Maritza Rivera‐Gaxiola

2.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
21 papers, 1.4k citations indexed

About

Maritza Rivera‐Gaxiola is a scholar working on Developmental and Educational Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Maritza Rivera‐Gaxiola has authored 21 papers receiving a total of 1.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 14 papers in Developmental and Educational Psychology, 11 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience and 6 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. Recurrent topics in Maritza Rivera‐Gaxiola's work include Reading and Literacy Development (12 papers), Language Development and Disorders (10 papers) and Phonetics and Phonology Research (6 papers). Maritza Rivera‐Gaxiola is often cited by papers focused on Reading and Literacy Development (12 papers), Language Development and Disorders (10 papers) and Phonetics and Phonology Research (6 papers). Maritza Rivera‐Gaxiola collaborates with scholars based in United States, Mexico and United Kingdom. Maritza Rivera‐Gaxiola's co-authors include Patricia K. Kuhl, Juan Silva‐Pereyra, Barbara T. Conboy, Denise Padden, Sharon Coffey‐Corina, Adrián García‐Sierra, Lindsay Klarman, Gergely Csibra, Mark H. Johnson and Harriett D. Romo and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Annual Review of Neuroscience and Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Maritza Rivera‐Gaxiola

19 papers receiving 1.3k 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.

Phonetic learning as a pathway to language: new data and native language magnet theory expanded (NLM-e)

2007 525 citations Patricia K. Kuhl, Barbara T. Conboy et al. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Maritza Rivera‐Gaxiola United States	14	959	716	592	113	77	21	1.4k
Denise Padden United States	9	973 1.0×	840 1.2×	673 1.1×	144 1.3×	117 1.5×	10	1.6k
Barbara T. Conboy United States	12	1.2k 1.2×	630 0.9×	541 0.9×	178 1.6×	89 1.2×	22	1.5k
Sharon Coffey‐Corina United States	11	1.0k 1.1×	1.1k 1.6×	458 0.8×	84 0.7×	64 0.8×	15	1.7k
Reiko Mazuka Japan	21	876 0.9×	569 0.8×	653 1.1×	84 0.7×	128 1.7×	75	1.4k
Ferrán Pons Spain	22	1.0k 1.0×	552 0.8×	944 1.6×	70 0.6×	131 1.7×	47	1.5k
Suzanne Curtin Canada	23	1.6k 1.6×	694 1.0×	800 1.4×	118 1.0×	166 2.2×	59	2.0k
Christine L. Stager Canada	8	1.5k 1.6×	359 0.5×	769 1.3×	66 0.6×	93 1.2×	15	1.7k
Katharine Graf Estes United States	17	1.3k 1.3×	562 0.8×	385 0.7×	27 0.2×	175 2.3×	31	1.4k
Valerie L. Shafer United States	22	753 0.8×	1.3k 1.9×	597 1.0×	27 0.2×	27 0.4×	65	1.6k
Frank Wijnen Netherlands	27	1.3k 1.3×	819 1.1×	454 0.8×	74 0.7×	213 2.8×	107	1.9k

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Rivera‐Gaxiola, Maritza, et al.. (2012). Event-Related Potentials to an English/Spanish Syllabic Contrast in Mexican 10–13-Month-Old Infants. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 2012. 1–9. 7 indexed citations

Kuhl, Patricia K. & Maritza Rivera‐Gaxiola. (2008). Neural Substrates of Language Acquisition. Annual Review of Neuroscience. 31(1). 511–534. 164 indexed citations

Rivera‐Gaxiola, Maritza, et al.. (2007). Principal Component Analyses and Scalp Distribution of the Auditory P150–250 and N250–550 to Speech Contrasts in Mexican and American Infants. Developmental Neuropsychology. 31(3). 363–378. 17 indexed citations

Kuhl, Patricia K., et al.. (2007). Phonetic learning as a pathway to language: new data and native language magnet theory expanded (NLM-e). Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 363(1493). 979–1000. 525 indexed citations breakdown →

Kuhl, Patricia K., Sharon Coffey‐Corina, Denise Padden, & Maritza Rivera‐Gaxiola. (2006). The bilingual brain: A comparison of native and non-native speech perception in monolingual and bilingual infants. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 120(5_Supplement). 3135–3135. 1 indexed citations

Rivera‐Gaxiola, Maritza, Lindsay Klarman, Adrián García‐Sierra, & Patricia K. Kuhl. (2005). Neural patterns to speech and vocabulary growth in American infants. Neuroreport. 16(5). 495–498. 75 indexed citations

Rivera‐Gaxiola, Maritza, Juan Silva‐Pereyra, & Patricia K. Kuhl. (2005). Brain potentials to native and non‐native speech contrasts in 7‐ and 11‐month‐old American infants. Developmental Science. 8(2). 162–172. 205 indexed citations

Silva‐Pereyra, Juan, Maritza Rivera‐Gaxiola, & Patricia K. Kuhl. (2004). An event-related brain potential study of sentence comprehension in preschoolers: semantic and morphosyntactic processing. Cognitive Brain Research. 23(2-3). 247–258. 67 indexed citations

Silva‐Pereyra, Juan, et al.. (2003). N400 during lexical decision tasks: a current source localization study. Clinical Neurophysiology. 114(12). 2469–2486. 36 indexed citations

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Silva‐Pereyra, Juan, Maritza Rivera‐Gaxiola, Thalı́a Fernández, et al.. (2003). Are poor readers semantically challenged? An event-related brain potential assessment. International Journal of Psychophysiology. 49(3). 187–199. 25 indexed citations

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García‐Sierra, Adrián, Craig A. Champlin, & Maritza Rivera‐Gaxiola. (2003). Shifts in the perceived voicing boundary of bilingual listeners. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 114(4_Supplement). 2336–2336.

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Liasis, Alki, Stewart Boyd, Maritza Rivera‐Gaxiola, & Anthony Towell. (2003). Speech and non-speech processing in hemispherectomised children: an event-related potential study. Cognitive Brain Research. 17(3). 665–673. 2 indexed citations

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Rivera‐Gaxiola, Maritza, Juan Silva‐Pereyra, Adrián García‐Sierra, Lindsay Klarman, & Patricia K. Kuhl. (2002). Brain potentials in response to native and non-native speech contrasts in 11-month-old American infants. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 112(5_Supplement). 2387–2387. 2 indexed citations

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Silva‐Pereyra, Juan, Thalı́a Harmony, Jorge Bernal, et al.. (2001). Delayed P300 during Sternberg and color discrimination tasks in poor readers. International Journal of Psychophysiology. 40(1). 17–32. 14 indexed citations

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Rivera‐Gaxiola, Maritza, Mark H. Johnson, Gergely Csibra, & Annette Karmiloff‐Smith. (2000). Electrophysiological correlates of category goodness. Behavioural Brain Research. 112(1-2). 1–11. 19 indexed citations

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Rivera‐Gaxiola, Maritza, et al.. (2000). Electrophysiological correlates of cross-linguistic speech perception in native English speakers. Behavioural Brain Research. 111(1-2). 13–23. 51 indexed citations

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Morán, Julio, Silvestre Alavez, Maritza Rivera‐Gaxiola, Antonio Valencia, & Sandra Hurtado. (1999). Effect of nmda antagonists on the activity ofglutaminase and aspartate aminotransferase in thedeveloping rat cerebellum. International Journal of Developmental Neuroscience. 17(1). 57–65. 10 indexed citations

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Boyd, Stewart, et al.. (1996). Discrimination of Speech Sounds in a Boy with Landau-Kleffner Syndrome: An Intraoperative Event-Related Potential Study. Neuropediatrics. 27(4). 211–215. 15 indexed citations

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Rivera‐Gaxiola, Maritza & Annette Karmiloff‐Smith. (1996). It's a far cry from speech to language. Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 19(4). 645–646.

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Morán, Julio & Maritza Rivera‐Gaxiola. (1992). Effect of potassium and N‐methyl‐D‐aspartate on the aspartate aminotransferase activity in cultured cerebellar granule cells. Journal of Neuroscience Research. 33(2). 239–247. 16 indexed citations

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