relation between reading and learning. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 94, 114-133.

Landi, N. & Perfetti, C.A. (2007). An electrophysiological investigation of

semantic and phonological processing in skilled and less skilled comprehenders. Brain and Language, 102, 30-45.

Pugh K.R., Frost, S.J., Sandak, R., Landi, N. Rueckl, J.,G., Constable, R.T.,

Seidenberg, M., Fullbright, R., Katz, L., & Mencl, W.E. (2008). Effects of stimulus difficulty and repetition on printed word identification: An fMRI comparison of non-impaired and reading disabled adolescent cohorts. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. 20, 1146-1160.

Bauer, L. M., Olheiser, E. L., Altarriba, J., & Landi, N. (2009). Word type

effects in false recall: Concrete, abstract, and emotion word critical lures. American Journal of Psychology, 122, 469-482.

Frost, S., Landi, N., Mencl,W. E., Sandak, R. Fullbright, R.K., Jacobsen, L.,

Grigorenko, E., Constable, R.T. & Pugh, K. (2009). Phonological awareness predicts cortical activation patterns for print and speech. Annals of Dyslexia, 59, 78-97.

Landi, N. (2009). The contribution of high-level and low-level reading skills to

adult reading comprehension ability. Reading and Writing. DOI 10.1007/s11145-009-9180-z

Landi, N., Frost, S.J., Mencl, W.E, Sandak, R. & Pugh, K.R. (in press).

Neurobiological bases of reading comprehension: Insights from neuroimaging studies of word level and text level processing in skilled and impaired readers. Reading and Writing Quarterly.