Education
•(2009-Current)
Stanford University, Ph.D. Psychology
•(2002-2006)
University of California San Diego, BA in Political
Science, minor in Psychology
Positions
•(2009-Current)
Graduate Student, Stanford University Department of
Psychology, VISTA Lab.
Advisor: Brian A. Wandell, Ph.D.
•(2007-2009)
Research Assistant, Stanford University School of
Medicine, Neural Plasticity and Recovery Lab. Advisor:
Heidi M. Feldman, M.D. Ph.D.
•(2006)
Research Assistant, University of California San
Diego, Molecular Cognitive Neuroscience Lab. Advisor:
Stephan Anagnostaras, Ph.D.
Publications
•Myall N.J., Yeom K.W., Yeatman
J.D., Gaman-Bean S., Feldman H.M., in press. Case series:
Fractional anisotropy along the trajectory of selectd
white matter tracts in ddolescents born preterm with
ventricular dilation. Journal
of Child Neurology.
•Yeatman J.D., Feldman H.M.
Review of Marlow N., Hennessy E.M., Bracewell M.A.,
Wolke D. (2008) Motor and Executive Function at
6 Years of Age After Extremely Preterm Birth. AA
Fanaroff, RA Ehrenkranz, DK Stevenson (Eds) The Year Book of Neonatal and
Perinatal Medicine. Philadelphia PA:
Mosby.
Fellowships
•(2010-Present)
National Science Foundation Graduate Research
Fellowship
Research
Grants
•(2012)
“Retinotopic organization of white matter near visual
cortex.” Stanford Center for Cognitive and
Neurobiological Imaging Neuroventures Grant.
•
(2011) “Quantitative modeling of white matter
development.” Stanford University Developmental
Psychology Haas Fund Grant.
Awards
•(2012)
Bio-X
Travel Award
•(2012)
Society
for the Neurobiology of Language Travel Award
•(2011)
Bio-X Travel Award
•(2010)
Organization for Human Brain Mapping Trainee Abstract
Award
•(2010)
Norman Anderson Funds
Teaching
Course Instructor
•Spring,
2012:
Statistics and data analysis in MATLAB (Psych 216A,
New course developed and co-taught with Kendrick Kay)
Teaching
Assistant
•Fall,
2011: Human Neuroimaging Methods (Psych 204A,
Graduate, Prof. Brian Wandell)
•Spring,
2011: Introduction to Learning and Memory (Psych 45,
Undergraduate, Prof. Anthony Wagner)
•Fall,
2010: Statistical Methods for Behavioral and Social
Sciences (Psych 252, Graduate, Prof. Ewart Thomas)
Guest Lectures
•Fall
2011: Cognitive Development (Psych 141, Undergraduate,
Prof. Ellen Markman)
•Spring
2011: Origin of Mental Life (Psych 11N, Undergraduate,
Prof. Ellen Markman)
Workshops
•Feldman
H.M., Yeatman J.D.,
Holland S.K., Vanest J., Schapiro M., Newmyer A.
fMRI Basics for Pediatric Researchers and
Clinicians. Workshop for 2008 Society for
Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics Annual
Meeting, Cincinnati OH, October 17, 2008.
Professional Organizations
•Society
for Neuroscience
•Organization
for Human Brain Mapping
•Cognitive
Neuroscience Society
Administrative Functions
•(2011-2012)
Coordinator of Stanford Department of Psychology
Friday Seminar talk series
•(2011)
Stanford Department of Psychology Graduate Admissions
Committee
Ad-Hoc Reviewing
•Cerebral
Cortex
•Neuroimage
•Neuroradiology
•Neuropsychologia
•Brain
and Language
•Neuroscience
& Biobehavioral Reviews
Conference Presentations
Oral
Presentations
•Yeatman J.D., Dougherty R.F.,
Ben-Shachar M., Wandell B.A. Dual process account of
the joint development of white matter and reading
skills. Oral presentation for
Society for the Neurobiology of Language Annual
Meeting, San Sebasian, Spain, October, 2012
•Yeatman J.D., Mezer A.,
Wandell B.A. Identifying biological signatures of
occipital white matter pathways with novel
quantitative magnetic resonance imaging methods. Oral presentation for Society for
Neuroscience Annual Meeting, Washington DC,
November, 2011
•Yeatman J.D., Dougherty R.F.,
Rykhlevskaia E., Deutsch G., Wandell B.A.,
Ben-Shachar M. Anatomy of the Arcuate Fasciculus
is Associated with Phonology and Reading Skills in
Children. Oral presentation for Organization for
Human Brain Mapping Annual Meeting, Barcelona Spain,
June 6, 2010
•Yeatman J.D., Loe I.M.,
Feldman H.M. The
Association of SES, Cognitive Abilities, and Language
Skills at 3 and 4 Years of Age and Reading Abilities
at 9-12 Years of Age. Publication #2. Platform
presentation at the 2007 Society for
Developmental-Behavioral Pediatrics Annual Meeting,
Providence, RI, September 2007.
Poster Presentations
•Yeatman J.D., Dougherty R.F.,
Myall N.J., Wandell B.A., Feldman H.M.. Tract Profiles
of white mater properties: Automating fiber-tract
quantification. Poster Presentation at the 2012
Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting, New Orleans,
LA, October 2012.
•Mezer
A., Yeatman J.D., Stikov
N., Kay K.N., Dougherty R.F., Parvizi J., Butts-Pauly
K., Wandell B.A. A new quantitative MRI contrast for
measuring white matter myelin. Poster Presentation at
the 2011 Organization for Human Brain Mapping Annual
Meeting, Quebec Canada, June 2011.
•Yeatman J.D., Rykhlevskaia E., Ben-Shachar M., Thomas
E.A.C., Deutsch G.K.,
Wandell B.A., Dougherty
R.F. Developmental trajectories of white matter
fascicles are associated with children’s reading
skills: a 3-year longitudinal study. Poster
Presentation at the 2010 Society for Neuroscience
Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA, November 2010.
•Lee
E.S., Yeatman J.D.,
Bammer R., Feldman H.M. Diffusion Tensor Imaging
Finds Different Patterns of Associations between White
Matter Microstructure, Age, Language and Reading
Skills in 9-16 Year Old Preterm and Full-term
Children. Poster Presentation at the 2010 Society for
Neuroscience Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA, November
2010.
•Barde
L.H.F., Yeatman J.D.,
Lee E.S., Glover G., Feldman H.M. An fMRI
investigation of individual differences in auditory
sentence comprehension in adolescent children born
prematurely. Poster Presentation at the 2010 Society
for Neuroscience Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA,
November 2010.
•Yeatman J.D., Barde L.H.F., Feldman H.M.
Language and Reading in a Child with a Missing Arcuate
Fasciculus: a Diffusion Tensor Imaging Case
Study. Poster Presentation at the 2009 Society
for Neuroscience Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL, October
2009.
•Lee
E.S., Yeatman J.D., Luna
B., Feldman H.M. Verbal Working Memory and Sentence
Comprehension in Preterm Children 9-16 Years
Old. Poster presentation at the 2009 Society for
Developmental-Behavioral Pediatrics Annual Meeting,
Portland, OR, October 2009.
•Yeatman J.D., Ben-Shachar M.,
Glover G.H., Feldman H.M. The Effect of Syntactic
Complexity and Sentence Length on Oral Language
Processing in Children: A Functional Neuroimaging
Study. Poster presentation at the 2009 Cognitive
Neuroscience Society Annual Meeting, San Francisco,
CA, March 2009.
•Andrews
J.S., Ben-Shachar M., Yeatman
J.D., Luna B., Feldman H.M. White Matter
Differences and Reading in Preterm Children.
Poster presentation at the 2008 Society for
Neuroscience Annual Meeting, Washington DC, November
2008.
•Loe
I.M., Yeatman J.D., Velanova K., Luna B.,
Feldman H.F. A Functional Magnetic Resonance
Imaging (fMRI) Study of Response Inhibition in
Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD).
Platform presentation at the 2008 Pediatric Academic
Societies/Society for Pediatric Research/Ambulatory
Pediatrics Association Annual Meeting, Honolulu, HI,
May 2008.
•Loe
I.M., Luna B., Yeatman J.D.,
and Feldman H.M. Tower of London Performance in
Subtypes of Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder
(ADHD). Publication #19. Poster
presentation at the 2007 Society for
Developmental-Behavioral Pediatrics Annual Meeting,
Providence, RI, September 2007.