Nadine Gaab, PhD

Assistant Professor of Pediatrics

Member of the Faculty of Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education

Children's Hospital Boston
Department of Medicine

Division of Developmental Medicine

Laboratories of Cognitive Neuroscience
Harvard Medical School

Office 611
1 Autumn Street, Mailbox # 713
Boston , MA 02115

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phone: (857)-218-3021

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bio

Nadine Gaab earned her M.S. in Psychology in April 2001 from the University of Trier in Germany. During her college time she did several internships in various fields such as Psychoneuroimmunology, Pedriatric Audiology, Neuropsychology and Geriatric Psychiatry. She wrote her Master's thesis about short-term functional plasticity in the auditory cortex using fMRI. She then received her Ph.D. in Psychology/Neuropsychology in April 2004 from the University of Zurich, Switzerland (advisor: Dr. Lutz Jancke). During her Ph.D. time she was a Visiting Scholar for three years in the Music and Neuroimaging Laboratory (advisor: Dr. Gottfried Schlaug) at the Harvard Medical School. Her Ph.D. thesis focused on "The auditory cortex: Perception, memory, plasticity and the influence of musicianship". She joined the Gabrieli Laboratory in February 2004 at Stanford University and moved with the laboratory to MIT in August 2005. Her research focuses mainly on auditory processing in the human brain. She is currently working on various topics such as auditory processing in dyslexia, the influence of musicianship on language perception and the development and evaluation of "silent" scanning designs (e.g. sparse temporal sampling).

selected publications

Gaab, N., Gabrieli, J.D.E., Deutsch, G., Tallal, P., and Temple, E. (accepted). Neural correlates of rapid auditory processing are disrupted in children with developmental dyslexia and ameliorated with training: An fMRI study.

Schulze, K., Gaab, N., and Schlaug, G. (under review). Perceiving pitch absolutely: Comparing absolute and relative pitch possessors in a pitch memory task.

Gaab, N., Gabrieli, J.D.E., and Glover, G. (under review). Resting in peace or noise: The influence of scanner background noise on the default mode of brain functions.

Gaab, N., Gabrieli, J., and Glover, G. (2006). Assessing the influence of scanner background noise on auditory processing. I. An fMRI study comparing three experimental designs with varying degrees of scanner noise. Human Brain Mapping. [epub ahead of print]

Gaab, N., Gabrieli, J., and Glover, G. (2006). 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. Human Brain Mapping. [epub ahead of print]

Tallal, P. and Gaab, N. (2006). Dynamic Auditory Processing, Musical Experience and Language Development. Trends in Neurosciences, 29(7), 382-370.

Gaab, N., Schulze, K., Ozdemir, E., and Schlaug, G. (2006). Neural correlates of absolute pitch differ between a blind and sighted musicians. Neuroreport, 17(18), 1853-1857.

Gaab, N. , Gaser, C., and Schlaug, G. (2006). Improvement-related functional plasticity following pitch memory training. Neuroimage, 31(1), 255-263.

Bermpohl, F., Pascual-Leone, A., Amedi, A., Merabet, L., Fregni, F., Gaab, N., Alsop, D., Schlaug, G., and Northoff, G. (2006). Dissociable networks for the expectancy and perception of emotional stimuli in the human brain. Neuroimage, 30(2): 588-600.

Bermpohl, F., Pascual-Leone, A., Amedi, A., Merabet, L., Fregni, F., Gaab, N. , Alsop, D., Schlaug, G., and Northoff, G. (2006). Attentional modulation of emotional stimulus processing - an fMRI study using emotional expectancy. Human Brain Mapping, 27(8), 662-677.

Gaab, N., Tallal, P., Kim, H., Lakshminarayanan, K., Archie, J.J., Glover, G.H., and Gabrieli, J.D. (2005). Neural correlates of rapid spectrotemporal processing in musicians and nonmusicians. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1060, 82-88.

Walker, M.P., Stickgold, R., Alsop, D., Gaab, N., and Schlaug, G. (2005). Sleep dependent motor memory plasticity in the human brain. Neuroscience, 133(4), 911-917.

Overy, K., Norton, A.C., Cronin, K.T., Gaab, N., Alsop, D.C., Winner, E., and Schlaug, G. (2004). Imaging melody and rhythm in young children. Neuroreport, 15(11), 1723-1726.

Gaab, N., Paetzold, M., Walker, M.P., and Schlaug, G. (2004). The influence of sleep on auditory learning. Neuroreport, 15(4), 731-734.  

Gaab, N. and Schlaug, G. (2003). Musicians differ from nonmusicians in brain activation despite performance matching. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 999, 385-388.

Gaab, N., Gaser, C., Zaehle, T., Jaencke, L., and Schlaug, G. (2003). Functional anatomy of pitch memory- an fMRI study with sparse temporal sampling. Neuroimage, 19(4), 1417-1426.

Gaab, N., Keenan, J., and Schlaug, G. (2003). The effects of gender on the neural substrates of pitch memory. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 15, 810-820.

Gaab, N. and Schlaug, G. (2003). The effect of musicianship on pitch memory in performance matched groups. Neuroreport, 14(18), 2291-2295.

Hutchinson, S., Lee, L.H., Gaab, N., and Schlaug, G. (2003). Cerebellar volume differences of musicians. Cerebral Cortex, 13, 943-949.

Jäncke, L., Gaab, N., Wüstenberg, T., Scheich, H., and Heinze, H.J. (2001). Short-term functional plasticity in the human auditory cortex: an fMRI study. Cognitive Brain Research, 12, 479-485.