Jason Yeatman

Thank you @psychonomicsociety.bsky.social for featuring our study! @jyeatman.bsky.social @klint.bsky.social

#JNeurosci: Stone, @mayayablonski.bsky.social, @jyeatman.bsky.social, @jamielmitchell.bsky.social, et al. found that text-selective regions in the inferior frontal cortex are linked to reading proficiency in children, showing sensitivity to both stimulus and task responses.
vist.ly/3n6z2q4

Research Study Coordinator, Rapid Online Assessment of Reading (ROAR) in Graduate School of Education, Stanford, California, United States ABOUT US The Stanford Graduate School of Education (GSE) is dedicated to solving education's greatest challenges. Through rigorous research, model...

Join the team to envision a new role for academia in society careersearch.stanford.edu/jobs/researc... Research Study Coordinator, Rapid Online Assessment of Reading (ROAR) - Stanford University Careers

Very cool work!

The future of learning to read An expert on reading difficulties is inviting schools, teachers, and families to shape the lab’s research questions and new tools to improve results for struggling readers.

Very much enjoyed my conversation with @rbaltman.bsky.social on the Future of Learning to Read engineering.stanford.edu/news/future-...

Anatomically Distinct Regions in the Inferior Frontal Cortex Are Modulated by Task and Reading Skill The inferior frontal cortex (IFC) is a critical region for reading and language. This part of the cortex is highly heterogeneous in its structural and functional organization and shows high variabilit...

First senior author paper! Excited to share this work led by Hannah Stone with the dream team @jamielmitchell.bsky.social, Mia Fuentes-Jimenez, Jasmine Tran, and of course the mentorship and guidance of @jyeatman.bsky.social . Now out in the Journal of Neuroscience- www.jneurosci.org/content/45/1...

New study up on ROAR@Home BETA. We’re developing a phonics screener particularly for early elementary school. Please report bugs if you encounter any! roar.stanford.edu/signup/

Looking forward to it!

ROAR is now used across 29 states and 6 countries and was approved as a dyslexia screener in CA and Ohio! You can see a map here roar.stanford.edu/technical/in...

Head Motion in Diffusion Magnetic Resonance Imaging: Quantification, Mitigation, and Structural Associations in Large, Cross‐Sectional Datasets Across the Lifespan We characterized motion during diffusion MRI scans across 16,995 image sessions and find that (1) modern preprocessing pipelines effectively mitigate motion to the point where biases are not detectab....

It's hard to overstate what a big deal this paper is: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/.... Head motion in dMRI is NOT like head motion in BOLD.

That’s so dark… but now you got me thinking

Research Study Coordinator, Rapid Online Assessment of Reading (ROAR) in Graduate School of Education, Stanford, California, United States What We Do: The Rapid Online Assessment of Reading (ROAR) is a project with potential to positively impact current educational practices while also...

If you have expertise in dyslexia and want to build bridges between research and practice consider applying careersearch.stanford.edu/jobs/researc...

Fast and reliable quantitative measures of white matter development with magnetic resonance fingerprinting Abstract. Developmental cognitive neuroscience aims to shed light on evolving relationships between brain structure and cognitive development. To this end, quantitative methods that reliably measure i...

I think magnetic resonance fingerprinting is one of the biggest innovations in quantitative MRI this decade and new work led by @mayayablonski.bsky.social convinced my that this methodology will drive new research directions in developmental cognitive neuroscience doi.org/10.1162/imag...

It’s these kinds of things that make me sad that I don’t write as much code as I used to! When I started my faculty job at UW @arokem.org and had 2 standing 2-hour meetings every week to rewrite AFQ as pyAFQ. Those were the days!

Cool new review from @drewhalbailey.bsky.social that’s well worth the read! www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

Just attended a wonderful guest lecture from @lisapatel.bsky.social about effects of climate change on early childhood.

Facts were depressing, but my main takeaway was for adults to model taking climate action collectively, and also to help our children build a personal connection to nature.

Always wanted to!

Looks like a useful resource!

New preprint from Maha Ramamurthy thoroughly unpacking the mutli-element processing (visual attention space) task. The data point towards a general issue with rapid visual processing in dyslexia osf.io/preprints/os...

On my way to San Diego to represent ROAR as a universal #dyslexia screener in San Diego country school. Whether or not schools choose, ROAR I’m excited to talk with district leaders and teachers about our vision to build deeper, systematic links between research and practice so come find me!

Trump hits NIH with ‘devastating’ freezes on meetings, travel, communications, and hiring Researchers facing

Wasn’t a headline I was ever expecting to see www.science.org/content/arti...

Thanks to all the beta testers out there, we've fixed all reported bugs and the ROAR@Home Research Portal is back up and running! roar.stanford.edu/homesignup/

Introduction to ROAR YouTube video by ROAR Stanford

If you’re interested in collaborating on “deep phenotyping” and helping to build a more nuanced understanding of heterogeneity in dyslexia, check out opportunities to work with us youtu.be/mTyRmyBRHS0?...

Finally, demonstration of the optimism I hold for visual tasks being an important part of dyslexia screening particularly in linguistically diverse populations osf.io/ufwsp/downlo...

Bridging sensory and language theories of dyslexia: Toward a multifactorial model Using predictors from a visual motion processing experiment and linguistic measures, we show that a single-mechanism model of reading disability cannot account for the range of linguistic and sensory...

This paper still characterizes my current thinking on the topic. Short summary: there is heterogeneity in dyslexia and we need to stop asking “what is the cause” and switch to considering the confluence of factors onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Optimizing text for an individual's visual system: The contribution of visual crowding to reading difficulties Reading is a complex process that involves low-level visual processing, phonological processing, and higher-level semantic processing. Given that skil…

This remains my favorite paper I’ve written because we identified a simple issue (elevated visual crowding) and tested a simple accommodation (increased text spacing) and found a subset of individuals that benefited www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

There aren’t, however, proven interventions for the visual contributors to reading difficulties. So I agree with the point about whole word stuff. But wanted to correct the “no visual issues” part. Below are some relevant papers that I’ve been a part of but there are dozens from your groups too

To give a slight correction to what you said above: there is extensive evidence that, in addition to PA and other aspects of language, differences in visual processing are also contributing factors for SOME (but not all) people with dyslexia.

Small or absent Visual Word Form Area is a trait of dyslexia Understanding the balance between plastic and persistent traits in the dyslexic brain is critical for developing effective interventions. This longitudinal intervention study examines the Visual Word ...

Causality is a challenge in human neuroscience and intervention studies are few and far between. Though not a RCT, the longitudinal intervention design from @jamielmitchell.bsky.social offers insights into the balance between stability and plasticity in dyslexia www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Perfect example of the virtuous cycle from research to practice