Ellen Lau

5.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
59 papers, 3.4k citations indexed

About

Ellen Lau is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Developmental and Educational Psychology and Artificial Intelligence. According to data from OpenAlex, Ellen Lau has authored 59 papers receiving a total of 3.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 50 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 31 papers in Developmental and Educational Psychology and 15 papers in Artificial Intelligence. Recurrent topics in Ellen Lau's work include Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism (45 papers), Reading and Literacy Development (27 papers) and Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies (14 papers). Ellen Lau is often cited by papers focused on Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism (45 papers), Reading and Literacy Development (27 papers) and Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies (14 papers). Ellen Lau collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and China. Ellen Lau's co-authors include Colin Phillips, David Poeppel, Gina R. Kuperberg, Matthew Wagers, Steve Rowlinson, Phillip J. Holcomb, William Matchin, Christopher Hammerly, Fernanda Ferreira and Matti Hämäläinen and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Neuroscience, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and Nature reviews. Neuroscience.

In The Last Decade

Ellen Lau

56 papers receiving 3.3k citations

Hit Papers

A cortical network for semantics: (de)constructing the N400 2008 2026 2014 2020 2008 400 800 1.2k
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.

  1. A cortical network for semantics: (de)constructing the N400
    2008 1.2k citations Ellen Lau, Colin Phillips et al. Nature reviews. Neuroscience profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Ellen Lau United States 24 2.9k 1.7k 824 447 387 59 3.4k
Connie Suk‐Han Ho Hong Kong 38 1.8k 0.6× 4.7k 2.7× 389 0.5× 173 0.4× 67 0.2× 137 5.4k
Michael R. Waldmann Germany 28 1.1k 0.4× 1.4k 0.8× 199 0.2× 905 2.0× 545 1.4× 92 2.5k
Amy Beth Warriner Canada 8 1.1k 0.4× 714 0.4× 1.1k 1.3× 850 1.9× 702 1.8× 8 2.8k
Richard Cooper United Kingdom 22 885 0.3× 540 0.3× 358 0.4× 285 0.6× 432 1.1× 96 1.7k
Kim Kirsner Australia 30 2.3k 0.8× 1.3k 0.8× 896 1.1× 417 0.9× 350 0.9× 102 3.0k
Jon M. Fincham United States 21 833 0.3× 497 0.3× 353 0.4× 432 1.0× 140 0.4× 46 1.5k
Ian Begg Canada 29 1.7k 0.6× 1.1k 0.6× 890 1.1× 646 1.4× 537 1.4× 58 2.9k
Sue Franklin United Kingdom 27 1.7k 0.6× 1.3k 0.8× 369 0.4× 150 0.3× 287 0.7× 60 2.5k
Bruce W. A. Whittlesea Canada 31 3.0k 1.1× 1.3k 0.8× 876 1.1× 417 0.9× 1.2k 3.2× 54 4.1k
Heinz‐Martin Süß Germany 16 1.0k 0.4× 476 0.3× 1.1k 1.4× 317 0.7× 299 0.8× 35 2.0k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Ellen Lau

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ellen Lau

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All Works

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Gaston, Phoebe, Christian Brodbeck, Colin Phillips, & Ellen Lau. (2022). Auditory Word Comprehension Is Less Incremental in Isolated Words. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 4(1). 29–52. 7 indexed citations
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Lau, Ellen, et al.. (2020). Enough time to get results? An ERP investigation of prediction with complex events. Language Cognition and Neuroscience. 35(9). 1162–1182. 7 indexed citations
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Lau, Ellen, et al.. (2019). fMRI evidence that left posterior temporal cortex contributes to N400 effects of predictability independent of congruity. Brain and Language. 199. 104697–104697. 11 indexed citations
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Chow, Wing-Yee, Ellen Lau, Suiping Wang, & Colin Phillips. (2018). Wait a second! delayed impact of argument roles on on-line verb prediction. Language Cognition and Neuroscience. 33(7). 803–828. 36 indexed citations
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Lago, Sol, Shayne Sloggett, Wing-Yee Chow, et al.. (2017). Coreference and antecedent representation across languages.. Journal of Experimental Psychology Learning Memory and Cognition. 43(5). 795–817. 5 indexed citations
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Morgan, Emily, et al.. (2017). Comprehenders Rationally Adapt Semantic Predictions to the Statistics of the Local Environment: a Bayesian Model of Trial-by-Trial N400 Amplitudes.. Cognitive Science. 14 indexed citations
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Weber, Kirsten, Ellen Lau, Benjamin Stillerman, & Gina R. Kuperberg. (2016). The Yin and the Yang of Prediction: An fMRI Study of Semantic Predictive Processing. PLoS ONE. 11(3). e0148637–e0148637. 30 indexed citations
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Matchin, William, Christopher Hammerly, & Ellen Lau. (2016). The role of the IFG and pSTS in syntactic prediction: Evidence from a parametric study of hierarchical structure in fMRI. Cortex. 88. 106–123. 122 indexed citations
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Lau, Ellen & Elizabeth T. Nguyen. (2015). The role of temporal predictability in semantic expectation: An MEG investigation. Cortex. 68. 8–19. 12 indexed citations
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Omaki, Akira, et al.. (2015). Hyper-active gap filling. Frontiers in Psychology. 6. 384–384. 57 indexed citations
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McCourt, Michael, Jeffrey J. Green, Ellen Lau, & Alexander Williams. (2015). Processing implicit control: evidence from reading times. Frontiers in Psychology. 6. 1629–1629. 2 indexed citations
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Lau, Ellen, Kirsten Weber, Alexandre Gramfort, Matti Hämäläinen, & Gina R. Kuperberg. (2014). Spatiotemporal Signatures of Lexical–Semantic Prediction. Cerebral Cortex. 26(4). 1377–1387. 60 indexed citations
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Chow, Wing-Yee, et al.. (2014). Additive Effects of Repetition and Predictability during Comprehension: Evidence from Event-Related Potentials. PLoS ONE. 9(6). e99199–e99199. 10 indexed citations
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Lau, Ellen, Alexandre Gramfort, Matti Hämäläinen, & Gina R. Kuperberg. (2013). Automatic Semantic Facilitation in Anterior Temporal Cortex Revealed through Multimodal Neuroimaging. Journal of Neuroscience. 33(43). 17174–17181. 72 indexed citations
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Lau, Ellen, Diogo Almeida, Paul C. Hines, & David Poeppel. (2009). A lexical basis for N400 context effects: Evidence from MEG. Brain and Language. 111(3). 161–172. 105 indexed citations
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Lau, Ellen, Colin Phillips, & David Poeppel. (2008). A cortical network for semantics: (de)constructing the N400. Nature reviews. Neuroscience. 9(12). 920–933. 1214 indexed citations breakdown →
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Lau, Ellen, et al.. (2006). The role of structural prediction in rapid syntactic analysis. Brain and Language. 98(1). 74–88. 174 indexed citations
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Sharlin, Ehud, et al.. (2005). Synthetic Personality in Robots and its Effect on Human-Robot Relationship. PRISM (University of Calgary). 1 indexed citations
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Bailey, Karl G. D., Ellen Lau, & Fernanda Ferreira. (2004). Disfluencies, parsing, and tree-adjoining grammars. Cognitive Science. 28. 4 indexed citations

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