New preprint🚨 w/ @jyeatman.bsky.social @jamielmitchell.bsky.social + Alina Davison Can brain anatomy predict who struggles to read? 🧠📚 We find sulcal morphology tracks high reading skill but doesn’t predict dyslexia or limit learning from reading intervention. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

A small or even absent Visual Word Form Area is associated with reading difficulties. Check out this Stanford Report article about my recent paper from Nature Communications and learn more about the relationship between reading at the dyslexic brain! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Check out @jyeatman.bsky.social talk about the work from our lab. news.stanford.edu/stories/2025... Take a look at the segment about neural differences of struggling readers. Journal paper on this from yours truly is coming out soon! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

next preprint is out - ever wonder why findings about VWFA differ so much? @jyeatman.bsky.social @mayayablonski.bsky.social , Mia Fuentes-Jimenez, Hannah Stone, and I might have the answer... www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

#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

My first PhD paper is out! I want to thank my advisors @jyeatman.bsky.social and Ben, and my collaborators (Amy, Adam, @klint.bsky.social , and Clem) and many people (including school partners) who supported this work! Nothing can be more rewarding to see ROAR-CAT helping classrooms every day! 🐈

Small or absent Visual Word Form Area is a trait of dyslexia https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.01.14.632854v1

Small or absent Visual Word Form Area is a trait of dyslexia https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.01.14.632854v1

Happy to announce that my first preprint with @jyeatman.bsky.social and @mayayablonski.bsky.social is live! After 4 yrs of collecting data, we've learned a lot about the potential for and constraints of learning-induced plasticity from this longitudinal reading intervention study shorturl.at/W2UMO

Some exciting progress being made in the dyslexia world right now. Very proud of my colleagues in Brain Development & Education Lab @stanforduniversity.bsky.social for all their hard work getting the ROAR approved as a dyslexia screener for the state of California. edsource.org/2024/reading...