Peer-reviewed journal publications 

Golshani, S., Kepinska, O., Gholami, H., & Golestani, N. (2024). Neuroanatomy, episodic memory and inhibitory control of persian-kurdish simultaneous bilinguals. Scientific Reports, 14(1), 29151. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-79955-2

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 Biology7(1), 1-10. pdf
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
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