Richard Ν. Aslin

35.0k total citations · 7 hit papers
242 papers, 22.4k citations indexed

About

Richard Ν. Aslin is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Developmental and Educational Psychology and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Richard Ν. Aslin has authored 242 papers receiving a total of 22.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 110 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 110 papers in Developmental and Educational Psychology and 72 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. Recurrent topics in Richard Ν. Aslin's work include Language Development and Disorders (76 papers), Child and Animal Learning Development (53 papers) and Phonetics and Phonology Research (52 papers). Richard Ν. Aslin is often cited by papers focused on Language Development and Disorders (76 papers), Child and Animal Learning Development (53 papers) and Phonetics and Phonology Research (52 papers). Richard Ν. Aslin collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Canada. Richard Ν. Aslin's co-authors include Elissa L. Newport, Jenny R. Saffran, József Fiser, Michael K. Tanenhaus, Robin Panneton Cooper, Daniel Swingley, Bob McMurray, P. W. Jusczyk, Celeste Kidd and Elizabeth K. Johnson and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Journal of Clinical Oncology.

In The Last Decade

Richard Ν. Aslin

236 papers receiving 20.9k citations

Hit Papers

Statistical Learning by 8-Month-Old Infants 1990 2026 2002 2014 1996 1999 1996 1998 1995 1000 2.0k 3.0k
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. Statistical Learning by 8-Month-Old Infants
    1996 3.4k citations Richard Ν. Aslin, Elissa L. Newport et al. profile →
  2. Statistical learning of tone sequences by human infants and adults
    1999 880 citations Richard Ν. Aslin, Elissa L. Newport et al. Cognition profile →
  3. Word Segmentation: The Role of Distributional Cues
    1996 794 citations Elissa L. Newport, Richard Ν. Aslin et al. profile →
  4. Computation of Conditional Probability Statistics by 8-Month-Old Infants
    1998 711 citations Richard Ν. Aslin, Elissa L. Newport et al. profile →
  5. Infants′ Detection of the Sound Patterns of Words in Fluent Speech
    1995 602 citations Richard Ν. Aslin et al. Cognitive Psychology profile →
  6. Unsupervised Statistical Learning of Higher-Order Spatial Structures from Visual Scenes
    2001 532 citations József Fiser, Richard Ν. Aslin profile →
  7. Preference for Infant-Directed Speech in the First Month after Birth
    1990 512 citations Richard Ν. Aslin et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Richard Ν. Aslin United States 74 12.9k 10.4k 7.8k 3.2k 1.6k 242 22.4k
Patricia K. Kuhl United States 68 11.7k 0.9× 8.7k 0.8× 9.5k 1.2× 1.9k 0.6× 937 0.6× 257 21.8k
Jacques Mehler France 68 9.6k 0.7× 7.3k 0.7× 7.2k 0.9× 2.3k 0.7× 841 0.5× 159 16.6k
Elissa L. Newport United States 47 10.5k 0.8× 6.0k 0.6× 4.2k 0.5× 3.0k 0.9× 2.1k 1.3× 104 15.8k
Jenny R. Saffran United States 48 9.6k 0.7× 5.6k 0.5× 3.9k 0.5× 2.4k 0.7× 1.4k 0.8× 121 13.4k
William D. Marslen‐Wilson United Kingdom 69 9.1k 0.7× 12.0k 1.1× 6.6k 0.9× 2.8k 0.9× 392 0.2× 169 16.6k
Janet F. Werker Canada 72 11.8k 0.9× 5.7k 0.5× 8.6k 1.1× 1.3k 0.4× 684 0.4× 183 17.1k
Marc Brysbaert Belgium 75 11.9k 0.9× 13.9k 1.3× 6.8k 0.9× 5.0k 1.5× 501 0.3× 267 23.5k
Angela D. Friederici Germany 103 19.9k 1.5× 33.8k 3.2× 9.8k 1.3× 1.7k 0.5× 1.3k 0.8× 598 41.2k
David B. Pisoni United States 87 10.6k 0.8× 15.4k 1.5× 14.3k 1.8× 4.8k 1.5× 462 0.3× 477 26.6k
David Poeppel United States 73 5.9k 0.5× 22.6k 2.2× 8.5k 1.1× 1.2k 0.4× 453 0.3× 273 26.7k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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McMurray, Bob, et al.. (2022). Decoding the temporal dynamics of spoken word and nonword processing from EEG. NeuroImage. 260. 119457–119457. 13 indexed citations
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Arredondo, Maria M., Richard Ν. Aslin, & Janet F. Werker. (2021). Bilingualism alters infants’ cortical organization for attentional orienting mechanisms. Developmental Science. 25(2). e13172–e13172. 15 indexed citations
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Wu, Rachel, et al.. (2020). Categorization in infancy based on novelty and co-occurrence. Infant Behavior and Development. 62. 101510–101510.
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Bejjanki, Vikranth R., et al.. (2019). Young children combine sensory cues with learned information in a statistically efficient manner: But task complexity matters. Developmental Science. 23(3). e12912–e12912. 3 indexed citations
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Bergelson, Elika & Richard Ν. Aslin. (2017). Nature and origins of the lexicon in 6-mo-olds. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 114(49). 12916–12921. 103 indexed citations
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Mulak, Karen E., et al.. (2017). Indexical and linguistic processing by 12-month-olds: Discrimination of speaker, accent and vowel differences. PLoS ONE. 12(5). e0176762–e0176762. 12 indexed citations
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Emberson, Lauren L., et al.. (2017). Deficits in Top-Down Sensory Prediction in Infants At Risk due to Premature Birth. Current Biology. 27(3). 431–436. 30 indexed citations
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Qian, Ting, T. Florian Jaeger, & Richard Ν. Aslin. (2016). Incremental implicit learning of bundles of statistical patterns. Cognition. 157. 156–173. 13 indexed citations
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Newport, Elissa L., et al.. (2012). From shared contexts to syntactic categories: The role of distributional information in learning linguistic form-classes. Cognitive Psychology. 66(1). 30–54. 87 indexed citations
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Qian, Ting, et al.. (2012). Exploring the Role of Representation in Models of Grammatical Category Acquisition. Cognitive Science. 34(34). 3 indexed citations
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Davis, Sarah, Elissa L. Newport, & Richard Ν. Aslin. (2011). Probability-matching in 10-month-old infants. Cognitive Science. 33(33). 3 indexed citations
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Aslin, Richard Ν., et al.. (2011). The interaction between chunking and stimulus complexity in infant visual statistical learning. Journal of Vision. 11(11). 459–459. 1 indexed citations
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Newport, Elissa L., et al.. (2010). Novel words in novel contexts: The role of distributional information in formclass category learning. eScholarship (California Digital Library). 32(32). 10 indexed citations
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Gervain, Judit, Jacques Mehler, Janet F. Werker, et al.. (2010). Near-infrared spectroscopy: A report from the McDonnell infant methodology consortium. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience. 1(1). 22–46. 238 indexed citations
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Aslin, Richard Ν., Celeste Kidd, & Katherine S. White. (2009). Children’s Use of Disfluencies for Pragmatic Inference in Lexical Development. eScholarship (California Digital Library). 31(31). 1 indexed citations
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Newport, Elissa L., et al.. (2009). The role of distributional information in linguistic category formation. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. 31(31). 14 indexed citations
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Orbán, Gergő, József Fiser, Richard Ν. Aslin, & Máté Lengyel. (2005). Bayesian model learning in human visual perception. Cambridge University Engineering Department Publications Database. 18. 1043–1050. 4 indexed citations
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Newport, Elissa L., Michael A. Hauser, Geertrui M. Spaepen, & Richard Ν. Aslin. (2004). Learning at a distance II. Statistical learning of non-adjacent dependencies in a non-human primate. Cognitive Psychology. 49(2). 85–117. 133 indexed citations
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Aslin, Richard Ν. & Sandra L. Shea. (1990). Velocity thresholds in human infants: Implications for the perception of motion.. Developmental Psychology. 26(4). 589–598. 55 indexed citations
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Aslin, Richard Ν. & Susan Dumais. (1980). Binocular Vision in Infants: A Review and a Theoretical Framework. Advances in child development and behavior. 15. 53–94. 23 indexed citations

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