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Twila Tardif publication distribution in Psychology in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Psychology in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Twila Tardif sits on this spectrum.

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31 publications 705+

This scientist: 79 publications — 8th percentile

8% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 705 publications or more.

Twila Tardif D-index placement in Psychology in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Psychology scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Twila Tardif sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 144+

This scientist: 35 D-Index — 16th percentile

16% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 144 D-Index or more.

Overview

Twila Tardif is affiliated with the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of psychology and neuroscience, with a focus on developmental and educational psychology, cognitive neuroscience, social psychology, clinical psychology, as well as statistics and probability.

Their scholarly work addresses several key topics including reading and literacy development, neurobiology of language and bilingualism, language development and disorders, cultural differences and values, child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development, cognitive and developmental aspects of mathematical skills, and stress responses and cortisol.

Twila Tardif has authored multiple papers in notable peer-reviewed journals. Some recent publications include:

  • Emotion expression and regulation in three cultures: Chinese, Japanese, and American preschoolers' reactions to disappointment (2020), published in the Journal of Experimental Child Psychology
  • What's in a word? Cross-linguistic influences on Spanish-English and Chinese-English bilingual children's word reading development (2021), published in Child Development
  • Influences of the early family environment and long-term vocabulary development on the structure of white matter pathways: A longitudinal investigation (2020), published in Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Brain bases of English morphological processing: A comparison between Chinese-English, Spanish-English bilingual, and English monolingual children (2022), published in Developmental Science
  • Phonological and morphological literacy skills in English and Chinese: A cross-linguistic neuroimaging comparison of Chinese-English bilingual and monolingual English children (2023), published in Human Brain Mapping

The venues where Twila Tardif frequently publishes include Developmental Science, Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, Child Development, Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, and Human Brain Mapping.

They collaborate regularly with several coauthors, among whom are Xin Sun, Kehui Zhang, Nia Nickerson, Rachel L. Eggleston, and Chi-Lin Yu. These collaborations reflect a consistent engagement with researchers focused on bilingualism, literacy development, and neural mechanisms underlying language processing.

Best Publications

  • Socioeconomic Status and Parenting

    Erika Hoff;Brett Laursen

  • Nouns are not always learned before verbs : Evidence from Mandarin speakers' early vocabularies

    Twila Tardif

  • Theory of mind development in Chinese children: a meta-analysis of false-belief understanding across cultures and languages.

    David Liu;Henry M. Wellman;Twila Tardif;Mark A. Sabbagh

  • Caregiver speech and children's use of nouns versus verbs: A comparison of English, Italian, and Mandarin*

    Twila Tardif;Marilyn Shatz;Letitia Naigles

  • Putting the "Noun Bias" in Context: A Comparison of English and Mandarin.

    Twila Tardif;Susan A. Gelman;Fan Xu

  • Working memory and reading skill re-examined.

    Meredyth Daneman;Twila Tardif

  • What's in a word?: Morphological awareness and vocabulary knowledge in three languages

    Catherine McBride-Chang;Twila Tardif;Jeung-Ryeul Cho;Hua Shu

  • Acquisition of mental state language in Mandarin- and Cantonese-speaking children.

    Twila Tardif;Henry M. Wellman

  • Tracing children's vocabulary development from preschool through the school-age years: An 8-year longitudinal study

    Shuang Song;Mengmeng Su;Cuiping Kang;Hongyun Liu

  • Syllable, phoneme, and tone : psycholinguistic units in early Chinese and English word recognition

    Catherine McBride-Chang;Xiuli Tong;Hua Shu;Anita M.Y. Wong

  • Baby's first 10 words.

    Twila Tardif;Paul Fletcher;Weilan Liang;Zhixiang Zhang

  • Developmental trajectories of reading development and impairment from ages 3 to 8 years in Chinese children.

    Lin Lei;Lin Lei;Jinger Pan;Hongyun Liu;Catherine McBride-Chang

  • The Visual Word Form Area: evidence from an fMRI study of implicit processing of Chinese characters.

    Chao Liu;Wu Tian Zhang;Yi Yuan Tang;Yi Yuan Tang;Xiao Qin Mai;Xiao Qin Mai

  • Imageability predicts the age of acquisition of verbs in Chinese children.

    Weiyi Ma;Roberta Michnick Golinkoff;Kathy Hirsh-Pasek;Colleen McDonough

  • Phonological Skills and Vocabulary Knowledge Mediate Socioeconomic Status Effects in Predicting Reading Outcomes for Chinese Children

    Yuping Zhang;Twila Tardif;Hua Shu;Hong Li

  • A cross-linguistic comparison of generic noun phrases in English and Mandarin

    Susan A. Gelman;Twila Tardif

  • Inhibitory Control and Harsh Discipline as Predictors of Externalizing Problems in Young Children: A Comparative Study of U.S., Chinese, and Japanese Preschoolers

    Sheryl L. Olson;Twila Z. Tardif;Alison Miller;Barbara T. Felt

  • Early vocabulary development in Mandarin (Putonghua) and Cantonese.

    Twila Tardif;Paul Fletcher;Weilan Liang;Niko Kaciroti

  • Language and False Belief: Evidence for General, Not Specific, Effects in Cantonese-Speaking Preschoolers

    Twila Tardif;Catherine Wing Chee So;Niko Kaciroti

  • But Are They Really Verbs? Chinese Words for Action.

    Twila Tardif

  • Knowing better: the role of prior knowledge and culture in trust in testimony.

    Cheri C. Y. Chan;Twila Tardif

Frequent Co-Authors

Hua Shu
Hua Shu Beijing Normal University
Catherine McBride-Chang
Catherine McBride-Chang Purdue University West Lafayette
Sheryl L. Olson
Sheryl L. Olson University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Henry M. Wellman
Henry M. Wellman University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Alison L. Miller
Alison L. Miller University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Yuejia Luo
Yuejia Luo Shenzhen University
Margit Burmeister
Margit Burmeister University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
William J. Gehring
William J. Gehring University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Susan A. Gelman
Susan A. Gelman University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Jun Li
Jun Li Applied Biological Materials (Canada)

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