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7050
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3427

Cynthia Fisher publication distribution in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Cynthia Fisher sits on this spectrum.

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44 publications 570+

This scientist: 68 publications — 2nd percentile

2% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 570 publications or more.

Cynthia Fisher D-index placement in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Social Sciences and Humanities scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Cynthia Fisher sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 33 D-Index — 10th percentile

10% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Overview

Cynthia Fisher is affiliated with the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in the United States. Their research spans several interconnected fields, primarily focusing on psychology and environmental science.

The main fields of study covered by Cynthia Fisher include:

  • Psychology
  • Environmental Science

Within these fields, their work delves into specific subfields such as:

  • Developmental and Educational Psychology
  • Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis
  • Pharmacology
  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Social Psychology

Their research topics reflect these disciplinary focuses and include:

  • Language Development and Disorders
  • Air Quality and Health Impacts
  • Medical and Biological Ozone Research
  • Climate Change and Health Impacts
  • Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism
  • Reading and Literacy Development
  • Child and Animal Learning Development

Cynthia Fisher has contributed to multiple recent papers that highlight their research across psychological and environmental themes:

  • "The dynamicity of acute ozone-induced systemic leukocyte trafficking and adrenal-derived stress hormones" (2021), published in Toxicology
  • "Referential context and executive functioning influence children's resolution of syntactic ambiguity." (2020), published in Journal of Experimental Psychology Learning Memory and Cognition
  • "How do the object-file and physical-reasoning systems interact? Evidence from priming effects with object arrays or novel labels" (2021), published in Cognitive Psychology
  • "What's New to You? Preschoolers' Partner-Specific Online Processing of Disfluency" (2021), published in Frontiers in Psychology
  • "Pulmonary and vascular effects of acute ozone exposure in diabetic rats fed an atherogenic diet" (2021), published in Toxicology and Applied Pharmacology

The frequent co-authors working alongside Cynthia Fisher include:

  • Andres R. Henriquez
  • Samantha J. Snow
  • Mette C. Schladweiler
  • Urmila P. Kodavanti
  • Sarah Brown-Schmidt

Their publications are commonly found in journals such as:

  • Toxicology
  • Journal of Experimental Psychology Learning Memory and Cognition
  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Frontiers in Psychology
  • Toxicology and Applied Pharmacology

Best Publications

  • When it is better to receive than to give: Syntactic and conceptual constraints on vocabulary growth

    Cynthia Fisher;D.Geoffrey Hall;Susan Rakowitz;Lila Gleitman

  • On the semantic content of subcategorization frames.

    Cynthia Fisher;Henry Gleitman;Lila R Gleitman

  • Learning Words and Rules Abstract Knowledge of Word Order in Early Sentence Comprehension

    Yael Gertner;Cynthia Fisher;Julie Eisengart

  • Structural Limits on Verb Mapping: The Role of Analogy in Children's Interpretations of Sentences.

    Cynthia Fisher

  • Infants Learn Phonotactic Regularities from Brief Auditory Experience.

    Kyle E. Chambers;Kristine H. Onishi;Cynthia Fisher

  • Structural limits on verb mapping: the role of abstract structure in 2.5‐year‐olds’ interpretations of novel verbs

    Cynthia L Fisher

  • “Really? She Blicked the Baby?” Two-Year-Olds Learn Combinatorial Facts About Verbs by Listening

    Sylvia Yuan;Cynthia Fisher

  • Can an agent's false belief be corrected by an appropriate communication? Psychological reasoning in 18-month-old infants.

    Hyun joo Song;Kristine H. Onishi;Renée Baillargeon;Cynthia Fisher

  • Learning phonotactic constraints from brief auditory experience

    Kristine H Onishi;Kyle E Chambers;Cynthia Fisher

  • Acoustic Cues to Grammatical Structure in Infant‐Directed Speech: Cross‐Linguistic Evidence

    Cynthia Fisher;Hisayo Tokura

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  • The role of abstract syntactic knowledge in language acquisition: a reply to Tomasello (2000).

    Cynthia Fisher

  • Counting the Nouns: Simple Structural Cues to Verb Meaning

    Sylvia Yuan;Cynthia D Fisher;Jesse Snedeker

  • Predicted errors in children's early sentence comprehension

    Yael Gertner;Cynthia Fisher

  • 2.5-year-olds use cross-situational consistency to learn verbs under referential uncertainty

    Rose M. Scott;Cynthia Fisher

  • Who’s “she”? Discourse prominence influences preschoolers’ comprehension of pronouns☆

    Hyun Joo Song;Cynthia L Fisher

  • What does syntax say about space? 2-year-olds use sentence structure to learn new prepositions.

    Cynthia Fisher;Stacy L. Klingler;Hyun joo Song

  • Discourse prominence effects on 2.5-year-old children's interpretation of pronouns

    Hyun joo Song;Cynthia Fisher

  • Two-year-olds use distributional cues to interpret transitivity-alternating verbs

    Rose M. Scott;Cynthia Fisher

  • Where are the cookies? Two- and three-year-olds use number-marked verbs to anticipate upcoming nouns.

    Cynthia Lukyanenko;Cynthia Fisher

  • Structure and meaning in the verb lexicon: Input for a syntax-aided verb learning procedure

    Cynthia Fisher

Frequent Co-Authors

Dan Roth
Dan Roth University of Pennsylvania
Renée Baillargeon
Renée Baillargeon University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Lila R. Gleitman
Lila R. Gleitman University of Pennsylvania
Gary S. Dell
Gary S. Dell University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Kenneth D. Forbus
Kenneth D. Forbus Northwestern University
Anne Christophe
Anne Christophe École Normale Supérieure
Dedre Gentner
Dedre Gentner Northwestern University
Sarah Brown-Schmidt
Sarah Brown-Schmidt Vanderbilt University
Alejandrina Cristia
Alejandrina Cristia École Normale Supérieure
Michael C. Frank
Michael C. Frank Stanford University

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