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Neuroscience

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46
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9392
World Ranking
6644
National Ranking
2884

Psychology

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Citations
9493
World Ranking
6154
National Ranking
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Overview

Rebecca M. C. Spencer is affiliated with the University of Massachusetts Amherst in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on neuroscience and psychology, with a significant body of work in cognitive neuroscience and experimental and cognitive psychology. The scientist's work also spans endocrine and autonomic systems, public health, environmental and occupational health, and developmental and educational psychology.

The scientist's research topics are concentrated on sleep and related disorders, sleep and wakefulness research, and circadian rhythm and melatonin. Additional areas of study include children's physical and motor development, obesity, physical activity, diet, memory and neural mechanisms, and the neuroscience of respiration and sleep.

Frequent publication venues include:

  • SLEEP
  • Scientific Reports
  • Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise
  • Preprints.org
  • Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Rebecca M. C. Spencer are:

  • Christine W. St. Laurent
  • Tracy Riggins
  • Sanna Lokhandwala
  • Jennifer F. Holmes
  • Katrina Rodheim

Recent publications demonstrate the breadth of topics studied:

  • "Sleep and human cognitive development," 2021, Sleep Medicine Reviews
  • "Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Benefits Psychological Well-Being, Sleep Quality, and Athletic Performance in Female Collegiate Rowers," 2020, Frontiers in Psychology
  • "Relations between sleep patterns early in life and brain development: A review," 2022, Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience
  • "The effects of bed sharing on sleep: From partners to pets," 2021, Sleep Health
  • "Physical Activity, Fitness, School Readiness, and Cognition in Early Childhood: A Systematic Review," 2021, Journal of Physical Activity and Health

Best Publications

  • The neural representation of time

    Richard B. Ivry;Rebecca M. C. Spencer

  • The cerebellum and event timing.

    Richard B. Ivry;Richard B. Ivry;Rebecca M. Spencer;Howard N. Zelaznik;Jörn Diedrichsen

  • Disrupted timing of discontinuous but not continuous movements by cerebellar lesions

    Rebecca M. C. Spencer;Rebecca M. C. Spencer;Howard N. Zelaznik;Howard N. Zelaznik;Jörn Diedrichsen;Jörn Diedrichsen;Richard B. Ivry;Richard B. Ivry

  • Reliability of Sleep Measures from Four Personal Health Monitoring Devices Compared to Research-Based Actigraphy and Polysomnography

    Janna Mantua;Nickolas Gravel;Rebecca M. C. Spencer

  • Sleep spindles in midday naps enhance learning in preschool children

    Laura Kurdziel;Kasey Duclos;Rebecca M. C. Spencer

  • Processing of Emotional Reactivity and Emotional Memory over Sleep

    Bengi Baran;Edward F. Pace-Schott;Callie Ericson;Rebecca M. C. Spencer

  • Dissociation of explicit and implicit timing in repetitive tapping and drawing movements.

    Howard N. Zelaznik;Rebecca M. C. Spencer;Richard B. Ivry

  • Age-related changes in the cognitive function of sleep.

    Edward F Pace-Schott;Rebecca M C Spencer

  • Age-related decline of sleep-dependent consolidation

    Rebecca M.C. Spencer;Arvin M. Gouw;Richard B. Ivry

  • Sleep and human cognitive development.

    Gina M. Mason;Sanna Lokhandwala;Tracy Riggins;Rebecca M.C. Spencer

  • Correlations for Timing Consistency Among Tapping and Drawing Tasks: Evidence Against a Single Timing Process for Motor Control

    Shannon D. Robertson;Howard N. Zelaznik;Dawn A. Lantero;Kathryn Gadacz Bojczyk

  • Sleep modulates word-pair learning but not motor sequence learning in healthy older adults.

    Jessica K. Wilson;Bengi Baran;Edward F. Pace-Schott;Richard B. Ivry

  • Sleep promotes consolidation and generalization of extinction learning in simulated exposure therapy for spider fear

    Edward F. Pace-Schott;Edward F. Pace-Schott;Patrick W. Verga;Tobias S. Bennett;Rebecca M.C. Spencer

  • Sleep-Dependent Consolidation of Contextual Learning

    Rebecca M.C. Spencer;Rebecca M.C. Spencer;Michelle Sunm;Richard B. Ivry;Richard B. Ivry

  • Evidence of a novel somatopic map in the human neocerebellum during complex actions.

    John E. Schlerf;Timothy D. Verstynen;Richard B Ivry;Rebecca M. C. Spencer

  • Comparison of patients with Parkinson's disease or cerebellar lesions in the production of periodic movements involving event-based or emergent timing.

    Rebecca M.C. Spencer;Richard B. Ivry

  • Neural Substrates of Impaired Sensorimotor Timing in Adult Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder

    Eve M. Valera;Rebecca M.C. Spencer;Thomas A. Zeffiro;Nikos Makris

  • Napping promotes inter-session habituation to emotional stimuli

    Edward F. Pace-Schott;Elizabeth Shepherd;Rebecca M.C. Spencer;Matthew Marcello

  • Sleep-dependent memory consolidation in healthy aging and mild cognitive impairment.

    Edward F. Pace-Schott;Rebecca M. C. Spencer

  • A Cognitive Neuroscience Perspective on Bimanual Coordination and Interference

    Richard Ivry;Jörn Diedrichsen;Rebecca Spencer;Eliot Hazeltine

  • Atypical neural functions underlying phonological processing and silent rehearsal in children who stutter

    Christine Weber-Fox;John E. Spruill;Rebecca M. C. Spencer;Anne Smith

Frequent Co-Authors

Richard B. Ivry
Richard B. Ivry University of California, Berkeley
Edward F. Pace-Schott
Edward F. Pace-Schott Harvard University
Jörn Diedrichsen
Jörn Diedrichsen University of Western Ontario
Timothy Verstynen
Timothy Verstynen Carnegie Mellon University
Eve M. Valera
Eve M. Valera Harvard University
Anne Smith
Anne Smith Purdue University West Lafayette
Katherine L. Tucker
Katherine L. Tucker University of Massachusetts Lowell
Eliot Hazeltine
Eliot Hazeltine University of Iowa
Scott P. Orr
Scott P. Orr Harvard University
Robert Stickgold
Robert Stickgold Harvard Medical School

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