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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2020 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
  • 2019 - William James Fellow Award, Association for Psychological Science (APA)
  • 2018 - Izaak Walton Killam Memorial Prize, Canada Council
  • 2014 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 2006 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 2001 - Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada Academy of Social Sciences

Overview

Janet F. Werker is affiliated with the University of British Columbia in Canada. Their research spans multiple domains within psychology and neuroscience, focusing primarily on language development and cognitive processes in early life.

Werker's scholarly output includes a range of recent publications addressing developmental and perceptual aspects of infant learning and speech perception. Notable papers include:

  • Phonetic perceptual reorganization across the first year of life: Looking back, 2024, Infant Behavior and Development
  • A Multilab Study of Bilingual Infants: Exploring the Preference for Infant-Directed Speech, 2021, Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science
  • Neural indicators of articulator-specific sensorimotor influences on infant speech perception, 2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Preverbal Infants Discover Statistical Word Patterns at Similar Rates as Adults: Evidence From Neural Entrainment, 2020, Psychological Science
  • Critical period regulation across multiple timescales, 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Their frequent collaborators include Dawoon Choi, Anja-Xiaoxing Cui, Negin Motamed Yeganeh, Nancy Hermiston, and Lara A. Boyd, each having multiple joint publications with Werker.

Werker's research publications are primarily found in several key venues:

  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Developmental Science
  • Infant Behavior and Development
  • Child Development
  • Frontiers in Psychology

The scientific fields that dominate Werker's research focus are:

  • Psychology
  • Neuroscience

Within these fields, their subfields of study include:

  • Developmental and Educational Psychology
  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
  • Social Psychology
  • Sensory Systems

Their main research topics cover several areas:

  • Language Development and Disorders
  • Child and Animal Learning Development
  • Multisensory perception and integration
  • Neuroscience and Music Perception
  • Phonetics and Phonology Research
  • Reading and Literacy Development
  • Functional Brain Connectivity Studies

Over the course of their career, Werker has received multiple awards, including:

  • Member of the National Academy of Sciences (2020)
  • William James Fellow Award from the Association for Psychological Science (2019)
  • Izaak Walton Killam Memorial Prize, Canada Council (2018)
  • Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2014)
  • Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) (2006)
  • Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (2001)

Best Publications

  • Cross-language speech perception: Evidence for perceptual reorganization during the first year of life

    Janet F. Werker;Richard C. Tees

  • Infant sensitivity to distributional information can affect phonetic discrimination.

    Jessica Maye;Janet F. Werker;Lou Ann Gerken

  • Infants listen for more phonetic detail in speech perception than in word-learning tasks

    Christine L. Stager;Janet F. Werker

  • Developmental Changes in Perception of Nonnative Vowel Contrasts

    Linda Polka;Janet F. Werker

  • Critical Periods in Speech Perception: New Directions

    Janet F. Werker;Takao K. Hensch

  • Developmental aspects of cross-language speech perception.

    Janet F. Werker;John H. V. Gilbert;Keith Humphrey;Richard C. Tees

  • PRIMIR: A Developmental Framework of Infant Speech Processing

    Janet F. Werker;Suzanne Curtin

  • Acquisition of word-object associations by 14-month-old infants.

    Janet F. Werker;Leslie B. Cohen;Valerie L. Lloyd;Marianella Casasola

  • Phonemic and phonetic factors in adult cross-language speech perception.

    Janet F. Werker;Richard C. Tees

  • Cross-language speech perception: Initial capabilities and developmental change.

    Janet F. Werker;Chris E. Lalonde

  • Listening to Language at Birth: Evidence for a Bias for Speech in Neonates.

    Athena Vouloumanos;Janet F. Werker

  • Speech perception as a window for understanding plasticity and commitment in language systems of the brain.

    Janet F. Werker;Richard C. Tees

  • Infants' Ability to Learn Phonetically Similar Words: Effects of Age and Vocabulary Size

    Janet F. Werker;Christopher T. Fennell;Kathleen M. Corcoran;Christine L. Stager

  • Infant preference for both male and female infant-directed talk: a developmental study of attentional and affective responsiveness.

    Janet F. Werker;Peter J. McLeod

  • Cross-language evidence for three factors in speech perception.

    Janet F. Werker;John S. Logan

  • INFLUENCES ON INFANT SPEECH PROCESSING: Toward a New Synthesis

    Janet F. Werker;Richard C. Tees

  • Newborn infants' sensitivity to perceptual cues to lexical and grammatical words.

    Rushen Shi;Janet F Werker;James L Morgan

  • Critical period regulation across multiple timescales.

    Rebecca K. Reh;Brian G. Dias;Brian G. Dias;Charles A. Nelson;Daniela Kaufer

  • Visual Language Discrimination in Infancy

    Whitney M. Weikum;Athena Vouloumanos;Jordi Navarra;Jordi Navarra;Salvador Soto-Faraco

  • The roots of bilingualism in newborns

    Krista Byers-Heinlein;Tracey C. Burns;Janet F. Werker

  • Speech perception in severely disabled and average reading children.

    Janet F. Werker;Richard C. Tees

Frequent Co-Authors

Krista Byers-Heinlein
Krista Byers-Heinlein Concordia University
Linda Polka
Linda Polka McGill University
Núria Sebastián-Gallés
Núria Sebastián-Gallés Pompeu Fabra University
Anne Cutler
Anne Cutler Western Sydney University
Manuel Carreiras
Manuel Carreiras Basque Center on Cognition, Brain and Language
Kristin R. Laurens
Kristin R. Laurens Queensland University of Technology
Daphne Maurer
Daphne Maurer McMaster University
Charles A. Nelson
Charles A. Nelson Boston Children's Hospital
Michael C. Frank
Michael C. Frank Stanford University
Jeremy C. Biesanz
Jeremy C. Biesanz University of British Columbia

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