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Overview

Rebecca L. Gómez is affiliated with the University of Arizona in the United States. Their research spans several domains within neuroscience and psychology, with a strong focus on cognitive and developmental processes related to sleep, memory, and learning.

The primary fields of study for Gómez include Neuroscience and Psychology. Subfields encompass Cognitive Neuroscience, Developmental and Educational Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, and Pharmacy.

The scientist's work addresses multiple key topics such as Sleep and Wakefulness Research, Memory and Neural Mechanisms, Child and Animal Learning Development, Sleep and Related Disorders, Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research, Reading and Literacy Development, and Language Development and Disorders.

Recent publications authored or coauthored by Gómez include:

  • A daytime nap combined with nighttime sleep promotes learning in toddlers (2020), Journal of Experimental Child Psychology
  • Sleep's role in memory reconsolidation (2020), Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences
  • The Role of Sleep in Retention of New Words in Habitually and Non-Habitually Napping Children (2021), Brain Sciences
  • The Role of Spontaneous Repetitions During Treatment of Morphosyntactic Forms for Children With Developmental Language Disorder (2021), Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research
  • Parameters of Memory Reconsolidation: Learning Mode Influences Likelihood of Memory Modification (2020), Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience

Frequent publication venues for Gómez are:

  • Journal of Experimental Child Psychology
  • Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences
  • Brain Sciences
  • Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research
  • Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience

Coauthor collaborations include work with Katharine Simon, Lynn Nadel, Lucia Sweeney, Hatty Lara, and Denise M. Werchan. These partnerships have contributed to multiple publications across Gómez's fields of expertise.

Best Publications

  • Variability and Detection of Invariant Structure

    Rebecca L. Gómez

  • Artificial grammar learning by 1-year-olds leads to specific and abstract knowledge.

    Rebecca L Gomez;LouAnn Gerken

  • Reconsolidation of Episodic Memories: A Subtle Reminder Triggers Integration of New Information.

    Almut Hupbach;Rebecca Gomez;Oliver Hardt;Lynn Nadel

  • Infant artificial language learning and language acquisition

    Rebecca L. Gómez;LouAnn Gerken

  • Naps Promote Abstraction in Language-Learning Infants:

    Rebecca L. Gómez;Richard R. Bootzin;Lynn Nadel

  • Memory formation, consolidation and transformation

    L. Nadel;A. Hupbach;R. Gomez;K. Newman-Smith

  • The Developmental Trajectory of Nonadjacent Dependency Learning.

    Rebecca Gómez;Jessica Maye

  • The dynamics of memory: context-dependent updating.

    Almut Hupbach;Oliver Hardt;Rebecca Gomez;Lynn Nadel

  • Nap‐dependent learning in infants

    Almut Hupbach;Rebecca L. Gomez;Richard R. Bootzin;Lynn Nadel

  • Transfer and complexity in artificial grammar learning

    Rebecca L. Gomez

  • A first step in form‐based category abstraction by 12‐month‐old infants

    Rebecca L. Gómez;Laura Lakusta

  • Episodic memory reconsolidation: updating or source confusion?

    Almut Hupbach;Rebecca Gomez;Lynn Nadel

  • What Is Learned From Artificial Grammars? Transfer Tests of Simple Association

    Rebecca L. Gomez;Roger W. Schvaneveldt

  • Attention and probabilistic sequence learning

    Roger W. Schvaneveldt;Rebecca L. Gomez

  • The extended trajectory of hippocampal development: Implications for early memory development and disorder

    Rebecca L. Gómez;Jamie O. Edgin

  • Twelve-Month-Old Infants Benefit From Prior Experience in Statistical Learning

    Jill Lany;Rebecca L. Gómez

  • The basis of transfer in artificial grammar learning.

    Rebecca L. Gomez;Louann Gerken;Roger W. Schvaneveldt

  • Sensitivity to word order cues by normal and language/learning disabled adults.

    Elena Plante;Rebecca Gomez;Lou Ann Gerken

  • The effects of variation on learning word order rules by adults with and without language-based learning disabilities.

    Hope Grunow;Tammie J. Spaulding;Rebecca L. Gómez;Elena Plante

  • Sleep as a window into early neural development: Shifts in sleep-dependent learning effects across early childhood

    Rebecca L. Gómez;Jamie O. Edgin

Frequent Co-Authors

Lynn Nadel
Lynn Nadel University of Arizona
LouAnn Gerken
LouAnn Gerken University of Arizona
Elena Plante
Elena Plante University of Arizona
Jamie O. Edgin
Jamie O. Edgin Virginia Tech
Richard R. Bootzin
Richard R. Bootzin University of Arizona
Morten H. Christiansen
Morten H. Christiansen Cornell University
Mary A. Peterson
Mary A. Peterson University of Arizona
Nick Chater
Nick Chater University of Warwick
Gary S. Dell
Gary S. Dell University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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