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#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

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Very cool work!

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

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/

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.

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

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...

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.

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!

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/

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...

Tour de force from @anyawma.bsky.social developing a new, computer-adaptive approach to reading assessment at scale for use in research and educational practice! link.springer.com/article/10.3...

First preprint on ROAR-Español is up! Coming soon, a whole suite of Spanish measures validated in the US and Latin America. In the meantime, check out “A fair lexical decision task for monolingual and multilingual Spanish-speakers” osf.io/preprints/ps...

Nice article telling a story about how it all works together edsource.org/2024/how-thr...

Whether you’re adopting new #instructionalmaterials, looking to improve implementation, or simply collecting information, the Empowering Early Literacy guide is designed to support your investigation into whether your #literacy materials meet your school's needs. calcurriculum.org/resource/emp...

Sign up for our first ROAR@Home BETA research study! roar.stanford.edu/homesignup/

With a mission to democratize access to reading assessments we’re getting ready to launch ROAR@Home for beta testing! The UI/UX is still in its infancy but please report issues and keep your eyes out for a UI/UX designer position later this year.

Out now in Brain! Using direct cortical stimulation in 49 patients we show distinct regions of ventral temporal cortex that selectively knock out the ability to read or name. Word-selective VWFA can causally and reliably be isolated from other visual language functions. doi.org/10.1093/brai...

"...responses of V4 neurons under naturalistic conditions can be explained by a hierarchical three-stage model where each stage consists entirely of units like those found in area V1" #NeuroAI www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Ironic how these things go. Backcountry skiing has seen a huge surge in popularity yet we are cutting investment in safety measures and upkeep of the backcountry www.outsideonline.com/outdoor-adve...

Sad story about the state of US education

Good point from @drewhalbailey.bsky.social

This is the paper I presented, soon out in Psychological Science: "Co-occurrence and causality among ADHD, dyslexia, and dyscalculia" psyarxiv.com/epzgy Using the great @ntrbiopsy.bsky.social data.

Love seeing this incredible organization growing and thriving! Wishing I could go and recommending to others

The ROAR team produced an introductory video intended for teachers and school administrators but we also hope it’s informative for the research community. Please DM me with any feedback or suggestions! youtu.be/mTyRmyBRHS0?...

Kids' poor math and reading skills are posing a risk to how well Europe's future workforce can power its economy, a new report says.

Cool work!

Well this seems bad, a flood of lawsuits filed based on weak evidence, which in turn is driving how we talk about social harms… A lot of money, time, and energy is about to be wasted because moral entrepreneurs hate social media more than they actually care about evidence and protecting kids.

Thrilled to see ROAR beside some other excellent tools and excited to serve my state through our Research Practice Partnership model! edsource.org/2024/reading...

Highly recommend this! If I had more hours in my day I would baiting with @arokem.org working on DIPY workshop.dipy.org/workshops/di...

I am so incredibly proud of my team! ROAR emerged from a decade of cognitive neuroscience research into the mechanisms of reading disabilities. Now, with over 30 contributors and a half dozen publications, ROAR has just been approved as a dyslexia screener for the state of CA! www.cde.ca.gov/ci/cl/

ICYMI: Do parents' SES moderate the link between genetic propensity for (non)cognitive skills and education? @gaiaghirardi.bsky.social @fabriberna.bsky.social @perlinedemange.bsky.social @ntrbiopsy.bsky.social No evidence of the Scarr-Rowe hypothesis for educational outcomes doi.org/10.1016/j.rs...

Check out the IRW, a huge data repository for psychometrics research!!

Dyslexia colleagues, we have a cool and unique position for someone with dyslexia expertise who wants to work on translating research to practice postdocs.stanford.edu/prospective/...

Lawsuit accuses famous literacy specialists of deceptive marketing www.chalkbeat.org/2024/12/04/l...

To all my dyslexia colleagues - we will soon have an exciting position for a postdoc (or other expert) who wants to bring research into practice through ROAR. Ideal candidate is a postdoc with expertise in dyslexia who wants to transition to social impact and school partnerships. More soon!

Newest ROAR paper introducing Sentence Reading Efficiency is out! I’m not the biggest fan of AI in education but I think this is a really cool use case showing how simulating students taking an assessment can be used to create reliable and precise test forms www.frontiersin.org/journals/edu...

Im officially off X! I’ve been thinking about it for a long time and finally decided it was time to distance myself. I’ve been on Bluesky for all of a couple days and already feeling very happy about the decision