Layne Kalbfleisch

Layne Kalbfleisch, Ph.D.

Layne Kalbfleisch, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor in Educational Psychology at the College of Education and Human Development at George Mason University. She is also the Pomata Term Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience in George Mason’s Krasnow Institute for Advanced Study. Dr. Kalbfleisch serves as the principal investigator and lab chief of Krasnow Investigations of Developmental Learning and Behavior. In addition, she is an adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of Pediatrics at The George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences, and is an affiliated faculty member of the Gifted Education Resource Institute in the College of Education at Purdue University.

Her transdisciplinary laboratory, KIDLAB, combines methods from educational psychology and cognitive neuroscience to center on two aims: (1) to characterize the functional neural anatomies of twice exceptionality (high-ability individuals with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), high-functioning autism, and dyslexia), and (2) to pioneer methods for better representing “real world” cognition in the artificial functional MRI (fMRI) environment. KIDLAB’s goal is to contribute new insight into how the brain develops, learns, creates, and solves problems throughout the lifespan to enable more strategic development of therapies, technology, environments, and medicine.