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Frank ManisProfessor of Psychology and EducationContact Information E-mail: manis@usc.edu Phone: (213) 740-6567 Office: SGM 525A LINKS Curriculum Vitae Faculty Profile on Departmental Website Neuroscience Graduate Program |
Biographical Sketch |
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| Professor Frank Manis is a Professor of Psychology at the University of Southern California, where he is currently serving as Director of Undergraduate Studies. He has published about 60 articles on reading disabilities, development of literacy in both the primary and secondary language and cognitive functioning in special populations of children. The major focus of his research has been on the identification of differences in cognitive profiles among children with reading difficulties. He reviews for several journals in the field, including Scientific Studies of Reading, Journal of Experimental Child Psychology and Developmental Psychology. | |
Education |
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 Ph.D. Psychology, University of Minnesota, 1/1981
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B.A. Psychology, Pomona College, 1975
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Academic Appointment, Affiliation, and Employment History |
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Assistant to Full Professor, University of Southern California, 09/01/1981-
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Description of Research |
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Summary Statement of Research Interests |
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| My work focuses on the cognitive, psycholinguistic and neurobiological bases of reading in children and adults, dyslexia, learning disabilities, and development of literacy in a second language. Recent projects include an investigation of brain activity in the occipito-temporal junction (or visual word form area) in dyslexic and non-dyslexic adults (with Zhong-Lin Lu, and graduate students Jennifer Bruno, Allison Zumberge and Jason Goldman), experiments on the perception of noise in visual and auditory stimuli (with Lu, and graduate student Rachel Beattie), a fluency-based intervention for middle schoolers with persistent reading problems (with Sally Spencer, Ed.D, 2008), and an investigation of the association between print exposure, reading skill and cortical thickness in skilled readers (with Jason Goldman, M.A., USC). I am also continuing analyses and publication of results from a 9-year longitudinal study of Spanish-speaking children learning to read, in collaboration with Kim Lindsey (Ph.D., 2002, USC) and Jonathan Nakamoto, Ph.D., 2009, USC). | |
Research Keywords |
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| reading, cognitive development, dyslexia, learning disabilities, bilingual reading development, brain imaging | |
Research Specialties |
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| reading development, dyslexia, learning disabilities, bilingual reading development, cognitive development in children | |
Funded Research |
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Contracts and Grants Awarded |
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Literacy Development In English Language Learners (Nat Inst of Child Health and Human Dev (NICHHD)), Lindsey, Kim Abkarian, Manis, Franklin R, $1,080,353, 05/01/2003-04/30/2009
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Bases Of Normal And Disordered Reading (Nat Inst of Child Health and Human Dev (NICHHD)), Manis, Franklin R, $1,742,626, 04/01/2002-03/31/2009
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Perceptual, Linguistic and Computational Bases of Dyslexia (NIH-NICHHD), Franklin Manis, $372,000, 02/01/1996-11/30/2000
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Conferences and Other Presentations |
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Conference Presentations |
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"Dropping the perceptual anchor hypothesis: Support for the noise exclusion hypothesis of dyslexia", Association for Psychological Science, Poster, Boston, MA, 2009-2010
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"Phonological activation in Chinese word reading: Evidence from the perspective of phonetically-informed phonology. ", Research in Reading Chinese and Related Languages, Talk/Oral Presentation, Refereed Paper, Toronto, Canada, 2009-2010
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"Phonological activation in meaning access for Chinese word reading: Evidence from the perspective of phonetically-informed phonology. ", Association for Psychological Science, Poster, Boston, MA, 2009-2010
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"The introductory psychology 'mini-course': A new strategy for organizing discussion sections. ", Association for Psychological Science, Poster, Boston, MA, 2009-2010
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"Cognitive bases of reading disability in Spanish-English bilingual children.", Society for the Scientific Study of Reading, Poster, Refereed Asheville, North Carolina, 2008-2009
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"Contribution of early reading skill and language exposure to comprehension in English language learners", Society for the Scientific Study of Reading, Poster, Refereed Boston, MA, 2008-2009
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"Relationships among cortical thickness, reading skill and print exposure in adult readers", Society for the Scientific Study of Reading, Poster, Refereed Boston, MA, 2008-2009
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"Teaching and learning about the whole child", Society for Research in Child Development Teaching Institute, Talk/Oral Presentation, Denver, CO, Invited, 2008-2009
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"fMRI activation patterns predict reading ability in adults with and without developmental dyslexia", Cognitive Neuroscience Society, Poster, Refereed San Francisco, 2008-2009
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"Cognitive bases of reading disability in Spanish-English bilingual children", Society for the Scientific Study of Reading, Poster, Refereed Asheville, NC, 2007-2008
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"fMRI activation patterns predict reading ability in adults with and without developmental dyslexia", Cognitive Neuroscience Society, Poster, Refereed San Francisco, CA, 2007-2008
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Other Presentations |
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"Development of English language learners’ word decoding and reading comprehension from first through ninth grade", Biennial Meeting, Society for Research in Child Development, Montreal, Canada, 2010-2011
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"The relationship between prosodic perception, phonological awareness, and vocabulary in emergent literacy ", Annual Meeting, Society for the Scientific Study of Reading, St. Petersberg, Florida, 2010-2011
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Publications |
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Book |
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Reid, G., Fawcett, A. J., Manis, F. R., Siegel, L. S.
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The Sage Handbook of Dyslexia. (Reid, G., Fawcett, A. J., Manis, F. R., Siegel, L. S., Ed.). London: Sage Publications Ltd.
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Book Chapter |
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Manis, F. R., Lindsey, K. A.
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Cognitive and oral language contributors to reading disabilities in Spanish-English bilingual children. Language and Literacy Development in Bilingual Set pp. 280-303. New York, NY: Guilford.
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Manis, F. R., Lindsey, K. A.
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Exploring heterogeneity in developmental dyslexia: A longitudinal investigation. pp. 149-173. London: The Sage Handbook of Dyslexia.
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Journal Article |
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Beattie, R. L., Manis, F. R.
(2011).
Rise time perception in children with reading and additional non-phonological language difficulties. Journal of Learning Disabilities.
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Beattie, R. L., Lu, Z., Manis, F. R.
(2011).
Dyslexic adults can learn from repeated stimulus presentation but have difficulties in excluding external noise. PLoS One.
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Manis, F. R., Beattie, R. L.
(2011).
The relationship between prosodic perception, phonological awareness and vocabulary in emergent literacy. Journal of Research in Reading.
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Nakamoto, J., Lindsey, K. A., Manis, F. R.
(2011).
Development of reading skills from K-3 in Spanish-speaking English language learners following three programs of instruction. Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal.
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Goldman, J. G., Orechwa, A. Z., Manis, F. R.
(2011).
Relationships among cortical thickness, reading skill and print exposure in adult readers. Scientific Studies of Reading.
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Spencer, S. A., Manis, F. R.
(2010).
The effects of a fluency intervention program on the reading outcomes of middle school students. Learning Disabilities Research & Practice.
Vol. 25 (2), pp. 76-86.
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Nakamoto, J., Manis, F. R., Lindsey, K. A.
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A cross-linguistic investigation of English language learners’ reading comprehension in English and Spanish. Scientific Studies of Reading.
Vol. 12 (4), pp. 351-371.
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Bruno, J. L., Zumberge, A. A., Manis, F. R., Lu, Z., Goldman, J. G.
(2008).
Sensitivity to orthographic familiarity in the occipito-temporal region. NeuroImage.
Vol. 39, pp. 1988-2001.
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Nakamoto, J., Lindsey, K. A., Manis, F. R.
(2007).
A Longitudinal Analysis of English language learners word decoding and reading comprehension. Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal/Springer.
Vol. 20, pp. 691-719.
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Bruno, J., Manis, F. R., Keating, P., Sperling, A. J., Nakamoto, J., Seidenberg, M. S.
(2007).
Auditory word identification in dyslexic and normally achieving readers. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology/Elsevier.
Vol. 97, pp. 183-204.
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Zumberge, A., Baker, L. A., Manis, F. R.
(2007).
Focus on words: Genetic and environmental influences in reading and inattention. Behavior Genetics/Kluwer Academic Press.
Vol. 37, pp. 284-293.
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Multimedia Scholarship and Creative Works |
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Website, My Virtual Child (revision for Pearson Publishing), 2010-2011
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Educational Website, My Virtual Teen (Pearson Publishing), 2009-2010
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Honors and Awards |
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USC Center for Excellence in Teaching, Faculty Fellow, Faculty Fellow, 9/1/2006-8/31/2009
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Service to the Profession |
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Editorships and Editorial Boards |
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Editorial Board, Scientific Studies of Reading, 2010-2011
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Editorial Board, Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 2007-2010
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Editor, Scientific Studies of Reading, 2003-2007
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Professional Memberships |
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Association for Psychological Science, 2007-2011
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International Dyslexia Association, 2007-2011
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Society for Research in Child Development, 2007-2011
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Society for the Scientific Study of Reading, 2007-2011
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