Eleanor M. Saffran

10.2k citations

67 papers · 7.3k indexed · 1 hit paper · h-index 42

Cognitive Neuroscience top 0.2%
Developmental and Educational Psychology top 0.1%
Experimental and Cognitive Psychology top 1%
Social Psychology top 1%
Psychiatry and Mental health top 2%

Co-authors: Myrna F. Schwartz Oscar S.M. Marin H. Branch Coslett Nadine Martin Gary S. Dell Marcia C. Linebarger Sarah D. Breedin Deborah A. Gagnon
Topics: Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism (53 papers)Reading and Literacy Development (29 papers)Language Development and Disorders (18 papers)
Cited by: Developmental and Educational Psychology Cognitive Neuroscience Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
Journals: Psychological Review Brain Neurology
Partner nations: United States India Canada

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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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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Distinctions between manipulation and function knowledge of objects: evidence from functional magnetic resonance imaging 2005 ·Cognitive Brain Research ·Consuelo B. Boronat,Laurel J. Buxbaum,H. Branch Coslett,Kathy Tang,Eleanor M. Saffran,Daniel Y. Kimberg,John A. Detre	216
2	Knowledge of object manipulation and object function: dissociations in apraxic and nonapraxic subjects 2002 ·Brain and Language ·Laurel J. Buxbaum,Eleanor M. Saffran	263
3	The Organization of Semantic Memory: In Support of a Distributed Model 2000 ·Brain and Language ·Eleanor M. Saffran	47
4	Aphasia and the Relationship of Language and Brain 2000 ·Seminars in Neurology ·Eleanor M. Saffran	11
5	The role of computational models in neuropsychological investigations of language: Reply to Ruml and Caramazza (2000). 2000 ·Psychological Review ·Gary S. Dell,(unknown),Nadine Martin,Eleanor M. Saffran,Deborah A. Gagnon	19
6	Sentence processing in the face of semantic loss: A case study. 1999 ·Journal of Experimental Psychology General ·Sarah D. Breedin,Eleanor M. Saffran	45
7	Semantic Influences on Thematic Role Assignment: Evidence from Normals and Aphasics 1998 ·Brain and Language ·Eleanor M. Saffran,Myrna F. Schwartz,Marcia C. Linebarger	55
8	Semantic Factors in Verb Retrieval: An Effect of Complexity 1998 ·Brain and Language ·Sarah D. Breedin,Eleanor M. Saffran,(unknown)	176
9	Lexical access in aphasic and nonaphasic speakers.breakdown → 1997 ·Psychological Review ·Gary S. Dell,Myrna F. Schwartz,Nadine Martin,Eleanor M. Saffran,Deborah A. Gagnon	946
10	The Origins of Formal Paraphasias in Aphasics' Picture Naming 1997 ·Brain and Language ·Deborah A. Gagnon,Myrna F. Schwartz,Nadine Martin,Gary S. Dell,Eleanor M. Saffran	65
11	Recovery in Deep Dysphasia: Evidence for a Relation between Auditory–Verbal STM Capacity and Lexical Errors in Repetition 1996 ·Brain and Language ·Nadine Martin,Eleanor M. Saffran,Gary S. Dell	142
12	Narrowing the spotlight: A visual attentional disorder in presumed alzheimer's disease 1995 ·Neurocase ·H. Branch Coslett,Marianna Stark,Suparna Rajaram,Eleanor M. Saffran	46
13	Impairments of sentence comprehension 1994 ·Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences ·Eleanor M. Saffran,Myrna F. Schwartz	15
14	Reading in pure alexia 1993 ·Brain ·H. Branch Coslett,Eleanor M. Saffran,(unknown),(unknown)	72
15	Optic aphasia and the right hemisphere: A replication and extension 1992 ·Brain and Language ·H. Branch Coslett,Eleanor M. Saffran	52
16	SIMULTANAGNOSIA 1991 ·Brain ·H. Branch Coslett,Eleanor M. Saffran	137
17	The quantitative analysis of agrammatic production: Procedure and data 1989 ·Brain and Language ·Eleanor M. Saffran,Rita Sloan Berndt,Myrna F. Schwartz	466
18	EVIDENCE FOR PRESERVED READING IN ‘PURE ALEXIA’ 1989 ·Brain ·H. Branch Coslett,Eleanor M. Saffran	134
19	PRESERVED OBJECT RECOGNITION AND READING COMPREHENSION IN OPTIC APHASIA 1989 ·Brain ·H. Branch Coslett,Eleanor M. Saffran	79
20	Agnosic Behavior in Anomia a Case of Pathological Verbal Dominance 1975 ·Cortex ·Oscar S.M. Marin,Eleanor M. Saffran	8

About Eleanor M. Saffran

Eleanor M. Saffran is a scholar working on Developmental and Educational Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, having authored 67 papers that have together received 7.3k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism (53 papers), Reading and Literacy Development (29 papers) and Language Development and Disorders (18 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Developmental and Educational Psychology (4.5k citations), Cognitive Neuroscience (6.4k citations) and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology (1.3k citations). Eleanor M. Saffran has collaborated with scholars based in United States, India and Canada. Frequent 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. Their work appears in journals such as Psychological Review, Brain and Neurology.

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