Publications

  • Bitan T. and Karni A. (2003).  Alphabetical knowledge from whole words training: effects of explicit instruction and implicit experience on learning script segmentation. Cognitive Brain Research, 16, 325-339.
  • Bitan T. and Karni A. (2004). Procedural and declarative knowledge of word recognition and letter decoding in reading an artificial script. Cognitive Brain Research, 19 (3) 229-243.
  • Karni A., Morocz I.A., Bitan T., Shaul S., Kushnir T. & Breznitz Z. (2005) An fMRI study of the differential effects of word presentation rates ("reading acceleration") on dyslexic readers' brain activity patterns. Journal of Neurolinguistics, 18(2) 197-219.
  • Bitan T., Manor D., Morocz I.A. and Karni A. (2005). Effects of alphabeticality, practice and type of instructions on reading artificial script: an fMRI study, Cognitive Brain Research, 25 (1) 90-106.
  • Bitan T., Booth J.R., Choy J.J. Burman D.D., Gitelman D. R. and Mesulam  M-M. (2005). Shifts of Effective Connectivity within a Language Network during Rhyming and Spelling. Journal of Neuroscience, 25 (22) 5397-5403.
  • Chou T., Booth J.R., Burman D., Bitan T.,Lu D., Cone N.E. and Bigio J.D, (2006). Developmental changes in the neural correlates of semantic processing. NeuroImage 29, 1141-1149.
  • Cao F. Booth J.R., Bitan T., Burman D., and Chou T.. (2006) Deficient Orthographic and phonological representations in developmental dyslexics, revealed by brain activation patterns. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry 47:10, 1041-1050.
  • Bitan T., Burman D.D., Lu D., Cone, N.E. Gitelman D. R. and Mesulam  M-M. Booth J.R., (2006). Weaker top-down modulation from the left inferior frontal gyrus in children. NeuroImage 33, 991-998.
  • Chou T., Booth J.R., Bitan T., Burman D., Bigio J.D. Cone N.E., Lu D., and Cao F. (2006) Developmental and skill effects on the neural correlates of semantic processing to visually presented words. Human Brain Mapping , 27 (11) 915-924.
  • Booth, J.R., Bebko, G., Burman, D.D.. and Bitan T. (2007). Children with reading disorder show modality independent brain abnormalities during semantic tasks. Neuropsychologia, 45, 775-783.
  • Booth, J.R., Wood L., Lu D., Houk J.C. and Bitan T. The role of the basal ganglia and cerebellum in language processing (2007). Brain Research, 1133, 136-144.
  • Booth J.R., Cho S., Burman D.D. and Bitan T. (2007). Neural correlates of mapping from phonology to orthography in children performing an auditory spelling task. Developmental Science, 10 (4): 441-51.
  • Bitan T., Cheon J., Lu, D., Burman, D.D., Gitelman, D.R. Mesulam M.M., and Booth J.R.. (2007). Developmental changes in activation and connectivity in phonological processing NeuroImage 38, 564-575.
  • Bitan T., Booth J.R., Burman D., Chou T., Lu D., Cone, N.E. Cao, F. and Bigio J.D. (2007). The interaction between orthographic and phonological information in children: an fMRI study. Human Brain Mapping, 28 (9), 880-892.
  • Booth, J.R.  Mehdiratta, N., Burman D.D. and Bitan T. Developmental increases in effective connectivity to brain regions involved in phonological processing during tasks with orthographic demands (2008). Brain research, 1189, 78-89.
  • Burman, D.D. Bitan T. and Booth J.R. (2008) Sex differences in neural processing of language among children. Neuropsychologia, Vol 46/5 p 1349-1362.
  • Cone, N. E. Burman, D.D. Bitan T. and Booth J.R. (2008) Neural correlates of the interaction of phonological and orthographic processing in children during an auditory rhyme decision task. NeuroImage, 41, 623-35.
  • Cao, F., Bitan, T., Booth, J.R., (2008) Effective brain connectivity in children with reading difficulties during phonological processing. Brain and Language, 107, 91-101.
  • Bitan, T., Cheon, J., Lu, D., Burman, D.D., and Booth, J.R. (2009) Developmental increase in top-down and bottom-up processing in a phonological task: An effective connectivity, fMRI study. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience 21, 6, 1-11.
  • Bitan, T., Lifshits A., Breznitz Z., and Booth, J.R. (2010) Bidirectional connectivity between hemispheres occur at multiple levels in language processing, but depends on sex. Journal of Neuroscience, 30(35):11576 –11585.
  • Desroches, A.S., Cone, N.E., Bolger, D.J., Bitan, T., Burman, D.D., & Booth, J.R. (2010). Children with reading difficulties show differences in brain regions associated with orthographic processing during spoken language processing. Brain Research 1356, 73-84.
  • Cao, F., Khalid, K., Zaveri, R., Bolger, D. J., Bitan, T., & Booth, J. R. (2010). Neural correlates of priming effects in children during spoken word processing with orthographic demands. Brain and Language, 114(2), 80-89.
  • Liu L., Vira,A., Friedman, E.B., Minus, J. Bolger, D.J. Bitan, T. Booth, J.R. (in press). Children with reading disability show brain differences in effective connectivity for reading, but not listening comprehension. PLoS One .
  • Bitan T. and Booth J.R. (in press) Offline improvement in learning to read a novel orthography depends on direct letter instruction. Cognitive Science.
  • Sadeh, T., Maril, A.  Bitan, T. and Goshen-Gottstein, Y. (in press). Putting Humpty Together and Pulling Him Apart:  Accessing and Unbinding the Hippocampal Item-Context Engram. NeuroImage.