We selected some relevant and recent publications by publication year to provide you with additional research and information about how and what we study as well as the results achieved.
Dr. Kovelman has a significant body of research which can be found on the links below:
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Ioulia-Kovelman
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=TaGk6skAAAAJ&hl=en
2023
Pasquinelli, R. Karas, Z., Hu, X., Kovelman, I. & Tessier, A-M. (2023). The development of left hemisphere lateralization for sentence-level prosodic processing. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research. https://doi.org/10.1044/2022_JSLHR-22-00103
Sun, X., Marks, R., Eggleston, R., Zhang K., Yu, C.L., Nickerson, N., Caruso, V., Chou., T., Hu., X., Tardif, T., Booth, J.R., Beltz, A.M., & Kovelman, I. (in press). Bilingual proficiency enhances neural network density: Sources of heterogeneity in children’s functional connectivity during English word processing. Neurobiology of Language https://doi.org/10.1162/nol_a_00092
Kepinska, O., Caballero, J., Oliver, M., Marks, R., Haft, S., Zekelman, L., Kovelman, I., Uchikoshi, Y, Hoeft, F. (2023). Language combinations of multilinguals are reflected in their first-language knowledge and processing. Scientific Reports. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-27952-2
Sun, X., Marks, R., Eggleston, R, Zhang, K., Lau, C., Yu, C.L., Nickerson, N., Kovelman, I. (2023). Impacts of the COVID-19 disruption on the language and literacy development of monolingual and heritage bilingual children in the United States. Reading and Writing. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11145-022-10388-x. Data associated with the manuscript are freely available at this link.
2022
Marks, R., Labotka, D., Sun, X., Nickerson, N., Zhang, K., Eggleston, R., Yu, C., Uchikoshi, Y., Hoeft, F., & Kovelman, I. (2022). Morphological awareness contributes to early literacy in linguistically-diverse learners. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1366728922000517
Islam, M.N. Zhai, T., Dobre, A., Meah, C.N., Kovelman, I., Broglio, S., Beard, D., Hu, X., Joseph, J.R., Saadeh, Y.S., Russo, R., Alam, Hasan. (2022). Non-invasive Monitoring of Metabolism and Hemodynamics using Super-Continuum Infrared Spectroscopy of Cytochrome-C-Oxidase (SCISCCO). Applied Sciences. https://doi.org/10.3390/app121910122
Marks., R., Sun, X., López, E.M., Nickerson, N., Caruso, V., Hernandez, I., Satterfield, T., Kovelman, I. (2022). Cross-linguistic transfer of morphological awareness and reading skill in Spanish-English bilingual children. International Journal of Bilingualism and Bilingual Education. https://doi.org/10.1080/13670050.2022.2090226
Sun, X., Zhang, K., Marks, R., Nickerson, N., Eggleston, R., Yu, C.-L., Chou, T.L, Tardif, T. & Kovelman I. (2022). What’s in a Word? Impact of bilingual acquisition on children’s quality of semantic and phonological representations for learning to read in English. Child Development. https://doi.org/10.1111/cdev.13666
Sun, X., Zhang, K., Marks, R., Karas, Z., Eggleston, R., Nickerson, N., Yu, C.-L., Wagley, N., Hu, X., Caruso, V., Chou, T.-L., Satterfield, T., Tardif, T., Kovelman I. (2022). Morphological and phonological processing in English monolingual, Chinese-English bilingual, and Spanish-English bilingual children: An fNIRS neuroimaging dataset. Data in Brief. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dib.2022.108048
The dataset can be accessed at: https://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/data/concern/data_sets/6969z110z?locale=en
Sun, X., Marks, R., Zhang, K., Yu, C.L., Eggleston, R., Nickerson, N., Chou, T.L., Hu, X.S., Tardif, T., Satterfield, T., & Kovelman, I. (2022). Brain bases of English morphological processing: A comparison between Chinese-English, Spanish-English bilingual, and English monolingual children. Developmental Science. https://doi.org/10.1111/desc.13251
Arredondo, M., Kovelman, I., Stojanov, L., Satterfield, T., Beltz, A. (2022). Person-specific connectivity mapping uncovers differences in bilingual language experience on brain bases of attention in children. Brain & Language, 227 (2022), 105084, 10.1016/j.bandl.2022.105084
Wagley, N, Marks, R.A., Bedore, L., & Kovelman I. (2022). Contributions of bilingual home environment and language proficiency to children’s Spanish-English reading outcomes. Child Development. https://doi.org/10.1111/cdev.13748
2021
Sun, X., Zhang, K., Marks, R., Nickerson, N., Eggleston, R., Yu, C.-L., Chou, T.L, Tardif, T. & Kovelman I. (2021). What’s in a Word? Impact of bilingual acquisition on children’s quality of semantic and phonological representations for learning to read in English. Child Development. https://doi.org/10.1111/cdev.13666
Marks, R. A., Eggleston, R., Sun, X., Yu, C.-L., Zhang, K., Nickerson, N., Hu, X., & Kovelman, I. (2021). The neurocognitive basis of morphological processing in typical and impaired reader. Annals of Dyslexia. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11881-021-00239-9
Marks, R., Labotka, D., Sun, X., Nickerson, N., Zhang, K., Eggleston, R., Yu, C., Uchikoshi, Y., Hoeft, F., & Kovelman, I. (under review). Morphological awareness contributes to early literacy in linguistically-diverse learners. Preprint available at: https://psyarxiv.com/xpycj/
Yu, C.L., Kovelman, I., Wellman, H. (2021). How bilingualism informs theory of mind development. Child Development Perspectives. https://doi.org/10.1111/cdep.12412
Enders, M., Hu, X., Karas, Z., Kovelman, I., Weimer, W. (2021). Relating reading, visualization, and coding for new programmers: a neuroimaging study. Proceedings of the 43rd International Conference on Software Engineering. arXiv:2102.12376
Li, H., Kepinska, O., Marks, R., Uchikoshi, Y. Kovelman, I., & Hoeft, F. (2021). Decoding the role of the cerebellum in the early stages of reading acquisition. Cortex. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cortex.2021.02.033
San Juan, J. D., Zhai, T., Ash-Rafzadeh, A., Hu, X. S., Kim, J., Filipak, C., Guo, K., Islam, M. N., Kovelman, I., & Basura, G. J. (2021). Tinnitus and auditory cortex: using adapted functional near-infrared spectroscopy to measure resting-state functional connectivity. Neuroreport, 32(1), 66–75. https://doi.org/10.1097/WNR.0000000000001561
Memmini, A. K., Sun, X., Hu, X., Kim, J., Herzog, N.K., Islam, M.N., Weissman, D.H., Rogers, A.J., Kovelman, I., Broglio, S.P. (2021). Persistent alterations of cortical hemodynamic response in asymptomatic concussed patients. Concussion. https://doi.org/10.2217/cnc-2020-0014
Zhai, T., Ash‐Rafzadeh, A., Hu, X., Kim, J., San Juan, J., Filipiak, C., Guo, K., Islam, M.N., Kovelman, I., Basura, G.J. (2021). Tinnitus and auditory cortex; Using adapted functional near‐infrared‐spectroscopy to expand brain imaging in humans. Laryngoscope Investigative Otolaryngology. https://doi.org/10.1002/lio2.510
2020
Wagley, N., Lajiness-O’Neill, R., Hay, J., Ugolini, M., Bowyer, S. M., Kovelman, I., & Brennan, J. R. (2020). Predictive Processing during a naturalistic statistical learning task in ASD. eNeuro, 7(6), ENEURO.0069-19.2020. https://doi.org/10.1523/ENEURO.0069-19.2020
Hu, X., Wagley, N., Tsutsumi Rioboo, A., DaSilva, A. F., Kovelman, I. Photogrammetry-based stereoscopic optode registration method for functional near-infrared spectroscopy. J. Biomed. Opt. 25(9), 095001 (2020), https://doi.org/10.1117/1.JBO.25.9.095001
Memmini, A. K., Sun, X., Hu, X., Kim, J., Herzog, N.K., Islam, M.N., Weissman, D.H., Rogers, A.J., Kovelman, I., Broglio, S.P. (2020). Persistent alterations of cortical hemodynamic response in asymptomatic concussed patients. Concussion. https://doi.org/10.2217/cnc-2020-0014
Zhai, T., Ash‐Rafzadeh, A., Hu, X., Kim, J., San Juan, J., Filipiak, C., Guo, K., Islam, M.N., Kovelman, I., Basura, G.J. (2020). Tinnitus and auditory cortex; Using adapted functional near‐infrared‐spectroscopy to expand brain imaging in humans. Laryngoscope Investigative Otolaryngology. https://doi.org/10.1002/lio2.510
San Juan, J. D., Zhai, T., Ash-Rafzadeh, A., Hu, X. S., Kim, J., Filipak, C., Guo, K., Islam, M. N., Kovelman, I., & Basura, G. J. (2021). Tinnitus and auditory cortex: using adapted functional near-infrared spectroscopy to measure resting-state functional connectivity. Neuroreport, 32(1), 66–75. https://doi.org/10.1097/WNR.0000000000001561
Safyer, P., Volling, B.L., Wagley, N., Hu, X., Swain, J. Arredondo, M., & Kovelman, I. (2020). More than meets the eye: the Neural development of emotion face processing during Infancy. Infant Behavior & Development, 59, 101430. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.infbeh.2020.101430
Islam, M., Guo, K., Zhai, T., Meah, M., Hu, X., Memmini, A.K., Beard, D., Martinez, R., Meah, S., Kovelman, I., Weissman, D., Hu, X., Kim, J., Broglio, S., Beard, D., Van Den Bergh, F., Alam, H., Russo, R. (in press). Brain metabolism monitoring through CCO measurements using all-fiber-integrated super-continuum source. BIOS/Photonics West Conference Proceedings Journal. https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2550137
2019
Wagley, N., Perrachione, T., Ostrovskaya, I., Ghosh, S., Saxler, P., Lymberis, J., Wexler, K., & Gabrieli, J. D. E., Kovelman, I. (2019). Persistent neurobehavioral markers of developmental morphosyntax errors in adults: An fMRI study of the Optional Infinitive. Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research, 62 (12), 4497-4508. https://doi.org/10.1044/2019_JSLHR-19-00154
Ip, K., Marks, R. A., Hsu, S., Desai, N. Kuan, J. L., Tardif T., & Kovelman, I. (2019). Morphological processing in Chinese engages left temporal regions. Brain & Language. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bandl.2019.104696
Marks, R.A., Kovelman, I., Kepinska, O., Oliver, M., Xia, Z., Haft, S.L., Zekelman, L., Duong, P., Uchikoshi, Y., Hancock, R., & Hoeft, F. (2019). Spoken language proficiency predicts print-speech convergence in beginning readers. NeuroImage. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2019.116021
Arredondo, M., Tsutsumi Rioboo, A., Hu, X., Gelman, S., Satterfield T., & Kovelman, I. (2019). Bilingual effects on lexical selection: A neurodevelopmental perspective. Brain & Language. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bandl.2019.104640
Hsu, S., Ip, K., Arredondo, M. M., & Tardif, T., & Kovelman, I. (2019). Simultaneous acquisition of English and Chinese impacts children’s reliance on vocabulary, morphological and phonological awareness for reading in English. International Journal of Bilingual Education & Bilingualism. doi: 10.1080/13670050.2016.1246515
Kremin, L., Arredondo, M. M., Hsu, S., Satterfield, T., & Kovelman, I. (2019). The effects of Spanish heritage language literacy on English reading for Spanish-English bilingual children in the U.S. International Journal of Bilingual Education & Bilingualism. 22(2), 192-206. doi: 10.1080/13670050.2016.1239692
Arredondo, M., Hu, X., Seifert, E., Satterfield T., & Kovelman, I. (2019). Bilingual exposure enhances left IFG specialization for language in children. Bilingualism: Language, & Cognition. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1366728918000512
Brennan, J. R., Lajiness-O’Neill, Bowyer, S. M., Kovelman, I., & Hale J. T. (2019). Predictive sentence comprehension during story-listening in Autism Spectrum Disorder. Language, Cognition & Neuroscience. https://doi.org/10.1080/23273798.2018.1560483
Kovelman, I. & Marks, R. (2019). Tracking qualitative changes in cognition and brain development through bilingualism. Journal of Neurolinguistics. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jneuroling.2018.06.002
2018
Ellis, A., Hu, X. S., Smith, C., Davis-Kean, P. E., & Kovelman, I. (2018). Sharing as a Model for Understanding Division. NeuroReport. 29(11):889-893. doi: 10.1097/WNR.0000000000001050
Basura, G. Juan, S. J., Hu, X. S., Tessier, A.-M., & Kovelman, I. (2018). Human central auditory plasticity: a Review of functional Near-Infrared Spectroscopy (fNIRS) to measure Cochlear Implant performance and tinnitus perception. Laryngoscope Investigative Otolaryngology. 3(6), 463-472. https://doi.org/10.1002/lio2.185
Hu, X. S., Racek, A., Nascimento, T. D., Bender, M. C., Bellile E., Toback, R. L., Mcmahan, R., Ellwood, R. P., Kovelman, I., DaSilva, A. F. (2018). Brain functional changes before, during and after clinical pain. Journal of Dental Research. doi: 10.1177/0022034517750136
2017
Jasinska, K. K., Berens, M. S., Kovelman, I., & Petitto L. A. (2017). Bilingualism yields language-specific plasticity in left hemisphere’s circuitry for learning to read in young children. Neuropsychologia, 98, 34-45. doi:10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2016.11.018
Perrachione, T., Gosh, S., Ostrovskaya, I., Gabrieli, J. D. E., & Kovelman, I. (2017). Phonological Working Memory for Words and Nonwords in Cerebral Cortex. Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research. doi:10.1044/2017_JSLHR-L-15-0446
Arredondo, M. M., Hu, X., Satterfield, T., & Kovelman, I. (2017). Bilingualism alters children’s frontal lobe functioning for attentional control. Developmental Science. doi:10.1111/desc.12377
Lajiness-O’Neill, R., Brennan, J. R., Moran, J. E., Richard, A. E., Flores, A.-M., Swick, C., Goodcase, R., Andersen, T., McFarlane, K., Rusiniak, K., Kovelman, I., Wagley, N., Ugolini, M., Albright, J. and Bowyer, S. M., (2017). Patterns of altered neural synchrony in the default mode network in Autism Spectrum Disorder revealed with Magnetoencephalography (MEG): Relationship to clinical symptomatology. Autism Research , doi:10.1002/aur.1908
Juan, S. J., Hu, X. S., Issa, M., Bisconti, S., Kovelman, I., Kileny, P., & Basura, G. (2017). Tinnitus alters resting state functional connectivity (RSFC) in human auditory and non-auditory brain regions as measured by functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS). PLOS one. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0179150
Brennan, J., Wagley, N., Kovelman, I., Bowyer, S., & Lajiness-O’Neill, R. (2017). MEG reveals atypical sensitivity to linguistic sound sequences in Autism Spectrum Disorder. NeuroReport, 27(13), 982-6. doi: 10.1097/WNR.0000000000000643
2016
Hsu, S., Ip, K., Arredondo, M. M., & Tardif, T., & Kovelman, I. (2016). Simultaneous acquisition of English and Chinese impacts children’s reliance on vocabulary, morphological and phonological awareness for reading in English. International Journal of Bilingual Education & Bilingualism. doi:10.1080/13670050.2016.1246515
Kremin, L., Arredondo, M. M., Hsu, S., Satterfield, T., & Kovelman, I. (2016). The effects of Spanish heritage language literacy on English reading for Spanish-English bilingual children in the U.S. International Journal of Bilingual Education & Bilingualism. doi:10.1080/13670050.2016.1239692
Ip, K., Hsu, S., Arredondo, M. M., Tardif T., & Kovelman, I. (2016). Brain bases of morphological processing in Chinese-English bilingual children. Developmental Science. doi: 10.1111/desc.12449
Ugolini, M., Wagley, N., Ip, K., Hsu, L. S., Arredondo, M. M., & Kovelman, I. (2016). In young readers, the left hemisphere supports the link between temporal processing and phonological awareness. Speech, Language & Hearing, 19(1), 17-26. doi:10.1080/2050571X.2015.1101894
Bisconti, S., Shulkin, M., Hu, X., Basura, G., Kileny, P., & Kovelman, I. (2016). Functional near-infrared spectroscopy brain imaging investigation of phonological awareness and passage comprehension abilities in adult recipients of cochlear implants. Journal of Speech Language & Hearing Research, 59(2), 239-253. doi:10.1044/2015_JSLHR-L-14-0278
Kovelman, I., Bisconti, S., & Hoeft, F. (2016). Literacy and dyslexia revealed through bilingual brain development. Newsletter for the International Dyslexia Association. http://eida.org/literacy-dyslexia-revealed-through-bilingual-brain-development/
Issa, M., Bisconti, S., Kovelman, I., Kileny, P., & Basura, G. J. (2016). Human auditory and adjacent nonauditory cerebral cortices are hypermetabolic in tinnitus as measured by functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS). Neural Plasticity, 7453149. doi: 10.1155/2016/7453149
2015
Hu, H., Arredondo, M. M., Confer, N., Gomba, M., DaSilva, A., Johnson, T., Shalinsky, M. H., & Kovelman, I. (2015). Comparison of motion correction techniques applied to functional Near-Infrared Spectroscopy data from children. Journal of Biomedical Optics, 20(12), 126003-126003. doi:10.1117/1.JBO.20.12.126003
Arredondo, M. M., Ip. K., Hsu, S., Tardif T., & Kovelman, I. (2015). Brain bases of morphological processing in young children. Human Brain Mapping, 36(8), 2890-2900. doi:10.1002/hbm.22815
Kovelman, I., Salah-Ud-Din, M., Berens, M., & Petitto, L. A. (2015). “One glove does not fit all” in bilingual reading acquisition: Using the age of first bilingual language exposure to understand optimal contexts for reading success. Cogent Education, 2(1),1006504. doi:10.1080/2331186X.2015.1006504
Kovelman, I., Wagley, N., Hay, J. S. F., Ugolini, M., Bowyer, S., Lajiness-O’Neill, R., & Brennan J. (2015). Multimodal imaging of temporal processing in typical and atypical language development. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1337, 7–15. doi:10.1111/nyas.12688
Bowman, L., Kovelman, I., Hu, X., & Wellman, H. (2015). Children’s belief- and desire-reasoning in the temporoparietal junction: Evidence for specialization from functional Near Infrared Spectroscopy. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 9, 560. doi: 10.3389/fnhum.2015.00560
Murata, A., Park, J., Kovelman, I., Hu, X., & Kitayama, S. (2015). Culturally non-preferred cognitive tasks require compensatory attention: A functional Near Infrared Spectroscopy (fNIRS) investigation. Culture & Brain, 3(1), 53-67. doi: 10.1007/s40167-015-0027-y
2011-2014
Kovelman, I., Shalinsky, M. H., Berens, M. S., & Petitto, L. (2014). Words in the bilingual brain: an fNIRS brain imaging investigation of lexical processing in sign-speech bimodal bilinguals. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 8, 606. doi:10.3389/fnhum.2014.00606
Berens, M. S., Kovelman, I., & Petitto, L. A. (2013). Should Bilingual Children Learn Reading in Two Languages at the Same Time or in Sequence? Bilingual Research Journal, 36(1), 35-60.
doi:10.1080/15235882.2013.779618
Kovelman, I., Mascho, K., Millott, L., Mastic, A., Moiseff, B., & Shalinsky, M. H. (2012). At the rhythm of language: Brain bases of language-related frequency perception in children. NeuroImage, 60(1), 673-682. doi:10.1016/j.neuroimage.2011.12.066
Kovelman, I., Norton E. S., Christodoulou J. A., Gaab, N., Lieberman, D. A., Triantafyllou, C., Wolf, M., Witfield-Gabrieli, S., & Gabrieli J. D. E. (2012). Brain Basis of Phonological Awareness for Spoken Language in Children and Its Disruption in Dyslexia. Cerebral Cortex, 22(4), 754-764. doi:10.1093/cercor/bhr094
Kovelman, I., Christodoulou, J. A., & Gabrieli, J. D. E. (2012). Dyslexia: The brain bases of reading impairments. (M. Faust, Ed.), The Handbook of the Neuropsychology of Language. New York: Blackwell Wiley. doi: 10.1002/9781118432501.ch42
Kovelman, I. (2012). Neuroimaging methods. (E. Hoff, Ed.), Research methods in child language: A practical guide. New York: Blackwell Wiley. doi: 10.1002/9781444344035.ch4
Petitto, L. A., Berens, M. S., Kovelman, I., Dubins, M.,Jasinska, K., & Shalinsky, M. H. (2012). The “Perceptual Wedge Hypothesis” as the basis for bilingual babies’ phonetic processing advantage: New insights from fNIRS brain imaging. Brain & Language, 121(2), 130-143. doi: 10.1016/j.bandl.2011.05.003
Kovelman, I., Yip, J. C., & Beck E. L. (2011). Cortical systems that process language, as revealed by non-native speech sound perception. NeuroReport, 22(18), 947-950.
doi: 10.1097/WNR.0b013e32834cdc26
2010 and earlier
Ghosh, S. S., Kakunoori, S., Augustinack, J., Nieto-Castanon, A., Kovelman, I., Gaab, N., Christodoulou, J. A., Triantafyllou, C., Gabrieli, J. D. E., & Fischl, B. (2010). Evaluating the validity of volume-based and surface-based brain image registration for developmental cognitive neuroscience studies in children 4 to 11 years of age. NeuroImage, 53(1), 85-93. doi: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2010.05.075
Shalinsky, M. H., Kovelman, I., Berens, M. S., & Petitto L. A. (2009). Exploring Cognitive Functions in Babies, Children & Adults with Near Infrared Spectroscopy. Journal of Visualized Experiments, pii: 1268. doi: 10.3791/1268
Kovelman, I., Shalinsky, M. H., White, K., Schmitt, S., Berens, M. S., Paymer, L., & Petitto, L. A. (2009). Dual language use in sign-speech bimodal bilinguals: fNIRS brain-imaging evidence. Brain & Language, 109(2-3), 112-123. doi:10.1016/j.bandl.2008.09.008
Kovelman, I., Shalinsky, M. S., Berens, M. S., & Petitto, L. A. (2008). Shining new light on the brain’s “Bilingual Signature”: A functional Near Infrared Spectroscopy investigation of semantic processing. NeuroImage, 39(3), 1457-1471. doi: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2007.10.017
Kovelman, I., Baker, S. A., & Petitto, L. A. (2008). BBilingual and Monolingual Brains Compared: A Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Investigation of Syntactic Processing and a Possible “Neural Signature” of Bilingualism. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 20(1), 153-169. doi:10.1162/jocn.2008.20011
Kovelman, I., Baker, S. A., & Petitto, L. A. (2008). Age of first bilingual language exposure as a new window into bilingual reading development. Bilingualism: Language & Cognition, 11(2), 203–223. doi:10.1017/S1366728908003386
Norton, E. S., Kovelman, I., & Petitto, L. A. (2007). Are There Separate Neural Systems for Spelling? New Insights into the Role of Rules and Memory in Spelling from Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging. Mind, Brain, and Education, 1(1), 48-59. doi:10.1111/j.1751-228X.2007.00005.x
Petitto, L. A., & Kovelman, I. (2003). The Bilingual Paradox: How signing-speaking bilingual children help us resolve bilingual issues and teach us about the brain’s mechanisms underlying all language acquisition. Learning Languages, 8(3), 5-18. Translation into French (2004). Le paradoxe du bilinguisme, Double langue maternelle. Revue Imaginaire et Inconscient, 14. View here