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Overview

Steven Z. Rapcsak is affiliated with the University of Arizona in the United States. Their research spans primarily the fields of Neuroscience and Medicine, with a focus on subfields including Cognitive Neuroscience, Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, Physiology, Neurology, and Developmental and Educational Psychology.

Key research topics explored by Steven Z. Rapcsak include:

  • Cerebrovascular and Carotid Artery Diseases
  • Memory and Neural Mechanisms
  • EEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces
  • Voice and Speech Disorders
  • Cardiovascular Health and Disease Prevention
  • Memory Processes and Influences
  • Phonetics and Phonology Research

Their recent published papers reflect a focus on neurodegenerative diseases, language performance, memory, visuomotor integration, and speech disorders. These papers are:

  • Structural Changes in Thalamic Nuclei Across Prodromal and Clinical Alzheimer's Disease, 2021, Journal of Alzheimer s Disease
  • Largely intact memory for spatial locations during navigation in an individual with dense amnesia, 2022, Neuropsychologia
  • Common predictors of spoken and written language performance in aphasia, alexia, and agraphia, 2022, Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
  • The role of the striatum in visuomotor integration during handwriting: an fMRI study, 2020, Journal of Neural Transmission
  • Exploring digital speech biomarkers of hypokinetic dysarthria in a multilingual cohort, 2023, Biomedical Signal Processing and Control

Steven Z. Rapcsak frequently publishes in venues such as Annals of Surgery, Journal of Alzheimer s Disease, Neuropsychologia, Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, and Journal of Neural Transmission.

Frequent collaborators include:

  • Irena Rektorová
  • Ying-hui Chou
  • Theodore P. Trouard
  • Bahaa Succar
  • Jiří Mekyska

Best Publications

  • MRI findings in boys with specific language impairment.

    Elena Plante;Linda Swisher;Rebecca Vance;Steven Rapcsak

  • Phonological dyslexia and dysgraphia: cognitive mechanisms and neural substrates.

    Steven Z. Rapcsak;Pélagie M. Beeson;Maya L. Henry;Anne Leyden

  • Cost function masking during normalization of brains with focal lesions: still a necessity?

    Sarah M. Andersen;Steven Z. Rapcsak;Pélagie M. Beeson

  • Fear recognition deficits after focal brain damage A cautionary note

    Steven Z. Rapcsak;S. R. Galper;J. F. Comer;S. L. Reminger

  • The role of left posterior inferior temporal cortex in spelling.

    Steven Z. Rapcsak;Pélagie M. Beeson

  • The neural substrates of writing: A functional magnetic resonance imaging study

    Pelagie M. Beeson;Steven Z. Rapcsak;Elena Plante;Jullyn Chargualaf

  • Selective Attention in Hemispatial Neglect

    Steven Z. Rapcsak;Mieke Verfaellie;Shepherd Fleet;Kenneth M. Heilman

  • Positive Effects of Language Treatment for the Logopenic Variant of Primary Progressive Aphasia

    Pélagie M. Beeson;Rachel M. King;Borna Bonakdarpour;Maya L. Henry

  • Progressive Ideomotor Apraxia - Evidence for a Selective Impairment of the Action Production System

    Steven Z. Rapcsak;Cynthia Ochipa;Kathleen C. Anderson;Howard Poizner

  • Apraxia in Alzheimer's disease

    Steven Z. Rapcsak;Susan C. Croswell;Alan B. Rubens

  • Do Dual-Route Models Accurately Predict Reading and Spelling Performance in Individuals with Acquired Alexia and Agraphia?

    Steven Z. Rapcsak;Maya L. Henry;Sommer L. Teague;Susan D. Carnahan

  • The role of left perisylvian cortical regions in spelling.

    Maya L. Henry;Pélagie M. Beeson;Amy J. Stark;Steven Z. Rapcsak

  • A Treatment Sequence for Phonological Alexia/Agraphia

    Pélagie M. Beeson;Kindle Rising;Esther S. Kim;Steven Z. Rapcsak

  • Efficient Visual Object and Word Recognition Relies on High Spatial Frequency Coding in the Left Posterior Fusiform Gyrus: Evidence from a Case-Series of Patients with Ventral Occipito-Temporal Cortex Damage

    Daniel J. Roberts;Anna M. Woollams;Esther Kim;Pelagie M. Beeson

  • Neuroanatomical Correlates of Spelling and Writing

    Steven Z. Rapcsak;Pélagie M. Beeson

  • Selective deficit of praxis imagery in ideomotor apraxia

    Cynthia Ochipa;Steven Z. Rapcsak;Lynn M. Maher;Leslie J. Gonzalez Rothi;Leslie J. Gonzalez Rothi

  • Praxis and the right hemisphere

    Steven Z. Rapcsak;Cynthia Ochipa;Cynthia Ochipa;Pelagie M. Beeson;Alan B. Rubens

  • Neuropsychological mechanisms of false facial recognition following frontal lobe damage

    Steven Z. Rapcsak;Sheryl L. Reminger;Elizabeth L. Glisky;Alfred W. Kaszniak

  • Lexical retrieval and semantic knowledge in patients with left inferior temporal lobe lesions.

    Sharon M. Antonucci;Pélagie M. Beeson;David M. Labiner;Steven Z. Rapcsak

  • Object memory effects on figure assignment: conscious object recognition is not necessary or sufficient.

    Mary A. Peterson;Beatrice De Gelder;Steven Z. Rapcsak;Peter C. Gerhardstein

  • False recognition of unfamiliar faces following right hemisphere damage: neuropsychological and anatomical observations.

    Steven Z. Rapcsak;Michael R. Polster;Martha L. Glisky;James F. Comer

  • Lexical agraphia in Alzheimer's disease

    Steven Z. Rapcsak;Susan A. Arthur;David A. Bliklen;Alan B. Rubens

Frequent Co-Authors

Elizabeth L. Glisky
Elizabeth L. Glisky University of Arizona
Pélagie M. Beeson
Pélagie M. Beeson University of Arizona
Alfred W. Kaszniak
Alfred W. Kaszniak University of Arizona
Emily C. Edmonds
Emily C. Edmonds University of Arizona
James C. Bartlett
James C. Bartlett The University of Texas at Dallas
Mieke Verfaellie
Mieke Verfaellie Boston University
Elena Plante
Elena Plante University of Arizona
Ronald A. Cohen
Ronald A. Cohen University of Florida
Maya L. Henry
Maya L. Henry The University of Texas at Austin

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