Unlocking math success! 🚀 Join us at Lab111 in Amsterdam for a symposium exploring the impact of High Dosage Tutoring on low-SES students. We’ll delve into environmental, cognitive & affective factors driving learning gaps. RSVP with the QR code attached, the event is partly in Dutch #RCT #Amsterdam

Our 12th CO-AIR webinar on audiovisual integration and reading is coming soon!

Join us Thu. May 22th, 6-8 pm (CEST, GMT+2)!

Inspiring talks by: Anastasiya Lopukhina, Ola Ozernov-Palchik, and Maha Ramamurthy

Program | Register: coairwebinar.wordpress.com/upcoming-eve...

🚀 New paper & press release! 🧬📖 🧮 Our large-scale study (20,000 children) shows that #ADHD, #dyslexia, and #dyscalculia often co-occur due to shared genetic risk—not because one condition causes the other.
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It's almost time for our 11th CO-AIR webinar on audiovisual integration and reading: Wed. Feb. 19th, 6-8 pm (CET)!

So, few days left for late birds to register...

Inspiring talks: Hannah Nash, @irenebalboni.bsky.social, @gretatuckute.bsky.social & Elizabeth Lee.

Register: tinyurl.com/y6rnxp9k

We’re back! Our 11th CO-AIR webinar on audiovisual integration and reading is coming soon!

Join us Wed. February 19th, 6-8 pm (CET)! Don’t miss it, inspiring talks by: Hannah Nash, @irenebalboni.bsky.social, @gretatuckute.bsky.social & Elizabeth Lee.

Program | Register: tinyurl.com/y6rnxp9k

📢 Children's word #reading skills are linked to the number of books at home and mother-child reading activities—even after accounting for parental reading skills as a proxy for genetic influences. 🧬📚
🔗 Read more: doi.org/10.1111/jcpp...
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Causality is a challenge in human neuroscience and intervention studies are few and far between. Though not a RCT, the longitudinal intervention design from @jamielmitchell.bsky.social offers insights into the balance between stability and plasticity in dyslexia www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

🙏, @jillbarshay.bsky.social, 4highlighting our meta-analyses on phonemic awareness (PA) in your report.

We investigated the optimal dosage of PA instruction for preK-Grade1 students and are thrilled to share our insights with the education community.

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I was today years old when I found this gem of a web app to explore 2500+ color palettes for R:

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Kids' poor math and reading skills are posing a risk to how well Europe's future workforce can power its economy, a new report says.

We are a team of researchers from University of Amsterdam and VU Amsterdam studying High Dosage Tutoring (HDT) to tackle achievement gaps in low-SES students. Our Cluster RCT explores HDT’s effects on math skills & self-beliefs. Let’s connect on education inequalities, achievement gaps, HDT, & more!

A beginner’s guide to impactful slide design.

I discuss 3 widely applicable tips on how slide design can engage your audience, clearly communicate your ideas and leave a lasting impact: tinyurl.com/bdfjmda9

#SlideDesign #SciComm

This paper is now out in Plos Computational— it nicely explains how learning to read recycles existing object recognition abilities, and leads to a precise prediction about neurons becoming tuning to an ordinal letter position code (« space bigrams »)
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Onset timing of letter processing in auditory and visual sensory cortices www.frontiersin.org/journals/int... "timing pattern suggests that the origins of the cross-sensory activations may be in the primary sensory cortices of the opposite modality"; #crossmodal #neuroscience

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Happy to see our intervention paper led by Cara Verwimp is now published online. Comparison of online vs face-to-face delivery of dyslexia intervention with Bayesian methods: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

On Tue. Oct 31, 9h15-12h45 (CET), we will host an informal but beautiful symposium in Amsterdam. See program below. Upon request, we have now created a zoom link for online participation for those who cannot attend in person.
Interested? Register: tinyurl.com/59f6v25s