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Meet our team
Kathy Binder
Chair of Psychology & Education;
William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Psychology
Kathy Binder is keenly interested in how adults with low literacy skills learn to read. Binder teaches a CBL course in which her students become adult literacy tutors to better understand readers’ strengths and weaknesses. This work has been funded by the NIH and IES.
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Kat Tremblay
Senior Research Associate, Reading and Cognition Lab
Kat manages Kathy Binder's Reading and Cognition Lab. Her responsibilities include supervising Kathy Binder's student research assistants and those working on independent studies and theses, coordinating data collection and tutoring placements at various ABE (Adult Basic Education) programs and schools in the area, and managing certain aspects of Kathy Binder's NIH Grant. Kat's research interests include literacy skills in adult basic education students as compared to other populations.
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Corrin Moss
Senior Research Associate, Reading Comprehension lab
Corrin is a post-baccalaureate senior research associate in Kathy Binder’s lab. Her responsibilities include data management and supervising student research assistants. Her research interests include children’s reading comprehension and how test-taking strategies influence students’ performance on standardized reading tests.
Jiaan is a psychology major and a member of the class of 2022. She joined the lab since spring 2020. She enjoys studying the cognitive processes behind reading, writing, language development and other aspects of learning.
Jiaan Shang '22
Sonali is from New Jersey, and is now a junior at Mount Holyoke College majoring in Neuroscience on a pre-medical track. She's interested in cognitive processes and neuroplasticity, and plans on pursuing an MD degree. Outside of the lab, Sonali enjoys dancing, reading fantasy novels, and listening to music.