# Halie Olson


## Posts

- [Hello world!](https://halieolson.com/index.php/2019/01/29/hello-world/): Welcome to WordPress. This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then start writing!

## Pages

- [CV](https://halieolson.com/index.php/cv/)
- [Publications](https://halieolson.com/index.php/publications/): *Indicates joint first authorship. Empirical Papers *Olson, H. A., *Ozernov-Palchik, O., Arechiga, X. M., & Gabrieli, J. D. E. (2026). Remote text-supplemented audiobook intervention supports children’s explicit and incidental vocabulary learning. Developmental Science, 29(3), e70159. https://doi.org/10.1111/desc.70159 *Olson, H. A., *Johnson, K. T., Nishith, S., Frosch, I. R., Gabrieli, J. D. E., & D’Mello, A. M. (2024). Personalized Neuroimaging Reveals the Impact of Children’s Interests on Language Processing in the Brain. Imaging Neuroscience, 2: 1–14. https://doi.org/10.1162/imag_a_00339 Olson, H., Chen, E., Lydic, K., & Saxe, R. (2023). Left-hemisphere cortical language regions respond equally to observed dialogue and monologue. Neurobiology of Language, 1-89. https://doi.org/10.1162/nol_a_00123 […]
- [Welcome](https://halieolson.com/): Hi! I’m Halie. I’m a developmental cognitive neuroscientist, a fiction reader, an endurance sport enthusiast, and that person who brings her dog into lab. I am currently a postdoc at MIT’s McGovern Institute for Brain Research, working with Ev Fedorenko and Rebecca Saxe. I defended my PhD in Spring 2023 in the Brain and Cognitive Sciences program at MIT, where I studied the development of language in the minds and brains of children. I was lucky enough to have two fantastic advisors, John Gabrieli and Rebecca Saxe. I study language as a way of exploring the interplay between experience and […]
- [Contact](https://halieolson.com/index.php/contact/): Winston makes sure I keep on top of my correspondence. Please be in touch! Email: holson (at) mit.edu Bluesky: @halieolson.bsky.social
- [Research](https://halieolson.com/index.php/research/): I am absolutely fascinated by how the human brain comes to comprehend and produce language, and by how experiences and development shape the brain’s language system. Below are a few current and past projects that represent key lines of my research so far. Ontogenetic Origins of the Brain’s Language System In adults and older children, the human brain has a dedicated system for processing language. Where does this come from and how does it change as we learn language?   Language in the Toddler Brain If we want to understand the emergence of the brain’s language system, we have to […]


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