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Jason Yeatman

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Jason Yeatman

Associate Professor

jyeatman@stanford.edu

https://www.brainandeducation.com/

Assistant: Leslie Dinan

Office: CERAS 232

Biography

Dr. Jason Yeatman is an Associate Professor in the Graduate School of Education and Department of Psychology at Stanford University and the Division of Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics at Stanford University School of Medicine. Dr. Yeatman completed his PhD in Psychology at Stanford where he studied the neurobiology of literacy and developed new brain imaging methods for studying the relationship between brain plasticity and learning. After finishing his PhD, he took a faculty position at the University of Washington’s Institute for Learning and Brain Sciences before returning to Stanford.

As the director of the Brain Development and Education Lab, the overarching goal of his research is to understand the mechanisms that underlie the process of learning to read, how these mechanisms differ in children with dyslexia, and to design literacy intervention programs that are effective across the wide spectrum of learning differences. His 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 that are specialized for this unique cognitive function.

Other Titles

Associate Professor, Pediatrics
Associate Professor, Graduate School of Education
Associate Professor, Psychology
Member, Bio-X
Member, Wu Tsai Human Performance Alliance
Member, Maternal & Child Health Research Institute (MCHRI)
Member, Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute

Program Affiliations

DAPS
Learning Sciences and Technology Design (LSTD)
(MS) LDT
(MS) EDS
Stanford Accelerator for Learning

Research Interests

Brain and Learning Sciences | Child Development | Data Sciences | Early Childhood | Literacy and Language | Psychology | Research Methods | Special Education | Technology and Education

See a full list of GSE Faculty research interests >

Recent Publications

Grotheer, M., Bloom, D., Kruper, J., Richie-Halford, A., Zika, S., Aguilera Gonzalez, V. A., … Rokem, A. (2023). Human white matter myelinates faster in utero than ex utero. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 120(33), e2303491120.

Gijbels, L., Lee, A. K., & Yeatman, J. D. (2023). Children with developmental dyslexia have equivalent audiovisual speech perception performance but their perceptual weights differ. Developmental Science, e13431.

Richie-Halford, A., Cieslak, M., Ai, L., Caffarra, S., Covitz, S., Franco, A. R., … Rokem, A. (2023). Author Correction: An analysis-ready and quality controlled resource for pediatric brain white-matter research. Scientific Data, 10(1), 247.

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