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Catherine McBride

Psychology · Purdue University West Lafayette

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Established · publishing since 1989
Reading and Literacy DevelopmentCognitive and developmental aspects of mathematical skillsWriting and Handwriting EducationLanguage Development and DisordersNeurobiology of Language and Bilingualism

Publications

245

Citations

4,354

Est. group size

~2

Recurring co-author estimate

Active years

38

Publishing since 1989

Research summary
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Catherine McBride studies how children learn to read and write across different languages and writing systems, including English, Chinese, and other scripts used in Asia and Africa. Her work examines the cognitive and linguistic skills involved in literacy development (such as vocabulary, morphological awareness, and phonological processing), often using behavioral testing, brain-based measures like EEG, and longitudinal studies that track children over time. Much of her research compares bilingual or biliterate children learning to read in more than one language or script.

Reading and literacy developmentCross-linguistic and cross-script comparisonsBilingual and biliterate reading acquisitionCognitive and neural correlates of reading (EEG/ERP)Morphological and phonological awareness

Publication output was high in 2017-2019, dipped notably in 2020-2021, then recovered to a steady pace of roughly 15-25 papers per year through 2025.

Generated by claude-sonnet-5 from public bibliographic data · Jul 20, 2026

Publication cadence
Publications per year over the last 10 years — averaging 17.2/year recently
2017: 24 publications172018: 26 publications26182019: 25 publications192020: 14 publications202021: 15 publications212022: 20 publications222023: 19 publications232024: 18 publications242025: 23 publications252026: 6 publications26
Recent publications
Publishes in
  • Reading and Writing×22
  • Developmental Science×6
  • Annals of Dyslexia×6
  • Scientific Studies of Reading×5
  • Journal of Experimental Child Psychology×5
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Last updated Jul 20, 2026.

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