Peer-reviewed journal publications
| Ramoser, C, Fischer, A., Caspers, J., Schiller, N.O., Golestani, N. & Kepinska, O. (in press). Language aptitude is related to the anatomy of the auditory transverse temporal gyri. Brain Structure and Function. |
| Degano, G., Donhauser, P. W., Gwilliams, L., Merlo, P., & Golestani, N. (2024). Speech prosody enhances the neural processing of syntax. Communications Biology, 7(1), 1-10. pdf |
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Rampinini, A., Balboni, I., Golestani, N., & Berthele, R. (2024). A behavioural exploration of language aptitude and experience, cognition and more using Graph Analysis. Brain Research, 149109. pdf
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| Kepinska, O., Dalboni da Rocha, J., Tuerk, C., Hervais-Adelman, A., Bouhali, F., Green, D., … & Golestani, N. (2023). Auditory cortex anatomy reflects multilingual phonological experience. https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.90269.1 |
| Blockmans, L., Golestani, N., Dalboni da Rocha, J.L., Wouters, J., Ghesquière, P. & Vandermosten, M. (2023). Role of family risk and of pre-reading auditory and neurostructural measures in predicting reading outcome. Neurobiology of Language, 4 (3): 474–500. pdf |
| da Rocha, J. L. D., Kepinska, O., Schneider, P., Benner, J., Degano, G., Schneider, L., & Golestani, N. (2023). Multivariate Concavity Amplitude Index (MCAI) for characterizing Heschl’s gyrus shape. NeuroImage, 120052. pdf |
| Lor, C., Haugg, A., Zhang, M., Schneider, L., Herdener, M., Quednow, B., Golestani, N., Scharnowski, F. (2023). Thalamic volume and functional connectivity are respectively associated with nicotine dependence severity and smoking urge. Addiction Biology, 28(1): e13261. |
| Geva, S.,* Schneider, L. M.*, Roberts, S., Khan, S., Gajardo-Vidal, A., Lorca-Puls, D. L., team, P., Hope, T. M. H., Green, D. W., & Price, C. J. (2021). Right cerebral motor areas that support accurate speech production following damage to cerebellar speech areas. NeuroImage: Clinical, 102820 |
| Geva, S.*, Schneider, L. M.*, Roberts, S., Green, D. W., & Price, C. J. (2021). The Effect of Focal Damage to the Right Medial Posterior Cerebellum on Word and Sentence Comprehension and Production. In Frontiers in Human Neuroscience (Vol. 15, p. 239). https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fnhum.2021.664650 |
| Dalboni da Rocha, J., Schneider, P., Benner, J., Santoro, R., Atanasova, T., Van de Ville, D. & Golestani, N. (2020). TASH: Toolbox for the automated segmentation of Heschl’s gyrus. Scientific Reports, 10:3887 | https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-60609-y. pdf |
| Rutten, S., Santoro, R., Hervais-Adelman, A., Formisano, E.# & Golestani, N.# (2019). Cortical encoding of speech enhances task-relevant acoustic information. Nature Human Behaviour, 3, 974-987(DOI:10.1038/s41562-019-0648-9).pdf |
| Hervais-Adelman, A. Egorova, N. & Golestani, N. (2018). Beyond Bilingualism: multilingual experience correlates with caudate volume. Brain Structure & Function, 223(7), 3495-3502, [IF: 5.6]. pdf |
| Momenian, M., Nilipour, R., Ghafar Samar, R., Cappa, S.# & Golestani, N.# (2018). Morphosyntactic complexity modulates brain activation in Persian-English bilinguals: an fMRI study. Brain and Language,185, 9-18[IF: 3.4]. pdf |
| Vandermosten, M., Wouters, J., Ghesquière, P. & Golestani, N. (2018). Statistical learning of speech sounds in dyslexic and typical reading children (https://doi.org/10.1080/10888438.2018.1473404). Scientific Studies of Reading (SSR).[IF: 3.6]. pdf |
| Hervais-Adelman, A., Moser-Mercer, B. & Golestani, N. (2018). Commentary: Broca Pars Triangularis constitutes a “Hub” of the language-control network during simultaneous language translation. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience. [IF: 3.6]. pdf |
| Hervais-Adelman, A., Moser-Mercer, B., Murray, M.M. & Golestani, N. (2017). Cortical thickness increases after simultaneous interpretation training. Neuropsychologia (Special Issue on Language Learning). [IF: 3.3]. pdf |
| Marie, D. & Golestani, N. (2016). Brain structural imaging of receptive speech and beyond: a review of current methods. Language, Cognition and Neuroscience, 32 (7), 870-890 [IF: 2.1]. pdf. |
| Kartushina, N., Hervais-Adelman, A., Frauenfelder, U. & Golestani, N. (2016). Mutual influences between native and non-native vowels in production: evidence from short-term articulatory feedback training. Journal of Phonetics, 57, 21-39. [IF: 1.6] pdf |
| Kartushina, N., Frauenfelder, U. & Golestani, N. (2016). How and when does the second language influence the production of native speech sounds: A literature review. Language Learning, 66 (Suppl. 2), 155-186. [IF: 1.2]. pdf |
| Vandermosten, M., Price, C.J. & Golestani, N. (2016). Plasticity of white matter connectivity in phonetics experts. Brain Structure and Function, 221, 3825-3833. [IF: 5.6] pdf |
| Golestani, N. Neuroimaging of phonetic perception in bilinguals (2015). Bilingualism: Language and Cognition.[IF: 1.9] pdf |
| Kartushina, N., Hervais-Adelman, A., Frauenfelder, U., & Golestani, N. (2015). The effect of production training with visual feedback on the production and perception of foreign speech sounds. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 138 (2), 817-832. [IF: 1.6] pdf |
| Hervais-Adelman, A., Moser-Mercer, B. & Golestani, N. (2015). Brain functional plasticity associated with the emergence of expertise in extreme language control. Neuroimage, 114, 264-274. [IF: 7.1] pdf |
| Hervais-Adelman, A., Moser-Mercer, B., Michel, C.M. & Golestani, N. (2015). fMRI of simultaneous interpretation reveals the neural basis of extreme language control. Cerebral Cortex, 25(12), 4727-39. [IF: 7.5] pdf |
| Hervais-Adelman, A.*, Pefkou, M.*, & Golestani, N. (2014). Bilingual speech-in-noise: neural bases of semantic context use in the native language. Brain and Language, 132, 1-6. [IF: 3.8] pdf * The first two authors contributed equally |
| Scharnowski, F., Rosa, M.J., Golestani, N., Hutton, C., Josephs, O., Weiskopf, N. & Rees, G. (2014). Connectivity changes underlying neurofeedback training of visual cortex activity. PLOS ONE, 9(3). [IF: 3.7] pdf |
| Golestani, N. (2014). Brain structural correlates of individual differences at low to high levels of the language processing hierarchy: A review of new approaches to bilingualism research. The International Journal of Bilingualism, 18(1), 6-34. [IF: 0.86] pdf |
| Evans, S., Kyong, J.S., Rosen, S., Golestani, N., Warren, J., McGettigan, C., Mourao-Miranda, J., Wise, R. J. and Scott, S.K. (2014). The pathways for intelligible speech: multivariate and univariate perspectives. Cerebral Cortex, 24(9), 2350-61. [IF: 7.5] pdf |
| Golestani, N., Hervais-Adelman, A., Obleser, J., Scott, S.K. (2013). Semantic versus perceptual interactions in neural processing of speech-in-noise. Neuroimage, 79, 52-61. [IF: 7.1] pdf |
| Hervais-Adelman, A., Moser-Mercer, B. & Golestani, N. (2011). Executive control of language in the bilingual brain: Integrating the evidence from neuroimaging to neuropsychology. Frontiers in Psychology, 2:234. [IF: 2.8] pdf |
| Golestani, N., Price, C.J., Scott, S. K. (2011) Born with an ear for dialects? Structural plasticity in the ‘expert’ phonetician brain. The Journal of Neuroscience, 31(11), 4213-4220. [IF: 7.1] pdf |
| Vandermosten, M., Boets, B., Luts, H., Poelmans, H., Golestani, N., Wouters, J., Ghesquière, P. (2010). Adults with dyslexia are impaired in categorizing speech and nonspeech sounds on the basis of temporal cues. PNAS, 107 (23), 10389-10394. [IF: 9.7] pdf |
| Golestani, N., Rosen, S., Scott, S. K. (2009). Native-language benefit for understanding speech-in-noise: the contribution of semantics, Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 12(3), 385-392. [IF: 2.2] pdf |
| Golestani, N. & Zatorre, R.J. (2009). Individual differences in the acquisition of second language phonology. Brain & Language, 109, 55-67. [IF: 3.8] pdf |
| Douaud, G., Behrens, T.E., Poupon, C., Cointepas, Y., Jbabdi, S., Gaura, V., Golestani, N., Krystkowiak, P., Verny, C., Damier, P., Bachoud-Lévi, A.C., Hantraye, P., Remy, P. (2009). In vivo evidence for the selective subcortical degeneration in Huntington’s disease. Neuroimage, 46(4), 958-966. [IF: 7.1] pdf |
| Golestani, N. & Pallier, C. (2007). Anatomical correlates of foreign speech sound production. Cerebral Cortex. 17(4), 929-934. [IF: 7.5] pdf |
| Golestani, N., Molko, N., Pallier, C., Dehaene, S., & Le Bihan, D. (2007). Brain structure predicts the learning of foreign speech sounds. Cerebral Cortex, 17(3), 575-582. [IF: 7.5] pdf |
| Rodrigo, S., Naggara, O., Oppenheim, C., Golestani, N., Poupon, C., Cointepas, Y., Mangin, J.F., Le Bihan, D., & Meder, J.F. (2007). Human subinsular asymmetry studied by diffusion tensor imaging and fiber tracking. American Journal of Neuroradiology, 28(8),1526-31. [IF: 3.2] pdf |
| Rodrigo, S., Oppenheim, C., Chassoux, F., Golestani, N., Cointepas, Y., Poupon, C., Semah, F., Mangin, J.F., Le Bihan, D., Meder, J.F. (2007). Uncinate fasciculus fiber tracking in mesial temporal lobe epilepsy. Initial findings. European Radiology, 17(7),1663-8. [IF: 3.5] pdf |
| Golestani, N., Alario, F.-X., Meriaux, S., Le Bihan, D., Dehaene, S., & Pallier, C. (2006). Syntax production in bilinguals. Neuropsychologia, 44(7), 1029-40. [IF: 4.4] pdf |
| Dodel, S., Golestani, N., Pallier, C., ElKouby, V., Le Bihan, D., & Poline, J.B. (2005) Condition-dependant functional connectivity: syntax networks in bilinguals. Philosophical Transactions (Royal Society): Biological Sciences, special issue on brain connectivity, 360 (1457), 921-935. [IF: 6.2] pdf |
| Perrin, M, Poupon, C., Cointepas, Y., Rieul, B., Golestani, N., Pallier, C., Riviere, D., Constantinesco, A., Le Bihan, D., Mangin, J.F. (2005). Fiber tracking in q-ball fields using regularized particle trajectories. Information processing in medical imaging, 19, 52-63. pdf |
| El Kouby, V, Cointepas, Y, Poupon, C, Riviere, D, Golestani, N., Poline, JB, Le Bihan, D, Mangin, JF. (2005) MR diffusion-based inference of a fiber bundle model from a population of subjects. International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention, 8 (Pt 1), 196-204. [IF: N/A] pdf |
| Golestani, N. & Zatorre, R.J. (2004) Learning new sounds of speech: Reallocation of neural substrates. Neuroimage, 21(2), 494-506. [IF: 7.1] pdf |
| Golestani, N., Paus, T., & Zatorre, R.J. (2002). Anatomical correlates of learning novel speech sounds. Neuron, 35, 997-1010. [IF: 16.4] pdf |
| Ward, L.M., Armstrong, J., & Golestani, N. (1999). Memory for psychophysical scaling judgements. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 6(3), 472-478. [IF: 2.2] pdf |
| Ward, L.M., Armstrong, J., & Golestani, N. (1996). Intensity resolution and subjective magnitude in psychophysical scaling. Perception & Psychophysics, 58(5), 793-801. [IF: 2.0] pdf |
Preprints
Bouton, S., Chambon, V., Golestani, N. Formisano, E., Proix, T. & Giraud, A.L. Interpretability of statistical approaches in speech and language neuroscience. Preprint here.
Rampinini, A. *, Balboni, I. *, Kepinska, O., Berthele, R.# & Golestani, N.# NEBULA101 – NEuro-Behavioural Understanding of Language Aptitude: an open dataset for the study of language aptitude in behaviour, brain structure and function. Preprint here
Kepinska, O., Bouhali, F., Degano, G., Berthele, R., Tanaka, H., Hoeft F. & Golestani, N. Intergenerational transmission of the structure of the auditory cortex and reading skills. Preprint here.
Balboni*, A. Rampinini*, O. Kepinska, R. Berthele, N. Golestani. Brain activation for language and its relationship to cognitive and linguistic measures: a multimodal exploration.
Balboni, I., Kepinska, O., Berthele, R. & Golestani, N. Multilingualism and dyslexia: systematic review.
Peer-reviewed conference contributions
Rampinini, A., Kepinska, O., Balboni, I., Farrés-Franch, M., Zatorre, R. & Golestani, N. (Abstract submitted to the OHBM meeting 2023, July 22-26, 2023). A game of Song Scramble: exploring the brain’s music network. Poster presented at the 29th annual meeting of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping, Montreal, Canada.
Rampinini, A., Kepinska, O., Balboni, I., Farrés-Franch, M., Zatorre, R. & Golestani, N. (Jan. 8-12, 2023). A game of Song Scramble: exploring the brain’s music network. Poster presented at the Alpine Brain Imaging Meeting, Champery, Switzerland.
Degano, G., Donhauser, P., Gwilliams, L., Merlo, P. & Golestani, N. (Nov. 12-16, 2022). Prosodic cues enhance the encoding of syntactic information during naturalistic speech perception. Poster presented at the Society for Neuroscience meeting 2022, San Diego, USA.
Kepinska, O., Dalboni da Rocha, JL, Tuerk, C., Hervais-Adelman, A., Price, CJ, Green, G. & Golestani, N. (Oct. 6-8, 2022). Auditory cortex morphology is related to overlaps between phonological inventories of multilinguals’ languages. Poster presented at the Society for the Neurobiology of Language (SNL) meeting 2022, Philadelphia, USA.
Blockmans, L., Golestani, N., Dalboni da Rocha, J.L., Wouters, J., Ghesquière, P. & Vandermosten, M. (submitted). The contribution of familial risk for reading difficulties on early auditory predictors of literacy. Poster presentation at Flux conference, Sep 7-9 2022, Paris, France, https://fluxsociety.org/2022-paris.
Degano, G., Rampinini, A., Donhauser, P., Merlo, P. & Golestani, N. (Oct 5-8, 2021). Cortical signatures of the interaction between prosody and syntax during naturalistic language processing. Talk at the Society for the Neuroscience of Language meeting 2021.
Balboni, I., Rampinini, A., Kepinska, O., Dalboni da Rocha, J.L., Berthele, R. & Golestani, N. (Oct 5-8, 2021). Language Aptitude: behavioural and neural markers. Talk at the Society for the Neuroscience of Language meeting 2021.
Schneider, L.M., Dalboni da Rocha, J.L., Price, C.J & Golestani, N. (Oct 5-8, 2021). Greater gyrification of right Heschl gyrus is related to better auditory language comprehension in patients with left hemisphere stroke. Talk at the Society for the Neuroscience of Language meeting 2021.
Dalboni da Rocha, J.L., Marie, D., Rutten, S. & Golestani, N. (Oct 5-8, 2021). Anatomical differences in Heschl’s gyrus in dyslexia, and relation to working memory and phonological skill. Talk presented at the Society for the Neuroscience of Language meeting 2021.
Maghsadlagh, S., Dalboni da Rocha, J.L., Benner, J., Schneider, P., Behjat, H. & Golestani, N. (Oct 5-8, 2021). Characterization of Heschl’s Gyrus subtypes using Morphology-Encoding Graphs. Talk presented at the Society for the Neuroscience of Language meeting 2021.
Schneider, L.M., Dalboni da Rocha, J.L., Price, C.J & Golestani, N. (July 15-16, 2021). Greater gyrification of right Heschl gyrus is related to better auditory language comprehension in patients with left hemisphere stroke. Abstract presented at the Salzburg Mind Brain Annual meeting 2021.
Dalboni da Rocha, J.L., Marie, D., Rutten, S. & Golestani, N. (July 15-16, 2021). Anatomical differences in Heschl’s gyrus related to dyslexia. Abstract presented at the Salzburg Mind Brain Annual meeting 2021.
Maghsadlagh, S., Dalboni da Rocha, J.L., Benner, J., Schneider, P., Behjat, H. & Golestani, N. (July 15-16 2021). Differentiation of Heschl’s Gyrus subtypes Using Spectral Graph Features. Abstract presented at the Salzburg Mind Brain Annual meeting 2021.
Peer-reviewed conference papers
Maghsadlagh, S., Dalboni da Rocha, J.L., Benner, J., Schneider, P., Golestani, N. & Behjat, H. (2021). A discriminative characterisation of Heschl’s Gyrus morphology using spectral graph features. Conference paper, 43rd Annual International Conferences of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biological Society (EMBC).
Book chapters
Ward, L.M., McDonald, J.A., & Golestani, N. (1998). Cross-modal control of attention shifts. R. Wright (Ed.) Visual Attention. New York: Oxford University Press, pp 232-268.
* The first two authors contributed equally
# Joint senior authors