Judith Holler

3.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
96 papers, 2.2k citations indexed

About

Judith Holler is a scholar working on Developmental and Educational Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and Language and Linguistics. According to data from OpenAlex, Judith Holler has authored 96 papers receiving a total of 2.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 72 papers in Developmental and Educational Psychology, 69 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and 46 papers in Language and Linguistics. Recurrent topics in Judith Holler's work include Hearing Impairment and Communication (68 papers), Language, Metaphor, and Cognition (60 papers) and Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (45 papers). Judith Holler is often cited by papers focused on Hearing Impairment and Communication (68 papers), Language, Metaphor, and Cognition (60 papers) and Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (45 papers). Judith Holler collaborates with scholars based in Netherlands, United Kingdom and Germany. Judith Holler's co-authors include Stephen C. Levinson, Katie Wilkin, Kobin H. Kendrick, Geoffrey Beattie, James P. Trujillo, Aslı Özyürek, Spencer D. Kelly, Evan Kidd, Linda Drijvers and Heather Shovelton and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, PLoS ONE and NeuroImage.

In The Last Decade

Judith Holler

89 papers receiving 2.1k citations

Hit Papers

Multimodal Language Processing in Human Communication 2019 2026 2021 2023 2019 50 100 150 200
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.

  1. Multimodal Language Processing in Human Communication
    2019 225 citations Judith Holler, Stephen C. Levinson profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Judith Holler Netherlands 26 1.2k 1.2k 851 553 465 96 2.2k
Mark Dingemanse Netherlands 26 721 0.6× 1.8k 1.5× 927 1.1× 332 0.6× 325 0.7× 93 2.6k
Aslı Özyürek Netherlands 23 1.8k 1.4× 1.6k 1.3× 655 0.8× 601 1.1× 718 1.5× 72 2.4k
Mutsumi Imai Japan 26 1.3k 1.1× 1.8k 1.5× 434 0.5× 345 0.6× 487 1.0× 70 2.9k
Pilar Prieto Spain 32 1.3k 1.1× 2.3k 1.9× 1.5k 1.8× 181 0.3× 378 0.8× 196 3.3k
Han Sloetjes Netherlands 11 722 0.6× 560 0.5× 530 0.6× 264 0.5× 251 0.5× 30 1.7k
Jill P. Morford United States 21 1.5k 1.2× 681 0.6× 583 0.7× 192 0.3× 567 1.2× 49 1.8k
Marc Swerts Netherlands 31 920 0.8× 2.2k 1.8× 1.1k 1.2× 582 1.1× 597 1.3× 217 3.7k
Ann Senghas United States 20 1.1k 0.9× 617 0.5× 585 0.7× 235 0.4× 298 0.6× 44 1.7k
David Vinson United Kingdom 29 1.9k 1.6× 2.1k 1.7× 547 0.6× 1.2k 2.2× 2.2k 4.7× 69 4.3k
Jan P. de Ruiter Germany 9 332 0.3× 539 0.4× 588 0.7× 274 0.5× 333 0.7× 18 1.2k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Judith Holler

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Judith Holler

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All Works

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Holler, Judith, et al.. (2025). Facial signals shape predictions about the nature of upcoming conversational responses. Scientific Reports. 15(1). 1381–1381. 2 indexed citations
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Trujillo, James P., Rebecca Dyer, & Judith Holler. (2025). Dyadic differences in empathy scores are associated with kinematic similarity during conversational question–answer pairs. Discourse Processes. 62(3). 195–213.
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Holler, Judith, et al.. (2025). Opening Social Interactions: The Coordination of Approach, Gaze, Speech, and Handshakes During Greetings. Cognitive Science. 49(2). e70049–e70049.
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Drijvers, Linda, et al.. (2024). Hand Gestures Have Predictive Potential During Conversation: An Investigation of the Timing of Gestures in Relation to Speech. Cognitive Science. 48(1). e13407–e13407. 11 indexed citations
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Trujillo, James P. & Judith Holler. (2024). Information distribution patterns in naturalistic dialogue differ across languages. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review. 31(4). 1723–1734. 1 indexed citations
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Mul, Karlien, Corrie E. Erasmus, Jan T. Groothuis, et al.. (2023). Psychosocial functioning in patients with altered facial expression: a scoping review in five neurological diseases. Disability and Rehabilitation. 46(17). 3772–3791. 7 indexed citations
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Trujillo, James P., et al.. (2023). Conversational Eyebrow Frowns Facilitate Question Identification: An Online Study Using Virtual Avatars. Cognitive Science. 47(12). e13392–e13392. 7 indexed citations
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Trujillo, James P., et al.. (2023). Specific facial signals associate with categories of social actions conveyed through questions. PLoS ONE. 18(7). e0288104–e0288104. 8 indexed citations
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Trujillo, James P. & Judith Holler. (2023). Interactionally Embedded Gestalt Principles of Multimodal Human Communication. Perspectives on Psychological Science. 18(5). 1136–1159. 19 indexed citations
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Trujillo, James P., Stephen C. Levinson, & Judith Holler. (2022). A multi-scale investigation of the human communication system's response to visual disruption. Royal Society Open Science. 9(4). 211489–211489. 6 indexed citations
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Drijvers, Linda & Judith Holler. (2022). The multimodal facilitation effect in human communication. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review. 30(2). 792–801. 14 indexed citations
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Trujillo, James P., et al.. (2021). Facial Signals and Social Actions in Multimodal Face-to-Face Interaction. Brain Sciences. 11(8). 1017–1017. 33 indexed citations
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Humphries, Stacey, Judith Holler, Trevor J. Crawford, & Ellen Poliakoff. (2021). Cospeech gestures are a window into the effects of Parkinson’s disease on action representations.. Journal of Experimental Psychology General. 150(8). 1581–1597. 5 indexed citations
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Trujillo, James P. & Judith Holler. (2021). The Kinematics of Social Action: Visual Signals Provide Cues for What Interlocutors Do in Conversation. Brain Sciences. 11(8). 996–996. 20 indexed citations
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Pouw, Wim, Linda Drijvers, Marco Gamba, et al.. (2021). Multilevel rhythms in multimodal communication. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 376(1835). 20200334–20200334. 29 indexed citations
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Levinson, Stephen C. & Judith Holler. (2014). The origin of human multi-modal communication. Max Planck Digital Library. 1 indexed citations
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Rowbotham, Samantha, Alison Wearden, Donna M. Lloyd, & Judith Holler. (2013). A descriptive analysis of the role of co–speech gestures in the representation of information about pain quality. Research Explorer (The University of Manchester). 22(1). 19–25. 5 indexed citations
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Holler, Judith, et al.. (2013). Here's not looking at you, kid! Unaddressed recipients benefit from co-speech gestures when speech processing suffers. Cognitive Science. 35(35). 2560–2565. 1 indexed citations
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Peeters, David, Mingyuan Chu, Judith Holler, Aslı Özyürek, & Peter Hagoort. (2013). Getting to the point: The influence of communicative intent on the kinematics of pointing gestures. Cognitive Science. 35(35). 1127–1132. 5 indexed citations

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