Publications

Laks, A.B., DeMarco, A.T., Hurwitz, S.S., & Turkeltaub, P.E. (2026). Rapid Lexical Retrieval and Executive Functioning in Very Mild Aphasia. American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 35(1), 340–352. https://doi.org/10.1044/2025_ajslp-25-00345

Dyslin, S.M., DeMarco, A.T., Staples, R., Dickens, J.V., Snider, S.F., Friedman, R., & Turkeltaub, P.E. (2026). Dissecting the Sublexical Route for Reading: Frontal and Parietal Networks Support Learned Orthography-to-Phonology Mappings. Neurobiology of Language, 7. https://doi.org/10.1162/nol.a.216

Staples, R., Anderson, E.J., Dyslin, S.M., Laks, A.B., Friedman, R.B., DeMarco, A.T., & Turkeltaub, P.E. (2026). Meaning for reading pseudowords: errors reveal semantic influences on pseudoword reading after stroke. https://doi.org/10.64898/2026.05.13.724881

Chang, E.H.T., Dyslin, S.M., Staples, R., DeMarco, A.T., & Turkeltaub, P.E. (2026). Lesions Reveal Shared and Distinct Neurocognitive Bases of Oral Reading and Silent Word Recognition. The Journal of Neuroscience, 46(8), e1640252026. https://doi.org/10.1523/jneurosci.1640-25.2026

Day, T.K.M., Turkeltaub, P.E., Newport, E.L., & DeMarco, A.T. (2026). Hemisphere Fingerprinting: Identifying left and right hemispheres using functional connectivity. Imaging Neuroscience. https://doi.org/10.1162/imag.a.1397

Chang, E., Laks, A., DeMarco, A., & Turkeltaub, P. (2026). Behavioral Evidence for Continued Language Recovery in Chronic Post-stroke Aphasia (S31.009). Neurology, 106(11_Supplement_1). https://doi.org/10.1212/wnl.0000000000217299

Staples, R., DeMarco, A.T., Laks, A.B., & Turkeltaub, P.E. (2026). Simulating the spectrum, not the syndrome: Large scale individualized modeling of oral reading in stroke aphasia. https://doi.org/10.64898/2026.05.11.724319

Mathur, D., Paul, S., DeMarco, A., & Turkeltaub, P. (2026). Factors Related to Depression Symptoms in Chronic Poststroke Aphasia. Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, 107(7), 1566–1572. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apmr.2025.11.011

Vladyko, N., DeMarco, A.T., & Turkeltaub, P.E. (2026). Right Hemisphere Functional Connectivity Increases in Proportion to Left Hemisphere Lesion Size, but Not Within the Language Network. Human Brain Mapping, 47(13). https://doi.org/10.1002/hbm.70631

Turkeltaub, P.E., Martin, K.C., Laks, A.B., & DeMarco, A.T. (2025). Right hemisphere language network plasticity in aphasia. Brain, 149(4), 1396–1409. https://doi.org/10.1093/brain/awaf308

Martin, K.C., DeMarco, A.T., Dyslin, S.M., & Turkeltaub, P.E. (2025). Rapid auditory and phonemic processing relies on the left planum temporale. Cortex, 191, 12–24. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cortex.2025.03.014

Laks, A.B., DeMarco A.T., & Turkeltaub P.E. (2025). Optimizing Detection of Very Mild Aphasia With Letter Fluency Tests. American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 34(3), 1193–1202. https://doi.org/10.1044/2025_AJSLP-24-00471

Staples, R., DeMarco, A., & Turkeltaub, P. E. (2025). 34 Cognitive models of reading are also models of the brain: Identifying the neural correlates of a computational model of reading. Journal of Clinical and Translational Science, 9(s1), 12–12. https://doi.org/10.1017/cts.2024.723

Staples, R., Dickens, J.V., Dyslin, S.M., DeMarco, A.T., Snider, S.F., Friedman, R.B., & Turkeltaub, P.E. (2025). Meaning for reading: the neurocognitive basis of semantic reading impairment after stroke. Brain, 148(9), 3108–3120. https://doi.org/10.1093/brain/awaf253

DeMarco, A., Salisbury, R., Xu, K., Gilardi, J., Lewin, A., Klei, L., ... & MacDonald, M. (2024). BIOMACROMOLCULAR ATLAS OF THE DORSAL ANTERIOR CINGULATE CORTEX REVEALS DYSREGULATED CIRCADIAN RHYTHM FUNCTION AND METABOLISM IN SCHIZOPHRENIA. In NEUROPSYCHOPHARMACOLOGY (Vol. 49, pp. 521-522). CAMPUS, 4 CRINAN ST, LONDON, N1 9XW, ENGLAND: SPRINGERNATURE. 

Fama, M. E., McCall, J. D., DeMarco, A. T., & Turkeltaub, P. E. (2024). Evidence from aphasia suggests a bidirectional relationship between inner speech and executive function. Neuropsychologia, 204, 108997. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2024.108997

Staples, R., DeMarco, A., & Turkeltaub, P. (2024). 355 Connecting computational models of reading to the brain in post-stroke alexia. Journal of Clinical and Translational Science, 8(Suppl 1), 108. https://doi.org/10.1017/cts.2024.317

Tilton-Bolowsky, V.E., van der Stelt, C.M., DeMarco, A., Laks, A., Dobbins, C., Snider, S.F., … Vallila-Rohter, S. (2023). Evaluating circumlocution in naming as a predictor of communicative informativeness and efficiency in discourse. Aphasiology, 38(2), 237–260. https://doi.org/10.1080/02687038.2023.2183076

Campos, B., Choi, H., DeMarco, A.T., Seydell-Greenwald, A., Hussain, S.J., Joy, M.T., Turkeltaub, P.E., & Zeiger, W. (2023). Rethinking Remapping: Circuit Mechanisms of Recovery after Stroke. The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience, 43(45), 7489–7500. https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1425-23.2023

McCall, J.D., DeMarco, A.T., Mandal, A.S., Fama, M.E., van der Stelt, C.M., Lacey, E.H., Laks, A.B., Snider, S.F., Friedman, R.B., & Turkeltaub, P.E. (2023). Listening to Yourself and Watching Your Tongue: Distinct Abilities and Brain Regions for Monitoring Semantic and Phonological Speech Errors. Journal of cognitive neuroscience, 35(7), 1169–1194. https://doi.org/10.1162/jocn_a_02000

Gholipour, T., DeMarco, A., You, X., Englot, D.J., Turkeltaub, P.E., Koubeissi, M.Z., Gaillard, W.D., & Morgan, V.L. (2023). Functional anomaly mapping lateralizes temporal lobe epilepsy with high accuracy in individual patients. https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.02.05.23285034

Gadson, D.S., Wesley, D.B., van der Stelt, C.M., Lacey, E., DeMarco, A.T., Snider, S.F., & Turkeltaub, P.E. (2022). Aphasia severity is modulated by race and lesion size in chronic survivors: A retrospective study. Journal of communication disorders, 100, 106270. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcomdis.2022.106270

McCall, J., van der Stelt, C.M., DeMarco, A., Vivian, D.J., Dvorak, E., Lacey, E., Snider, S., Friedman, R., & Turkeltaub, P. (2022). Distinguishing semantic control and phonological control and their role in aphasic deficits: A task switching investigation. Neuropsychologia, 173, 108302. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2022.108302

Turkeltaub, P.E., DeMarco, A.T., & Ghaleh, M. (2022). Selecting and Handling Behavioral Measures for Lesion-Symptom Mapping. Neuromethods, 237–255. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-0716-2225-4_13

Ketchabaw, W.T., DeMarco, A.T., Paul, S., Dvorak, E., van der Stelt, C., & Turkeltaub, P.E. (2022). The organization of individually mapped structural and functional semantic networks in aging adults. Brain structure & function, 227(7), 2513–2527. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00429-022-02544-4

Medaglia, J.D., Erickson, B.A., Pustina, D., Kelkar, A.S., DeMarco, A.T., Dickens, J.V., & Turkeltaub, P.E. (2022). Simulated Attack Reveals How Lesions Affect Network Properties in Poststroke Aphasia. The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience, 42(24), 4913–4926. https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1163-21.2022

DeMarco, A.T., van der Stelt, C., Paul, S., Dvorak, E., Lacey, E., Snider, S., & Turkeltaub, P.E. (2022). Absence of Perilesional Neuroplastic Recruitment in Chronic Poststroke Aphasia. Neurology, 99(2), e119–e128. https://doi.org/10.1212/WNL.0000000000200382

McCall, J.D., Vivian Dickens, J., Mandal, A.S., DeMarco, A.T., Fama, M.E., Lacey, E.H., Kelkar, A., Medaglia, J.D., & Turkeltaub, P.E. (2022). Structural disconnection of the posterior medial frontal cortex reduces speech error monitoring. NeuroImage. Clinical, 33, 102934. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nicl.2021.102934

Erickson, B.A., Kim, B., Deck, B.L., Pustina, D., DeMarco, A.T., Dickens, J.V., Kelkar, A.S., Turkeltaub, P.E., & Medaglia, J.D. (2022). Preserved anatomical bypasses predict variance in language functions after stroke. Cortex, 155, 46–61. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cortex.2022.05.023

Maisog, J.M., DeMarco, A.T., Devarajan, K., Young, S.S., Fogel, P., & Luta, G. (2021). Assessing Methods for Evaluating the Number of Components in Non-Negative Matrix Factorization. Mathematics (Basel, Switzerland), 9(22), 2840. https://doi.org/10.3390/math9222840

Dickens, J.V., DeMarco, A.T., van der Stelt, C.M., Snider, S.F., Lacey, E.H., Medaglia, J.D., Friedman, R.B., & Turkeltaub, P.E. (2021). Two types of phonological reading impairment in stroke aphasia. Brain communications, 3(3), fcab194. https://doi.org/10.1093/braincomms/fcab194

Königsberg, A., DeMarco, A.T., Mayer, C., Wouters, A., Schlemm, E., Ebinger, M., Cho, T.H., Endres, M., Fiebach, J.B., Fiehler, J., Galinovic, I., Puig, J., Thijs, V., Lemmens, R., Muir, K.W., Nighoghossian, N., Pedraza, S., Simonsen, C.Z., Gerloff, C., Thomalla, G., … Cheng, B. (2021). Influence of stroke infarct location on quality of life assessed in a multivariate lesion-symptom mapping study. Scientific reports, 11(1), 13490. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-92865-x

DeMarco, A.T., Dvorak, E., Lacey, E., Stoodley, C.J., & Turkeltaub, P.E. (2021). An Exploratory Study of Cerebellar Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation in Individuals With Chronic Stroke Aphasia. Cognitive and behavioral neurology : official journal of the Society for Behavioral and Cognitive Neurology, 34(2), 96–106. https://doi.org/10.1097/WNN.0000000000000270

Dvorak, E.L., Gadson, D.S., Lacey, E.H., DeMarco, A.T., & Turkeltaub, P.E. (2021). Domains of Health-Related Quality of Life Are Associated With Specific Deficits and Lesion Locations in Chronic Aphasia. Neurorehabilitation and neural repair, 35(7), 634–643. https://doi.org/10.1177/15459683211017507

DeMarco, A.T., & Turkeltaub, P.E. (2020). Functional anomaly mapping reveals local and distant dysfunction caused by brain lesions. NeuroImage, 215, 116806. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2020.116806

Mandal, A.S., Fama, M.E., Skipper-Kallal, L.M., DeMarco, A.T., Lacey, E.H., & Turkeltaub, P.E. (2020). Brain structures and cognitive abilities important for the self-monitoring of speech errors. Neurobiology of language (Cambridge, Mass.), 1(3), 319–338. https://doi.org/10.1162/nol_a_00015

Ghaleh, M., Lacey, E.H., Fama, M.E., Anbari, Z., DeMarco, A.T., & Turkeltaub, P.E. (2020). Dissociable Mechanisms of Verbal Working Memory Revealed through Multivariate Lesion Mapping. Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991), 30(4), 2542–2554. https://doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhz259

Wilson, S.M., Eriksson, D.K., Yen, M., Demarco, A.T., Schneck, S.M., & Lucanie, J.M. (2019). Language Mapping in Aphasia. Journal of speech, language, and hearing research : JSLHR, 62(11), 3937–3946. https://doi.org/10.1044/2019_JSLHR-L-RSNP-19-0031

Dvorak, E., DeMarco, A., Stoodley, C., & Turkeltaub, P. (2019). A Pilot Study of Right Cerebellar tDCS as a Therapeutic Adjuvant in Chronic Aphasia after Left-Hemisphere Stroke (P5.6-006). Neurology, 92(15_supplement). https://doi.org/10.1212/wnl.92.15_supplement.p5.6-006

DeMarco, A., & Turkeltaub, P. (2019). Functional anomaly mapping using BOLD time-courses reveals local and distant dysfunction caused by stroke (P5.6-002). Neurology, 92(15_supplement). https://doi.org/10.1212/wnl.92.15_supplement.p5.6-002

Dickens, J.V., Fama, M.E., DeMarco, A.T., Lacey, E.H., Friedman, R.B., & Turkeltaub, P.E. (2019). Localization of Phonological and Semantic Contributions to Reading. The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience, 39(27), 5361–5368. https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2707-18.2019

Yen, M., DeMarco, A.T., & Wilson, S.M. (2019). Adaptive paradigms for mapping phonological regions in individual participants. NeuroImage, 189, 368–379. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2019.01.040

Ghaleh, M., Skipper-Kallal, L.M., Xing, S., Lacey, E., DeWitt, I., DeMarco, A., & Turkeltaub, P. (2018). Phonotactic processing deficit following left-hemisphere stroke. Cortex, 99, 346–357. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cortex.2017.12.010

DeMarco, A.T., & Turkeltaub, P.E. (2018). A multivariate lesion symptom mapping toolbox and examination of lesion-volume biases and correction methods in lesion-symptom mapping. Human brain mapping, 39(11), 4169–4182. https://doi.org/10.1002/hbm.24289

DeMarco, A.T., Wilson, S.M., Rising, K., Rapcsak, S.Z., & Beeson, P.M. (2018). The neural substrates of improved phonological processing following successful treatment in a case of phonological alexia and agraphia. Neurocase, 24(1), 31–40. https://doi.org/10.1080/13554794.2018.1428352

Beeson, P.M., Rising, K., DeMarco, A.T., Foley, T.H., & Rapcsak, S.Z. (2018). The nature and treatment of phonological text agraphia. Neuropsychological rehabilitation, 28(4), 568–588. https://doi.org/10.1080/09602011.2016.1199387

DeMarco, A.T., Wilson, S.M., Rising, K., Rapcsak, S.Z., & Beeson, P.M. (2017). Neural substrates of sublexical processing for spelling. Brain and language, 164, 118–128. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bandl.2016.10.001

Wilson, S.M., DeMarco, A.T., Henry, M.L., Gesierich, B., Babiak, M., Miller, B.L., & Gorno-Tempini, M.L. (2016). Variable disruption of a syntactic processing network in primary progressive aphasia. Brain : a journal of neurology, 139(11), 2994–3006. https://doi.org/10.1093/brain/aww218

Bonakdarpour, B., Beeson, P.M, DeMarco, A.T., & Rapcsak, S.Z. (2015). Variability in blood oxygen level dependent (BOLD) signal in patients with stroke-induced and primary progressive aphasia. NeuroImage: Clinical, 8, 87–94. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nicl.2015.03.014

Welge, W.A., DeMarco, A.T., Watson, J.M., Rice, P.S., Barton, J.K., & Kupinski, M.A. (2014). Diagnostic potential of multimodal imaging of ovarian tissue using optical coherence tomography and second-harmonic generation microscopy. Journal of medical imaging (Bellingham, Wash.), 1(2), 025501. https://doi.org/10.1117/1.JMI.1.2.025501

Wilson, S.M., DeMarco, A.T., Henry, M.L., Gesierich, B., Babiak, M., Mandelli, M.L., Miller, B.L., & Gorno-Tempini, M.L. (2014). What role does the anterior temporal lobe play in sentence-level processing? Neural correlates of syntactic processing in semantic variant primary progressive aphasia. Journal of cognitive neuroscience, 26(5), 970–985. https://doi.org/10.1162/jocn_a_00550

Welge, W.A., DeMarco, A.T., Watson, J.M., Rice, P.S., Barton, J.K., & Kupinski, M.A. (2014). Objective assessment of multimodality optical coherence tomography and second-harmonic generation image quality of ex vivo mouse ovaries using human observers. SPIE Proceedings, 8936, 893609. https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2040520

Henry, M.L., Rising, K., DeMarco, A.T., Miller, B.L., Gorno-Tempini, M.L., & Beeson, P.M. (2013). Examining the value of lexical retrieval treatment in primary progressive aphasia: Two positive cases. Brain and Language, 127(2), 145–156. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bandl.2013.05.018

Rapcsak, S., DeMarco, A., Wilson, S., & Beeson, P. (2013). Phonological Alexia/Agraphia Reflects Damage to the Dorsal Language Pathway: Evidence from Multimodal Imaging (S18.005). Neurology, 80(7_supplement). https://doi.org/10.1212/wnl.80.7_supplement.s18.005