{"id":3723,"date":"2020-08-27T11:47:21","date_gmt":"2020-08-27T16:47:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/neurophotonics\/?post_type=profile&#038;p=3723"},"modified":"2025-09-17T11:56:25","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T15:56:25","slug":"meredith-pecukonis","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/neurophotonics\/profile\/meredith-pecukonis\/","title":{"rendered":"Meredith Pecukonis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Meredith Pecukonis <\/strong>(<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/autism\/\">CARE lab<\/a>) <span>is a doctoral student in the Department of Psychological &amp; Brain Sciences, and is conducting her research at the Center for Autism Research Excellence under the mentorship of Dr. Helen Tager-Flusberg. Currently, she is interested in using functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) to identify the neural underpinnings of social communication differences in children with autism spectrum disorder. She previously received her B.S. in psychology with a minor in neuroscience from the University of Maryland, College Park. She expects to graduate in 2022 with a Ph.D. in Developmental Science.<\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 1280px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('video');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-3723-1\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"\/neurophotonics\/files\/2020\/02\/Meredith-Pecukonis.mp4?_=1\" \/><a href=\"\/neurophotonics\/files\/2020\/02\/Meredith-Pecukonis.mp4\">\/neurophotonics\/files\/2020\/02\/Meredith-Pecukonis.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":17358,"template":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/neurophotonics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/3723"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/neurophotonics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/neurophotonics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/neurophotonics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17358"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/neurophotonics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/3723\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8096,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/neurophotonics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/3723\/revisions\/8096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/neurophotonics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}