Aslı Özyürek

4.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
72 papers, 2.4k citations indexed

About

Aslı Özyürek is a scholar working on Developmental and Educational Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and Language and Linguistics. According to data from OpenAlex, Aslı Özyürek has authored 72 papers receiving a total of 2.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 60 papers in Developmental and Educational Psychology, 53 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and 27 papers in Language and Linguistics. Recurrent topics in Aslı Özyürek's work include Hearing Impairment and Communication (57 papers), Language, Metaphor, and Cognition (45 papers) and Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (20 papers). Aslı Özyürek is often cited by papers focused on Hearing Impairment and Communication (57 papers), Language, Metaphor, and Cognition (45 papers) and Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (20 papers). Aslı Özyürek collaborates with scholars based in Netherlands, Germany and United Kingdom. Aslı Özyürek's co-authors include Sotaro Kita, Peter Hagoort, Roel M. Willems, Linda Drijvers, Reyhan Furman, Ayli̇n C. Küntay, Judith Holler, David Peeters, Gerardo Ortega and Spencer D. Kelly and has published in prestigious journals such as NeuroImage, Scientific Reports and Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Aslı Özyürek

69 papers receiving 2.3k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

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.

What does cross-linguistic variation in semantic coordination of speech and gesture reveal?: Evidence for an interface representation of spatial thinking and speaking

2003 564 citations Sotaro Kita, Aslı Özyürek Journal of Memory and Language profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Aslı Özyürek Netherlands	23	1.8k	1.6k	718	655	601	72	2.4k
Judith Holler Netherlands	26	1.2k 0.7×	1.2k 0.8×	465 0.6×	851 1.3×	553 0.9×	96	2.2k
Jill P. Morford United States	21	1.5k 0.8×	681 0.4×	567 0.8×	583 0.9×	192 0.3×	49	1.8k
R. Breckinridge Church United States	21	1.8k 1.0×	946 0.6×	274 0.4×	464 0.7×	465 0.8×	30	2.2k
Rachel I. Mayberry United States	30	3.5k 2.0×	1.1k 0.7×	1.6k 2.2×	1.4k 2.1×	319 0.5×	70	4.2k
Susan Wagner Cook United States	16	1.4k 0.8×	714 0.5×	410 0.6×	225 0.3×	666 1.1×	34	2.0k
Diane Brentari United States	24	2.0k 1.1×	935 0.6×	394 0.5×	935 1.4×	175 0.3×	83	2.3k
Marianne Gullberg Sweden	28	1.5k 0.8×	1.2k 0.8×	446 0.6×	1.2k 1.9×	163 0.3×	102	2.3k
Şeyda Özçalışkan United States	22	1.4k 0.8×	812 0.5×	450 0.6×	528 0.8×	139 0.2×	57	1.9k
Michael P. Kaschak United States	28	1.9k 1.1×	2.1k 1.3×	1.8k 2.5×	420 0.6×	1.9k 3.2×	59	4.1k
Falk Huettig Netherlands	33	2.1k 1.2×	2.0k 1.3×	2.8k 3.9×	340 0.5×	420 0.7×	128	4.0k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Aslı Özyürek

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Ünal, Ercenur, et al.. (2026). Children Sustain Their Attention on Spatial Scenes When Planning to Describe Spatial Relations Multimodally in Speech and Gesture. Developmental Science. 29(2). e70128–e70128.

Trujillo, James P., et al.. (2022). Differences in functional brain organization during gesture recognition between autistic and neurotypical individuals. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience. 17(11). 1021–1034. 2 indexed citations

Özyürek, Aslı, et al.. (2022). Simultaneity as an Emergent Property of Efficient Communication in Language: A Comparison of Silent Gesture and Sign Language. Cognitive Science. 46(5). e13133–e13133. 5 indexed citations

Pouw, Wim, et al.. (2021). A Systematic Investigation of Gesture Kinematics in Evolving Manual Languages in the Lab. Cognitive Science. 45(7). e13014–e13014. 7 indexed citations

Trujillo, James P., et al.. (2021). Differences in the production and perception of communicative kinematics in autism. Autism Research. 14(12). 2640–2653. 15 indexed citations

Özyürek, Aslı, et al.. (2020). The role of iconicity and simultaneity for efficient communication: The case of Italian Sign Language (LIS). Cognition. 200. 104246–104246. 16 indexed citations

Trujillo, James P., Irina Simanova, Harold Bekkering, & Aslı Özyürek. (2019). The communicative advantage: how kinematic signaling supports semantic comprehension. Psychological Research. 84(7). 1897–1911. 15 indexed citations

Ortega, Gerardo, et al.. (2017). Speakers’ gestures predict the meaning and perception of iconicity in signs. MPG.PuRe (Max Planck Society). 889–894. 10 indexed citations

Özyürek, Aslı & Gerardo Ortega. (2016). Language in the visual modality: Co-speech Gesture and Sign. Max Planck Digital Library. 67–83.

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Ortega, Gerardo, et al.. (2014). Type of iconicity matters: Bias for action-based signs in sign language acquisition. Cognitive Science. 36(36). 1114–1119. 16 indexed citations

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Özyürek, Aslı, Reyhan Furman, & Susan Goldin‐Meadow. (2014). On the way to language: event segmentation in homesign and gesture. Journal of Child Language. 42(1). 64–94. 14 indexed citations

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Peeters, David, et al.. (2014). The interplay between joint attention, physical proximity, and pointing gesture in demonstrative choice. Cognitive Science. 36(36). 1144–1149. 12 indexed citations

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Özyürek, Aslı. (2014). Hearing and seeing meaning in speech and gesture: insights from brain and behaviour. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 369(1651). 20130296–20130296. 116 indexed citations

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Holler, Judith, et al.. (2013). Here's not looking at you, kid! Unaddressed recipients benefit from co-speech gestures when speech processing suffers. Cognitive Science. 35(35). 2560–2565. 1 indexed citations

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Holler, Judith, Spencer D. Kelly, Peter Hagoort, & Aslı Özyürek. (2012). When gestures catch the eye: The influence of gaze direction on co-speech gesture comprehension in triadic communication. eScholarship (California Digital Library). 34(34). 467–472. 9 indexed citations

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Senghas, Ann, Aslı Özyürek, & Susan Goldin‐Meadow. (2010). THE EVOLUTION OF SEGMENTATION AND SEQUENCING: EVIDENCE FROM HOMESIGN AND NICARAGUAN SIGN LANGUAGE. The Evolution of Language. 9 indexed citations

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Zwitserlood, Inge, Aslı Özyürek, & Pamela Perniss. (2008). Annotation of sign and gesture cross-linguistically. Language Resources and Evaluation. 185–190. 2 indexed citations

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Willems, Roel M., Aslı Özyürek, & Peter Hagoort. (2008). Seeing and Hearing Meaning: ERP and fMRI Evidence of Word versus Picture Integration into a Sentence Context. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. 20(7). 1235–1249. 73 indexed citations

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Willems, Roel M., Aslı Özyürek, & Peter Hagoort. (2005). The comprehension of gesture and speech. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. 17. 231. 2 indexed citations

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Kita, Sotaro & Aslı Özyürek. (2003). What does cross-linguistic variation in semantic coordination of speech and gesture reveal?: Evidence for an interface representation of spatial thinking and speaking. Journal of Memory and Language. 48(1). 16–32. 564 indexed citations breakdown →

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