Assoz. Prof. Narly Golestani, BSc PhD
Narly Golestani
Wintersemester 2026
200225 SE Vertiefungsseminar: Geist und Gehirn - Bilingualism: Neural bases and Socio-cognitive aspects
540013 SE Dissertant*innen-Seminar - Research about research and language: metascience, meta-analysis, scientific discourse
Sommersemester 2026
200100 SE Anwendungsseminar: Geist und Gehirn - The Neuroscience of Language
540016 SE DissertantInnen-Seminar - Research about research and language: metascience, meta-analysis, scientific discourse analysis, and language neuroscience
Wintersemester 2025
200225 SE Vertiefungsseminar: Geist und Gehirn - Bilingualism: Neural bases and Socio-cognitive aspects
540016 SE DissertantInnen-Seminar - Research about research and language: metascience, meta-analysis, scientific discourse analysis, and language neuroscience
Kepinska, O., Bouhali, F., Degano, G., Berthele, R., Tanaka, H., Hoeft, F., & Golestani, N. (2026). Intergenerational transmission of the structure of the auditory cortex and reading skills. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 79. https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.09.11.610780, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dcn.2026.101702



Bouton, S., Chambon, V., Golestani, N., Formisano, E., Proix, T., & Giraud, A.-L. (2026). Aligning statistical models with inference goals in the neuroscience of language: A dual-dependency taxonomy. Imaging Neuroscience, 4, Artikel IMAG.a.1132. https://doi.org/10.1162/IMAG.a.1132

Balboni, I., Rampinini, A., Kepinska, O., Berthele, R., & Golestani, N. (2025). Brain activation for language and its relationship to cognitive and linguistic measures. Cerebral Cortex, 35(8), Artikel bhaf231. https://doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhaf231

Kepinska, O., Dalboni da Rocha, J. L., Tuerk, C., Hervais-Adelman, A., Bouhali, F., Green, D., Price, C. J., & Golestani, N. (2025). Auditory cortex anatomy reflects multilingual phonological experience. eLife, 12, Artikel RP90269. https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.90269



Ramoser, C., Fischer, A., Caspers, J., Schiller, N. O., Golestani, N., & Kepinska, O. (2025). Language aptitude is related to the anatomy of the transverse temporal gyri. Brain Structure and Function, 230(1), Artikel 14. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00429-024-02883-4



Degano, G., Donhauser, P. W., Gwilliams, L., Merlo, P., & Golestani, N. (2024). Speech prosody enhances the neural processing of syntax. Communications Biology, 7(1), Artikel 748. https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-024-06444-7

Bouton, S., Chambon, V., Golestani, N., Formisano, E., Proix, T., & Giraud, A.-L. (2024). Interpretability of statistical approaches in speech and language neuroscience. PsyArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/8vwcs

Blockmans, L., Golestani, N., Dalboni da Rocha, J. L., Wouters, J., Ghesquière, P., & Vandermosten, M. (2023). Role of family risk and of pre-reading auditory and neurostructural measures in predicting reading outcome. Neurobiology of Language, 4(3), 474-500. https://doi.org/10.1162/nol_a_00111


Dalboni da Rocha, J. L., Kepinska, O., Schneider, P., Benner, J., Degano, G., Schneider, L., & Golestani, N. (2023). Multivariate Concavity Amplitude Index (MCAI) for characterizing Heschl's gyrus shape. NeuroImage, 272, Artikel 120052. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2023.120052




Dalboni da Rocha, J. L., Schneider, P., Benner, J., Santoro, R., Atanasova, T., Ville, D. V. D., & Golestani, N. (2020). TASH: Toolbox for the Automated Segmentation of Heschl’s gyrus. Scientific Reports, 10(1), Artikel 3887. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-60609-y

Computational insights into the brain and language

Golestani, N. (Vortragende*r)

18 Sept. 2025

Aktivität: VorträgeVortragScience to Science


Relative influences of nature vs nurture on the (auditory) brain and language

Golestani, N. (Vortragende*r)

28 Mai 2025

Aktivität: VorträgeVortragScience to Science




Auditory cortex anatomy reflect multilingual phonological experience

Kepinska, O. (Selected presenter), Dalboni da Rocha, J. L. (Autor*in), Tuerk, C. (Autor*in), Hervais-Adelman, A. (Autor*in), Bouhali, F. (Autor*in), Green, D. (Autor*in), Price, C. J. (Autor*in) & Golestani, N. (Autor*in)

11 Juni 2024

Aktivität: VorträgeVortragScience to Science


Neural bases of language learning and multilingualism

Golestani, N. (Vortragende*r)

4 Mai 2023

Aktivität: VorträgeVortragScience to Science


'Language processing in the healthy, dysfunctional and expert brain

Golestani, N. (Invited speaker)

2022

Aktivität: VorträgeVortragScience to Science


Language processing in the healthy, multilingual and expert brain

Golestani, N. (Vortragende*r)

2022

Aktivität: VorträgeVortragScience to Science


Relative influences of nature vs nurture on the brain and language

Golestani, N. (Invited speaker)

2022

Aktivität: VorträgeVortragScience to Science


Language processing in the healthy, dysfunctional and expert brain

Golestani, N. (Invited speaker)

18 Nov. 2021

Aktivität: VorträgeVortragScience to Science


Individual differences in language learning

Golestani, N. (Invited speaker)

15 Okt. 2021

Aktivität: VorträgeVortragScience to Science


Anatomical differences in Heschl’s gyrus in dyslexia, and relation to working memory and phonological skill

Dalboni da Rocha, J. L. (Vortragende*r), Marie, D. (Autor*in), Rutten, S. (Autor*in) & Golestani, N. (Autor*in)

5 Okt. 2021

Aktivität: VorträgeVortragScience to Science


Brain and Language

Golestani, N. (Invited speaker)

29 Sept. 2021

Aktivität: VorträgeVortragScience to Science


Combining prosodic and syntactic information in the brain during listening to naturalistic speech

Golestani, N. (Invited speaker)

15 Sept. 2021

Aktivität: VorträgeVortragScience to Science


Speech and language processing in the healthy, dysfunctional and expert brain

Golestani, N. (Invited speaker)

10 Sept. 2021

Aktivität: VorträgeVortragScience to Public


Speech sound processing and auditory cortex in the healthy, dyslexic, aphasic and expert brain

Golestani, N. (Invited speaker)

5 Aug. 2021

Aktivität: VorträgeVortragScience to Science


Institut für Psychologie der Entwicklung und Bildung

Liebiggasse 5
1010 Wien

narly.golestani@univie.ac.at