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Maureen Dennis

Maureen Dennis

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Psychology

D-Index
73
Citations
15853
World Ranking
1998
National Ranking
112

Overview

Maureen Dennis is affiliated with the University of Toronto in Canada. Their research spans the fields of Psychology and Medicine, with a focus on Developmental and Educational Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience, Statistics and Probability, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, and Education.

Their recent scholarly contributions include work published between 2020 and 2021. Notable papers authored or co-authored by Maureen Dennis include:

  • Long-term cognitive and academic outcomes among pediatric brain tumor survivors treated with proton versus photon radiotherapy, 2021, Pediatric Blood & Cancer
  • The Role of Reading Anxiety among Struggling Readers in Fourth and Fifth Grade, 2021, Reading & Writing Quarterly
  • Reporting of Demographic Variables in Neuropsychological Research: An Update of O'Bryant et al.'s Trends in the Current Literature, 2020, Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society
  • The Not-So-Simple View of Writing in Struggling Readers/Writers, 2021, Reading & Writing Quarterly
  • The Structure of Processing Speed in Children and Its Impact on Reading, 2021, Journal of Cognition and Development

Frequent publication venues for Maureen Dennis include:

  • Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society
  • Pediatric Blood & Cancer
  • Reading & Writing Quarterly
  • Mind Brain and Education
  • Bilingualism Language and Cognition

The main topics of their research encompass areas such as:

  • Reading and Literacy Development
  • Cognitive and developmental aspects of mathematical skills
  • Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
  • Writing and Handwriting Education
  • Neuroscience, Education and Cognitive Function
  • Childhood Cancer Survivors' Quality of Life
  • Education, Achievement, and Giftedness

Throughout their research activities, Maureen Dennis has collaborated frequently with several co-authors, including:

  • Steven Paul Woods
  • Marcia A. Barnes
  • Kelly T. Macdonald
  • Johanna Bick
  • Jeremy Miciak

Best Publications

  • Why IQ is not a covariate in cognitive studies of neurodevelopmental disorders.

    Maureen Dennis;David J. Francis;Paul T. Cirino;Russell Schachar

  • Language acquisition following hemidecortication: Linguistic superiority of the left over the right hemisphere

    Maureen Dennis;Harry A. Whitaker

  • Social Outcomes in Childhood Brain Disorder: A Heuristic Integration of Social Neuroscience and Developmental Psychology

    Keith Owen Yeates;Erin D. Bigler;Maureen Dennis;Cynthia A. Gerhardt

  • Comprehension of syntax in infantile hemiplegics after cerebral hemidecortication: left-hemisphere superiority.

    Maureen Dennis;Bruno Kohn

  • Capacity and strategy for syntactic comprehension after left or right hemidecortication.

    Maureen Dennis

  • Inferential language in high-function children with autism.

    Maureen Dennis;Anne L. Lazenby;Linda Lockyer

  • Spinal lesion level in spina bifida: A source of neural and cognitive heterogeneity

    Jack M. Fletcher;Kim Copeland;Jon A. Frederick;Susan E. Blaser

  • Language and the young damaged brain.

    Maureen Dennis

  • The effects of knowledge availability and knowledge accessibility on coherence and elaborative inferencing in children from six to fifteen years of age

    Marcia A. Barnes;Marcia A. Barnes;Maureen Dennis;Jennifer Haefele-Kalvaitis

  • Impaired sensory and motor differentiation with corpus callosum agenesis: a lack of callosal inhibition during ontogeny?

    M. Dennis

  • A model of neurocognitive function in spina bifida over the life span

    Maureen Dennis;Susan H. Landry;Marcia Barnes;Jack M. Fletcher

  • The Cognitive Phenotype of Spina Bifida Meningomyelocele.

    Maureen Dennis;Marcia A. Barnes

  • Frontal lobe function in childhood and adolescence: A heuristic for assessing attention regulation, executive control, and the intentional states important for social discourse

    Maureen Dennis

  • Prediction of cognitive sequelae based on abnormal computed tomography findings in children following mild traumatic brain injury

    Harvey S. Levin;Gerri Hanten;Garland Roberson;Xiaoqi Li

  • Knowing the meaning, getting the point, bridging the gap, and carrying the message : aspects of discourse following closed head injury in childhood and adolescence

    Maureen Dennis;Marcia A. Barnes

  • Understanding of literal truth, ironic criticism, and deceptive praise following childhood head injury.

    Maureen Dennis;Karen Purvis;Marcia A. Barnes;Margaret Wilkinson

  • Hemispheric Equipotentiality and Language Acquisition

    Maureen Dennis;Harry A. Whitaker

  • Attentional-inhibitory control and social-behavioral regulation after childhood closed head injury: do biological, developmental, and recovery variables predict outcome?

    Maureen Dennis;Sharon Guger;Caroline Roncadin;Marcia Barnes

  • Cortical thickness of the frontopolar area in typically developing children and adolescents.

    Shannon O'Donnell;Michael D. Noseworthy;Brian Levine;Maureen Dennis

  • Attention problems and executive functions in children with spina bifida and hydrocephalus.

    Rachel Burmeister;H. Julia Hannay;Kim Copeland;Jack M. Fletcher

Frequent Co-Authors

Marcia A. Barnes
Marcia A. Barnes Vanderbilt University
Erin D. Bigler
Erin D. Bigler University of Utah
Russell Schachar
Russell Schachar University of Toronto
Keith Owen Yeates
Keith Owen Yeates University of Calgary
Kathryn Vannatta
Kathryn Vannatta The Ohio State University
Cynthia A. Gerhardt
Cynthia A. Gerhardt The Ohio State University
Jack M. Fletcher
Jack M. Fletcher University of Houston
Kenneth H. Rubin
Kenneth H. Rubin University of Maryland, College Park
Terry Stancin
Terry Stancin Case Western Reserve University
Linda Ewing-Cobbs
Linda Ewing-Cobbs The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston

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