Nikki Arrington

2009 B.S. Psychology, University of Houston
2015 Ph.D. Developmental Psychology, University of Houston
2015 - 2019 Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Georgia State University

Dr. Arrington is a research assistant professor in the Department of Psychology. She holds positions at the GSU TReNDS Center and GSU/GT Center for Advanced Brain Imaging, where she oversees research operations at the center.

She completed her graduate work at the University of Houston in Developmental Psychology with an emphasis in Cognitive Neuroscience. Her expertise is in structural neuroimaging and neuromodulation techniques. Her research focuses on the neurocognitive and neurobiological basis of reading and executive function.

Dr. Arrington’s work has been funded by the Oak Foundation, National Institutes of Health, National Science Foundation, and National Center for Neuromodulation for Rehabilitation. Her work has been published in Neuropsychology Review, Brain and Language, and Scientific Study of Reading, among others.

Research Interests
The scholarly work of the Georgia State Reading Research team has focused on the neurobiological and neurocognitive factors that impact developing cognitive, learning and language systems in typically developing children and adults, and those with atypical development or acquired neurological disorders (including dyslexia, ADHD, SLI, and alexia). Our current projects utilize neuroimaging and neuromodulation techniques to investigate the neural correlates of reading and language. This includes an ongoing intervention study focused on studying treatment outcomes of adults with persistent dyslexia and reading disabilities focused on using neuromodulation in combination with reading instruction to improve reading skills.