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85
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53439
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1158
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Brian MacWhinney publication distribution in Psychology in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Psychology in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Brian MacWhinney sits on this spectrum.

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31 publications 705+

This scientist: 331 publications — 90th percentile

90% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 705 publications or more.

Brian MacWhinney D-index placement in Psychology in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Psychology scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Brian MacWhinney sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 144+

This scientist: 85 D-Index — 90th percentile

90% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 144 D-Index or more.

Overview

Brian MacWhinney is affiliated with Carnegie Mellon University in the United States. Their research spans diverse areas primarily within psychology and neuroscience, with a strong emphasis on developmental and educational psychology, cognitive neuroscience, and artificial intelligence.

Their work covers a range of topics related to language and cognition, including:

  • Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism
  • Language Development and Disorders
  • Reading and Literacy Development
  • Text Readability and Simplification
  • Natural Language Processing Techniques
  • Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research
  • Interpreting and Communication in Healthcare

Brian MacWhinney has contributed frequently to the following publication venues:

  • Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology
  • Brain and Language
  • Frontiers in Psychology

Among their recent papers are:

  • "DementiaBank: Theoretical Rationale, Protocol, and Illustrative Analyses" (2023) published in American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology
  • "Standardizing Assessment of Spoken Discourse in Aphasia: A Working Group With Deliverables" (2020) published in American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology
  • "Automation of Language Sample Analysis" (2023) published in Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research
  • "Age effects in second language acquisition: Expanding the emergentist account" (2023) published in Brain and Language
  • "Precision rehabilitation for aphasia by patient age, sex, aphasia severity, and time since stroke? A prespecified, systematic review-based, individual participant data, network, subgroup meta-analysis" (2022) published in International Journal of Stroke

Frequent collaborators include:

  • Davida Fromm
  • Alyssa M. Lanzi
  • Saturnino Luz
  • Fasih Haider
  • Joel B. Greenhouse

Best Publications

  • The Childes Project: Tools for Analyzing Talk, Volume II: the Database

    Brian MacWhinney

  • PsyScope: An interactive graphic system for designing and controlling experiments in the psychology laboratory using Macintosh computers

    Jonathan D. Cohen;Brian MacWhinney;Matthew Flatt;Jefferson Provost

  • The Childes Project: Tools for Analyzing Talk

    Brian MacWhinney

  • The child language data exchange system.

    Brian MacWhinney;Catherine Snow

  • Functionalism and the competition model

    Elizabeth Bates;Brian MacWhinney

  • Competition, variation, and language learning.

    Elizabeth Bates;Brian MacWhinney

  • The Crosslinguistic Study of Sentence Processing.

    Brian MacWhinney;Elizabeth Bates

  • The Child Language Data Exchange System: an update.

    Brian MacWhinney;Catherine Snow

  • A bilingual advantage in task switching

    Anat Prior;Brian MacWhinney

  • The CHILDES Project: Tools for Analyzing Talk

    Clifton Pye;Brian MacWhinney

  • The Emergence of Language From Embodiment

    Brian MacWhinney

  • The acquisition of morphophonology

    Brian MacWhinney

  • The emergence of language.

    Brian MacWhinney

  • Cue validity and sentence interpretation in English, German, and Italian

    Brian MacWhinney;Elizabeth Bates;Reinhold Kliegl

  • A Unified Model of Language Acquisition

    Brian MacWhinney

  • New directions in discourse processing

    Brian MacWhinney;Roy O. Freedle

  • IMPLICIT AND EXPLICIT MEASURES OF SENSITIVITY TO VIOLATIONS IN SECOND LANGUAGE GRAMMAR: An Event-Related Potential Investigation

    Natasha Tokowicz;Brian MacWhinney

  • Implementations are not conceptualizations: revising the verb learning model.

    Brian MacWhinney;Jared Leinbach

  • The Handbook of Child Language

    Paul J. Fletcher;Brian MacWhinney

  • Functional constraints on sentence processing: a cross-linguistic study.

    Elizabeth Bates;Sandra McNew;Brian MacWhinney;Antonella Devescovi

  • Vocabulary acquisition and verbal short-term memory: Computational and neural bases.

    Prahlad Gupta;Brian MacWhinney

  • The Crosslinguistic Study of Sentence Processing

    Michael Harrington;Brian MacWhinney;Elizabeth Bates

Frequent Co-Authors

Elizabeth Bates
Elizabeth Bates University of California, San Diego
Audrey Holland
Audrey Holland University of Arizona
Alon Lavie
Alon Lavie Carnegie Mellon University
Kenji Sagae
Kenji Sagae University of California, Davis
Leanne Togher
Leanne Togher University of Sydney
Catherine E. Snow
Catherine E. Snow Harvard University
Nan Bernstein Ratner
Nan Bernstein Ratner University of Maryland, College Park
Robyn L. Tate
Robyn L. Tate University of Sydney
Skye McDonald
Skye McDonald University of New South Wales
Heidi M. Feldman
Heidi M. Feldman Stanford University

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