Publications

Chapters & Reports

Sand, L. A., & Bolger, D. J. (2019). The Neurobiological Strands of Developmental Dyslexia: What We Know and What We Don’t Know. In D. Kilpatrick, R. Wagoner, & M. Joshi (Eds.), Reading Development and Difficulties: Bridging the Gap Between Research and Practice NY, NY: Springer.

Atkins, S. M., Bunting, M. F., Bolger, D. J., & Dougherty, M. R. (2012). Training the adolescent brain: Neural plasticity and the acquisition of cognitive abilities. In V. F. Reyna, S. B. Chapman, M. R. Dougherty & J. Confrey (Eds.), The adolescent brain: Learning, reasoning, and decision making. (pp. 211-241). Washington, DC US: American Psychological Association.

Atkins, S. M., Bolger, D. J. , Dougherty, M. R., & Bunting, M. F. (2012). Changes in the Cognitive Control and Default Mode Networks following Working Memory Training. (TTO 3501: Technical Report, pp. 1-27). College Park: University of Maryland Center for Advanced Study of Language.

Yoon, H.Y, Bolger, D. J., Kwan, O. S., & Perfetti, C. A. (2003). Subsyllabic Units in Reading: A Difference between Korean and English. In L. Verhoeven, C. Elbro, & P. Reitsma (Eds), Precursors of Functional Literacy. Nijmegen, Netherlands: John Benjamins.

Peer-reviewed Articles

Teubner-Rhodes, S., Bolger, D. J., & Novick, J. M. (2019). Conflict monitoring and detection in the bilingual brain. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 22(2), 228-252.

Kim, S. Y., & Bolger, D. J. (2017). Effects of Visual, Lexical, and Contextual Factors on Word Recognition in Reading Korean Sentences. Journal of Cognitive Science, 18(1), 43-83.

Renzi, D. T., Romberg, A. R., Bolger, D. J., & Newman, R. S. (2017). Two minds are better than one: Cooperative communication as a new framework for understanding infant language learning. Translational Issues in Psychological Science, 3(1), 19.

Kim, S. Y. & Bolger. D. J. (2016). The role of subsyllabic units in the visual word recognition of Korean monosyllabic words: A masked priming study. Journal of Cognitive Science, 17(3), 343-359.

Bolger, D. J., Mackey, A. P., Wang, M., & Grigorenko, E. L. (2014). The role and sources of individual differences in critical thinking: a capsule overview. Educational Psychology Review, 26 (4), 495-518.

Jackson, A. F., & Bolger, D. J. (2014). The neurophysiological bases of EEG and EEG measurement: A review for the rest of us. Psychophysiology, 51 (11), 1061-1071.

McClelland, J. L., Mirman, D., Bolger, D. J., & Khaitan, P. (2014). Interactive activation and mutual constraint satisfaction in perception and cognition. Cognitive Science, 38(6),
1139-1189.

Atkins, S. M., Sprenger, A. M., ‡riner, T. L., Buchanan, J. B., Chavis, S. E., Chen, S-Y, Iannuzzi, G. L., Kashtelyan, V., Dowling, E., Bolger, D. J., Bunting, M. F., & Dougherty, M. R. (2014). Measuring working memory is all fun and games: A four- dimensional spatial game predicts cognitive task performance. Experimental Psychology, 61(6), 2014, 417-438. http://dx.doi.org/10.1027/1618-3169/a000262

Jackson, A. F., & Bolger, D. J. (2014). Using a high-dimensional graph of semantic space to model relationships among words. Frontiers in Psychology: Language Science, 5, E385. doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00385

Sprenger, A. M., †Atkins, S. M., Bolger, D. J., Harbison, J. I., Novick, J. M., Weems, S. A., Chrabaszcz, J. S., Smith, V., Bobb, S., Bunting, M. F., & Dougherty, M. R. (2013). Training working memory: Limits of transfer. Intelligence, 41, 638-663. doi.org/10.1016/j.intell.2013.07.013

Burman, D. D., ‡Minas, T., Bolger, D. J., & Booth, J. R. (2013). Age, sex, and verbal abilities affect location of linguistic connectivity in ventral visual pathway. Brain and language, 124, 184-193.

Liu, L., Deng, X., Peng, D., Liu, L., Vira, A., Friedman, E.B., Minas, J., Bolger, D.J., Bitan, T. & Booth, J.R. (2011). Children with Reading Disability Show Brain Differences in Effective Connectivity for Visual, but Not Auditory Word Comprehension. PLoS ONE 5(10): e13492. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0013492

Cao, F., Khalid, K., Lee, R., Brennan, C., Yanhui, Y., Li, K., Bolger, D.J., & Booth, J.R. (2011). Development of brain networks involved in spoken word processing of Mandarin Chinese. Neuroimage, 57 (3): 750-759.

Desroches AS, Cone NE, Bolger DJ, Bitan T, Burman DD & Booth JR (2010). Children with reading difficulties show differences in brain regions associated with orthographic processing during spoken language processing. Brain Research, 1356, 73-84.

Liu, L., Friedman, E.B., Bolger, D.J., Bitan, T. & Booth, J.R. (2009). Children with reading disability show deficits in top-down and bottom-up processing during semantic tasks in both visual and auditory modalities. NeuroImage.

Cao, F., Khalid, K., Zaveri, R., Bolger, D.J., Bitan, T. & Booth, J.R. (2009). Neural correlates of priming effects in children during spoken word processing with orthographic demands. Brain and Language, 114:2, 80-89.

Liu, L., Deng, X., Peng, D., Cao, F., Ding, G., Jin, Z., Zeng, Y., Li, K., Zhu., L., Fan, N., Deng, Y., Bolger, D.J., & Booth, J.R. (2009). Modality- and task-specific brain regions involved in Chinese lexical processing. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 21:8, 1473-1487

Bolger, D.J., Minas, J. E., Burman, D.D. & Booth, J.R. (2008). Orthographic and phonological consistency effects in cortex of children with and without reading disorders. Neuropsychologia, 46, 3210-3224.

Bolger, D.J., Hornickel, J., Cone, N E., Burman, D.D. & Booth, J.R. (2008). Neural correlates of orthographic and phonological consistency effects in children. Human Brain Mapping, 29,1416-1429.

Cone, N.E., Burman, D.D., Bitan, T., Bolger, D.J., & Booth, J.R. (2008). Developmental changes in brain regions involved in phonological and orthographic processing during spoken language processing. NeuroImage,41, 623-635.

Bolger, D.J., Balass, M., Landen, E., & Perfetti, C.A. (2008). Contextual variation and definitions in learning the meanings of words. Discourse Processes, 45:122-159.

Perfetti, C.A., Liu, Y., Fiez, J., Nelson, J., Bolger, D.J. & Tan, L-H. (2007). Reading in two writing systems: Accomodation and assimilation of the brain’s reading network. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 10, 131-146.

Landi, N., Perfetti, C. A., Bolger, D. J., Dunlap, S., Foorman, B. R. (2006). The role of discourse context in developing word form representations: A paradoxical relationship between reading and learning. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 94(2): 114-133.

Schneider, W., Bolger, D. J., Eschman, A., Neff, C. & Zuccolotto, A. P. (2005). Psychology Experiment Authoring Kit (PEAK) – Formal Usability Testing of an Easy-to-Use Method for Creating Computerized Experiments. Behavior Research Methods, Instruments, & Computers, 37(2): 312-323.

Bolger, D.J., Schneider, W., Perfetti, C.A. (2005). Cross-cultural effect on the Brain Revisited: Universal structures plus writing system variation. Human Brain Mapping, 25(1), 92-104.

Perfetti, C. A., & Bolger, D.J. (2004). The brain might read that way. Scientific Studies in Reading, 8(3):293-304.