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Overview

Lee A. Thompson is affiliated with Case Western Reserve University in the United States. Their research focuses primarily on cognitive neuroscience and developmental and educational psychology, with particular attention to reading, literacy development, and the cognitive and developmental aspects of mathematical skills.

Their scholarly contributions span several main fields of study including:

  • Neuroscience
  • Psychology

Within these fields, Thompson's subfields of study include:

  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Developmental and Educational Psychology
  • Statistics and Probability
  • Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health
  • Education

The core topics addressed in Thompson's work can be detailed as:

  • Reading and Literacy Development
  • Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
  • Cognitive and developmental aspects of mathematical skills
  • Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism
  • Infant Development and Preterm Care
  • Neonatal and fetal brain pathology
  • Education Systems and Policy

Thompson has authored several recent papers across diverse journals and venues, including:

  • "Left posterior prefrontal regions support domain-general executive processes needed for both reading and math" (2020), Journal of Neuropsychology
  • "The Angular Gyrus as a Hub for Modulation of Language-related Cortex by Distinct Prefrontal Executive Control Regions" (2022), Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
  • "The Influence of Executive Processing on Reading Comprehension During Adolescence" (2023), Mind Brain and Education
  • "Fractions strategy differences in those born extremely preterm" (2022), bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • "How relations between early reading skills and third-grade mathematics outcomes vary across distribution: A quantile regression approach" (2024), Developmental Psychology

The venues where Thompson frequently publishes reflect varied emphases in their research:

  • Journal of Neuropsychology
  • Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Mind Brain and Education
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Developmental Psychology

Collaborations are a significant feature of Thompson's academic work. Frequent co-authors include:

  • Erik G. Willcutt
  • Stephen A. Petrill
  • Marie T. Banich
  • Daniel R. Leopold
  • Laurie E. Cutting

Overall, Lee A. Thompson's research addresses the neural underpinnings and behavioral aspects of literacy and mathematical cognition, emphasizing executive processes and developmental trajectories across childhood and adolescence. Their work integrates perspectives from neuroscience, psychology, education, and health sciences to explore complex interactions affecting cognitive development and learning outcomes.

Best Publications

  • Predicting academic achievement with cognitive ability

    Treena Eileen Rohde;Lee Anne Thompson

  • The heritability of general cognitive ability increases linearly from childhood to young adulthood

    Claire M. A. Haworth;M. J. Wright;M. Luciano;N. G. Martin

  • A Twin Study of Competence and Problem Behavior in Childhood and Early Adolescence

    Craig Edelbrock;Richard Rende;Robert Plomin;Lee Anne Thompson

  • A Study of Developmental Speech and Language Disorders in Twins

    Barbara A. Lewis;Lee A. Thompson

  • Associations Between Cognitive Abilities and Scholastic Achievement: Genetic Overlap but Environmental Differences

    Lee Anne Thompson;Douglas K. Detterman;Robert Plomin

  • Is Math Anxiety Always Bad for Math Learning? The Role of Math Motivation

    Zhe Wang;Sarah L. Lukowski;Sara A. Hart;Ian M. Lyons

  • Working memory training does not improve intelligence in healthy young adults

    Weng-Tink Chooi;Weng-Tink Chooi;Lee A. Thompson

  • Conduct problems, IQ, and household chaos: a longitudinal multi-informant study.

    Kirby Deater-Deckard;Paula Y. Mullineaux;Charles Beekman;Stephen A. Petrill

  • A Quantitative Trait Locus Associated With Cognitive Ability in Children

    M.j. Chorney;K. Chorney;N. Seese;M.j. Owen

  • Who is afraid of math? Two sources of genetic variance for mathematical anxiety.

    Zhe Wang;Sara Ann Hart;Yulia Kovas;Yulia Kovas;Yulia Kovas;Sarah Lukowski

  • Maternal Working Memory and Reactive Negativity in Parenting

    Kirby Deater-Deckard;Michael D. Sewell;Stephen A. Petrill;Lee A. Thompson

  • The ABCs of Math: A Genetic Analysis of Mathematics and Its Links With Reading Ability and General Cognitive Ability.

    Sara A. Hart;Stephen A. Petrill;Lee A. Thompson;Robert Plomin

  • Infant predictors of preschool and adult IQ: A study of infant twins and their parents.

    Lisabeth F. DiLalla;L. A. Thompson;Robert Plomin;Kay Phillips

  • 2D and 3D high resolution gradient echo functional imaging of the brain: venous contributions to signal in motor cortex studies.

    E. M. Haacke;E. M. Haacke;A. Hopkins;S. Lai;P. Buckley

  • Cortical localization of human sustained attention: detection with functional MR using a visual vigilance paradigm.

    Jonathan S. Lewin;Lee Friedman;Dee Wu;David A. Miller

  • The Role of IQ in a Component Model of Reading

    Rolando D. Tiu;Lee A. Thompson;Barbara A. Lewis

  • Reading Skills in Early Readers: Genetic and Shared Environmental Influences

    Stephen A. Petrill;Kirby Deater-Deckard;Lee Anne Thompson;Laura Segebart DeThorne

  • Longitudinal prediction of specific cognitive abilities from infant novelty preference.

    Lee A. Thompson;Joseph F. Fagan;David W. Fulker

  • DNA markers associated with high versus low IQ: The IQ quantitative trait loci (QTL) project

    Robert Plomin;Gerald E. McClearn;Deborah L. Smith;Sylvia Vignetti

  • SES and CHAOS as environmental mediators of cognitive ability: A longitudinal genetic analysis

    Sara A. Hart;Stephen A. Petrill;Kirby Deater Deckard;Lee A. Thompson

  • Learning and Individual Differences

    Lee Anne Thompson;Jeremy Oehlert

Frequent Co-Authors

Stephen A. Petrill
Stephen A. Petrill The Ohio State University
Robert Plomin
Robert Plomin King's College London
Kirby Deater-Deckard
Kirby Deater-Deckard University of Massachusetts Amherst
Sara A. Hart
Sara A. Hart University of Waterloo
Douglas K. Detterman
Douglas K. Detterman Case Western Reserve University
Yulia Kovas
Yulia Kovas Goldsmiths University of London
David Lubinski
David Lubinski Vanderbilt University
Michael John Owen
Michael John Owen Cardiff University
Laurie E. Cutting
Laurie E. Cutting Vanderbilt University
Christopher Schatschneider
Christopher Schatschneider Florida State University

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