Eliana Colunga

1.1k total citations
37 papers, 618 citations indexed

About

Eliana Colunga is a scholar working on Developmental and Educational Psychology, Cultural Studies and Artificial Intelligence. According to data from OpenAlex, Eliana Colunga has authored 37 papers receiving a total of 618 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 32 papers in Developmental and Educational Psychology, 5 papers in Cultural Studies and 4 papers in Artificial Intelligence. Recurrent topics in Eliana Colunga's work include Child and Animal Learning Development (22 papers), Reading and Literacy Development (18 papers) and Language Development and Disorders (16 papers). Eliana Colunga is often cited by papers focused on Child and Animal Learning Development (22 papers), Reading and Literacy Development (18 papers) and Language Development and Disorders (16 papers). Eliana Colunga collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Germany. Eliana Colunga's co-authors include Linda B. Smith, Hanako Yoshida, Nicole Beckage, Sarina Hui‐Lin Chien, Maria Kharitonova, Yuko Munakata, Michael Gasser, Tom Yeh, Pilyoung Kim and Sarah C. Kucker and has published in prestigious journals such as Psychological Review, Journal of Experimental Psychology General and Frontiers in Psychology.

In The Last Decade

Eliana Colunga

36 papers receiving 586 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Eliana Colunga United States 12 451 172 137 106 67 37 618
Mika Braginsky United States 9 679 1.5× 179 1.0× 157 1.1× 117 1.1× 43 0.6× 16 820
Stella Christie China 9 282 0.6× 102 0.6× 125 0.9× 49 0.5× 44 0.7× 23 459
Paulo F. Carvalho United States 12 337 0.7× 154 0.9× 227 1.7× 198 1.9× 22 0.3× 39 583
Sumarga H. Suanda United States 12 478 1.1× 211 1.2× 112 0.8× 59 0.6× 25 0.4× 18 688
Aimee E. Stahl United States 9 421 0.9× 208 1.2× 125 0.9× 34 0.3× 26 0.4× 16 563
Eef Ameel Belgium 13 332 0.7× 245 1.4× 394 2.9× 143 1.3× 70 1.0× 28 767
Nancy N. Soja United States 7 409 0.9× 68 0.4× 239 1.7× 62 0.6× 57 0.9× 9 596
George Kachergis United States 13 297 0.7× 129 0.8× 56 0.4× 217 2.0× 82 1.2× 56 480
M. Louise Kelly United Kingdom 9 602 1.3× 507 2.9× 156 1.1× 84 0.8× 25 0.4× 11 797
Matthew W. Lowder United States 15 329 0.7× 448 2.6× 153 1.1× 160 1.5× 15 0.2× 30 609

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Eliana Colunga

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Eliana Colunga. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Eliana Colunga based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Eliana Colunga. Eliana Colunga is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Colunga, Eliana, et al.. (2025). Assessing cognitive components of computational thinking. Frontiers in Psychology. 16. 1434453–1434453.
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Aly, Mariam, Eliana Colunga, Molly J. Crockett, et al.. (2023). Changing the culture of peer review for a more inclusive and equitable psychological science.. Journal of Experimental Psychology General. 152(12). 3546–3565. 8 indexed citations
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Valentini, Maria Consuelo, et al.. (2023). On the Automatic Generation and Simplification of Children’s Stories. 3588–3598. 2 indexed citations
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Aly, Mariam, Eliana Colunga, Molly J. Crockett, et al.. (2022). Changing the Culture of Peer Review for a More Inclusive and Equitable Psychological Science. PsyArXiv (OSF Preprints). 3 indexed citations
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Colunga, Eliana, et al.. (2019). Word-Learning Biases Contribute Differently to Late-Talker and Typically Developing Vocabulary Trajectories.. Cognitive Science. 3078–3084. 1 indexed citations
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Kucker, Sarah C., Larissa K. Samuelson, Lynn K. Perry, et al.. (2018). Reproducibility and a unifying explanation: Lessons from the shape bias. Infant Behavior and Development. 54. 156–165. 22 indexed citations
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Beckage, Nicole, Michael C. Mozer, & Eliana Colunga. (2015). Predicting a Child's Trajectory of Lexical Acquisition.. Cognitive Science. 1 indexed citations
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Beckage, Nicole, et al.. (2015). Modeling Lexical Acquisition Through Networks.. Cognitive Science. 2 indexed citations
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Colunga, Eliana, et al.. (2013). Parent-Child Screen Media Co-Viewing: Influences on Toddlers' Word Learning and Retention. Cognitive Science. 35(35). 10 indexed citations
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Colunga, Eliana, et al.. (2013). Exploring the Developmental Feedback Loop: Word Learning in Neural Networks and Toddlers.. Cognitive Science. 35(35). 2 indexed citations
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Beckage, Nicole & Eliana Colunga. (2013). Using the words toddlers know now to predict the words they will learn next. Cognitive Science. 35(35). 5 indexed citations
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Colunga, Eliana, et al.. (2012). Early-Talker and Late-Talker Toddlers and Networks Show Different Word Learning Biases. Cognitive Science. 34(34). 5 indexed citations
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Colunga, Eliana, et al.. (2012). Taking Development Seriously: Modeling the Interactions in the Emergence of Different Word Learning Biases. Cognitive Science. 34(34). 1 indexed citations
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Colunga, Eliana, et al.. (2011). Early Talkers and Late Talkers Know Nouns that License Different Word Learning Biases. Cognitive Science. 33(33). 12 indexed citations
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Colunga, Eliana, et al.. (2010). When Comparison Helps: The Role of Language, Prior Knowledge and Similarity in Categorizing Novel Objects. eScholarship (California Digital Library). 32(32). 1 indexed citations
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Smith, Linda B., Eliana Colunga, & Hanako Yoshida. (2010). Knowledge as Process: Contextually Cued Attention and Early Word Learning. Cognitive Science. 34(7). 1287–1314. 81 indexed citations
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Colunga, Eliana, Linda B. Smith, & Michael Gasser. (2009). Correlation versus prediction in children's word learning: Cross-linguistic evidence and simulations. Language and Cognition. 1(2). 197–217. 15 indexed citations
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Colunga, Eliana & Linda B. Smith. (2008). Knowledge embedded in process: the self‐organization of skilled noun learning. Developmental Science. 11(2). 195–203. 47 indexed citations
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Colunga, Eliana & Linda B. Smith. (2004). Dumb mechanisms make smart concepts. eScholarship (California Digital Library). 26(26). 7 indexed citations
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Calvo, Francisco & Eliana Colunga. (2003). The Statistical Brain: Reply to Marcus’ The Algebraic Mind. eScholarship (California Digital Library). 25(25). 6 indexed citations

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