Publications
Bitan, T., Weiss, Y., Katzir, T. and Truzman T. (2020) . Morphological decomposition compensates for imperfections in phonological decoding. Neural evidence from typical and dyslexic readers of an opaque orthography. Cortex 130, 172-191.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cortex.2020.05.014
Ben-Zion D., Nevat, M., Prior, A. and Bitan, T. (2019). Prior knowledge predicts consolidation time in second language learning. Frontiers in Psychology, 10(2312). https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.02312
Simic T., Bitan T., Turner G., Chambers C., Leonard C., Rochon E. (2019). The role of executive control in post-stroke aphasia treatment. Neurospychological Rehabilitation, 1-40.
Chu, R. Meltzer J. and Bitan, T. (2018). Interhemispheric interactions during sentence comprehension in patients with aphasia. Cortex, 109, 74-91. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cortex.2018.08.022
Nevat, M., Ullman, M.T., Eviatar, Z., and Bitan, T. (2018). The role of distributional factors in learning and generalizing affixal inflection: An artificial language study. Language, Cognition and Neuroscience, 1-21. doi: 10.1080/23273798.2018.1465187
Marcotte, K., Laird, L., Bitan, T., Meltzer, J.A., Graham, S.J., Leonard, C. & Rochon, E. (2018). Therapy-induced neuroplasticity in chronic aphasia after phonological component analysis: A matter of intensity. Frontiers in Neurology, section "Stroke". https://doi.org/10.3389/fneur.2018.00225
Bitan, T., Simic, T., Saverino, T., Jones, C., Glazer, J., Collela, B., Wiseman-Hakes, C., Green, R. and Rochon, E. (2018). Changes in resting state connectivity following melody-based therapy in a patient with aphasia. Neural Plasticity, (Vol. 2018), Article ID 6214095, 13 pages. https://doi.org/10.1155/2018/6214095
Haddad, L., Katzir, T., Weiss, Y. and Bitan, T. (2018). Orthographic transparency enhances morphological segmentation in children reading Hebrew words. Frontiers in Psychology 8(2369). https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2017.02369
Aduan-Mansour, J. and Bitan, T. (2017) The effect of stimulus variability on learning and generalization of reading in a novel script. Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research. https://doi.org/10.1044/2017_JSLHR-L-16-0293
Bitan, T. Kaftory, A., Leib, A., Eviatar, Z. and Peleg, O. (2017). Phonological ambiguity modulates resolution of semantic ambiguity during reading: An fMRI study Neuropsychology 31(7), 759-777. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/neu0000357
Nevat, M., Ullman, M., Eviatar, Z. and Bitan, T. (2017). The neural bases of the learning and generalization of morphological inflection . Neuropsychologia 98, 139-155. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2016.08.026
Weiss, Y. Katzir, T. and Bitan, T. (2016) When transparency is opaque: Effects of diacritic marks and vowel letters on dyslexic Hebrew readers. Cortex 83, 145-159. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cortex.2016.07.017
Karawani, H., Bitan, T., Attias, J., & Banai, K. (2016). Auditory perceptual learning in adults with and without age-related hearing loss. Frontiers in Psychology, 6. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2015.02066
Dronjic V. and Bitan T. (2016). Reading Brain and Cognition. In: X. Chen, V. Dronjic and R. Helms-Park (Eds.). Reading in a second language: Cognitive and psycholinguistic issues. Routledge.
Weiss, Y. Katzir, T. and Bitan, T. (2015). Many ways to read your vowels - neural processing of diacritics and vowel letters in Hebrew. NeuroImage 121, 10-19
Weiss, Y., Katzir, T. and Bitan, T. (2015). The effects of orthographic transparency and familiarity on reading Hebrew words in adults with and without dyslexia. Annals of Dyslexia, 65(2), 84-102.
Bitan, T. and Booth, J.R. (2012). Offline improvement in learning to read a novel orthography depends on direct letter instruction. Cognitive Science, 36(5), 896-918.
Sadeh, T., Maril, A., Bitan, T. and Goshen-Gottstein, Y. (2012). Putting Humpty Together and Pulling Him Apart: Accessing and Unbinding the Hippocampal Item-Context Engram. NeuroImage, 60, 808-817. (selected by the Member of the Faculty of 1000 (F1000), as one of the top 2% of published articles in biology and medicine. http://f1000.com)
Liu, L., Vira, A., Friedman, E.B., Minus, J., Bolger, D.J., Bitan, T. and Booth, J.R. (2010). Children with reading disability show brain differences in effective connectivity for reading, but not listening comprehension. PLoS One, 5(10), e13492. 1-11.
Cao, F., Khalid, K., Zaveri, R., Bolger, D. J., Bitan, T., and 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.
Desroches, A.S., Cone, N.E., Bolger, D.J., Bitan, T., Burman, D.D., and 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.
Bitan, T., Lifshitz, 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
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.
Cao, F., Bitan, T. and Booth, J.R. (2008). Effective brain connectivity in children with reading difficulties during phonological processing. Brain and Language, 107, 91-101.
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, 623-635.
Burman, D.D., Bitan T. and Booth J.R. (2008). Sex differences in neural processing of language among children. Neuropsychologia, 46(5), 1349-1362.
Booth, J.R., Mehdiratta, N., Burman D.D. and Bitan, T. (2008). Developmental increases in effective connectivity to brain regions involved in phonological processing during tasks with orthographic demands. Brain research, 1189, 78-89.
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., Burman, D.D., Chou, T., Lu, D., Cone, N.E., Cao, F., Bigio J.D. and Booth J.R., (2007). The interaction between orthographic and phonological information in children: an fMRI study. Human Brain Mapping, 28 (9), 880-892.
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.
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., 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.
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.
Bitan, T., Burman, D.D., Lu, D., Cone, N.E., Gitelman, D.R., Mesulam, M-M. and Booth, J.R. (2006). Weaker top-down modulation from the left inferior frontal gyrus in children. NeuroImage, 33, 991-998.
Cao, F., Booth, J.R., Bitan, T., Burman, D.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.
Chou, T., Booth, J.R., Burman, D.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.
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.
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.
Karni, A., Morocz, I.A., Bitan, T., Shaul, S., Kushnir, T. and 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. 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.
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.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cortex.2020.05.014
Ben-Zion D., Nevat, M., Prior, A. and Bitan, T. (2019). Prior knowledge predicts consolidation time in second language learning. Frontiers in Psychology, 10(2312). https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.02312
Simic T., Bitan T., Turner G., Chambers C., Leonard C., Rochon E. (2019). The role of executive control in post-stroke aphasia treatment. Neurospychological Rehabilitation, 1-40.
Chu, R. Meltzer J. and Bitan, T. (2018). Interhemispheric interactions during sentence comprehension in patients with aphasia. Cortex, 109, 74-91. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cortex.2018.08.022
Nevat, M., Ullman, M.T., Eviatar, Z., and Bitan, T. (2018). The role of distributional factors in learning and generalizing affixal inflection: An artificial language study. Language, Cognition and Neuroscience, 1-21. doi: 10.1080/23273798.2018.1465187
Marcotte, K., Laird, L., Bitan, T., Meltzer, J.A., Graham, S.J., Leonard, C. & Rochon, E. (2018). Therapy-induced neuroplasticity in chronic aphasia after phonological component analysis: A matter of intensity. Frontiers in Neurology, section "Stroke". https://doi.org/10.3389/fneur.2018.00225
Bitan, T., Simic, T., Saverino, T., Jones, C., Glazer, J., Collela, B., Wiseman-Hakes, C., Green, R. and Rochon, E. (2018). Changes in resting state connectivity following melody-based therapy in a patient with aphasia. Neural Plasticity, (Vol. 2018), Article ID 6214095, 13 pages. https://doi.org/10.1155/2018/6214095
Haddad, L., Katzir, T., Weiss, Y. and Bitan, T. (2018). Orthographic transparency enhances morphological segmentation in children reading Hebrew words. Frontiers in Psychology 8(2369). https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2017.02369
Aduan-Mansour, J. and Bitan, T. (2017) The effect of stimulus variability on learning and generalization of reading in a novel script. Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research. https://doi.org/10.1044/2017_JSLHR-L-16-0293
Bitan, T. Kaftory, A., Leib, A., Eviatar, Z. and Peleg, O. (2017). Phonological ambiguity modulates resolution of semantic ambiguity during reading: An fMRI study Neuropsychology 31(7), 759-777. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/neu0000357
Nevat, M., Ullman, M., Eviatar, Z. and Bitan, T. (2017). The neural bases of the learning and generalization of morphological inflection . Neuropsychologia 98, 139-155. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2016.08.026
Weiss, Y. Katzir, T. and Bitan, T. (2016) When transparency is opaque: Effects of diacritic marks and vowel letters on dyslexic Hebrew readers. Cortex 83, 145-159. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cortex.2016.07.017
Karawani, H., Bitan, T., Attias, J., & Banai, K. (2016). Auditory perceptual learning in adults with and without age-related hearing loss. Frontiers in Psychology, 6. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2015.02066
Dronjic V. and Bitan T. (2016). Reading Brain and Cognition. In: X. Chen, V. Dronjic and R. Helms-Park (Eds.). Reading in a second language: Cognitive and psycholinguistic issues. Routledge.
Weiss, Y. Katzir, T. and Bitan, T. (2015). Many ways to read your vowels - neural processing of diacritics and vowel letters in Hebrew. NeuroImage 121, 10-19
Weiss, Y., Katzir, T. and Bitan, T. (2015). The effects of orthographic transparency and familiarity on reading Hebrew words in adults with and without dyslexia. Annals of Dyslexia, 65(2), 84-102.
Bitan, T. and Booth, J.R. (2012). Offline improvement in learning to read a novel orthography depends on direct letter instruction. Cognitive Science, 36(5), 896-918.
Sadeh, T., Maril, A., Bitan, T. and Goshen-Gottstein, Y. (2012). Putting Humpty Together and Pulling Him Apart: Accessing and Unbinding the Hippocampal Item-Context Engram. NeuroImage, 60, 808-817. (selected by the Member of the Faculty of 1000 (F1000), as one of the top 2% of published articles in biology and medicine. http://f1000.com)
Liu, L., Vira, A., Friedman, E.B., Minus, J., Bolger, D.J., Bitan, T. and Booth, J.R. (2010). Children with reading disability show brain differences in effective connectivity for reading, but not listening comprehension. PLoS One, 5(10), e13492. 1-11.
Cao, F., Khalid, K., Zaveri, R., Bolger, D. J., Bitan, T., and 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.
Desroches, A.S., Cone, N.E., Bolger, D.J., Bitan, T., Burman, D.D., and 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.
Bitan, T., Lifshitz, 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
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.
Cao, F., Bitan, T. and Booth, J.R. (2008). Effective brain connectivity in children with reading difficulties during phonological processing. Brain and Language, 107, 91-101.
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, 623-635.
Burman, D.D., Bitan T. and Booth J.R. (2008). Sex differences in neural processing of language among children. Neuropsychologia, 46(5), 1349-1362.
Booth, J.R., Mehdiratta, N., Burman D.D. and Bitan, T. (2008). Developmental increases in effective connectivity to brain regions involved in phonological processing during tasks with orthographic demands. Brain research, 1189, 78-89.
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., Burman, D.D., Chou, T., Lu, D., Cone, N.E., Cao, F., Bigio J.D. and Booth J.R., (2007). The interaction between orthographic and phonological information in children: an fMRI study. Human Brain Mapping, 28 (9), 880-892.
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.
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., 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.
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.
Bitan, T., Burman, D.D., Lu, D., Cone, N.E., Gitelman, D.R., Mesulam, M-M. and Booth, J.R. (2006). Weaker top-down modulation from the left inferior frontal gyrus in children. NeuroImage, 33, 991-998.
Cao, F., Booth, J.R., Bitan, T., Burman, D.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.
Chou, T., Booth, J.R., Burman, D.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.
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.
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.
Karni, A., Morocz, I.A., Bitan, T., Shaul, S., Kushnir, T. and 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. 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.
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.