Phillip J. Holcomb

21.6k total citations · 4 hit papers
224 papers, 15.3k citations indexed

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Phillip J. Holcomb is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Developmental and Educational Psychology and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Phillip J. Holcomb has authored 224 papers receiving a total of 15.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 205 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 134 papers in Developmental and Educational Psychology and 59 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. Recurrent topics in Phillip J. Holcomb's work include Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism (128 papers), Reading and Literacy Development (111 papers) and Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies (83 papers). Phillip J. Holcomb is often cited by papers focused on Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism (128 papers), Reading and Literacy Development (111 papers) and Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies (83 papers). Phillip J. Holcomb collaborates with scholars based in United States, France and Netherlands. Phillip J. Holcomb's co-authors include Jonathan Grainger, Lee Osterhout, Gina R. Kuperberg, Helen J. Neville, John Kounios, Tatiana Sitnikova, Katherine J. Midgley, W. Caroline West, Kirk R. Daffner and Edward Gibson and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, PLoS ONE and NeuroImage.

In The Last Decade

Phillip J. Holcomb

220 papers receiving 14.7k citations

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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.

Event-related brain potentials elicited by syntactic anomaly

1992 1.1k citations Phillip J. Holcomb et al. profile →
The P600 as an index of syntactic integration difficulty

2000 601 citations Edith Kaan, Anthony Harris et al. Language and Cognitive Processes profile →
Semantic priming and stimulus degradation: Implications for the role of the N400 in language processing

1993 549 citations Phillip J. Holcomb profile →
Auditory and Visual Semantic Priming in Lexical Decision: A Comparison Using Event-related Brain Potentials

1990 539 citations Phillip J. Holcomb, Helen J. Neville Language and Cognitive Processes profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Phillip J. Holcomb United States	64	13.6k	8.5k	3.8k	1.7k	830	224	15.3k
Kara D. Federmeier United States	48	11.1k 0.8×	6.4k 0.7×	3.6k 0.9×	1.6k 1.0×	635 0.8×	149	12.8k
Andrew W. Ellis United Kingdom	60	10.3k 0.8×	7.2k 0.8×	3.0k 0.8×	1.1k 0.6×	620 0.7×	195	13.1k
David Caplan United States	53	10.1k 0.7×	7.6k 0.9×	2.8k 0.7×	1.1k 0.6×	1.7k 2.0×	215	12.8k
Helen J. Neville United States	66	11.3k 0.8×	6.3k 0.7×	4.6k 1.2×	1.0k 0.6×	509 0.6×	139	14.0k
Meredyth Daneman Canada	35	7.0k 0.5×	5.4k 0.6×	3.5k 0.9×	637 0.4×	762 0.9×	70	10.8k
Manuel Carreiras Spain	63	10.2k 0.8×	9.4k 1.1×	3.3k 0.9×	667 0.4×	1.5k 1.8×	327	13.4k
Arthur M. Jacobs Germany	67	9.6k 0.7×	6.3k 0.7×	4.8k 1.3×	2.2k 1.3×	411 0.5×	256	14.4k
Peter Hagoort Netherlands	86	19.7k 1.5×	11.2k 1.3×	6.7k 1.8×	4.3k 2.5×	1.8k 2.2×	371	24.2k
David A. Balota United States	73	14.3k 1.1×	8.6k 1.0×	5.3k 1.4×	1.9k 1.1×	596 0.7×	242	19.0k
Antje S. Meyer Netherlands	49	8.8k 0.7×	6.7k 0.8×	4.3k 1.1×	786 0.5×	1.6k 2.0×	204	11.6k

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Emmorey, Karen, et al.. (2025). Assessing sensitivity to semantic and syntactic information in deaf readers: An ERP study. Neuropsychologia. 215. 109171–109171.

Holcomb, Phillip J., et al.. (2024). Orthographic and Phonological Code Activation in Deaf and Hearing Readers. Journal of Cognition. 7(1). 19–19. 4 indexed citations

Sehyr, Zed Sevcikova, Katherine J. Midgley, Karen Emmorey, & Phillip J. Holcomb. (2023). Asymetric Event-Related Potential Priming Effects Between English Letters and American Sign Language Fingerspelling Fonts. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 4(2). 361–381. 3 indexed citations

Grainger, Jonathan, et al.. (2022). On letter-specific crowding and reading: Evidence from ERPs. Neuropsychologia. 176. 108396–108396. 7 indexed citations

Midgley, Katherine J., et al.. (2021). Matching pictures and signs: An ERP study of the effects of iconic structural alignment in American sign language. Neuropsychologia. 162. 108051–108051. 5 indexed citations

Meade, Gabriela, Jonathan Grainger, & Phillip J. Holcomb. (2021). Language Dominance Modulates Transposed-Letter N400 Priming Effects in Bilinguals. Journal of Cognition. 5(1). 12–12. 2 indexed citations

Declerck, Mathieu, Gabriela Meade, Katherine J. Midgley, et al.. (2021). Language control in bimodal bilinguals: Evidence from ERPs. Neuropsychologia. 161. 108019–108019. 8 indexed citations

Meade, Gabriela, et al.. (2021). The organization of the American Sign Language lexicon: Comparing one- and two-parameter ERP phonological priming effects across tasks. Brain and Language. 218. 104960–104960. 6 indexed citations

Emmorey, Karen, et al.. (2020). Neurophysiological Correlates of Frequency, Concreteness, and Iconicity in American Sign Language. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 1(2). 249–267. 19 indexed citations

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Meade, Gabriela, Katherine J. Midgley, Zed Sevcikova Sehyr, Phillip J. Holcomb, & Karen Emmorey. (2017). Implicit co-activation of American Sign Language in deaf readers: An ERP study. Brain and Language. 170. 50–61. 50 indexed citations

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Tusch, Erich, et al.. (2017). The Impact of Computer-Based Mindfulness Training on Attention to Novelty in Healthy Older Adults (P6.220). Neurology. 88(16_supplement). 1 indexed citations

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Brady, Michael, et al.. (2016). A Neural Field Model of Word Repetition Effects in Early Time-Course ERPs in Spoken Word Perception.. Cognitive Science. 1 indexed citations

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Cohn, Neil, Phillip J. Holcomb, Ray Jackendoff, & Gina R. Kuperberg. (2012). Segmenting Visual Narratives: Evidence for Constituent Structure in Comics.. Cognitive Science. 34(34). 1 indexed citations

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Cohn, Neil, Martin Paczynski, Phillip J. Holcomb, Ray Jackendoff, & Gina R. Kuperberg. (2011). Comics on the Brain: Structure and Meaning in Sequential Image Comprehension. Cognitive Science. 33(33). 3 indexed citations

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Midgley, Katherine J., et al.. (2011). When less is more: Feedback, priming, and the pseudoword superiority effect. Brain Research. 1386. 153–164. 23 indexed citations

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Freeman, Jonathan B., Nalini Ambady, Katherine J. Midgley, & Phillip J. Holcomb. (2010). The real-time link between person perception and action: Brain potential evidence for dynamic continuity. Social Neuroscience. 6(2). 139–155. 32 indexed citations

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Kaan, Edith, Anthony Harris, Edward Gibson, & Phillip J. Holcomb. (2000). The P600 as an index of syntactic integration difficulty. Language and Cognitive Processes. 15(2). 159–201. 601 indexed citations breakdown →

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Daffner, Kirk R., et al.. (1998). Regulation of attention to novel stimuli by frontal lobes. Neuroreport. 9(5). 787–791. 90 indexed citations

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Holcomb, Phillip J., et al.. (1992). Visual and auditory sentence processing: A developmental analysis using event‐related brain potentials. Developmental Neuropsychology. 8(2-3). 203–241. 243 indexed citations

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Holcomb, Phillip J.. (1986). Automatic and strategic attention : an event-related brain potential analysis of contextual processing. University Microfilms International eBooks.

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