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LouAnn Gerken 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 LouAnn Gerken sits on this spectrum.

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31 publications 705+

This scientist: 104 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.

LouAnn Gerken 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 LouAnn Gerken sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 144+

This scientist: 41 D-Index — 33rd percentile

33% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Overview

LouAnn Gerken is affiliated with the University of Arizona in the United States. Their research primarily spans the domain of psychology, with a specific focus on developmental and educational psychology as well as experimental and cognitive psychology. Their work encompasses various topics, notably language development and disorders, phonetics and phonology research, and reading and literacy development.

The scientist's research contributions are documented in several publication venues, including Cognitive Neuropsychology, Infancy, the Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research, and SLEEP.

Among notable papers authored or co-authored by LouAnn Gerken are:

  • "Infants' discrimination of consonant contrasts in the presence and absence of talker variability" (2020) in Infancy
  • "Not All Procedural Learning Tasks Are Difficult for Adults With Developmental Language Disorder" (2021) in Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research
  • "A developmental account of the role of sequential dependencies in typical and atypical language learners" (2023) in Cognitive Neuropsychology
  • "0070 Fatigue state does not impact attention to learnable information in 17-month-old infants but affects retention" (2023) in SLEEP

Frequent co-authors collaborating with LouAnn Gerken include:

  • Lisa Goffman
  • Carolyn Quam
  • Lauren Taylor Clough
  • Sara Knight
  • Elena Plante

Their research topics cover a spectrum that includes:

  • Language Development and Disorders
  • Phonetics and Phonology Research
  • Reading and Literacy Development
  • Language and Cultural Evolution
  • Nuclear Reactor Physics and Engineering
  • Nuclear Materials and Properties
  • Nuclear and Radioactivity Studies

LouAnn Gerken's interdisciplinary approach integrates cognitive psychology with linguistic and developmental perspectives, thereby contributing to the understanding of how language learning and processing occur from infancy through adulthood as well as in atypical populations.

Best Publications

  • Infant sensitivity to distributional information can affect phonetic discrimination.

    Jessica Maye;Janet F. Werker;Lou Ann Gerken

  • Artificial grammar learning by 1-year-olds leads to specific and abstract knowledge.

    Rebecca L Gomez;LouAnn Gerken

  • Infant artificial language learning and language acquisition

    Rebecca L. Gómez;LouAnn Gerken

  • The head-turn preference procedure for testing auditory perception

    Deborah G. Kemler Nelson;Peter W. Jusczyk;Denise R. Mandel;James Myers

  • The metrical basis for children's subjectless sentences

    Lou Ann Gerken

  • Interplay of Function Morphemes and Prosody in Early Language

    Lou Ann Gerken;Bonnie J. McIntosh

  • A metrical template account of children's weak syllable omissions from multisyllabic words.

    Louann Gerken

  • PROSODIC STRUCTURE IN YOUNG CHILDREN'S LANGUAGE PRODUCTION

    Lou Ann Gerken

  • Function Morphemes in Young Children's Speech Perception and Production

    Lou Ann Gerken;Barbara Landau;Robert E. Remez

  • Infants can use distributional cues to form syntactic categories.

    Lou Ann Gerken;Rachel Wilson;William Lewis

  • When prosody fails to cue syntactic structure: 9-month-olds' sensitivity to phonological versus syntactic phrases

    Lou Ann Gerken;Peter W. Jusczyk;Denise R. Mandel

  • Young Children′s Representation of Prosodic Phonology: Evidence From English-Speakers′ Weak Syllable Productions

    Lou Ann Gerken

  • The Development of Affective Responses to Modality and Melodic Contour

    Gina M. Gerardi;Louann Gerken

  • Decisions, decisions: infant language learning when multiple generalizations are possible

    LouAnn Gerken

  • Phonotactic probabilities in young children's speech production.

    Tania S. Zamuner;Louann Gerken;Michael Hammond

  • Three-year-old children can access their own memory to guide responses on a visual matching task.

    Frances K. Balcomb;Lou Ann Gerken

  • An electrophysiological study of infants' sensitivity to the sound patterns of English speech

    Valerie L. Shafer;David W. Shucard;Janet L. Shucard;Lou Ann Gerken

  • Three Exemplars Allow at Least Some Linguistic Generalizations: Implications for Generalization Mechanisms and Constraints

    LouAnn Gerken;Alex Bollt

  • Three- and four-year-olds' perceptual confusions for spoken words

    Louann Gerken;Walter D. Murphy;Richard N. Aslin

  • The basis of transfer in artificial grammar learning.

    Rebecca L. Gomez;Louann Gerken;Roger W. Schvaneveldt

  • BRIEF REPORT The Head-Turn Preference Procedure for Testing Auditory Perception

    Deborah G. Kemler Nelson;Peter W. Jusczyk;Denise R. Mandel;James Myers

Frequent Co-Authors

Rebecca L. Gómez
Rebecca L. Gómez University of Arizona
Elena Plante
Elena Plante University of Arizona
Peter W. Jusczyk
Peter W. Jusczyk Johns Hopkins University
Richard N. Aslin
Richard N. Aslin Yale University
Albert Costa
Albert Costa Pompeu Fabra University
Barbara Landau
Barbara Landau Johns Hopkins University
Thomas R. Shultz
Thomas R. Shultz McGill University
Janet F. Werker
Janet F. Werker University of British Columbia
Sven L. Mattys
Sven L. Mattys University of York

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