Saima Malik-Moraleda

481 total citations · 1 hit paper
9 papers, 173 citations indexed

About

Saima Malik-Moraleda is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and Developmental and Educational Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Saima Malik-Moraleda has authored 9 papers receiving a total of 173 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 7 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 4 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and 4 papers in Developmental and Educational Psychology. Recurrent topics in Saima Malik-Moraleda's work include Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism (6 papers), Multisensory perception and integration (3 papers) and Categorization, perception, and language (3 papers). Saima Malik-Moraleda is often cited by papers focused on Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism (6 papers), Multisensory perception and integration (3 papers) and Categorization, perception, and language (3 papers). Saima Malik-Moraleda collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and Bolivia. Saima Malik-Moraleda's co-authors include Evelina Fedorenko, Olessia Jouravlev, Josef Affourtit, Zachary Mineroff, Malte Hoffmann, Jeanne Gallée, Edward Gibson, Bevil R. Conway, Sam Norman-Haignere and Tamar I. Regev and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and Nature Neuroscience.

In The Last Decade

Saima Malik-Moraleda

8 papers receiving 171 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.

An investigation across 45 languages and 12 language families reveals a universal language network

2022 113 citations Saima Malik-Moraleda, Jeanne Gallée et al. Nature Neuroscience profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Saima Malik-Moraleda United States	4	132	56	34	27	14	9	173
Nietzsche H. L. Lam Netherlands	7	252 1.9×	102 1.8×	38 1.1×	44 1.6×	5 0.4×	7	299
Perrine Brusini United Kingdom	10	182 1.4×	187 3.3×	14 0.4×	49 1.8×	15 1.1×	22	311
Evgeniia Diachek United States	4	152 1.2×	77 1.4×	32 0.9×	18 0.7×	6 0.4×	7	173
Francesca Conca Italy	10	146 1.1×	63 1.1×	94 2.8×	69 2.6×	4 0.3×	16	213
Steven Frankland United States	6	150 1.1×	50 0.9×	69 2.0×	50 1.9×	13 0.9×	11	219
Sneha Shashidhara United Kingdom	6	191 1.4×	37 0.7×	19 0.6×	33 1.2×	7 0.5×	10	215
Christopher Hammerly United States	4	224 1.7×	146 2.6×	30 0.9×	38 1.4×	7 0.5×	11	242
Adam Attaheri United Kingdom	8	167 1.3×	106 1.9×	10 0.3×	37 1.4×	21 1.5×	17	229
Anne‐Caroline Fiévet France	6	89 0.7×	89 1.6×	9 0.3×	34 1.3×	10 0.7×	18	165
Matthew Siegelman United States	7	303 2.3×	164 2.9×	66 1.9×	38 1.4×	26 1.9×	10	373

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9 of 9 papers shown

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Malik-Moraleda, Saima, et al.. (2025). Constructed languages are processed by the same brain mechanisms as natural languages. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 122(12). e2313473122–e2313473122.

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Malik-Moraleda, Saima, Olessia Jouravlev, Zachary Mineroff, et al.. (2024). Functional characterization of the language network of polyglots and hyperpolyglots with precision fMRI. Cerebral Cortex. 34(3). 7 indexed citations

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Affourtit, Josef, Rachel Ryskin, Tamar I. Regev, et al.. (2023). The human language system, including its inferior frontal component in “Broca’s area,” does not support music perception. Cerebral Cortex. 33(12). 7904–7929. 25 indexed citations

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Conway, Bevil R., Saima Malik-Moraleda, & Edward Gibson. (2023). Color appearance and the end of Hering’s Opponent-Colors Theory. Trends in Cognitive Sciences. 27(9). 791–804. 18 indexed citations

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Malik-Moraleda, Saima, Kyle Mahowald, Bevil R. Conway, & Edward Gibson. (2023). Concepts Are Restructured During Language Contact: The Birth of Blue and Other Color Concepts in Tsimane’-Spanish Bilinguals. Psychological Science. 34(12). 1350–1362. 2 indexed citations

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Malik-Moraleda, Saima, Jeanne Gallée, Josef Affourtit, et al.. (2022). An investigation across 45 languages and 12 language families reveals a universal language network. Nature Neuroscience. 25(8). 1014–1019. 113 indexed citations breakdown →

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Malik-Moraleda, Saima, et al.. (2022). Color naming in Tsimane’–Spanish bilinguals indicates that differential experience with content domains affects lexical access. Scientific Reports. 12(1). 17479–17479. 3 indexed citations

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Malik-Moraleda, Saima, et al.. (2021). The Domain-General Multiple Demand Network Is More Active in Early Balanced Bilinguals Than Monolinguals During Executive Processing. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 2(4). 647–664. 2 indexed citations

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Malik-Moraleda, Saima, et al.. (2017). The consequences of literacy and schooling for parsing strings. Language Cognition and Neuroscience. 33(3). 293–299. 3 indexed citations

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