Ton Dijkstra

13.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
127 papers, 7.8k citations indexed

About

Ton Dijkstra is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Developmental and Educational Psychology and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Ton Dijkstra has authored 127 papers receiving a total of 7.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 93 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 79 papers in Developmental and Educational Psychology and 32 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. Recurrent topics in Ton Dijkstra's work include Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism (85 papers), Reading and Literacy Development (65 papers) and Second Language Acquisition and Learning (31 papers). Ton Dijkstra is often cited by papers focused on Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism (85 papers), Reading and Literacy Development (65 papers) and Second Language Acquisition and Learning (31 papers). Ton Dijkstra collaborates with scholars based in Netherlands, United States and Germany. Ton Dijkstra's co-authors include Walter J. B. van Heuven, Janet G. van Hell, Jonathan Grainger, R. Harald Baayen, Herbert Schriefers, Robert Schreuder, Kristin Lemhöfer, Peter Hagoort, Marcel Bastiaansen and A.N. Schellekens and has published in prestigious journals such as PLoS ONE, NeuroImage and Nuclear Physics B.

In The Last Decade

Ton Dijkstra

124 papers receiving 7.3k 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.

The architecture of the bilingual word recognition system: From identification to decision

2002 1.0k citations Ton Dijkstra, Walter J. B. van Heuven Bilingualism Language and Cognition profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Ton Dijkstra Netherlands	42	5.9k	5.5k	1.9k	1.1k	916	127	7.8k
Jonathan Cohen Israel	16	2.0k 0.3×	976 0.2×	929 0.5×	184 0.2×	207 0.2×	39	3.2k
S. Gennari Italy	24	826 0.1×	687 0.1×	874 0.5×	453 0.4×	200 0.2×	77	2.1k
Carol Miller United States	27	1.6k 0.3×	2.3k 0.4×	288 0.2×	255 0.2×	127 0.1×	107	3.1k
Alfonso Caramazza United States	37	5.8k 1.0×	4.2k 0.8×	1.5k 0.8×	715 0.6×	515 0.6×	63	7.0k
Christophe Pallier France	41	4.8k 0.8×	3.2k 0.6×	3.0k 1.6×	586 0.5×	1.1k 1.2×	91	7.3k
Virginia A. Marchman United States	36	2.6k 0.4×	6.3k 1.1×	998 0.5×	788 0.7×	543 0.6×	106	7.8k
Guy C. Van Orden United States	32	3.4k 0.6×	3.3k 0.6×	1.2k 0.7×	184 0.2×	747 0.8×	57	5.5k
Ludovic Ferrand France	39	5.0k 0.9×	4.3k 0.8×	2.3k 1.3×	342 0.3×	743 0.8×	133	6.9k
Ram Frost Israel	47	4.6k 0.8×	5.6k 1.0×	1.5k 0.8×	490 0.4×	786 0.9×	106	7.5k
Yosef Grodzinsky Israel	29	4.0k 0.7×	3.3k 0.6×	732 0.4×	1.1k 1.0×	359 0.4×	69	4.8k

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Rinaldi, Luca, et al.. (2025). Older adults produce more verbal false memories than younger adults: is it semantics or executive functioning?. Aging Clinical and Experimental Research. 37(1). 87–87.

Kootstra, Gerrit Jan, et al.. (2024). The Role of Cognates and Language Distance in Simultaneous Bilingual Children's Productive Vocabulary Acquisition. Language Learning. 75(2). 347–378. 2 indexed citations

Thul, Rüdiger, Joseph A. Marsh, Ton Dijkstra, & Kathy Conklin. (2024). Stratified distributional analysis—a novel perspective on RT distributions. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology. 78(8). 1740–1756.

Kootstra, Gerrit Jan, et al.. (2023). Cross-linguistic influence in the simultaneous bilingual child's lexicon: An eye-tracking and primed picture selection study. Bilingualism Language and Cognition. 27(3). 377–387. 4 indexed citations

Dijkstra, Ton, et al.. (2023). Beyond the tried and true: How virtual reality, dialog setups, and a focus on multimodality can take bilingual language production research forward. Neuropsychologia. 193. 108764–108764. 3 indexed citations

Dijkstra, Ton, et al.. (2021). Dropping Beans or Spilling Secrets: How Idiomatic Context Bias Affects Prediction. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. 34(2). 209–223. 1 indexed citations

Ferreira, Roberto A., David Vinson, Ton Dijkstra, & Gabriella Vigliocco. (2020). Word learning in two languages: Neural overlap and representational differences. Neuropsychologia. 150. 107703–107703. 3 indexed citations

Peeters, David, et al.. (2018). Activation of the language control network in bilingual visual word recognition. Cortex. 111. 63–73. 17 indexed citations

Dijkstra, Ton, et al.. (2016). Affective Meaning, Concreteness, and Subjective Frequency Norms for Indonesian Words. Frontiers in Psychology. 7. 1907–1907. 31 indexed citations

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Peeters, David, Ton Dijkstra, & Jonathan Grainger. (2013). The representation and processing of identical cognates by late bilinguals: RT and ERP effects. Journal of Memory and Language. 68(4). 315–332. 82 indexed citations

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Schepens, Job, Ton Dijkstra, F.A. Grootjen, & Walter J. B. van Heuven. (2013). Cross-Language Distributions of High Frequency and Phonetically Similar Cognates. PLoS ONE. 8(5). e63006–e63006. 49 indexed citations

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Rommers, Joost, Ton Dijkstra, & Marcel Bastiaansen. (2012). Context-dependent Semantic Processing in the Human Brain: Evidence from Idiom Comprehension. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. 25(5). 762–776. 106 indexed citations

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Roelofs, Ardi, et al.. (2012). Modeling of word translation: Activation flow from concepts to lexical items. Bilingualism Language and Cognition. 16(2). 343–353. 12 indexed citations

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Broek, Egon L. van den, et al.. (2011). Cross-validation of bimodal health-related stress assessment. Personal and Ubiquitous Computing. 17(2). 215–227. 16 indexed citations

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Broek, Egon L. van den, et al.. (2009). Therapy progress indicator (TPI): Combining speech parameters and the subjective unit of distress. University of Twente Research Information. 1–6. 6 indexed citations

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Heuven, Walter J. B. van, Herbert Schriefers, Ton Dijkstra, & Peter Hagoort. (2008). Language Conflict in the Bilingual Brain. Cerebral Cortex. 18(11). 2706–2716. 165 indexed citations

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Anastasopoulos, Pascal, Ton Dijkstra, Elias Kiritsis, & Bert Schellekens. (2006). Orientifolds, hypercharge embeddings and the Standard Model. Nuclear Physics B. 759(1-2). 83–146. 109 indexed citations

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Dijkstra, Ton & Koenraad De Smedt. (1996). Computational psycholinguistics : AI and connectionist models of human language processing. 13 indexed citations

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Dijkstra, Ton, et al.. (1995). Orthographic effects on phoneme monitoring. Radboud Repository (Radboud University). 49. 264–271. 1 indexed citations

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Frauenfelder, Uli H., Juan Seguí, & Ton Dijkstra. (1990). Lexical effects in phonemic processing: Facilitatory or inhibitory?. Journal of Experimental Psychology Human Perception & Performance. 16(1). 77–91. 56 indexed citations

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