Jason Zevin

About

Jason Zevin is an Associate Professor of Psychology and Linguistics at USC Dornsife. He holds a Ph.D. in Neuroscience from the University of Southern California, obtained in August 2003, and completed postdoctoral training as an NRSA Fellow at the Sackler Institute for Developmental Psychobiology from September 2003 to August 2006. His research specialties include psycholinguistics, cognitive neuroscience, and computational modeling, focusing on understanding the neural and cognitive mechanisms underlying language processing and learning. Zevin has held academic appointments at Weill Cornell Medical College, serving as an Assistant Professor of Psychology in Psychiatry from September 2006 to August 2012, and as an Associate Professor from September 2012 to December 2013. He has also worked as a Senior Scientist at Haskins Laboratories since January 2011. His research contributions include studies on the limits of song reacquisition in adult zebra finches exposed to white noise, published in the Journal of Neuroscience. His work integrates insights from psychology, neuroscience, and computational approaches to advance understanding of language and cognition.

Research topics

• Linguistics
• Cognitive psychology
• Psychology
• Computer Science
• Developmental psychology

Selected publications

• Decoding the neural representation of story meanings across languages

  Human Brain Mapping · 2017-09-20 · 83 citations

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  Drawing from a common lexicon of semantic units, humans fashion narratives whose meaning transcends that of their individual utterances. However, while brain regions that represent lower-level semantic units, such as words and sentences, have been identified, questions remain about the neural representation of narrative comprehension, which involves inferring cumulative meaning. To address these questions, we exposed English, Mandarin, and Farsi native speakers to native language translations of…

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• Orthographic and Phonological Representations in the Fusiform Cortex

  Cerebral Cortex · 2016-09-24 · 80 citations

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  Mental and neural representations of words are at the core of understanding the cognitive and neural mechanisms of reading. Despite extensive studies, the nature of visual word representation remains highly controversial due to methodological limitations. In particular, it is unclear whether the fusiform cortex contains only abstract orthographic representation, or represents both lower and higher level orthography as well as phonology. Using representational similarity analysis, we integrated b…

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• Individual differences in learning the regularities between orthography, phonology and semantics predict early reading skills

  Journal of Memory and Language · 2020 · 72 citations

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• Models of Word Reading

  2022-05-13 · 26 citations

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• Cortical regions supporting reading comprehension skill for single words and discourse

  Brain and Language · 2018-09-10 · 25 citations

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Recent grants

• NIH Grant P01HD001994

  NIH · $49.1M · 2017

• Predictors of Non- Response in Young Dyslexic Children with Co-Morbid ADHD

  NIH · $9.1M · 2019

• NIH Grant F32DC006352

  NIH · $124k · 2006

Frequent coauthors

• Felix Hao Wang

  22 shared

• Toben H. Mintz

  21 shared

• Jianfeng Yang

  Shaanxi Normal University

  19 shared

• Kenneth R. Pugh

  16 shared

• Hua Shu

  Huazhong University of Science and Technology

  15 shared

• Bruce D. McCandliss

  Stanford University

  15 shared

• W. Einar Mencl

  Haskins Laboratories

  14 shared

• Jay G. Rueckl

  10 shared

Labs

• USC DornsifePI

Education

• PhD, Graduate Program in Neuroscience

  University of Southern California

  2003

• AB, Psychology

  Washington University in St. Louis

  1998

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