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Jewelia Yao @jeweliayao.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

New preprint🚨 w/ @jyeatman.bsky.social @jamielmitchell.bsky.social + Alina Davison Can brain anatomy predict who struggles to read? 🧠📚 We find sulcal morphology tracks high reading skill but doesn’t predict dyslexia or limit learning from reading intervention. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

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Jamie Mitchell @jamielmitchell.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

A small or even absent Visual Word Form Area is associated with reading difficulties. Check out this Stanford Report article about my recent paper from Nature Communications and learn more about the relationship between reading at the dyslexic brain! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Dyslexic children show differences in brain reading region

A new study reveals that the visual word form area, vital for text recognition, is smaller or absent in dyslexic children.

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Jamie Mitchell @jamielmitchell.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

Check out @jyeatman.bsky.social talk about the work from our lab. news.stanford.edu/stories/2025... Take a look at the segment about neural differences of struggling readers. Journal paper on this from yours truly is coming out soon! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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SfN Journals @sfnjournals.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

#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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Wanjing Anya Ma @anyawma.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

My first PhD paper is out! I want to thank my advisors @jyeatman.bsky.social and Ben, and my collaborators (Amy, Adam, @klint.bsky.social , and Clem) and many people (including school partners) who supported this work! Nothing can be more rewarding to see ROAR-CAT helping classrooms every day! 🐈

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bioRxivpreprint @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

Small or absent Visual Word Form Area is a trait of dyslexia www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/202…

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bioRxiv Neuroscience @biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

Small or absent Visual Word Form Area is a trait of dyslexia www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/202…

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Jamie Mitchell @jamielmitchell.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

Happy to announce that my first preprint with @jyeatman.bsky.social and @mayayablonski.bsky.social is live! After 4 yrs of collecting data, we've learned a lot about the potential for and constraints of learning-induced plasticity from this longitudinal reading intervention study shorturl.at/W2UMO

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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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Jamie Mitchell @jamielmitchell.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

Some exciting progress being made in the dyslexia world right now. Very proud of my colleagues in Brain Development & Education Lab @stanforduniversity.bsky.social for all their hard work getting the ROAR approved as a dyslexia screener for the state of California. edsource.org/2024/reading...

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State takes another step toward mandatory testing for reading difficulties in 2025

Districts will have four options for screening instruments to identify reading difficulties among students in kindergarten through second grade.

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