School of Social Science and Human Services (SSHS)

Associate Professor of Psychology

Year Joined RCNJ: 2009

Contact Information:

• Phone: (201) 684-7776
• E-mail: nchoudhu@ramapo.edu 
• Office: A210
• Office Hours: MR 10:15-11:15; Also by appointment

Education:

• Ph.D. in Experimental Psychology University of Vermont

Convening Group:

• Psychology

Courses Offered:

• Learning, Cognition and Teaching
• Introduction to Psychology
• Neuropsychology

Teaching Interest:

• Developmental Psychology
• Cognitive Neuroscience
• Neural Basis of Cognitive Development
• Language and Cognition
• Primary Prevention
• Developmental Processes in Non-traditional Contexts

Research Interest:

• Neural basis of infant information processing, and the role of perceptual abilities in typical and atypical development.
• The moderating effects of familial and sociocultural factors on atypical development.

Recent Publications:

• Choudhury, N., & Benasich A.A. (Accepted). Development of Cortical ERPs to Auditory Stimuli in Infants with Family History of Language Impairment and Age-Matched Controls from 6- to 48-Months. Clinical Neurophysiology. 
• Benasich, A. A, Gou, Z, Choudhury, N., & Harris, K. (2008). Early Cognitive and Language Skills are Linked to Resting Frontal Gamma Power Across the First Three Years. Behavioral Brain Research, 95(2), 215-222.
• Flax, J. F., Realpe-Bonilla, T., Roesler, C., Choudhury, N., & Benasich, A. A. (2008-epub). Using Early Standardized Language Measures to Predict Later Language and Early Reading Outcomes in Children at High Risk for Language-Learning Impairments. Journal of Learning Disabilities. (doi:10.1177/0022219408326215)
• Ortiz-Mantilla, S., Choudhury, N., Leevers, H. J., & Benasich, A. A. (2008). Understanding Language Deficits in Very Low Birth Weight Children. Developmental Psychobiology, 50(2), 107-126
• Choudhury, N., Leppanen. P. H. T., Leevers, H. J., & Benasich A. A. (2007). Assessing Rapid Auditory Processing In Family History and Control Infants: Evidence From Converging Paradigms. Developmental Science. 10(2) 213-236
• Nawyn, J., Roesler, C., Realpe-Bonilla, T., Choudhury, N., & Benasich, A. A. (2007). An operantly conditioned looking task for assessing infant auditory processing ability. In Proceedings of the 9th international ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility. ASSETS'07. ACM, New York, NY, 147-154