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Karen Emmorey

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Psychology

D-Index
68
Citations
16392
World Ranking
2489
National Ranking
1441

Karen Emmorey 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 Karen Emmorey sits on this spectrum.

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31 publications 705+

This scientist: 221 publications — 75th percentile

75% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Karen Emmorey 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 Karen Emmorey sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 144+

This scientist: 68 D-Index — 79th percentile

79% 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

  • 2010 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Karen Emmorey is affiliated with San Diego State University in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of psychology and neuroscience, with a strong emphasis on developmental and educational psychology, cognitive neuroscience, experimental and cognitive psychology, human-computer interaction, and social psychology.

The scientist's work covers several main topics, including hearing impairment and communication, hand gesture recognition systems, language, metaphor, and cognition, tactile and sensory interactions, neurobiology of language and bilingualism, action observation and synchronization, and reading and literacy development.

Frequent co-authors in their research include Phillip J. Holcomb, Katherine J. Midgley, Zed Sevcikova Sehyr, Brittany Lee, and Gabriela Meade.

Karen Emmorey has published extensively in the following venues:

  • Neuropsychologia
  • The Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education
  • Brain and Language
  • Bilingualism Language and Cognition
  • Neurobiology of Language

Notable recent papers authored or coauthored by Karen Emmorey include:

  • "The ASL-LEX 2.0 Project: A Database of Lexical and Phonological Properties for 2,723 Signs in American Sign Language" (2021) in The Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education
  • "Contribution of Lexical Quality and Sign Language Variables to Reading Comprehension" (2022) in The Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education
  • "Cross-modal translation priming and iconicity effects in deaf signers and hearing learners of American Sign Language" (2020) in Bilingualism Language and Cognition
  • "New Perspectives on the Neurobiology of Sign Languages" (2021) in Frontiers in Communication
  • "On the Connection Between Language Control and Executive Control-An ERP Study" (2021) in Neurobiology of Language

In 2010, Karen Emmorey was recognized as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).

Best Publications

  • Language, Cognition, and the Brain: Insights From Sign Language Research

    Karen Denise Emmorey

  • The Source of Enhanced Cognitive Control in Bilinguals Evidence From Bimodal Bilinguals

    Karen Emmorey;Gigi Luk;Jennie E. Pyers;Ellen Bialystok

  • Symbolic gestures and spoken language are processed by a common neural system

    Jiang Xu;Patrick J. Gannon;Karen Emmorey;Jason F. Smith

  • Visual imagery and visual-spatial language: Enhanced imagery abilities in deaf and hearing ASL signers

    Karen Emmorey;Stephen M. Kosslyn;Ursula Bellugi

  • Neural systems mediating American sign language: effects of sensory experience and age of acquisition.

    Helen J. Neville;Sharon A. Coffey;Donald S. Lawson;Andrew Fischer

  • Towards a New Neurobiology of Language

    David Poeppel;Karen Emmorey;Gregory Hickok;Liina Pylkkänen

  • Differential coding of perception in the world's languages

    Asifa Majid;Asifa Majid;Seán G. Roberts;Ludy Cilissen;Karen Emmorey

  • Lexical Recognition in Sign Language: Effects of Phonetic Structure and Morphology

    Karen Emmorey;David Corina

  • Perspectives on Classifier Constructions in Sign Languages

    Karen Denise Emmorey

  • Bimodal bilingualism

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  • A visuospatial “phonological loop” in working memory: Evidence from American Sign Language

    Margaret Wilson;Karen Emmorey

  • Familiar voice recognition: Patterns and parameters. Part I. Recognition of backward voices

    Diana Van Lancker;Jody Kreiman;Karen Emmorey

  • ASL-LEX: A lexical database of American Sign Language

    Naomi K. Caselli;Zed Sevcikova Sehyr;Ariel M. Cohen-Goldberg;Karen Emmorey

  • A morphometric analysis of auditory brain regions in congenitally deaf adults

    Karen Emmorey;John S. Allen;Joel Bruss;Natalie Schenker

  • Do signers gesture

    Karen Emmorey

  • Neural systems underlying spatial language in American Sign Language.

    Karen Emmorey;Hanna Damasio;Hanna Damasio;Stephen McCullough;Thomas J. Grabowski

  • The neurological substrates for prosodic aspects of speech.

    Karen D. Emmorey

  • A "word length effect" for sign language: further evidence for the role of language in structuring working memory.

    Margaret Wilson;Karen Emmorey

  • Mental rotation within linguistic and non-linguistic domains in users of American sign language.

    Karen Emmorey;Edward Klima;Edward Klima;Gregory Hickok

  • Modulation of bold response in motion-sensitive lateral temporal cortex by real and fictive motion sentences

    Ayse Pinar Saygin;Stephen McCullough;Stephen McCullough;Morana Alac;Karen Emmorey;Karen Emmorey

  • Evidence from an emerging sign language reveals that language supports spatial cognition

    Jennie E. Pyers;Anna Shusterman;Ann Senghas;Elizabeth S. Spelke

  • Linguistics: The Cambridge Survey: The mental lexicon

    Karen D. Emmorey;Victoria A. Fromkin

  • The Syntax of American Sign Language: Functional Categories and Hierarchical Structure: by Carol Neidle et al.

    Karen Emmorey

  • Consequences of the Now-or-Never bottleneck for signed versus spoken languages.

    Karen Emmorey

Frequent Co-Authors

Hanna Damasio
Hanna Damasio University of Southern California
Thomas J. Grabowski
Thomas J. Grabowski University of Washington
Ursula Bellugi
Ursula Bellugi Salk Institute for Biological Studies
Tamar H. Gollan
Tamar H. Gollan University of California, San Diego
Laura L. Boles Ponto
Laura L. Boles Ponto University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics
Liina Pylkkänen
Liina Pylkkänen New York University Abu Dhabi
Jonathan Grainger
Jonathan Grainger Aix-Marseille University
Richard D. Hichwa
Richard D. Hichwa University of Iowa
Allen R. Braun
Allen R. Braun Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences
Stephen M. Kosslyn
Stephen M. Kosslyn Harvard University

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