2026 Steven L. Small: Neuroscience Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Neuroscience	66	3005	2747	1394	1254	233	15744

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Overview

Steven L. Small is affiliated with The University of Texas at Dallas in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields and subfields including Medicine, Neuroscience, Cognitive Neuroscience, Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging, Epidemiology, Developmental and Educational Psychology, and Social Psychology.

Their work covers a range of topics such as:

Advanced Neuroimaging Techniques and Applications
Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism
Traumatic Brain Injury Research
Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
Neural dynamics and brain function
EEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces
Action Observation and Synchronization

Steven L. Small has collaborated frequently with several researchers, including:

Derek C. Monroe
James W. Hicks
Elena Babatsouli
Ocke-Schwen Bohn
Jennifer James

Their recent papers illustrate a focus on brain function, language, and neurological response to injury. Selected recent publications include:

"Aberrant Maturation of the Uncinate Fasciculus Follows Exposure to Unpredictable Patterns of Maternal Signals" (2020, Journal of Neuroscience)
"Rapid adaptation of predictive models during language comprehension: Aperiodic EEG slope, individual alpha frequency and idea density modulate individual differences in real-time model updating" (2022, Frontiers in Psychology)
"Language development and brain reorganization in a child born without the left hemisphere" (2020, Cortex)
"Salivary S100 calcium-binding protein beta (S100B) and neurofilament light (NfL) after acute exposure to repeated head impacts in collegiate water polo players" (2022, Scientific Reports)
"The entire brain, more or less, is at work: 'Language regions' are artefacts of averaging" (2023, bioRxiv - Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

Their frequent publication venues include:

Poznań Studies in Contemporary Linguistics
bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise
Journal of Neuroscience
Frontiers in Psychology

Best Publications

Action Observation Has a Positive Impact on Rehabilitation of Motor Deficits After Stroke

Denis Ertelt;Steven Small;Ana Solodkin;Christian Dettmers

926
Citations
Fine Modulation in Network Activation during Motor Execution and Motor Imagery

Ana Solodkin;Petr Hlustik;E. Elinor Chen;Steven L. Small

689
Citations
The Role of Segmentation in Phonological Processing: An fMRI Investigation

Martha W. Burton;Steven L. Small;Sheila E. Blumstein

517
Citations
Functions of the mirror neuron system: Implications for neurorehabilitation

Giovanni Buccino;Ana Solodkin;Steven L. Small

501
Citations
Hearing Lips and Seeing Voices: How Cortical Areas Supporting Speech Production Mediate Audiovisual Speech Perception

Jeremy I. Skipper;Virginie van Wassenhove;Howard C. Nusbaum;Steven L. Small

479
Citations
Escitalopram and Problem-Solving Therapy for Prevention of Poststroke Depression: A Randomized Controlled Trial

Robert G. Robinson;Ricardo E. Jorge;David J. Moser;Laura Acion

475
Citations
The mind of expert motor performance is cool and focused.

John Milton;Ana Solodkin;Petr Hluštík;Steven L. Small

448
Citations
Listening to talking faces: motor cortical activation during speech perception

Jeremy I. Skipper;Howard C. Nusbaum;Steven L. Small

437
Citations
Cerebellar hemispheric activation ipsilateral to the paretic hand correlates with functional recovery after stroke

Steven L. Small;P. Hlustik;D. C. Noll;C. Genovese

389
Citations
Sports experience changes the neural processing of action language.

Sian L. Beilock;Ian M. Lyons;Andrew Mattarella-Micke;Howard C. Nusbaum

367
Citations
Speech-associated gestures, Broca's area, and the human mirror system.

Jeremy I. Skipper;Susan Goldin-Meadow;Howard C. Nusbaum;Steven L. Small

352
Citations
Subcortical aphasia. Commentaries. Reply

S. E. Nadeau;B. Crosson;C.-W. Wallesch;H. Johannsen-Horbach

320
Citations
Fragmentation and unpredictability of early-life experience in mental disorders.

Tallie Z. Baram;Elysia P. Davis;Elysia P. Davis;Andre Obenaus;Andre Obenaus;Curt A. Sandman;Curt A. Sandman

308
Citations
Lateralization of motor circuits and handedness during finger movements.

A. Solodkin;P. Hlustik;D. C. Noll;S. L. Small

272
Citations
Somatotopy in human primary motor and somatosensory hand representations revisited.

Petr Hluštík;Ana Solodkin;Rao P. Gullapalli;Douglas C. Noll

271
Citations
Neurobiological roots of language in primate audition: common computational properties.

Ina Bornkessel-Schlesewsky;Ina Bornkessel-Schlesewsky;Matthias Schlesewsky;Steven L. Small;Josef P. Rauschecker

243
Citations
The mirror neuron system and treatment of stroke.

Steven L. Small;Giovanni Buccino;Ana Solodkin

241
Citations
Task-dependent organization of brain regions active during rest

Uri Hasson;Howard C. Nusbaum;Steven L. Small

235
Citations
Lexical ambiguity resolution

S. Small;G. Cottrell;M. Tanenhaus

227
Citations
Co-speech gestures influence neural activity in brain regions associated with processing semantic information.

Anthony Steven Dick;Susan Goldin-Meadow;Uri Hasson;Jeremy I. Skipper

224
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