Recent Publications
Ruz, M., Wolmetz, M., Tudela, P., McCandliss, B. Two Brain Pathways for Attended and Ignored Words. Neuroimage (Accepted)
McCandliss, B. & Wolmetz, M. Developmental psychobiology of reading disability. Developmental Psychobiology
Review of Psychiatry, Volume 23 (2004) , Ed. B.J. Casey.
Recent Conference Presentations
Wolmetz, M. et al. (2005). “Neuroimaging in Heterogeneous Groups: Accounting for Individual Differences in BOLD Response During Pseudoword Reading in Children.” Cognitive Neuroscience Society (New York).
Ruz, M. et al. (2005). “Two Brain Pathways for Attended and Ignored Words.” Cognitive Neuroscience Society (New York).
Ochs, L. et al. (2005). “Differential Response to Reading Intervention Based on Initial Skill Level.” Cognitive Neuroscience Society (New York).
Niogi, S. et al. (2005). “Assessing the Developmental Relationship Between Reading Disability and White Matter Tract Microstructure Using Diffusion Tensor Imaging (DTI); the Importance of a Reproducible Objective Quantification Scheme.” Cognitive Neuroscience Society (New York).
Noble, K. et al. (2005). “Socioeconomic Status Modulates Brain-Behavior Relationships in Reading.” Cognitive Neuroscience Society (New York).
Ruz, M. et al(2004), How learning strategies drive brain plasticity: fMRI data . Cognitive Neuroscience Society (San Francisco).
Ruz, M. et al (2004), Estrategias de aprendizaje y plasticidad neural: Datos de fMRI y HDERPs. V SEPEX, Madrid (Spain).
McCandliss, B. et al (2003), The Role of Focusing Attention in Higher-Order Skill Learning: and ERP & fMRI Investigation. Cognitive Neuroscience Society (New York).
Research Interests
Neural correlates of cognitive structures, networks and operations: orthography, phonology, attention, skill acquisition; Biological biases: genetic, anatomical and systems contributions to reading and attention impairments; Neuroimaging: fMRI (functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging), ERP (event-related potentials), SPM (statistical parametric mapping). Voxel-based meta-analysis; Remediations; Brain-based education; Philosophy of Science
I received a BS in CS from Yale in 2000 but departed from the field of Computer Science in favor of Cognitive Psychology & Neuroscience in 2002, and I'll be continuing my education at Johns Hopkins in the fall.
For more information about me, just ask (but I can't stop you from googling).
