2026 Susan Nittrouer: Psychology Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Psychology	45	6731	6271	3646	3313	170	7583

Overview

Susan Nittrouer is affiliated with the University of Florida in the United States. Their research spans multiple areas within psychology and neuroscience, with particular emphasis on developmental and educational psychology, cognitive neuroscience, and experimental and cognitive psychology.

Their main fields of study include:

Psychology
Neuroscience

Subfields of study in which they have contributed are:

Developmental and Educational Psychology
Cognitive Neuroscience
Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
Signal Processing
Sensory Systems

The main research topics covered in their work include:

Hearing Loss and Rehabilitation
Hearing Impairment and Communication
Phonetics and Phonology Research
Language Development and Disorders
Speech and Audio Processing
Hearing, Cochlea, Tinnitus, Genetics
Ear Surgery and Otitis Media

Susan Nittrouer has frequently published in the following venues:

The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research
Language Speech and Hearing Services in Schools
International Journal of Pediatric Otorhinolaryngology
Journal of Experimental Psychology General

Recent publications include:

"Disparate Oral and Written Language Abilities in Adolescents With Cochlear Implants: Evidence From Narrative Samples" (2021), Language Speech and Hearing Services in Schools
"The Devil in the Details Can Be Hard to Spot: Malapropisms and Children With Hearing Loss" (2020), Language Speech and Hearing Services in Schools
"Early otitis media puts children at risk for later auditory and language deficits" (2023), International Journal of Pediatric Otorhinolaryngology
"When language outgrows them: Comprehension of ambiguous sentences in children with normal hearing and children with hearing loss" (2020), International Journal of Pediatric Otorhinolaryngology
"The contribution of spectral processing to the acquisition of phonological sensitivity by adolescent cochlear implant users and normal-hearing controls" (2021), The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Frequent coauthors of Susan Nittrouer are:

Joanna H. Lowenstein
Matthew Masapollo
Donal G. Sinex
Ana Rodrı́guez-Álvarez
Jessica Goel

Best Publications

Mathematical treatment of context effects in phoneme and word recognition.

Arthur Boothroyd;Susan Nittrouer

528
Citations
The emergence of phonetic segments: evidence from the spectral structure of fricative-vowel syllables spoken by children and adults.

Susan Nittrouer;Michael Studdert-Kennedy;Richard S. McGowan

425
Citations
Context effects in phoneme and word recognition by young children and older adults

Susan Nittrouer;Arthur Boothroyd

368
Citations
Do Temporal Processing Deficits Cause Phonological Processing Problems

Susan Nittrouer

319
Citations
The Role of Coarticulatory Effects in the Perception of Fricatives by Children and Adults.

Susan Nittrouer;Michael Studdert-Kennedy

308
Citations
Age-related differences in perceptual effects of formant transitions within syllables and across syllable boundaries

Susan Nittrouer

264
Citations
Children learn separate aspects of speech production at different rates: Evidence from spectral moments

Susan Nittrouer

256
Citations
The Role of Early Language Experience in the Development of Speech Perception and Phonological Processing Abilities: Evidence from 5-Year-Olds with Histories of Otitis Media with Effusion and Low Socioeconomic Status.

Susan Nittrouer;Lisa Thuente Burton

225
Citations
Predicting developmental shifts in perceptual weighting schemes.

Susan Nittrouer;Marnie E. Miller

212
Citations
The Emergence of Mature Gestural Patterns Is Not Uniform: Evidence From an Acoustic Study

Susan Nittrouer

207
Citations
Learning to perceive speech: how fricative perception changes, and how it stays the same.

Susan Nittrouer

203
Citations
The Relation between Speech Perception and Phonemic Awareness: Evidence from Low-SES Children and Children with Chronic OM.

Susan Nittrouer

200
Citations
Speech Perception in Noise by Children With Cochlear Implants

Amanda Caldwell;Susan Nittrouer

195
Citations
Emergent literacy in kindergartners with cochlear implants.

Susan Nittrouer;Amanda Caldwell;Joanna H Lowenstein;Eric Tarr

166
Citations
Discriminability and perceptual weighting of some acoustic cues to speech perception by 3-year-olds.

Susan Nittrouer

158
Citations
Working memory in children with cochlear implants: problems are in storage, not processing.

Susan Nittrouer;Amanda Caldwell-Tarr;Joanna H. Lowenstein

151
Citations
How Children Learn to Organize Their Speech Gestures: Further Evidence From Fricative-Vowel Syllables

Susan Nittrouer;Michael Studdert-Kennedy;Stephen T. Neely

145
Citations
The Effects of Bilateral Electric and Bimodal Electric—Acoustic Stimulation on Language Development:

Susan Nittrouer;Christopher Chapman

123
Citations
Language structures used by kindergartners with cochlear implants: relationship to phonological awareness, lexical knowledge and hearing loss.

Susan Nittrouer;Emily Sansom;Keri Low;Caitlin Rice

113
Citations
The role of temporal and dynamic signal components in the perception of syllable-final stop voicing by children and adults

Susan Nittrouer

111
Citations
Acoustic measurements of men's and women's voices: a study of context effects and covariation.

Susan Nittrouer;Richard S. McGowan;Paul H. Milenkovic;Donna Beehler

109
Citations
Developmental weighting shifts for noise components of fricative-vowel syllables

Susan Nittrouer;Marnie E. Miller

107
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Bruce F. Pennington University of Denver

J. A. Scott Kelso Florida Atlantic University

External Links

Personal website of Susan Nittrouer Google Scholar page

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