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Bruce F. Pennington

Bruce F. Pennington

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Psychology

D-Index
126
Citations
66610
World Ranking
200
National Ranking
125

Research.com Recognitions

  • 1988 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Bruce F. Pennington is affiliated with the University of Denver in the United States. Their research primarily spans the field of psychology, with a focus on developmental and educational psychology. Other significant subfields include genetics, psychiatry and mental health, cognitive neuroscience, and education.

The scientist's work has addressed topics such as reading and literacy development, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, genetics and neurodevelopmental disorders, cognitive and developmental aspects of mathematical skills, language development and disorders, genetic associations and epidemiology, and functional brain connectivity studies.

Frequent publication venues for their research include the Journal of Learning Disabilities, Molecular Psychiatry, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), the Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society, and the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Significant recent papers authored or co-authored by Bruce F. Pennington cover a range of topics:

  • Genome-wide association study reveals new insights into the heritability and genetic correlates of developmental dyslexia (2020, Molecular Psychiatry)
  • Genome-wide analyses of individual differences in quantitatively assessed reading- and language-related skills in up to 34,000 people (2022, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences)
  • Latent brain state dynamics distinguish behavioral variability, impaired decision-making, and inattention (2021, Molecular Psychiatry)
  • How Specific Are Learning Disabilities? (2021, Journal of Learning Disabilities)
  • Discovery of 42 Genome-Wide Significant Loci Associated with Dyslexia (2021, bioRxiv [Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory])

Bruce F. Pennington has collaborated frequently with several co-authors, including:

  • Erik G. Willcutt
  • Richard K. Olson
  • John C. DeFries
  • Lauren M. McGrath
  • Beaté St Pourcain

In recognition of their scientific contributions, Bruce F. Pennington was awarded the title of Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 1988.

Best Publications

  • Executive Functions and Developmental Psychopathology

    Bruce F. Pennington;Sally J Ozonoff

  • Validity of the executive function theory of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder: a meta-analytic review.

    Erik G. Willcutt;Alysa E. Doyle;Joel T. Nigg;Stephen V. Faraone

  • Executive function deficits in high-functioning autistic individuals: Relationship to theory of mind

    Sally Ozonoff;Bruce F. Pennington;Sally J. Rogers

  • A normative‐developmental study of executive function: A window on prefrontal function in children

    Marilyn C. Welsh;Bruce F. Pennington;Dena B. Groisser

  • Assessing frontal lobe functioning in children: Views from developmental psychology

    Marilyn C. Welsh;Bruce F. Pennington

  • From single to multiple deficit models of developmental disorders

    Bruce F. Pennington

  • A theoretical approach to the deficits in infantile autism

    Sally J. Rogers;Bruce F. Pennington

  • Validity of DSM-IV attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder symptom dimensions and subtypes.

    Erik G. Willcutt;Joel T. Nigg;Bruce F. Pennington;Mary V. Solanto

  • Diagnosing Learning Disorders: A Neuropsychological Framework

    Bruce Franklin Pennington

  • Intact and impaired memory functions in autism.

    Loisa Bennetto;Bruce F. Pennington;Sally J. Rogers

  • Neuropsychological Analyses of Comorbidity Between Reading Disability and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder: In Search of the Common Deficit

    Erik G Willcutt;Bruce F Pennington;Richard K Olson;Nomita Chhabildas

  • Quantitative trait locus for reading disability on chromosome 6.

    Lon R. Cardon;Shelley D. Smith;David W. Fulker;William J. Kimberling

  • Word identification in reading and the promise of subsymbolic psycholinguistics.

    Guy C. Van Orden;Bruce F. Pennington;Gregory O. Stone

  • Comorbidity of Reading Disability and Attention-Deficit/ Hyperactivity Disorder Differences by Gender and Subtype

    Erik G. Willcutt;Bruce F. Pennington

  • Psychiatric comorbidity in children and adolescents with reading disability.

    Erik G. Willcutt;Bruce F. Pennington

  • Relations Among Speech, Language, and Reading Disorders

    Bruce F. Pennington;Dorothy V. M. Bishop

  • Seminar: Developmental Dyslexia

    Robin L. Peterson;Bruce F. Pennington

  • Contrasting Cognitive Deficits in Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder versus Reading Disability.

    Bruce F. Pennington;Dena Groisser;Marilyn C. Welsh

  • A Comparison of the Neuropsychological Profiles of the DSM-IV Subtypes of ADHD

    Nomita Chhabildas;Bruce F. Pennington;Erik G. Willcutt

  • Asperger's syndrome: evidence of an empirical distinction from high-functioning autism.

    Sally Ozonoff;Sally J. Rogers;Bruce F. Pennington

Frequent Co-Authors

Richard K. Olson
Richard K. Olson University of Colorado Boulder
John C. DeFries
John C. DeFries University of Colorado Boulder
Erik G. Willcutt
Erik G. Willcutt University of Colorado Boulder
Sally J. Wadsworth
Sally J. Wadsworth University of Colorado Boulder
Sally J. Rogers
Sally J. Rogers University of California, Davis
Janice M. Keenan
Janice M. Keenan University of Denver
Brian Byrne
Brian Byrne University of New England
Stefan Samuelsson
Stefan Samuelsson Linköping University
Simon E. Fisher
Simon E. Fisher Max Planck Society
Anthony P. Monaco
Anthony P. Monaco Tufts University

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