Jurgen Tijms

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.
doi.org/10.1177/0956... (1/5)

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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Small or absent Visual Word Form Area is a trait of dyslexia Understanding the balance between plastic and persistent traits in the dyslexic brain is critical for developing effective interventions. This longitudinal intervention study examines the Visual Word ...

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.

🔗 bit.ly/4crkhHu
🔗 to full text: See my CV

R Color Palette Finder The ultimate tool for finding the perfect color palette for data visualization with R and paletteer. Explore over 2000 palettes, see them in action on various charts, simulate color blindness, and exp...

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

r-graph-gallery.com/color-palett...

Kids’ poor math skills pose risk to EU economy, report says Math and reading skills are worsening, posing a risk to labor productivity and competitiveness.

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 »)
journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...

Frontiers | Onset timing of letter processing in auditory and visual sensory cortices

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

Stop de bezuinigingen op het hoger onderwijs!

📢 Onderwijs en onderzoek zijn cruciaal om de grote vraagstukken van onze tijd aan te pakken! Toch bezuinigt het kabinet-Schoof €1 miljard op hoger onderwijs en wetenschap. Wij komen in actie tegen deze bezuinigingen! Teken jij ook de petitie? campagnes.degoedezaak.org/campaigns/st...

The COVID generation: Online dyslexia treatment equally effective as face-to-face treatment in a Dut... Due to pandemic-induced lockdown(s) in 2020, dyslexia treatment was forced to move to online platforms. This study examined whether Dutch children who received online treatment progressed as much in t...

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...

I think Danny Borsboom / Han vd Maas use penalized regr functions in their network models for psychopathology, but not sure that is the context you're looking for.

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