Are you easily distracted by the tapping of your co-workers pencil, by your family member talking loudly on the phone, or by a barking dog? Researchers have been investigating the differences between people with different levels of distractibility, or levels of ” sensory gating”. Turns out people with low sensory gating or “leaky filters” are

  Dr. Matthew H. Schneps was a founding member of the Science Education Department at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center, and now is the Founder and Director of the Laboratory for Visual Learning. The Laboratory for Visual Learning was born out of Schneps own personal quest into decoding the mystery of Dyslexia. Schneps became increasingly frustrated that

Dyslexia is NOT just about Phonological Awareness. In this mini- podcast excerpt, Dr. Matthew H. Schneps discusses his frustration with the overly simplistic medical- model of dyslexia, that Schneps came across when he began to take a deep dive into the literature that was available at the time. Dr. Matthew H. Schneps was a founding member of

Norman Geschwind’s seminal research on the brain ( Geschwind, 1965) established a relationship between it’s structure and function and dubbed him by many, as the father of modern day behavioral neurology. But Geschwind was also considerably ahead of his time in the ways in which he thought about dyslexia and it’s advantages. As Geshwind stated