Joo SJ, Donnelly PM & Yeatman JD. The causal relationship between dyslexia and motion perception reconsidered. Nature Scientific Reports, 2017. It is well established that visual sensitivity to motion is correlated with reading skills. Yet, the causal relationship between motion sensitivity and reading skills has been debated for more than thirty years. One hypothesis posits that dyslexia is caused by …

The goal of the University of Washington Reading & Dyslexia Research Program is to understand the factors that contribute to reading difficulties and use this knowledge to design innovative, personalized intervention programs. Due to the popularity of our last open house in March, we will be hosting a second event to try to accommodate everyone who was waitlisted or could not …

Kay KN, Yeatman JD. Bottom-up and top-down computations in word- and face-selective cortex. ELife. 2017, http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.22341 As your eyes scan this page, your visual system performs a series of computations that allow you to derive meaning from the printed words. The visual system solves this task with such apparent ease that you may never have thought about the challenges that …

Traditionally, MRI data sets only include a small number of subjects and can be analyzed on a personal computer. But as we look towards a future where “Big Data” is playing a larger role in scientific discovery, and large, publicly available MRI data sets are being aggregated across laboratories, new tools will be needed for analyzing and exploring these data. Ariel …

Dyslexia is the most prevalent learning disability affecting roughly 10% of the population. The goal of the University of Washington Reading & Dyslexia Research Program is to understand the factors that contribute to reading difficulties and use this knowledge to design innovative, personalized intervention programs. We will be hosting an open house to share our research with anyone who is …

Yeatman & Norcia 2016 Sensitivity to temporal change places fundamental limits on object processing in the visual system. An emerging consensus from the behavioral and neuroimaging literature suggests that temporal resolution differs substantially for stimuli of different complexity and for brain areas at different levels of the cortical hierarchy. Here, we used steady-state visually evoked potentials to directly measure three …

Ariel Rokem has organized a week long workshop on computational methods for reproducibility in neuroscience. The course is going on this week at the University of Washington and materials including recorded talks will be available to the community through the neurohack repository. Here are slides from my lecture titled Models: From voxels, to fascicles, to brain development and cognition.

Dr. Sung Jun Joo joined the lab after completing a post-doc with Alex Huk at UT Austin where he studied motion perception and decision making. His work in the Huk lab combined psychophysical and fMRI measurements to understand the neural basis of three dimensional motion perception. His recent work by, published in PNAS, demonstrated how eye movements effect the decision …

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, …