Rapid Online Assessment of Reading – Full Stack Web Developer Position The Rapid Online Assessment of Reading (ROAR) is an open-source, online reading assessment platform that is designed to bridge research and practice. Our vision is to develop and validate a suite of efficient and automated online assessment for use in research and practice. This technology has the potential to …
Post-doc / Research Scientist position
We are soon going to have 1-2 new postdoc or research scientist positions for candidates with exceptional technical skills and collaborative, interdisciplinary research interests. The first position will be taking a leadership role on the Rapid Online Assessment of Reading (ROAR). The ROAR is an open-source reading assessment platform that spans research and educational/clinical practice. See the draft of the …
ROAR: The Rapid Online Assessment of Reading Ability
An open-source platform for reading assessment Rapid Online Assessment of Reading Ability Yeatman, J. D., Tang, K. A., Donnelly, P. M., Yablonski, M., Ramamurthy, M., Karipidis, I. I., Caffarra, S., Takada, M. E., Kanopka, K., Ben-Shachar, M., & Domingue, B. W. (2021). Scientific Reports, 11(1), 6396. The Rapid Online Assessment of Reading is an ongoing research project and online platform for …
Meet the Team: Kenny Tang
Kenny is a research coordinator in the Reading Dyslexia Research Program here at Stanford. We sat together in the education building for a chat about his experience research and hopes to continue his studies in graduate school. Written by: Max A. Sala What motivated you to join the lab? When I was an undergraduate, I worked in a lab that …
What is the cause of dyslexia? A multifactorial additive risk factor model
Competing theories of dyslexia posit that reading difficulties arise from impaired visual, auditory, phonological, or statistical learning mechanisms. Importantly, many theories posit that dyslexia reflects a cascade of impairments emanating from a single “core deficit”. Here we report two studies evaluating core deficit and multifactorial models. In Study 1, we use publicly available data from the Healthy Brain Network to …
Postdoc Position – Leveraging big data to understand the neurobiological underpinnings of reading and math abilities
The Yeatman (Stanford University) and Rokem (University of Washington) labs have 2 years of funding for a jointly mentored postdoc who is interested in capitalizing on new innovations in data science and diffusion MRI methods to understand the neurobiological underpinnings of reading and math abilities. With the emergence of public datasets containing tens of thousands of subjects (e.g., ABCD, Healthy …
You can’t recognize two words simultaneously – Trends in Cognitive Science
In their compelling opinion piece, Snell and Grainger breathe new life into the debate about parallel versus serial processing of text during reading. They marshal several pieces of evidence against the established view that words are recognized one at a time. We agree that this debate cannot be resolved without treading beyond the methodological scope of tracking eye movements. However, …
Intensive Summer Intervention Drives Linear Growth of Reading Skill in Struggling Readers – Donnelly, 2019
Donnelly PM, Huber E, Yeatman JD. Intensive Summer Intervention Drives Linear Growth of Reading Skill in Struggling Readers. Frontiers in Psychology (2019) A major achievement of reading research has been the development of effective intervention programs for struggling readers. Most intervention studies employ a pre-post design, to examine efficacy, but this precludes the study of growth curves over the course …
A bottleneck in the reading circuitry. White et al (2019), PNAS
In most environments, the visual system is confronted with many relevant objects simultaneously. That is especially true during reading. However, behavioral data demonstrate that a serial bottleneck prevents recognition of more than one word at a time. We used fMRI to investigate how parallel spatial channels of visual processing converge into a serial bottleneck for word recognition. Participants viewed pairs …
Participate in our new web-based experiment on visual crowding
Our previous work revealed that some people struggle with reading due to elevated visual crowding. Optimizing text for an individual’s visual system: The contribution of crowding to reading difficulties. Joo S.J., White A. L., Strodtman D., & Yeatman J.D. (2018). Cortex. 103:291-301. In collaboration with LabintheWild, we have developed a web-based version of this experiment and we are trying to get …
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