Speech, Language, Neuroscience

Published in peer-reviewed journals

Qi, T., Mandelli, M. L., Pereira, C. L. W., Wellman, E., Bogley, R., Licata, A. E., Miller, Z., Tee, B.L., de Leon, J., Chang, E.F., Oganian, Y. & Gorno-Tempini, M. L. (2024). Anatomical and behavioural correlates of auditory perception in developmental dyslexia. Brain.

Silva, A.B., Leonard, M.K., Oganian, Y. , D'Esopo, E., and Krish, D., Kopald, B. and Tran, E.B., Chang, E.F. & Kleen, J.K. (2023). Interictal epileptiform discharges contribute to word-finding difficulty in epilepsy through multiple cognitive mechanisms. Epilepsia.

Stephen, E.P., Li, Y., Metzger, S., Oganian, Y., Chang, E.F. (2023). Latent neural dynamics encode temporal context in speech. Hearing Research.

Oganian, Y.*, Kojima, K.*, Breska, A., Cheng, C., Findlay, A., Chang, E.F. & Nagarajan, S. (2023). Phase alignment of low-frequency neural activity to the amplitude envelope of speech reflects evoked responses to acoustic edges, not oscillatory entrainment. Journal of Neuroscience.

Oganian, Y.*, Bhaya-Grossman, I.*, Johnson, K. & Chang, E.F. (2023). Neural representation of vowels and formants in human speech cortex. Cell.

Hamilton, L.S., Oganian, Y., Hall, J., & Chang, E.F. (2021). Parallel and distributed encoding of speech across human auditory cortex. Cell, 184(18), 4626-4639.e13.

Frey, K., Zöllner, J.P., Knake, S., Oganian, Y., Kay, L., Mahr, K., Keil, F., Willems, L.M., Menzler, K., Bauer, S., Schubert-Bast, S., Rosenow, F., Strzelczyk, A. (2020). Risk incidence of fractures and injuries: A multicenter video-EEG study of 626 generalized convulsive seizures. Journal of Neurology, 267, 3632–3642.

Oganian, Y. & Chang, E.F. (2019). A speech envelope landmark for syllable encoding in human superior temporal gyrus. Science Advances, 5, eaay6279.

Spalek, K.* & Oganian, Y.* (2019). The neurocognitive signature of focus alternatives. Brain & Language, 194, 98-108.

Oganian, Y., Froehlich, E., Schlickeiser, U., Hofmann, M.J., Heekeren, H.R., & Jacobs, A.M. (2016). Slower perception followed by faster lexical decision in longer words: A diffusion model analysis. Frontiers in Psychology, 6, 1958.

Oganian, Y., Conrad, M., Aryani, A., Heekeren, H.R., & Spalek, K. (2016). Interplay of bigram frequency and orthographic neighborhood statistics in language membership decision. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 19(3), 578-596.

Oganian, Y., Conrad, M., Aryani, A., Spalek, K.*, & Heekeren, H.R.* (2015). Activation Patterns throughout the Word Processing Network of L1-dominant Bilinguals Reflect Language Similarity and Language Decisions. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 27(11), 2197–2214.

Oganian, Y., & Ahissar, M. (2012). Poor anchoring limits dyslexics’ perceptual, memory, and reading skills. Neuropsychologia, 50(8), 1895–1905.

Ahissar, M., & Oganian, Y. (2008). Response to Ziegler: The anchor is in the details. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 12(7), 245-246.

Peer-reviewed conference proceedings

Stephen E., Li Y., Metzger S., Oganian Y., Chang E.F. (2021). Multivariate temporal receptive fields in speech perception reflect low-dimensional dynamics. COSYNE Conference proceedings.

Book chapters

Oganian, Y., Fox, N.P., Chang, E.F. (2022). Cortical Representation of Speech Sounds: Insights from Intracranial Electrophysiology. In: Holt, L.L., Peelle, J.E., Coffin, A.B., Popper, A.N., Fay, R.R. (Eds.) Speech Perception. Springer Handbook of Auditory Research, Vol. 74. Springer, Cham.

Decision making

Fatfouta, R., & Oganian, Y. (2022). Face masks drive increased rational decision-making. Current Psychology. Advance online publication.

Kuper-Smith, B. J., Doppelhofer, L. M., Oganian, Y., Rosenblau, G., & Korn, C. (2021). Risk perception and optimism during the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic. Royal Society Open Science, 8, 210904.210904

Korn, C.W., Heekeren, H.R., Oganian, Y. (2019). The framing effect in a monetary gambling task is robust in minimally verbal language switching contexts. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 72(1), 52-59.

Oganian, Y., Heekeren, H.R., Korn, C.W. (2019). Low foreign language proficiency reduces optimism about the personal future. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 72(1), 60-75.

Korn, C.W., Ries, J., Schalk, L., Oganian, Y., & Saalbach, H. A. (2018). A hard-to-read font reduces the framing effect in a large sample. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 25, 696–703.

Morawetz, C.*, Oganian, Y.*, Schlickeiser, U., Jacobs, A.M., & Heekeren, H.R. (2017). Second Language Use Facilitates Implicit Emotion Regulation via Content Labeling. Frontiers in Psychology, 8, 366.

Oganian, Y.*, Korn, C.W.*, & Heekeren, H.R. (2016). Language switching - but not foreign language use per se - reduces the framing effect. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 42(1), 140–148.