José Morais

4.9k total citations · 2 hit papers
72 papers, 3.5k citations indexed

About

José Morais is a scholar working on Developmental and Educational Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, José Morais has authored 72 papers receiving a total of 3.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 46 papers in Developmental and Educational Psychology, 28 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience and 24 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. Recurrent topics in José Morais's work include Reading and Literacy Development (41 papers), Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism (18 papers) and Phonetics and Phonology Research (13 papers). José Morais is often cited by papers focused on Reading and Literacy Development (41 papers), Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism (18 papers) and Phonetics and Phonology Research (13 papers). José Morais collaborates with scholars based in Belgium, Portugal and France. José Morais's co-authors include Paul Bertelson, Régine Kolinsky, Luz Cary, Jesüs Alegría, Jesús Alegría, Jesús Alegría Iscoa, Laurent Cohen, Stanislas Dehaene, Paulo Ventura and Alain Content and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

José Morais

67 papers receiving 3.1k citations

Hit Papers

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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. Does awareness of speech as a sequence of phones arise spontaneously?
    1979 816 citations José Morais, Jesüs Alegría et al. Cognition profile →
  2. Illiterate to literate: behavioural and cerebral changes induced by reading acquisition
    2015 423 citations Stanislas Dehaene, Laurent Cohen et al. Nature reviews. Neuroscience profile →

Peers

José Morais
Betty Ann Levy Canada
Philip H. K. Seymour United Kingdom
Jamie L. Metsala Canada
Liliane Sprenger-Charolles France
Laurie Beth Feldman United States
Alain Content Belgium
Lynette Bradley United Kingdom
Virginia A. Mann United States
Isabelle Y. Liberman United States
Tiffany P. Hogan United States
Betty Ann Levy Canada
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Fields of papers citing papers by José Morais

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of José Morais

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of José Morais. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of José Morais 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 José Morais. José Morais is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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Kolinsky, Régine, et al.. (2021). A literacia e seus desafios. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 2(1). 1–35. 2 indexed citations
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Morais, José. (2020). Os caminhos da Literacia. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 1(1). 1–14.
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Kolinsky, Régine, et al.. (2016). O milagre da leitura: de sinais escritos a imagens imortais. DELTA Documentação de Estudos em Lingüística Teórica e Aplicada. 32(4). 919–951. 3 indexed citations
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Dehaene, Stanislas, Laurent Cohen, José Morais, & Régine Kolinsky. (2015). Illiterate to literate: behavioural and cerebral changes induced by reading acquisition. Nature reviews. Neuroscience. 16(4). 234–244. 423 indexed citations breakdown →
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Fernandes, Tânia, et al.. (2013). The deficit of letter processing in developmental dyslexia: combining evidence from dyslexics, typical readers and illiterate adults. Developmental Science. 17(1). 125–141. 34 indexed citations
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Bertels, Julie, Régine Kolinsky, & José Morais. (2012). Lack of habituation to shocking words: The attentional bias to their spatial origin is context free. Cognition & Emotion. 26(8). 1345–1358. 3 indexed citations
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Kolinsky, Régine, et al.. (2011). Enantiomorphy through the looking glass: Literacy effects on mirror-image discrimination.. Journal of Experimental Psychology General. 140(2). 210–238. 68 indexed citations
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Ventura, Paulo, Régine Kolinsky, Chotiga Pattamadilok, & José Morais. (2008). The developmental turnpoint of orthographic consistency effects in speech recognition. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology. 100(2). 135–145. 30 indexed citations
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Ventura, Paulo, et al.. (2007). Is Phonological Encoding in Naming Influenced by Literacy?. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research. 36(5). 341–360. 15 indexed citations
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Ventura, Paulo, José Morais, & Régine Kolinsky. (2007). The development of the orthographic consistency effect in speech recognition: From sublexical to lexical involvement. Cognition. 105(3). 547–576. 56 indexed citations
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Ventura, Paulo, et al.. (2006). Lexical restructuring in the absence of literacy. Cognition. 105(2). 334–361. 26 indexed citations
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Ventura, Paulo, José Morais, & Régine Kolinsky. (2005). Evaluating feature-category relations using semantic fluency tasks. Brain and Cognition. 58(2). 202–212. 4 indexed citations
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Serniclaes, Willy, Paulo Ventura, José Morais, & Régine Kolinsky. (2005). Categorical perception of speech sounds in illiterate adults. Cognition. 98(2). B35–B44. 62 indexed citations
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Morais, José, Régine Kolinsky, Jesüs Alegría, & Leonor Scliar-Cabral. (1998). Alphabetic literacy and psychological structure. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 33(4). 61–79. 15 indexed citations
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Morais, José & Régine Kolinsky. (1994). Perception and awareness in phonological processing: the case of the phoneme. Cognition. 50(1-3). 287–297. 62 indexed citations
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Morais, José & Jesús Alegría Iscoa. (1987). The relationships between segmental analysis and alphabetic literacy: An interactive view.. Dépôt institutionnel de l'Université libre de Bruxelles (Université Libre de Bruxelles). 7. 415–438. 222 indexed citations
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Alegría, Jesús, et al.. (1982). Phonetic analysis of speech and memory codes in beginning readers. Memory & Cognition. 10(5). 451–456. 150 indexed citations
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Iscoa, Jesús Alegría & José Morais. (1979). Le développement de l'habileté de l'analyse phonétique consciente de la parole et l'apprentissage de la lecture. 47(183). 251–270. 22 indexed citations

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