Maria Mody, Ph.D.
Principal Investigator
Assistant Professor Radiology, Harvard Medical School

Publications

Bourisly, A., Haynes, C., Bourisly, N. & Mody, M. (2013). Neural Correlates of Diacritics in Arabic: An fMRI Study. Journal of Neurolinguistics, 26, 195-206

Mody, M. & Belliveau, J. (2012). Speech and Language Impairments in Autism:Insights from behavior and neuroimaging. North American Journal of Medical Sciences, 5(3), 157-163

Han, J., Mody, M. & Ahlfors, S.P. (2012). Gamma phase-locking modulated by phonological contrast during auditory comprehension in reading disability. NeuroReport, 23(14), 851-856

Sahyoun, C. P., Belliveau, J.W. and Mody, M. (2010). White matter integrity and pictorial reasoning in high-functioning children with autism. Brain and Cognition, doi:10.1016/j.bandc.2010.05.002

Sahyoun, C.P., Belliveau, J.W., Soulieres, I., Schwartz, S. and Mody, M. (2010). "Neuroimaging of the functional and structural networks underlying visuospatial vs. linguistic reasoning in high-functioning autism." Neuropsychologia 48(1): 86-95

Sahyoun, C., Soulières, I., Belliveau, J., Mottron, L., &  Mody, M. (2009). Cognitive Differences in Pictorial Reasoning between High-Functioning Autism and Asperger's Syndrome. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 39:1014.1023

Mody, M., Wehner, D.T. & Ahlfors, S. P. (2008). Auditory word perception in sentence context in reading-disabled children. NeuroReport, 19, 1567-1571

Shaywitz, S.A., Gruen, J., Mody, M., Shaywitz, B. A. (2008). Dyslexia. In R. G. Schwartz (ed), The Handbook of Child Language Disorders (pp. 115-139). Boca Raton, FL: Psychology Press

Mody, M. & Silliman, Elaine R. (eds.) (2008). Brain, Behavior and Learning in Reading and Language Disorders. NY: Guilford Press.

Tager-Flusberg, H., Lindgren, K. & Mody, M. (2008). Structural and Functional Imaging Research on Language Disorder: Specific Language Impairment and Autism Spectrum Disorders. In Wolf, Schreiber, & Wasserstein (eds.) Contemporary Issues in Adult Learning Disorders. NY: Taylor & Francis.

Wehner DT, Hämäläinen MS, Mody, M., Ahlfors SP. Head movements of children in MEG: Quantification, effects on source estimation, and compensation (2008). NeuroImage, 40, 541-50.

Wehner D, Ahlfors SP, Mody, M. Effects of phonological contrast on auditory word discrimination in children with and without reading disability: A magnetoencephalography (MEG) study (2007). Neuropsychologia, 45, 3251-62.

Wehner D, Ahlfors SP, Mody, M. (2007). The influence of semantic processing on phonological decisions in children and adults: A magnetoencephalography (MEG) study. J. Speech Lang. Hearing Res., 50, 716-31.

Shaywitz, S. E., Mody, M., Shaywitz, B. A. (2006). Neural mechanisms in dyslexia.  Current Directions in Psychological Science, 15, 278-281

Mody, M. (2004). Neurobiological Correlates of Language and Literacy Impairments. In C. Addison Stone, Elaine Silliman, Barbara Ehren and Ken Apel., (Eds.), Handbook of Language and Literacy: Development and Disorders, (pp. 49-73). Guilford Press, New York: NY.

Mody, M. (2003). Rapid auditory processing deficits in dyslexia: A commentary on two differing views. Journal of Phonetics, 31, 529-539.

Mody, M. (2003). Phonological basis in reading disability: A review and analysis of the evidence. Reading & Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 16, 21-39.

Studdert-Kennedy,M., Mody, M. & Brady, S. (2000). Speech perception deficits in poor readers: A reply to Denenberg’s critique. Journal of Learning Disabilities, 33, 317-321

Mody, M., Schwartz, R.G., Gravel, J.S. & Ruben, R.J. (1999). Speech perception and verbal memory in children with and without histories of otitis media. Journal of Speech, Language and Hearing Research, 42, 1069-1079

Carre, R., & Mody, M. (1997). Predicting vowel and consonant place of articulation. In J. Coleman (ed). Proceedings of the Lab Phon Meeting in Computational Phonology, Madrid, Spain

Schwartz, R.G., Mody, M. & Petinou, K. (1997). Phonological acquisition in children with OME: Speech perception and speech speech production. In J. Roberts, I. Wallace & F. Henderson (eds.), Otitis Media in Young Children: Medical, Developmental and Educational Considerations. Baltimore, Maryland: Paul H. Brookes

Gravel, J.S., Wallace, I.F., Ellis, M.A., Lee, W. & Mody, M. (1997) Higher order auditory abilities in children with histories of otitis media. In D.J. Lim, C.D. Bluestone, J.O.Kline, J.D. Nelson & P.L. Ogra (eds.), Recent Advances in Otitis Media. Decker Periodicals.

Petinou, K., Mody, M., Schwartz, R.G., Gravel, J.S., Ellis, M.A. (1997). The impact of otitis media on early speech development: Phonetic inventories. In D.J. Lim, C.D. Bluestone, J.O. Kline, J.D.Nelson & P.L. Ogra (eds.), Recent Advances in Otitis Media. Decker Periodicals.

Mody, M., Schwartz, R.G., Gravel, J.S., Wallace, I.F., Ellis, M.A., & Lee, W. (1997). Speech perception and verbal memory in children with otitis meda. In D.J. Lim, C.D. Bluestone, J.O. Kline, J.D. Nelson & P.L. Ogra (eds), Recent Advances in Otitis Media. Decker Periodicals.

Mody, M., Studdert-Kennedy, M. and Brady, S. (1997). Speech perception deficits in poor readers: Auditory processing or phonological coding? Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 64, 199-231.

Studdert-Kennedy, M., Liberman, A.M., Brady, S., Fowler, Mody, M. & Shankweiler, D. (1996). Lengthened formant transitions are irrelevant to the improvements of speech and language impairments. Haskins Labs, SR 127-128.

Studdert-Kennedy, M. & Mody, M. (1995) Auditory temporal perception deficits in the reading impaired: A critical review of the evidence. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 2(4) 508-514.

Whalen, D.H., Abramson, A.S., Lisker, L. & Mody, M. (1993). F0 gives voicing information even with unambiguous voice onset times. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 93, 2152-2159.

Whalen, D.H., Abramson, A.S., Lisker, L. & Mody, M. (1991). Gradient effects of fundamental frequency on stop-consonant voicing judgments. Phonetica, 47, 36-49.