Michael Rivkin

Michael Rivkin's studies of learning disabilities have addressed issues of timing in affected children and matched controls. In his research he has:

• Used functional MRI in studies of children with learning disabilities and matched controls to localize timing functions and impairments thereof within the cerebrum.
• Demonsted that the supplementary motor area and right superior temporal gyrus participate in a network needed for internally timed paced finger tapping in children.
• Delineated deficits in information processing in children with developmental dyslexia.
• Delineated norms for a working memory task for children 8-12 years of age.
• Successfully applied diffusion tensor imaging and dual echo techniques to the study of postnatal brain development in premature infants between 28 weeks' gestation and term.