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Overview

Marc F. Joanisse is affiliated with the University of Western Ontario in Canada and has contributed extensively to research at the intersection of psychology and neuroscience. Their work primarily revolves around understanding neural mechanisms underlying reading, language, and related cognitive functions.

Their academic publications cover diverse topics, with a concentration on reading and literacy development as well as neurobiology of language and bilingualism. Several of their studies also address neural dynamics and brain function, language development and disorders, phonetics and phonology research, neuroscience and music perception, and cognitive and developmental aspects of mathematical skills.

Frequent publication venues for Joanisse include:

  • NeuroImage
  • Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience
  • The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Brain and Language

Their research collaborations feature repeated partnerships with the following co-authors:

  • Elizabeth P. Hayden
  • Matthew R.J. Vandermeer
  • Pan Liu
  • Yasaman Rafat
  • L. Peters

Major fields of study that underpin Joanisse's work include psychology and neuroscience, with subfields emphasizing cognitive neuroscience, developmental and educational psychology, experimental and cognitive psychology, statistics and probability, and artificial intelligence.

Selected recent papers by Joanisse include:

  • "Music as a scaffold for listening to speech: Better neural phase-locking to song than speech," 2020, NeuroImage
  • "Reciprocal relations between reading skill and the neural basis of phonological awareness in 7- to 9-year-old children," 2021, NeuroImage
  • "Resting-state functional connectivity and reading subskills in children," 2021, NeuroImage
  • "Word Senses as Clusters of Meaning Modulations: A Computational Model of Polysemy," 2021, Cognitive Science
  • "The Task Matters: A Scoping Review on Reading Comprehension Abilities in ADHD," 2021, Journal of Attention Disorders

Best Publications

  • Phase 2 of CATALISE: a multinational and multidisciplinary Delphi consensus study of problems with language development: Terminology

    Dorothy V.M. Bishop;Margaret J. Snowling;Paul A. Thompson;Trisha Greenhalgh

  • Impairments in verb morphology after brain injury: A connectionist model

    Marc F. Joanisse;Mark S. Seidenberg

  • Language deficits in dyslexic children: speech perception, phonology, and morphology.

    Marc F. Joanisse;Franklin R. Manis;Patricia Keating;Mark S. Seidenberg

  • Specific language impairment: a deficit in grammar or processing?

    Marc F Joanisse;Mark S Seidenberg

  • On the sensitivity and specificity of nonword repetition and sentence recall to language and memory impairments in children.

    Lisa M. D. Archibald;Marc F. Joanisse

  • Selective attention to threat versus reward: Meta-analysis and neural-network modeling of the dot-probe task

    Paul A Frewen;David J A Dozois;Marc F Joanisse;Richard W J Neufeld

  • Phonology and syntax in specific language impairment: evidence from a connectionist model.

    Marc F Joanisse;Mark S Seidenberg

  • Investigating the time course of spoken word recognition: Electrophysiological evidence for the influences of phonological similarity

    Amy S. Desroches;Randy Lynn Newman;Marc F. Joanisse

  • Overlapping neural regions for processing rapid temporal cues in speech and nonspeech signals

    Marc F Joanisse;Joseph S Gati

  • Eye movements tell only half the story.

    S. Ferber;J. Danckert;M. Joanisse;H. C. Goltz

  • Brain Mechanisms Implicated in the Preattentive Categorization of Speech Sounds Revealed Using fMRI and a Short-Interval Habituation Trial Paradigm

    Marc F. Joanisse;Jason D. Zevin;Bruce D. McCandliss

  • Spoken sentence comprehension in children with dyslexia and language impairment: The roles of syntax and working memory

    Erin K. Robertson;Marc F. Joanisse

  • The roles of tonal and segmental information in Mandarin spoken word recognition: An eyetracking study

    Jeffrey G. Malins;Marc F. Joanisse

  • The Cambridge Handbook of Psycholinguistics

    Michael Spivey;Ken McRae;Marc Joanisse

  • Decomposing the relation between Rapid Automatized Naming (RAN) and reading ability.

    Karen M. Arnell;Marc F. Joanisse;Raymond M. Klein;Michael A. Busseri

  • Imaging the past: Neural activation in frontal and temporal regions during regular and irregular past-tense processing

    Marc F. Joanisse;Mark S. Seidenberg

  • Categorical speech perception deficits distinguish language and reading impairments in children.

    Erin K. Robertson;Marc F. Joanisse;Amy S. Desroches;Stella Ng

  • Specific phonological impairments in dyslexia revealed by eyetracking.

    Amy S. Desroches;Marc F. Joanisse;Erin K. Robertson

  • Specific Language Impairments in Children Phonology, Semantics, and the English Past Tense

    Marc F. Joanisse

  • Functional activity and white matter microstructure reveal the independent effects of age of acquisition and proficiency on second-language learning.

    Emily S. Nichols;Marc F. Joanisse

  • The Cambridge Handbook of Psycholinguistics: Spoken Word Recognition

    Michael Spivey;Ken McRae;Marc Joanisse

Frequent Co-Authors

Ken McRae
Ken McRae University of Western Ontario
Michael J. Spivey
Michael J. Spivey University of California, Merced
Mark S. Seidenberg
Mark S. Seidenberg University of Wisconsin–Madison
James R. Booth
James R. Booth Vanderbilt University
Deanna M. Barch
Deanna M. Barch Washington University in St. Louis
David J. A. Dozois
David J. A. Dozois University of Western Ontario
Franklin R. Manis
Franklin R. Manis University of Southern California
Raymond M. Klein
Raymond M. Klein Dalhousie University
Karen M. Arnell
Karen M. Arnell Brock University
Karalyn Patterson
Karalyn Patterson MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit

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