David Swinney

8.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
55 papers, 5.1k citations indexed

About

David Swinney is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Developmental and Educational Psychology and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, David Swinney has authored 55 papers receiving a total of 5.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 43 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 37 papers in Developmental and Educational Psychology and 19 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. Recurrent topics in David Swinney's work include Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism (40 papers), Reading and Literacy Development (35 papers) and Language Development and Disorders (9 papers). David Swinney is often cited by papers focused on Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism (40 papers), Reading and Literacy Development (35 papers) and Language Development and Disorders (9 papers). David Swinney collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Netherlands. David Swinney's co-authors include Anne Cutler, Edgar Zurif, Janet Nicol, Tracy Love, Lee Osterhout, Phillip J. Holcomb, Penny Prather, Lewis P. Shapiro, Gregory Hickok and Colin Humphries and has published in prestigious journals such as Psychological Science, Cognition and Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience.

In The Last Decade

David Swinney

52 papers receiving 4.6k citations

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Lexical access during sentence comprehension: (Re)consideration of context effects

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
David Swinney United States	31	3.8k	3.1k	1.7k	890	722	55	5.1k
Merrill F. Garrett United States	25	2.9k 0.8×	2.4k 0.8×	1.4k 0.9×	863 1.0×	633 0.9×	54	4.1k
Brian McElree United States	43	4.6k 1.2×	1.9k 0.6×	1.3k 0.8×	759 0.9×	948 1.3×	70	5.3k
Yosef Grodzinsky Israel	29	4.0k 1.1×	3.3k 1.1×	732 0.4×	1.1k 1.2×	359 0.5×	69	4.8k
Maryellen C. MacDonald United States	39	5.2k 1.4×	4.5k 1.5×	1.7k 1.0×	1.8k 2.0×	1.5k 2.0×	92	7.1k
Jos J. A. Van Berkum Netherlands	35	4.2k 1.1×	2.5k 0.8×	1.9k 1.1×	739 0.8×	659 0.9×	71	5.3k
John C. Trueswell United States	39	4.1k 1.1×	4.1k 1.3×	2.1k 1.3×	1.3k 1.5×	1.2k 1.7×	99	6.7k
Edgar Zurif United States	39	4.1k 1.1×	3.1k 1.0×	1.3k 0.7×	585 0.7×	394 0.5×	69	5.0k
Juan Seguí France	40	3.6k 1.0×	3.8k 1.2×	2.7k 1.6×	660 0.7×	981 1.4×	112	5.7k
Debra Titone Canada	39	3.2k 0.9×	2.3k 0.8×	2.0k 1.2×	623 0.7×	583 0.8×	136	5.0k
Colin Phillips United States	37	4.5k 1.2×	2.8k 0.9×	1.6k 0.9×	1.5k 1.6×	1.0k 1.4×	94	5.5k

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Love, Tracy, Matthew Walenski, & David Swinney. (2009). Slowed Speech Input has a Differential Impact on On-line and Off-line Processing in Children’s Comprehension of Pronouns. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research. 38(3). 285–304. 18 indexed citations

Love, Tracy, David Swinney, Matthew Walenski, & Edgar Zurif. (2008). How left inferior frontal cortex participates in syntactic processing: Evidence from aphasia☆. Brain and Language. 107(3). 203–219. 83 indexed citations

Nicol, Janet, David Swinney, Tracy Love, & Lea A. Hald. (2006). The On-line Study of Sentence Comprehension: An Examination of Dual Task Paradigms. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research. 35(3). 215–231. 25 indexed citations

Love, Tracy, Frank Haist, Janet Nicol, & David Swinney. (2006). A Functional Neuroimaging Investigation of the Roles of Structural Complexity and Task-Demand During Auditory Sentence Processing. Cortex. 42(4). 577–590. 29 indexed citations

Archer, Johanna S., et al.. (2006). Effect of estradiol versus estradiol and testosterone on brain-activation patterns in postmenopausal women. Menopause The Journal of The North American Menopause Society. 13(3). 528–537. 49 indexed citations

Goede, Dieuwke De, et al.. (2005). The Time Course of Verb Processing in Dutch Sentences. Max Planck Digital Library. 26(26). 279–284. 2 indexed citations

Goede, Dieuwke De, et al.. (2005). PROCEEDINGS OF THE TWENTY-SIXTH ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF THE COGNITIVE SCIENCE SOCIETY. Conference Cognitive Science. 90 indexed citations

Humphries, Colin, Tracy Love, David Swinney, & Gregory Hickok. (2005). Response of anterior temporal cortex to syntactic and prosodic manipulations during sentence processing. Human Brain Mapping. 26(2). 128–138. 187 indexed citations

Ullman, Michael T., Roumyana Pancheva, Tracy Love, et al.. (2004). Neural correlates of lexicon and grammar: Evidence from the production, reading, and judgment of inflection in aphasia. Brain and Language. 93(2). 185–238. 128 indexed citations

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Grodzinsky, Yosef, Lewis P. Shapiro, & David Swinney. (2000). Language and the brain : representation and processing. Academic Press eBooks. 103 indexed citations

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Swinney, David & Tracy Love. (1998). The Processing of Discontinuous Dependencies in Language and Music. Music Perception An Interdisciplinary Journal. 16(1). 63–78. 4 indexed citations

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Hickok, Gregory, Tracy Love, David Swinney, Eric C. Wong, & Richard B. Buxton. (1997). Functional MR Imaging during Auditory Word Perception: A Single-Trial Presentation Paradigm. Brain and Language. 58(1). 197–201. 28 indexed citations

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Zurif, Edgar, David Swinney, Penny Prather, Arthur Wingfield, & Hiram Brownell. (1995). The allocation of memory resources during sentence comprehension: Evidence from the elderly. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research. 24(3). 165–182. 73 indexed citations

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Swinney, David & Edgar Zurif. (1995). Syntactic Processing in Aphasia. Brain and Language. 50(2). 225–239. 88 indexed citations

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Zurif, Edgar, David Swinney, Penny Prather, & Tracy Love. (1994). Functional localization in the brain with respect to syntactic processing. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research. 23(6). 487–497. 10 indexed citations

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Osterhout, Lee & David Swinney. (1993). On the temporal course of gap-filling during comprehension of verbal passives. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research. 22(2). 273–286. 43 indexed citations

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Zurif, Edgar, et al.. (1993). An On-Line Analysis of Syntactic Processing in Broca′s and Wernicke′s Aphasia. Brain and Language. 45(3). 448–464. 204 indexed citations

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Stern, Catherine, Penny Prather, David Swinney, & Edgar Zurif. (1991). The time course of automatic lexical access and aging. Brain and Language. 40(3). 359–372. 25 indexed citations

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Nicol, Janet & David Swinney. (1989). The role of structure in coreference assignment during sentence comprehension. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research. 18(1). 5–19. 322 indexed citations

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Swinney, David, et al.. (1979). On The Relationship of Hemispheric Specialization and Developmental Dyslexia. Cortex. 15(3). 471–481. 16 indexed citations

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