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Joel B. Talcott is affiliated with Aston University in the United Kingdom. Their research spans several intersecting disciplines, primarily focusing on biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, and psychology. Within these fields, Talcott's work frequently addresses the genetics of neurodevelopmental disorders, reading and literacy development, and the epidemiology of genetic associations.

Their subfields of study include genetics, developmental and educational psychology, cognitive neuroscience, molecular biology, and rheumatology. Talcott's research topics cover the following areas:

  • Genetics and Neurodevelopmental Disorders
  • Reading and Literacy Development
  • Genetic Associations and Epidemiology
  • Folate and B Vitamins Research
  • Pregnancy and Preeclampsia Studies
  • Language Development and Disorders
  • Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism

Talcott has co-authored extensively with several researchers, with frequent collaborations including:

  • John Stein
  • Silvia Paracchini
  • Shelley D. Smith
  • Simon E. Fisher
  • Dianne F. Newbury

Their work has appeared in a variety of publication venues, most notably:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Molecular Psychiatry
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • BMC Medicine
  • Developmental Science

Among the recent papers authored or co-authored by Talcott are:

  • Genome-wide association study reveals new insights into the heritability and genetic correlates of developmental dyslexia, 2020, Molecular Psychiatry
  • Genome-wide analyses of individual differences in quantitatively assessed reading- and language-related skills in up to 34,000 people, 2022, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Effects of maternal folic acid supplementation during the second and third trimesters of pregnancy on neurocognitive development in the child: an 11-year follow-up from a randomised controlled trial, 2021, BMC Medicine
  • Dynamic relationships between phonological memory and reading: A five year longitudinal study from age 4 to 9, 2020, Developmental Science
  • Discovery of 42 Genome-Wide Significant Loci Associated with Dyslexia, 2021, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

Best Publications

  • Sensitivity to dynamic auditory and visual stimuli predicts nonword reading ability in both dyslexic and normal readers

    C. Witton;J.B. Talcott;P.C. Hansen;A.J. Richardson

  • Independent genome-wide scans identify a chromosome 18 quantitative-trait locus influencing dyslexia.

    Simon E. Fisher;Clyde Francks;Angela J. Marlow;I. Laurence MacPhie

  • Impaired neuronal timing in developmental dyslexia—the magnocellular hypothesis

    John Stein;Joel Talcott

  • Dynamic sensory sensitivity and children's word decoding skills.

    Joel B. Talcott;Caroline Witton;Maggie F. McLean;Peter C. Hansen

  • Investigation of dyslexia and SLI risk variants in reading- and language-impaired subjects

    D. F. Newbury;S. Paracchini;T. S. Scerri;L. Winchester

  • Visual motion sensitivity in dyslexia: evidence for temporal and energy integration deficits.

    Joel B Talcott;Peter C Hansen;Elikem L Assoku;John F Stein

  • Metabolic abnormalities in developmental dyslexia detected by 1H magnetic resonance spectroscopy.

    Caroline Rae;Caroline Rae;Martin A Lee;Ruth M Dixon;Andrew M Blamire

  • Cerebellar morphology in developmental dyslexia.

    Caroline Rae;Caroline Rae;Jenny A Harasty;Theresa E Dzendrowskyj;Joel B Talcott

  • Are dyslexics' visual deficits limited to measures of dorsal stream function?

    Peter C. Hansen;John F. Stein;Sam R. Orde;Jonathan L. Winter

  • On the relationship between dynamic visual and auditory processing and literacy skills; results from a large primary-school study.

    Joel B. Talcott;Joel B. Talcott;Caroline Witton;Caroline Witton;Gillian S. Hebb;Catherine J. Stoodley

  • VISUAL MAGNOCELLULAR IMPAIRMENT IN ADULT DEVELOPMENTAL DYSLEXICS

    Joel B. Talcott;Peter C. Hansen;Charles Willis-Owen;Iain W. McKinnell

  • Separate Influences of Acoustic AM and FM Sensitivity on the Phonological Decoding Skills of Impaired and Normal Readers

    Caroline Witton;John F. Stein;Catherine J. Stoodley;Burton S. Rosner

  • Use of Multivariate Linkage Analysis for Dissection of a Complex Cognitive Trait

    Angela J. Marlow;Simon E. Fisher;Clyde Francks;I. Laurence MacPhie

  • Impaired Balance in Developmental Dyslexia? A Meta-Analysis of the Contending Evidence.

    Kim S.H. Rochelle;Joel B. Talcott

  • Controversy about the visual magnocellular deficit in developmental dyslexics.

    John Stein;Joel Talcott;Vincent Walsh

  • PCSK6 is associated with handedness in individuals with dyslexia

    Thomas S. Scerri;William M. Brandler;Silvia Paracchini;Andrew P. Morris

  • Genome-wide analyses of individual differences in quantitatively assessed reading- and language-related skills in up to 34,000 people

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  • Sensory processing, reading, IQ, and attention.

    Jacqueline Hulslander;Joel B Talcott;Caroline Witton;John DeFries

  • Genome‐wide screening for DNA variants associated with reading and language traits

    Alessandro Gialluisi;Dianne F. Newbury;Erik G. Wilcutt;Richard K. Olson

  • Fatty acid deficiency signs predict the severity of reading and related difficulties in dyslexic children

    A.J. Richardson;A.J. Richardson;C.M. Calvin;C. Clisby;D.R. Schoenheimer

  • Do 'clumsy' children have visual deficits.

    H Sigmundsson;P.C Hansen;J.B Talcott;J.B Talcott

  • Reading skills are related to global, but not local, acoustic pattern perception

    Jessica M. Foxton;Joel B. Talcott;Caroline Witton;Hal Brace

  • Controversy about the visual magnocellular deficit in developmental

    Joel Talcott;Vincent Walsh

Frequent Co-Authors

Anthony P. Monaco
Anthony P. Monaco Tufts University
Simon E. Fisher
Simon E. Fisher Max Planck Society
Peter C. Hansen
Peter C. Hansen University of Birmingham
Juha Kere
Juha Kere Karolinska Institute
Andrew P. Morris
Andrew P. Morris University of Liverpool
Bruce F. Pennington
Bruce F. Pennington University of Denver
Richard K. Olson
Richard K. Olson University of Colorado Boulder
John C. DeFries
John C. DeFries University of Colorado Boulder
Bertram Müller-Myhsok
Bertram Müller-Myhsok Max Planck Society
Per Hoffmann
Per Hoffmann University of Bonn

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