Postdoc position
The Brain Development and Education Lab will be in operation this fall at the University of Washington’s Institute for Learning & Brain Sciences. We are looking for a postdoc who is interested in...
View ArticleSummer Institute in Cognitive Neuroscience – Slides Posted
It’s been a great few days at the Summer Institute in Cognitive Neuroscience at UC Santa Barbara! Here is a link to slides from my lecture on Quantitative neuroimaging of human brain development. Feel...
View ArticleWelcome Patrick Donnelly!
We are excited to welcome Patrick Donnelly to the lab as the Brain Development & Education lab manager! Patrick graduated summa cum laude from Tufts University where he majored in Child...
View ArticleDiscover Magazine: Getting Personal with Jason Yeatman & Kevin Weiner.
Discover Magazine’s “Getting Personal” features an interview with Jason Yeatman & Kevin Weiner on the work that went into their 2014 PNAS article “The vertical occipital fasciculus: A century of...
View ArticleIDA Examiner Article on Visual Deficits in Dyslexia
Jason Yeatman’s article on the role of the visual system in reading and dyslexia appeared in the March issue of the International Dyslexia Association’s Examiner. There has been considerable...
View ArticleWelcome to the lab Libby Huber!
Libby Huber joins the lab after finishing her PhD in Psychology here at the University of Washington. Her dissertation work in the Vision and Cognition Lab focused on how visual experience shapes...
View ArticleWelcome to the lab Douglas Strodtman!
Douglas joins the lab as a research assistant after completing a post-bach in Speech and Hearing Sciences. He is tackling a fascinating project relating the development of auditory pathways in the...
View ArticleBottom-up and top-down computations in high-level visual cortex
Striving towards the goal of developing a model of the computations that are performed by word- and face-selective regions in high-level visual cortex, we have posted the pre-print of our manuscript on...
View ArticleSlides from Vision Science Society talk
Slides from Yeatman & Kay VSS talk – Network-level interactions drive response properties in word- and face-selective cortex Abstract below: High-level perceptual functions depend on complex...
View ArticleWelcome to the lab Sung Jun Joo!
Dr. Sung Jun Joo joined the lab after completing a post-doc with Alex Huk at UT Austin where he studied motion perception and decision making. His work in the Huk lab combined psychophysical and fMRI...
View ArticleNeurohack week: computation and reproducibility in neuroscience
Ariel Rokem has organized a week long workshop on computational methods for reproducibility in neuroscience. The course is going on this week at the University of Washington and materials including...
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J Cogn Neurosci publication: Temporal Tuning of Word- and Face-Selective Cortex
Yeatman & Norcia 2016 Sensitivity to temporal change places fundamental limits on object processing in the visual system. An emerging consensus from the behavioral and neuroimaging literature...
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Reading & Dyslexia Research Program Open House
Dyslexia is the most prevalent learning disability affecting roughly 10% of the population. The goal of the University of Washington Reading & Dyslexia Research Program is to understand the...
View ArticleRelease of AFQ-Browser: Software for quantitative analysis and visualization...
Traditionally, MRI data sets only include a small number of subjects and can be analyzed on a personal computer. But as we look towards a future where “Big Data” is playing a larger role in scientific...
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Kay & Yeatman, 2017, eLife: Bottom-up and top-down computations in word- and...
Kay KN, Yeatman JD. Bottom-up and top-down computations in word- and face-selective cortex. ELife. 2017, http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.22341 As your eyes scan this page, your visual system performs...
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