Douglas joins the lab as a research assistant after completing a post-bach in Speech and Hearing Sciences. He is tackling a fascinating project relating the development of auditory pathways in the brain to reading skills. The goal of this work is to develop a deeper understanding of the anatomical basis of reading and language impairments.
Welcome to the lab Libby Huber!
Libby Huber joins the lab after finishing her PhD in Psychology here at the University of Washington. Her dissertation work in the Vision and Cognition Lab focused on how visual experience shapes cortical development. Libby has tackled important questions revolving around plasticity and sensory processing after visual deprivation, including a recent publication examining “A lack of experience-dependent plasticity after more …
IDA Examiner Article on Visual Deficits in Dyslexia
Jason Yeatman’s article on the role of the visual system in reading and dyslexia appeared in the March issue of the International Dyslexia Association’s Examiner. There has been considerable controversy in the field of dyslexia research over the underlying impairment that causes dyslexia. The goal of this article was to provide a balanced perspective on what research on the visual …
Welcome Patrick Donnelly!
We are excited to welcome Patrick Donnelly to the lab as the Brain Development & Education lab manager! Patrick graduated summa cum laude from Tufts University where he majored in Child Development. Working with Professor Maryanne Wolf at the Center for Reading and Language Research, Patrick developed an interest in dyslexia, and particularly dyslexia interventions. He will be continuing this …
Summer Institute in Cognitive Neuroscience – Slides Posted
It’s been a great few days at the Summer Institute in Cognitive Neuroscience at UC Santa Barbara! Here is a link to slides from my lecture on Quantitative neuroimaging of human brain development. Feel free to email with any follow up questions.
Postdoc position
The Brain Development and Education Lab will be in operation this fall at the University of Washington’s Institute for Learning & Brain Sciences. We are looking for a postdoc who is interested in studying the neurobiological basis of learning to read and/or developing new techniques for measuring the developing human brain. The lab combines quantitative MRI (diffusion, T1, etc.), functional MRI, …