Simone Sprenger

2.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
27 papers, 1.4k citations indexed

About

Simone Sprenger is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Developmental and Educational Psychology and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Simone Sprenger has authored 27 papers receiving a total of 1.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 13 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 12 papers in Developmental and Educational Psychology and 8 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. Recurrent topics in Simone Sprenger's work include Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism (12 papers), Reading and Literacy Development (7 papers) and Language Development and Disorders (7 papers). Simone Sprenger is often cited by papers focused on Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism (12 papers), Reading and Literacy Development (7 papers) and Language Development and Disorders (7 papers). Simone Sprenger collaborates with scholars based in Netherlands, United Kingdom and Germany. Simone Sprenger's co-authors include Monika S. Schmid, Nienke Meulman, Laurie A. Stowe, Moniek Bresser, Gerard Kempen, Willem J. M. Levelt, Hedderik van Rijn, Jelle R. Dalenberg, Jelmer P. Borst and Susanne Brouwer and has published in prestigious journals such as PLoS ONE, Journal of Experimental Psychology Learning Memory and Cognition and Frontiers in Psychology.

In The Last Decade

Simone Sprenger

25 papers receiving 1.4k 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.

An ERP study on L2 syntax processing: When do learners fail?

2014 878 citations Nienke Meulman, Laurie A. Stowe et al. Frontiers in Psychology profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Simone Sprenger Netherlands	12	599	465	448	237	199	27	1.4k
Alexander Leslie Anwyl-Irvine United Kingdom	6	728 1.2×	333 0.7×	517 1.2×	209 0.9×	267 1.3×	10	1.5k
Joshua K. Hartshorne United States	17	870 1.5×	457 1.0×	433 1.0×	194 0.8×	77 0.4×	44	1.7k
Jo Evershed United Kingdom	4	700 1.2×	327 0.7×	479 1.1×	169 0.7×	108 0.5×	4	1.2k
Petra M. van Alphen Netherlands	9	426 0.7×	328 0.7×	396 0.9×	141 0.6×	142 0.7×	15	942
Maurizio Tirassa Italy	19	326 0.5×	310 0.7×	203 0.5×	257 1.1×	177 0.9×	43	992
Valantis Fyndanis Norway	12	564 0.9×	315 0.7×	244 0.5×	218 0.9×	148 0.7×	28	1.1k
Catherine L. Caldwell‐Harris United States	23	698 1.2×	455 1.0×	533 1.2×	469 2.0×	294 1.5×	61	1.8k
Mark Antoniou Australia	16	563 0.9×	510 1.1×	538 1.2×	99 0.4×	68 0.3×	48	1.3k
Maria Czyzewska United States	14	678 1.1×	568 1.2×	411 0.9×	365 1.5×	135 0.7×	21	1.4k
Paul Alexander Bloom United States	15	1.1k 1.8×	793 1.7×	353 0.8×	315 1.3×	141 0.7×	32	1.6k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Simone Sprenger

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Sprenger, Simone, et al.. (2024). What Fires Together, Wires Together: The Effect of Idiomatic Co-Occurrence on Lexical Networks. Languages. 9(3). 105–105. 2 indexed citations

Paquier, Philippe, et al.. (2024). Four hundred Greek idiomatic expressions: Ratings for subjective frequency, ambiguity, and decomposability. Behavior Research Methods. 56(8). 8181–8195. 1 indexed citations

Meulman, Nienke, Simone Sprenger, Monika S. Schmid, & Martijn Wieling. (2023). GAM-based individual difference measures for L2 ERP studies. Research Methods in Applied Linguistics. 2(3). 100079–100079. 1 indexed citations

Sprenger, Simone, et al.. (2021). Complex Inferential Processes Are Needed for Implicature Comprehension, but Not for Implicature Production. Frontiers in Psychology. 11. 556667–556667. 2 indexed citations

Sprenger, Simone, et al.. (2021). Norm-Based Expectations Affect Children's Understanding of Verbal Irony. University of Groningen research database (University of Groningen / Centre for Information Technology). 332–345.

Sprenger, Simone, et al.. (2021). Balancing the (Horn) Scale : Explaining the Production-Comprehension Asymmetry for Scalar Implicatures. University of Groningen research database (University of Groningen / Centre for Information Technology). 27(1). 19. 1 indexed citations

Sprenger, Simone, et al.. (2019). Event-related potentials reveal increased dependency on linguistic context due to cognitive aging.. Journal of Experimental Psychology Learning Memory and Cognition. 46(7). 1226–1257. 3 indexed citations

Sprenger, Simone, et al.. (2019). The Development of Idiom Knowledge Across the Lifespan. Frontiers in Communication. 4. 14 indexed citations

Brouwer, Susanne, Simone Sprenger, & Sharon Unsworth. (2017). Processing grammatical gender in Dutch: Evidence from eye movements. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology. 159. 50–65. 27 indexed citations

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Sprenger, Simone, et al.. (2016). L2 immersion causes non-native-like L1 pronunciation in German attriters. Journal of Phonetics. 58. 71–86. 51 indexed citations

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Schmid, Monika S., et al.. (2015). Designing Research on Bilingual Development Behavioral and Neurolinguistic Experiments. Open Access at Essex (University of Essex). 2 indexed citations

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Meulman, Nienke, et al.. (2015). Prolonged L2 immersion engenders little change in morphosyntactic processing of bilingual natives. Neuroreport. 26(17). 1065–1070. 23 indexed citations

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Sprenger, Simone, et al.. (2015). The impact of language co-activation on L1 and L2 speech fluency. Acta Psychologica. 161. 25–35. 49 indexed citations

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Meulman, Nienke, Martijn Wieling, Simone Sprenger, Laurie A. Stowe, & Monika S. Schmid. (2015). Age Effects in L2 Grammar Processing as Revealed by ERPs and How (Not) to Study Them. PLoS ONE. 10(12). e0143328–e0143328. 33 indexed citations

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Meulman, Nienke, Laurie A. Stowe, Simone Sprenger, Moniek Bresser, & Monika S. Schmid. (2014). An ERP study on L2 syntax processing: When do learners fail?. Frontiers in Psychology. 5. 1072–1072. 878 indexed citations breakdown →

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Rijn, Hedderik van, Jelle R. Dalenberg, Jelmer P. Borst, & Simone Sprenger. (2012). Pupil Dilation Co-Varies with Memory Strength of Individual Traces in a Delayed Response Paired-Associate Task. PLoS ONE. 7(12). e51134–e51134. 45 indexed citations

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Schriefers, Herbert, et al.. (2012). Describing simple events: The dynamics of incremental grammatical encoding. Journal of Cognitive Psychology. 24(4). 441–456. 3 indexed citations

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Sprenger, Simone & Hedderik van Rijn. (2010). The representation of idiom words in the mental lexicon.. eScholarship (California Digital Library). 32(32). 1 indexed citations

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Sprenger, Simone, Willem J. M. Levelt, & Gerard Kempen. (2006). Lexical access during the production of idiomatic phrases. Journal of Memory and Language. 54(2). 161–184. 179 indexed citations

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Sprenger, Simone, et al.. (2000). The production of fixed expressions.: Idiom representation and access. University of Groningen research database (University of Groningen / Centre for Information Technology). 1 indexed citations

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