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Elissa L. Newport 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 Elissa L. Newport sits on this spectrum.

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31 publications 705+

This scientist: 105 publications — 23rd percentile

23% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Elissa L. Newport 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 Elissa L. Newport sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 144+

This scientist: 53 D-Index — 59th percentile

59% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2020 - APA Award for Distinguished Scientific Contributions to Psychology, American Psychological Association
  • 2013 - William James Fellow Award, Association for Psychological Science (APA)
  • 2004 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
  • 2001 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 2001 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Overview

Elissa L. Newport is affiliated with Georgetown University in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Neuroscience and Psychology, with a particular focus on Cognitive Neuroscience and Developmental and Educational Psychology.

The scientist's work covers several key topics, including:

  • Hemispheric Asymmetry in Neuroscience
  • Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism
  • Reading and Literacy Development
  • Tactile and Sensory Interactions
  • Visual Perception and Processing Mechanisms
  • Language Development and Disorders
  • Spatial Neglect and Hemispheric Dysfunction

Elissa L. Newport has contributed to numerous publications, appearing frequently in the following venues:

  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Developmental Science
  • Journal of Vision
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • PLoS ONE

Some of the recent papers include:

  • "Critical Period After Stroke Study (CPASS): A phase II clinical trial testing an optimal time for motor recovery after stroke in humans," 2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "The neural basis of language development: Changes in lateralization over age," 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "Language and developmental plasticity after perinatal stroke," 2022, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "Spoken language comprehension activates the primary visual cortex," 2020, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • "Spoken language processing activates the primary visual cortex," 2023, PLoS ONE

The scientist has collaborated frequently with several co-authors, including:

  • Anna Seydell-Greenwald
  • Catherine E. Chambers
  • William D. Gaillard
  • Peter E. Turkeltaub
  • Barbara Landau

In terms of professional recognition, Elissa L. Newport has received the following awards and honors:

  • APA Award for Distinguished Scientific Contributions to Psychology, American Psychological Association, 2020
  • William James Fellow Award, Association for Psychological Science, 2013
  • Member of the National Academy of Sciences, 2004
  • Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 2001
  • Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2001

Best Publications

  • Statistical Learning by 8-Month-Old Infants

    Jenny R. Saffran;Richard N. Aslin;Elissa L. Newport

  • Critical period effects in second language learning: the influence of maturational state on the acquisition of English as a second language.

    Jacqueline S Johnson;Elissa L Newport

  • Maturational Constraints on Language Learning

    Elissa L. Newport

  • Statistical learning of tone sequences by human infants and adults.

    Jenny R Saffran;Elizabeth K Johnson;Richard N Aslin;Elissa L Newport

  • WORD SEGMENTATION : THE ROLE OF DISTRIBUTIONAL CUES

    Jenny R. Saffran;Elissa L. Newport;Richard N. Aslin

  • Computation of Conditional Probability Statistics by 8-Month-Old Infants

    Richard N. Aslin;Jenny R. Saffran;Elissa L. Newport

  • Learning at a distance I. Statistical learning of non-adjacent dependencies.

    Elissa L. Newport;Richard N. Aslin

  • Incidental Language Learning: Listening (and Learning) Out of the Corner of Your Ear

    Jenny R. Saffran;Elissa L. Newport;Richard N. Aslin;Rachel A. Tunick

  • The acquisition of American Sign Language.

    Elissa L. Newport;Richard P. Meier

  • Regularizing Unpredictable Variation: The Roles of Adult and Child Learners in Language Formation and Change

    Carla L. Hudson Kam;Elissa L. Newport

  • Mother, Id rather do it myself: Some effects and non-effects of maternal speech style

    E. Newport;Henry Gleitman;L. Gleitman

  • Segmentation of the speech stream in a non-human primate: statistical learning in cotton-top tamarins.

    Marc D Hauser;Elissa L Newport;Richard N Aslin

  • Critical period effects on universal properties of language : The status of subjacency in the acquisition of a second language

    Jacqueline S. Johnson;Elissa L. Newport

  • When learners surpass their models: the acquisition of American Sign Language from inconsistent input.

    Jenny L. Singleton;Elissa L. Newport

  • Getting it right by getting it wrong: When learners change languages

    Carla L. Hudson Kam;Elissa L. Newport

  • Structural packaging in the input to language learning: contributions of prosodic and morphological marking of phrases to the acquisition of language.

    James L Morgan;Richard P Meier;Elissa L Newport

  • The distributional structure of grammatical categories in speech to young children

    Toben H. Mintz;Elissa L. Newport;Thomas G. Bever

  • Constraints on learning and their role in language acquisition: Studies of the acquisition of American sign language

    Elissa L. Newport

  • Statistical Learning: From Acquiring Specific Items to Forming General Rules

    Richard N. Aslin;Elissa L. Newport

  • The current status of the motherese hypothesis

    Lila R. Gleitman;Elissa L. Newport;Henry Gleitman

  • Distant Melodies: Statistical Learning of Nonadjacent Dependencies in Tone Sequences.

    Sarah C. Creel;Elissa L. Newport;Richard N. Aslin

Frequent Co-Authors

Richard N. Aslin
Richard N. Aslin Yale University
Daphne Bavelier
Daphne Bavelier University of Geneva
T. Florian Jaeger
T. Florian Jaeger University of Rochester
Lila R. Gleitman
Lila R. Gleitman University of Pennsylvania
Jenny R. Saffran
Jenny R. Saffran University of Wisconsin–Madison
Barbara Landau
Barbara Landau Johns Hopkins University
Douglas L. Medin
Douglas L. Medin Northwestern University
Marc D. Hauser
Marc D. Hauser Harvard University
William D. Gaillard
William D. Gaillard George Washington University
Dedre Gentner
Dedre Gentner Northwestern University

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