- Tracking the roots of reading ability: white matter volume and integrity correlate with phonological awareness in prereading and early-reading kindergarten childrenZeynep M Saygin
McGovern Institute for Brain Research and Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
J Neurosci 33:13251-8. 2013..These findings suggest a structural basis of behavioral risk for dyslexia that predates reading instruction. ..
- Anatomical connectivity patterns predict face selectivity in the fusiform gyrusZeynep M Saygin
Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
Nat Neurosci 15:321-7. 2012..Additionally, we identified cortical regions whose connectivity was highly influential in predicting face selectivity within the fusiform, suggesting a possible mechanistic architecture underlying face processing in humans...
- Connectivity-based segmentation of human amygdala nuclei using probabilistic tractographyZeynep M Saygin
Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
Neuroimage 56:1353-61. 2011..Finally, it paves the way for implementing this method in other anatomical regions which are also composed of functional subunits that are difficult to distinguish with standard structural MRI...