Laura K. Cirelli

3.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
33 papers, 1.2k citations indexed

About

Laura K. Cirelli is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Developmental and Educational Psychology and Social Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Laura K. Cirelli has authored 33 papers receiving a total of 1.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 24 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 14 papers in Developmental and Educational Psychology and 12 papers in Social Psychology. Recurrent topics in Laura K. Cirelli's work include Neuroscience and Music Perception (19 papers), Child and Animal Learning Development (10 papers) and Action Observation and Synchronization (9 papers). Laura K. Cirelli is often cited by papers focused on Neuroscience and Music Perception (19 papers), Child and Animal Learning Development (10 papers) and Action Observation and Synchronization (9 papers). Laura K. Cirelli collaborates with scholars based in Canada, United States and Belgium. Laura K. Cirelli's co-authors include Laurel J. Trainor, Kathleen M. Einarson, Sandra E. Trehub, Stephanie Wan, Christina Spinelli, Sylvie Nozaradan, Haley E. Kragness, E. Glenn Schellenberg, Swathi Swaminathan and Ayda Ghahremani and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences and Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Laura K. Cirelli

31 papers receiving 1.2k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

  1. Interpersonal synchrony increases prosocial behavior in infants
    2014 328 citations Laura K. Cirelli, Laurel J. Trainor et al. Developmental Science profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Laura K. Cirelli Canada 16 828 579 303 215 179 33 1.2k
Stephen Malloch Australia 9 485 0.6× 449 0.8× 208 0.7× 157 0.7× 275 1.5× 14 1.0k
Erin E. Hannon United States 22 1.8k 2.2× 342 0.6× 493 1.6× 624 2.9× 414 2.3× 45 2.2k
Bronwyn Tarr United Kingdom 9 695 0.8× 790 1.4× 91 0.3× 282 1.3× 170 0.9× 11 1.2k
Beatriz Ilari United States 20 687 0.8× 328 0.6× 147 0.5× 78 0.4× 552 3.1× 58 1.1k
Fabia Franco United Kingdom 16 330 0.4× 184 0.3× 519 1.7× 124 0.6× 49 0.3× 44 809
Cynthia L. Crown United States 14 280 0.3× 535 0.9× 473 1.6× 148 0.7× 40 0.2× 29 1.2k
Victoria Leong United Kingdom 24 1.2k 1.5× 397 0.7× 793 2.6× 323 1.5× 23 0.1× 50 1.8k
Haňus Papoušek Germany 17 306 0.4× 335 0.6× 782 2.6× 355 1.7× 48 0.3× 34 1.4k
Reyna L. Gordon United States 20 1.1k 1.3× 247 0.4× 457 1.5× 322 1.5× 225 1.3× 44 1.3k
Roni Granot Israel 17 779 0.9× 328 0.6× 77 0.3× 394 1.8× 153 0.9× 42 1.1k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Laura K. Cirelli

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All Works

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Cirelli, Laura K., et al.. (2025). The Active Infant's Developing Role in Musical Interactions: Insights From an Online Parent Questionnaire. Infancy. 30(1). e12648–e12648. 1 indexed citations
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Nederlanden, Christina M. Vanden Bosch der, et al.. (2025). Listening to development: How electroencephalography informs infant language and music research. Infant Behavior and Development. 80. 102125–102125. 1 indexed citations
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Kragness, Haley E., et al.. (2025). Five‐Year‐Old Children Identify Emotions in Music Along Valence and Intensity Dimensions. Infant and Child Development. 34(2).
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Kragness, Haley E., et al.. (2023). An itsy bitsy audience: Live performance facilitates infants’ attention and heart rate synchronization.. Psychology of Aesthetics Creativity and the Arts. 19(5). 1124–1133. 3 indexed citations
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Kragness, Haley E., et al.. (2022). A concert for babies: Attentional, affective, and motor responses in an infant audience. Developmental Science. 26(2). e13297–e13297. 4 indexed citations
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Kragness, Haley E., et al.. (2022). Tiny dancers: Effects of musical familiarity and tempo on children’s free dancing.. Developmental Psychology. 58(7). 1277–1285. 8 indexed citations
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Shivers, Carolyn M., et al.. (2021). Survey of the home music environment of children with various developmental profiles. Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology. 75. 101296–101296. 14 indexed citations
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Qian, Miao, et al.. (2020). Shaping children’s racial bias through interpersonal movement. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology. 198. 104884–104884. 6 indexed citations
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Kragness, Haley E. & Laura K. Cirelli. (2020). A syncing feeling: reductions in physiological arousal in response to observed social synchrony. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience. 16(1-2). 177–184. 9 indexed citations
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Cirelli, Laura K. & Sandra E. Trehub. (2020). Familiar songs reduce infant distress.. Developmental Psychology. 56(5). 861–868. 38 indexed citations
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Cirelli, Laura K., et al.. (2019). Effects of Maternal Singing Style on Mother–Infant Arousal and Behavior. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. 32(7). 1213–1220. 76 indexed citations
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Weiss, Michael W., Laura K. Cirelli, Josh H. McDermott, & Sandra E. Trehub. (2019). Development of consonance preferences in Western listeners.. Journal of Experimental Psychology General. 149(4). 634–649. 18 indexed citations
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Cirelli, Laura K. & Sandra E. Trehub. (2019). Dancing to Metallica and Dora: Case Study of a 19-Month-Old. Frontiers in Psychology. 10. 1073–1073. 20 indexed citations
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Cirelli, Laura K., Sandra E. Trehub, & Laurel J. Trainor. (2018). Rhythm and melody as social signals for infants. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. 1423(1). 66–72. 56 indexed citations
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Cirelli, Laura K. & Sandra E. Trehub. (2018). Infants help singers of familiar songs. Music & Science. 1. 25 indexed citations
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Cirelli, Laura K., et al.. (2017). Children's and adults' perception of questions and statements from terminal fundamental frequency contours. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 141(5). 3123–3131. 4 indexed citations
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Cirelli, Laura K.. (2017). How interpersonal synchrony facilitates early prosocial behavior. Current Opinion in Psychology. 20. 35–39. 101 indexed citations
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Cirelli, Laura K., Christina Spinelli, Sylvie Nozaradan, & Laurel J. Trainor. (2016). Measuring Neural Entrainment to Beat and Meter in Infants: Effects of Music Background. Frontiers in Neuroscience. 10. 229–229. 85 indexed citations
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Cirelli, Laura K., et al.. (2014). Using Implicit Instructional Cues to Influence False Memory Induction. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research. 44(5). 485–494. 2 indexed citations
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Cirelli, Laura K., Dan Bosnyak, Christina Spinelli, et al.. (2014). Beat-induced fluctuations in auditory cortical beta-band activity: using EEG to measure age-related changes. Frontiers in Psychology. 5. 742–742. 46 indexed citations

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