Colin Brown

10.7k total citations · 3 hit papers
77 papers, 7.2k citations indexed

About

Colin Brown is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Developmental and Educational Psychology and Sociology and Political Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Colin Brown has authored 77 papers receiving a total of 7.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 46 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 39 papers in Developmental and Educational Psychology and 12 papers in Sociology and Political Science. Recurrent topics in Colin Brown's work include Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism (42 papers), Reading and Literacy Development (36 papers) and EEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces (10 papers). Colin Brown is often cited by papers focused on Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism (42 papers), Reading and Literacy Development (36 papers) and EEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces (10 papers). Colin Brown collaborates with scholars based in Netherlands, Germany and United States. Colin Brown's co-authors include Peter Hagoort, Jos J. A. Van Berkum, Pienie Zwitserlood, Dorothee J. Chwilla, Tamara Y. Swaab, Miranda van Turennout, Valesca Kooijman, D. van den Brink, Peter Indefrey and Rüdiger J. Seitz and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews.

In The Last Decade

Colin Brown

74 papers receiving 6.9k citations

Hit Papers

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

The syntactic positive shift (sps) as an erp measure of syntactic processing

1993 780 citations Peter Hagoort, Colin Brown et al. profile →
The Processing Nature of the N400: Evidence from Masked Priming

1993 622 citations Colin Brown, Peter Hagoort Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience profile →
Anticipating Upcoming Words in Discourse: Evidence From ERPs and Reading Times.

2005 622 citations Jos J. A. Van Berkum, Colin Brown et al. Journal of Experimental Psychology Learning Memory and Cognition profile →

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Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Colin Brown Netherlands	35	6.3k	4.1k	1.9k	727	620	77	7.2k
Viorica Marian United States	40	4.6k 0.7×	4.1k 1.0×	2.1k 1.1×	433 0.6×	444 0.7×	130	6.6k
Jos J. A. Van Berkum Netherlands	35	4.2k 0.7×	2.5k 0.6×	1.9k 1.0×	903 1.2×	659 1.1×	71	5.3k
Boris New France	26	4.1k 0.6×	3.7k 0.9×	2.0k 1.1×	533 0.7×	1.3k 2.2×	45	6.4k
Jon Andoni Duñabeitia Spain	43	3.7k 0.6×	3.2k 0.8×	1.3k 0.7×	448 0.6×	446 0.7×	183	5.1k
Maryellen C. MacDonald United States	39	5.2k 0.8×	4.5k 1.1×	1.7k 0.9×	309 0.4×	1.5k 2.3×	92	7.1k
Annette M.B. de Groot Netherlands	32	3.4k 0.5×	3.5k 0.9×	1.2k 0.6×	225 0.3×	658 1.1×	58	5.2k
Judith F. Kroll United States	51	8.5k 1.4×	8.2k 2.0×	2.7k 1.5×	460 0.6×	1.1k 1.7×	137	11.4k
James H. Neely United States	31	5.6k 0.9×	3.4k 0.8×	2.1k 1.1×	1.2k 1.7×	994 1.6×	71	7.3k
Gabriella Vigliocco United Kingdom	50	5.6k 0.9×	4.7k 1.1×	4.3k 2.3×	2.5k 3.5×	1.1k 1.8×	175	9.7k
Deborah M. Burke United States	29	3.3k 0.5×	2.0k 0.5×	949 0.5×	310 0.4×	363 0.6×	48	4.1k

Countries citing papers authored by Colin Brown

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Dawson, J. R., P. A. Jones, Cormac Purcell, et al.. (2022). SPLASH: the Southern Parkes Large-Area Survey in Hydroxyl – data description and release. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 512(3). 3345–3364. 8 indexed citations

Brown, Colin, et al.. (2020). Explicit Content: Two Experiments on Bringing Writing Instruction into the Political Science Classroom. Journal of Political Science Education. 17(sup1). 835–861. 1 indexed citations

Waldron, Scott, Colin Brown, & Cungen Zhang. (2007). Update on developments in the Chinese cattle and beef industry of relevance to the Australian industry: Final report. Queensland's institutional digital repository (The University of Queensland). 12(6). 1–246. 2 indexed citations

Brown, Colin. (2006). Playing the game: ethnicity and politics in Indonesian badminton. Indonesia. 71–93. 8 indexed citations

Brink, D. van den, Colin Brown, & Peter Hagoort. (2006). The cascaded nature of lexical selection and integration in auditory sentence processing.. Journal of Experimental Psychology Learning Memory and Cognition. 32(2). 364–372. 58 indexed citations

Berkum, Jos J. A. Van, Pienie Zwitserlood, Marcel Bastiaansen, Colin Brown, & Peter Hagoort. (2004). So who's "he" anyway? Differential ERP and ERSP effects of referential success, ambiguity and failure during spoken language comprehension. UvA-DARE (University of Amsterdam). 40 indexed citations

Wassenaar, Marlies, Colin Brown, & Peter Hagoort. (2004). ERP Effects of Subject—Verb Agreement Violations in Patients with Broca's Aphasia. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. 16(4). 553–576. 31 indexed citations

Berkum, Jos J. A. Van, Colin Brown, Peter Hagoort, & Pienie Zwitserlood. (2003). Event‐related brain potentials reflect discourse‐referential ambiguity in spoken language comprehension. Psychophysiology. 40(2). 235–248. 113 indexed citations

Milham, Michael P., Marie T. Banich, Neal J. Cohen, et al.. (1999). Activity of cingulate based attentional system in stroop task is dependent upon response eligibility: A hybrid blocked/event-related fMRI design. NeuroImage. 9. 2 indexed citations

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Hagoort, Peter & Colin Brown. (1999). The consequences of the temporal interaction between syntactic and semantic processes for haemodynamic studies of language. NeuroImage. 9. 1024. 2 indexed citations

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Swaab, Tamara Y., Colin Brown, & Peter Hagoort. (1998). Understanding ambiguous words in sentence contexts: electrophysiological evidence for delayed contextual selection in Broca’s aphasia. Neuropsychologia. 36(8). 737–761. 116 indexed citations

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Turennout, Miranda van, Peter Hagoort, & Colin Brown. (1998). Brain Activity During Speaking: From Syntax to Phonology in 40 Milliseconds. Science. 280(5363). 572–574. 171 indexed citations

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Turennout, Miranda van, Peter Hagoort, & Colin Brown. (1997). Electrophysiological evidence on the time course of semantic and phonological processes in speech production.. Journal of Experimental Psychology Learning Memory and Cognition. 23(4). 787–806. 148 indexed citations

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Indefrey, Peter, et al.. (1997). A PET study of cerebral activation patterns induced by verb inflection. NeuroImage. 5. 30 indexed citations

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Swaab, Tamara Y., Colin Brown, & Peter Hagoort. (1997). Spoken Sentence Comprehension in Aphasia: Event-related Potential Evidence for a Lexical Integration Deficit. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. 9(1). 39–66. 124 indexed citations

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Brown, Colin. (1996). Religion and national identity in Scotland since the Union of 1707. 12(1). 9–29. 1 indexed citations

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Keurs, Mariken ter, et al.. (1995). ERP characteristics of function and content words in Broca's aphasics with agrammatic comprehension. Brain and Language. 51. 119–122. 24 indexed citations

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Brown, Colin, et al.. (1995). Abstracts - The Academy of Aphasia Conference, The Loews Coronado Bay Resort, San Diego, CA - Platform Sessions 5–7. Brain and Language. 51(1). 150–226. 19 indexed citations

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Chwilla, Dorothee J., Colin Brown, & Peter Hagoort. (1995). The N400 as a function of the level of processing. Psychophysiology. 32(3). 274–285. 346 indexed citations

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Brown, Colin & Peter Hagoort. (1993). The Processing Nature of the N400: Evidence from Masked Priming. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. 5(1). 34–44. 622 indexed citations breakdown →

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