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Overview

Paula Tallal is affiliated with Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey in the United States. Their research spans multiple interconnected fields including Psychology, Neuroscience, and Social Sciences, with a particular emphasis on Developmental and Educational Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience, and Education.

Their recent scholarly contributions include the paper titled Providing Instruction Based on Students' Learning Style Preferences Does Not Improve Learning, published in 2020 in the journal Frontiers in Psychology. This paper has drawn citations reflecting engagement with the research community.

Frequent topics in Paula Tallal's work cover areas such as:

  • Learning Styles and Cognitive Differences
  • Neuroscience, Education and Cognitive Function
  • Innovative Teaching Methods

Collaboration has been an aspect of their academic output, with frequent coauthors including:

  • Beth A. Rogowsky
  • Barbara M. Calhoun
  • Diane Lillo-Martin

Their research is often published in venues like Frontiers in Psychology, presenting findings relevant to both academic peers and practical applications in education and neuroscience.

Best Publications

  • Auditory temporal perception, phonics, and reading disabilities in children ☆

    Paula Tallal;Paula Tallal

  • LANGUAGE COMPREHENSION IN LANGUAGE-LEARNING IMPAIRED CHILDREN IMPROVED WITH ACOUSTICALLY MODIFIED SPEECH

    P. Tallal;S. L. Miller;G. Bedi;G. Byma

  • Temporal processing deficits of language-learning impaired children ameliorated by training

    Michael M. Merzenich;William M. Jenkins;Paul Johnston;Christoph Schreiner

  • Neurobiological Basis of Speech: A Case for the Preeminence of Temporal Processing

    Paula Tallal;Steve Miller;Roslyn Holly Fitch

  • Neural deficits in children with dyslexia ameliorated by behavioral remediation: Evidence from functional MRI

    Elise Temple;Gayle K. Deutsch;Russell A. Poldrack;Steven L. Miller

  • Defects of non-verbal auditory perception in children with developmental aphasia.

    Paula Tallal;M. Piercy

  • Selection of children with specific language deficits.

    Rachel E. Stark;Paula Tallal

  • Developmental aphasia: Rate of auditory processing and selective impairment of consonant perception

    Paula Tallal;Malcolm Piercy

  • Developmental aphasia: impaired rate of non-verbal processing as a function of sensory modality.

    Paula Tallal;Malcolm Piercy

  • Improving language and literacy is a matter of time

    Paula Tallal

  • Developmental aphasia: The perception of brief vowels and extended stop consonants

    Paula Tallal;Malcolm Piercy

  • Infant discrimination of rapid auditory cues predicts later language impairment

    April A Benasich;Paula Tallal

  • MATURATION OF HUMAN CEREBRUM OBSERVED IN VIVO DURING ADOLESCENCE

    Terry L. Jernigan;Doris A. Trauner;John R. Hesselink;Paula A. Tallal

  • Disrupted neural responses to phonological and orthographic processing in dyslexic children: an fMRI study.

    Elise Temple;Russell A. Poldrack;Joanna Salidis;Gayle K. Deutsch

  • Dynamic auditory processing, musical experience and language development

    Paula Tallal;Nadine Gaab

  • Cortical auditory signal processing in poor readers

    Srikantan Nagarajan;Henry Mahncke;Talya Salz;Paula Tallal

  • Different origin of auditory and phonological processing problems in children with language impairment: evidence from a twin study.

    D. V. M. Bishop;Sonia J. Bishop;Peter Bright;Cheryl James

  • Identification of language-impaired children on the basis of rapid perception and production skills

    Paula Tallal;Paula Tallal;Rachel E Stark;E.David Mellits

  • The neurobiology of sensory and language processing in language-impaired children

    Helen J. Neville;Sharon A. Coffey;Phillip J. Holcomb;Paula Tallal

  • Cerebral structure on magnetic resonance imaging in language- and learning-impaired children.

    Terry L. Jernigan;John R. Hesselink;Elizabeth Sowell;Paula A. Tallal

  • Fundamentals of human neuropsychology: by Bryan Kolb and Ian Q. Whishaw, W. H. Freeman, 1980. £8.95 (x + 501 pages) ISBN 0 7167 1279 9 (board)

    Paula Tallal

Frequent Co-Authors

Michael M. Merzenich
Michael M. Merzenich University of California, San Francisco
Linda M. Brzustowicz
Linda M. Brzustowicz Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Nadine Gaab
Nadine Gaab Harvard University
Srikantan S. Nagarajan
Srikantan S. Nagarajan University of California, San Francisco
Glenn D. Rosen
Glenn D. Rosen Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Doris A. Trauner
Doris A. Trauner University of California, San Diego
April A. Benasich
April A. Benasich Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Laura M. Justice
Laura M. Justice The Ohio State University
Terry L. Jernigan
Terry L. Jernigan University of California, San Diego

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