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Leo Blomert publication distribution in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Leo Blomert sits on this spectrum.

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44 publications 570+

This scientist: 75 publications — 4th percentile

4% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 570 publications or more.

Leo Blomert D-index placement in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Social Sciences and Humanities scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Leo Blomert sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 40 D-Index — 34th percentile

34% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 100 D-Index or more.

Overview

Leo Blomert was affiliated with Maastricht University in the Netherlands. Their research focused across several interdisciplinary fields, mainly within psychology, mathematics, and neuroscience. Subfields of study included developmental and educational psychology, statistics and probability, and cognitive neuroscience.

The main topics addressed in their work involved reading and literacy development, cognitive and developmental aspects of mathematical skills, as well as tactile and sensory interactions.

Blomert's research output included publications in venues such as Scientific Reports. Among their recent papers was the article titled Visual word form processing deficits driven by severity of reading impairments in children with developmental dyslexia, published in 2020 by Scientific Reports.

The scientist collaborated frequently with a group of co-authors, including:

  • Silvia Brem
  • Urs Maurer
  • Martin Kronbichler
  • Matthias Schurz
  • Fabio Richlan

These collaborations reflected interdisciplinary connections spanning cognitive neuroscience and developmental psychology, particularly relating to reading impairments and literacy processing.

Throughout their career, Blomert contributed to understanding developmental dyslexia and its neural correlates, integrating statistical and probabilistic approaches within their research methodology. Although no specific awards were recorded, their body of work covers critical areas in cognitive neuroscience and education.

Best Publications

  • Orthographic Depth and Its Impact on Universal Predictors of Reading A Cross-Language Investigation

    Johannes C. Ziegler;Daisy Bertrand;Denes Toth;Valeria Csepe

  • Integration of letters and speech sounds in the human brain.

    Nienke van Atteveldt;Elia Formisano;Rainer Goebel;Rainer Goebel;Leo Blomert

  • Predictors of developmental dyslexia in European orthographies with varying complexity

    Karin Landerl;Karin Landerl;Franck Ramus;Kristina Moll;Kristina Moll;Heikki Lyytinen

  • Numerical predictors of arithmetic success in grades 1–6

    Ian M. Lyons;Gavin R. Price;Anniek Vaessen;Leo Blomert

  • The neural signature of orthographic-phonological binding in successful and failing reading development.

    Leo Blomert

  • Deviant processing of letters and speech sounds as proximate cause of reading failure: a functional magnetic resonance imaging study of dyslexic children

    Vera C Blau;Joel Reithler;Nienke van Atteveldt;Jochen Seitz

  • Reduced Neural Integration of Letters and Speech Sounds Links Phonological and Reading Deficits in Adult Dyslexia

    Vera C Blau;Nienke van Atteveldt;Michel Ekkebus;Rainer Goebel

  • The Effect of Temporal Asynchrony on the Multisensory Integration of Letters and Speech Sounds

    Nienke M. van Atteveldt;Elia Formisano;Leo Blomert;Rainer Goebel;Rainer Goebel

  • Long-term cognitive dynamics of fluent reading development.

    Anniek Vaessen;Leo Blomert

  • Cognitive Development of Fluent Word Reading Does Not Qualitatively Differ Between Transparent and Opaque Orthographies

    Anniek Vaessen;Daisy Bertrand;Dénes Tóth;Valéria Csépe

  • The long road to automation: Neurocognitive development of letter-speech sound processing

    Dries J. W. Froyen;Milene L. Bonte;Nienke van Atteveldt;Leo Blomert

  • Naming problems do not reflect a second independent core deficit in dyslexia: Double deficits explored

    Anniek Vaessen;Patty Gerretsen;Leo Blomert

  • Amsterdam—Nijmegen everyday language test: construction, reliability and validity

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  • Coping with phonological assimilation in speech perception: evidence for early compensation.

    Holger Mitterer;Leo Blomert

  • What basic number processing measures in kindergarten explain unique variability in first-grade arithmetic proficiency?

    Dimona Bartelet;Anniek Vaessen;Leo Blomert;Daniel Ansari

  • Graph analysis of EEG resting state functional networks in dyslexic readers

    G Fraga González;M J W Van der Molen;Gojko Žarić;M Bonte

  • Evidence for a specific cross-modal association deficit in dyslexia: an electrophysiological study of letter-speech sound processing.

    Dries Froyen;Gonny Willems;Leo Blomert

  • The fragile nature of the speech-perception deficit in dyslexia: natural vs synthetic speech.

    Leo Blomert;Holger Mitterer

  • Top-down task effects overrule automatic multisensory responses to letter-sound pairs in auditory association cortex.

    Nienke M. van Atteveldt;Elia Formisano;Rainer Goebel;Leo Blomert

  • Cognitive subtypes of mathematics learning difficulties in primary education.

    Dimona Bartelet;Daniel Ansari;Anniek Vaessen;Leo Blomert

  • Developmental dyslexia: ERP correlates of anomalous phonological processing during spoken word recognition.

    Milene L. Bonte;Leo Blomert

  • Cross-modal enhancement of the MMN to speech-sounds indicates early and automatic integration of letters and speech-sounds

    Dries Froyen;Nienke Van Atteveldt;Milene L Bonte;Leo Blomert

Frequent Co-Authors

Rainer Goebel
Rainer Goebel Maastricht University
Holger Mitterer
Holger Mitterer University of Malta
Valéria Csépe
Valéria Csépe Hungarian Academy of Sciences
Maurits W. van der Molen
Maurits W. van der Molen University of Amsterdam
Karin Landerl
Karin Landerl University of Graz
Daniel Brandeis
Daniel Brandeis University of Zurich
Elia Formisano
Elia Formisano Maastricht University
Urs Maurer
Urs Maurer Chinese University of Hong Kong
Gerd Schulte-Körne
Gerd Schulte-Körne Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Kristina Moll
Kristina Moll Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München

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