Cognitive Neuroscience & Psychology Research
Overview
Postdoctoral Researcher
Carnegie Mellon University
Investigated brain development in children by aggregating MRI data from multiple institutions to overcome challenge of noisy pediatric data and uncover signals missed in smaller datasets.
Implemented and automated statistical analyses using Bash, Python, R, and MATLAB.
Wrote proposals to secure funding. Awarded BRIDGE Center grant valued at over $10K.
Doctoral Researcher
Johns Hopkins University
Used diverse behavioral and neuroscientific methods to study cognitive and brain development in blind and sighted people (e.g., MRI, psychophysics, A/B testing, performance, surveys).
Led 8+ long-term end-to-end experimental research studies.
Published 10+ peer-reviewed papers
Research Coordinator
University of California, Davis
Designed and conducted studies to measure visual perception in 3- to 12-month-old infants using eye-tracking and viewing behavior.
Studied visual attention (e.g., distraction sensitivity, cognitive load, bottom-up vs top-down attention) and memory (e.g., working memory capacity).
Research Assistant
Wesleyan University
Designed and conducted experiments to study cognitive development in 6- to 8-year old children (e.g., test efficacy of main training in 100+ children across 4 local schools).
Doctoral Research
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Absence of visual experience modifies the neural basis of numerical thinking
Shipra Kanjlia, Connor Lane, Lisa Feigenson, and Marina Bedny
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Numerical cognition is resilient to dramatic changes in early sensory experience
Shipra Kanjlia, Lisa Feigenson, Marina Bedny
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Sensitive Period for Cognitive Repurposing of Human Visual Cortex
Shipra Kanjlia, Rashi Pant and Marina Bedny
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Neural basis of approximate number in congenital blindness
Shipra Kanjlia, Lisa Feigenson, and Marina Bedny
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‘Visual’ cortices of congenitally blind adults are sensitive to response selection demands in a go/no-go task
Shipra Kanjlia, Rita E. Loiotile, Nora Harhen, Marina Bedny
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Development of the Visual Word Form Area Requires Visual Experience: Evidence from Blind Braille Readers
Judy S. Kim, Shipra Kanjlia, Lotfi B. Merabet, and Marina Bedny