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Marcella Pavias

PhD candidate

Name
M. Pavias MSc
Telephone
+31 71 527 4895
E-mail
m.pavias.2@fsw.leidenuniv.nl
ORCID iD
0000-0002-1405-6270

Short CV

After completing the Research Master’s programme ‘Developmental Psychopathology in Education and Child Studies’ Marcella Pavias started her Phd project in October 2014 ( The role of social cognition in the development of reading comprehension abilities: Evidence from behavioral, eye-tracking, and neuroimaging methods). She joined the Brain and Education Lab in November 2012 as a research assistant under supervision of Dr. Linda van Leijenhorst and Anne Helder. In June 2014 Marcella was awarded an NWO Research Talent Grant which enables her to work towards a PhD in the coming years under supervision of Prof. Dr. P.W. van den Broek and Dr.  L. van Leijenhorst.        

Research

Reading comprehension skills are usually acquired in the context of narratives, whose understanding requires social cognitive abilities such as perspective taking. The project combines insights from developmental cognitive neuroscience and research on reading comprehension to determine the cognitive and neural bases of the development of reader characteristics that contribute to text comprehension in childhood and adolescence. The role of the development of social cognition will be examined using behavioral, eye-tracking, as well as functional MRI techniques.

Grants

NWO Research Talent Grant

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Promotor

Prof. dr. P.W. van den Broek
Dr. L. van Leijenhorst

PhD candidate

  • Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
  • Instituut Pedagogische Wetenschappen
  • Onderwijswetenschappen

Work address

Pieter de la Court
Wassenaarseweg 52
2333 AK Leiden
Room number 4A37

Contact

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