Selected Publications

Dyslexia

Wang-Kildegaard, B., Irey, R., Ji, F., Gorno Tempini, M., and Cunningham, A. 2026. Differential impacts of morphology-focused and phonology-focused interventions on students with dyslexia: Evidence from latent regression analysis. Reading Psychology.

Durán, L., Siebert, J. M., Zegers, M., Gutiérrez, N., Pei, F., Catts, H., Petscher, Y., and Gorno-Tempini, M. L. 2026. Comparing the performance and growth of linguistically diverse and English-only students on commonly used early literacy measures. Journal of Learning Disabilities.

Lukic, S., Qi, T., Watson Pereira, C., Mandelli, M. L., Bogley, R., Shabash, M., Caverzasi, E., Borghesani, V., Dronkers, N., and Gorno-Tempini, M. L. 2025. Verbal short-term memory in developmental dyslexia: The role of the temporoparietal area. Brain and Language.

Qi, T., Mandelli, M. L., Pereira, C., Wellman, E., Bogley, R., Licata, A., Miller, Z., Tee, B., de Leon, J., Chang, E. F., Oganian, Y., and Gorno-Tempini, M. L. 2025. Anatomical and behavioral correlates of auditory perception in developmental dyslexia. Brain.

Zhang, B. Y., Gocheva, G. V., Tyler, A., Wallman-Jones, A., Shabash, M., Han, J., Watson-Pereira, C., Miller, Z. A., Gorno-Tempini, M. L., Sturm, V. E., and Palser, E. R. 2025. A thematic analysis of parent-reported socio-emotional strengths in dyslexia. Dyslexia.

Wolf, M., Gotlieb, R. J. M., Kim, S. A., Pedroza, V., Rhinehart, L. V., Tempini, M. L. G., and Sears, S. 2024. Toward a dynamic, comprehensive conceptualization of dyslexia. Annals of Dyslexia.

Pedemonte, B., Pereira, C. W., Borghesani, V., Ebbert, M., Allen, I. E., Pinheiro-Chagas, P., De Leon, J., Miller, Z., Tee, B., and Gorno-Tempini, M. L. 2024. Profiles of mathematical deficits in children with dyslexia. npj Science of Learning.

Pereira, C. L. W., Zhou, R., Pitt, M. A., Myung, J. I., Rossi, P. J., Caverzasi, E., Rah, E., Allen, I. E., Mandelli, M. L., Meyer, M., Miller, Z. A., and Gorno-Tempini, M. L. 2022. Probabilistic decision-making in children with dyslexia. Frontiers in Neuroscience.

Palser, E. R., Miller, Z. A., Licata, A. E., Yabut, N. A., Sudarsan, S. P., Tee, B. L., Deleon, J. A., Mandelli, M. L., Caverzasi, E., Sturm, V. E., Hendren, R., Possin, K. L., Miller, B. L., Gorno-Tempini, M. L., and Watson Pereira, C. 2022. Visual and social differences in dyslexia. Neurocase.

Sturm, V. E., Roy, A. R. K., Datta, S., Wang, C., Sible, I. J., Holley, S. R., Watson, C., Palser, E. R., Morris, N. A., Battistella, G., Rah, E., Meyer, M., Pakvasa, M., Mandelli, M. L., Deleon, J., Hoeft, F., Caverzasi, E., Miller, Z. A., Shapiro, K. A., Hendren, R., Miller, B. L., and Gorno-Tempini, M. L. 2021. Enhanced visceromotor emotional reactivity in dyslexia. Cortex.


Language

Durán, L., Zegers, M., Siebert, J. M., Zopluoglu, C., Jasso, J., Pratt, A., Pei, F., and Gorno-Tempini, M. L. 2025. Innovations in conceptual scoring of a bilingual expressive vocabulary measure. American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology.

Mak, E., Nichiporuk Vanni, N., Yang, X., Lara, M., Zhou, Q., and Uchikoshi, Y. 2023. Parental perceptions of bilingualism and home language vocabulary. Frontiers in Psychology.

Chan, M., Buttiler, M. B., Yang, F., Yang, J., Uchikoshi, Y., and Zhou, Q. 2022. Teachers’ language use in multilingual classrooms. Children.


Screening, Measurement, and Literacy Assessment

Siebert, J. M., Bell, P., Gutiérrez, N., Zegers, M., Falke, E., Domingue, B. W., Petscher, Y., Catts, H., Yan, L., Durán, L., and Gorno-Tempini, M. L. 2025. Differences in reading screening accuracy by percentile cutoff and English proficiency. Reading Research Quarterly.

Ramamurthy, M., Kanopka, K., Richie-Halford, A., Domingue, B. W., Pei, F., Bell, P., Yan, L., Hartsough, A., Gorno-Tempini, M. L., and Yeatman, J. D. 2025. Design and validation of a rapid visual processing measure for screening reading difficulties. Behavior Research Methods.

Ramamurthy, M., Richie-Halford, A., Kanopka, K., Hartsough, A., Osuna, K., Gorno-Tempini, M. L., and Yeatman, J. D. 2023. A gamified online assessment predicting future reading development. Journal of Vision.


Methods

Bray, S., Chang, C., and Hoeft, F. 2009. Applications of multivariate pattern classification analyses in developmental neuroimaging. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience.

Hosseini, S. H., Hoeft, F., and Kesler, S. R. 2012. Graph theoretical analysis toolbox for large-scale brain networks. PLOS ONE.


Basic Research

Hoeft, F., McCandliss, B. D., Black, J. M., Gantman, A., Zakerani, N., Hulme, C., Lyytinen, H., Whitfield-Gabrieli, S., Glover, G. H., Reiss, A. L., and Gabrieli, J. D. E. 2011. Neural systems predicting long-term outcomes in dyslexia. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Tanaka, H., Black, J. M., Hulme, C., Stanley, L., Kesler, S. R., Whitfield-Gabrieli, S., Reiss, A. L., and Gabrieli, J. D. E. 2011. Brain basis of phonological deficits in dyslexia. Psychological Science.

Xia, Z., Hoeft, F., Zhang, L., and Shu, H. 2016. Neuroanatomical anomalies of dyslexia. Neuropsychologia.


Socio-Emotional and Mental Health

Haft, S. L., Myers, C. A., and Hoeft, F. 2016. Socio-emotional resilience in children with reading disabilities. Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences.

Hossain, B., Bent, S., and Hendren, R. 2021. Anxiety and academic performance in children with reading disorder. Dyslexia.

Zapata, M. A., and Worrell, F. C. 2023. Disability self-worth and psychosocial functioning. Rehabilitation Psychology.


Submitted or In Press

Zegers, M., Durán, L., Zopluoglu, C., Pratt, A., Jasso, J., Siebert, J. M., Lichtmacher, J., Wong, A., Pei, F., and Gorno-Tempini, M. L. Spanish-English bilingual narrative story production and screening for reading problems. Submitted.

Palser, E., Carpenter, E., Bardorf, M., Kersey, M., Bogley, R., Pinheiro-Chagas, P., Tee, B., DeLeon, J., Sturm, V., Miller, Z. A., Mandelli, M. L., and Gorno-Tempini, M. L. Timing of early language milestones and later outcomes. Submitted.

Irey, R., Watson, C., Brown, M., Allen, E., Voges, M., Shabash, M., Gutmann, E., Inkelis, S., Fox, S., and Gorno-Tempini, M. L. Effectiveness of morphological instruction for students with dyslexia. In revision.