Publications
2026
Ding, J., Chen, S., Wang, J., Feng, C., Allan, E., & Li, S. (2026). Cortical thickness and functional connectivity in occipitotemporal and frontal regions are critical for Chinese children’s reading development. NeuroImage, 339, 122197. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2026.122197
Compton, A. B., Banaszkiewicz, A., Wang, J., & Booth, J. R. (2026). The relation of home literacy environment to brain specialization and sensitivity for phonological and semantic processing of spoken words. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 1-20, https://pubs.asha.org/doi/full/10.1044/2025_JSLHR-25-00448
2025
Mathur, A., Wang, J., and Booth, J. R. (2025). Does connectivity between frontotemporal areas at age 7 predict specialization for phonological and semantic processing at age 9? Imaging Neuroscience (pre-registration https://osf.io/zae62/).
Wang, J., Booth, J. R. (2025). Development and disorders of phonological processing in the brain. Book chapter in Encyclopedia of Human Brain – Language, edited by Binder, J. Elsevier, pages 326-241, https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-820480-1.00119-4
2024
Wang, J., Wagley, N., Rice, M., Gaab, N., Booth, J. R. (2024). Semantic and syntactic specialization in 9- to 10-year-old children during auditory sentence processing. Scientific Reports, 14, 26965. (Pre-registration https://osf.io/gm9uj/).
Wang, J., Turesky, T., Loh, M., Barbera, J., Hue, V., Escalantea, E., Medinaa, A., Zuk, J., Gaab, N. (2024). Left-lateralization of activation in the superior temporal gyrus during speech perception in sleeping infants was associated with subsequent language skills in kindergarten: a passive-listening task-fMRI study. Brain and Language, 257, 105461.
2023
Dębska, A., Wang, J., Dzięgiel-Fivet, G., Chyl, K., Wójcik, M., Jednoróg, K, Booth, J. R. (2023). The development of orthography and phonology coupling in ventral occipitotemporal cortex and its relation to reading. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General. 153(2), 293–306.
Wang, J., & Joanisse, M. F., Booth, J. R. (2023). Reading skill strengthens the functional connectivity between ventral occipitotemporal cortex and superior temporal gyrus during an auditory phonological awareness task in developing children. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 1-15.
Wang, J., Tong, F., Joanisse, M. F., Booth, J. R. (2023). A sculpting effect of reading on later representational quality of phonology revealed by multi-voxel pattern analysis in young children. Brain and Language, 239, 105252.
Wang, J., Yamasaki, B. L., Booth, J. R. (2023). Phonological and semantic specialization in 9- to 10-year-old children during auditory word processing. Neurobiology of Language, 1-28. (Pre-registration at https://osf.io/5p3es/)
2021
Wang, J., Wagley, N., Rice, M. L., & Booth, J. R. (2021). Semantic and syntactic specialization during auditory sentence processing in 7-8-year-old children. Cortex, 145, 169-186. (Registered Report at https://osf.io/8jqc7/)
Wang, J., Yamasaki, B. L., Weiss, Y., & Booth, J. R. (2021). Both frontal and temporal cortex exhibit phonological and semantic specialization during spoken language processing in 7- to 8-year-old children. Human Brain Mapping,42 (11), 3534-3546.
Wang, J., Pines, J., Joanisse, M., & Booth, J. R. (2021). Reciprocal relations between reading skill and the neural basis of phonological awareness in 7-to 9-year-old children. NeuroImage, 236, 118083.
Wang, J., Joanisse, M. F., & Booth, J. R. (2021). Letter fluency in 7-8-year-old children is related to the anterior, but not posterior, ventral occipito-temporal cortex during a phonological awareness task. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 47, 100898.
2020
Wang, J., Joanisse, M. F., & Booth, J. R. (2020). Neural representations of phonology in temporal cortex scaffold longitudinal reading gains in 5-to 7-year-old children. NeuroImage, 207, 116359.
Wang, J., Rice, M. L., & Booth, J. R. (2020). Syntactic and semantic specialization and integration in 5-to 6-year-old children during auditory sentence processing. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 32(1), 36-49.
2016
Deng, Y., Wu, Q., Wang, J., Feng, L., & Xiao, Q. (2016). Event-related potentials revealed an early and independent activation of grammatical information. Neuroscience Letters, 631: 19-23.
Wang, J., Tang, H., & Deng, Y. (2016). Novel symbol learning-induced Stroop effect: evidence for a strategy-based, utility learning model. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 45(5), 1161-1171.