Peter D. Eimas

9.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
87 papers, 5.4k citations indexed

About

Peter D. Eimas is a scholar working on Developmental and Educational Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, Peter D. Eimas has authored 87 papers receiving a total of 5.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 47 papers in Developmental and Educational Psychology, 41 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and 18 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in Peter D. Eimas's work include Phonetics and Phonology Research (30 papers), Child and Animal Learning Development (17 papers) and Language Development and Disorders (15 papers). Peter D. Eimas is often cited by papers focused on Phonetics and Phonology Research (30 papers), Child and Animal Learning Development (17 papers) and Language Development and Disorders (15 papers). Peter D. Eimas collaborates with scholars based in United States, Mexico and Canada. Peter D. Eimas's co-authors include Paul C. Quinn, Einar R. Siqueland, Peter W. Jusczyk, John Corbit, Joanne L. Miller, Alvin M. Liberman, D. Β. Fry, Arthur S. Abramson, Bryan E. Shepp and Vivien C. Tartter and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Child Development and Psychological Science.

In The Last Decade

Peter D. Eimas

84 papers receiving 4.8k 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.

Speech Perception in Infants

1971 1.2k citations Peter D. Eimas, Einar R. Siqueland et al. Science profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Peter D. Eimas United States	37	3.0k	2.8k	2.1k	733	544	87	5.4k
Richard C. Tees Canada	24	2.4k 0.8×	2.3k 0.8×	1.8k 0.8×	432 0.6×	209 0.4×	63	4.4k
Peter F. MacNeilage United States	32	1.9k 0.6×	2.1k 0.8×	2.1k 1.0×	566 0.8×	917 1.7×	105	4.4k
Michael Studdert‐Kennedy United States	35	3.1k 1.0×	5.0k 1.8×	4.2k 2.0×	1.4k 1.9×	886 1.6×	92	8.3k
Josiane Bertoncini France	26	2.9k 1.0×	1.9k 0.7×	1.3k 0.6×	367 0.5×	146 0.3×	48	3.9k
Denis Burnham Australia	35	2.2k 0.7×	2.6k 0.9×	1.9k 0.9×	396 0.5×	263 0.5×	184	4.3k
Sheila E. Blumstein United States	52	3.0k 1.0×	4.8k 1.7×	5.6k 2.7×	1.4k 1.9×	577 1.1×	166	8.2k
Bob McMurray United States	40	2.8k 0.9×	2.7k 1.0×	2.7k 1.3×	848 1.2×	188 0.3×	164	5.5k
D. Kimbrough Oller United States	43	6.2k 2.1×	2.1k 0.8×	2.5k 1.2×	601 0.8×	297 0.5×	166	8.3k
Peter W. Jusczyk United States	53	9.4k 3.1×	6.3k 2.2×	3.6k 1.7×	1.6k 2.2×	342 0.6×	117	12.1k
LouAnn Gerken United States	33	4.0k 1.3×	1.9k 0.7×	1.5k 0.7×	740 1.0×	113 0.2×	84	4.8k

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Eimas, Peter D.. (2014). The Perception and Representation of Speech by Infants. 37–52. 1 indexed citations

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Seidenberg, Mark S., et al.. (1999). Do infants learn grammar with algebra or statistics? [5] (multiple letters). 284(5413). 434–437. 22 indexed citations

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Quinn, Paul C. & Peter D. Eimas. (1996). Perceptual Cues That Permit Categorical Differentiation of Animal Species by Infants. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology. 63(1). 189–211. 154 indexed citations

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Miller, Joanne L. & Peter D. Eimas. (1996). Internal structure of voicing categories in early infancy. Perception & Psychophysics. 58(8). 1157–1167. 50 indexed citations

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Quinn, Paul C. & Peter D. Eimas. (1996). Young infants' use of facial information in the categorical differentiation of natural animal species: The effect of inversion. Infant Behavior and Development. 19(3). 381–384. 15 indexed citations

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Miller, Joanne L. & Peter D. Eimas. (1995). Speech Perception: From Signal to Word. Annual Review of Psychology. 46(1). 467–492. 29 indexed citations

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Eimas, Peter D.. (1994). Categorization in early infancy and the continuity of development. Cognition. 50(1-3). 83–93. 56 indexed citations

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Eimas, Peter D., Paul C. Quinn, & Pamela Cowan. (1994). Development of Exclusivity in Perceptually Based Categories of Young Infants. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology. 58(3). 418–431. 54 indexed citations

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Eimas, Peter D. & Paul C. Quinn. (1994). Studies on the Formation of Perceptually Based Basic-Level Categories in Young Infants. Child Development. 65(3). 903–903. 146 indexed citations

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Eimas, Peter D. & Joanne L. Miller. (1991). A Constraint on the Discrimination of Speech by Young Infants. Language and Speech. 34(3). 251–263. 8 indexed citations

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Eimas, Peter D. & Albert M. Galaburda. (1990). Some agenda items for a neurobiology of cognition: an introduction. MIT Press eBooks. 1–23. 5 indexed citations

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Eimas, Peter D. & Albert M. Galaburda. (1990). Neurobiology of cognition. MIT Press eBooks. 18 indexed citations

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Eimas, Peter D., et al.. (1990). Attention and the role of dual codes in phoneme monitoring. Journal of Memory and Language. 29(2). 160–180. 35 indexed citations

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Quinn, Paul C. & Peter D. Eimas. (1986). On Categorization in Early Infancy.. Merrill-palmer Quarterly. 32(4). 66 indexed citations

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Eimas, Peter D. & Vivien C. Tartter. (1979). On the Development of Speech Perception: Mechanisms and Analogies. Advances in child development and behavior. 13. 155–193. 17 indexed citations

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Miller, Joanne L. & Peter D. Eimas. (1976). Studies on the selective tuning of feature detectors for speech. Journal of Phonetics. 4(2). 119–127. 14 indexed citations

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Eimas, Peter D., et al.. (1971). Speech Perception in Infants. Science. 171(3968). 303–306. 1186 indexed citations breakdown →

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Eimas, Peter D.. (1967). Optional shift behavior in children as a function of overtraining, irrelevant stimuli, and age. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology. 5(3). 332–340. 10 indexed citations

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Eimas, Peter D.. (1965). Comment: Comparisons of reversal and nonreversal shift. Psychonomic Science. 3(1-12). 445–446. 17 indexed citations

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Eimas, Peter D. & Bryan E. Shepp. (1964). Retardate Discrimination Learning Following Differential Conditioning of the Choice-Point Stimuli1. Child Development. 35(3). 685–693.

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