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42
Citations
7914
World Ranking
4728
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Falk Huettig publication distribution in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Falk Huettig sits on this spectrum.

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44 publications 570+

This scientist: 234 publications — 75th percentile

75% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 570 publications or more.

Falk Huettig D-index placement in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Social Sciences and Humanities scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Falk Huettig sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 42 D-Index — 42nd percentile

42% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Overview

Falk Huettig is affiliated with the Max Planck Society in Germany and has a research focus spanning psychology and neuroscience. Their work predominantly engages with developmental and educational psychology, cognitive neuroscience, and experimental and cognitive psychology, alongside contributions to artificial intelligence and social psychology. Their research integrates multiple areas related to language processing, literacy, and cognitive development.

The scientist's main topics of study include:

  • Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism
  • Reading and Literacy Development
  • Language, Metaphor, and Cognition
  • Categorization, Perception, and Language
  • Language Development and Disorders
  • Multisensory Perception and Integration
  • Second Language Acquisition and Learning

Falk Huettig's recent papers demonstrate a consistent engagement with language and cognitive science communities. Notable publications include:

  • "A pre-registered, multi-lab non-replication of the action-sentence compatibility effect (ACE)" (2021) in Psychonomic Bulletin & Review
  • "A parallel architecture perspective on pre-activation and prediction in language processing" (2022) in Cognition
  • "Literacy can enhance syntactic prediction in spoken language processing." (2021) in Journal of Experimental Psychology General
  • "Does Neuronal Recycling Result in Destructive Competition? The Influence of Learning to Read on the Recognition of Faces" (2021) in Psychological Science
  • "The role of the written script in shaping mirror-image discrimination: Evidence from illiterate, Tamil literate, and Tamil-Latin-alphabet bi-literate adults" (2020) in Cognition

Frequent publication venues for Huettig include:

  • Cognition
  • Journal of Cultural Cognitive Science
  • Brain Research
  • Cognitive Science
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

Collaborations have involved several frequent co-authors, reflecting interdisciplinary and sustained research partnerships. These co-authors include:

  • Markus Ostarek
  • M. Arunkumar
  • Figen Karaca
  • Susanne Brouwer
  • Sharon Unsworth

Falk Huettig's publication record includes over sixty-four works in psychology and more than thirty-three in neuroscience, underscoring a substantial contribution to these fields. Their research often intersects with language acquisition, literacy development, and cognitive mechanisms underlying perception and categorization.

Best Publications

  • Using the visual world paradigm to study language processing: a review and critical evaluation.

    Falk Huettig;Joost Rommers;Joost Rommers;Antje S. Meyer;Antje S. Meyer

  • Word meaning and the control of eye fixation: Semantic competitor effects and the visual world paradigm

    Falk Huettig;Gerry T. M. Altmann

  • Prediction During Language Processing is a Piece of Cake — But Only for Skilled Producers

    Nivedita Mani;Falk Huettig

  • The tug of war between phonological, semantic and shape information in language-mediated visual search

    Falk Huettig;James M. McQueen

  • Four central questions about prediction in language processing

    Falk Huettig

  • Large-scale replication study reveals a limit on probabilistic prediction in language comprehension

    Mante S. Nieuwland;Mante S. Nieuwland;Stephen Politzer-Ahles;Stephen Politzer-Ahles;Evelien Heyselaar;Katrien Segaert

  • Individual differences in working memory and processing speed predict anticipatory spoken language processing in the visual world

    Falk Huettig;Esther Janse

  • Is prediction necessary to understand language? Probably not.

    Falk Huettig;Nivedita Mani

  • Dissociable effects of prediction and integration during language comprehension: evidence from a large-scale study using brain potentials

    Mante S. Nieuwland;Mante S. Nieuwland;Dale J. Barr;Federica Bartolozzi;Federica Bartolozzi;Simon Busch-Moreno

  • Spoken language-mediated anticipatory eye- movements are modulated by reading ability - Evidence from Indian low and high literates

    Ramesh K. Mishra;Niharika Singh;Aparna Pandey;Falk Huettig

  • Looking, language, and memory: Bridging research from the visual world and visual search paradigms

    Falk Huettig;Christian N. L. Olivers;Robert J. Hartsuiker

  • Visual-shape competition during language-mediated attention is based on lexical input and not modulated by contextual appropriateness

    Falk Huettig;Gerry T. M. Altmann

  • The contents of predictions in sentence comprehension: activation of the shape of objects before they are referred to.

    Joost Rommers;Antje S. Meyer;Antje S. Meyer;Peter Praamstra;Falk Huettig

  • Looking at anything that is green when hearing “frog”: How object surface colour and stored object colour knowledge influence language-mediated overt attention

    Falk Huettig;Gerry T. M. Altmann

  • Listening to yourself is like listening to others: External, but not internal, verbal self-monitoring is based on speech perception

    Falk Huettig;Robert J. Hartsuiker

  • When meaning matters: The temporal dynamics of semantic influences on visual attention

    Floor De Groot;Falk Huettig;Christian N. L. Olivers

  • Models of high-dimensional semantic space predict language-mediated eye movements in the visual world.

    Falk Huettig;Philip T. Quinlan;Scott A. McDonald;Gerry T. M. Altmann

  • A pre-registered, multi-lab non-replication of the action-sentence compatibility effect (ACE)

    Richard D. Morey;Michael P. Kaschak;Antonio M. Díez-Álamo;Antonio M. Díez-Álamo;Arthur M. Glenberg;Arthur M. Glenberg

  • Distinguishing cause from effect – many deficits associated with developmental dyslexia may be a consequence of reduced and suboptimal reading experience

    Falk Huettig;Thomas Lachmann;Alexandra Reis;Karl Magnus Petersson;Karl Magnus Petersson

  • Changing only the probability that spoken words will be distorted changes how they are recognized

    James M. McQueen;Falk Huettig

  • Literacy advantages beyond reading. Prediction of spoken language

    Falk Huettig;Falk Huettig;Martin J. Pickering

  • Author response: Large-scale replication study reveals a limit on probabilistic prediction in language comprehension

    Mante S Nieuwland;Mante S Nieuwland;Stephen Politzer-Ahles;Stephen Politzer-Ahles;Evelien Heyselaar;Katrien Segaert

Frequent Co-Authors

Padraic Monaghan
Padraic Monaghan Lancaster University
Christian N. L. Olivers
Christian N. L. Olivers Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Mante S. Nieuwland
Mante S. Nieuwland Max Planck Society
James M. McQueen
James M. McQueen Radboud University
Holger Mitterer
Holger Mitterer University of Malta
Robert J. Hartsuiker
Robert J. Hartsuiker Ghent University
Thomas Lachmann
Thomas Lachmann Technical University of Kaiserslautern
Gerry T. M. Altmann
Gerry T. M. Altmann University of Connecticut
David I. Donaldson
David I. Donaldson University of Stirling
Asifa Majid
Asifa Majid University of York

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