2026 Morton Ann Gernsbacher: Psychology Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Psychology	69	2332	2127	1355	1208	178	27102

Research.com Recognitions

2008 - Fellow of the American Educational Research Association
1995 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
1993 - Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA)

Overview

Morton Ann Gernsbacher is affiliated with the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the United States and has contributed extensively to the fields of psychology and neuroscience. Their research spans cognitive neuroscience, clinical psychology, developmental and educational psychology, safety research, and education.

Their recent publications include the following papers:

Four empirically based reasons not to administer time-limited tests, 2020, Translational Issues in Psychological Science
Anti-ableism and scientific accuracy in autism research: a false dichotomy, 2023, Frontiers in Psychiatry
A guide for social science journal editors on easing into open science, 2024, Research Integrity and Peer Review
Construction-Integration and the Structure Building Framework: Twin siblings born of different parents, 2024, Discourse Processes
A guide for social science journal editors on easing into open science, 2024, UNC Libraries

The scientist's frequent co-authors include:

Priya Silverstein
Colin Elman
Amanda Kay Montoya
Barbara McGillivray
Charlotte R. Pennington

Publications often appear in the following venues:

Discourse Processes
Translational Issues in Psychological Science
Frontiers in Psychiatry
Research Integrity and Peer Review
UNC Libraries

Their research covers several main topics including:

Autism Spectrum Disorder Research
Family and Disability Support Research
Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
Disability Education and Employment
School Choice and Performance
Mathematics Education and Programs
Obsessive-Compulsive Spectrum Disorders

Morton Ann Gernsbacher has received various recognitions such as:

Fellow of the American Educational Research Association (2008)
Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) (1995)
Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA) (1993)

Best Publications

Language Comprehension As Structure Building

Morton Ann Gernsbacher

2223
Citations
Gaze fixation and the neural circuitry of face processing in autism

Kim M Dalton;Brendon M Nacewicz;Tom Johnstone;Hillary S Schaefer

2101
Citations
Handbook of Psycholinguistics

Morton Ann Gernsbacher

1864
Citations
The Science of Sex Differences in Science and Mathematics

Diane F. Halpern;Camilla P. Benbow;David C. Geary;Ruben C. Gur

1609
Citations
Investigating differences in general comprehension skill.

Morton Ann Gernsbacher;Kathleen R. Varner;Mark E. Faust

1061
Citations
Resolving 20 years of inconsistent interactions between lexical familiarity and orthography, concreteness, and polysemy.

Morton Ann Gernsbacher

972
Citations
The mechanism of suppression: a component of general comprehension skill.

Morton Ann Gernsbacher;Mark E. Faust

909
Citations
The Level and Nature of Autistic Intelligence

Michelle Dawson;Isabelle Soulières;Morton Ann Gernsbacher;Laurent Mottron

789
Citations
Accessing sentence participants: The advantage of first mention

Morton Ann Gernsbacher;David J Hargreaves

597
Citations
Mechanisms that improve referential access

Morton Ann Gernsbacher

576
Citations
Two Decades of Structure Building.

Morton Ann Gernsbacher

564
Citations
Resolving 20 years of inconsistent interactions between lexical familiarity and orthography, concreteness, and polysemy.

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516
Citations
Editorial Perspective: The use of person-first language in scholarly writing may accentuate stigma

Morton Ann Gernsbacher

497
Citations
Do readers mentally represent characters' emotional states?

Morton Ann Gernsbacher;H. Hill Goldsmith;Rachel R.W. Robertson

489
Citations
Psychology and the real world: Essays illustrating fundamental contributions to society.

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467
Citations
Neuroimaging studies of language production and comprehension.

Morton Ann Gernsbacher;Michael P. Kaschak

457
Citations
Infant and toddler oral- and manual-motor skills predict later speech fluency in autism

Morton Ann Gernsbacher;Eve A. Sauer;Heather M. Geye;Emily K. Schweigert

414
Citations
Investigating differences in general comprehension skill.

Unknown

407
Citations
Language deficits, localization, and grammar: Evidence for a distributive model of language breakdown in aphasic patients and neurologically intact individuals.

Frederic Dick;Elizabeth Bates;Beverly Wulfeck;Jennifer Aydelott Utman;Jennifer Aydelott Utman

384
Citations
Three Reasons Not to Believe in an Autism Epidemic

Morton Ann Gernsbacher;Michelle Dawson;H. Hill Goldsmith

359
Citations
Surface information loss in comprehension

Morton Ann Gernsbacher

354
Citations
Less Skilled Readers Have Less Efficient Suppression Mechanisms

Morton Ann Gernsbacher

339
Citations
Right and Left Hemisphere Cooperation for Drawing Predictive and Coherence Inferences during Normal Story Comprehension

Mark Jung Beeman;Edward M. Bowden;Morton Ann Gernsbacher

316
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

H. Hill Goldsmith University of Wisconsin–Madison

Matthew J. Traxler University of California, Davis

Laurent Mottron University of Montreal

Janet Shibley Hyde University of Wisconsin–Madison

Scott O. Lilienfeld Emory University

David C. Geary University of Missouri

Ruben C. Gur University of Pennsylvania

Diane F. Halpern Claremont McKenna College

Camilla Persson Benbow Vanderbilt University

Susan R. Goldman University of Illinois at Chicago

External Links

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