Lab Affiliation: Brain, Language, and Literacy Laboratory

Research Interests:

Behavioral and cognitive neuroscience (ERP and fMRI) investigations of the language processing system; reading development and developmental dyslexia; automatic components of lexical access; development of proficiency and cognitive control in bilinguals.

Recent Publications:

Kroll, J. F., Bobb, S. C., Misra, M., & Guo, T. (2008) Language selection in bilingual speech: Evidence for inhibitory processes. Acta Psychologica, 128, 416-430. (Invited paper in special issue on Lexical and Sentence Processing in Bilinguals: Functional and Neural Perspectives.)

Katzir, T., Misra, M., & Poldrack, R. A. (2005). Imaging phonology without print: Assessing the neural correlates of phonemic awareness using fMRI. NeuroImage, 27(1), 106-115.

Holcomb, P. J., Reder, L., Misra, M., & Grainger, J. (2005). The effects of prime visibility on ERP measures of masked priming. Cognitive Brain Research, 24, 155-172.

Misra, M., Katzir, T., Wolf, M., & Poldrack, R. A. (2004). Neural systems for rapid automatized naming in skilled readers: Unraveling the RAN-reading relationship. Scientific Studies of Reading, 8(3), 241-256.

Breznitz, Z., & Misra, M. (2003). Speed of processing of the visual-orthographic and auditory-phonological systems in adult dyslexics: The contribution of "asynchrony" to word recognition deficits. Brain and Language, 85, 486-502.

Misra, M., & Holcomb, P. J. (2003). Event-related potential indices of masked repetition priming. Psychophysiology, 40, 115-130.