Listed below are some publications by members of the SIRL team that are relevent to the mission of SIRL. For a broader view of the research projects in which the team members are involved, browse the SIRL team homepages.

Recent publications and presentations:

• Dougherty, R.F. (2007). The Literate Brain: A neuroscience perspective on reading development. Talk at the Asilomar Regional Reading Conference, March 11 2007. (pdf of slides)
• Dougherty, R.F. (2006). Interhemispheric connections related to reading skill measured with diffusion tensor imaging. Talk at SPIE Electronic Imaging conference in San Jose. (slides)
• Dougherty, R.F., Deutsch, G.K., Ben-Shachar, M., Potanina, P., Bammer, R., Wandell, B.A. (2005). Callosal pathways associated with reading and phonological awareness in children. Society for Neuroscience annual meeting, Washington, D.C. (abstract)
• Ben-Shachar, M., Dougherty, R.F., Deutsch, G.K., Potanina, P., Wandell, B.A. (2005). Word-response functions in occipitotemporal sulcus are modulated by age and reading skills in 7- to 12-year-old children. Society for Neuroscience annual meeting, Washington, D.C. (abstract)
• Dougherty, R.F., Ben-Shachar, M., Deutsch, G., Potanina, P., Bammer, R., & Wandell, B.A. (2005). Occipital-Callosal Pathways in Children: Validation and Atlas Development. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. Volume 1064, Dec. 2005. (pdf | pubmed)
• Schwartzman, A., Dougherty, R.F., & Taylor, J.E. (2005). Cross-subject comparison of principal diffusion direction maps. Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, 53(6):1423-1431. (pdf | pubmed)
• Deutsch, G.K., Dougherty, R.F., Siok, W.T., Bammer, R., Gabrieli, J.D., & Wandell, B.A. (2005). Correlations Between White Matter Microstructure and Reading Performance in Children. Cortex, 41 (3), 354-363. (pdf | pubmed)
• Dougherty, R.F. (2005). Occipital-Callosal Pathways. Invited talk at the Rochester Center for Brain Imaging.
• Dougherty, R.F. (2005). The anatomy of reading. Invited talk at the International Dyslexia Association (IDA) meeting in Denver. (slides)
• Schwartzman, A., Dougherty, R.F., Taylor, J.E. (2004). Comparison of principal diffusion directions using directional statistics. Human Brain Mapping, Budapest, June 2004. (poster)
• Dougherty, R.F., Deutsch, G.K., Bammer, R., Schwartzman, A., & Wandell, B.A. (2004). White matter pathways related to reading. Cognitive Neuroscience Society annual meeting, San Francisco (poster)
• Dougherty, R.F., Deutsch, G.K., Siok, W.T., Bammer, R., Gabrieli, J.D., & Wandell, B.A. (2003). Diffusion tensor imaging and reading development. Society for Neuroscience 33rd annual meeting, New Orleans (slides)
• Deutsch, G.K., Dougherty, R.F., Siok, W.T., Bammer, R., Gabrieli, J.D., & Wandell, B.A. (2003). Correlations between white matter microstructure and reading performance in children. ISMRM in Toronto, Canada. (pdf of abstract)
• Siok, W.T, Deutsch, G., Dougherty, RF, Glover, G. & Gabrielli, J. (2003). An event-related fMRI study of word regularity and frequency effects. Human Brain Mapping Conference.
• Applications of Anatomical MRI: Cortical metrology and reading. Smith-Kettlewell Eye Research Intitute, San Francisco, CA; April 2003.

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