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Overview

Rachel I. Mayberry is affiliated with the University of California, San Diego in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Psychology and Arts and Humanities, with a strong focus on developmental and educational psychology, language and linguistics, experimental and cognitive psychology, cognitive neuroscience, and human-computer interaction.

The scientist's work covers several key topics, including hearing impairment and communication, language, discourse and communication strategies, language, metaphor and cognition, hand gesture recognition systems, language development and disorders, neurobiology of language and bilingualism, and reading and literacy development.

Frequent publication venues for their research include Language Learning and Development, Developmental Science, Language, Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Notable recent papers authored or coauthored by Rachel I. Mayberry include:

  • "Restricted language access during childhood affects adult brain structure in selective language regions" (2023, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences)
  • "When event knowledge overrides word order in sentence comprehension: Learning a first language after childhood" (2020, Developmental Science)
  • "The Cortical Organization of Syntactic Processing Is Supramodal: Evidence from American Sign Language" (2021, Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience)
  • "Impoverished language in early childhood affects the development of complex sentence structure" (2023, Developmental Science)
  • "Implicit causality biases and thematic roles in American Sign Language" (2021, Behavior Research Methods)

Rachel I. Mayberry has collaborated extensively with several coauthors, notably Qi Cheng, Austin Roth, Eric Halgren, Tory Sampson, and Denise Klein.

Best Publications

  • Reading Achievement in Relation to Phonological Coding and Awareness in Deaf Readers: A Meta-analysis

    Rachel I. Mayberry;Alex A. del Giudice;Amy M. Lieberman

  • Language acquisition by eye

    Charlene Chamberlain;Jill Patterson Morford;Rachel I. Mayberry

  • The long-lasting advantage of learning sign language in childhood: Another look at the critical period for language acquisition

    Rachel I. Mayberry;Ellen B. Eichen

  • Linguistic ability and early language exposure

    Rachel I. Mayberry;Elizabeth Lock;Hena Kazmi

  • Age constraints on first versus second language acquisition: evidence for linguistic plasticity and epigenesis.

    Rachel I Mayberry;Elizabeth Lock

  • First-language acquisition after childhood differs from second-language acquisition: The case of American Sign Language.

    Rachel I. Mayberry

  • Grammatical processing in American Sign Language: Age of first-language acquisition effects in relation to syntactic structure

    Patrick Boudreault;Rachel I. Mayberry

  • How Do Profoundly Deaf Children Learn to Read

    Susan Goldin-Meadow;Rachel I. Mayberry

  • Age of acquisition effects on the functional organization of language in the adult brain

    Rachel I. Mayberry;Jen-Kai Chen;Jen-Kai Chen;Pamela Witcher;Denise Klein;Denise Klein

  • When timing is everything: Age of first-language acquisition effects on second-language learning

    Rachel I. Mayberry

  • Looking through phonological shape to lexical meaning: The bottleneck of non-native sign language processing

    Rachel I. Mayberry;Susan D. Fischer

  • Gesture and early bilingual development.

    Elena Nicoladis;Rachel I. Mayberry;Fred Genesee

  • Rethinking the critical period for language: New insights into an old question from American Sign Language.

    Rachel I Mayberry;Robert Kluender

  • The initial stages of first-language acquisition begun in adolescence: when late looks early.

    Naja Ferjan Ramírez;Amy M. Lieberman;Rachel I. Mayberry

  • American Sign Language Syntactic and Narrative Comprehension in Skilled and Less Skilled Readers: Bilingual and Bimodal Evidence for the Linguistic Basis of Reading.

    Charlene Chamberlain;Rachel I. Mayberry

  • Cognitive development in deaf children: the interface of language and perception in neuropsychology

    Rachel I. Mayberry

  • Learning to Look for Language: Development of Joint Attention in Young Deaf Children

    Amy M. Lieberman;Marla Hatrak;Rachel I. Mayberry

  • Language and Gesture: Gesture production during stuttered speech: insights into the nature of gesture–speech integration

    Rachel I. Mayberry;Joselynne Jaques

  • Structural brain changes linked to delayed first language acquisition in congenitally deaf individuals.

    Sidonie Pénicaud;Denise Klein;Robert J. Zatorre;Jen-Kai Chen

  • Gesture Reflects Language Development: Evidence From Bilingual Children

    Rachel I. Mayberry;Elena Nicoladis

Frequent Co-Authors

Susan Goldin-Meadow
Susan Goldin-Meadow University of Chicago
Elena Nicoladis
Elena Nicoladis University of British Columbia
Keith Rayner
Keith Rayner University of California, San Diego
Fred Genesee
Fred Genesee McGill University
Kenneth M. Heilman
Kenneth M. Heilman University of Florida
Shari R. Baum
Shari R. Baum McGill University

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