Michelle R. Ellefson

1.1k total citations
31 papers, 683 citations indexed

About

Michelle R. Ellefson is a scholar working on Developmental and Educational Psychology, Education and Cognitive Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, Michelle R. Ellefson has authored 31 papers receiving a total of 683 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 15 papers in Developmental and Educational Psychology, 12 papers in Education and 6 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in Michelle R. Ellefson's work include Child and Animal Learning Development (6 papers), Reading and Literacy Development (5 papers) and Language and cultural evolution (4 papers). Michelle R. Ellefson is often cited by papers focused on Child and Animal Learning Development (6 papers), Reading and Literacy Development (5 papers) and Language and cultural evolution (4 papers). Michelle R. Ellefson collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Hong Kong. Michelle R. Ellefson's co-authors include Christian D. Schunn, Xornam S. Apedoe, Birdy Reynolds, Nick Chater, Morten H. Christiansen, Qian Wang, Florrie Fei‐Yin Ng, Claire Hughes, Brett Kessler and Rebecca Treiman and has published in prestigious journals such as PLoS ONE, Child Development and Psychological Science.

In The Last Decade

Michelle R. Ellefson

23 papers receiving 610 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Michelle R. Ellefson United Kingdom 14 316 309 115 99 71 31 683
Ali Biçer United States 17 465 1.5× 193 0.6× 133 1.2× 228 2.3× 33 0.5× 68 859
Emma Mercier United States 15 362 1.1× 366 1.2× 136 1.2× 26 0.3× 31 0.4× 50 827
Christoph Mengelkamp Germany 11 296 0.9× 457 1.5× 70 0.6× 172 1.7× 51 0.7× 27 743
Mary Lamon Canada 10 374 1.2× 433 1.4× 180 1.6× 99 1.0× 13 0.2× 19 774
Greg Perfetto United States 10 150 0.5× 227 0.7× 119 1.0× 127 1.3× 16 0.2× 14 496
Eric L. Mann United States 8 280 0.9× 197 0.6× 154 1.3× 263 2.7× 7 0.1× 19 607
Krista E. DeLeeuw United States 6 430 1.4× 357 1.2× 73 0.6× 302 3.1× 82 1.2× 7 871
Scott C. Marley United States 14 370 1.2× 302 1.0× 84 0.7× 131 1.3× 6 0.1× 39 719
Mary K. Enright United States 13 209 0.7× 312 1.0× 157 1.4× 49 0.5× 8 0.1× 31 653
Kathleen M. Cauley United States 8 297 0.9× 432 1.4× 132 1.1× 120 1.2× 9 0.1× 18 791

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Michelle R. Ellefson

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Ellefson, Michelle R., et al.. (2025). The roles of switching and inhibition in adult counterintuitive scientific thinking. Cognition. 268. 106377–106377.
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Ellefson, Michelle R., Hana D’Souza, Elian Fink, et al.. (2025). Links Between Child Executive Function and Adjustment: A Three-Site Study. Child Development. 96(5). 1590–1604.
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Ellefson, Michelle R., et al.. (2022). How Multidimensional is Computational Thinking Competency? A Bi-Factor Model of the Computational Thinking Challenge. Journal of Educational Computing Research. 61(2). 259–282. 11 indexed citations
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Ellefson, Michelle R., et al.. (2020). An East–West contrast in executive function: Measurement invariance of computerized tasks in school-aged children and adolescents. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology. 199. 104929–104929. 16 indexed citations
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Ellefson, Michelle R., et al.. (2020). Do executive functions mediate the link between socioeconomic status and numeracy skills? A cross-site comparison of Hong Kong and the United Kingdom. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology. 194. 104734–104734. 26 indexed citations
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Ellefson, Michelle R., et al.. (2019). Psychonomics2018 talk - The zoo task: metacognition in problem-solving for older children. OSF Preprints (OSF Preprints).
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Poletiek, Fenna H., et al.. (2018). Under What Conditions Can Recursion Be Learned? Effects of Starting Small in Artificial Grammar Learning of Center‐Embedded Structure. Cognitive Science. 42(8). 2855–2889. 9 indexed citations
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Teperek, Marta, et al.. (2017). Starting from the End: What to do when Restricted Data is released. Data Science Journal. 16.
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Ellefson, Michelle R., Florrie Fei‐Yin Ng, Qian Wang, & Claire Hughes. (2017). Efficiency of Executive Function: A Two-Generation Cross-Cultural Comparison of Samples From Hong Kong and the United Kingdom. Psychological Science. 28(5). 555–566. 51 indexed citations
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Hill, Julia L., et al.. (2014). Early Understanding of Intensive Properties of Matter: Developmental and Cultural Differences. Cognitive Science. 36(36). 1 indexed citations
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Goedert, Kelly M., Michelle R. Ellefson, & Bob Rehder. (2014). Differences in the weighting and choice of evidence for plausible versus implausible causes.. Journal of Experimental Psychology Learning Memory and Cognition. 40(3). 683–702. 5 indexed citations
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Ellefson, Michelle R., et al.. (2013). Using Property induction to evaluate understanding of mixing. Cognitive Science. 35(35). 1 indexed citations
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Apedoe, Xornam S., Birdy Reynolds, Michelle R. Ellefson, & Christian D. Schunn. (2008). Bringing Engineering Design into High School Science Classrooms: The Heating/Cooling Unit. Journal of Science Education and Technology. 17(5). 454–465. 226 indexed citations
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Ellefson, Michelle R., et al.. (2008). Design‐based learning for biology. Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Education. 36(4). 292–298. 30 indexed citations
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Young, Michael E., Edward A. Wasserman, & Michelle R. Ellefson. (2007). A theory of variability discrimination: Finding differences. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review. 14(5). 805–822. 15 indexed citations
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Ellefson, Michelle R., Laura Shapiro, & Nick Chater. (2006). Asymmetrical switch costs in children. Cognitive Development. 21(2). 108–130. 56 indexed citations
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Conway, Christopher M., Michelle R. Ellefson, & Morten H. Christiansen. (2003). When Less is Less and When Less is More: Starting Small with Staged Input. eScholarship (California Digital Library). 25(25). 25 indexed citations
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Young, Michael E., Michelle R. Ellefson, & Edward A. Wasserman. (2003). Toward a theory of variability discrimination: finding differences. Behavioural Processes. 62(1-3). 145–155. 12 indexed citations
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Ellefson, Michelle R. & Morten H. Christiansen. (2000). Subjacency Constraints without Universal Grammar: Evidence from Artificial Language Learning and Connectionist Modeling - eScholarship. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. 22(22). 24 indexed citations

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