Ellen Bialystok

51.8k total citations · 19 hit papers
273 papers, 30.5k citations indexed

About

Ellen Bialystok is a scholar working on Developmental and Educational Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience and Language and Linguistics. According to data from OpenAlex, Ellen Bialystok has authored 273 papers receiving a total of 30.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 167 papers in Developmental and Educational Psychology, 150 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience and 38 papers in Language and Linguistics. Recurrent topics in Ellen Bialystok's work include Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism (139 papers), Reading and Literacy Development (125 papers) and Language Development and Disorders (89 papers). Ellen Bialystok is often cited by papers focused on Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism (139 papers), Reading and Literacy Development (125 papers) and Language Development and Disorders (89 papers). Ellen Bialystok collaborates with scholars based in Canada, United States and United Kingdom. Ellen Bialystok's co-authors include Fergus I. M. Craik, Gigi Luk, Steven Pinker, Mythili Viswanathan, Michelle M. Martin, Raluca Barac, Morris Freedman, Sylvain Moreno, Raymond M. Klein and Alejandra Calvo and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Journal of Neuroscience.

In The Last Decade

Ellen Bialystok

262 papers receiving 27.9k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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.

Language Learnability and Language Development

1986 1.3k citations Ellen Bialystok et al. profile →
Bilingualism in Development

2001 1.2k citations Ellen Bialystok Cambridge University Press eBooks profile →
Bilingualism, Aging, and Cognitive Control: Evidence From the Simon Task.

2004 1.1k citations Ellen Bialystok, Fergus I. M. Craik et al. profile →
Bilingualism: consequences for mind and brain

2012 811 citations Ellen Bialystok, Fergus I. M. Craik et al. profile →
Cognitive control and lexical access in younger and older bilinguals.

2008 636 citations Ellen Bialystok, Fergus I. M. Craik et al. profile →
Bilingualism: The good, the bad, and the indifferent

2008 623 citations Ellen Bialystok Bilingualism Language and Cognition profile →
Cognition through the lifespan: mechanisms of change

2006 594 citations Fergus I. M. Craik, Ellen Bialystok profile →
Attention and inhibition in bilingual children: evidence from the dimensional change card sort task

2004 580 citations Ellen Bialystok et al. profile →
Receptive vocabulary differences in monolingual and bilingual children

2009 578 citations Ellen Bialystok, Gigi Luk et al. Bilingualism Language and Cognition profile →
Bilingualism as a protection against the onset of symptoms of dementia

2006 556 citations Ellen Bialystok, Fergus I. M. Craik et al. profile →
Cognitive Complexity and Attentional Control in the Bilingual Mind

1999 555 citations Ellen Bialystok Child Development profile →
Bilingualism is not a categorical variable: Interaction between language proficiency and usage

2013 503 citations Gigi Luk, Ellen Bialystok profile →
The bilingual adaptation: How minds accommodate experience.

2017 501 citations Ellen Bialystok profile →
Short-Term Music Training Enhances Verbal Intelligence and Executive Function

2011 493 citations Sylvain Moreno, Ellen Bialystok et al. Psychological Science profile →
Understanding the consequences of bilingualism for language processing and cognition

2013 394 citations Judith F. Kroll, Ellen Bialystok profile →
Redefining bilingualism as a spectrum of experiences that differentially affects brain structure and function

2019 254 citations Vincent DeLuca, Jason Rothman et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
The language and social background questionnaire: Assessing degree of bilingualism in a diverse population

2017 252 citations Ellen Bialystok et al. profile →
Bilingual education for young children: review of the effects and consequences

2016 167 citations Ellen Bialystok profile →
How does bilingualism modify cognitive function? Attention to the mechanism

2022 102 citations Ellen Bialystok, Fergus I. M. Craik profile →

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20 of 20 papers shown

#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Selective attention in cognitive processing revisited: A Long-term Re-evaluation 2024 ·Brain and Language ·Ellen Bialystok	2
2	Does Language Entropy Shape Cognitive Performance? A Tale of Two Cities 2023 ·Bilingualism Language and Cognition ·(unknown), (unknown), Ellen Bialystok	8
3	Redefining bilingualism as a spectrum of experiences that differentially affects brain structure and function breakdown → 2019 ·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Vincent DeLuca, Jason Rothman, Ellen Bialystok, Christos Pliatsikas	254
4	Phonologically-mediated meaning activation in monolinguals and bilinguals 2016 ·Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism ·Deanna C. Friesen, (unknown), Ellen Bialystok	1
5	Aging in two languages: Implications for public health 2016 ·Ageing Research Reviews ·Ellen Bialystok, Jubin Abutalebi, Thomas H. Bak, Deborah M. Burke, Judith F. Kroll	101
6	Short-Term Second Language and Music Training Induces Lasting Functional Brain Changes in Early Childhood 2014 ·Child Development ·Sylvain Moreno, Yunjo Lee, (unknown), Ellen Bialystok	54
7	The cognitive development of young dual language learners: A critical review 2014 ·Early Childhood Research Quarterly ·Raluca Barac, Ellen Bialystok, Dina C. Castro, Marta Sánchez	259
8	Bilingual Effects on Cognitive and Linguistic Development: Role of Language, Cultural Background, and Education 2012 ·Child Development ·Raluca Barac, Ellen Bialystok	263
9	Perspective-taking ability in bilingual children: Extending advantages in executive control to spatial reasoning 2012 ·Cognitive Development ·(unknown), Buddhika Bellana, Ellen Bialystok	87
10	Bilingualism Enriches the Poor 2012 ·Psychological Science ·Pascale Engel de Abreu, Anabela Cruz‐Santos, (unknown), Romain Martin, Ellen Bialystok	215
11	Short-Term Music Training Enhances Verbal Intelligence and Executive Function breakdown → 2011 ·Psychological Science ·Sylvain Moreno, Ellen Bialystok, Raluca Barac, E. Glenn Schellenberg, Nicholas J. Cepeda, Tom Chau	493
12	Lifelong Bilingualism Maintains White Matter Integrity in Older Adults 2011 ·Journal of Neuroscience ·Gigi Luk, Ellen Bialystok, Fergus I. M. Craik, Cheryl L. Grady	266
13	Components of executive control with advantages for bilingual children in two cultures 2009 ·Cognition ·Ellen Bialystok, Mythili Viswanathan	261
14	Executive Processes in Appearance–Reality Tasks: The Role of Inhibition of Attention and Symbolic Representation 2004 ·Child Development ·Ellen Bialystok, Lili Senman	147
15	Acquisition of Literacy in Bilingual Children: A Framework for Research 2002 ·Language Learning ·Ellen Bialystok	199
16	The relationship between bilingualism and the development of cognitive processes in problem solving 1998 ·Applied Psycholinguistics ·Ellen Bialystok, (unknown)	163
17	Anatomy of a Revolution 1997 ·Dialnet (Universidad de la Rioja) ·Ellen Bialystok	2
18	Language Processing in Bilingual Children 1991 ·Cambridge University Press eBooks ·Ellen Bialystok, Michael Sharwood Smith, Ian Watson, Lily Wong Fillmore, Jim Cummins, Catherine E. Snow, Marguerite E. Malakoff, Rafael M. Díaz, Janice Johnson	408
19	On Precision and the Virtue of Simplicity in Metalinguistics: A Reply to Menyuk. 1985 ·Merrill-palmer Quarterly ·Ellen Bialystok, Ellen Bouchard Ryan	0
20	METHODOLOGICAL APPROACHES TO RESEARCH IN SECOND LANGUAGE LEARNING 1978 ·McGill Journal of Education / Revue des sciences de l'éducation de McGill ·Ellen Bialystok, Merrill Swain	1

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