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33
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10366
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David P. Vinson publication distribution in Psychology in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Psychology in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where David P. Vinson sits on this spectrum.

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31 publications 705+

This scientist: 96 publications — 17th percentile

17% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 705 publications or more.

David P. Vinson D-index placement in Psychology in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Psychology scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where David P. Vinson sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 144+

This scientist: 33 D-Index — 10th percentile

10% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 144 D-Index or more.

Overview

David P. Vinson is affiliated with University College London in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans various areas of psychology, with a particular focus on experimental and cognitive psychology, cognitive neuroscience, developmental and educational psychology, artificial intelligence, and social psychology.

Their work covers diverse topics including language, metaphor, and cognition; anxiety, depression, psychometrics, treatment, and cognitive processes; child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development; hearing impairment and communication; action observation and synchronization; neurobiology of language and bilingualism; and neuroscience and music perception.

Among their recent publications are:

  • Iconicity emerges and is maintained in spoken language, 2021, Journal of Experimental Psychology General
  • Inferior parietal lobule is sensitive to different semantic similarity relations for concrete and abstract words, 2020, Psychophysiology
  • Making Sense of the Hands and Mouth: The Role of "Secondary" Cues to Meaning in British Sign Language and English, 2020, Cognitive Science
  • Catching the intangible: a role for emotion?, 2020, Behavioral and Brain Sciences
  • Word learning in two languages: Neural overlap and representational differences, 2020, Neuropsychologia

Vinson has collaborated frequently with several researchers, including Gabriella Vigliocco, Jyrki Tuomainen, Maria Montefinese, Ettore Ambrosini, and Simon Busch-Moreno. Collaborations with these colleagues have contributed to the interdisciplinary nature of their research outputs.

The body of work has been published in a variety of academic journals, including:

  • Journal of Experimental Psychology General
  • Psychophysiology
  • Cognitive Science
  • Neuropsychologia
  • Behavioral and Brain Sciences

Best Publications

  • The representation of abstract words: why emotion matters

    Stavroula-Thaleia Kousta;Gabriella Vigliocco;David P. Vinson;Mark Andrews

  • Nouns and verbs in the brain: A review of behavioural, electrophysiological, neuropsychological and imaging studies

    Gabriella Vigliocco;David P. Vinson;Judit Druks;Horacio Barber

  • Emotion words, regardless of polarity, have a processing advantage over neutral words.

    Stavroula-Thaleia Kousta;David P. Vinson;Gabriella Vigliocco

  • Representing the Meanings of Object and Action Words: The Featural and Unitary Semantic Space Hypothesis.

    Gabriella Vigliocco;David P Vinson;William Lewis;Merrill F Garrett

  • The Neural Representation of Abstract Words: The Role of Emotion

    Gabriella Vigliocco;Stavroula Thaleia Kousta;Pasquale Anthony Della Rosa;David P. Vinson

  • Integrating Experiential and Distributional Data to Learn Semantic Representations

    Mark Andrews;Gabriella Vigliocco;David Vinson

  • Language as a multimodal phenomenon: implications for language learning, processing and evolution

    Gabriella Vigliocco;Pamela Perniss;David Vinson

  • Semantic feature production norms for a large set of objects and events

    David P. Vinson;Gabriella Vigliocco

  • The British Sign Language (BSL) norms for age of acquisition, familiarity, and iconicity.

    David P. Vinson;Kearsy Cormier;Tanya Denmark;Adam Schembri

  • Grammatical gender effects on cognition: implications for language learning and language use.

    Gabriella Vigliocco;David P. Vinson;Federica Paganelli;Katharina Dworzynski

  • The Road to Language Learning Is Iconic Evidence From British Sign Language

    Robin L. Thompson;David P. Vinson;Bencie Woll;Gabriella Vigliocco

  • Semantic distance effects on object and action naming

    Gabriella Vigliocco;David P. Vinson;Markus F. Damian;Willem J. M. Levelt

  • How does emotional content affect lexical processing

    David Vinson;Marta Ponari;Gabriella Vigliocco

  • The link between form and meaning in American Sign Language: lexical processing effects.

    Robin L. Thompson;David P. Vinson;Gabriella Vigliocco

  • Is "Count" and "Mass" Information Available When the Noun Is Not? An Investigation of Tip of the Tongue States and Anomia

    Gabriella Vigliocco;David P. Vinson;Randi C. Martin;Merrill F. Garrett

  • First language acquisition differs from second language acquisition in prelingually deaf signers: Evidence from sensitivity to grammaticality judgement in British Sign Language

    Kearsy Cormier;Adam Schembri;David Vinson;Eleni Orfanidou

  • A faster path between meaning and form? Iconicity facilitates sign recognition and production in British Sign Language

    David Vinson;Robin L. Thompson;Robin L. Thompson;Robert Skinner;Robert Skinner;Gabriella Vigliocco

  • Processing advantage for emotional words in bilingual speakers

    Marta Ponari;Sara Rodriguez-Cuadrado;Dave P. Vinson;Neil Fox

  • A semantic analysis of grammatical class impairments: semantic representations of object nouns, action nouns and action verbs

    David P Vinson;Gabriella Vigliocco

  • Investigating linguistic relativity through bilingualism: the case of grammatical gender.

    Stavroula-Thaleia Kousta;David P. Vinson;Gabriella Vigliocco

  • The breakdown of semantic knowledge: insights from a statistical model of meaning representation.

    David P Vinson;Gabriella Vigliocco;Stefano Cappa;Simona Siri

Frequent Co-Authors

Gabriella Vigliocco
Gabriella Vigliocco University College London
Adam Schembri
Adam Schembri University of Birmingham
Stefano F. Cappa
Stefano F. Cappa Istituto Universitario Di Studi Superiori Di Pavia
Joanne Arciuli
Joanne Arciuli Flinders University
Bencie Woll
Bencie Woll University College London
Willem J. M. Levelt
Willem J. M. Levelt Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics
Joseph T. Devlin
Joseph T. Devlin University College London
Randi C. Martin
Randi C. Martin Rice University
Robin L. Carhart-Harris
Robin L. Carhart-Harris University of California, San Francisco
Jeffrey S. Bowers
Jeffrey S. Bowers University of Bristol

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