Biological Substrates for Language:

Chiarello, C., Kacinik, N., Manowitz, B., Otto, R., & Leonard, C. (2004). Cerebral asymmetries for language: Evidence for structural-behavioral correlations. Neuropsychology, 18, 219-231.

Leonard, C. M., Towler, S., Welcome, S., Halderman, L. K., Otto, R., Eckert, M. A., & Chiarello, C. (In press). Size matters: Cerebral volume influences sex differences in neuroanatomy. Cerebral Cortex.

Chiarello, C., Welcome, S. E., Halderman, L.K., Towler, S., Julagay, J., Otto, R., Leonard, C. M. (In press). A large-scale investigation of lateralization in cortical anatomy and word reading: Are there sex differences? Journal is Neuropsychology.

Chiarello, C., Welcome, S. E., Halderman, L. K., & Leonard, C. M. (Submitted). Does degree of asymmetry relate to performance? An investigation of word recognition and reading in consistent and mixed handers.

Welcome, S. E., Chiarello, C., Towler, S., Halderman, L. K., Otto, R., & Leonard, C. M. (submitted). Behavioral correlates of corpus callosum size: Anatomical/behavioral relationships vary across sex/handedness groups.

Right Hemisphere Role in Language Processing:

Chiarello, C. (1991). Interpretation of word meanings by the cerebral hemispheres: One is not enough. In: P. Schwanenflugel (Ed.), The psychology of word meanings, (pp. 251-278). Hillsdale: Erlbaum.

Chiarello, C., Richards, L., & Pollock, A. (1992). Semantic additivity and semantic inhibition: Dissociable processes in the cerebral hemispheres? Brain and Language, 42, 52-76.

Chiarello, C., & Richards, L. (1992). Another look at categorical priming in the cerebral hemispheres. Neuropsychologia, 30, 381-392.

Chiarello, C., Maxfield, L., & Kahan, T. (1995). Initial right hemisphere activation of subordinate word meanings is not due to homotopic callosal inhibition. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 2, 375-380.

Burgess, C., & Chiarello, C. (1996). Neurocognitive mechanisms underlying metaphor comprehension and other figurative language. Metaphor & Symbolic Activity, 11, 67-84.

Beeman, M., & Chiarello, C. (Eds.) (1998). Right hemisphere language comprehension: Perspectives from cognitive neuroscience. Mahwah, N.J.: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

Faust, M., & Chiarello, C. (1998). Constraints on sentence priming in the cerebral hemispheres: Effects of intervening words in sentences and lists. Brain and Language, 63, 219-236.

Faust, M., & Chiarello, C. (1998). Sentence context and lexical ambiguity resolution by the two hemispheres. Neuropsychologia, 36, 827-836.

Beeman, M. J., & Chiarello, C. (1998). Complementary left and right hemisphere language comprehension. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 7, 2-8.

Chiarello, C., Hasbrooke, R., & Maxfield, L. (1999). Orthographic and phonological facilitation from unattended words: Evidence for bilateral processing. Laterality, 4, 97-125.

Chiarello, C., Liu, S., & Faust, M. (1999). Cerebral asymmetries in sentence priming and the influence of semantic anomaly. Brain and Cognition, 40, 75-79.

Liu, S., Chiarello, C., & Quan, N. (1999). Hemispheric sensitivity to grammatical cues: Evidence for bilateral processing of number agreement in noun phrases. Brain and Language, 70, 421-436.

Chiarello, C., Liu, S., & Faust, M. (2001). Bihemispheric sensitivity to sentence anomaly. Neuropsychologia, 39, 1451-1463.

Faust, M., Bar-lev, A., & Chiarello, C. (2003). Sentence priming effects in the two cerebral hemispheres: Influences of lexical relatedness, word order, and sentence anomaly. Neuropsychologia, 41, 480-492.

Chiarello, C., Liu, S., Shears, C., Quan, N., & Kacinik, N. (2003). Priming of strong semantic relations in the left and right visual fields: A time course investigation. Neuropsychologia, 41, 721-732.

Chiarello, C. (2003). Parallel systems for processing language: Hemispheric complementarity in the normal brain. In Banich, M.T., & Mack, M. (Eds.), Mind, Brain, & Language: Multidisciplinary Perspectives. Mahwah, N.J.: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

Halderman, L. K., & Chiarello, C. (2005). Cerebral asymmetries in early orthographic and phonological reading processes: Evidence from backward masking. Brain and Language, 95, 342-352.

Chiarello, C., Kacinik, N. A., Shears, C., Arambel, S., Halderman, L. K., & Robinson, C. S. (2006). Exploring cerebral asymmetries for the verb generation task. Neuropsychology. 20, 88-104.

Arambel, S., & Chiarello, C. (2006). Priming nouns and verbs: Differential influences of semantic and grammatical cues in the two cerebral hemispheres. Brain and Language, 97, 12-24.

Faust, M., Barak, O., & Chiarello, C. (2006). The effects of multiple script priming on word recognition by the two cerebral hemispheres: Implications for discourse processing. Brain and Language, 99, 247-257.

Kacinik, N. A., & Chiarello, C. (2007). Understanding metaphors: Is the right hemisphere uniquely involved? Brain and Language, 100, 188-207.

Behavioral and Neuroanatomical Features of Reading Skill:

Chiarello, C., Lombardino, L. J., Kacinik, N. A., Otto, R., & Leonard, C. M. (2006). Neuroanatomical and behavioral asymmetry in an adult compensated dyslexic. Brain and Language, 98, 169-181.

Welcome, S. E., Chiarello, C., Halderman, L. K., & Leonard, C. M. (In press). Lexical processing skill in college-age resilient readers. Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal.

Welcome, S. E., & Chiarello, C. (submitted). Mechanisms of compensation in adult resilient readers.

Other Publications:

Chiarello, C., Maxfield, L., Richards, L., & Kahan, T. (1995). Activation of lexical codes for simultaneously presented words: Modulation by attention and pathway strength. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception & Performance, 21, 776-808.

Chiarello, C., & Maxfield, L. (1996). Varieties of interhemispheric inhibition, or how to keep a good hemisphere down. Brain and Cognition, 30, 81-108.

Richards, L., & Chiarello, C. (1997). Activation without selection: Parallel right hemisphere roles in language and intentional movement? Brain and Language, 57, 151-178.

Chiarello, C., Shears, C., & Lund, K. (1999). Imageability and distributional typicality measures of nouns and verbs in contemporary English. Behavior Research Methods, Instruments, & Computers, 31, 603-637.

Chiarello, C., Liu, S., & Shears, C. (2001). Does global context modulate cerebral asymmetries? A review and new evidence on word imageability effects. Brain and Language, 79, 360-378.

Shears, C., & Chiarello, C. (2004). Knowledge-based inferences are not general. Discourse Processes, 38, 31-55.

Welcome, S. E., & Chiarello, C. (2008). How dynamic is interhemispheric interaction? Effects of task switching on the across-hemisphere advantage. Brain and Cognition, 67, 69-75.