Richard Aslin
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Prior to joining the Yale Child Study Center, Dr. Aslin was a Senior Research Scientist at Haskins Laboratories from 2017-2023, and prior to Haskins, Dr. Aslin was on the faculty at the University of Rochester for 33 years, where he established the Rochester Baby Lab. Dr. Aslin’s work focuses on perceptual and motor systems, language acquisition, and statistical learning. His work on statistical learning showed that infants can understand structure from rapid streams of speech or images by simple exposure. More recent work has shown that infants direct their attention to auditory and visual cues that have an intermediate level of complexity. Dr. Aslin primarily focuses on studies utilizing fMRI, EEG, and fNIRS. Dr. Aslin has been the recipient of several major awards, including the APA Distinguished Scientific Contributions Award (2014) and the APS Mentor Award for Lifetime Achievement (2015), and several honors, including election to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2006) and the National Academy of Sciences (2013).
In his spare time, Dr. Aslin enjoys cycling and completes at least one multi-day ride each year in the Rocky mountains or the French alps.
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Senior Research ScientistPrimaryChild Study Center
Clinical ProfessorSecondaryDepartment of Psychology
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Sara Sánchez-Alonso, PhD
David J Lewkowicz, PhD
Joy Hirsch, PhD
Nick Turk-Browne, PhD
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2024
Infant neuroscience: how to measure brain activity in the youngest minds
Turk-Browne N, Aslin R. Infant neuroscience: how to measure brain activity in the youngest minds. Trends In Neurosciences 2024, 47: 338-354. PMID: 38570212, DOI: 10.1016/j.tins.2024.02.003.Peer-Reviewed Reviews, Practice Guidelines, Standards, and Consensus StatementsCitationsAltmetricMeSH Keywords and ConceptsConceptsFunctional magnetic resonance imagingFunctional near-infrared spectroscopyMeasure brain activityBrain activityApplication of functional magnetic resonance imagingHuman infantsCognitive neuroscienceCognitive tasksInfant brainAwake infantsMagnetic resonance imagingNear-infrared spectroscopyMagnetoencephalographyMindfulnessResonance imagingNon-invasive methodInfantsElectroencephalography
2023
Simultaneous Data Collection of fMRI and fNIRS Measurements Using a Whole-Head Optode Array and Short-Distance Channels.
Sanchez-Alonso S, Canale R, Nichoson I, Aslin R. Simultaneous Data Collection of fMRI and fNIRS Measurements Using a Whole-Head Optode Array and Short-Distance Channels. Journal Of Visualized Experiments 2023 PMID: 37929988, DOI: 10.3791/65088.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchCitationsMeSH Keywords and ConceptsConceptsFunctional magnetic resonance imagingFunctional near-infrared spectroscopyClinical populationsFNIRS measurementsFunctional brain activityStudy of brain functionNeuroimaging methodologiesNaturalistic studyCerebral blood oxygenationFunctional connectivityBrain activityStructural scansScanning sessionBrain functionFNIRS dataMagnetic resonance imagingNear-infrared spectroscopyFNIRS systemSubject-specific responsesSystemic physiological signalsShort-distance measurementsFNIRS equipmentFNIRS signalsGold standardResonance imagingfNIRS Studies of Individuals with Speech and Language Impairment Underreport Sociodemographics: A Systematic Review
Girolamo T, Butler L, Canale R, Aslin R, Eigsti I. fNIRS Studies of Individuals with Speech and Language Impairment Underreport Sociodemographics: A Systematic Review. Neuropsychology Review 2023, 34: 860-881. PMID: 37747652, PMCID: PMC10961255, DOI: 10.1007/s11065-023-09618-y.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchCitationsAltmetricConceptsSystematic reviewFNIRS studyMeta-analysis protocolPreferred Reporting ItemsUtility of fNIRSParticipants' sociodemographicsReporting ItemsQualifying studiesSociodemographicsStudy of individualsLanguage impairmentImpairmentGeneralizability of findingsClinical applicationMost studiesReviewPROSPEROStudyGender/sexScalp-based parcellation for longitudinal fNIRS studies
Magee A, Pirazzoli L, Sanchez-Alonso S, Sullivan E, Perdue K, Zinszer B, Bejjanki V, Richards J, Culver J, Aslin R, Emberson L, Eggebrecht A. Scalp-based parcellation for longitudinal fNIRS studies. Proceedings Of SPIE--the International Society For Optical Engineering 2023, 12628: 126280k-126280k-3. DOI: 10.1117/12.2670765.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchAltmetricMultiple pathways to developmental continuity in infant cognition
Aslin R, Fox N, Lewkowicz D, Maurer D, Nelson C, von Hofsten C. Multiple pathways to developmental continuity in infant cognition. Trends In Cognitive Sciences 2023, 27: 692-693. PMID: 37321924, DOI: 10.1016/j.tics.2023.04.007.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchCitationsAltmetricMeSH KeywordsScalp Surface-Based Parcellation for fNIRS Studies
Magee A, Pirazzoli L, Sanchez-Alonso S, Sullivan E, Perdue K, Zinszer B, Bejjanki V, Nelson C, Richards J, Culver J, Emberson L, Aslin R, Eggebrecht A. Scalp Surface-Based Parcellation for fNIRS Studies. 2023, jtu4b.16. DOI: 10.1364/boda.2023.jtu4b.16.Peer-Reviewed Original Research
2022
Novel idea generation in social networks is optimized by exposure to a “Goldilocks” level of idea-variability
Baten R, Aslin R, Ghoshal G, Hoque E. Novel idea generation in social networks is optimized by exposure to a “Goldilocks” level of idea-variability. PNAS Nexus 2022, 1: pgac255. PMID: 36712363, PMCID: PMC9802244, DOI: 10.1093/pnasnexus/pgac255.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchCitationsAltmetricPredictive brain signals mediate association between shared reading and expressive vocabulary in infants
Wang S, Tzeng O, Aslin R. Predictive brain signals mediate association between shared reading and expressive vocabulary in infants. PLOS ONE 2022, 17: e0272438. PMID: 35921370, PMCID: PMC9348734, DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0272438.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchCitationsAltmetricMeSH Keywords and ConceptsConceptsExpressive vocabularyShared reading experiencesReading experienceBrain signalsExpressive vocabulary acquisitionEfficient language processingFurther mediation analysisUnique varianceUpcoming informationVocabulary acquisitionLanguage learningMediation analysisInfant brainLanguage processingVocabularyPredictive signalsMaternal educationOccipital lobeExperiencePresent studyTaskFirst evidenceLearningReadingProcessingDecoding the temporal dynamics of spoken word and nonword processing from EEG
McMurray B, Sarrett ME, Chiu S, Black AK, Wang A, Canale R, Aslin RN. Decoding the temporal dynamics of spoken word and nonword processing from EEG. NeuroImage 2022, 260: 119457. PMID: 35842096, PMCID: PMC10875705, DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2022.119457.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchCitationsAltmetricMeSH Keywords and ConceptsConceptsMultiple word candidatesNeuroscience of languagePatterns of confusionNonword processingImplicit processesLexical developmentWord recognitionNeural basisSpeech decodingPsycholinguistic findingsWord candidatesNeural dynamicsBehavioral methodsCognitive disordersSimple paradigmEEG systemTemporal dynamicsClinical disordersWordsMachine-learning techniquesEEG signalsLanguageNeuroscienceDisordersRecognitionMacaques preferentially attend to intermediately surprising information
Wu S, Blanchard T, Meschke E, Aslin RN, Hayden BY, Kidd C. Macaques preferentially attend to intermediately surprising information. Biology Letters 2022, 18: 20220144. PMID: 35857891, PMCID: PMC9256086, DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2022.0144.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchCitationsAltmetricMeSH Keywords and Concepts
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- July 18, 2024Source: The British Academy News & Analysis
The British Academy welcomes 86 new Fellows in 2024
- June 24, 2024
Inaugural YCSC postdoctoral scholar travel awardees announced
- July 03, 2023
Aslin to receive 2023 Kurt Koffka Medal
- April 14, 2023
Yale Child Study Center welcomes former Haskins Laboratories faculty and trainees