Publications

For an up-to-date publication list, see my Google Scholar profile.

Preprints/submitted

• Llanos, F.*, Sitek, K. R.*, Feng, G., Chandrasekaran, B. Dimensional coding of native and non-native speech categories. (submitted)
• Sitek, K.R., Helou, L.B., Chandrasekaran, B. Auditory corticostriatal connections in the human brain. bioRxiv (2022 preprint).
• Fan, J., Sitek, K.R., Chandrasekaran, B., Sarkar, A. Bayesian Tensor Factorized Mixed Effects Vector Autoregressive Processes for Inferring Granger Causality Patterns from High-Dimensional Neuroimage Data. arXiv (2022 preprint).

Peer-reviewed publications

• Sitek, K.R., Wearn, A., DuPre, E.M. Communication is the foundation of an impactful and resilient scientific community. Aperture Neuro 2025;5(SI 3). doi:10.52294/​001c.143510.
• Wearn A, Sitek KR, Valk SL, Forkel SJ. The Organization for Human Brain Mapping Time Machine: A freely accessible archive of Annual Meeting talks on YouTube. Aperture Neuro. 2025;5(SI 2). doi:10.52294/​001c.138647
• Chandra, N.K.*, Sitek, K.R.*, Sarkar, A., Chandrasekaran, B. Functional connectivity across the human subcortical auditory system using an autoregressive matrix-Gaussian copula graphical model approach with partial correlations. Imaging Neuroscience (2024). (*: equal contributions)
• Ara, A., Provias, V., Sitek, K.R., Coffey, E., Zatorre, R. Cortical-subcortical interactions to violations of auditory predictions measured with 7T functional MRI. Cerebral Cortex (2024).
• Gnanateja, G.N., Devaraju, D.S., Heyne, M., Quique, Y.M., Sitek, K.R., Tardif, M.C., Tessmer, R., Dial, H.R. On the role of neural oscillations across timescales in speech and music processing. Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience (2022).
• Sitek, K.R., Calabrese, E., Johnson, G.A., Ghosh, S.S., Chandrasekaran, B. Structural connectivity of human inferior colliculus subdivisions using in vivo and post mortem diffusion MRI tractography. Frontiers in Neuroscience (2022).
• P Truong, JH Kim, R Savjani, KR Sitek, G Hagberg, K Scheffler, D Ress. Depth relationships and measures of tissue thickness in dorsal midbrain. Human Brain Mapping (2020).
• Sitek KR*, Gulban OF*, Calabrese E, Johnson GA, Lage-Castellanos A, Moerel M, Ghosh SS†, De Martino F†. Mapping the human subcortical auditory system using histology, postmortem MRI and in vivo MRI at 7T. eLife (2019).(*: equal contributions; †: equal contributions)
• Boets B, Van Eylen L, Sitek K, Moors P, Noens I, Steyaert J, Sunaert S, Wagemans J. Alterations in the inferior longitudinal fasciculus in autism and associations with visual processing: a diffusion-weighted MRI study. Molecular autism (2018).
• Tarabichi O, Kozin ED, Kanumuri VV, Barber S, Ghosh S, Sitek KR, Reinshagen K, Herrmann B, Remenschneider AK, Lee DJ. Diffusion tensor imaging of central auditory pathways in patients with sensorineural hearing loss: a systematic review. Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery (2018).
• Sitek KR, Cai S, Beal DS, Perkell JS, Guenther FH, Ghosh SS. Decreased cerebellar-orbitofrontal connectivity correlates with stuttering severity: whole-brain functional and structural connectivity associations with persistent developmental stuttering. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience (2016).
• Sitek KR, Mathalon DH, Roach BJ, Houde JF, Niziolek CA, Ford JM. Auditory cortex processes variation in our own speech. PloS one (2013).

Conference proceedings and abstracts

• Ara, A., Provias, V., Metz, A., Sitek, K.R., Coffey, E.B.J., Zatorre, R.J. “Different cortical and subcortical responses to violations of top-down and bottom-up auditory predictions measured with 7T functional MRI.” Poster accepted for the Annual Meeting of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping, Montréal, July 2023.
• K. R. Sitek, B. Chandrasekaran. “Mapping the connectivity of auditory cortex with diffusion MRI tractography.” Poster presented at the 2023 Meeting of the American Auditory Society, Scottsdale, AZ, March 2023.
• Llanos, F., Feng, G., Sitek, K. R., Chandrasekaran, B. “Higher-Dimensional Neural Representations Predict Better Speech Category Learning and Native Language Experience.” Poster presented at the 2023 ARO MidWinter Meeting, February 11, 2023.
• Gnanateja GN, Sitek KR, Parida S, Sadagopan S, Chandrasekaran B. Stimulus Feature Decoding using Frequency Following Responses. Poster presented at the Association for Research in Otolaryngology MidWinter Meeting (2023).
• Sitek KR & Gulban OF. Vasculature mapping in human superior and inferior colliculus. In 28th Annual Meeting of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping (2022).
• Gnanateja, G. N.*, Sitek, K. R.*, Llanos, F., and Chandrasekaran, B. (2022). Cross-Modal Approach to Studying FFRs in a Representational Similarity Analysis Framework. Poster presented at the FFR Workshop, Barcelona, Spain, June 6–8, 2022.
• Sitek K, Asma Q, Molla F, Hagberg G, Kim JH, Scheffler K, Himmelbach M, Ress D. Somatovisual processing in the deep layers of the human superior colliculus. In 26th Annual Meeting of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping (2020).
• Sitek K, Ghosh S. Mapping the human subcortical auditory system with 3T quantitative MRI. In 26th Annual Meeting of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping (2020).
• Sitek K, Ciccarelli G, Goncalves M, Quatieri T, Ghosh S. Depression alters limbic-sensorimotor brain interactions during implicit emotional speech production. Poster presented at the meeting of the Society for the Neurobiology of Language (2017).
• Sitek K, Johnson K. Ipsilateral and contralateral phonetic context effects [PDF]. In Proceedings from the Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society (2012).

Dissertation

• Sitek KR. Mapping the Human Subcortical Auditory System With MRI. Doctoral dissertation, Harvard University, Graduate School of Arts & Sciences (2019).