Please join us today for a special presentation featuring University of Washington Assistant Professor, Jason Yeatman, in room A211 at the Department of Psychology. We look forward to seeing you there!
Jason Yeatman, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
University of Washington
Tuesday, April 24, 2018
12 p.m.–1 p.m.
Department of Psychology
Room A211
1107 W Call St.
Tallahassee, FL 32304
Education, plasticity and learning: the development neural circuits for skilled reading
Reading instruction prompts the emergence of neural circuits that are specialized for rapidly translating printed symbols into sound and meaning. Understanding how these circuits differ in children with dyslexia, and change with learning, is an important scientific challenge that holds practical implications for education. In this talk I will present new data linking changes in white matter connectivity to the process of learning to read. Combining intensive reading intervention programs, with longitudinal MRI measurements, we find that altering a child’s educational environment can dramatically change white matter circuits and behavior over the timescale of weeks.
Mailing address:
2010 Levy Avenue, Suite 100, Tallahassee, FL 32310
