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Overview

Gaia Scerif is affiliated with the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans the fields of Neuroscience and Psychology, with a strong focus on Cognitive Neuroscience, Education, Developmental and Educational Psychology, Clinical Psychology, and Genetics.

The scientist's work covers a range of topics including:

  • Autism Spectrum Disorder Research
  • Early Childhood Education and Development
  • Genetics and Neurodevelopmental Disorders
  • Cognitive and developmental aspects of mathematical skills
  • Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
  • Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
  • Infant Development and Preterm Care

Gaia Scerif has contributed to numerous academic papers published in frequent venues such as Infant and Child Development, Developmental Science, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Journal of Vision, and AIDS Care.

Some of the recent papers connected to their research interests include:

  • Publishing child development research from around the world: An unfair playing field resulting in most of the world's child population under-represented in research (2022, Infant and Child Development)
  • Domain-general and domain-specific influences on emerging numerical cognition: Contrasting uni-and bidirectional prediction models (2021, Cognition)
  • The neural correlates of inhibitory control in 10-month-old infants: A functional near-infrared spectroscopy study (2022, NeuroImage)
  • Early-life stature, preschool cognitive development, schooling attainment, and cognitive functioning in adulthood: a prospective study in four birth cohorts (2022, The Lancet Global Health)
  • Fragile X syndrome: an overview of cause, characteristics, assessment and management (2020, Paediatrics and Child Health)

Gaia Scerif frequently collaborates with other researchers. Their common co-authors include Steven J. Howard, Rebecca Merkley, Catherine E. Draper, Caylee J. Cook, and Catherine Manning, with collaboration counts ranging between 10 and 14 publications each.

Best Publications

  • Executive functioning as a predictor of children's mathematics ability: Inhibition, switching, and working memory

    Rebecca Bull;Gaia Scerif

  • Using developmental trajectories to understand developmental disorders.

    Michael S. C. Thomas;Dagmara Annaz;Daniel Ansari;Gaia Scerif

  • The attentive brain: insights from developmental cognitive neuroscience.

    Dima Amso;Gaia Scerif

  • Task-related Default Mode Network modulation and inhibitory control in ADHD: effects of motivation and methylphenidate

    Elizabeth B. Liddle;Chris Hollis;Martin J. Batty;Madeleine J. Groom

  • Training attentional control and working memory - Is younger, better?

    Sam Wass;G. Scerif;Mark H. Johnson

  • Visual search in typically developing toddlers and toddlers with Fragile X or Williams syndrome

    Gaia Scerif;Gaia Scerif;Kim Cornish;John Wilding;Jon Driver

  • Neurocognitive outcomes of individuals with a sex chromosome trisomy: XXX, XYY, or XXY: a systematic review.

    Victoria Leggett;Patricia Jacobs;Patricia Jacobs;Kate Nation;I. Gaia Scerif

  • Cortical gray matter in attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder: a structural magnetic resonance imaging study.

    Martin J. Batty;Elizabeth B. Liddle;Alain Pitiot;Roberto Toro

  • TRACING SYNDROME-SPECIFIC TRAJECTORIES OF ATTENTION ACROSS THE LIFESPAN

    Kim Cornish;Gaia Scerif;Annette Karmiloff-Smith

  • Double dissociations in developmental disorders? Theoretically misconceived, empirically dubious.

    Annette Karmiloff-Smith;Gaia Scerif;Daniel Ansari

  • Autism, language and communication in children with sex chromosome trisomies

    Dorothy V M Bishop;Patricia A Jacobs;Katherine Lachlan;Diana Wellesley

  • The Multiple Subfunctions of Attention: Differential Developmental Gateways to Literacy and Numeracy

    Ann Steele;Annette Karmiloff-Smith;Kim Marie Cornish;Gaia Scerif

  • Mitigating the effect of persistent postnatal depression on child outcomes through an intervention to treat depression and improve parenting: a randomised controlled trial

    AL Stein;AL Stein;E Netsi;PJ Lawrence;PJ Lawrence;PJ Lawrence;C Granger

  • Publishing child development research from around the world: An unfair playing field resulting in most of the world's child population under‐represented in research

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  • Different approaches to relating genotype to phenotype in developmental disorders.

    Annette Karmiloff-Smith;G. Scerif;Michael S.C. Thomas

  • Social anxiety disorder in adolescence: How developmental cognitive neuroscience findings may shape understanding and interventions for psychopathology.

    Simone P.W. Haller;Kathrin Cohen Kadosh;Gaia Scerif;Jennifer Y.F. Lau

  • Maternal perinatal mental health and offspring academic achievement at age 16: the mediating role of childhood executive function.

    Rebecca M. Pearson;Rebecca M. Pearson;Marc H. Bornstein;Miguel Cordero;Gaia Scerif

  • Using developmental cognitive neuroscience to study behavioral and attentional control.

    Duncan E. Astle;Gaia Scerif

  • Associations of physical activity and gross motor skills with executive function in preschool children from low-income South African settings

    Caylee J. Cook;Steven J. Howard;Gaia Scerif;Rhian Twine

  • Effects of Motivation and Medication on Electrophysiological Markers of Response Inhibition in Children with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder

    Madeleine J. Groom;Gaia Scerif;Peter F. Liddle;Martin J. Batty

  • To Look or Not to Look? Typical and Atypical Development of Oculomotor Control

    Gaia Scerif;Annette Karmiloff-smith;Ruth Campos;Mayada Elsabbagh

  • What is the precise role of cognitive control in the development of a sense of number

    Rebecca Merkley;Gaia Scerif;Daniel Ansari

Frequent Co-Authors

Annette Karmiloff-Smith
Annette Karmiloff-Smith Birkbeck, University of London
Anna C. Nobre
Anna C. Nobre Yale University
Kim Cornish
Kim Cornish Monash University
Anthony M. Norcia
Anthony M. Norcia Stanford University
Alan Stein
Alan Stein University of Oxford
Richard N. Aslin
Richard N. Aslin Yale University
Jennifer Y. F. Lau
Jennifer Y. F. Lau Queen Mary University of London
Kathrin Cohen Kadosh
Kathrin Cohen Kadosh University of Surrey
Mario Liotti
Mario Liotti University of Padua
Martin Eimer
Martin Eimer Birkbeck, University of London

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