Eleanor M. Saffran

10.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
67 papers, 7.3k citations indexed

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Eleanor M. Saffran is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Developmental and Educational Psychology and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Eleanor M. Saffran has authored 67 papers receiving a total of 7.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 59 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 39 papers in Developmental and Educational Psychology and 11 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. Recurrent topics in Eleanor M. Saffran's work include Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism (53 papers), Reading and Literacy Development (29 papers) and Language Development and Disorders (18 papers). Eleanor M. Saffran is often cited by papers focused on Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism (53 papers), Reading and Literacy Development (29 papers) and Language Development and Disorders (18 papers). Eleanor M. Saffran collaborates with scholars based in United States, India and Canada. Eleanor M. Saffran's co-authors include Myrna F. Schwartz, Oscar S.M. Marin, H. Branch Coslett, Nadine Martin, Gary S. Dell, Marcia C. Linebarger, Sarah D. Breedin, Deborah A. Gagnon, Rita Sloan Berndt and Laurel J. Buxbaum and has published in prestigious journals such as Psychological Review, Brain and Neurology.

In The Last Decade

Eleanor M. Saffran

65 papers receiving 6.8k citations

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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.

Lexical access in aphasic and nonaphasic speakers.

1997 946 citations Gary S. Dell, Myrna F. Schwartz et al. Psychological Review profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Eleanor M. Saffran United States	42	6.4k	4.5k	1.3k	1.1k	538	67	7.3k
Rita Sloan Berndt United States	33	3.9k 0.6×	2.9k 0.6×	643 0.5×	522 0.5×	246 0.5×	74	4.5k
Gloria Waters United States	39	4.6k 0.7×	4.2k 0.9×	1.2k 0.9×	272 0.2×	406 0.8×	78	5.8k
Ardi Roelofs Netherlands	48	8.5k 1.3×	6.2k 1.4×	3.2k 2.5×	617 0.6×	278 0.5×	148	10.0k
Gabriele Miceli Italy	37	4.1k 0.6×	2.7k 0.6×	821 0.7×	504 0.5×	400 0.7×	132	5.0k
Kara D. Federmeier United States	48	11.1k 1.7×	6.4k 1.4×	3.6k 2.8×	1.6k 1.5×	352 0.7×	149	12.8k
Axel Mecklinger Germany	55	8.1k 1.3×	1.9k 0.4×	1.7k 1.4×	1.1k 1.0×	310 0.6×	192	8.9k
Edgar Zurif United States	39	4.1k 0.6×	3.1k 0.7×	1.3k 1.0×	430 0.4×	121 0.2×	69	5.0k
Helen Moss United Kingdom	38	3.7k 0.6×	1.6k 0.4×	1.4k 1.1×	1.3k 1.2×	416 0.8×	73	5.0k
Ovid J. L. Tzeng Taiwan	42	3.9k 0.6×	2.5k 0.6×	1.2k 1.0×	729 0.7×	282 0.5×	154	5.4k
Debra Titone Canada	39	3.2k 0.5×	2.3k 0.5×	2.0k 1.6×	394 0.4×	385 0.7×	136	5.0k

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Boronat, Consuelo B., Laurel J. Buxbaum, H. Branch Coslett, et al.. (2005). Distinctions between manipulation and function knowledge of objects: evidence from functional magnetic resonance imaging. Cognitive Brain Research. 23(2-3). 361–373. 216 indexed citations

Martin, Nadine & Eleanor M. Saffran. (2002). The relationship of input and output phonological processing: An evaluation of models and evidence to support them. Aphasiology. 16(1-2). 107–150. 49 indexed citations

Buxbaum, Laurel J. & Eleanor M. Saffran. (2002). Knowledge of object manipulation and object function: dissociations in apraxic and nonapraxic subjects. Brain and Language. 82(2). 179–199. 263 indexed citations

Dell, Gary S., et al.. (2000). The role of computational models in neuropsychological investigations of language: Reply to Ruml and Caramazza (2000).. Psychological Review. 107(3). 635–645. 19 indexed citations

Saffran, Eleanor M.. (2000). The Organization of Semantic Memory: In Support of a Distributed Model. Brain and Language. 71(1). 204–212. 47 indexed citations

Martin, Nadine, Eleanor M. Saffran, Gary S. Dell, Myrna F. Schwartz, & Prahlad Gupta. (2000). Neuropsychological and computational evidence for a model of lexical processing, verbal short-term memory and learning. vol. 2, 20–25. 2 indexed citations

Breedin, Sarah D. & Eleanor M. Saffran. (1999). Sentence processing in the face of semantic loss: A case study.. Journal of Experimental Psychology General. 128(4). 547–562. 45 indexed citations

Breedin, Sarah D., et al.. (1998). Semantic Factors in Verb Retrieval: An Effect of Complexity. Brain and Language. 63(1). 1–31. 176 indexed citations

Gagnon, Deborah A., Myrna F. Schwartz, Nadine Martin, Gary S. Dell, & Eleanor M. Saffran. (1997). The Origins of Formal Paraphasias in Aphasics' Picture Naming. Brain and Language. 59(3). 450–472. 65 indexed citations

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Martin, Nadine, Eleanor M. Saffran, & Gary S. Dell. (1996). Recovery in Deep Dysphasia: Evidence for a Relation between Auditory–Verbal STM Capacity and Lexical Errors in Repetition. Brain and Language. 52(1). 83–113. 142 indexed citations

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Coslett, H. Branch, Marianna Stark, Suparna Rajaram, & Eleanor M. Saffran. (1995). Narrowing the spotlight: A visual attentional disorder in presumed alzheimer's disease. Neurocase. 1(4). 305–318. 46 indexed citations

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Saffran, Eleanor M. & Myrna F. Schwartz. (1994). Impairments of sentence comprehension. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 346(1315). 47–53. 15 indexed citations

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Coslett, H. Branch & Eleanor M. Saffran. (1994). Mechanisms of implicit reading in alexia. 19 indexed citations

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Schwartz, Myrna F., et al.. (1994). Mapping therapy: A treatment programme for agrammatism. Aphasiology. 8(1). 19–54. 144 indexed citations

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Coslett, H. Branch, et al.. (1993). Reading in pure alexia. Brain. 116(1). 21–37. 72 indexed citations

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Coslett, H. Branch & Eleanor M. Saffran. (1992). Optic aphasia and the right hemisphere: A replication and extension. Brain and Language. 43(1). 148–161. 52 indexed citations

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Coslett, H. Branch & Eleanor M. Saffran. (1989). PRESERVED OBJECT RECOGNITION AND READING COMPREHENSION IN OPTIC APHASIA. Brain. 112(4). 1091–1110. 79 indexed citations

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Saffran, Eleanor M., Rita Sloan Berndt, & Myrna F. Schwartz. (1989). The quantitative analysis of agrammatic production: Procedure and data. Brain and Language. 37(3). 440–479. 466 indexed citations

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Coslett, H. Branch & Eleanor M. Saffran. (1989). EVIDENCE FOR PRESERVED READING IN ‘PURE ALEXIA’. Brain. 112(2). 327–359. 134 indexed citations

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Marin, Oscar S.M. & Eleanor M. Saffran. (1975). Agnosic Behavior in Anomia a Case of Pathological Verbal Dominance. Cortex. 11(1). 83–89. 8 indexed citations

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