LouAnn Gerken

8.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
84 papers, 4.8k citations indexed

About

LouAnn Gerken is a scholar working on Developmental and Educational Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, LouAnn Gerken has authored 84 papers receiving a total of 4.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 71 papers in Developmental and Educational Psychology, 38 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and 16 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in LouAnn Gerken's work include Language Development and Disorders (69 papers), Reading and Literacy Development (47 papers) and Phonetics and Phonology Research (36 papers). LouAnn Gerken is often cited by papers focused on Language Development and Disorders (69 papers), Reading and Literacy Development (47 papers) and Phonetics and Phonology Research (36 papers). LouAnn Gerken collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and United Kingdom. LouAnn Gerken's co-authors include Rebecca L. Gómez, Jessica Maye, Janet F. Werker, Peter W. Jusczyk, Bonnie McIntosh, Denise R. Mandel, Frances Balcomb, Alice Turk, R. M. Wilson and William D. Lewis and has published in prestigious journals such as Trends in Cognitive Sciences, Developmental Psychology and The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America.

In The Last Decade

LouAnn Gerken

83 papers receiving 4.4k 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. Infant sensitivity to distributional information can affect phonetic discrimination
    2002 836 citations LouAnn Gerken et al. Cognition profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
LouAnn Gerken United States 33 4.0k 1.9k 1.5k 740 494 84 4.8k
Marina Nespor Italy 30 2.3k 0.6× 2.3k 1.2× 1.2k 0.8× 831 1.1× 651 1.3× 65 4.0k
Daniel Swingley United States 31 3.4k 0.9× 1.7k 0.9× 1.2k 0.8× 391 0.5× 222 0.4× 56 4.2k
Thierry Nazzi France 38 3.8k 1.0× 2.4k 1.3× 1.5k 1.0× 336 0.5× 231 0.5× 131 4.9k
Josiane Bertoncini France 26 2.9k 0.7× 1.9k 1.0× 1.3k 0.9× 367 0.5× 200 0.4× 48 3.9k
Bob McMurray United States 40 2.8k 0.7× 2.7k 1.4× 2.7k 1.8× 848 1.1× 225 0.5× 164 5.5k
Katherine Demuth Australia 31 2.4k 0.6× 1.8k 0.9× 960 0.6× 686 0.9× 1.0k 2.1× 186 3.8k
Anne Christophe France 31 2.0k 0.5× 1.3k 0.7× 1.0k 0.7× 444 0.6× 210 0.4× 80 2.9k
Denis Burnham Australia 35 2.2k 0.6× 2.6k 1.4× 1.9k 1.2× 396 0.5× 303 0.6× 184 4.3k
Francisco Lacerda Sweden 15 1.5k 0.4× 1.4k 0.7× 853 0.6× 365 0.5× 143 0.3× 76 2.6k
Juan Seguí France 40 3.8k 1.0× 2.7k 1.4× 3.6k 2.3× 981 1.3× 660 1.3× 112 5.7k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Goffman, Lisa & LouAnn Gerken. (2023). A developmental account of the role of sequential dependencies in typical and atypical language learners. Cognitive Neuropsychology. 40(5-6). 243–264. 3 indexed citations
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Gerken, LouAnn, et al.. (2018). How who is talking matters as much as what they say to infant language learners. Cognitive Psychology. 106. 1–20. 10 indexed citations
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Hawthorne, Kara & LouAnn Gerken. (2014). From pauses to clauses: Prosody facilitates learning of syntactic constituency. Cognition. 133(2). 420–428. 32 indexed citations
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Gerken, LouAnn, et al.. (2011). The role of morphophonological regularity in young Spanish-speaking children's production of gendered noun phrases. Journal of Child Language. 39(4). 753–776. 4 indexed citations
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Gerken, LouAnn, et al.. (2011). Infants avoid ‘labouring in vain’ by attending more to learnable than unlearnable linguistic patterns. Developmental Science. 14(5). 972–979. 40 indexed citations
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Gerken, LouAnn, et al.. (2009). From domain-generality to domain-sensitivity: 4-Month-olds learn an abstract repetition rule in music that 7-month-olds do not. Cognition. 111(3). 378–382. 65 indexed citations
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Balcomb, Frances & LouAnn Gerken. (2008). Three‐year‐old children can access their own memory to guide responses on a visual matching task. Developmental Science. 11(5). 750–760. 110 indexed citations
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Gerken, LouAnn, et al.. (2006). 4-month-olds Discover Algebraic Patterns in Music That 7.5-month-olds Do Not. eScholarship (California Digital Library). 28(28). 2 indexed citations
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Gerken, LouAnn & Thomas R. Shultz. (2005). A Model of Infant Learning of Word Stress. eScholarship (California Digital Library). 27(27). 4 indexed citations
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Gerken, LouAnn. (2005). Decisions, decisions: infant language learning when multiple generalizations are possible. Cognition. 98(3). B67–B74. 139 indexed citations
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Gerken, LouAnn. (2005). What develops in language development?. Advances in child development and behavior. 33. 153–192. 3 indexed citations
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Gerken, LouAnn, et al.. (2004). Do children's omissions leave traces?. Journal of Child Language. 31(3). 561–586. 22 indexed citations
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Zamuner, Tania S., LouAnn Gerken, & Michael Hammond. (2004). Phonotactic probabilities in young children's speech production. Journal of Child Language. 31(3). 515–536. 90 indexed citations
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Plante, Elena, Rebecca L. Gómez, & LouAnn Gerken. (2002). Sensitivity to word order cues by normal and language/learning disabled adults. Journal of Communication Disorders. 35(5). 453–462. 74 indexed citations
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Gómez, Rebecca L. & LouAnn Gerken. (2000). Infant artificial language learning and language acquisition. Trends in Cognitive Sciences. 4(5). 178–186. 324 indexed citations
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Gerken, LouAnn, et al.. (1998). Abstract Output: An Optimality-Theoretic Analysis of Children's Omissions from Prosodically Complex Structures. Scholarworks (University of Massachusetts Amherst). 28(1). 19. 1 indexed citations
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Gerken, LouAnn. (1996). Prosodic Structure in Young Children's Language Production. Language. 72(4). 683–712. 143 indexed citations
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Gerken, LouAnn. (1990). A Metrical Account of Children's Subjectless Sentences. Scholarworks (University of Massachusetts Amherst). 20(1). 10. 1 indexed citations
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Gerken, LouAnn & Thomas G. Bever. (1986). Linguistic Intuitions are the Result of Interactions Between Perceptual Processes and Linguistic Universals. Cognitive Science. 10(4). 457–476. 23 indexed citations
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Gerken, LouAnn & Thomas G. Bever. (1986). Linguistic intuitions are the result of interactions between perceptual processes and linguistic universals. Cognitive Science. 10(4). 457–476. 4 indexed citations

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