Ann Senghas

3.9k total citations
44 papers, 1.7k citations indexed

About

Ann Senghas is a scholar working on Developmental and Educational Psychology, Language and Linguistics and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Ann Senghas has authored 44 papers receiving a total of 1.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 36 papers in Developmental and Educational Psychology, 24 papers in Language and Linguistics and 16 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. Recurrent topics in Ann Senghas's work include Hearing Impairment and Communication (32 papers), Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (21 papers) and Language, Metaphor, and Cognition (12 papers). Ann Senghas is often cited by papers focused on Hearing Impairment and Communication (32 papers), Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (21 papers) and Language, Metaphor, and Cognition (12 papers). Ann Senghas collaborates with scholars based in United States, Netherlands and Germany. Ann Senghas's co-authors include Marie Coppola, Jennie Pyers, Aslı Özyürek, Sotaro Kita, Kevin N. Ochsner, Joshua Ian Davis, Sandra R. Waxman, Fredric S Brandt, John C. Trueswell and Jenny R. Saffran and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Ann Senghas

42 papers receiving 1.5k citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Ann Senghas United States 20 1.1k 617 585 298 298 44 1.7k
Marie Coppola United States 18 1.3k 1.1× 507 0.8× 585 1.0× 588 2.0× 172 0.6× 48 1.7k
Laura Ann Petitto Canada 17 1.5k 1.3× 592 1.0× 537 0.9× 716 2.4× 306 1.0× 20 2.1k
Edward S. Klima United States 21 1.5k 1.3× 630 1.0× 498 0.9× 934 3.1× 230 0.8× 41 2.4k
Jill de Villiers United States 22 1.3k 1.1× 282 0.5× 410 0.7× 473 1.6× 97 0.3× 75 1.8k
Richard P. Meier United States 18 1.1k 1.0× 418 0.7× 547 0.9× 290 1.0× 84 0.3× 45 1.4k
Jill P. Morford United States 21 1.5k 1.3× 681 1.1× 583 1.0× 567 1.9× 56 0.2× 49 1.8k
Sherman Wilcox United States 13 790 0.7× 425 0.7× 447 0.8× 117 0.4× 164 0.6× 54 1.1k
Jennie Pyers United States 20 1.2k 1.1× 411 0.7× 267 0.5× 531 1.8× 97 0.3× 32 1.4k
Judith Holler Netherlands 26 1.2k 1.1× 1.2k 2.0× 851 1.5× 465 1.6× 89 0.3× 96 2.2k
Laura‐Ann Petitto United States 22 1.2k 1.1× 339 0.5× 231 0.4× 989 3.3× 114 0.4× 33 1.9k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Senghas, Ann, et al.. (2022). Potentially recursive structures emerge quickly when a new language community forms. Cognition. 232. 105261–105261. 3 indexed citations
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Brentari, Diane, et al.. (2021). Community interactions and phonemic inventories in emerging sign languages. Phonology. 38(4). 571–609. 6 indexed citations
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Rissman, Lilia, et al.. (2020). The communicative importance of agent-backgrounding: Evidence from homesign and Nicaraguan Sign Language. Cognition. 203. 104332–104332. 11 indexed citations
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Senghas, Ann, et al.. (2016). Recursion in Nicaraguan Sign Language.. Cognitive Science. 2 indexed citations
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Senghas, Ann, et al.. (2016). The emergence of temporal language in Nicaraguan Sign Language. Cognition. 156. 147–163. 18 indexed citations
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Pyers, Jennie, et al.. (2015). Referential shift in Nicaraguan Sign Language: a transition from lexical to spatial devices. Frontiers in Psychology. 5. 1540–1540. 23 indexed citations
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Goldin‐Meadow, Susan, et al.. (2015). Forging a morphological system out of two dimensions: Agentivity and number. Open Linguistics. 1(1). 596–613. 12 indexed citations
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Goldin‐Meadow, Susan, et al.. (2014). Watching language grow in the manual modality: Nominals, predicates, and handshapes. Cognition. 136. 381–395. 44 indexed citations
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Rabagliati, Hugh, Ann Senghas, Scott P. Johnson, & Gary Marcus. (2012). Infant Rule Learning: Advantage Language, or Advantage Speech?. PLoS ONE. 7(7). e40517–e40517. 28 indexed citations
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Senghas, Ann, et al.. (2011). Numerosity and number signs in deaf Nicaraguan adults. Cognition. 121(3). 427–436. 22 indexed citations
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Pyers, Jennie, Anna Shusterman, Ann Senghas, Elizabeth S. Spelke, & Karen Emmorey. (2010). Evidence from an emerging sign language reveals that language supports spatial cognition. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 107(27). 12116–12120. 89 indexed citations
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Davis, Joshua Ian, Ann Senghas, Fredric S Brandt, & Kevin N. Ochsner. (2010). The effects of BOTOX injections on emotional experience.. Emotion. 10(3). 433–440. 130 indexed citations
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Senghas, Ann. (2010). The Emergence of Two Functions for Spatial Devices in Nicaraguan Sign Language. Human Development. 53(5). 287–302. 10 indexed citations
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Davis, Joshua Ian, Ann Senghas, & Kevin N. Ochsner. (2009). How does facial feedback modulate emotional experience?. Journal of Research in Personality. 43(5). 822–829. 72 indexed citations
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Senghas, Ann. (2005). Language Emergence: Clues from a New Bedouin Sign Language. Current Biology. 15(12). 19 indexed citations
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Senghas, Ann, Aslı Özyürek, & Sotaro Kita. (2005). Response to Comment on "Children Creating Core Properties of Language: Evidence from an Emerging Sign Language in Nicaragua". Science. 309(5731). 56–56. 5 indexed citations
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Senghas, Ann. (2005). Language Emergence: Clues from a New Bedouin Sign. Current Biology. 15(12). R463–R465. 32 indexed citations
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Senghas, Ann. (2003). Intergenerational influence and ontogenetic development in the emergence of spatial grammar in Nicaraguan Sign Language. Cognitive Development. 18(4). 511–531. 79 indexed citations
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Waxman, Sandra R., et al.. (1997). A Cross-Linguistic Examination of the Noun-Category Bias: Its Existence and Specificity in French- and Spanish-Speaking Preschool-Aged Children. Cognitive Psychology. 32(3). 183–218. 36 indexed citations
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Senghas, Ann. (1994). Nicaragua's lessons for language acquisition. Medical Entomology and Zoology. 7. 32–39. 9 indexed citations

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