2026 Nadine Gaab: Social Sciences and Humanities Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Neuroscience	54	4932	4535	2213	2000	122	10089
Social Sciences and Humanities	54	2183	1987	1050	944	122	10063

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

510
Citations
Cerebellar Volume of Musicians

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

494
Citations
Sleep-dependent motor memory plasticity in the human brain

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

430
Citations
Behavioral and Neural Correlates of Executive Functioning in Musicians and Non-Musicians

Jennifer Zuk;Christopher Benjamin;Arnold Kenyon;Nadine Gaab

429
Citations
Connectivity precedes function in the development of the visual word form area

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

425
Citations
Functional anatomy of pitch memory--an fMRI study with sparse temporal sampling.

Nadine Gaab;Christian Gaser;Tino Zaehle;Lutz Jancke

418
Citations
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

308
Citations
Structural brain alterations associated with dyslexia predate reading onset

Nora Maria Raschle;Maria Chang;Nadine Gaab

301
Citations
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

299
Citations
Functional characteristics of developmental dyslexia in left-hemispheric posterior brain regions predate reading onset.

Nora Maria Raschle;Jennifer Zuk;Nadine Gaab

288
Citations
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

284
Citations
Pediatric neuroimaging in early childhood and infancy: Challenges and practical guidelines

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

282
Citations
Short-term functional plasticity in the human auditory cortex: an fMRI study.

L Jäncke;N Gaab;T Wüstenberg;H Scheich

241
Citations
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

227
Citations
Tackling the 'dyslexia paradox': reading brain and behavior for early markers of developmental dyslexia.

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

226
Citations
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

175
Citations
Dissociable networks for the expectancy and perception of emotional stimuli in the human brain

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

175
Citations
Improvement-related functional plasticity following pitch memory training

Nadine Gaab;Christian Gaser;Gottfried Schlaug

164
Citations
The effect of musicianship on pitch memory in performance matched groups.

Nadine Gaab;Gottfried Schlaug

155
Citations
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

147
Citations
Connectivity precedes function in the development of the visual word form area

Nancy Kanwisher;David Osher;Elizabeth Norton;Deanna Youssoufian

9
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

John D. E. Gabrieli MIT

Gottfried Schlaug University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School

Charles A. Nelson Boston Children's Hospital

P. Ellen Grant Boston Children's Hospital

Bruce Fischl Harvard University

Sara Jane Webb Seattle Children's Hospital

Paula Tallal Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

Raphael Bernier University of Washington

Daniel H. Geschwind University of California, Los Angeles

Nancy Kanwisher MIT

External Links

Personal website of Nadine Gaab

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