2026 Leher Singh: Psychology Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Psychology	31	11168	10451	5837	5328	88	4443

Overview

Leher Singh is affiliated with the University of Maryland, Baltimore County in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on Psychology, with a significant contribution to the subfields of Developmental and Educational Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Education, Cognitive Neuroscience, and Social Psychology.

Singh's work addresses several major topics within these areas, including:

Language Development and Disorders
Child and Animal Learning Development
Early Childhood Education and Development
Reading and Literacy Development
Phonetics and Phonology Research
Cultural Differences and Values
Cognitive Abilities and Testing

The scientist has published extensively in prominent journals, with frequent publications appearing in Developmental Science, Developmental Psychology, Infancy, Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, and Journal of Cognition and Development.

Some of their recent papers include:

"Diversity and representation in infant research: Barriers and bridges toward a globalized science of infant development," 2023, published in Infancy
"Building a collaborative psychological science: Lessons learned from ManyBabies 1," 2020, published in Canadian Psychology/Psychologie canadienne
"A Multilab Study of Bilingual Infants: Exploring the Preference for Infant-Directed Speech," 2021, published in Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science
"Improving the generalizability of infant psychological research: The ManyBabies model," 2022, published in Behavioral and Brain Sciences
"Diversity and representation in studies of infant perceptual narrowing," 2022, published in Child Development Perspectives

Singh has collaborated frequently with several researchers, including:

Mélanie Söderström
Paul C. Quinn
Casey Lew-Williams
Krista Byers-Heinlein
Michael C. Frank

Best Publications

Infants' listening preferences: Baby talk or happy talk?

Leher Singh;James L. Morgan;Catherine T. Best

384
Citations
Quantifying sources of variability in infancy research using the infant-directed-speech preference

Michael C. Frank;Katherine Jane Alcock;Natalia Arias-Trejo;Gisa Aschersleben

315
Citations
The Moralization of Cigarette Smoking in the United States

Paul Rozin;Leher Singh

275
Citations
Influences of high and low variability on infant word recognition

Leher Singh

255
Citations
Preference and processing: The role of speech affect in early spoken word recognition

Leher Singh;James L Morgan;Katherine S White

245
Citations
Influences of Infant-Directed Speech on Early Word Recognition

Leher Singh;Sarah Nestor;Chandni Parikh;Ashley Yull

210
Citations
Vocabulary growth in late talkers: lexical development from 2;0 to 3;0

Leslie Rescorla;Jennifer Mirak;Leher Singh

207
Citations
How does the topic of conversation affect verbal exchange and eye gaze? A comparison between typical development and high-functioning autism

Aparna Nadig;Iris Lee;Leher Singh;Kyle Bosshart

203
Citations
Infant word segmentation and childhood vocabulary development: a longitudinal analysis

Leher Singh;J. Steven Reznick;Liang Xuehua

189
Citations
Back to Basics: A Bilingual Advantage in Infant Visual Habituation

Leher Singh;Charlene S L Fu;Aishah A Rahman;Waseem B Hameed

159
Citations
Diversity and representation in infant research: Barriers and bridges toward a globalized science of infant development.

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112
Citations
Building a Word-Form Lexicon in the Face of Variable Input: Influences of Pitch and Amplitude on Early Spoken Word Recognition

Leher Singh;Katherine S. White;James L. Morgan

100
Citations
Influences of vowel and tone variation on emergent word knowledge: a cross-linguistic investigation

Leher Singh;Tam Jun Hui;Calista Chan;Roberta Michnick Golinkoff

92
Citations
Infant feeding effects on early neurocognitive development in Asian children

S. Cai;W. W. Pang;Y. L. Low;L. W. Sim

81
Citations
Influences of lexical tone and pitch on word recognition in bilingual infants.

Leher Singh;Joanne Foong

75
Citations
Building a Collaborative Psychological Science: Lessons Learned From ManyBabies 1

Krista Byers-Heinlein;Christina Bergmann;Catherine Davies;Michael C. Frank

69
Citations
Novel Word Learning in Bilingual and Monolingual Infants: Evidence for a Bilingual Advantage.

Leher Singh;Charlene S. L. Fu;Zhi Wen Tay;Roberta Michnick Golinkoff

66
Citations
A New View of Language Development: The Acquisition of Lexical Tone.

Leher Singh;Charlene S. L. Fu

66
Citations
A multilab study of bilingual infants: Exploring the preference for infant-directed speech

Krista Byers-Heinlein;Angeline Sin Mei Tsui;Christina Bergmann;Alexis K. Black

65
Citations
Limits on Monolingualism? A Comparison of Monolingual and Bilingual Infants' Abilities to Integrate Lexical Tone in Novel Word Learning.

Leher Singh;Felicia L. S. Poh;Charlene S. L. Fu

63
Citations
One World, Two Languages: Cross‐Language Semantic Priming in Bilingual Toddlers

Leher Singh

51
Citations
Spoken word recognition in early childhood: Comparative effects of vowel, consonant and lexical tone variation.

Leher Singh;Hwee Hwee Goh;Thilanga D. Wewalaarachchi

48
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Krista Byers-Heinlein Concordia University

Michael C. Frank Stanford University

Paul C. Quinn University of Delaware

J. Kiley Hamlin University of British Columbia

Kang Lee University of Toronto

Denis K Burnham Western Sydney University

Roberta Michnick Golinkoff University of Delaware

Catherine T. Best Haskins Laboratories

Linda Polka McGill University

Seang-Mei Saw National University of Singapore

External Links

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