Preprints & Publications

2026

Capani, A. Brice, H., Qadoumi, S. & Jasińska, K. (in press). Learning to Read After Schooling Disruptions: Neurocognitive Correlates of Reading Comprehension in Syrian Refugee Children and Youth. Trends in Neuroscience and Education. Preprint doi: 10.31234/osf.io/m9e3c_v1 

Jasińska, K., Whitehead, H., Wolf, S., Tanoh, F., Bugden, S., Wortsman, B., & Ogan, A. (in press). Multiple Dimensions of Poverty are Related to Infant and Toddler Resting State Brain Networks: Insights from fNIRS. Neurophotonics. Preprint doi: 10.31219/osf.io/2tk38_v1

De Bartolo, A., Corbett, J.,  Wolf, S., Ogan, A. & Jasińska, K. (2026). Assessing children and youth's socio-emotional behavior in rural Côte d’Ivoire: Construct validity and links to caregiver mental health and stress. Applied Developmental Science, 1–15. doi: 10.1080/10888691.2026.2677836 

Lim, J., Ostry, A.M., Elshabrawn, Y., Brogno, S., N’Goh, N., Akpe, H., Tanoh, F., Brice, H., Ogan. A. & Jasińska, K. (2026). Education resource use during COVID-19-related school closures, child cocoa agricultural work, and learning outcomes in rural Côte d'Ivoire. Research in Comparative and International Education. doi: 10.1177/17454999261453153

Nematova, S., Brice, H., Akkad, S., Ball, M.C. & Jasińska, K. (2026). Cross-Linguistic Transfer of Phonological Awareness and Reading Skills in Russian-Uzbek Bilingual Children. Journal of Research in Reading, 49(3), e70031. doi: 10.1111/1467-9817.70031.

Akkad, S. & Jasińska, K. (2026). Refugee Displacement and Migration Impact Cross-Linguistic Transfer Between Arabic and English: Insights from Syrian Refugees. Reading Research Quarterly, 61(3), e70126. doi: 10.1002/rrq.70126

Wolf, S., Ogan, A., Jasińska, K., Kembou, S., Cannanure, V. K., Whitehead, H., Corbett, J., Tanoh, F., Wortsman, B., Lim, J., Zhao, M. & Kumar, A. (2026). Impacts of Targeted Instruction with Mobile-based Support on Teachers and Students in Rural Côte d’Ivoire. American Educational Research Journal. doi: 10.3102/00028312261430679 

Hannon, J., Zinszer, B., Brice, H., N’Guessan, B., Tanoh, F., Earle, F.S. & Jasińska, K. (2026). The Role of Declarative and Procedural Learning in Adolescent Emergent Reading. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 52(3), 475–488. doi: 10.1037/xlm0001488

Jasińska, K., Kembou, S., Ogan, A., Wolf, S., Tanoh, F., & Guei, S. (2026). Best practices for implementing equitable and just large-scale randomized trials in Majority World countries. Developmental Psychology. doi: 10.1037/dev0001871

2025

Cannanure, V.K., Ngoon, T.,  Wolf, S., Jasińska, K., Brown, T. & Ogan, A. (2025). A Design-Based Research Approach to Bridge Teacher Aspirations and Goal-Setting. Journal on Computing and Sustainable Societies, 3(4) 1-23. doi: doi.org/10.1145/3736648 

Whitehead, H., Kouassi, H.R., Yeboue, A., Tanoh, F., Hajjaj, B., Kembou, S., Wolf, S., Jasińska, K. & Ogan, A. (2025). “And then there are the realities of the field”: Teacher insights on the implementation of a targeted instruction program in rural Côte d’Ivoire. Teaching and Teacher Education, 168, 105200. doi: 10.1016/j.tate.2025.105200 

Qadoumi, S., Brice, H., Wortsman, B., Capani, A., Rashad, R., Jafarian, M., Abdulrasul, H., Wu, S. & Jasińska, K.. (2025). Socioemotional Well-Being and Literacy in Syrian Refugee Children: Long-Term Outcomes Post-Resettlement. Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, 99, 101826. doi: 10.1016/j.appdev.2025.101826

Singh, N. C., Chakraborty, A., Gilead, T., van Atteveldt, N., Borst, G., Bugden, S., van Herwegan, J., Jasińska, K., Kay, J., Pugh, K. & Duraiappah, A. (2025). Education and the New Social Contract: Findings from The International Science and Evidence-Based Education Assessment. npj Science of Learning, 10(24). doi: 10.1038/s41539-024-00288-w

Kampa, A., Papafragou, A. & Jasińska, K. (2025). Scalar inference is supported by theory of mind networks in adults and children. Language, Cognition, and Neuroscience, 40(6), 813–833. doi: 10.1080/23273798.2025.2489602

Kumar, A., Chen, S., Jasińska, K., Ogan, A., Kembou, S., & Wolf, S. (2025). Predictors of harsh discipline practices among rural households in Côte d'Ivoire. Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, 98, 101785. doi: 10.1016/j.appdev.2025.101785

Abdulrasul, H., Brice, H., & Jasińska, K. K. (2025). Developmental Timing of Adversity and Neural Network organization: An fNIRS Study of the Impact of Refugee Displacement. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience. doi: 10.1016/j.dcn.2025.101532

2024

Wortsman, B., Brice, H., Capani, A., Ball, M-C., Zinszer, B., Tanoh, F., Akpé, H., Ogan, A., Wolf, S. & Jasińska, K. Risk and resilience factors for primary school dropout in Côte d’Ivoire. (2024). Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, 92. doi:10.1016/j.appdev.2024.101654

Wortsman, B., Bhattacharya, J., Lim, J., Tanoh, F., Shaheen, S. & Jasińska, K. Accelerating Progress Towards Eradicating Child Labor (SDG8.7) with Quality Education (SDG4): School Quality is Linked to Reduced Child Cocoa Labor in Côte D’Ivoire. (2024). Research in Comparative and International Education. doi: 10.1177/17454999241255182

Aurora, M., Whitehead, H., Mostafa, L., Wolf, S., Kembou, S., Ogan, A. & Jasińska, K. (2024). Parental factors, learning-related skills and academic skills in rural Côte d’Ivoire. Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology. doi: 10.1016/j.appdev.2024.101652

Cannanure, K., V., Ngoon, T., Wolf, S., Jasińska, K., Brown, T., Ogan, A. (2024). Understanding the Longitudinal Impact of a Chatbot to Facilitate a Virtual Community of Practice for Teachers in Rural Côte d’Ivoire. doi: doi.org/10.1145/36757

Ngoon, T. J., Cannanure, V.K.,  Jasińska, K., Wolf, S., & Ogan, A. (2024). “I believe I did not preach into the desert”: Opportunities & Challenges in Scaling Teacher Mentorship through Mobile Technology in Rural Côte d’Ivoire. Proceedings of Learning at Scale 2024. doi: 10.1145/3657604.3662035

Jasińska, K., Nematova, S., Brice, H. & Yang, X.C. (2024). Neural activation during phonological processing in primary-school children with limited reading exposure: Insights from rural Côte d’Ivoire. Mind, Brain, and Education. doi: 10.1111/mbe.12411

Nematova, S., Zinszer, B. D., Morlet, T., Morini, G., Petitto, L., & Jasińska, K. (2024). Impact of ASL exposure on spoken phonemic discrimination in CI users. Neurobiology of Language. doi: 10.1162/nol_a_00143

Wolf, S., Kembou, S., Ogan, A. & Jasińska, K. (2024). Cash Transfers Improve Economic Conditions and Reduce Maternal Stress in Rural Côte d’Ivoire. Journal of Child and Family Studies. doi: 10.1007/s10826-024-02817-y

Khan, F., Wortsman, B., Whitehead, H., Hannon, J., Tanoh, F., Sulik, M., Ogan, A., Obradovic, J. & Jasińska, K. (2024). Modeling the associations between socioeconomic risk factors, executive function components, and literacy among children in rural Côte d’Ivoire. Cognitive Development, 70. doi: 10.1016/j.cogdev.2024.101436

Brice, H., Zinszer, B., Kablan, D., Tanoh, F., N’Goran, N., Bokossô, G. & Jasińska, K. (2024). Individual differences in leveraging regularity in emergent L2 readers in rural Côte d’Ivoire. Scientific Studies of Reading. doi: 10.1080/10888438.2024.2317934

Ball, M.C., Bhattacharya, J., Akpe, H., Zhao, M., Brogno, S. & Jasińska, K. (2024). Effective bilingual education in Francophone West Africa: Constraints and possibilities. International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism. doi: 10.1080/13670050.2023.2290482

Whitehead, H., Ball, M., Wolf, S., Kembou, S., Ogan, A., & Jasińska, K. (2024). Variability in the age of schooling contributes to the link between literacy and numeracy in Côte d’Ivoire. Child Development. doi: 10.1111/cdev.14018

Nematova, S., Zinszer, B. & Jasińska, K. (2024). Exploring audiovisual speech perception in monolingual and bilingual children in Uzbekistan. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology. doi: 10.1016/j.jecp.2023.105808

Zinszer, B, Hannon, J., Kouadio, E., Akpé, H., Tanoh, F., Seri, A., Qi, Z. & Jasińska, K. (2024). Statistical learning and children’s emergent literacy in rural Côte d’Ivoire. Developmental Science. doi: 10.1111/desc.13448

2023

Zinszer, B, Hannon, J., Kouadio, E., Akpé, H., Tanoh, F., Hu, A., Qi, Z. & Jasińska, K. (2023). Does non-linguistic segmentation still predict literacy in an L2 education? Statistical learning in Ivorian primary schools. Language Learning. doi: 10.1111/lang.12603

Sobers, S. M., Nana, N., Ball, M. C., Tanoh, F., Akpé, H., & Jasińska, K. (2023). Is a Phone-Based Language and Literacy Assessment a Reliable and Valid Measure of Children’s Reading Skills in Low-Resource Settings? Reading Research Quarterly. doi:10.1002/rrq.511

2022

Jasińska, K., Zinszer, B., Xu, Z., Hannon, J., Seri, A., Tanoh, F. & Akpé, H. (2022) Home Learning Environment and Nutrition Impact Children’s Executive Function Development and Literacy in Rural Côte d’Ivoire. Cognitive Development. doi: 10.1016/j.cogdev.2022.101265.

Jasińska, K., Akpé, H., Seri, A. B., Zinszer, B., Yoffo, R., Mulford, K., Curran, E., Ball, M.C., & Tanoh, F. (2022). Evaluating Bilingual Children’s Native Language Abilities in Côte d’Ivoire: Introducing the Ivorian Children’s Language Assessment Toolkit for Attié, Abidji, Baoulé, and Bété. Applied Linguistics. doi:10.1093/applin/amac025.

Cannanure, V.K., Avila-Uribe, E., Adji, Y.T., Wolf, S., Jasińska, K., Brown, T. X. & Ogan. A. (2022). “We dream of climbing the ladder, for getting there, we have to do our job better:” Designing for Teacher Aspirations in Rural Côte d’Ivoire. ACM SIGCAS Conference on Computing and Sustainable Societies (COMPASS ’22).

Allen, K., Bull, A., Harden, P., Hart, S., Koellinger, P., Kraftl, P., Martschenko, D., Mitchell, C., Noble, K., Nxumale, F., Obradovic, J., Porter. T., Steyer, L., Tefera, A., Wolf, S., Jasińska, K., and Williamson, B. (2022). Individual Differences and the Influences on Learning. UNESCO International Science and Evidence-based Education (ISEE) Assessment. Future of Education. UNESCO.

Jasińska, K. & Guei, S. (2022). Interventions to Support Learning at the Bottom of the Pyramid in Côte d’Ivoire. In D. A. Wager, N. M. Castillo, and S. G. Lewis (Eds.), Learning, Marginalization, and Improving the Quality of Education in Low-income Countries (Learning at the Bottom of the Pyramid 2). doi: 10.11647/OBP.0256

Wang, D., Wang, S., Zinszer, B., Sheng, L. & Jasińska, K. (2022). Cross-Linguistic Differences in L1 Morphological Typology Influence Patterns of Neural Activation for L2 Morphosyntactic Processing: an fNIRS Study. Journal of Neurolinguistics, 63, 101063. doi:10.1016/j.jneuroling.2022.101063

Ball, M.C., Curran, E., Tanoh, F., Akpé, H., Seri, A., Nematova, S.  & Jasińska, K. (2022). Learning to read in environments with high risk of illiteracy: the role of bilingualism and bilingual education. Journal of Educational Psychology. doi:10.1037/edu0000723

2021

Janssena, T. W. P., Grammerb, J. K.,  Vatakis, A., Bulgarelli, C. , Zion-Golumbic, E. , Vassena, E., Davidesco, I. , Jasińska, K., Bleichner, M. G. , Siugzdaite, R., Dikker, S. & van Atteveldt, N. (2021).  Opportunities and limitations of mobile neuroimaging technologies in educational neuroscience. Mind, Brain, and Education. doi:10.1111/mbe.12302

Kizilcec, R., Chen, M., Jasińska, K., Madaio, M. & Ogan, A. (2021). Mobile Learning During School Disruptions in Sub-Saharan Africa. AERA Open, 7(1), 1-18. doi:10.1177/23328584211014860

Akpé, H., Seri, A., Tanoh, F., Yoffo, R., & Jasińska, K. (2021). De l’introduction d’un kit d’évaluation linquistique à l’evaluation des competences orales chez les apprenants du primarie en langue Ivoirienne pour les langues Attié, Abidji, Baoulé, et Bété. La Revue Universitaire des Sciences de l’Education ASSEMPE, 17.

2020

Jasińska, K., Shuai, S., Lau, A., Frost, S., Landi, N. & Pugh, K.R. (2020) Functional Connectivity in the Developing Language Network Predict Future Reading Ability in 4-year-old Children. Developmental Science. doi:10.1111/desc.13041

Mascheretti, S., Perdue, M., Feng, B., Andreola, C., Dionne, G., Jasińska, K., Pugh, K.R., Grigorenko, E., & Landi, N. (2020). From BDNF to reading: Neural activation and phonological processing as multiple mediators. Behavioural Brain Research. doi:10.1016/j.bbr.2020.112859

Cannanure, V.K., Niweteto, J.S., Adji, Y.T., Akpe Y. H., Jasińska, K., Brown, T. X. & Ogan. A. (2020). “I’m fine where I am, but I want to do more:” Exploring Teacher Aspirations in Rural Côte d’Ivoire. ACM SIGCAS Conference on Computing and Sustainable Societies (COMPASS ’20). doi:10.1145/3378393.3403653

Madaio, M., Yarzebinski, E., Cannanure, V.K., Zinszer, B., Hannon, J., Tanoh, F., Akpe, H., Seri, A. B.,  Jasińska, K. & Ogan, A. (2020) Collective Support and Independent Learning with a Voice-Based Literacy Technology in Rural Communities. Proceedings of the 2020 ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems.

2019

Jasińska, K. & Landi, N. (2019). Dyslexia and its Neurobiological Basis. In G. I. de Zubicaray and N. O. Schiller (Eds.), Oxford Handbook of Neurolinguistics. doi:10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190672027.013.25

Jasińska, K., Wolf. S., Jukes, M. & Dubeck, M. (2019). Literacy Acquisition in Multi-lingual Educational Contexts: Evidence from Coastal Kenya. Developmental Science. doi:10.1111/desc.12828

Madaio, M., Cannanure, V.K., Yarzebinski, E., Zasacky, S., Tanoh, F., Hannon, J., Cassell, J., Jasińska, K. & Ogan, A. (2019). “You Give a Little of Yourself”: Family Support for Children’s Use of an IVR Literacy System. ACM SIGCAS Conference on Computing and Sustainable Societies (COMPASS ’19). pp. 86-98. Note: Received Best Paper Award from ACM COMPASS

Madaio, M., Tanoh, F., Blahoua, A., Jasińska, K. & Ogan, A. (2019). Everyone Brings Their Grain of Salt”: Designing for Low-Literate Parental Support for a Mobile-Based Literacy Technology in Côte d’Ivoire. Proceedings of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. p. 465.

2018

Ryherd, K., Jasińska, K., Van Dyke, J.A., Hung, Y., Baron, E., Mencl, W.E., Zevin, J. & Landi, N. (2018) Cortical regions supporting reading comprehension skill for single words and discourse. Brain and Language, 186, 32–43. doi:10.1016/j.bandl.2018.08.001

Perdue, M., Mascheretti, S., Kornilov, S., Jasińska, K., Ryherd, K., Frost, S., Mencl, W.E., Grigorenko, E., Pugh, K.R. & Landi, N. (2018). Common variation within SETBP1 is associated with reading-related skills and patterns of functional neural activation. Neuropsychologia. doi:10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2018.07.015.

Jasińska, K., & Guei, S. (2018). Neuroimaging filed methods using functional Near Infrared Spectroscopy (fNIRS) to Study Global Child Development: Rural sub-Saharan Africa. JoVE, 132, doi:10.3791/57165.

2017

Jasińska, K. Molfese, P., Mencl, W.E., Pugh, K.R., Grigorenko, E. & Landi, N. (2017). The BDNF Val66Met Polymorphism is Associated with Structural Neuroanatomical Differences in Young Children. Behavioural Brain Research, 328, 48-56. doi:10.1016/j.bbr.2017.03.014.

Jasińska, K. & Petitto, L.A. (2017). Age of Bilingual Exposure Predicts Distinct Contributions of Phonology and Semantics to Successful Reading Development. Child Development, 89 (1). doi:10.1111/cdev.12745.

2016

Jasińska, K., Berens, M. S., Kovelman, I., & Petitto, L. A. (2016). Bilingualism yields language-specific plasticity in left hemisphere’s circuitry for learning to read in young children. Neuropsychologia, 98, 34-45. doi: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2016.11.018.

Jasińska, K. Molfese, P., Mencl, W.E., Pugh, K.R., Grigorenko, E. & Landi, N. (2016). Relations Between the BDNF Val/Met Polymorphism, Patterns of Neural Activation in the Developing Brain and Children’s Reading and Reading-Related Skills. PLOS One, 11(8), 1-25. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0157449.

Jasińska, K., Frost, S., Molfese, P., Landi, N., Mencl, W. E., Rueckle, J., and Pugh, K. (2016). Neuroimaging Perspectives on Skilled and Impaired Reading and the Bilingual Experience. In A. Khateb and I. Bar Kochva (Eds.), Reading Fluency: Current Insights from Neuro-Cognitive Research and Intervention Studies. Haifa, Israel: Springer

2014

Jasińska, K. & Petitto, L.A. (2014). Development of Neural Systems for Reading in the Monolingual and Bilingual Brain: New Insights from functional Near Infrared Spectroscopy Neuroimaging. Developmental Neuropsychology, 39(6), 421-39. doi: 10.1080/87565641.2014.939180.

2013

Jasińska, K. & Petitto, L.A. (2013). How Age of Bilingual Exposure Can Change the Neural Systems for Language in the Developing Brain: A functional Near Infrared Spectroscopy Investigation of Syntactic Processing in Monolingual and Bilingual Children. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 6, 87-101. doi: 10.1016/j.dcn.2013.06.005.

2012

Petitto, L.A., Berens, M.S., Kovelman, I., Dubins, M.H., Jasińska, K., & Shalinsky, M. (2012). The “Perceptual Wedge” hypothesis as the basis for bilingual babies’ phonetic processing advantage: New insights from fNIRS brain imaging. Brain and Language, 121(2), 142-155. doi:0.1016/j.bandl.2011.05.003