Dr. Jason Yeatman

Biography

Jason Yeatman is an Associate Professor in the Graduate School of Education and the Department of Psychology at Stanford University and the Division of Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics at Stanford University School of Medicine. He completed his PhD in Psychology at Stanford, where he studied neurobiology and literacy, and developed new brain imaging methods to study the relationship between brain plasticity and learning. After finishing his PhD, Yeatman took a faculty position at the University of Washington’s Institute for Learning and Brain Sciences before returning to Stanford. He is the director of the Brain Development and Education Lab, which has the overarching goal of understanding the mechanisms that underlie the process of learning to read, particularly how these mechanisms differ in children with dyslexia. The lab employs a collection of structural and functional neuroimaging measurements to study how a child's experience with reading instruction shapes the development of brain circuits specialized for unique cognitive functions.

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