University  of  Chicago
Department  of  Psychology
1126  East  59th  Street
Chicago,  IL  60637
lsprute@chicago.edu
Work:  (773)  834-­‐4701
2008  -­‐  2013
2005  -­‐  2007
Dartmouth  College ,  Hanover,  NH
Ph.D.,  Cognitive  Neuroscience,  Psychological  and  Brain  Sciences  Graduate
Program
Thesis:   Challenging  the  abstract  nature  of  number  representation  with   fractions  and  decimals
Advisors:  Donna  Coch,  Elise  Temple
Completed  graduation  requirements  11/2012
University  of  Illinois ,  Chicago,  IL
Ph.D.  candidate  in  Neuroscience,  Graduate  Program  in  Neuroscience
Left  in  good  standing  to  pursue  cognitive  neuroscience
Advisors:  Daniel  Corcos,  David  Vaillancourt
2001  -­‐  2005     Marlboro  College ,  Marlboro,  VT
B.S.,  Biochemistry  and  Psychology,  Highest  Honors
Thesis:   The  role  of  neuroscience  in  the  study  of  learning
Advisors:  Todd  Smith,  Tom  Toleno
2012  –   present   Postdoctoral  Research  Scholar ,  University  of  Chicago
Uses  fMRI  and  behavioral  measures  to  investigate  the  impact  of  math   anxiety  on  teaching  and  learning  mathematics.  Experience  with  3T  Philips
Achieva;  SPM  8,  AFNI,  python;  GLM,  ROI,  MVPA  analyses;  SPSS  and  R.
2008  -­‐  2012           Graduate  Fellow,  Dartmouth  College
Used  fMRI  and  behavioral  measures  to  investigate  brain  mechanisms   important  to  learning  numbers  and  mathematics,  with  adult  and   developing  populations.  Thesis  work  examined  processing  similarities   and  differences  among  fractions,  decimals,  and  whole  numbers.
2005  -­‐  2007     Graduate  Research  Assistant ,  University  of  Illinois  at  Chicago
Conducted  fMRI  study  of  basal  ganglia  and  frontal  cortex  activation   during  resting  tremor  induced  by  performing  difficult  arithmetic  in   people  with  Parkinson’s  disease.    Investigated  the  influence  of  spatial  gain
on  force  production  in  the  visuomotor  system.  Lab  rotations:  neural   mechanisms  of  reversal  learning  in  a  6-­‐OHDA  rat  model  of  Parkinson’s   disease,  prototype-­‐distortion  category  learning  using  fMRI.

2004       NSF-­‐Funded  Undergraduate  Summer  Internship
University  of  Pittsburgh,  research  experience  for  undergraduates  (REU),   neuroscience
Measured  noradrenergic  activity  in  the  locus  coeruleus  and  medulla   after  rats  learned  aversive  flavor  associations.
2003       NIMH-­‐Funded  Undergraduate  Summer  Internship
University  of  California,  San  Francisco,  Summer  Research  Training
Program,  neuroscience
Investigated  molecular  mechanisms  of  learning  and  memory  by   studying  the  role  of  the  protein  yotaio  in  NMDA  receptor  function  in  a
genetically  modified  rat  model.
2012
Dartmouth  Arts  and  Sciences  Travel  Award
Traveled  to  the   19 th  Annual  Meeting  of  the  Cognitive  Neuroscience  Society
2011
Dartmouth  Graduate  Studies  Travel  Award
Traveled  to  the
Aspen  Brain  Forum—  The  cognitive  neuroscience  of  learning:                                                                 implications  for  education
2010  -­‐  2011       NSF  GK-­‐12  Fellowship.  Through   Fostering  scientific  creativity  by  building  connections   and  improving  science  communication  skills ,  awarded  to  Dartmouth  College,
#0947790  (Carl  Renshaw,  PI).
Guest  teacher,  6 th  grade  math  and  science.  Sharon  Elementary,  Sharon,  VT.
2011   NIMH  Summer  Institute  in  Cognitive  Neuroscience  Fellow,  UC  Davis,  Santa  Barbara,
CA.   Cognitive  Control  and  Numerical  and  Relational  Processing
2010
2009
Nominated  for  Filene  Graduate  Teaching  Award,  Dartmouth  College
Convocation  speaker,  Marlboro  College,  Marlboro,  VT
2005       The  Hilly  van  Loon  Award  for  exemplifying  the  spirit  of  Marlboro  College
2001  -­‐  2005     50th  Anniversary  Presidential  Scholarship,  Marlboro  College
2004
2003
Robert  Stainton  Scholarship  for  academic  achievement  and  community  service
M.  Brenn  Green  Trustee  Scholarship  for  academic  promise
2011   Gullick,  M.M.,   Sprute,  L.A.,  &  Temple,  E.  Individual  differences  in  working  memory,   nonverbal  IQ,  and  mathematics  achievement  and  brain  mechanisms  associated  with
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symbolic  and  non-­‐symbolic  number  processing.   Learning  and  Individual  Differences ,
21 (6),  644-­‐654.
Sprute,  L.,   &  Temple,  E.  Representations  of  fractions:  evidence  for  accessing  the   whole  magnitude  in  adults.   Mind,  Brain,  and  Education ,   5 (1),  42-­‐47.
2010   Coombes,  S.C.,  Corcos,  D.M.,   Sprute,  L.,  &  Vaillancourt,  D.E.  Selective  regions  of  the   visuomotor  system  are  related  to  gain  induced  changes  in  force  error.   Journal  of
Neurophysiology ,   103 ,  2114-­‐2123.
2012   The  neural  correlates  of  representing  and  processing  rational  numbers .  March  30 th .
University  of  Chicago,  IL.
2009   The  mental  representations  of  fractions.
April  16 th .  Marlboro  College,  VT.
*   Students  mentored
2012
2011
2010
Sprute,  L.A.
April  30 th .   Pattern  representations  of  numbers .  Graduate  Research
Roundtable.  Dartmouth  College.
Sprute,  L.A.
&  Coch,  D.  April  10 th .   Distance  modulates  intraparietal  sulcus  activity   when  viewing  fractions  and  decimals.
Poster  presented  at  Dartmouth  College’s
Graduate  Poster  Symposium.
Sprute,  L.A.
&  Coch,  D.  April.   Distance  modulates  intraparietal  sulcus  activity  when   viewing  fractions  and  decimals .  Poster  presented  at  the  19 th  Annual  Meeting  of  the
Cognitive  Neuroscience  Society,  Chicago,  IL.
Sprute,  L.A.
March  26 th .   Processing  and  representing  rational  numbers .  Graduate
Research  Roundtable.  Dartmouth  College.
Sprute,  L.A.
April  10 th .   Challenging  the  abstract  linear  nature  of  number   representation  with  fractions .  Graduate  Research  Roundtable.  Dartmouth  College.
Sprute,  L.A.,  Gullick,  M.M.,  &  Temple,  E.  April.   Neural  correlates  of  nonsymbolic  and   symbolic  number  processing  in  children.   Poster  presented  at  the  18 th  Annual  Meeting   of  the  Cognitive  Neuroscience  Society,  San  Francisco,  CA.
Fogelson,  S.,   Sprute,  L.A.
,  Murray,  C.,  Johnson,  K.,  Temple,  E.,  &  Granger,  R.  April.
Format-­‐specific  and  format-­‐independent  small  number  representations  in  human   parietofrontal  cortex .  Poster  presented  at  the  18 th  Annual  Meeting  of  the  Cognitive
Neuroscience  Society,  San  Francisco,  CA.
Sprute,  L.A.
,  Gullick,  M.M.,  &  Temple,  E.  November.   Neural  correlates  of  the  distance   effect  for  symbolic  and  nonsymbolic  numerosities .  Poster  presented  at  the  40 th  Annual
Society  for  Neuroscience  Meeting,  San  Diego,  CA.
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2009
Rapf,  R.*,   Sprute,  L .,  &  Temple,  E.  May.  May.   Does  order  matter?  A  comparison  of  two   fMRI  data  processing  streams.
Poster  presented  at  the  19 th  Annual  Karen  E.
Wetterhahn  Science  Symposium,  Dartmouth  College,  Hanover,  NH.
Sprute,  L.A.
,  &  Temple,  E.    April.   Representations  of  fractions  within  the  brain .    Poster   presented  at  the  17 th  Annual  Meeting  of  the  Cognitive  Neuroscience  Society,
Montreal,  Quebec,  Canada.
Sprute,  L.A.
Representations  of  fractions  within  the  brain.   April  15 th .  Cognitive
Brown  Bag,  Dartmouth  College.
Rapf,  R.*,   Sprute  L .,  &  Temple,  E.  May.   An  exploration  of  the  mapping  of  fraction   knowledge  onto  the  mental  number  line.
Poster  presented  at  the  18 th  Annual  Karen  E.
Wetterhahn  Science  Symposium,  Dartmouth  College,  Hanover,  NH.
Chatterjee,  N.*,   Sprute  L.
,  &  Temple,  E.  May.   Mental  processing  of  fractions:  exploring   the  importance  of  decimal  knowledge  in  a  fraction  task .  Poster  presented  at  the  18 th
Annual  Karen  E.  Wetterhahn  Science  Symposium,  Dartmouth  College,  Hanover,  NH.
Sprute,  L .,  Rapf,  R.,  Chatterjee,  N.,  &  Temple,  E.  May.   Fraction  magnitude  processing   in  adults  relies  on  an  intuitive  understanding  of  quantity .  Poster  presented  at  the  2 nd
International  Mind,  Brain,  and  Education  Biennial  Conference,  Philadelphia,  PA.
2006   Sprute,  L.,  Kraus,  M.F.,  &  Little,  D.M.  May.   The  role  of  the  caudate  and  the  anterior   cingulate  in  prototype-­‐distortion  category  learning .  Poster  presented  at  the  annual   meeting  of  the  Midwest  Neuropsychology  Group,  Chicago,  IL.
Dartmouth  College
2012   Mentor  to  Amy  Gu  ’12,  Research  Assistant.
2010,  2011   Teaching  Assistant,  PSYC  11:  Laboratory  in  Psychological  Science.
2010
2010
Teaching  Assistant,  PSYC  25:  Developmental  Psychology.
Mentor  to  Rachel  Wood,  high  school  student.  Temple  Educational  Neuroscience  Lab,
2009  -­‐  2011     Mentor  to  Kelsey  Woerner  ’12,  Research  Assistant  and  Presidential  Scholar.  Temple
Educational  Neuroscience  Lab.
2009  -­‐  2011     Mentor  to  Alexandra  Lucas  ‘13,  Women  in  Science  Program  (WISP)  Intern  and
Howard  Hughes  Medical  Institute  (HHMI)  Intern.  Temple  Educational  Neuroscience
2009  -­‐  2010,     Mentor  to  Elizabeth  Trandel  ’12,  Howard  Hughes  Medical  Institute  (HHMI)  Intern
2011  -­‐  2012   and  Research  Assistant.
2009   The  ins  &  outs  of  searching  scientific  literature:  Dartmouth  resources
EDUC  52:  The  Mathematical  Brain:  Education  and  Development.
.  Guest  lecture,
2008  -­‐  2010   Mentor  to  Rebecca  Rapf  ’12,  Women  in  Science  Program  (WISP)  Intern  and  Lab
Manager.  Temple  Educational  Neuroscience  Lab.
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2009   Guest  science  teacher  and  Howard  Hughes  Medical  Institute  science  camp  fellow,  4 th   grade.  Samuel  Morey  Elementary  School,  Fairlee,  VT.
2007  -­‐  2008   Tutor,  all  high  school  subjects,  Columbia  College’s  Upward  Bound  Program,  Chicago,
IL.
2007  -­‐  2008   Private  tutor,  GMAT  quantitative  section  &  high  school  algebra,  Chicago,  IL.
2002  -­‐  2003     Teacher’s  aide,  kindergarten,  1 st  and  2 nd  grades,  Marlboro,  VT.
2001  -­‐  2002   Private  tutor,  high  school  geometry,  Brattleboro,  VT.
2011   Science  café:  How  to  generate  dialogue  about  your  research  with  non-­‐scientists.
November  30 th .  Dartmouth  Center  for  the  Advancement  of  Learning,  Hanover,  NH.
2010
2009
Everybody  Wins!  reading  mentorship  program  workshop.  November  10 th .
Tunbridge  Central  School,  Tunbridge,  VT.
Hands-­‐on  comparative  brain  anatomy  lesson.  October  26 th .  South  Royalton
Elementary,  2 nd  grade,  South  Royalton,  VT.
What  is  a  brain  scientist?
October  14 th .
Sharon  Elementary,  1 st  and  2 nd  grade,  Sharon,
VT .
A  workshop  for  teachers  exploring  the  brain  through  science  and  dance ,  presenter .
September  20 th .  Hopkins  Center  for  the  Arts,  Dartmouth  College,  Hanover,  NH.
Everybody  Wins!  reading  mentorship  program  workshop .   April  17 th .   Mount
Lebanon  School,  Lebanon,  NH.
If  fish  can  do  fractions,  why  can’t  I:  using  MRI  to  understand  difficulties  learning  math.
January  28 th .  Thetford  Academy,  7 th  grade,  Thetford,  VT.
Brain  imaging  tools:  Using  fMRI  to  understand  how  we  think  about  math.
August  12 th .
Dartmouth  Brain  Imaging  Center,  local  high  school  students,  Hanover,  NH.
Science  café:  Brains,  emotions  and  your  body.   May  17 th .  Lebanon  Junior  High  School,
Lebanon,  NH.
Teaching  fractions:  How  can  imaging  the  brain  give  us  insight?   Woodstock  VT  teacher   in-­‐service  workshop  on  education  and  the  brain.
May  6 th .  Department  of  Education,
Dartmouth  College,  Hanover,  NH.
Women  in  Science  Program  graduate  student  panel.   April  9 th .  Dartmouth  College,
Hanover,  NH.
Numbers  and  your  brain .  October  29 th .  Thetford  Academy,  9 th  grade,  Thetford,  VT.
The  lifeline  of  a  graduate  student:  presenting  scientific  posters.   October  29 th .  Thetford
Academy,  9 th  grade,  Thetford,  VT.
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What  you  can  do  depends  on  your  brain:  brain  structure  and  function.
January  30 th .
Brain  Symposium,  Richmond  Middle  School,  Hanover,  NH.
International  Mind,  Brain,  and  Education  Society
Cognitive  Neuroscience  Society
Society  for  Neuroscience
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