Ms. Lyla Parvez

Lyla Parvez joined the Centre for Neuroscience in Education in 2019 when she began doing her PhD, under the supervision of Professor Usha Goswami and. Her thesis will investigate atypical neural processing of speech stimuli in children with Developmental Language Disorder.

As part of her research, Lyla has worked upon both the Botnar and the Yidan projects.

Lyla earned her MA in Clinical Psychology at Columbia University, after completing a BA in Psychology (with a minor in Health, Medicine and Society) at the College of Arts and Sciences, Lehigh University. While studying for her MA she researched addiction within adults and adolescents at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.

While studying Lyla worked as a Research Assistant at Columbia University, Harvard University, as well as the University of Oxford. During this time she did work on subjects including metacognitive abilities, trauma, language development, neuroimaging, and prosocial behaviour in children. Lyla has also been a Senior Associate researcher at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai here she worked on projects on the impact of drug and alcohol addiction.