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Researcher · San Diego State University · United States

Karen Emmorey

Karen Emmorey publishes mostly in Developmental and Educational Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, on topics such as Hearing Impairment and Communication, Tactile and Sensory Interactions and Hand Gesture Recognition Systems.

ORCID 0000-0002-5647-0066 OpenAlex
World rank
#60,164
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#27,358
of 358,040
Works
43
Citations
225
Citations per work
5.2

What does Karen Emmorey research?

Developmental and Educational Psychology: 34.3%Cognitive Neuroscience: 17.1%Experimental and Cognitive Psychology: 14.3%Human-Computer Interaction: 11.4%other fields: 22.9%34%top field
Developmental and Educational Psychology34.3%Cognitive Neuroscience17.1%Experimental and Cognitive Psychology14.3%Human-Computer Interaction11.4%other fields22.9%

Shares of their own output, by the field each of their topics belongs to. The grey slice is everything not listed.

  1. 1Developmental and Educational Psychology34% of their works
  2. 2Cognitive Neuroscience17% of their works
  3. 3Experimental and Cognitive Psychology14% of their works
  4. 4Human-Computer Interaction11% of their works
  5. 5Language and Linguistics9% of their works
  6. 6Social Psychology6% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Karen Emmorey's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Bilingualism, Sign Language, Gesture, Language Acquisition, Embodiment, Neural Basis, Cross-modal Plasticity and Gesture Recognition.

Size is their works in the topics tagged with each word, from their 8 largest topics. Each links to the topic it comes from most.

All 20 words, with their numbers
  1. Bilingualism153 topics
  2. Sign Language152 topics
  3. Gesture111 topic
  4. Language Acquisition111 topic
  5. Embodiment52 topics
  6. Neural Basis52 topics
  7. Cross-modal Plasticity41 topic
  8. Gesture Recognition41 topic
  9. Human-Computer Interaction41 topic
  10. Tactile Perception41 topic
  11. Metaphor31 topic
  12. Time31 topic
  13. Action Observation21 topic
  14. Language Contact21 topic
  15. Language Processing21 topic
  16. Linguistic Borrowing21 topic
  17. Mirror Neuron System21 topic
  18. Semantic Memory21 topic
  19. STEM Education11 topic
  20. Spatial Ability11 topic

Where does Karen Emmorey work?

Karen Emmorey's main affiliation in the publication record is San Diego State University, United States.

How many publications and citations does Karen Emmorey have?

Science Explorer counts 43 works and 225 citations for Karen Emmorey, ranking #60,164 of 1,633,909 researchers worldwide on the composite score.

Ranked on field-normalised excellence (50%), output (30%) and citations (20%). Counts come from OpenAlex author records, which occasionally merge different people who share a name or split one person into several.

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