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 Journalhttps://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