The Brain Development & Education Lab will be running 2 week long literacy camps for pre-kindergarten children. The goal of this study is to understand how neural circuits for literacy emerge as children build the foundations of reading skills. This is a part of research on the brain basis of literacy, and involves MEG/MRI and instruction in early reading skills. …
Bottom-up and top-down computations in high-level visual cortex
Striving towards the goal of developing a model of the computations that are performed by word- and face-selective regions in high-level visual cortex, we have posted the pre-print of our manuscript on bioRxiv.
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 …