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Nadine Gaab 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 Nadine Gaab sits on this spectrum.

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44 publications 570+

This scientist: 122 publications — 26th percentile

26% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Nadine Gaab 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 Nadine Gaab sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 54 D-Index — 73rd percentile

73% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Nadine Gaab is affiliated with Harvard University in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields, primarily focusing on psychology, neuroscience, and medicine. Key subfields include developmental and educational psychology, cognitive neuroscience, pediatrics, perinatology, child health, statistics, probability, and education.

Their work addresses several core topics such as reading and literacy development, language development and disorders, cognitive and developmental aspects of mathematical skills, neurobiology of language and bilingualism, neonatal and fetal brain pathology, birth, development, health, and autism spectrum disorder research.

Below are some of the recent papers associated with their research involvement:

  • Reintroducing Dyslexia: Early Identification and Implications for Pediatric Practice (2020), published in PEDIATRICS
  • Sex Differences in Functional Connectivity of the Salience, Default Mode, and Central Executive Networks in Youth with ASD (2020), published in Cerebral Cortex
  • Translational Science: A Road Map for the Science of Reading (2020), published in Reading Research Quarterly
  • White Matter in Infancy Is Prospectively Associated with Language Outcomes in Kindergarten (2021), published in Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience
  • A Global Multicohort Study to Map Subcortical Brain Development and Cognition in Infancy and Early Childhood (2023), published in Nature Neuroscience

Frequent collaborators in their research include:

  • Ted K. Turesky
  • Xi Yu
  • Charles A. Nelson
  • Jennifer Zuk
  • Jade Dunstan

Their publications appear often in specific venues, reflecting a focused dissemination of their work. These venues include:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) with 11 publications
  • Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience with 5 publications
  • Cerebral Cortex with 3 publications
  • Biological Psychiatry with 2 publications
  • Developmental Science with 2 publications

The research topics covered reveal an interdisciplinary approach emphasizing developmental processes related to reading, language, brain, and cognitive functions, as well as clinical applications in pediatrics and developmental disorders such as autism spectrum disorder.

Best Publications

  • Dynamic auditory processing, musical experience and language development

    Paula Tallal;Nadine Gaab

  • Cerebellar Volume of Musicians

    Siobhan Hutchinson;Leslie Hui-Lin Lee;Nadine Gaab;Gottfried Schlaug

  • Sleep-dependent motor memory plasticity in the human brain

    M.P. Walker;R. Stickgold;D. Alsop;N. Gaab

  • Behavioral and Neural Correlates of Executive Functioning in Musicians and Non-Musicians

    Jennifer Zuk;Christopher Benjamin;Arnold Kenyon;Nadine Gaab

  • Connectivity precedes function in the development of the visual word form area

    Zeynep M Saygin;David E Osher;Elizabeth S Norton;Deanna A Youssoufian

  • Functional anatomy of pitch memory--an fMRI study with sparse temporal sampling.

    Nadine Gaab;Christian Gaser;Tino Zaehle;Lutz Jancke

  • Neural correlates of rapid auditory processing are disrupted in children with developmental dyslexia and ameliorated with training: an fMRI study.

    N Gaab;J D E Gabrieli;G K Deutsch;P Tallal

  • Structural brain alterations associated with dyslexia predate reading onset

    Nora Maria Raschle;Maria Chang;Nadine Gaab

  • Evaluating the validity of volume-based and surface-based brain image registration for developmental cognitive neuroscience studies in children 4 to 11 years of age

    Satrajit S Ghosh;Sita Kakunoori;Jean C. Augustinack;Alfonso Nieto-Castanon

  • Functional characteristics of developmental dyslexia in left-hemispheric posterior brain regions predate reading onset.

    Nora Maria Raschle;Jennifer Zuk;Nadine Gaab

  • Tracking the Roots of Reading Ability: White Matter Volume and Integrity Correlate with Phonological Awareness in Prereading and Early-Reading Kindergarten Children

    Zeynep M. Saygin;Elizabeth S. Norton;David E. Osher;Sara D. Beach

  • Pediatric neuroimaging in early childhood and infancy: Challenges and practical guidelines

    Nora Raschle;Nora Raschle;Jennifer Margaret Zuk;Silvia Ortiz-Mantilla;Danielle D. Sliva

  • Short-term functional plasticity in the human auditory cortex: an fMRI study.

    L Jäncke;N Gaab;T Wüstenberg;H Scheich

  • Brain Basis of Phonological Awareness for Spoken Language in Children and Its Disruption in Dyslexia

    Ioulia Kovelman;Elizabeth S. Norton;Elizabeth S. Norton;Joanna A. Christodoulou;Nadine Gaab

  • Tackling the 'dyslexia paradox': reading brain and behavior for early markers of developmental dyslexia.

    Ola Ozernov-Palchik;Ola Ozernov-Palchik;Nadine Gaab;Nadine Gaab

  • Development of Tract-Specific White Matter Pathways During Early Reading Development in At-Risk Children and Typical Controls

    Yingying Wang;Yingying Wang;Yingying Wang;Meaghan V. Mauer;Talia Raney;Barbara Peysakhovich

  • Dissociable networks for the expectancy and perception of emotional stimuli in the human brain

    Felix Bermpohl;Alvaro Pascual-Leone;Amir Amedi;Lotfi B. Merabet

  • Improvement-related functional plasticity following pitch memory training

    Nadine Gaab;Christian Gaser;Gottfried Schlaug

  • The effect of musicianship on pitch memory in performance matched groups.

    Nadine Gaab;Gottfried Schlaug

  • Assessing the influence of scanner background noise on auditory processing. I. An fMRI study comparing three experimental designs with varying degrees of scanner noise.

    Nadine Gaab;John D.E. Gabrieli;Gary H. Glover

  • Connectivity precedes function in the development of the visual word form area

    Nancy Kanwisher;David Osher;Elizabeth Norton;Deanna Youssoufian

Frequent Co-Authors

Gottfried Schlaug
Gottfried Schlaug University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School
Charles A. Nelson
Charles A. Nelson Boston Children's Hospital
P. Ellen Grant
P. Ellen Grant Boston Children's Hospital
Bruce Fischl
Bruce Fischl Harvard University
Sara Jane Webb
Sara Jane Webb Seattle Children's Hospital
Paula Tallal
Paula Tallal Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Raphael Bernier
Raphael Bernier University of Washington
Daniel H. Geschwind
Daniel H. Geschwind University of California, Los Angeles

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