Michael Studdert‐Kennedy

13.1k total citations · 3 hit papers
92 papers, 8.3k citations indexed

About

Michael Studdert‐Kennedy is a scholar working on Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience and Developmental and Educational Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Michael Studdert‐Kennedy has authored 92 papers receiving a total of 8.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 60 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, 26 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience and 25 papers in Developmental and Educational Psychology. Recurrent topics in Michael Studdert‐Kennedy's work include Phonetics and Phonology Research (53 papers), Speech and Audio Processing (17 papers) and Multisensory perception and integration (14 papers). Michael Studdert‐Kennedy is often cited by papers focused on Phonetics and Phonology Research (53 papers), Speech and Audio Processing (17 papers) and Multisensory perception and integration (14 papers). Michael Studdert‐Kennedy collaborates with scholars based in United States, Sweden and Germany. Michael Studdert‐Kennedy's co-authors include Donald Shankweiler, Alvin M. Liberman, F. S. Cooper, Björn Lindblom, Susan Nittrouer, Maria Mody, Peter F. MacNeilage, Susan Brady, Richard S. McGowan and Chris Knight and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Psychological Review and Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Michael Studdert‐Kennedy

86 papers receiving 7.4k citations

Hit Papers

Perception of the speech code. 1967 2026 1986 2006 1967 1970 1987 500 1000 1.5k 2.0k
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.

  1. Perception of the speech code.
    1967 2.4k citations Donald Shankweiler, Michael Studdert‐Kennedy et al. Psychological Review profile →
  2. Hemispheric Specialization for Speech Perception
    1970 579 citations Michael Studdert‐Kennedy, Donald Shankweiler The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America profile →
  3. Primate handedness reconsidered
    1987 535 citations Peter F. MacNeilage, Michael Studdert‐Kennedy et al. Behavioral and Brain Sciences profile →

Peers

Michael Studdert‐Kennedy
Carol A. Fowler United States
Alvin M. Liberman United States
Björn Lindblom Sweden
Sheila E. Blumstein United States
Peter W. Jusczyk United States
Jacques Mehler France
Donald Shankweiler United States
Peter D. Eimas United States
Emmanuel Dupoux France
Janet F. Werker Canada
Carol A. Fowler United States
Michael Studdert‐Kennedy
Citations per year, relative to Michael Studdert‐Kennedy Michael Studdert‐Kennedy (= 1×) peers Carol A. Fowler

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Fowler, Carol A., Donald Shankweiler, & Michael Studdert‐Kennedy. (2015). "Perception of the speech code" revisited: Speech is alphabetic after all.. Psychological Review. 123(2). 125–150. 21 indexed citations
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Knight, Chris, et al.. (2000). The Evolutionary Emergence of Language. Cambridge University Press eBooks. 181 indexed citations
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Studdert‐Kennedy, Michael. (2000). Imitation and the Emergence of Segments. Phonetica. 57(2-4). 275–283. 17 indexed citations
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Studdert‐Kennedy, Michael, Maria Mody, & Susan Brady. (2000). Speech Perception Deficits in Poor Readers. Journal of Learning Disabilities. 33(4). 317–321. 18 indexed citations
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Nittrouer, Susan, Michael Studdert‐Kennedy, & Stephen T. Neely. (1996). How Children Learn to Organize Their Speech Gestures: Further Evidence From Fricative-Vowel Syllables. Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research. 39(2). 379–389. 70 indexed citations
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McRoberts, Gerald W., Michael Studdert‐Kennedy, & Donald Shankweiler. (1995). The role of fundamental frequency in signaling linguistic stress and affect: Evidence for a dissociation. Perception & Psychophysics. 57(2). 159–174. 29 indexed citations
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Studdert‐Kennedy, Michael. (1994). Hand and Mind: What Gestures Reveal About Thought.. Language and Speech. 37(2). 203–209. 83 indexed citations
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Studdert‐Kennedy, Michael. (1993). Discovering phonetic function. Journal of Phonetics. 21(1-2). 147–155. 11 indexed citations
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Studdert‐Kennedy, Michael. (1992). Leap of Faith: A Review of "Language and Species.".. Applied Psycholinguistics. 13(4).
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Studdert‐Kennedy, Michael. (1989). Feature Fitting: A comment on K. N. Stevens’ “On the quantal nature of speech”. Journal of Phonetics. 17(1-2). 135–143. 5 indexed citations
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Studdert‐Kennedy, Michael. (1989). Cues to What? A Comment on Diehl and Kluender 'On the Objects of Speech Perception'. Ecological Psychology. 1(2). 181–193. 1 indexed citations
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MacNeilage, Peter F., Michael Studdert‐Kennedy, & Björn Lindblom. (1987). Primate handedness reconsidered. Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 10(2). 247–263. 535 indexed citations breakdown →
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Kewley-Port, Diane, David B. Pisoni, & Michael Studdert‐Kennedy. (1983). Perception of static and dynamic acoustic cues to place of articulation in initial stop consonants. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 73(5). 1779–1793. 89 indexed citations
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Studdert‐Kennedy, Michael. (1983). Mapping speech: More analysis, less synthesis, please. Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 6(2). 218–219. 1 indexed citations
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Studdert‐Kennedy, Michael & Donald Shankweiler. (1981). Hemispheric Specialization for Language Processes. Science. 211(4485). 960–961. 34 indexed citations
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Bellugi, Ursula, et al.. (1980). Signed and spoken language--biological constraints on linguistic form : report of the Dahlem Workshop on Sign Language and Spoken Language--Biological Constraints on Linguistic Form, Berlin 1980, March 24-28. 11 indexed citations
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Simon, Helen J. & Michael Studdert‐Kennedy. (1978). Selective anchoring and adaptation of phonetic and nonphonetic continua. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 64(5). 1338–1357. 45 indexed citations
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Studdert‐Kennedy, Michael, et al.. (1974). Are you asking me, telling me, or talking to yourself?. Journal of Phonetics. 2(1). 7–14. 8 indexed citations
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Studdert‐Kennedy, Michael. (1973). Right-Ear Advantage in Choice Reaction Time to Monaurally Presented Vowels: A Pilot Study. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 54(1_Supplement). 285–285. 6 indexed citations
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Studdert‐Kennedy, Michael, Donald Shankweiler, & David B. Pisoni. (1972). Auditory and phonetic processes in speech perception: Evidence from a dichotic study. Cognitive Psychology. 3(3). 455–466. 59 indexed citations

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