2026 Richard N. Aslin: Psychology Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Psychology	88	1017	891	634	543	287	42002

Research.com Recognitions

2014 - APA Award for Distinguished Scientific Contributions to Psychology, American Psychological Association
2013 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
2006 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
2001 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
1988 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

Overview

Richard N. Aslin is affiliated with Yale University in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on Neuroscience and Psychology, with particular expertise in Cognitive Neuroscience and Developmental and Educational Psychology. Additional subfields of study include Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, and Statistical and Nonlinear Physics.

Their work covers a range of main topics including Child and Animal Learning Development, EEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces, Language Development and Disorders, Neural dynamics and brain function, Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism, Reading and Literacy Development, and Functional Brain Connectivity Studies.

Recent publications by Richard N. Aslin include the following papers:

Comparison of short-channel separation and spatial domain filtering for removal of non-neural components in functional near-infrared spectroscopy signals, 2021, Neurophotonics
Time-resolved multivariate pattern analysis of infant EEG data: A practical tutorial, 2022, Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience
Temporal dynamics of visual representations in the infant brain, 2020, Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience
The power of rhythms: how steady-state evoked responses reveal early neurocognitive development, 2022, NeuroImage
Bilingualism alters infants' cortical organization for attentional orienting mechanisms, 2021, Developmental Science

Frequent co-authors in their research include:

Charles A. Nelson
Benjamin D. Zinszer
Radoslaw Martin Cichy
Laurie Bayet
Sara Sanchez-Alonso

Publications often appear in venues such as:

Cognition
Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience
NeuroImage
bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
Developmental Science

Richard N. Aslin has been recognized with several awards, including:

APA Award for Distinguished Scientific Contributions to Psychology, American Psychological Association, 2014
Member of the National Academy of Sciences, 2013
Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2006
Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 2001
Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, 1988

Best Publications

Statistical Learning by 8-Month-Old Infants

Jenny R. Saffran;Richard N. Aslin;Elissa L. Newport

7218
Citations
Statistical learning of tone sequences by human infants and adults.

Jenny R Saffran;Elizabeth K Johnson;Richard N Aslin;Elissa L Newport

1825
Citations
WORD SEGMENTATION : THE ROLE OF DISTRIBUTIONAL CUES

Jenny R. Saffran;Elissa L. Newport;Richard N. Aslin

1811
Citations
Infants′ Detection of the Sound Patterns of Words in Fluent Speech

Peter W. Jusczyk;Richard N. Aslin

1574
Citations
Computation of Conditional Probability Statistics by 8-Month-Old Infants

Richard N. Aslin;Jenny R. Saffran;Elissa L. Newport

1507
Citations
Preference for Infant-directed Speech in the First Month after Birth

Robin Panneton Cooper;Richard N. Aslin

1146
Citations
Learning at a distance I. Statistical learning of non-adjacent dependencies.

Elissa L. Newport;Richard N. Aslin

1043
Citations
Unsupervised Statistical Learning of Higher-Order Spatial Structures from Visual Scenes

József Fiser;Richard N. Aslin

981
Citations
Incidental Language Learning: Listening (and Learning) Out of the Corner of Your Ear

Jenny R. Saffran;Elissa L. Newport;Richard N. Aslin;Rachel A. Tunick

859
Citations
The Goldilocks Effect: Human Infants Allocate Attention to Visual Sequences That Are Neither Too Simple Nor Too Complex

Celeste Kidd;Steven T. Piantadosi;Richard N. Aslin

788
Citations
Statistical learning of new visual feature combinations by infants

József Fiser;Richard N. Aslin

779
Citations
Statistical learning of higher-order temporal structure from visual shape sequences.

József Fiser;Richard N. Aslin

762
Citations
Rational snacking: young children's decision-making on the marshmallow task is moderated by beliefs about environmental reliability.

Celeste Kidd;Holly Palmeri;Richard N. Aslin

630
Citations
Spoken word recognition and lexical representation in very young children.

Daniel Swingley;Daniel Swingley;Richard N. Aslin

624
Citations
Bayesian integration of visual and auditory signals for spatial localization

Peter W. Battaglia;Robert A. Jacobs;Richard N. Aslin

592
Citations
Segmentation of the speech stream in a non-human primate: statistical learning in cotton-top tamarins.

Marc D Hauser;Elissa L Newport;Richard N Aslin

577
Citations
What's in a look?

Richard N. Aslin

575
Citations
Gradient effects of within-category phonetic variation on lexical access.

Bob McMurray;Michael K. Tanenhaus;Richard N. Aslin

538
Citations
Lexical Neighborhoods and the Word-Form Representations of 14-Month-Olds

Daniel Swingley;Richard N. Aslin

511
Citations
Perception of speech reflects optimal use of probabilistic speech cues

Meghan Clayards;Michael K. Tanenhaus;Richard N. Aslin;Robert A. Jacobs

486
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Michael K. Tanenhaus University of Rochester

Elissa L. Newport Georgetown University

Bob McMurray University of Iowa

David B. Pisoni Indiana University

James S. Magnuson University of Connecticut

Gaia Scerif University of Oxford

Scott P. Johnson University of California, Los Angeles

Jenny R. Saffran University of Wisconsin–Madison

Charles A. Nelson Boston Children's Hospital

LouAnn Gerken University of Arizona

External Links

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