Cognitive Neuroscience of Reading and Math
Wang, K., Banich, M.T., Reineberg, A.E., Leopold, D.R., Willcutt, E.G., Cutting, L.E., Del Tufo, S.N., Thompson, L.A., Opfer, J., Kanayet, F.J., Lu, Z.L. & Petrill, S.A. (2020). Left posterior and inferior prefrontal contributions to domain-general executive processes needed for both reading and math in late adolescents. Journal of Neuropsychology, 14(3), 467-495. https://doi.org/10.1111/jnp.12201
Aboud, K., Bailey, S.K., Del Tufo, S., Barquero, L., & Cutting, L.E. (2019). Fairy Tales versus Facts: Genre matters to the developing brain. Cerebral Cortex, 29(11), 4877-4888. https://doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhz025
Del Tufo, S.N., Earle, S., & Cutting, L.E. (2019). The impact of expressive language development and the left inferior longitudinal fasciculus on listening and reading comprehension. Journal of Neurodevelopmental Disorders, 11, 37. https://doi.org/10.1186/s11689-019-9296-7
Wang, K., Reineberg, A., Leopold, D., Willcutt, E., Kanayet, F., Opfer, J., Cutting, L.E., Thompson, L., Banich, M., Del Tufo, S., Petrill, S., Lu, Z. (2019). Characterizing and decomposing the neural correlates of individual reading ability among adolescents with task-based fMRI. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 37,100647. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dcn.2019.100647
Bailey, S.K., Aboud, K.S., Nguyen, T.Q., & Cutting, L.E. (2018). Applying a network framework to the neurobiology of reading and dyslexia. Journal of Neurodevelopmental Disorders, 10:37. https://doi.org/10.1186/s11689-018-9251-z
Price, G. R., Yeo, D. J., Wilkey, E. D., & Cutting, L. E. (2018). Prospective relations between resting-state connectivity of parietal subdivisions and arithmetic competence. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dcn.2017.02.006
Smadar, P., Farris, E., Black, J., Hancock, R., Gabrieli, J., Cutting, L.E., & Hoeft, F. (2018). Brain basis of cognitive resilience: Prefrontal cortex predicts better reading comprehension in relation to decoding. PloS One, 13(6), e0198791. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0198791
Wilkey, E. D., Cutting, L. E., & Price, G. R. (2017). Neuroanatomical correlates of performance in a state-wide test of math achievement. Developmental Science, 21 (2), DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/desc.12545
Aboud, K., Bailey, S., Petrill, S., & Cutting, L.E. (2016). Comprehending text versus reading words in young readers with varying reading ability: Distinct patterns of functional connectivity from common processing hubs. Developmental Science. 19(4), 632-656. https://doi.org/10.1111/desc.12422
Price, G.R., Wilkey, E.D., Yeo, D.J., & Cutting, L.E. (2016). The Relation between 1st Grade Grey Matter Volume and 2nd Grade Math Competence. Neuroimage, 124, 232-7. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2015.08.046
Fan, Q., Anderson, A., Davis, N., & Cutting, L.E. (2014). Structural connectivity patterns associated with the putative visual word form area and children׳s reading ability. Brain Research, 1586, 118-29. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.brainres.2014.08.050
Fan, Q., Davis, N., Anderson, A., & Cutting, L.E. (2014). Thalamo-Cortical Connectivity: What Can Diffusion Tractography Tell Us about Reading Difficulties in Children? Brain Connectivity, 4(6), 428-439. https://doi.org/10.1089/brain.2013.0203
Barquero, L.A., Davis, N., & Cutting, L.E. (2014). Neuroimaging of Reading Intervention: A Systematic Review and Activation Likelihood Estimate Meta-Analysis. PLOS ONE, 9(1), DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0083668.
Swett, K., Miller, A.C., Burns, S., Hoeft, F., Davis, N., Petrill, S.A., Cutting, L.E. (2013). Comprehending expository texts: The dynamic neurobiological correlates of building a coherent text representation. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 1-14. PMCID: PMC3860184. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2013.00853
Cutting, L.E., Clements-Stephens, A., Pugh, K.R., Burns, S., Cao, A., Pekar, J., Davis, N., & Rimrodt, S.L. (2013). Not All Reading Disabilities are Dyslexia: Distinct Neurobiology of Specific Comprehension Deficits. Brain Connectivity, 3, 199-213. https://doi.org/10.1089/brain.2012.0116
Cutting, L.E., Clements, A.M., Courtney, S., Rimrodt, S., Schafer, J., Bisesi, J., Pekar, J.J., & Pugh, K.R. (2006). Differential components of sentence comprehension: Beyond single word reading and memory. Neuroimage, 29(2), 429-38. DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2005.07.057.
Reading Comprehension and Development
Nguyen, T., Del Tufo, S.N., & Cutting, L.E. (2020). Readers recruit executive functions to self-correct miscues during oral reading fluency. Scientific Studies of Reading, 24, 6. 462-483. https://doi.org/10.1080/10888438.2020.1720025
Nguyen, T., Del Tufo, S.N., Saha, N., Pickren, S. & Cutting, L.E. (2020). Executive functions and components of oral reading fluency through the lens of text complexity. Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 33, 1037–1073. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11145-020-10020-w
Spencer, M., Richmond, M., & Cutting, L.E. (2020). Considering the role of executive function in reading comprehension: A structural equation modeling approach. Scientific Studies of Reading, 24, 3, 179-199. https://doi.org/10.1080/10888438.2019.1643868
Wu, Y., Barquero, L.A., Pickren, S., Taboada-Barber, A.M., & Cutting, L.E. (2020). The relation between cognitive skills and reading comprehension of narrative and expository texts: A longitudinal study from Grade 1 to Grade 4. Learning and Individual Differences, 80. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lindif.2020.101848
Spencer, M. & Cutting, L.E. (2020) Relations among executive function, decoding, and reading comprehension: An investigation of sex differences. Discourse Processes. https://doi.org/10.1080/0163853X.2020.1734416
Haft, S., Caballero, J.N., Tanaka, H., Zekelman, L., Cutting, L.E., Uchikoshi, Y., Hoeft, F. (2019). Direct and indirect contributions of executive function to word decoding and reading comprehension in kindergarten. Learning and Individual Differences, 76. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lindif.2019.101783
Spencer, M., Sefcik, A., Gilmore, A., Miller, A., Saha, N. & Cutting, L.E. (2019). Understanding the influence of text complexity and question type on reading outcomes. Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 32, 603-637. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11145-018-9883-0
Landi, N. & Cutting, L. E. (2017). Global Approaches to Early Learning Research and Practice: Integrative Commentary. New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, 2017 (158), 105-114. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/cad.20223
Miller, A.C., Davis, N., Gilbert, J.K., Cho, S.J., Toste, J.R., Street, J., & Cutting, L.E. (2014). Novel approaches to examine passage, student, and question effects on reading comprehension. Learning Disabilities Research and Practice, 29(1), 25-36. https://doi.org/10.1111/ldrp.12027
Eason, S. H., Goldberg, L. F., Young, K. M., Geist, M. C., Cutting, L. E. (2012). Reader-text interactions: How differential text and question types influence cognitive skills needed for reading comprehension. Journal of Educational Psychology, 104(3), 515-528. https://dx.doi.org/10.1037%2Fa0027182
Cutting L.E., Scarborough H.S. (2006). Prediction of Reading Comprehension: Relative Contributions of Word Recognition, Language Proficiency, and Other Cognitive Skills Can Depend on How Comprehension Is Measured. Scientific Studies of Reading, 10(3), 277-299. https://doi.org/10.1207/s1532799xssr1003_5
Dyslexia and Reading Intervention
Saha, N., Del Tufo, S., Bailey, S. & Cutting, L.E. (2020). Initial validation of a measure of decoding difficulty as a unique predictor of miscues and passage reading fluency. Reading & Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11145-020-10073-x
Saha, N. & Cutting, L.E. (2019). Exploring the use of network meta-analysis in education: Examining the correlation between ORF and text complexity measures. Annals of Dyslexia, 69, 335-354. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11881-019-00180-y
Aboud, K. S., Barquero, L. A., & Cutting, L. E. (2018). Prefrontal mediation of the reading network predicts intervention response in dyslexia. Cortex, 101, 96-106. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cortex.2018.01.009
Bailey, S., Aboud, K., Hoeft, F., & Cutting, L.E. (2016). Anomalous Gray Matter Patterns in Specific Reading Comprehension Deficits are Independent of Dyslexia. Annals of Dyslexia, 66, 256-274. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11881-015-0114-y
Barquero, L.A., Davis, N., & Cutting, L.E. (2014). Neuroimaging of Reading Intervention: A Systematic Review and Activation Likelihood Estimate Meta-Analysis. PLOS ONE, DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0083668.
Cutting, L.E., Clements-Stephens, A., Pugh, K.R., Burns, S., Cao, A., Pekar, J., Davis, N., & Rimrodt, S.L. (2013). Not All Reading Disabilities are Dyslexia: Distinct Neurobiology of Specific Comprehension Deficits. Brain Connectivity, 3 (2), 199-213. https://doi.org/10.1089/brain.2012.0116
Scarborough, H. S., Sabatini, J. P., Shore, J., Cutting, L. E., Pugh, K. R., & Katz, L. (2013). Meaningful gains by adult literacy learners. Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 26, 593-613. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11145-012-9385-4
Rimrodt, S.L. Clements-Stephens, A.M. Pugh, K.R. Courtney, S.M. Gaur, P. Pekar, J.J. Cutting, L.E. (2009). Functional MRI of Sentence Comprehension in Children with Dyslexia: Beyond Word Recognition. Cerebral Cortex; 19 (2): 402-413. doi: 10.1093/cercor/bhn092
Neuroimaging Methods and Brain Development
Whitfield-Gabrieli, S., Wendelken, C., Castañón, A.N., Bailey, S.K., Anteraper, S.A., Lee, Y.J., Chai X., Dina R. Hirshfeld-Becker, D.R., Biederman, J., Cutting, L.E., Bunge, S.A. (2020). Association between intrinsic brain architecture and the developmental trajectory of attentional and mood symptoms. JAMA Psychiatry, 77( 4), 378-386. https://doi.org/10.1001/jamapsychiatry.2019.4208
Aboud, K., Huo, Y., Hakmook, K., Ealey, A., Resnick, S.M., Landman, B.A., & Cutting, L.E. (2019). Structural covariance across the lifespan: Brain development and aging through the lens of inter-network relationships. Human Brain Mapping. 40(1), 125-136. https://doi.org/10.1002/hbm.24359
Ding, Z., Huang, Y., Bailey, S. K., Gao, Y., Cutting, L. E., Rogers, B. P., Newton, A. T., & Gore, J. C. (2017). Detection of synchronous brain activity in white matter tracts at rest and under functional loading. PNAS, 115 (3), 595-600. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1711567115
Wendelken, C., Ferrer, E., Ghetti, S., Bailey, S. K., Cutting, L., & Bunge, S. A. (2017). Frontoparietal Structural Connectivity in Childhood Predicts Development of Functional Connectivity and Reasoning Ability: A Large-Scale Longitudinal Investigation. Journal of Neuroscience, 37 (25), 8549 – 8558. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3726-16.2017
Wu, X., Yang, Z., Bailey, S. K., Zhou, J., Cutting, L. E., Gore, J. C., & Ding, Z. (2017). Functional connectivity and activity of white matter in somatosensory pathways under tactile stimulations. NeuroImage, 152, 371 – 380. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2017.02.074
Bermudez, C., Huo, T., Plassard, A., Aboud, K. E., Cutting, L., & Landman, B. (2017). Prediction of chronological age from hierarchical brain volumes using a random forest progression can provide a personalized lifetime metric of aging (P6.078). Neurology, 88 (16 Supplement).
Huo Y., Aboud K., Kang H., Cutting L.E., Landman B.A. (2016) Mapping Lifetime Brain Volumetry with Covariate-Adjusted Restricted Cubic Spline Regression from Cross-Sectional Multi-site MRI. In: Ourselin S., Joskowicz L., Sabuncu M., Unal G., Wells W. (eds) Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention – MICCAI 2016. MICCAI 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 9900. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-46720-7_10
Ding, Z., Xu, R., Bailey, S.K., Wu, T., Morgan, V.L., Cutting, L.E., Anderson, A.W., & Gore, J.C. (2016). Visualizing Functional Pathways in the Human Brain Using Correlation Tensors and Magnetic Resonance Imaging. Magnetic Resonance Imaging, 34(1), 8-17. PMCID: PMC4714593. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mri.2015.10.003
Behavioral Genetics
Soden, B., Christopher, M. E., Hulslander, J., Olson, R. K., Cutting, L., Keenan, J. M., Thompson, L. A., Wadsworth, S. J., Willcutt, E. G., & Petrill, S. A. (2015). Longitudinal stability in reading comprehension is largely heritable from grades 1 to 6. PLOSOne. DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0113807.
Logan, J. A. R., Hart, S. A., Cutting, L., Deater-Deckard, K., Schatschneider, C., Thompson, L. A., & Petrill, S. A. (2013). Genetic and Environmental Etiology of Latent Quadratic Growth in Reading Skills. Child Development, 84(6), 2131-44. https://doi.org/10.1111/cdev.12104
Hart, S.A., Petrill, S.A., Willcutt, E., Thompson, L., Schatschneider, C., Deater-Deckard, K., Cutting, L.E. (2010). Exploring how symptoms of Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder are related to reading and mathematics performance: General genes, general environments. Psychological Science, 21(11), 1708-1715. https://dx.doi.org/10.1177%2F0956797610386617
Petrill, S. A., Hart, S. A., Harlaar, N., Logan, J., Justice, L. M., Schatschneider, C., Thompson, L., DeThorne, L. S., Deater-Deckard, K., & Cutting, L. E. (2010). Genetic and environmental influences on the growth of early reading skills. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 51, 660-7. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1469-7610.2009.02204.x
Neurofibromatosis Type 1 (NF-1)
Barquero, L., Sefcik, A., Cutting, L.E., & Rimrodt, S. (2015). Teaching Reading to Children with Neurofibromatosis Type 1: A Clinical Trial with random Assignment to Different Approaches. Developmental Medicine & Child Neurology, 57 (12), 1150-1158. https://doi.org/10.1111/dmcn.12769
Acosta, M. T., Bearden, C. E., Castellanos, X. F., Cutting, L., Elgersma, Y., Gioia, G., Gutmann, D. H., Lee, Y. S., Legius, E., Muenke, M., North, K., Parada, L. F., Ratner, N., Hunter-Schaedle, K., Silva, A.J. (2012). The Learning Disabilities Network (LeaDNet): Using neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF1) as a paradigm for translational research. American Journal of Medical Genetics, 158A(9), 2225–2232. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajmg.a.35535
Cutting, L. E. & Levine, T. M. (2010). Cognitive profile of children with Neurofibromatosis and reading disabilities. Child Neuropsychology, 417-32. https://doi.org/10.1080/09297041003761985
Clements-Stephens, A., Rimrodt, S. L., Gaur, P., & Cutting, L. E. (2008). Visuospatial processing in children with Neurofibromatosis Type 1. Neuropsychologia, 46(2), 690-7. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2007.09.013