2026 LouAnn Gerken: Psychology Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Psychology	41	7752	7235	4158	3780	104	10692

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

1849
Citations
Artificial grammar learning by 1-year-olds leads to specific and abstract knowledge.

Rebecca L Gomez;LouAnn Gerken

1055
Citations
Infant artificial language learning and language acquisition

Rebecca L. Gómez;LouAnn Gerken

731
Citations
The head-turn preference procedure for testing auditory perception

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

530
Citations
The metrical basis for children's subjectless sentences

Lou Ann Gerken

433
Citations
Interplay of Function Morphemes and Prosody in Early Language

Lou Ann Gerken;Bonnie J. McIntosh

406
Citations
A metrical template account of children's weak syllable omissions from multisyllabic words.

Louann Gerken

359
Citations
PROSODIC STRUCTURE IN YOUNG CHILDREN'S LANGUAGE PRODUCTION

Lou Ann Gerken

351
Citations
Function Morphemes in Young Children's Speech Perception and Production

Lou Ann Gerken;Barbara Landau;Robert E. Remez

308
Citations
Infants can use distributional cues to form syntactic categories.

Lou Ann Gerken;Rachel Wilson;William Lewis

303
Citations
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

291
Citations
Young Children′s Representation of Prosodic Phonology: Evidence From English-Speakers′ Weak Syllable Productions

Lou Ann Gerken

242
Citations
The Development of Affective Responses to Modality and Melodic Contour

Gina M. Gerardi;Louann Gerken

242
Citations
Decisions, decisions: infant language learning when multiple generalizations are possible

LouAnn Gerken

237
Citations
Phonotactic probabilities in young children's speech production.

Tania S. Zamuner;Louann Gerken;Michael Hammond

197
Citations
Three-year-old children can access their own memory to guide responses on a visual matching task.

Frances K. Balcomb;Lou Ann Gerken

191
Citations
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

183
Citations
Three Exemplars Allow at Least Some Linguistic Generalizations: Implications for Generalization Mechanisms and Constraints

LouAnn Gerken;Alex Bollt

171
Citations
Three- and four-year-olds' perceptual confusions for spoken words

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

143
Citations
The basis of transfer in artificial grammar learning.

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

133
Citations
BRIEF REPORT The Head-Turn Preference Procedure for Testing Auditory Perception

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

0
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Rebecca L. Gómez University of Arizona

Elena Plante University of Arizona

Peter W. Jusczyk Johns Hopkins University

Richard N. Aslin Yale University

Karla K. McGregor Boys Town

Albert Costa Pompeu Fabra University

Barbara Landau Johns Hopkins University

Thomas R. Shultz McGill University

Janet F. Werker University of British Columbia

Sven L. Mattys University of York

External Links

Wikipedia of LouAnn Gerken Personal website of LouAnn Gerken

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