![Beautiful Minds – What New Research Shows Dyslexia and Artists Have in Common [Premium]](https://www.dyslexicadvantage.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/shutterstock_255430702.jpg)
BBC Science: "...artists had increased neural matter in areas relating to fine motor movements and visual imagery. The research, published in NeuroImage, suggests that an artist's talent could be innate...these detailed scans revealed that the artist group had...
![Executive Function: What Smart People Do Differently While Learning [Premium]](https://www.dyslexicadvantage.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/woman-thinking-our-shutterstock.jpg)
When researchers compared high IQ and average test subjects in a learning paradigm, the results were surprising. In some areas high IQ individuals work less, as might be expected by the idea that higher IQ people have more efficient brains for learning tasks, but in other areas, high IQ brains were working harder. When were […]
RTI or Response To Intervention is currently the dominant approach to reading instruction in public schools across the United States (over 70% of school districts), but in a just-released progress report funded by the Department of Education from the Institute of...
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It can be maddening. You look and look you just don’t see it. Later you pass your work along, you see all the thing you hadn’t seen the first time round. What’s going on ? You’ve experienced a ‘trick’ of perception. In our clinic, when trying to explain the phenomenon to children, we often use […]
![Latest Research – Your Brain on Audiobooks [Premium]](https://www.dyslexicadvantage.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/our-shutterstock-audiobooks.jpg)
This is pretty cool research. When we listen to stories, we maybe transported to a different place and time, living in the heads of characters, and immersing ourselves in another world. What does that look like in our brains? We have a clearer answer now from brain researchers in the Netherlands, and besides seeing how […]
![New Research: Brain Scans Predict Cognitive Performance [Premium]](https://www.dyslexicadvantage.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/Screen-Shot-2016-05-12-at-12.40.17-PM.jpg)
“This suggests that individual differences in many cognitive tasks are a stable trait marker.” There’s a new Oxford research study circulating through scientific communities and around the world. From Science (Task-free MRI predicts individual differences in brain activity during task performance), Tavor and collegues applied machine-learning principles to test subjects in a “resting state” to […]
![This is Your Brain on Words [Premium]](https://www.dyslexicadvantage.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Screen-Shot-2019-10-08-at-4.20.07-PM.jpg)
In breaking research from UC Berkeley, researchers have found a complicated filing system when it comes to how we process words that we hear. While listening to stories, individual words triggered tiny activation explosions all over the brain associated with word associations – “Words were grouped under various headings: visual, tactile, numeric, locational, abstract, temporal, professional, […]
![This is Your Brain on Phonics – fMRI and Dyslexia [Premium Subscription]](https://www.dyslexicadvantage.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/shutterstock_229039786.jpg)
One of the greatest neuromyths about dyslexia is that it’s just about reading. Kudos to the Gabrieli lab (and many others) who are unraveling the differences that exist between dyslexic and non-dyslexic children because the science can inform us about what we may need to do as teachers and tutors. In the following article, we’ll […]
