Jason Yeatman
@jyeatman.bsky.social
Professor at Stanford. Education, Psychology, Pediatrics and Neuroscience. Brain Development & Education Lab. roar.stanford.edu
Thank you @psychonomicsociety.bsky.social for featuring our study! @jyeatman.bsky.social @klint.bsky.social
Psychonomic Society@psychonomicsociety.bsky.social · last yr.Assessing reading skills for an entire school’s worth of children is challenging and time-consuming – unless you’re using ROAR-CAT! 📚🦁Computerized Adaptive Testing (CAT) to assess reading abilities. Post by Anthony Cruz; #psynomBRM paper by @anyawma, @KlintKanopka and colleagues buff.ly/IuhWKaB
#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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Research Study Coordinator, Rapid Online Assessment of Reading (ROAR) in Graduate School of Education, Stanford, California, United States
ABOUT US The Stanford Graduate School of Education (GSE) is dedicated to solving education's greatest challenges. Through rigorous research, model...
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Very cool work!
Dr. Nadine Gaab@gaablab.bsky.social · last yr.New paper examining longitudinal #brain data over 7y & relation to #reading; implications for early intervention/policy @fitngin.bsky.social Longitudinal trajectories of brain development from infancy to school age and their relationship with literacy development | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Very much enjoyed my conversation with @rbaltman.bsky.social on the Future of Learning to Read engineering.stanford.edu/news/future-...
The future of learning to read
An expert on reading difficulties is inviting schools, teachers, and families to shape the lab’s research questions and new tools to improve results for struggling readers.
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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...
Anatomically Distinct Regions in the Inferior Frontal Cortex Are Modulated by Task and Reading Skill
The inferior frontal cortex (IFC) is a critical region for reading and language. This part of the cortex is highly heterogeneous in its structural and functional organization and shows high variabilit...
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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/
ROAR@Home – ROAR (Rapid Online Reading Assessment)
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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.
Head Motion in Diffusion Magnetic Resonance Imaging: Quantification, Mitigation, and Structural Associations in Large, Cross‐Sectional Datasets Across the Lifespan
We characterized motion during diffusion MRI scans across 16,995 image sessions and find that (1) modern preprocessing pipelines effectively mitigate motion to the point where biases are not detectab....
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If you have expertise in dyslexia and want to build bridges between research and practice consider applying careersearch.stanford.edu/jobs/researc...
Research Study Coordinator, Rapid Online Assessment of Reading (ROAR) in Graduate School of Education, Stanford, California, United States
What We Do: The Rapid Online Assessment of Reading (ROAR) is a project with potential to positively impact current educational practices while also...
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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...
Fast and reliable quantitative measures of white matter development with magnetic resonance fingerprinting
Abstract. Developmental cognitive neuroscience aims to shed light on evolving relationships between brain structure and cognitive development. To this end, quantitative methods that reliably measure i...
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Cool new review from @drewhalbailey.bsky.social that’s well worth the read! www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
Learning About Development from Interventions | Annual Reviews
In this review, we argue that the role of causally informative evaluations of interventions within developmental psychology should be elevated. Causally informative research on the effects of interven...
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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.
Lisa Patel, MD@lisapatel.bsky.social · 2y agoI contributed to this piece from @nytimes.com on #wildfires and #health. This quote from Dr. Afif El-Hasan from American Lung is perfectly said: “Can you imagine how much worse things would be if we hadn’t started cleaning up emissions from our cars?” www.nytimes.com/2025/01/11/c...
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...
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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!
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...
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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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...
ROAR-CAT: Rapid Online Assessment of Reading ability with Computerized Adaptive Testing - Behavior Research Methods
The Rapid Online Assessment of Reading (ROAR) is a web-based lexical decision task that measures single-word reading abilities in children and adults without a proctor. Here we study whether item resp...
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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...
COMMENTARY: How three teachers and a little kid taught me that phonics and meaning complement each other
When it comes to teaching reading, it's important to understand that phonics and meaning are not enemies.
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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...
Empowering Early Literacy: A Guide to TK–5 Instructional Materials for California Districts - CalCurriculum
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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...
The Future of Avalanche Forecasting Is in Peril
A budget crisis within the Forest Service means there will be fewer avalanche forecasters keeping backcountry skiers and snowmobilers safe this year. The cut has sparked a debate over the funding and ...
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Good point from @drewhalbailey.bsky.social
Drew Bailey@drewhalbailey.bsky.social · 2y agoOverpromising on results to get a program running is ubiquitous but backfires in the long run. Figuring out how to best communicate the need for good programs and evaluations despite unrealistic views of what a worthwhile program is likely to accomplish is an important area for further work.
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.
@ntrbiopsy.bsky.social · 2y agoOn December 4th we had another session of our BioPsy colloquia. This time, Elsje (@drelsje.bsky.social) and Camiel presented their work. We listened to talks about “Educational Genetics” and “Trusted Upload and Linked Procedure”. Very interesting topics! Thank you for joining.
