Dr. Robert Wiley was the featured Expert speaker on the science podcast The Dope Labs. Wiley is a cognitive psychologist who directs the Cognitive and Neural Science of Learning (CNSL) Lab, which focuses on neural plasticity and recovery from aphasia, the role of motor-experience in acquiring written language, and the effects of expertise on visual perception.

In the “Signed, sealed, delivered” episode, he helped unpack the timely topic of the significance of handwritten letters and also discussed why letters look that way they do. More about this topic on his blog:

Why do letters look the way they do?