Alvin M. Liberman

19.9k total citations · 5 hit papers
102 papers, 12.7k citations indexed

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Alvin M. Liberman is a scholar working on Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, Alvin M. Liberman has authored 102 papers receiving a total of 12.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 73 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, 24 papers in Artificial Intelligence and 23 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in Alvin M. Liberman's work include Phonetics and Phonology Research (65 papers), Linguistic Variation and Morphology (19 papers) and Speech and Audio Processing (18 papers). Alvin M. Liberman is often cited by papers focused on Phonetics and Phonology Research (65 papers), Linguistic Variation and Morphology (19 papers) and Speech and Audio Processing (18 papers). Alvin M. Liberman collaborates with scholars based in United States, Sweden and Romania. Alvin M. Liberman's co-authors include Ignatius G. Mattingly, Donald Shankweiler, F. S. Cooper, Michael Studdert‐Kennedy, Franklin S. Cooper, Pierre Delattre, Katherine S. Harris, Howard S. Hoffman, D. H. Whalen and Belver C. Griffith and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and NeuroImage.

In The Last Decade

Alvin M. Liberman

95 papers receiving 11.2k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Perception of the speech code.

1967 2.4k citations Alvin M. Liberman, F. S. Cooper et al. profile →
The motor theory of speech perception revised

1985 1.8k citations Alvin M. Liberman, Ignatius G. Mattingly profile →
The discrimination of speech sounds within and across phoneme boundaries.

1957 1.1k citations Alvin M. Liberman, Katherine S. Harris et al. profile →
Functional disruption in the organization of the brain for reading in dyslexia

1998 657 citations Sally E. Shaywitz, Bennett A. Shaywitz et al. profile →
Acoustic Loci and Transitional Cues for Consonants

1955 366 citations Pierre Delattre, Alvin M. Liberman et al. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Alvin M. Liberman United States	43	8.1k	6.0k	4.2k	2.4k	2.1k	102	12.7k
Michael Studdert‐Kennedy United States	35	5.0k 0.6×	4.2k 0.7×	3.1k 0.7×	1.4k 0.6×	1.0k 0.5×	92	8.3k
Jacques Mehler France	68	7.2k 0.9×	7.3k 1.2×	9.6k 2.3×	2.3k 1.0×	801 0.4×	159	16.6k
Carol A. Fowler United States	50	5.4k 0.7×	3.3k 0.6×	2.6k 0.6×	2.0k 0.8×	738 0.3×	147	8.1k
Patricia K. Kuhl United States	68	9.5k 1.2×	8.7k 1.5×	11.7k 2.8×	1.9k 0.8×	1.3k 0.6×	257	21.8k
Richard Ν. Aslin United States	74	7.8k 1.0×	10.4k 1.7×	12.9k 3.1×	3.2k 1.4×	1.4k 0.7×	242	22.4k
William D. Marslen‐Wilson United Kingdom	69	6.6k 0.8×	12.0k 2.0×	9.1k 2.2×	2.8k 1.2×	559 0.3×	169	16.6k
Emmanuel Dupoux France	50	3.8k 0.5×	4.1k 0.7×	4.0k 1.0×	2.5k 1.0×	1.0k 0.5×	208	9.8k
Janet F. Werker Canada	72	8.6k 1.1×	5.7k 1.0×	11.8k 2.8×	1.3k 0.6×	774 0.4×	183	17.1k
Peter W. Jusczyk United States	53	6.3k 0.8×	3.6k 0.6×	9.4k 2.3×	1.6k 0.7×	641 0.3×	117	12.1k
Elissa L. Newport United States	47	4.2k 0.5×	6.0k 1.0×	10.5k 2.5×	3.0k 1.3×	757 0.4×	104	15.8k

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Liberman, Alvin M., Anna Kosovicheva, & David Whitney. (2014). Serial Dependence of Position Perception. Journal of Vision. 14(10). 1186–1186. 2 indexed citations

Witthoft, Nathan, Michael Nguyen, Golijeh Golarai, et al.. (2014). Visual Field Coverage of Category-Selective Regions in Human Visual Cortex Estimated Using Population Receptive Field Mapping. Journal of Vision. 14(10). 718–718. 2 indexed citations

Witthoft, Nathan, Golijeh Golarai, Michael Nguyen, et al.. (2012). Anatomy, Retinotopy, & Category Selectivity in Human Ventral Visual Cortex. Journal of Vision. 12(9). 1177–1177. 1 indexed citations

Golarai, Golijeh, et al.. (2010). Differential development of the ventral visual cortex extends through adolescence. Journal of Vision. 10(7). 572–572. 78 indexed citations

Liberman, Alvin M.. (1998). When Theories of Speech Meet the Real World. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research. 27(2). 111–122. 20 indexed citations

Whalen, D. H. & Alvin M. Liberman. (1996). Limits on phonetic integration in duplex perception. Perception & Psychophysics. 58(6). 857–870. 13 indexed citations

Shankweiler, Donald, Stephen Crain, Lois Katz, et al.. (1995). Cognitive Profiles of Reading-Disabled Children: Comparison of Language Skills in Phonology, Morphology, and Syntax. Psychological Science. 6(3). 149–156. 304 indexed citations

Liberman, Alvin M.. (1993). In Speech Perception, Time Is Not What It Seems. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. 682(1). 264–271. 13 indexed citations

Liberman, Alvin M. & Ignatius G. Mattingly. (1989). Response: A Specialization for Speech Perception?. Science. 244(4912). 1530–1531. 1 indexed citations

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Halwes, Terry, et al.. (1980). Perceptual equivalence of two acoustic cues for stop-consonant manner. Perception & Psychophysics. 27(4). 343–350. 93 indexed citations

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Miller, Joanne L. & Alvin M. Liberman. (1979). Some effects of later-occurring information on the perception of stop consonant and semivowel. Perception & Psychophysics. 25(6). 457–465. 229 indexed citations

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Dorman, Michael F., Lawrence J. Raphael, Alvin M. Liberman, & Bruno H. Repp. (1975). Masking-like phenomena in speech perception. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 57(S1). S48–S48. 1 indexed citations

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Stevens, Κ. Ν., Sven Öhman, & Alvin M. Liberman. (1963). Identification and Discrimination of Rounded and Unrounded Vowels. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 35(11_Supplement). 1900–1900. 7 indexed citations

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Liberman, Alvin M., et al.. (1961). An Effect of Learning on Speech Perception: The Discrimination of Durations of Silence with and without Phonemic Significance. Language and Speech. 4(4). 175–195. 62 indexed citations

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Harris, Katherine S., Alvin M. Liberman, Jo Ann S. Kinney, & Harlan Lane. (1959). Effect of Learning on Perception: Discrimination of Relative Onset Time of the Formants in Certain Speech and Non-Speech Patterns. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 31(11_Supplement). 1569–1569. 2 indexed citations

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Liberman, Alvin M., Pierre Delattre, & F. S. Cooper. (1958). Some Cues for the Distinction Between Voiced and Voiceless Stops in Initial Position. Language and Speech. 1(3). 153–167. 157 indexed citations

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Liberman, Alvin M., Pierre Delattre, & F. S. Cooper. (1957). Some Cues for the Distinction between Voiced and Voiceless Stops in Initial Position. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 29(11_Supplement). 1254–1254. 13 indexed citations

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O’Connor, John D., Louis J. Gerstman, Alvin M. Liberman, Pierre Delattre, & F. S. Cooper. (1957). Acoustic Cues for the Perception of Initial /w, j, r, l/ in English. WORD. 13(1). 24–43. 68 indexed citations

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Harris, Katherine S., Howard S. Hoffman, Pierre Delattre, & Alvin M. Liberman. (1957). Effect of Third-Formant Transitions on the Perception of the Voiced Stop Consonants. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 29(6_Supplement). 777–777. 2 indexed citations

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Liberman, Alvin M., Pierre Delattre, & Franklin S. Cooper. (1952). The Role of Selected Stimulus-Variables in the Perception of the Unvoiced Stop Consonants. The American Journal of Psychology. 65(4). 497–497. 193 indexed citations

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