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Roland H. Grabner

Roland H. Grabner

D-Index & Metrics

Neuroscience

D-Index
45
Citations
9876
World Ranking
6852
National Ranking
43

Psychology

D-Index
45
Citations
9770
World Ranking
6627
National Ranking
31

Overview

Roland H. Grabner is affiliated with the University of Graz in Austria. Their research spans primarily the fields of Neuroscience and Psychology, with a significant focus on several subfields including Cognitive Neuroscience, Statistics and Probability, Developmental and Educational Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, and Neurology.

Their work covers various topics such as cognitive and developmental aspects of mathematical skills, neuroscience in education and cognitive function, transcranial magnetic stimulation studies, reading and literacy development, creativity in education and neuroscience, education, achievement and giftedness, and functional brain connectivity studies.

Grabner's frequently published venues include Scientific Reports, Brain Stimulation, Neuropsychologia, Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, and Learning and Individual Differences.

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Grabner are:

  • Stephan Vogel
  • Jochen A. Mosbacher
  • Clemens Brunner
  • Michael A. Nitsche
  • Michaela A. Meier

Among the recent papers associated with or related to Grabner's field of work are:

  • Guidelines for TMS/tES clinical services and research through the COVID-19 pandemic (2020) published in Brain Stimulation
  • Talent Development in Achievement Domains: A Psychological Framework for Within- and Cross-Domain Research (2020) published in Perspectives on Psychological Science
  • Creativity myths: Prevalence and correlates of misconceptions on creativity (2021) published in Personality and Individual Differences
  • A checklist for assessing the methodological quality of concurrent tES-fMRI studies (ContES checklist): a consensus study and statement (2022) published in Nature Protocols
  • Believing in Neuromyths Makes Neither a Bad Nor Good Student-Teacher: The Relationship between Neuromyths and Academic Achievement in Teacher Education (2020) published in Mind Brain and Education

Best Publications

  • Using Electroencephalography to Measure Cognitive Load

    Pavlo Antonenko;Fred Paas;Fred Paas;Roland Grabner;Tamara van Gog

  • The creative brain: investigation of brain activity during creative problem solving by means of EEG and FMRI.

    Andreas Fink;Roland H. Grabner;Mathias Benedek;Gernot Reishofer

  • To retrieve or to calculate? Left angular gyrus mediates the retrieval of arithmetic facts during problem solving

    Roland H. Grabner;Daniel Ansari;Karl Koschutnig;Gernot Reishofer

  • Individual differences in mathematical competence predict parietal brain activation during mental calculation

    Roland H. Grabner;Daniel Ansari;Gernot Reishofer;Elsbeth Stern

  • Enhancing creativity by means of cognitive stimulation: evidence from an fMRI study.

    Andreas Fink;Roland H. Grabner;Daniela Gebauer;Gernot Reishofer

  • Creativity meets neuroscience: experimental tasks for the neuroscientific study of creative thinking.

    Andreas Fink;Mathias Benedek;Roland H Grabner;Beate Staudt

  • Superior performance and neural efficiency : The impact of intelligence and expertise

    Roland H. Grabner;Aljoscha C. Neubauer;Elsbeth Stern

  • Neuroeducation – A Critical Overview of An Emerging Field

    Daniel Ansari;Bert De Smedt;Roland H. Grabner

  • Mental number line, number line estimation, and mathematical achievement : Their interrelations in grades 5 and 6

    Michael Schneider;Roland H. Grabner;Jennifer Paetsch

  • Dyscalculia from a developmental and differential perspective

    Liane Kaufmann;Michèle M. Mazzocco;Ann Dowker;Michael von Aster;Michael von Aster;Michael von Aster

  • Sensitivity of human EEG alpha band desynchronization to different working memory components and increasing levels of memory load.

    A. Stipacek;R.H. Grabner;C. Neuper;A. Fink

  • Divergent thinking training is related to frontal electroencephalogram alpha synchronization

    Andreas Fink;Roland H. Grabner;Mathias Benedek;Aljoscha C. Neubauer

  • EEG alpha band dissociation with increasing task demands.

    A. Fink;R.H. Grabner;C. Neuper;A.C. Neubauer

  • Intelligence and neural efficiency: further evidence of the influence of task content and sex on the brain-IQ relationship

    Aljoscha C. Neubauer;Roland H. Grabner;Andreas Fink;Christa Neuper

  • Intelligence and working memory systems: evidence of neural efficiency in alpha band ERD

    R.H Grabner;A Fink;A Stipacek;C Neuper

  • Brain correlates of self-rated originality of ideas: Evidence from event-related power and phase-locking changes in the EEG.

    Roland H. Grabner;Andreas Fink;Aljoscha C. Neubauer

  • Intelligence and individual differences in becoming neurally efficient.

    Aljoscha C. Neubauer;Roland H. Grabner;H.Harald Freudenthaler;Jens F. Beckmann

  • Individual differences in chess expertise: a psychometric investigation.

    Roland H. Grabner;Elsbeth Stern;Aljoscha C. Neubauer

  • Fact learning in complex arithmetic and figural-spatial tasks: the role of the angular gyrus and its relation to mathematical competence.

    Roland H. Grabner;Anja Ischebeck;Gernot Reishofer;Karl Koschutnig

  • Cognitive Neuroscience Meets Mathematics Education.

    Bert De Smedt;Daniel Ansari;Roland H. Grabner;Minna M. Hannula

Frequent Co-Authors

Bert De Smedt
Bert De Smedt KU Leuven
Andreas Fink
Andreas Fink University of Graz
Aljoscha C. Neubauer
Aljoscha C. Neubauer University of Graz
Karl Koschutnig
Karl Koschutnig University of Graz
Christa Neuper
Christa Neuper University of Graz
Daniel Ansari
Daniel Ansari University of Western Ontario
Mathias Benedek
Mathias Benedek University of Graz
Anja Ischebeck
Anja Ischebeck University of Graz
Christian C. Ruff
Christian C. Ruff University of Zurich

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