Elika Bergelson

4.5k total citations · 2 hit papers
63 papers, 2.0k citations indexed

About

Elika Bergelson is a scholar working on Developmental and Educational Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, Elika Bergelson has authored 63 papers receiving a total of 2.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 50 papers in Developmental and Educational Psychology, 17 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and 11 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in Elika Bergelson's work include Language Development and Disorders (46 papers), Child and Animal Learning Development (26 papers) and Reading and Literacy Development (23 papers). Elika Bergelson is often cited by papers focused on Language Development and Disorders (46 papers), Child and Animal Learning Development (26 papers) and Reading and Literacy Development (23 papers). Elika Bergelson collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and France. Elika Bergelson's co-authors include Daniel Swingley, Alejandrina Cristià, Richard Ν. Aslin, Mélanie Söderström, Shannon Dailey, Andrei Amatuni, Anne S. Warlaumont, Marisa Casillas, Amanda Seidl and Sharath Koorathota and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Elika Bergelson

61 papers receiving 2.0k 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.

At 6–9 months, human infants know the meanings of many common nouns

2012 528 citations Elika Bergelson, Daniel Swingley Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
A Collaborative Approach to Infant Research: Promoting Reproducibility, Best Practices, and Theory‐Building

2017 175 citations Elika Bergelson, Alejandrina Cristià et al. Infancy profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Elika Bergelson United States	20	1.6k	504	400	228	200	63	2.0k
Mélanie Söderström Canada	20	1.5k 0.9×	619 1.2×	357 0.9×	232 1.0×	228 1.1×	61	1.9k
Anne S. Warlaumont United States	19	863 0.5×	295 0.6×	319 0.8×	162 0.7×	190 0.9×	52	1.3k
Casey Lew‐Williams United States	23	1.5k 0.9×	403 0.8×	895 2.2×	194 0.9×	211 1.1×	67	2.1k
Krista Byers‐Heinlein Canada	29	1.9k 1.1×	561 1.1×	745 1.9×	178 0.8×	99 0.5×	80	2.4k
Alejandrina Cristià France	33	2.2k 1.3×	1.2k 2.3×	632 1.6×	348 1.5×	420 2.1×	146	3.0k
Erik D. Thiessen United States	24	1.9k 1.2×	845 1.7×	772 1.9×	106 0.5×	411 2.1×	46	2.4k
Suzanne Curtin Canada	23	1.6k 1.0×	800 1.6×	694 1.7×	196 0.9×	166 0.8×	59	2.0k
Danielle Matthews United Kingdom	20	1.3k 0.8×	278 0.6×	504 1.3×	164 0.7×	241 1.2×	53	1.7k
Amanda Seidl United States	19	988 0.6×	576 1.1×	254 0.6×	171 0.8×	194 1.0×	43	1.3k
Nivedita Mani Germany	21	1.4k 0.8×	656 1.3×	788 2.0×	135 0.6×	150 0.8×	81	1.7k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Elika Bergelson

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Howard, Christopher J., Maria Xenochristou, Angjoo Kanazawa, et al.. (2025). Artificial intelligence–powered 3D analysis of video-based caregiver-child interactions. Science Advances. 11(8). eadp4422–eadp4422. 1 indexed citations

Bergelson, Elika, et al.. (2024). The role of vision in the acquisition of words: Vocabulary development in blind toddlers. Developmental Science. 27(4). e13475–e13475. 5 indexed citations

Bergelson, Elika, et al.. (2024). Analyzing the effect of sibling number on input and output in the first 18 months. Infancy. 29(2). 175–195. 5 indexed citations

Bergelson, Elika, et al.. (2024). Language science outreach through schools and social media: critical considerations. Linguistics Vanguard. 10(s3). 273–281. 1 indexed citations

Söderström, Mélanie, et al.. (2024). A cross-linguistic examination of young children’s everyday language experiences. Journal of Child Language. 52(4). 786–814. 5 indexed citations

Cristià, Alejandrina, Zixing Zhang, Björn W. Schuller, et al.. (2024). Establishing the reliability of metrics extracted from long-form recordings using LENA and the ACLEW pipeline. Behavior Research Methods. 56(8). 8588–8607. 4 indexed citations

Bergelson, Elika, Mélanie Söderström, Iris‐Corinna Schwarz, et al.. (2023). Everyday language input and production in 1,001 children from six continents. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 120(52). e2300671120–e2300671120. 39 indexed citations

Bergelson, Elika, et al.. (2022). Talker variability is not always the right noise: 14 month olds struggle to learn dissimilar word-object pairs under talker variability conditions. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology. 227. 105575–105575. 3 indexed citations

Dailey, Shannon & Elika Bergelson. (2021). Language input to infants of different socioeconomic statuses: A quantitative meta‐analysis. Developmental Science. 25(3). e13192–e13192. 36 indexed citations

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Moore, Charlotte E. & Elika Bergelson. (2021). Listeners can use coarticulation cues to predict an upcoming novel word. eScholarship (California Digital Library). 43(43).

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Cristià, Alejandrina, et al.. (2020). Accuracy of the Language Environment Analysis System Segmentation and Metrics: A Systematic Review. Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research. 63(4). 1093–1105. 69 indexed citations

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Bergelson, Elika, et al.. (2020). Familiarity plays a small role in noun comprehension at 12–18 months. Infancy. 25(4). 458–477. 15 indexed citations

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Bergelson, Elika. (2020). The Comprehension Boost in Early Word Learning: Older Infants Are Better Learners. Child Development Perspectives. 14(3). 142–149. 36 indexed citations

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Moore, Charlotte E., et al.. (2019). Point, walk, talk: Links between three early milestones, from observation and parental report.. Developmental Psychology. 55(8). 1579–1593. 28 indexed citations

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Bergelson, Elika & Richard Ν. Aslin. (2017). Nature and origins of the lexicon in 6-mo-olds. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 114(49). 12916–12921. 103 indexed citations

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Warlaumont, Anne S., Mark VanDam, Elika Bergelson, & Alejandrina Cristià. (2017). HomeBank: A Repository for Long-Form Real-World Audio Recordings of Children.. Conference of the International Speech Communication Association. 815–816. 2 indexed citations

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Bergelson, Elika, et al.. (2017). More Siblings Means Lower Input Quality in Early Language Development. Cognitive Science. 1 indexed citations

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Warlaumont, Anne S., Elika Bergelson, Alejandrina Cristià, et al.. (2016). HomeBank: An Online Repository of Daylong Child-Centered Audio Recordings. Seminars in Speech and Language. 37(2). 128–142. 80 indexed citations

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Bergelson, Elika, Michael Shvartsman, & William J. Idsardi. (2013). Differences in Mismatch Responses to Vowels and Musical Intervals: MEG Evidence. PLoS ONE. 8(10). e76758–e76758. 1 indexed citations

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Bergelson, Elika & Daniel Swingley. (2013). Young Toddlers’ Word Comprehension Is Flexible and Efficient. PLoS ONE. 8(8). e73359–e73359. 9 indexed citations

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