Jennifer Thomas Friedman

Office Address: Jennifer Thomas Friedman CMBN, Rutgers University 197 University Ave. Newark, New Jersey 07102 Phone: (973) 353-1080, ext. 3213 Fax: (973) 353-1760 E-Mail: thomas@axon.rutgers.edu Jennifer is a graduate student in the Integrative Neuroscience Program. She received her bachelor’s degree in biology from Colgate University in 1996, and shortly thereafter joined the Infancy Studies Laboratory at Rutgers as laboratory manager. Her interest in brain development and behavior was strengthened during the time she worked in the lab, and led her to apply to and join the doctoral program at the Center for Molecular and Behavioral Neuroscience at Rutgers, Newark. Her master’s level project was titled “Developmental Changes in Rapid Auditory Processing in Rats with Induced Cerebrocortical Microgyria”, and explored age-related changes in sound processing abilities in an animal model. Jennifer’s dissertation experiments, under the guidance of Dr. Benasich, also focus on developmental changes in sound processing, comparing adults and children ages 6 to 9 yrs. In addition, she will examine the modulatory effects of attention and discrimination training on rapid auditory processing through the use of event related potentials and behavioral tasks. In these studies, Jennifer will compare children with a language learning impairment (LLI) to children with normal language skills in order to identify potential differences in ERP waveforms between these two groups. Together, these studies aim to facilitate a better understanding of the relations between rapid auditory processing and language, specifically with regard to development, attentional mechanisms, and neural plasticity.

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