Selected Publications

Academic Publications

Wang, F., Toomarian, L., Gosavi, R., Kaneshiro, B., Norcia, A. M., & McCandliss, B. (2025). Steady-state EEG captures how elementary classroom instruction drives plasticity for novel visual words. [Link]

Wang, F., Nguyen, T., Kaneshiro, B., Norcia, A. M., & McCandliss, B. (2025). Cortical latency predicts reading fluency from late childhood to early adolescence. [Link]

Roy, E., Guillaume, M., Van Rinsveld, A., Anguera, J. A., Bunge, S., Gazzaley, A., Hoeft. F., Mishra, J., Rosenberg-Lee, M., Uncapher, M. R., & McCandliss, B. (2025). Tablet-based arithmetic fluency assessment reveals developments in math cognition and math achievement from childhood to adolescence. [Link]

Gosavi, R., Toomarian, L. (2024). Impacts of Involving Young Learners in Mind, Brain, and Education Research. [Link]

Toomarian, L., Gosavi, R., Hasak, L. R., Bunderson, M., & McCandliss, B. (2024) Emerging Insights from a Research‐Practice Partnership Approach to Educational Neuroscience. [Link]

Roy, E., Van Rinsveld, A., Nedelec, P., Richie-Halford, A., Rauschecker, A. M., Sugrue, L. P., Rokem, A., McCandliss B. D. & Yeatman, J. D. (2024). Educational Environment and White Matter Development in Early Adolescence. [Link]

Roy, E., Van Rinsveld, A., Nedelec, P., Richie-Halford, A., Rauschecker, A. M., Sugrue, L. P., Rokem, A., McCandliss B.D. & Yeatman, J. D. (2024). Differences in educational opportunity predict white matter development. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience. [Link]

Roy, E., Richie-Halford, A., Kruper, J., Narayan, M., Bloom, D., Nedelec, P., Rauschecker, A. M., Sugrue, L. P., Brown, T., Jernigan, T., McCandliss, B., Rokem, A. & Yeatman, J. (2024). White matter and literacy: A dynamic system in flux. [Link]

Tan, L. H., Perfetti, C. A., Ziegler, J. C., & McCandliss, B. (2023). Neural bases of reading acquisition and reading disability. Frontiers in Neuroscience, 17, 1147156. [Link]

Wang, F., Kaneshiro, B., Toomarian, E., Gosavi, R., Hasak, L., Moron, S., Nguyen, T., Norcia, A., & McCandliss, B. (2023). Progress in elementary school reading linked to growth of cortical responses to familiar letter combinations within visual word forms. [Link]

Guillaume, M., Roy, E., Van Rinsveld, A., Starkey, G., Uncapher, M., McCandliss, B. (2022) Groupitizing reflects conceptual developments in math cognition and inequities in math achievement from childhood through adolescence. [Link]

Marshall, A. T., Hackman, D. A., Kan, E., Abad, S., Baker, F. C., Baskin-Sommers, A., Dowling, G. J., Gonzalez, M. R., Guillaume, M., Kiss, O., McCabe, C. J., McCandliss, B. D., Pelham, W. E., Tapert, S. F., Van Rinsveld, A., Sowell, E. R. (2022) Location matters: Regional variation in association of community burden of COVID-19 with caregiver and youth worry. Health & place. [Link]

Benson, I., Marriott, N., McCandliss, B. D. (2022) Equational reasoning: A systematic review of the Cuisenaire-Gattegno approach. Frontiers in Education. [Link]

Domingue, B. W., Kanopka, K., Stenhaug, B., Sulik, M. J., Beverly, T., Brinkhuis, M., Circi, R., Faul, J., Liao, D., McCandliss, B., Obradovic, J., Piech, C., Porter, T., Soland, J., Weeks, J., Wise, S. L., Yeatman, J., (2022). Speed-Accuracy Trade-Off? Not So Fast: Marginal Changes in Speed Have Inconsistent Relationships With Accuracy in Real-World Settings. Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics. [Link]

Anokhin, A.P., Luciana, M., Banich, M., Barch, D., Bjork, J.M., Gonzalez, M.R., Gonzalez, R., Haist, F., Jacobus, J., Lisdahl, K. McGlade, E., McCandliss, B., Nagel, B., Nixon, S., Tapert, S., Kennedy, J.T., Thompson, W. (2022). Age-related changes and longitudinal stability of individual differences in ABCD Neurocognition measures. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 54. [Link]

Levin, D. T., Mattarella-Micke, A., Lee, M. J., Baker, L. J., Bezdek, M. A., McCandliss, B. D. (2022). How Movie Events Engage Childrens' Brains to Combine Visual Attention with Domain-Specific Processing Involving Number and Theory of Mind in a Cinematic Arena. Projections The Journal for Movies and Mind. [Link]

Kiss, O., Alzueta, E., Yuskel, D., Pohl, K.M., de Zambotti, M., Muller-Oehring, E.M., Pourty, D., Durley, I., Pelham III, W.E., McCabe, C.J., Gonzalez, M.R., Brown, S.A., Wade, N.E., Marshall, A.T., Sowell, E.R., Breslin, F.J., Lisdahl, K.M, Dick, A.S., Sheth, C.S., Guillaume, M.J., McCandliss, B.D., Van Rinsveld, A.M., Dowling, G.J., Tapert, S.F., Baker, F.C.  (2022). The Pandemic's Toll on Young Adolescents: Prevention and Intervention Targets to Preserve Their Mental Health. Journal of Adolescent Health. [Link]

Guillaume, M., Roy, E., Van Rinsveld, A., Starkey, G. S., Uncapher, M. R., McCandliss, B. D. (2022) Groupitizing reflects conceptual developments in math cognition and inequities in math achievement from childhood through adolescence. Child development. Child Development. [Link]

Wang, F., Nguyen, T., Kaneshiro, B., Hasak, L., Wang, A., Toomarian, E., Norcia, A., McCandliss, B. (2022). Lexical and sublexical cortical tuning for print revealed by Steady-State Visual Evoked Potentials (SSVEPs) in early readers. [Link]

Guillaume, M., Toomarian, E., Van Rinsveld, A, Baskin-Sommers, A., Dick, A., Dowing, G., Gonzalez, M., Hasak, L., Lisdahl, K., Marshall, A., Nguyen, T., Pelham, W., Pillai C., Sheth, C., Wang, A., Tapert, S. & McCandliss, B. (2022) Negative impacts of pandemic induced at-home remote learning can be mitigated by parental involvement. [Link]

Wang, F., Kaneshiro, B., Strauber, C. B., Hasak, L., Nguyen, Q. T., Yakovleva, A., Vildavski, V. Y., Norcia, A. M., McCandliss, B. D.(2021). Distinct neural sources underlying visual word form processing as revealed by steady state visual evoked potentials (SSVEP). Scientific reports. [Link]

Strauber, C. B., Ali, L. R., Fujioka, T., Thille, C., McCandliss, B. D. (2021). Replicability of neural responses to speech accent is driven by study design and analytical parameters. Sci Rep, 11. [Link]

Starkey, G. S., & McCandliss, B. D. (2021). A probabilistic approach for quantifying children’s subitizing span. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology. [Link]

Pelham III, W. E., Tapert, S. F., Gonzalez, M. R., McCabe, C. J., Lisdahl, K. M., Alzueta, E., Baker, F. C., Breslin, F. J., Dick, S. D., Dowling, G. J., Guillaume, M., Hoffman, E. A., Marshall, A. T., McCandliss, B. D., Sheth, C. S., Sowell, E. R., Thompson, W. K., Van Rinsveld, A. M., Wade, N. E., & Brown, S. A. (2021). Early adolescent substance use before and during the CoViD-19 pandemic: a longitudinal survey in the ABCD Study Cohort. Journal of Adolescent Health, 69(3), 390-397. [Link]

Younger, J., O’Laughlin, K. D., Anguera, J. A., Bunge, S., Ferrer, E. E., Hoeft, F., McCandliss, B. D., Mishra, J., Rosenberg-Lee, M., Gazzaley, A., & Uncapher, M. (2021). Development of executive function in middle childhood: A large-scale, in-school, longitudinal investigation. [Link]

Chaarani, B., Hahn, S., Allgaier, N., Adise, S., Owens, M. M., Juliano, A. C., ... & Rajapaske, N. (2021). Baseline brain function in the preadolescents of the ABCD Study. Nature Neuroscience, 1-11. [Link]

Santhana Gopalan, P. R., Loberg, O., Lohvansuu, K., McCandliss, B. D., Hämäläinen, J ., & Leppänen, P. (2020). Attentional processes in children with attentional problems or reading difficulties as revealed using brain event-related potentials and their source localization. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience,  14. [Link]

Other Media

April 13, 2020. Article in Trend Magazine by Bruce McCandliss and Elizabeth Toomarian. Putting Neuroscience in the Classroom: How the Brain Changes As We Learn.

March 18, 2020. Podcast Episode featuring Bruce McCandliss on Science of Reading: The Podcast.