Thomas C. Gunter

8.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
92 papers, 5.9k citations indexed

About

Thomas C. Gunter is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Developmental and Educational Psychology and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Thomas C. Gunter has authored 92 papers receiving a total of 5.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 76 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 43 papers in Developmental and Educational Psychology and 34 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. Recurrent topics in Thomas C. Gunter's work include Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism (52 papers), Reading and Literacy Development (28 papers) and Neuroscience and Music Perception (22 papers). Thomas C. Gunter is often cited by papers focused on Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism (52 papers), Reading and Literacy Development (28 papers) and Neuroscience and Music Perception (22 papers). Thomas C. Gunter collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United States and United Kingdom. Thomas C. Gunter's co-authors include Angela D. Friederici, Stefan Koelsch, Henning Holle, Burkhard Maeß, Daniela Sammler, Herbert Schriefers, Gijsbertus Mulder, Stefanie Regel, Sonja A. Kotz and Laurie A. Stowe and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nature Neuroscience and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Thomas C. Gunter

90 papers receiving 5.7k 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.

Musical syntax is processed in Broca's area: an MEG study

2001 670 citations Burkhard Maeß, Stefan Koelsch et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Thomas C. Gunter Germany	43	5.0k	2.6k	2.0k	1.3k	411	92	5.9k
Mireille Besson France	49	7.3k 1.4×	2.4k 0.9×	2.7k 1.3×	1.2k 0.9×	1.3k 3.3×	113	8.2k
Axel Mecklinger Germany	55	8.1k 1.6×	1.9k 0.7×	1.7k 0.8×	1.1k 0.9×	58 0.1×	192	8.9k
Ricarda I. Schubotz Germany	38	4.9k 1.0×	1.1k 0.4×	1.3k 0.6×	2.2k 1.8×	107 0.3×	129	5.8k
Yury Shtyrov Denmark	45	5.5k 1.1×	2.3k 0.9×	2.7k 1.3×	1.6k 1.3×	32 0.1×	185	6.4k
Anja Hahne Germany	34	4.7k 0.9×	3.5k 1.3×	1.1k 0.5×	283 0.2×	82 0.2×	59	5.1k
Régine Kolinsky Belgium	31	2.8k 0.5×	2.3k 0.9×	1.4k 0.7×	330 0.3×	75 0.2×	170	4.2k
Daniele Schön France	34	3.9k 0.8×	988 0.4×	1.4k 0.7×	646 0.5×	711 1.7×	94	4.4k
Denis Burnham Australia	35	1.9k 0.4×	2.2k 0.9×	2.6k 1.3×	263 0.2×	51 0.1×	184	4.3k
Kai Alter Germany	30	2.9k 0.6×	1.1k 0.4×	1.5k 0.7×	545 0.4×	75 0.2×	80	3.5k
Pierre Perruchet France	37	2.9k 0.6×	3.0k 1.2×	825 0.4×	796 0.6×	28 0.1×	112	5.2k

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Gunter, Thomas C., et al.. (2024). White matter plasticity during second language learning within and across hemispheres. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 121(2). e2306286121–e2306286121. 6 indexed citations

Gunter, Thomas C., et al.. (2023). Causal evidence for a coordinated temporal interplay within the language network. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 120(47). e2306279120–e2306279120. 8 indexed citations

Gunter, Thomas C., et al.. (2018). Young children’s sentence comprehension: Neural correlates of syntax-semantic competition. Brain and Cognition. 134. 110–121. 10 indexed citations

Schirmer, Annett & Thomas C. Gunter. (2017). The right touch: Stroking of CT-innervated skin promotes vocal emotion processing. Cognitive Affective & Behavioral Neuroscience. 17(6). 1129–1140. 24 indexed citations

Gunter, Thomas C., et al.. (2017). Communicative predictions can overrule linguistic priors. Scientific Reports. 7(1). 17581–17581. 23 indexed citations

Gunter, Thomas C., et al.. (2015). Inconsistent use of gesture space during abstract pointing impairs language comprehension. Frontiers in Psychology. 6. 80–80. 22 indexed citations

Regel, Stefanie, Lars Meyer, & Thomas C. Gunter. (2014). Distinguishing Neurocognitive Processes Reflected by P600 Effects: Evidence from ERPs and Neural Oscillations. PLoS ONE. 9(5). e96840–e96840. 70 indexed citations

Regel, Stefanie, Seana Coulson, & Thomas C. Gunter. (2009). The communicative style of a speaker can affect language comprehension? ERP evidence from the comprehension of irony. Brain Research. 1311. 121–135. 88 indexed citations

Kotz, Sonja A. & Thomas C. Gunter. (2008). Cognitive Psychology I. Max Planck Digital Library. 1 indexed citations

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Elston-Güttler, Kerrie E. & Thomas C. Gunter. (2008). Fine-tuned: Phonology and Semantics Affect First- to Second-language Zooming In. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. 21(1). 180–196. 20 indexed citations

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Holle, Henning, Thomas C. Gunter, Shirley‐Ann Rüschemeyer, Andreas Hennenlotter, & Marco Iacoboni. (2007). Neural correlates of the processing of co-speech gestures. NeuroImage. 39(4). 2010–2024. 136 indexed citations

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Holle, Henning & Thomas C. Gunter. (2007). The Role of Iconic Gestures in Speech Disambiguation: ERP Evidence. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. 19(7). 1175–1192. 173 indexed citations

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Regel, Stefanie, Thomas C. Gunter, & Angela D. Friederici. (2005). On the processing of irony: An electrophysiological study. Max Planck Digital Library. 35(4). 75–75. 1 indexed citations

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Supp, Gernot G., Alois Schlögl, Christian J. Fiebach, et al.. (2005). SHORT COMMUNICATIONS: Semantic memory retrieval: cortical couplings in object recognition in the N400 window. European Journal of Neuroscience. 21(4). 1139–1143. 20 indexed citations

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Bach, Patric, Günther Knoblich, Thomas C. Gunter, Angela D. Friederici, & Wolfgang Prinz. (2005). Action Comprehension: Deriving Spatial and Functional Relations.. Journal of Experimental Psychology Human Perception & Performance. 31(3). 465–479. 47 indexed citations

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Gunter, Thomas C., et al.. (2003). Working Memory and Lexical Ambiguity Resolution as Revealed by ERPs: A Difficult Case for Activation Theories. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. 15(5). 643–657. 73 indexed citations

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Koelsch, Stefan, Burkhard Maeß, Thomas C. Gunter, & Angela D. Friederici. (2001). Neapolitan Chords Activate the Area of Broca. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. 930(1). 420–421. 9 indexed citations

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Gunter, Thomas C., Herbert Schriefers, & Angela D. Friederici. (1999). Gender violations, semantic expectancy and ERPs. International Journal of Psychophysiology. 33(1). 61. 1 indexed citations

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Gunter, Thomas C. & A.D. Friederici. (1999). Concerning the automaticity of syntactic processing. Psychophysiology. 36(1). 126–137. 100 indexed citations

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Kaernbach, Christian, Erich Schröger, & Thomas C. Gunter. (1998). Human event-related brain potentials to auditory periodic noise stimuli. Neuroscience Letters. 242(1). 17–20. 16 indexed citations

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