Centanni GAPP Lab

Hi friends! If you have a 2nd or 3rd grader, anywhere in the US, who has word reading difficulties, consider signing up to participate in this study! All activities take place over Zoom and there will be 3 Zoom sessions required. This is important work being conducted by one of my doctoral students and I appreciate your consideration in participating and sharing this post!!

Dr Centanni is excited to be able to share her genetics expertise as a mentor at ASHA this year! Congrats, Lydia!!!

Starting to think about PhD application season?

Interested in development of language/reading networks and neural plasticity?

The GAPP lab is looking to add a PhD student this coming cycle, through either the rehab science or neuroscience programs.

Get in touch with questions and/or interest, and please share!

Congrats to lab grad student Delaney Kelemen for her third place talk at our college’s research days! There were dozens of talks in her category!

🚨Job alert!!! 🚨

We have a new opening for a full time lab manager, to assist in our ongoing studies of neural and genetic correlates of reading acquisition and non-invasive vagus nerve stimulation. Great opportunity for someone looking for some extra experience before grad school.

Please share and reach out directly with any questions!

Apply here:

University of Florida - Details - OPS Lab Manager Apply now Job no: 530491 Work type: Temp Full-Time Location: Main Campus (Gainesville, FL) Categories: Allied Health, Grant or Research Administration, Health Care Administration/Support Department:33060000 - HP-SLP LANG & HEARING SCI

It’s been 5 months of unpacking and prep as we moved our lab to UF College of Public Health and Health Professions. Today, we ran our first EEG participant and resumed our projects. So exciting to see this step!

We are still catching our breath from a wonderful and then Thanksgiving time with family to recharge. So many new ideas and collaborations forming, it’s exciting to see all the new science we might get to do in 2024 and beyond!

It’s always exciting to get assigned a large room for a talk! Come see Dr Centanni present on our vagus nerve stimulation work this morning at

And we’re off- Boston here we come!

Excited to see existing friends and make new ones at ! Come say hi during our sessions, or send a message to arrange a meeting! Please especially reach out if you’re considering a PhD- we work on the neuroscience of reading and neural plasticity and are recruiting this year.

We are excited for ASHA 2023 next week! We have two talks, a poster, and an informal meet the PI session for prospective PhD students. We hope to see you there!

A big congratulations to our lab tech, Monica Parra, and her acceptance to UNTHSC’s Clinical Research program!! Monica has been a wonderful member of the lab, completing a McNair project with us as an undergrad before sticking around for an extra year as a tech. It’s been wonderful watching you find your passion and we can’t wait to see what you do next!!!

We are one step closer to being back in business in our new home at UF with the arrival of our Magstim EGI Hd-Eeg amplifier! 🤩

We know we’ve been very MIA during our initial transition to UF- look for us to slowly resume posting in the next few months!

To start, Dr Centanni presented some of her prior work that continues to inform the lab’s mission at SSSR in Port Douglas, Australia, to a packed room, as part of a fantastic symposium on the biological and environmental correlates of reading.

We have some exciting news to share!

This summer, the GAPP Lab will be moving to the Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences Department at the University of Florida! This move will give us access to additional resources in neural imaging and genetics and we are excited by the new possibilities!

We will greatly miss our Horned Frog family here at TCU and are so grateful for the years of collaboration and support!!

Check out a new pre-print, describing the neural response to English vs Arabic in children in UAE: https://osf.io/hgkv5/

We found that while children read far fewer words in English, the brain response to this alphabet was stronger than to Arabic! We discuss implications for reading acquisition in Arabic and considerations for future work.

Another successful semester draws to a close! We got so much done this fall, including pilot testing for two new EEG studies and finishing our first full study in the rodent model lab! Exciting milestones were met, including grad student Logun Gunderson proposing his thesis project and lab undergrad Jordan Crupper getting into a fantastic PhD program!

Rest up, GAPP Lab, and enjoy the break - it's going to be an exciting Spring!!!

Check out this nice write up of our recent grant and new study looking at neural correlates of musical training in young adults with and without dyslexia!

What music and reading might be able to teach us about prediction patterns in the brain | Fort Worth Report Fact-based local journalism that helps Fort Worth and Tarrant County residents make smart decisions about their government and their lives.

Excited to see our lab and TCU’s neural imaging featured in the new commercial! See us represented at 22 and 45s in.

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🧠🧪Project Highlight: Phonebook 📱📕

One of the coolest things about research is that there’s always room for improvement! Phonebook is a new project beginning this fall that was designed to help the lab run smoother! All of our studies require participants to complete some assessments to establish eligibility. However, with Phonebook, we now have a way of ensuring that each participant takes the assessments only once, and, based on their results, we can easily direct them to studies that they qualify for! Are you a TCU student interested in participating in research? Spots for this study will be posted as soon as the semester starts on the TCU SONA system and check out the lab website (http://www.tmcentanni.com) to see what studies are available!

Dr Centanni had a great conversation with Dallas Innovates today. Check out their nice write up of our recent grant and upcoming work!

Sound Check: TCU Auditory Perception Lab Gets GRAMMY Museum Grant The Centanni Lab at TCU has received a $10,000 grant from the GRAMMY Museum for a study exploring connections between musical instruction and brain improvements that might help with dyslexia. "We've found in the last few years that there may be some overlap here—a really interesting way of using o...