Derek Besner

12.5k total citations · 2 hit papers
170 papers, 8.5k citations indexed

About

Derek Besner is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Developmental and Educational Psychology and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Derek Besner has authored 170 papers receiving a total of 8.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 126 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 106 papers in Developmental and Educational Psychology and 51 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. Recurrent topics in Derek Besner's work include Reading and Literacy Development (95 papers), Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism (63 papers) and Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies (62 papers). Derek Besner is often cited by papers focused on Reading and Literacy Development (95 papers), Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism (63 papers) and Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies (62 papers). Derek Besner collaborates with scholars based in Canada, United Kingdom and United States. Derek Besner's co-authors include T. Gary Waller, George E. MacKinnon, Glyn W. Humphreys, Marilyn Jager Adams, Jennifer A. Stolz, Eileen Davelaar, Max Coltheart, Robert S. McCann, David R. Thomson and Daniel Smilek and has published in prestigious journals such as Psychological Review, Psychological Science and Neuropsychologia.

In The Last Decade

Derek Besner

168 papers receiving 8.0k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

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.

Reading Research Advances in Theory and Practice

1985 1.3k citations Derek Besner et al. profile →
Basic Processes in Reading: Visual Word Recognition

1993 1.0k citations Derek Besner et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Derek Besner Canada	43	6.3k	5.4k	2.4k	1.0k	716	170	8.5k
Ludovic Ferrand France	39	5.0k 0.8×	4.3k 0.8×	2.3k 1.0×	513 0.5×	743 1.0×	133	6.9k
Manuel Perea Spain	52	6.7k 1.1×	7.2k 1.3×	2.5k 1.1×	1.3k 1.3×	1.2k 1.7×	306	9.5k
Kenneth I. Forster United States	48	8.8k 1.4×	8.3k 1.5×	3.2k 1.4×	986 1.0×	1.2k 1.7×	96	11.6k
Stephen J. Lupker Canada	40	4.9k 0.8×	4.6k 0.8×	1.7k 0.7×	545 0.5×	738 1.0×	151	6.1k
David LaBerge United States	29	4.0k 0.6×	2.8k 0.5×	1.4k 0.6×	887 0.9×	397 0.6×	60	6.6k
Graham J. Hitch United Kingdom	35	3.8k 0.6×	3.3k 0.6×	1.6k 0.7×	1.3k 1.2×	528 0.7×	62	6.1k
Alice F. Healy United States	43	3.0k 0.5×	3.0k 0.5×	1.8k 0.8×	456 0.4×	1.1k 1.5×	237	5.5k
Guy C. Van Orden United States	32	3.4k 0.5×	3.3k 0.6×	1.2k 0.5×	581 0.6×	747 1.0×	57	5.5k
Andrew W. Ellis United Kingdom	60	10.3k 1.6×	7.2k 1.3×	3.0k 1.3×	910 0.9×	919 1.3×	195	13.1k
Emmanuel Dupoux France	50	4.1k 0.7×	4.0k 0.7×	3.8k 1.6×	1.1k 1.0×	2.5k 3.4×	208	9.8k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Derek Besner

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Yap, Melvin J., et al.. (2024). Revealing hidden interactions in mean performance through distributional analyses: Evidence from Chinese lexical decision performance. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review. 32(3). 1274–1283. 1 indexed citations

Besner, Derek, et al.. (2021). On the determination of eye gaze and arrow direction: Automaticity reconsidered.. Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology/Revue canadienne de psychologie expérimentale. 75(3). 261–278. 3 indexed citations

Risko, Evan F., et al.. (2016). The semantic Stroop effect: An ex-Gaussian analysis. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review. 23(5). 1576–1581. 16 indexed citations

Besner, Derek, et al.. (2016). Reading aloud: On the determinants of the joint effects of stimulus quality and word frequency.. Journal of Experimental Psychology Learning Memory and Cognition. 43(5). 749–756. 1 indexed citations

Robidoux, Serje & Derek Besner. (2015). Conflict resolved: On the role of spatial attention in reading and color naming tasks. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review. 22(6). 1709–1716. 7 indexed citations

Thomson, David R., Paul Seli, Derek Besner, & Daniel Smilek. (2014). On the link between mind wandering and task performance over time. Consciousness and Cognition. 27. 14–26. 106 indexed citations

O’Malley, Shannon & Derek Besner. (2011). Lexical processing while deciding what task to perform: Reading aloud in the context of the task set paradigm. Consciousness and Cognition. 20(4). 1594–1603. 3 indexed citations

Tree, Jeremy J., et al.. (2010). Orthography, phonology, short-term memory and the effects of concurrent articulation on rhyme and homophony judgements. Acta Psychologica. 136(1). 11–19. 10 indexed citations

Besner, Derek, Shannon O’Malley, & Serje Robidoux. (2010). On the joint effects of stimulus quality, regularity, and lexicality when reading aloud: New challenges.. Journal of Experimental Psychology Learning Memory and Cognition. 36(3). 750–764. 11 indexed citations

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Schmidt, James R., Jan De Houwer, & Derek Besner. (2010). Contingency learning and unlearning in the blink of an eye: A resource dependent process. Consciousness and Cognition. 19(1). 235–250. 53 indexed citations

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Rastle, Kathleen, J Havelka, Taeko N. Wydell, Max Coltheart, & Derek Besner. (2009). The cross-script length effect: Further evidence challenging PDP models of reading aloud.. Journal of Experimental Psychology Learning Memory and Cognition. 35(1). 238–246. 22 indexed citations

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Brown, Matthew, Jennifer A. Stolz, & Derek Besner. (2006). Dissociative effects of stimulus quality on semantic and morphological contexts in visual word recognition.. Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology/Revue canadienne de psychologie expérimentale. 60(3). 190–199. 15 indexed citations

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Besner, Derek, et al.. (2005). Spatial Attention as a Necessary Preliminary to Early Processes in Reading.. Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology/Revue canadienne de psychologie expérimentale. 59(2). 99–108. 46 indexed citations

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Reynolds, Michael & Derek Besner. (2005). Contextual control over lexical and sublexical routines when reading English aloud. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review. 12(1). 113–118. 22 indexed citations

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Risko, Evan F., Mike J. Dixon, Derek Besner, & Susanne Ferber. (2005). The ties that keep us bound: Top-down influences on the persistence of shape-from-motion. Consciousness and Cognition. 15(2). 475–483. 6 indexed citations

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Risko, Evan F., Jennifer A. Stolz, & Derek Besner. (2005). Basic processes in reading: Is visual word recognition obligatory?. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review. 12(1). 119–124. 30 indexed citations

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Besner, Derek, et al.. (2002). When are morphemic and semantic priming observed in visual word recognition?. Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology/Revue canadienne de psychologie expérimentale. 56(2). 112–119. 6 indexed citations

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Bourassa, Derrick C. & Derek Besner. (1994). Beyond the articulatory loop: A semantic contribution to serial order recall of subspan lists. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review. 1(1). 122–125. 100 indexed citations

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Borowsky, Ron & Derek Besner. (1993). Visual word recognition: A multistage activation model.. Journal of Experimental Psychology Learning Memory and Cognition. 19(4). 813–840. 143 indexed citations

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Besner, Derek & Max Coltheart. (1975). Same-different judgments with words and nonwords: The differential effects of relative size. Memory & Cognition. 3(6). 673–677. 19 indexed citations

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