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Our laboratory focuses on developmental cognitive neuroscience. We study cognitive processes such as auditory perception, language or reading and their neurological bases in the developing human brain. The majority of our studies involve functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) but we also employ experimental behavioral studies and structural brain measurement techniques.
Our main research areas we investigate right now include:
-the neural correlates of reading and reading development (e.g.; does learning to read change your brain?)
-the relationship between auditory processing disorders and reading impairments
-the neural correlates of auditory and language processing in developmental dyslexia and specific language impairments
-the influence of musical training on language and reading development
-the development and evaluation of remediation programs for language and reading impairments
-the development of auditory and music processing and its relation to language development in typical reader

http://www.childrenshospital.org/research/gaablab

1.	Ihl R, Grass-Kapanke B, Lahrem P, Brinkmeyer J, Fischer S, Gaab N, Kaupmannsennecke C. [Development and validation of a test for early diagnosis of dementia with differentiation from depression (TFDD)] Fortschr Neurol Psychiatr. 2000 Sep; 68(9):413-22.
2.	Jäncke L, Gaab N, Wüstenberg T, Scheich H, Heinze HJ. Short-term functional plasticity in the human auditory cortex: an fMRI study. Brain Res Cogn Brain Res. 2001 Dec; 12(3):479-85.
3.	Gaab N, Gaser C, Zaehle T, Jancke L, Schlaug G. Functional anatomy of pitch memory--an fMRI study with sparse temporal sampling. Neuroimage. 2003 Aug; 19(4):1417-26.
4.	Gaab N, Keenan JP, Schlaug G. The effects of gender on the neural substrates of pitch memory. J Cogn Neurosci. 2003 Aug 15; 15(6):810-20.
5.	Hutchinson S, Lee LH, Gaab N, Schlaug G. Cerebellar volume of musicians. Cereb Cortex. 2003 Sep; 13(9):943-9.
6.	Gaab N, Schlaug G. Musicians differ from nonmusicians in brain activation despite performance matching. Ann N Y Acad Sci. 2003 Nov; 999:385-8.
7.	Gaab N, Schlaug G. The effect of musicianship on pitch memory in performance matched groups. Neuroreport. 2003 Dec 19; 14(18):2291-5.
8.	Gaab N, Paetzold M, Becker M, Walker MP, Schlaug G. The influence of sleep on auditory learning: a behavioral study. Neuroreport. 2004 Mar 22; 15(4):731-4.
9.	Overy K, Norton AC, Cronin KT, Gaab N, Alsop DC, Winner E, Schlaug G. Imaging melody and rhythm processing in young children. Neuroreport. 2004 Aug 6; 15(11):1723-6.
10.	Walker MP, Stickgold R, Alsop D, Gaab N, Schlaug G. Sleep-dependent motor memory plasticity in the human brain. Neuroscience. 2005; 133(4):911-7.
11.	Bermpohl F, Pascual-Leone A, Amedi A, Merabet LB, Fregni F, Gaab N, Alsop D, Schlaug G, Northoff G. Dissociable networks for the expectancy and perception of emotional stimuli in the human brain. Neuroimage. 2006 Apr 1; 30(2):588-600.
12.	Gaab N, Tallal P, Kim H, Lakshminarayanan K, Archie JJ, Glover GH, Gabrieli JD. Neural correlates of rapid spectrotemporal processing in musicians and nonmusicians. Ann N Y Acad Sci. 2005 Dec; 1060:82-8.
13.	Gaab N, Gaser C, Schlaug G. Improvement-related functional plasticity following pitch memory training. Neuroimage. 2006 May 15; 31(1):255-63.
14.	Tallal P, Gaab N. Dynamic auditory processing, musical experience and language development. Trends Neurosci. 2006 Jul; 29(7):382-90.
15.	Bermpohl F, Pascual-Leone A, Amedi A, Merabet LB, Fregni F, Gaab N, Alsop D, Schlaug G, Northoff G. Attentional modulation of emotional stimulus processing: an fMRI study using emotional expectancy. Hum Brain Mapp. 2006 Aug; 27(8):662-77.
16.	Gaab N, Schulze K, Ozdemir E, Schlaug G. Neural correlates of absolute pitch differ between blind and sighted musicians. Neuroreport. 2006 Dec 18; 17(18):1853-7.
17.	Gaab N, Gabrieli JD, Deutsch GK, Tallal P, Temple E. Neural correlates of rapid auditory processing are disrupted in children with developmental dyslexia and ameliorated with training: an fMRI study. Restor Neurol Neurosci. 2007; 25(3-4):295-310.
18.	Gaab N, Gabrieli JD, Glover GH. Assessing the influence of scanner background noise on auditory processing. I. An fMRI study comparing three experimental designs with varying degrees of scanner noise. Hum Brain Mapp. 2007 Aug; 28(8):703-20.
19.	Gaab N, Gabrieli JD, Glover GH. Assessing the influence of scanner background noise on auditory processing. II. An fMRI study comparing auditory processing in the absence and presence of recorded scanner noise using a sparse design. Hum Brain Mapp. 2007 Aug; 28(8):721-32.
20.	Christodoulou JA, Gaab N. Using and misusing neuroscience in education-related research. Cortex. 2008 Jun 11.
21.	Gaab N, Gabrieli JD, Glover GH. Resting in peace or noise: scanner background noise suppresses default-mode network. Hum Brain Mapp. 2008 Jul; 29(7):858-67.

 

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