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Neuroscience

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75
Citations
26513
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1981
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947

Psychology

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Overview

David Caplan is affiliated with Harvard University in the United States. Their research activity is primarily situated at the intersection of medicine and neuroscience, with a particular focus on cognitive neuroscience and related domains such as developmental and educational psychology, radiology, nuclear medicine and imaging, neurology, and psychiatry and mental health.

The main topics addressed in Caplan's work include neurobiology of language and bilingualism, reading and literacy development, EEG and brain-computer interfaces, advanced neuroimaging techniques and applications, cerebrovascular and carotid artery diseases, stroke rehabilitation and recovery, and telemedicine and telehealth implementation.

Caplan's recent papers exemplify their research interests and contributions within these fields:

  • "Common and distinct neural substrates of sentence production and comprehension" (2020, NeuroImage)
  • "A Computational Evaluation of Two Models of Retrieval Processes in Sentence Processing in Aphasia" (2021, Cognitive Science)
  • "White Matter Hyperintensities Predict Response to Language Treatment in Poststroke Aphasia" (2020, Neurorehabilitation and Neural Repair)
  • "Predicting language recovery in post-stroke aphasia using behavior and functional MRI" (2021, Scientific Reports)
  • "Structural disconnections associated with language impairments in chronic post-stroke aphasia using disconnectome maps" (2022, Cortex)

Caplan frequently publishes in several scientific venues, including Cortex, Pleiades, NeuroImage, Cognitive Science, and Neurorehabilitation and Neural Repair. The distribution of their publications highlights a recurring interest in both high-impact neuroscience journals and specialized clinical and cognitive publications.

Collaboration forms a significant part of Caplan's scientific work. Their frequent coauthors include Swathi Kiran, Cynthia K. Thompson, Brenda Rapp, Todd B. Parrish, and Elena Barbieri. These collaborations reflect connections with researchers active in language neuroscience, neurorehabilitation, and cognitive processes related to aphasia and brain function.

Best Publications

  • Verbal working memory and sentence comprehension.

    David Caplan;Gloria S. Waters

  • Localization of Syntactic Comprehension by Positron Emission Tomography

    Karin Stromswold;David Caplan;Nathaniel Alpert;Scott Rauch

  • Cognition, emotion and the cerebellum

    Jeremy D. Schmahmann;David Caplan

  • Effects of Syntactic Structure and Propositional Number on Patterns of Regional Cerebral Blood Flow

    David Caplan;Nathaniel Alpert;Gloria Waters

  • The Measurement of Verbal Working Memory Capacity and Its Relation to Reading Comprehension

    Gloria S. Waters;David Caplan

  • Speaking. From Intention to Articulation: by Willem J. M. Levelt, MIT Press, 1989. £35.95 (xiv + 566 pages) ISBN 0 262 12137 9

    David Caplan

  • Electrophysiological distinctions in processing conceptual relationships within simple sentences.

    Gina R Kuperberg;Tatiana Sitnikova;David Caplan;Phillip J Holcomb

  • The capacity theory of sentence comprehension: critique of Just and Carpenter (1992)

    Gloria S. Waters;David Caplan

  • Neurolinguistics and linguistic aphasiology : an introduction

    David Caplan

  • Biological studies of mental processes

    Edward H. Matthel;David Caplan

  • Disorders of Syntactic Comprehension

    David Caplan;Nancy Hildebrandt

  • Language: Structure, Processing, and Disorders

    David Caplan

  • Processing of visually presented sentences in Mandarin and English studied with fMRI.

    Michael Wei-Liang Chee;David Caplan;Chun Siong Soon;Natarajan Sriram

  • The measure of laterality.

    John C. Marshall;David Caplan;Jane M. Holmes

  • Activation of Broca's area by syntactic processing under conditions of concurrent articulation

    David Caplan;Nathaniel Alpert;Gloria Waters;Anthony Olivieri

  • Syntactic determinants of sentence comprehension in aphasia.

    David Caplan;Catherine Baker;Francois Dehaut

  • Neurolinguistics must be computational

    Michael A. Arbib;David Caplan

  • Location of lesions in stroke patients with deficits in syntactic processing in sentence comprehension

    David Caplan;Nancy Hildebrandt;Nikos Makris

  • The reliability and stability of verbal working memory measures.

    Gloria S. Waters;David Caplan

  • PET studies of syntactic processing with auditory sentence presentation.

    David Caplan;Nathaniel Alpert;Gloria Waters;Gloria Waters

  • Assignment of thematic roles to nouns in sentence comprehension by an agrammatic patient.

    David Caplan;Christine Futter

  • Localization of Syntactic Comprehension by Positron Emission Tomography

    David Caplan;Nathaniel Alpert;Gloria Waters

Frequent Co-Authors

Gloria Waters
Gloria Waters Boston University
Swathi Kiran
Swathi Kiran Boston University
Cynthia K. Thompson
Cynthia K. Thompson Northwestern University
Brenda Rapp
Brenda Rapp Johns Hopkins University
Nikos Makris
Nikos Makris Brigham and Women's Hospital
Gina R. Kuperberg
Gina R. Kuperberg Tufts University
Todd B. Parrish
Todd B. Parrish Northwestern University
David N. Kennedy
David N. Kennedy University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School
Nathaniel M. Alpert
Nathaniel M. Alpert Harvard University
Phillip J. Holcomb
Phillip J. Holcomb San Diego State University

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