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The Theodore Haddin Arts and Sciences Forum is an interdisciplinary forum where UAB College of Arts and Sciences faculty present their ongoing research and scholarship to an audience of faculty, staff, and student colleagues from across the College. The goal is to offer scholarship that is interdisciplinary and translatable to a broad audience, celebrating and elevating the intellectual vibrancy present in the academic atmosphere of the College of Arts and Sciences.

For the second Haddin Forum of 2025, Rajesh Kana, Ph.D., Associate Dean for Graduate and Continuing Education and Professor of Psychology, will present, "The Synchrony and Asynchrony of the Reading Brain."

Reading is a distinctive and learned human experience. Our brains have evolved in ways that allow us to express and process language with relative ease. For decades, researchers from various disciplines have sought to understand how the human brain facilitates reading and why sometimes reading becomes laborious. This talk will explore the science of reading, primarily from fields like neuroscience and psycholinguistics but will have implications for educational practice as well as for neurodevelopmental conditions where reading becomes challenging.