Casey Lew‐Williams

4.9k total citations · 2 hit papers
67 papers, 2.1k citations indexed

About

Casey Lew‐Williams is a scholar working on Developmental and Educational Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Casey Lew‐Williams has authored 67 papers receiving a total of 2.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 53 papers in Developmental and Educational Psychology, 18 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience and 13 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. Recurrent topics in Casey Lew‐Williams's work include Language Development and Disorders (45 papers), Child and Animal Learning Development (34 papers) and Reading and Literacy Development (23 papers). Casey Lew‐Williams is often cited by papers focused on Language Development and Disorders (45 papers), Child and Animal Learning Development (34 papers) and Reading and Literacy Development (23 papers). Casey Lew‐Williams collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and United Kingdom. Casey Lew‐Williams's co-authors include Anne Fernald, Jessica F. Schwab, Krista Byers‐Heinlein, Theres Grüter, Elise A. Piazza, Jenny R. Saffran, Brock Ferguson, Elizabeth Morin‐Lessard, Uri Hasson and Liat Hasenfratz and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Child Development and Current Biology.

In The Last Decade

Casey Lew‐Williams

63 papers receiving 2.1k 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.

A Collaborative Approach to Infant Research: Promoting Reproducibility, Best Practices, and Theory‐Building

2017 175 citations Michael C. Frank, Christina Bergmann et al. profile →
Language learning, socioeconomic status, and child‐directed speech

2016 174 citations Jessica F. Schwab, Casey Lew‐Williams profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Casey Lew‐Williams United States	23	1.5k	895	403	333	211	67	2.1k
Krista Byers‐Heinlein Canada	29	1.9k 1.2×	745 0.8×	561 1.4×	297 0.9×	99 0.5×	80	2.4k
Danielle Matthews United Kingdom	20	1.3k 0.9×	504 0.6×	278 0.7×	408 1.2×	241 1.1×	53	1.7k
Evan Kidd Australia	29	2.3k 1.5×	1.6k 1.7×	515 1.3×	573 1.7×	272 1.3×	121	3.1k
Elika Bergelson United States	20	1.6k 1.1×	400 0.4×	504 1.3×	142 0.4×	200 0.9×	63	2.0k
Mélanie Söderström Canada	20	1.5k 1.0×	357 0.4×	619 1.5×	199 0.6×	228 1.1×	61	1.9k
Jill de Villiers United States	22	1.3k 0.9×	473 0.5×	282 0.7×	410 1.2×	81 0.4×	75	1.8k
Kristine H. Onishi Canada	15	1.9k 1.3×	1.0k 1.1×	530 1.3×	299 0.9×	184 0.9×	31	2.5k
Feng‐Ming Tsao Taiwan	17	1.4k 0.9×	798 0.9×	886 2.2×	87 0.3×	186 0.9×	32	2.2k
Leher Singh Singapore	25	1.5k 1.0×	714 0.8×	859 2.1×	94 0.3×	106 0.5×	76	2.1k
Jill G. de Villiers United States	24	2.1k 1.4×	850 0.9×	487 1.2×	569 1.7×	138 0.7×	43	2.6k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Casey Lew‐Williams

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All Works

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Lew‐Williams, Casey, et al.. (2025). Dynamic Interaction of Affect and Language in Children's Home Environments. Developmental Science. 29(1). e70083–e70083.

Tamir, Diana, et al.. (2023). Caregiver speech predicts the emergence of children's emotion vocabulary. Child Development. 94(3). 585–602. 8 indexed citations

Struhl, Melissa Kline, Peter Hart, Sagi Jaffe‐Dax, et al.. (2023). iCatcher+: Robust and Automated Annotation of Infants’ and Young Children’s Gaze Behavior From Videos Collected in Laboratory, Field, and Online Studies. Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science. 6(2). 7 indexed citations

Kosie, Jessica Elizabeth, et al.. (2022). Bilingual Language Development in Infancy: What Can We Do to Support Bilingual Families?. Policy Insights from the Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 9(1). 35–43. 12 indexed citations

Goldberg, Adele Ε., et al.. (2021). Modeling rules and similarity in colexification. eScholarship (California Digital Library). 43(43). 2 indexed citations

Piazza, Elise A., et al.. (2021). Neural synchrony predicts children's learning of novel words. Cognition. 214. 104752–104752. 27 indexed citations

Bergmann, Christina, Michael C. Frank, George Kachergis, et al.. (2020). ManyBabies Africa IDS. OSF Preprints (OSF Preprints). 2 indexed citations

Lew‐Williams, Casey, et al.. (2020). Adults and children predict in complex and variable referential contexts. Language Cognition and Neuroscience. 36(4). 474–490. 15 indexed citations

Piazza, Elise A., Liat Hasenfratz, Uri Hasson, & Casey Lew‐Williams. (2019). Infant and Adult Brains Are Coupled to the Dynamics of Natural Communication. Psychological Science. 31(1). 6–17. 125 indexed citations

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Goldberg, Adele Ε., et al.. (2019). Toddlers recognize multiple polysemous meanings and use them to infer additional meanings.. Cognitive Science. 1752. 1 indexed citations

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Morin‐Lessard, Elizabeth, et al.. (2018). Bilingual toddlers’ comprehension of mixed sentences is asymmetrical across their two languages. Developmental Science. 22(4). 29 indexed citations

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Lew‐Williams, Casey, et al.. (2018). Infants’ selective use of reliable cues in multidimensional language input.. Developmental Psychology. 55(1). 1–8. 10 indexed citations

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Lew‐Williams, Casey, et al.. (2018). Look at THAT: Deixis reveals developmental changes in verbal prediction.. Cognitive Science. 1 indexed citations

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Morin‐Lessard, Elizabeth, et al.. (2018). Bilingual toddlers process mixed sentences differently in their two languages. Cognitive Science. 3 indexed citations

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Schwab, Jessica F. & Casey Lew‐Williams. (2017). Discourse continuity promotes children's learning of new objects labels.. Cognitive Science. 1 indexed citations

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Lew‐Williams, Casey. (2017). Specific Referential Contexts Shape Efficiency in Second Language Processing: Three Eye-Tracking Experiments With 6- and 10-Year-Old Children in Spanish Immersion Schools. Annual Review of Applied Linguistics. 37. 128–147. 7 indexed citations

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Grieco‐Calub, Tina M., et al.. (2017). Word segmentation from noise-band vocoded speech. Language Cognition and Neuroscience. 32(10). 1344–1356. 5 indexed citations

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Ferguson, Brock & Casey Lew‐Williams. (2014). Communicative signals promote abstract rule learning by 7-month-old infants. Cognitive Science. 36(36). 4 indexed citations

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Byers‐Heinlein, Krista & Casey Lew‐Williams. (2013). Bilingualism in the Early Years: What the Science Says. LEARNing Landscapes. 7(1). 95–112. 101 indexed citations

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Lew‐Williams, Casey & Anne Fernald. (2010). Real-time processing of gender-marked articles by native and non-native Spanish speakers. Journal of Memory and Language. 63(4). 447–464. 157 indexed citations

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