Maryellen C. MacDonald

11.6k total citations · 3 hit papers
92 papers, 7.1k citations indexed

About

Maryellen C. MacDonald is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Developmental and Educational Psychology and Language and Linguistics. According to data from OpenAlex, Maryellen C. MacDonald has authored 92 papers receiving a total of 7.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 67 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 58 papers in Developmental and Educational Psychology and 27 papers in Language and Linguistics. Recurrent topics in Maryellen C. MacDonald's work include Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism (67 papers), Reading and Literacy Development (38 papers) and Language Development and Disorders (33 papers). Maryellen C. MacDonald is often cited by papers focused on Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism (67 papers), Reading and Literacy Development (38 papers) and Language Development and Disorders (33 papers). Maryellen C. MacDonald collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Netherlands. Maryellen C. MacDonald's co-authors include Mark S. Seidenberg, Neal J. Pearlmutter, Morten H. Christiansen, Daniel J. Acheson, Marcel Adam Just, S. Gennari, Patricia A. Carpenter, Todd Haskell, Robert J. Thornton and Amit Almor and has published in prestigious journals such as Psychological Bulletin, NeuroImage and Psychological Review.

In The Last Decade

Maryellen C. MacDonald

88 papers receiving 6.5k 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.

The lexical nature of syntactic ambiguity resolution.

1994 1.4k citations Maryellen C. MacDonald, Neal J. Pearlmutter et al. profile →
Reassessing working memory: Comment on Just and Carpenter (1992) and Waters and Caplan (1996).

2002 538 citations Maryellen C. MacDonald, Morten H. Christiansen profile →
How language production shapes language form and comprehension

2013 329 citations Maryellen C. MacDonald profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Maryellen C. MacDonald United States	39	5.2k	4.5k	1.8k	1.7k	1.5k	92	7.1k
Holly P. Branigan United Kingdom	40	3.6k 0.7×	3.2k 0.7×	1.8k 1.0×	1.6k 1.0×	1.3k 0.9×	138	5.6k
Boris New France	26	4.1k 0.8×	3.7k 0.8×	553 0.3×	2.0k 1.2×	1.3k 0.9×	45	6.4k
John C. Trueswell United States	39	4.1k 0.8×	4.1k 0.9×	1.3k 0.7×	2.1k 1.3×	1.2k 0.9×	99	6.7k
Ardi Roelofs Netherlands	48	8.5k 1.6×	6.2k 1.4×	1.1k 0.6×	3.2k 1.9×	897 0.6×	148	10.0k
Judith F. Kroll United States	51	8.5k 1.6×	8.2k 1.8×	2.1k 1.2×	2.7k 1.6×	1.1k 0.7×	137	11.4k
Robert J. Hartsuiker Belgium	45	5.0k 1.0×	4.1k 0.9×	1.7k 1.0×	1.8k 1.1×	771 0.5×	170	6.4k
Kenneth I. Forster United States	48	8.8k 1.7×	8.3k 1.9×	1.1k 0.6×	3.2k 1.9×	1.2k 0.8×	96	11.6k
Ram Frost Israel	47	4.6k 0.9×	5.6k 1.3×	490 0.3×	1.5k 0.9×	786 0.5×	106	7.5k
David Swinney United States	31	3.8k 0.7×	3.1k 0.7×	890 0.5×	1.7k 1.0×	722 0.5×	55	5.1k
M. Gareth Gaskell United Kingdom	41	4.7k 0.9×	3.5k 0.8×	473 0.3×	3.1k 1.8×	1.1k 0.8×	134	6.7k

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All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

MacDonald, Maryellen C. & Daniel J. Weiss. (2022). Easy does it: sequencing explains the in-out effect. Trends in Cognitive Sciences. 26(6). 447–448. 4 indexed citations

Niedenthal, Paula M., et al.. (2021). Exploring the Relationship Between Fiction Reading and Emotion Recognition. Affective Science. 2(2). 178–186. 14 indexed citations

Zettersten, Martin, et al.. (2018). Word Frequency Can Affect What You Choose to Say.. Cognitive Science. 3 indexed citations

Perry, Lynn K., et al.. (2016). Influences of Speaker-Listener Similarity on Shadowing and Comprehension.. Cognitive Science. 2 indexed citations

MacDonald, Maryellen C., et al.. (2015). Language and Gesture Descriptions Affect Memory: A Nonverbal Overshadowing Effect.. Cognitive Science. 2 indexed citations

Edwards, Jan, Megan Gross, Maryellen C. MacDonald, et al.. (2014). Dialect Awareness and Lexical Comprehension of Mainstream American English in African American English–Speaking Children. Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research. 57(5). 1883–1895. 28 indexed citations

Acheson, Daniel J. & Maryellen C. MacDonald. (2011). The rhymes that the reader perused confused the meaning: Phonological effects during on-line sentence comprehension. Journal of Memory and Language. 65(2). 193–207. 27 indexed citations

Stallings, Lynne & Maryellen C. MacDonald. (2010). It’s not Just the “Heavy NP”: Relative Phrase Length Modulates the Production of Heavy-NP Shift. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research. 40(3). 177–187. 29 indexed citations

MacDonald, Maryellen C. & Jessica L. Montag. (2009). Word Order Doesn't Matter: Relative Clause Production in English and Japanese. eScholarship (California Digital Library). 31(31). 8 indexed citations

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Gennari, S. & Maryellen C. MacDonald. (2009). Linking production and comprehension processes: The case of relative clauses. Cognition. 111(1). 1–23. 133 indexed citations

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Race, David S. & Maryellen C. MacDonald. (2003). The use of "that" in the Production and Comprehension of Object Relative Clauses. eScholarship (California Digital Library). 25(25). 34 indexed citations

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Thornton, Robert J., Maryellen C. MacDonald, & Jennifer E. Arnold. (2000). The Concomitant Effects of Phrase Length and Informational Content in Sentence Comprehension. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research. 29(2). 195–203. 17 indexed citations

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Almor, Amit, Daniel Kempler, Maryellen C. MacDonald, Elaine S. Andersen, & Lorraine K. Tyler. (1999). Why Do Alzheimer Patients Have Difficulty with Pronouns? Working Memory, Semantics, and Reference in Comprehension and Production in Alzheimer's Disease. Brain and Language. 67(3). 202–227. 136 indexed citations

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Christiansen, Morten H. & Maryellen C. MacDonald. (1999). Fractionated working memory: Even in pebbles, it's still a soup stone. Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 22(1). 97–98. 9 indexed citations

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Stallings, Lynne, Maryellen C. MacDonald, & Pádraig G. O’Séaghdha. (1998). Phrasal Ordering Constraints in Sentence Production: Phrase Length and Verb Disposition in Heavy-NP Shift. Journal of Memory and Language. 39(3). 392–417. 125 indexed citations

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Pearlmutter, Neal J. & Maryellen C. MacDonald. (1995). Individual Differences and Probabilistic Constraints in Syntactic Ambiguity Resolution. Journal of Memory and Language. 34(4). 521–542. 130 indexed citations

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Stiles, Kendall & Maryellen C. MacDonald. (1992). After Consensus, What? Performance Criteria for the UN in the Post-Cold War Era. Journal of Peace Research. 29(3). 299–311. 1 indexed citations

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MacDonald, Maryellen C. & Robin J. H. Clark. (1987). Empty Categories, Implicit Arguments, and Processing. Scholarworks (University of Massachusetts Amherst). 18(3). 3. 1 indexed citations

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MacDonald, Maryellen C. & Donald G. MacKay. (1984). The production of speech . Ed. by Peter F. MacNeilage. New York: Springer, 1983. Pp. xvi, 302. $29.95.. Language. 60(3). 684–686.

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MacKay, Donald G. & Maryellen C. MacDonald. (1982). Studies in the perception of language . Ed. By W. J. M. Levelt and G. B. Flores d'Arcais. Chichester & New York: Wiley, 1978. Pp. xviii, 335. $33.95.. Language. 58(3). 735–737. 50 indexed citations

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