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Reading and Literacy Development

Last updated July 7, 2026

Rising Stars

New and hot

Rising Stars Researchers

1
Muzakki Bashori
State University of Semarang
2
Lillian R. Masek
New York University
3
Catherine Doust
University of Edinburgh
4
Jin Wang
University of California, Los Angeles
5
Kuan‐Jung Huang
University of Massachusetts Amherst
6
Diane Caroline Mézière
University of Edinburgh
7
Deborah June Yapp
Utrecht University
8
Dieuwer ten Braak
University of Stavanger
9
Natasa Georgiou
University of Cyprus
10
Oscar Woolnough
The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston

Rising Stars Papers

1
Large-scale benchmark yields no evidence that language model surprisal explains syntactic disambiguation difficulty
Journal of Memory and Language|2024
43 cit.
2
<i>I Can Speak</i> : improving English pronunciation through automatic speech recognition-based language learning systems
Innovation in Language Learning and Teaching|2024
27 cit.
3
Dissociation of reading and naming in ventral occipitotemporal cortex
Brain|2024
13 cit.
4
Math talk by mothers, fathers, and toddlers: Differences across materials and associations with children’s math understanding
Journal of Experimental Child Psychology|2024
13 cit.
5
Building language learning: Relations between infant attention and social contingency in the first year of life
Infant Behavior and Development|2024
7 cit.
6
Lateralization of activation within the superior temporal gyrus during speech perception in sleeping infants is associated with subsequent language skills in kindergarten: A passive listening task-fMRI study
Brain and Language|2024
5 cit.
7
Memorability of novel words correlates with anterior fusiform activity during reading
Nature Communications|2025
5 cit.
8
Routine Language Intervention: Supporting Spanish-Speaking Mothers’ Talk to Toddlers During Everyday Routines
Parenting|2024
3 cit.
9
Using Eye Movements From a “Read‐Only” Task to Predict Text Comprehension
Reading Research Quarterly|2025
3 cit.
10
Do eye movements reflect readers’ thoughts during reading? Evidence from multidimensional experience sampling and eye movements
Consciousness and Cognition|2025
3 cit.

Emerging Leaders

Gaining momentum

Emerging Leaders Researchers

1
Angelica McCarron
University of Arizona
2
STEVEN REKKÉ
Radboud University Nijmegen
3
Kristopher Kyle
University of Oregon
4
Lara Turci
University of Maryland, College Park
5
Nicolas Dirix
Ghent University
6
Julie B. Eisengart
University of Minnesota Medical Center
7
Yijun Liu
Guangdong University of Technology
8
Bethany Beal
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
9
Rowena Garcia
University of Potsdam
10
Meade MacKay
University of Utah

Emerging Leaders Papers

1
How diverse is child language acquisition research?
First Language|2022
275 cit.
2
Measuring Syntactic Development in L2 Writing: Fine Grained Indices of Syntactic Complexity and Usage-Based Indices of Syntactic Sophistication
Digital Archive @ GSU|2022
216 cit.
3
Increasing precision in the measurement of change in pediatric neurodegenerative disease
Molecular Genetics and Metabolism|2022
27 cit.
4
Evaluating evidence for the reliability and validity of lexical diversity indices in L2 oral task responses
Studies in Second Language Acquisition|2023
25 cit.
5
Measuring the development of lexical richness of L2 Spanish: A longitudinal learner corpus study
Studies in Second Language Acquisition|2023
22 cit.
6
L2 collocation profiles and their relationship with vocabulary proficiency: A learner corpus approach
Journal of Second Language Writing|2023
17 cit.
7
Timing is everything: Clinical courses of Hunter syndrome associated with age at initiation of therapy in a sibling pair
Molecular Genetics and Metabolism Reports|2022
13 cit.
8
Acquiring verb-argument structure in Tagalog: a multivariate corpus analysis of caregiver and child speech
Linguistics|2022
13 cit.
9
Online data collection to address language sampling bias: lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic
Linguistics Vanguard|2022
12 cit.
10
Assessing spoken lexical and lexicogrammatical proficiency using features of word, bigram, and dependency bigram use
Modern Language Journal|2023
12 cit.

Current Senior Leaders

Established & currently active

Current Senior Leaders Researchers

1
Angela D. Friederici
Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences
2
Marta Kutas
University of California System
3
Margaret J. Snowling
University of Oxford
4
Jonathan Grainger
Aix-Marseille Université
5
Alfonso Caramazza
Harvard University
6
Steven A. Hillyard
Leibniz Institute for Neurobiology
7
Stanislas Dehaene
Université Paris-Sud
8
Laurent Cohen
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
9
Phillip J. Holcomb
San Diego State University
10
Ellen Bialystok
York University

Current Senior Leaders Papers

1
Reading Senseless Sentences: Brain Potentials Reflect Semantic Incongruity
Science|1980
4.9k cit.
2
The mental representation of parity and number magnitude.
Journal of Experimental Psychology General|1993
2.5k cit.
3
THREE PARIETAL CIRCUITS FOR NUMBER PROCESSING
Cognitive Neuropsychology|2003
2.5k cit.
4
Brain potentials during reading reflect word expectancy and semantic association
Nature|1984
2.2k cit.
5
Two varieties of long-latency positive waves evoked by unpredictable auditory stimuli in man
Electroencephalography and Clinical Neurophysiology|1975
2.1k cit.
6
The Number Sense: How the Mind Creates Mathematics.
American Mathematical Monthly|1998
2.1k cit.
7
Electrical Signs of Selective Attention in the Human Brain
Science|1973
2k cit.
8
The visual word form area
Brain|2000
2k cit.
9
Event-related brain potentials elicited by syntactic anomaly
Journal of Memory and Language|1992
1.9k cit.
10
Language Learnability and Language Development
Modern Language Journal|1986
1.8k cit.

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