BILINGUAL BRAIN RESEARCH BIBLIOGRAPHY
Ioulia Kovelman First and Co-authored Articles

Compiled by Jill Kerper Mora, Ed.D.
San Diego State University

Arredondo, M. M., Hu, X.-S., Satterfield, T., & Kovelman, I. (2017). Bilingualism alters children’s frontal lobe functioning for attentional control. Developmental Science, 20, e12377.

Arredondo, M. M., Hu, X.-S., Seifert, E., Satterfield, T., & Kovelman, I. (2019). Bilingual exposure enhances left IFG specialization for language in children. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 22(4), 783-801.

Arredondo, M. M., Kovelman, I., Satterfield, T., Hu, X., Stojanov, L., & Beltz, A. M. (2022). Person-specific connectivity mapping uncovers differences of bililngual language experience on brain bases of attention in children. Brain and Language, 227, 105084. https://doi.org/doi.org/10.1016/j.bandl.2022.105084

Berens, M., 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, 35-60.

Chi-Lin, Y., Kovelman, I., & Wellman, H. M. (2021). How bilingualism informs theory of mind development. Child Development Perspectives, 15(3), 154-159.

Jasińska, 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(2017), 34-45.

Kepinska, O., Caballero, J. O., Myriam, Marks, R. A., Haft, S. L., Zekelman, L., Ioulia, K., Uchikoshi, Y., & Hoeft, F. (2023). Language combinations of multilinguals are reflected in their first language knowledge and processing. Scientific Reports, 13(1947). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-27952-2

Kovelman, I., Norton, E. S., Christodoulou, J. A., Gaab, N., Lieberman, D. A., Trianatafyllou, C., Wolf, M., Whitfield-Gabreilli, S., & Gabrieli, J. D. E. (2021). Brain basis of phonological awareness for spoken language in children and its disruption in dyslexia. Cerebral Cortex(April), 754-764.

Kovelman, I., Din, M. S.-U., Berens, M. S., & 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: 1006504, 1-12. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/2331186X.2015.1006504

Kovelman, I., Baker, S. A., & Petitto, L. (2008). Age of first bilingual language exposure as a new window into bilingual reading development. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 11(2), 203-223.

Kovelman, I., Baker, S. A., & Petitto, L. (2008). Bilingual 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.

Kovelman, I., Shalinsky, M. H., Berens, M., & Petitto, L. A. (2007). Shining new light on the brain’s “bilingual signature”: A functional near infrared spectroscopy investigation of semantic processing. NeuroImage, 39, 1457-1471.

Kremin, L. V. A., María M., Hsu, L. S.-J., Satterfield, T., & Kovelman, I. (2019). The effects of Spanish heritage language literacy on English reading for Spansih-English bilingual children in the US. International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 22(2), 192-206. https://doi.org/http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13670050.2016.1239692

Marks, R. A., Eggleston, R. L., Sun, X., Yu, C.-L., Zhang, K., Nickerson, N., Hu, X.-S., & Kovelman, I. (2022). The neurocognitive basis of morphological processing in typical and impaired readers. Annals of Dyslexia, 72, 361-383.

Marks, R. A., Labotka, D., Xin, S., Nickerson, N., Zhang, K., Eggleston, R. L., Yu, C.-L., Uchikoshi, Y., Hoeft, F., & Kovelman, I. (2022). Morphological awareness and its role in early word reading in English monolinguals, Spanish-English, and Chinese-English simultaneous bilingual. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 1-15. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1366728922000517

Marks, R. A., Satterfield, T., & Kovelman, I. (2022). Integrated multilingualism and bilingual reading development. In J. MacSwan (Ed.), Multilingual perspectives on translanguaging (pp. 201-223). Multilingual Matters.

Petitto, L. A., Berens, M. S., Kovelman, I., Dubins, M. H., Jasińska, K. K., & Shalinsky, M. (2012). The “perceptual wedge hypothesis” as the basis for bilingual babies’ phonetic processing advantage: New insights from fNIRS brain imaging. Brain and Language, 121(2), 130-143.