Shash Kala

Shashwat Kala graduated from Dartmouth College in 2018 with a B.A. in environmental studies and a minor in Hispanic studies. As an undergraduate, he worked in the Faja lab at Boston Children's Hospital, helping analyze the efficacy of gaming interventions on improved executive functioning skills in children with ASD. Additionally, at the Faja lab, Shashwat was particularly interest in Theory of Mind and used the Social Attribution Task to determine how children with ASD naturally impose social context upon visual cues. Currently, Shashwat is a Sara S. Sparrow Fellow in Clinical Neuroscience and hopes to attend medical school to further pursue his interest in developmental pediatrics.