2026 Brenda Rapp: Psychology Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Neuroscience	50	5711	5255	2522	2275	216	9949
Psychology	52	5014	4652	2749	2490	206	10054

Overview

Brenda Rapp is affiliated with Johns Hopkins University in the United States. Their research spans neuroscience and medicine, with a focus on cognitive neuroscience and related subfields such as developmental and educational psychology, radiology, nuclear medicine and imaging, neurology, and education. Their body of work emphasizes neurobiological aspects of language and bilingualism, EEG and brain-computer interfaces, advanced neuroimaging techniques, reading and literacy development, functional brain connectivity, neural and behavioral psychology, and transcranial magnetic stimulation.

Recent publications by Brenda Rapp include studies addressing neural substrates and brain stimulation effects. Notable papers are:

Sex difference in tDCS current mediated by changes in cortical anatomy: A study across young, middle and older adults (2021, Brain Stimulation)
Common and distinct neural substrates of sentence production and comprehension (2020, NeuroImage)
Different patterns of functional network reorganization across the variants of primary progressive aphasia: a graph-theoretic analysis (2020, Neurobiology of Aging)
The Effects of Handwriting Experience on Literacy Learning (2021, Psychological Science)
Selective Functional Network Changes Following tDCS-Augmented Language Treatment in Primary Progressive Aphasia (2021, Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience)

Brenda Rapp has coauthored extensively with several researchers, indicating collaborative work in their fields. Frequent coauthors include Tao Yuan, Kyrana Tsapkini, Robert W. Wiley, Cynthia K. Thompson, and Swathi Kiran.

The scientist has published multiple articles in leading venues such as Scientific Reports, Cortex, Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, Frontiers in Neurology, and Neurobiology of Language. Their research outputs include books, among them a title published by Psychology Press eBooks in 2024 titled Dysgraphia: Cognitive Processes, Remediation, and Neural Substrates.

Main fields of study encompass 60 publications in neuroscience and 21 in medicine. Subfields prominently featured include cognitive neuroscience (53 publications), developmental and educational psychology, radiology and imaging, neurology, and education. Key topics in their work include neurobiology of language and bilingualism, EEG and brain-computer interfaces, advanced neuroimaging techniques and applications, reading and literacy development, functional brain connectivity studies, neural and behavioral psychology studies, and transcranial magnetic stimulation studies.

Best Publications

The multiple semantics hypothesis: Multiple confusions?

Alfonso Caramazza;Argye E. Hillis;Brenda C. Rapp;Cristina Romani

842
Citations
Discreteness and interactivity in spoken word production.

Brenda Rapp;Matthew Goldrick

796
Citations
Selective impairment of semantics in lexical processing

Argye E. Hillis;Brenda Rapp;Cristina Romani;Alfonso Caramazza

399
Citations
The spelling process.

Marie-Josèphe Tainturier;Brenda Rapp

398
Citations
Handbook of Cognitive Neuropsychology: What Deficits Reveal About the Human Mind

Brenda Rapp

356
Citations
Examining the central and peripheral processes of written word production through meta-analysis.

Jeremy J. Purcell;Peter E. Turkeltaub;Guinevere F. Eden;Brenda Rapp

283
Citations
The integration of information across lexical and sublexical processes in spelling.

Brenda Rapp;Cathy Epstein;Marie Josèphe Tainturier

251
Citations
Lexical and Post-Lexical Phonological Representations in Spoken Production.

Matthew Goldrick;Brenda Rapp

240
Citations
Translational Research in Aphasia: From Neuroscience to Neurorehabilitation

Anastasia M. Raymer;Pelagie Beeson;Audrey Holland;Diane Kendall

238
Citations
The Autonomy of Lexical Orthography

Brenda Rapp;Lisa Benzing;Alfonso Caramazza

236
Citations
The literate brain: The relationship between spelling and reading

Brenda Rapp;Kate Lipka

207
Citations
From Graphemes to Abstract Letter Shapes: Levels of Representation in Written Spelling

Brenda Rapp;Alfonso Caramazza

193
Citations
The nature of sublexical orthographic organization: The bigram trough hypothesis examined

Brenda C Rapp

191
Citations
On the distinction between deficits of access and deficits of storage : a question of theory

Brenda Rapp;Alfonso Caramazza

184
Citations
Selective difficulties with spoken nouns and written verbs: A single case study

Brenda Rapp;Alfonso Caramazza

167
Citations
The Modality-Specific Organization of Grammatical Categories: Evidence from Impaired Spoken and Written Sentence Production

Brenda Rapp;Alfonso Caramazza

154
Citations
The neurotopography of written word production: An fmri investigation of the distribution of sensitivity to length and frequency

Brenda Rapp;Olivier Dufor

148
Citations
When a rose is a rose in speech but a tulip in writing

Argye Elizabeth Hillis;Brenda C. Rapp;Alfonso Caramazza

138
Citations
Neural bases of orthographic long-term memory and working memory in dysgraphia.

Brenda Rapp;Jeremy Purcell;Argye E. Hillis;Rita Capasso

135
Citations
The orthography-specific functions of the left fusiform gyrus: Evidence of modality and category specificity

Kyrana Tsapkini;Kyrana Tsapkini;Brenda Rapp

129
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Alfonso Caramazza Harvard University

Michael McCloskey Johns Hopkins University

Swathi Kiran Boston University

Cynthia K. Thompson Northwestern University

David Caplan Harvard University

Michele Miozzo Columbia University

Todd B. Parrish Northwestern University

Argye E. Hillis Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

Richard E. Zinbarg Northwestern University

John E. Desmond Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

External Links

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