Kenneth R. Paap

6.3k total citations · 2 hit papers
65 papers, 4.0k citations indexed

About

Kenneth R. Paap is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Developmental and Educational Psychology and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Kenneth R. Paap has authored 65 papers receiving a total of 4.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 45 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 34 papers in Developmental and Educational Psychology and 16 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. Recurrent topics in Kenneth R. Paap's work include Reading and Literacy Development (29 papers), Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism (27 papers) and Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies (15 papers). Kenneth R. Paap is often cited by papers focused on Reading and Literacy Development (29 papers), Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism (27 papers) and Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies (15 papers). Kenneth R. Paap collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Norway. Kenneth R. Paap's co-authors include Oliver Sawi, Hunter A. Johnson, Sandra L. Newsome, Ronald W. Noel, Roger W. Schvaneveldt, James E. McDonald, Sheldon M. Ebenholtz, William C. Ogden, Jerry T. Ball and Lauren Mason and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Psychological Review and Journal of Experimental Psychology Human Perception & Performance.

In The Last Decade

Kenneth R. Paap

64 papers receiving 3.7k 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.

There is no coherent evidence for a bilingual advantage in executive processing

2013 716 citations Kenneth R. Paap et al. Cognitive Psychology profile →
Bilingual advantages in executive functioning either do not exist or are restricted to very specific and undetermined circumstances

2015 490 citations Kenneth R. Paap, Hunter A. Johnson et al. Cortex profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Kenneth R. Paap United States	28	3.0k	2.6k	954	277	246	65	4.0k
Remo Job Italy	31	2.4k 0.8×	1.6k 0.6×	837 0.9×	242 0.9×	377 1.5×	124	3.2k
Greg B. Simpson United States	24	3.2k 1.0×	2.6k 1.0×	1.4k 1.5×	734 2.6×	427 1.7×	46	4.3k
Rita Sloan Berndt United States	33	3.9k 1.3×	2.9k 1.1×	643 0.7×	329 1.2×	522 2.1×	74	4.5k
Jon Andoni Duñabeitia Spain	43	3.7k 1.2×	3.2k 1.2×	1.3k 1.3×	446 1.6×	448 1.8×	183	5.1k
M. Teresa Bajo Spain	34	2.6k 0.9×	1.6k 0.6×	955 1.0×	394 1.4×	277 1.1×	165	3.7k
Deborah M. Burke United States	29	3.3k 1.1×	2.0k 0.7×	949 1.0×	363 1.3×	310 1.3×	48	4.1k
Jefferson Provost United States	6	2.0k 0.7×	986 0.4×	929 1.0×	243 0.9×	333 1.4×	7	2.7k
Patrick Bonin France	32	2.4k 0.8×	2.1k 0.8×	998 1.0×	546 2.0×	326 1.3×	110	3.4k
Alan Allport United Kingdom	21	2.9k 1.0×	1.2k 0.5×	786 0.8×	140 0.5×	401 1.6×	28	3.4k
Guy C. Van Orden United States	32	3.4k 1.1×	3.3k 1.3×	1.2k 1.3×	747 2.7×	390 1.6×	57	5.5k

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Paap, Kenneth R., et al.. (2025). Do bilingual advantages in domain-general executive functioning occur in everyday life and/or when performance-based measures have excellent psychometric properties?. Psychological Review. 133(2). 394–410. 3 indexed citations

Paap, Kenneth R.. (2024). Cognitive Reserve? Cognitive Capacity!. Brain Sciences. 14(12). 1265–1265. 1 indexed citations

Paap, Kenneth R., et al.. (2024). Bilingualism, like other types of brain training, does not produce far transfer: It all fits together. International Journal of Bilingualism. 29(1). 114–127. 2 indexed citations

Suri, Gaurav & Kenneth R. Paap. (2024). A computational account of self-control. Journal of Mathematical Psychology. 123. 102886–102886.

Paap, Kenneth R., et al.. (2020). Interference scores have inadequate concurrent and convergent validity: Should we stop using the flanker, Simon, and spatial Stroop tasks?. Cognitive Research Principles and Implications. 5(1). 7–7. 62 indexed citations

Paap, Kenneth R., et al.. (2020). The alchemy of confirmation bias transmutes expectations into bilingual advantages: A tale of two new meta-analyses. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology. 73(8). 1290–1299. 30 indexed citations

Paap, Kenneth R., et al.. (2018). Bilingual Advantages in Inhibition or Selective Attention: More Challenges. Frontiers in Psychology. 9. 1409–1409. 39 indexed citations

Paap, Kenneth R.. (2018). No coherent evidence for bilingual advantages in executive functioning.. Cognitive Science. 1 indexed citations

Paap, Kenneth R. & Oliver Sawi. (2016). The role of test-retest reliability in measuring individual and group differences in executive functioning. Journal of Neuroscience Methods. 274. 81–93. 96 indexed citations

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Paap, Kenneth R., Hunter A. Johnson, & Oliver Sawi. (2015). Bilingual advantages in executive functioning either do not exist or are restricted to very specific and undetermined circumstances. Cortex. 69. 265–278. 490 indexed citations breakdown →

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Paap, Kenneth R., et al.. (2015). Beyond Panglossian Optimism: Larger N2 Amplitudes Probably Signal a Bilingual Disadvantage in Conflict Monitoring. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 2(1). 1–6. 9 indexed citations

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Paap, Kenneth R.. (2014). The role of componential analysis, categorical hypothesising, replicability and confirmation bias in testing for bilingual advantages in executive functioning. Journal of Cognitive Psychology. 26(3). 242–255. 61 indexed citations

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Paap, Kenneth R., et al.. (2013). There is no coherent evidence for a bilingual advantage in executive processing. Cognitive Psychology. 66(2). 232–258. 716 indexed citations breakdown →

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Paap, Kenneth R., et al.. (2000). Neighborhood frequency does affect performance in the Reicher task: Encoding or decision?. Journal of Experimental Psychology Human Perception & Performance. 26(6). 1691–1720. 21 indexed citations

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Paap, Kenneth R., et al.. (1999). Discrete threshold versus continuous strength models of perceptual recognition.. Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology/Revue canadienne de psychologie expérimentale. 53(4). 277–293. 9 indexed citations

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Paap, Kenneth R. & Ronald W. Noel. (1991). Dual-route models of print to sound: Still a good horse race. Psychological Research. 53(1). 13–24. 251 indexed citations

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Paap, Kenneth R. & Ronald W. Noel. (1989). Dual-route models of print to sound-still a good horse race. Bulletin of the Psychonomic Society. 27(6). 3 indexed citations

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Paap, Kenneth R.. (1986). The pilfering of awareness and guilt by association. Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 9(1). 45–46. 5 indexed citations

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Paap, Kenneth R. & Sandra L. Newsome. (1980). Do small visual angles produce a word superiority effect or differential lateral masking?. Memory & Cognition. 8(1). 1–14. 15 indexed citations

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Paap, Kenneth R. & Sheldon M. Ebenholtz. (1976). Perceptual consequences of potentiation in the extraocular muscles: An alternative explanation for adaptation to wedge prisms.. Journal of Experimental Psychology Human Perception & Performance. 2(4). 457–468. 69 indexed citations

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