Melvin J. Yap

9.3k total citations · 3 hit papers
76 papers, 6.3k citations indexed

About

Melvin J. Yap is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Developmental and Educational Psychology and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Melvin J. Yap has authored 76 papers receiving a total of 6.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 54 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 51 papers in Developmental and Educational Psychology and 28 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. Recurrent topics in Melvin J. Yap's work include Reading and Literacy Development (40 papers), Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism (35 papers) and Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies (21 papers). Melvin J. Yap is often cited by papers focused on Reading and Literacy Development (40 papers), Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism (35 papers) and Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies (21 papers). Melvin J. Yap collaborates with scholars based in Singapore, United States and Canada. Melvin J. Yap's co-authors include David A. Balota, Michael J. Cortese, Keith A. Hutchison, James H. Neely, Brett Kessler, Douglas L. Nelson, Rebecca Treiman, Greg B. Simpson, Tal Yarkoni and Daniel H. Spieler and has published in prestigious journals such as PLoS ONE, Journal of Experimental Psychology Human Perception & Performance and Journal of Experimental Psychology General.

In The Last Decade

Melvin J. Yap

74 papers receiving 6.1k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

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 English Lexicon Project

2007 2.0k citations David A. Balota, Melvin J. Yap et al. Behavior Research Methods profile →
Visual Word Recognition of Single-Syllable Words.

2004 688 citations David A. Balota, Michael J. Cortese et al. Journal of Experimental Psychology General profile →
Moving beyond Coltheart’s N: A new measure of orthographic similarity

2008 505 citations David A. Balota, Melvin J. Yap et al. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Melvin J. Yap Singapore	33	4.3k	3.5k	2.1k	1.3k	780	76	6.3k
Michael J. Cortese United States	27	3.7k 0.9×	2.9k 0.8×	1.7k 0.8×	977 0.8×	638 0.8×	46	5.2k
Boris New France	26	4.1k 0.9×	3.7k 1.1×	2.0k 1.0×	1.3k 1.1×	533 0.7×	45	6.4k
Ludovic Ferrand France	39	5.0k 1.2×	4.3k 1.2×	2.3k 1.1×	743 0.6×	583 0.7×	133	6.9k
Christophe Pallier France	41	4.8k 1.1×	3.2k 0.9×	3.0k 1.4×	1.1k 0.8×	515 0.7×	91	7.3k
Evelina Fedorenko United States	51	6.8k 1.6×	2.9k 0.8×	1.7k 0.8×	1.2k 1.0×	1.3k 1.6×	151	9.0k
Gabriel A. Radvansky United States	44	3.6k 0.8×	2.5k 0.7×	2.5k 1.2×	1.0k 0.8×	1.0k 1.3×	138	6.6k
James H. Neely United States	31	5.6k 1.3×	3.4k 1.0×	2.1k 1.0×	994 0.8×	1.2k 1.6×	71	7.3k
Jon Andoni Duñabeitia Spain	43	3.7k 0.9×	3.2k 0.9×	1.3k 0.6×	446 0.4×	448 0.6×	183	5.1k
Alice F. Healy United States	43	3.0k 0.7×	3.0k 0.9×	1.8k 0.9×	1.1k 0.8×	770 1.0×	237	5.5k
Emmanuel Keuleers Belgium	25	2.7k 0.6×	2.5k 0.7×	1.4k 0.7×	1.4k 1.1×	388 0.5×	44	4.6k

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Yap, Melvin J., et al.. (2024). Revealing hidden interactions in mean performance through distributional analyses: Evidence from Chinese lexical decision performance. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review. 32(3). 1274–1283. 1 indexed citations

Tse, Chi‐Shing, et al.. (2022). The Chinese Lexicon Project II: A megastudy of speeded naming performance for 25,000+ traditional Chinese two-character words. Behavior Research Methods. 55(8). 4382–4402. 11 indexed citations

Goh, Winston D., et al.. (2021). LexiCAL: A calculator for lexical variables. PLoS ONE. 16(4). e0250891–e0250891. 5 indexed citations

Goh, Winston D., et al.. (2020). The Auditory English Lexicon Project: A multi-talker, multi-region psycholinguistic database of 10,170 spoken words and nonwords. Behavior Research Methods. 52(5). 2202–2231. 27 indexed citations

Kang, Sean H. K., et al.. (2018). Forward versus backward semantic priming: What movement dynamics during lexical decision reveal. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology. 71(7). 1506–1511.

Pexman, Penny M., Emiko J. Muraki, David M. Sidhu, Paul D. Siakaluk, & Melvin J. Yap. (2018). Quantifying sensorimotor experience: Body–object interaction ratings for more than 9,000 English words. Behavior Research Methods. 51(2). 453–466. 62 indexed citations

Juhasz, Barbara J., et al.. (2018). A further examination of word frequency and age-of-acquisition effects in English lexical decision task performance: The role of frequency trajectory.. Journal of Experimental Psychology Learning Memory and Cognition. 45(1). 82–96. 17 indexed citations

Balota, David A., Andrew J. Aschenbrenner, & Melvin J. Yap. (2013). Additive effects of word frequency and stimulus quality: The influence of trial history and data transformations.. Journal of Experimental Psychology Learning Memory and Cognition. 39(5). 1563–1571. 73 indexed citations

Juhasz, Barbara J. & Melvin J. Yap. (2012). Sensory experience ratings for over 5,000 mono- and disyllabic words. Behavior Research Methods. 45(1). 160–168. 91 indexed citations

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Yap, Melvin J., David A. Balota, Daragh E. Sibley, & Roger Ratcliff. (2011). Individual differences in visual word recognition: Insights from the English Lexicon Project.. Journal of Experimental Psychology Human Perception & Performance. 38(1). 53–79. 152 indexed citations

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Lim, Stephen Wee Hun & Melvin J. Yap. (2010). Distributional Analyses in Visual Lexical Decision: Orthographic Neighborhood Density and Word Frequency Effects. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. 32(32).

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Tse, Chi‐Shing, David A. Balota, Melvin J. Yap, Janet M. Duchek, & David P. McCabe. (2010). Effects of healthy aging and early stage dementia of the Alzheimer's type on components of response time distributions in three attention tasks.. Neuropsychology. 24(3). 300–315. 135 indexed citations

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Yap, Melvin J., et al.. (2010). The Malay Lexicon Project: A database of lexical statistics for 9,592 words. Behavior Research Methods. 42(4). 992–1003. 68 indexed citations

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So, Wing‐Chee, et al.. (2010). Iconic Gestures Prime Words. Cognitive Science. 35(1). 171–183. 44 indexed citations

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Yap, Melvin J., Chi‐Shing Tse, & David A. Balota. (2009). Individual differences in the joint effects of semantic priming and word frequency revealed by RT distributional analyses: The role of lexical integrity. Journal of Memory and Language. 61(3). 303–325. 69 indexed citations

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Ng, Siew Bee, Daqing Wang, & Melvin J. Yap. (2007). Application of destabilizing sequences on selection marker for improved recombinant protein productivity in CHO-DG44. Metabolic Engineering. 9(3). 304–316. 42 indexed citations

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Castel, Alan D., David A. Balota, Keith A. Hutchison, Jessica M. Logan, & Melvin J. Yap. (2007). Spatial attention and response control in healthy younger and older adults and individuals with Alzheimer's disease: Evidence for disproportionate selection impairments in the simon task.. Neuropsychology. 21(2). 170–182. 95 indexed citations

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Yap, Melvin J. & David A. Balota. (2007). Additive and interactive effects on response time distributions in visual word recognition.. Journal of Experimental Psychology Learning Memory and Cognition. 33(2). 274–296. 73 indexed citations

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Balota, David A., Melvin J. Yap, Keith A. Hutchison, et al.. (2007). The English Lexicon Project. Behavior Research Methods. 39(3). 445–459. 1971 indexed citations breakdown →

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Balota, David A., Michael J. Cortese, Susan D. Sergent-Marshall, Daniel H. Spieler, & Melvin J. Yap. (2004). Visual Word Recognition of Single-Syllable Words.. Journal of Experimental Psychology General. 133(2). 283–316. 688 indexed citations breakdown →

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