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Andreas Rauschecker
Neurosciences, MSTP
Bio-X
Graduate Student Fellowships 2008/2009
Professor Brian Wandell (Psychology)
Andreas’s work uses several modern imaging modalities, including fMRI, DTI, and electrophysiological recordings, to understand the neural basis of reading. More than a fifth of the US population reads below their age level, and dyslexia is the most common learning disability. In many cases, the visual system of the brain is unable to decode visual patterns into words. The Wandell lab studies the neural mechanisms behind this decoding process in the normal human brain. To complement this work, they also look at patients who are either suddenly unable to read due to a tumor, stroke, or epilepsy, or who have never been able to read (developmental dyslexia). |
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