Just published 🔔 ‘Intervention of Reading and Spelling Problems in Children With Co-Occurring ADHD and Dyslexia’ in Dyslexia: An International Journal of Research and Practice. Read the research now: https://ow.ly/jjbf50YNUky

Unlocking math success! 🚀 Join us at Lab111 in Amsterdam for a symposium exploring the impact of High Dosage Tutoring on low-SES students. We’ll delve into environmental, cognitive & affective factors driving learning gaps. RSVP with the QR code attached, the event is partly in Dutch #RCT #Amsterdam

Our 12th CO-AIR webinar on audiovisual integration and reading is coming soon! Join us Thu. May 22th, 6-8 pm (CEST, GMT+2)! Inspiring talks by: Anastasiya Lopukhina, Ola Ozernov-Palchik, and Maha Ramamurthy Program | Register: coairwebinar.wordpress.com/upcoming-eve...

🚀 New paper & press release! 🧬📖 🧮 Our large-scale study (20,000 children) shows that #ADHD, #dyslexia, and #dyscalculia often co-occur due to shared genetic risk—not because one condition causes the other. doi.org/10.1177/0956... (1/5)

It's almost time for our 11th CO-AIR webinar on audiovisual integration and reading: Wed. Feb. 19th, 6-8 pm (CET)! So, few days left for late birds to register... Inspiring talks: Hannah Nash, @irenebalboni.bsky.social, @gretatuckute.bsky.social & Elizabeth Lee. Register: tinyurl.com/y6rnxp9k

We’re back! Our 11th CO-AIR webinar on audiovisual integration and reading is coming soon! Join us Wed. February 19th, 6-8 pm (CET)! Don’t miss it, inspiring talks by: Hannah Nash, @irenebalboni.bsky.social, @gretatuckute.bsky.social & Elizabeth Lee. Program | Register: tinyurl.com/y6rnxp9k

📢 Children's word #reading skills are linked to the number of books at home and mother-child reading activities—even after accounting for parental reading skills as a proxy for genetic influences. 🧬📚 🔗 Read more: doi.org/10.1111/jcpp... 🧵👇1/6

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...

Small or absent Visual Word Form Area is a trait of dyslexia

Understanding the balance between plastic and persistent traits in the dyslexic brain is critical for developing effective interventions. This longitudinal intervention study examines the Visual Word ...

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I was today years old when I found this gem of a web app to explore 2500+ color palettes for R: r-graph-gallery.com/color-palett...

R Color Palette Finder

The ultimate tool for finding the perfect color palette for data visualization with R and paletteer. Explore over 2000 palettes, see them in action on various charts, simulate color blindness, and exp...

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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.

Kids’ poor math skills pose risk to EU economy, report says

Math and reading skills are worsening, posing a risk to labor productivity and competitiveness.

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We are a team of researchers from University of Amsterdam and VU Amsterdam studying High Dosage Tutoring (HDT) to tackle achievement gaps in low-SES students. Our Cluster RCT explores HDT’s effects on math skills & self-beliefs. Let’s connect on education inequalities, achievement gaps, HDT, & more!

A beginner’s guide to impactful slide design. I discuss 3 widely applicable tips on how slide design can engage your audience, clearly communicate your ideas and leave a lasting impact: tinyurl.com/bdfjmda9 #SlideDesign #SciComm

This paper is now out in Plos Computational— it nicely explains how learning to read recycles existing object recognition abilities, and leads to a precise prediction about neurons becoming tuning to an ordinal letter position code (« space bigrams ») journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...

Cracking the neural code for word recognition in convolutional neural networks

Author summary Reading is a fundamental skill in modern society, yet the neural mechanisms that allow us to quickly recognize words remain poorly understood. Our research aims to unravel how the brain...

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Stanislas Dehaene@standehaene.bsky.social · 3y ago

New manuscript from the lab! What is the neural code for reading? Through simulations of convolutional neural networks, we propose a new hypothesis on how, in literate brains, neurons encode written letters and their relative positions within the word. arxiv.org/abs/2403.06159

Onset timing of letter processing in auditory and visual sensory cortices www.frontiersin.org/journals/int... "timing pattern suggests that the origins of the cross-sensory activations may be in the primary sensory cortices of the opposite modality"; #crossmodal #neuroscience

Frontiers | Onset timing of letter processing in auditory and visual sensory cortices

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Happy to see our intervention paper led by Cara Verwimp is now published online. Comparison of online vs face-to-face delivery of dyslexia intervention with Bayesian methods: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

The COVID generation: Online dyslexia treatment equally effective as face-to-face treatment in a Dut...

Due to pandemic-induced lockdown(s) in 2020, dyslexia treatment was forced to move to online platforms. This study examined whether Dutch children who received online treatment progressed as much in t...

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On Tue. Oct 31, 9h15-12h45 (CET), we will host an informal but beautiful symposium in Amsterdam. See program below. Upon request, we have now created a zoom link for online participation for those who cannot attend in person. Interested? Register: tinyurl.com/59f6v25s