David Caplan

19.9k total citations · 3 hit papers
215 papers, 12.8k citations indexed

About

David Caplan is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Developmental and Educational Psychology and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, David Caplan has authored 215 papers receiving a total of 12.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 163 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 110 papers in Developmental and Educational Psychology and 24 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. Recurrent topics in David Caplan's work include Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism (155 papers), Reading and Literacy Development (89 papers) and Language Development and Disorders (48 papers). David Caplan is often cited by papers focused on Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism (155 papers), Reading and Literacy Development (89 papers) and Language Development and Disorders (48 papers). David Caplan collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and United Kingdom. David Caplan's co-authors include Gloria Waters, Nathaniel M. Alpert, Nancy Hildebrandt, Gina R. Kuperberg, Phillip J. Holcomb, Tatiana Sitnikova, John C. Marshall, Elizabeth Rochon, Scott L. Rauch and Karin Stromswold and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, New England Journal of Medicine and Neuron.

In The Last Decade

David Caplan

208 papers receiving 11.9k 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.

Speaking. From Intention to Articulation

1990 2.4k citations David Caplan profile →
Verbal working memory and sentence comprehension

1999 685 citations David Caplan, Gloria Waters profile →
Localization of Syntactic Comprehension by Positron Emission Tomography

1996 529 citations David Caplan, Nathaniel M. Alpert et al. Brain and Language profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
David Caplan United States	53	10.1k	7.6k	2.8k	1.7k	1.1k	215	12.8k
Antje S. Meyer Netherlands	49	8.8k 0.9×	6.7k 0.9×	4.3k 1.5×	1.6k 1.0×	1.4k 1.3×	204	11.6k
Gary S. Dell United States	55	12.4k 1.2×	9.7k 1.3×	4.8k 1.7×	2.1k 1.3×	2.0k 1.9×	135	15.0k
Phillip J. Holcomb United States	64	13.6k 1.3×	8.5k 1.1×	3.8k 1.4×	830 0.5×	821 0.8×	224	15.3k
Ardi Roelofs Netherlands	48	8.5k 0.8×	6.2k 0.8×	3.2k 1.1×	1.1k 0.7×	897 0.8×	148	10.0k
Michael T. Ullman United States	45	6.2k 0.6×	6.4k 0.8×	1.3k 0.5×	1.3k 0.8×	681 0.6×	121	9.5k
Judith F. Kroll United States	51	8.5k 0.8×	8.2k 1.1×	2.7k 1.0×	2.1k 1.3×	1.1k 1.0×	137	11.4k
Andrew W. Ellis United Kingdom	60	10.3k 1.0×	7.2k 0.9×	3.0k 1.1×	620 0.4×	919 0.8×	195	13.1k
Manuel Carreiras Spain	63	10.2k 1.0×	9.4k 1.2×	3.3k 1.2×	1.5k 0.9×	1.1k 1.0×	327	13.4k
Kara D. Federmeier United States	48	11.1k 1.1×	6.4k 0.8×	3.6k 1.3×	635 0.4×	1.1k 1.0×	149	12.8k
Myrna F. Schwartz United States	52	8.8k 0.9×	5.2k 0.7×	1.6k 0.6×	529 0.3×	570 0.5×	126	10.3k

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Barbieri, Elena, Cynthia K. Thompson, James Higgins, et al.. (2022). Treatment-induced neural reorganization in aphasia is language-domain specific: Evidence from a large-scale fMRI study. Cortex. 159. 75–100. 5 indexed citations

Higgins, James, Elena Barbieri, Xue Wang, et al.. (2020). Reliability of BOLD signals in chronic stroke‐induced aphasia. European Journal of Neuroscience. 52(8). 3963–3978. 3 indexed citations

Caplan, David, et al.. (2016). Effects of Written and Auditory Language-Processing Skills on Written Passage Comprehension in Middle and High School Students. Reading Research Quarterly. 51(1). 67–92. 2 indexed citations

Darby, R. Ryan & David Caplan. (2016). “Cat-gras” delusion: a unique misidentification syndrome and a novel explanation. Neurocase. 22(2). 251–256. 15 indexed citations

Evans, William S., et al.. (2014). Working memory and the revision of syntactic and discourse ambiguities.. Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology/Revue canadienne de psychologie expérimentale. 69(1). 136–155. 12 indexed citations

Caplan, David & David W. Gow. (2010). Effects of tasks on BOLD signal responses to sentence contrasts: Review and commentary. Brain and Language. 120(2). 174–186. 6 indexed citations

Caplan, David, et al.. (2006). A study of syntactic processing in aphasia I: Behavioral (psycholinguistic) aspects. Brain and Language. 101(2). 103–150. 122 indexed citations

Waters, Gloria & David Caplan. (2003). The reliability and stability of verbal working memory measures. Behavior Research Methods, Instruments, & Computers. 35(4). 550–564. 197 indexed citations

Caplan, David & Gloria Waters. (2003). On-line syntactic processing in aphasia: Studies with auditory moving window presentation. Brain and Language. 84(2). 222–249. 35 indexed citations

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Waters, Gloria, David Caplan, Nathaniel M. Alpert, & Louise Stanczak. (2003). Individual differences in rCBF correlates of syntactic processing in sentence comprehension: effects of working memory and speed of processing. NeuroImage. 19(1). 101–112. 30 indexed citations

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Chee, Michael W.L., Nicholas Hon, David Caplan, Hwee Ling Lee, & Joshua Oon Soo Goh. (2002). Frequency of Concrete Words Modulates Prefrontal Activation during Semantic Judgments. NeuroImage. 16(1). 259–268. 70 indexed citations

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Waters, Gloria & David Caplan. (2002). Working Memory and Online Syntactic Processing in Alzheimer's Disease: Studies With Auditory Moving Window Presentation. The Journals of Gerontology Series B. 57(4). P298–P311. 23 indexed citations

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Caplan, David & Gloria Waters. (2001). Working Memory and Syntactic Processing in Sentence Comprehension. 8(1). 10–24. 6 indexed citations

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Caplan, David, Sujith Vijayan, Gina R. Kuperberg, et al.. (2001). Vascular responses to syntactic processing: Event‐related fMRI study of relative clauses. Human Brain Mapping. 15(1). 26–38. 125 indexed citations

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Caplan, David, et al.. (1996). La evaluación neurolingüística de las alteraciones del lenguaje: presentación de un nuevo instrumento. Revista de psicología general y aplicada: Revista de la Federación Española de Asociaciones de Psicología. 49(1). 45–63. 3 indexed citations

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Caplan, David, Nancy Hildebrandt, & Nikos Makris. (1996). Location of lesions in stroke patients with deficits in syntactic processing in sentence comprehension. Brain. 119(3). 933–949. 185 indexed citations

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Caplan, David. (1992). Introducción a la neurolingüística y al estudio de los trastornos del lenguaje. 8 indexed citations

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Caplan, David & Gloria Waters. (1990). Short-term memory and language comprehension: a critical review of the neuropsychological literature. Cambridge University Press eBooks. 337–389. 86 indexed citations

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Caplan, David. (1987). Neurolinguistics and linguistic aphasiology an introduction. 237 indexed citations

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Caplan, David. (1979). Marabi Culture: Continuity and Transformation in African Music in Johannesburg, 1920-1940. 49–75. 6 indexed citations

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