Dr. Rebecca Gordon
Bio
Rebecca Gordon is an Associate Professor and Director of the Motor Executive Cognitive Interaction (MECI) Lab at UCL Institute of Education. She is a cognitive psychologist, who is a Chartered Member and Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society and a member of the Management Committee for the Centre for Educational Neuroscience (CEN). She also runs the ESRC-accredited MSc in Developmental and Educational Psychology at UCL. Her research focus is on memory and executive function as it relates to academic outcomes such as reading and mathematics. She is also interested in the relationships between executive functions and dyslexia in children and adults.
Facts and Myths about Dyslexia
In this session, I will discuss what we know about dyslexia, including the brain architecture involved in learning to read and what happens when things go wrong. Considering this, we will also look at many of the myths surrounding this condition and how people with dyslexia struggle with abilities other than reading and spelling.
Recommended Articles
Smith-Spark, J. H. & Gordon, R. (2022). Automaticity and Executive Abilities in Developmental Dyslexia: A Theoretical Review. Brain Sci., 12(4), 446. DOI: 10.3390/brainsci12040446
Smith-Spark, J. H., Gordon, R., & Jansari, A. S. (2022). The impact of developmental dyslexia on workplace cognition: Evidence from a virtual reality environment. ECCE ’22: Proceedings of the 33rd European Conference on Cognitive Ergonomics, Article 1, 1 – 4. https://doi.org/10.1145/3552327.3552340
Gordon, R., Smith-Spark, J. H, Newton, E. J. & Henry, L. A. (2018). Executive Function and Academic Achievement in Primary School Children: The Use of Task-Related Processing Speed, Front. Psychol., Vol. 9(582), 1 – 4. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.00582
