Steven L. Meisler

Steven L. Meisler

Neuroinformaticist interested in infancy and cognitive development, jazz vibraphonist, and wanna-be BBQ pitmaster. Previously worked on neuro-structural correlates of reading abilities.

Publications

You may also find my articles on my Google Scholar profile or my CV.

The list below is compiled from my Google Scholar profile (as of April 23rd, 2026) using google-scholar-for-github-pages. Please note that author lists are cut-off after the 10th author due to how Google Scholar exports author lists. Please refer to the Google Scholar links for full citations. If you would like PDFs of any of these papers, please reach out! Works under review or in press may not be reflected on this list - please see my CV for a more comprehensive list.

First-Authored Published

  1. Meisler*, S., Kubota*, E., Grotheer, M., Gabrieli, J., & Grill-Spector, K. (2024). A practical guide for combining functional regions of interest and white matter bundles. Frontiers in Neuroscience.
  2. Meisler, S., Gabrieli, J., & Christodoulou, J. (2024). White matter microstructural plasticity associated with educational intervention in reading disability. Imaging Neuroscience.
  3. Meisler, S. & Gabrieli, J. (2022). Fiber-specific structural properties relate to reading skills in children and adolescents. eLife.
  4. Meisler, S. & Gabrieli, J. (2022). A large-scale investigation of white matter microstructural associations with reading ability. NeuroImage.
  5. Meisler, S., Kahana, M., & Ezzyat, Y. (2019). Does data cleaning improve brain state classification?. Journal of neuroscience methods.

First-Author In Review (Preprints)

  1. Meisler, S., Cieslak, M., Bagautdinova, J., Hendrickson, T., Pandhi, T., Chen, A., Hillman, N., Radhakrishnan, H., Salo, T., & Feczko, E. (2026). Highly replicable multisite patterns of adolescent white matter maturation. bioRxiv.

Co-Authored Published

  1. Luo, A., Meisler, S., Sydnor, V., Alexander-Bloch, A., Bagautdinova, J., Barch, D., Bassett, D., Davatzikos, C., Franco, A., & Goldsmith, J. (2026). Two axes of white matter development. Nature Communications.
  2. Rauland, A., Meisler, S., Alexander‐Bloch, A., Bagautdinova, J., Baller, E., Gur, R., Gur, R., Luo, A., Moore, T., & Popovych, O. (2025). White Matter Bundle Reconstruction From Single‐Shell Diffusion Magnetic Resonance Imaging: Test–Retest Reliability and Predictive Capability Across Orientation Distribution Function Reconstruction Methods. Human Brain Mapping.
  3. Yang, Y., Heinsfeld, A., Gondová, A., Vieira, B., Wang, Q., Li, X., Haugen, B., Bandettini, P., Bryant, A., & Chakravarty, M. (2025). Proceedings of the OHBM Hackathon 2023. Aperture Neuro.
  4. Sydnor, V., Bagautdinova, J., Larsen, B., Arcaro, M., Barch, D., Bassett, D., Alexander-Bloch, A., Cook, P., Covitz, S., & Franco, A. (2025). Human thalamocortical structural connectivity develops in line with a hierarchical axis of cortical plasticity. Nature Neuroscience.
  5. Wang, H., Meisler, S., Sharmarke, H., Clarke, N., Gensollen, N., Markiewicz, C., Paugam, F., Thirion, B., & Bellec, P. (2024). Continuous evaluation of denoising strategies in resting-state fMRI connectivity using fMRIPrep and Nilearn. PLOS Computational Biology.
  6. Hur, K., Meisler, S., Yassin, W., Frederick, B., & Kohut, S. (2024). Prefrontal-Limbic Circuitry is Associated with Reward Sensitivity in Nonhuman Primates. Biological Psychiatry.
  7. Decker, A., Meisler, S., Hubbard, N., Bauer, C., Leonard, J., Grotzinger, H., Giebler, M., Torres, Y., Imhof, A., & Romeo, R. (2024). Striatal and Behavioral Responses to Reward Vary by Socioeconomic Status in Adolescents. Journal of Neuroscience.
  8. Poldrack, R., Markiewicz, C., Appelhoff, S., Ashar, Y., Auer, T., Baillet, S., Bansal, S., Beltrachini, L., Benar, C., & Bertazzoli, G. (2024). The past, present, and future of the brain imaging data structure (BIDS). Imaging Neuroscience.
  9. Marks, R., Pollack, C., Meisler, S., D'Mello, A., Centanni, T., Romeo, R., Wade, K., Matejko, A., Ansari, D., & Gabrieli, J. (2024). Neurocognitive mechanisms of co‐occurring math difficulties in dyslexia: Differences in executive function and visuospatial processing. Developmental Science.
  10. Yu, T., Cai, L., Torrisi, S., Vu, A., Morgan, V., Goodale, S., Ramadass, K., Meisler, S., Lv, J., & Warren, A. (2023). Distortion correction of functional MRI without reverse phase encoding scans or field maps. Magnetic Resonance Imaging.
  11. Zhao, C., Tapera, T., Bagautdinova, J., Bourque, J., Covitz, S., Gur, R., Gur, R., Larsen, B., Mehta, K., & Meisler, S. (2023). ModelArray: an R package for statistical analysis of fixel-wise data. NeuroImage.
  12. D’Mello, A., Frosch, I., Meisler, S., Grotzinger, H., Perrachione, T., & Gabrieli, J. (2023). Diminished repetition suppression reveals selective and systems-level face processing differences in ASD. Journal of Neuroscience.
  13. Richie-Halford, A., Cieslak, M., Ai, L., Caffarra, S., Covitz, S., Franco, A., Karipidis, I., Kruper, J., Milham, M., & Avelar-Pereira, B. (2022). An analysis-ready and quality controlled resource for pediatric brain white-matter research. Scientific data.
  14. Edlow, B., Barra, M., Zhou, D., Foulkes, A., Snider, S., Threlkeld, Z., Chakravarty, S., Kirsch, J., Chan, S., & Meisler, S. (2020). Personalized connectome mapping to guide targeted therapy and promote recovery of consciousness in the intensive care unit. Neurocritical care.

Co-Author In Review (Preprints)

  1. McMaster, E., Rudravaram, G., Kim, M., Schwartz, T., Scholten, C., Yoon, J., Saunders, A., Hucke, A., Ramadass, K., & Harriott, E. (2026). Harmonization mitigates diffusion MRI scanner effects in infancy: insights from the HEALthy Brain and Childhood Development (HBCD) study. arXiv preprint arXiv:2604.00246.
  2. Sevchik, B., Shafiei, G., Murtha, K., Linguiti, S., Brodrick, L., Brook, J., Cieslak, M., Flook, E., Mehta, K., & Meisler, S. (2025). An Open, Fully-processed, Longitudinal Data Resource to Study Brain Development and Transdiagnostic Executive Function. bioRxiv.
  3. Cieslak, M., Irfanoglu, M., Meisler, S., Salo, T., Raikes, A., Cook, P., Chung, A., Lee, E., Li, R., & Li, X. (2025). Diffusion MRI Processing in the HEALthy Brain and Child Development Study: Innovations and Applications. bioRxiv.