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53
Citations
33882
World Ranking
4688
National Ranking
2596

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
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
John R. Anderson
John R. Anderson Carnegie Mellon University
James L. McClelland
James L. McClelland Stanford University
Dedre Gentner
Dedre Gentner Northwestern University

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