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Fernanda Ferreira 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 Fernanda Ferreira sits on this spectrum.

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31 publications 705+

This scientist: 150 publications — 49th percentile

49% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Fernanda Ferreira 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 Fernanda Ferreira sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 144+

This scientist: 59 D-Index — 68th percentile

68% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Fernanda Ferreira is affiliated with the University of California, Davis in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields including Computer Science, Psychology, and Neuroscience, with particular emphasis on Cognitive Neuroscience, Artificial Intelligence, and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. They have also contributed to subfields such as Developmental and Educational Psychology and Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition.

Ferreira's work addresses a variety of topics, prominently featuring Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism, Reading and Literacy Development, and Language, Metaphor, and Cognition. Additional research interests include Visual Attention and Saliency Detection, Text Readability and Simplification, Visual Perception and Processing Mechanisms, and Natural Language Processing Techniques.

Frequent co-authors in Ferreira's research include:

  • Gwendolyn Rehrig
  • Eleonora J. Beier
  • Taylor R. Hayes
  • John M. Henderson
  • Madison Barker

Some of the main venues where Ferreira has published multiple works are:

  • Journal of Experimental Psychology Learning Memory and Cognition
  • Journal of Memory and Language
  • Psychology and Aging
  • Memory & Cognition
  • Language Cognition and Neuroscience

Recent papers by Ferreira include:

  • Predicting syntactic structure, 2021, Brain Research
  • Good-enough language production, 2022, Trends in Cognitive Sciences
  • Recovery from misinterpretations during online sentence processing, 2020, Journal of Experimental Psychology Learning Memory and Cognition
  • The Application of Signal Detection Theory to Acceptability Judgments, 2020, Frontiers in Psychology
  • Multidimensional Signals and Analytic Flexibility: Estimating Degrees of Freedom in Human-Speech Analyses, 2023, Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science

This body of work reflects a focus on language processing, sentence comprehension, and methodological approaches to cognitive psychology research. The collaborations and publication venues indicate a consistent engagement with experimental and cognitive aspects of psychology and neuroscience alongside intersections with computer science and artificial intelligence.

Best Publications

  • The independence of syntactic processing

    Fernanda Ferreira;Charles Clifton

  • Good-Enough Representations in Language Comprehension

    Fernanda Ferreira;Karl G.D. Bailey;Vittoria Ferraro

  • The misinterpretation of noncanonical sentences

    Fernanda Ferreira

  • The ‘Good Enough’ Approach to Language Comprehension

    Fernanda Ferreira;Nikole D. Patson

  • Effects of foveal processing difficulty on the perceptual span in reading: Implications for attention and eye movement control.

    John M. Henderson;Fernanda Ferreira

  • Thematic roles assigned along the garden path linger.

    Kiel Christianson;Andrew Hollingworth;John F. Halliwell;Fernanda Ferreira

  • Use of verb information in syntactic parsing : evidence from eye movements and word-by-word self-paced reading

    Fernanda Ferreira;John M. Henderson

  • Creation of prosody during sentence production.

    Fernanda Ferreira

  • How Incremental Is Language Production? Evidence from the Production of Utterances Requiring the Computation of Arithmetic Sums

    Fernanda Ferreira;Benjamin Swets

  • Effects of length and syntactic complexity on initiation times for prepared utterances

    Fernanda Ferreira

  • Recovery from misanalyses of garden-path sentences ☆

    Fernanda Ferreira;John M Henderson

  • Choice of Passive Voice is Affected by Verb Type and Animacy

    F. Ferreira

  • The Interface of Language, Vision, and Action: Eye Movements and the Visual World

    John M. Henderson;Fernanda Ferreira

  • Do speakers and listeners observe the Gricean Maxim of Quantity

    Paul E. Engelhardt;Karl G. D. Bailey;Fernanda Ferreira

  • Underspecification of syntactic ambiguities: evidence from self-paced reading.

    Benjamin Swets;Timothy Desmet;Charles Clifton;Fernanda Ferreira

  • Scene Perception for Psycholinguists.

    John M. Henderson;Fernanda Ferreira

  • The role of working memory in syntactic ambiguity resolution: a psychometric approach.

    Benjamin Swets;Timothy Desmet;David Z. Hambrick;Fernanda Ferreira

  • Reanalysis in sentence processing

    Janet Dean Fodor;Fernanda Ferreira

  • Eye movements in reading and information processing: Keith Rayner’s 40 year legacy

    Charles Jr Clifton;Fernanda Ferreira;John M. Henderson;Albrecht W. Inhoff

  • Inferring consequences in story comprehension

    Murray Singer;Fernanda Ferreira

  • Misinterpretations of Garden-Path Sentences: Implications for Models of Sentence Processing and Reanalysis

    Fernanda Ferreira;Kiel Christianson;Andrew Hollingworth

  • Taking a new look at looking at nothing

    Fernanda Ferreira;Jens Apel;John M. Henderson

  • Singing can facilitate foreign language learning

    Karen M. Ludke;Fernanda Ferreira;Katie Overy

Frequent Co-Authors

John M. Henderson
John M. Henderson University of California, Davis
Joel T. Nigg
Joel T. Nigg Oregon Health & Science University
Charles Clifton
Charles Clifton University of Massachusetts Amherst
Christoph Scheepers
Christoph Scheepers University of Glasgow
Patrick Sturt
Patrick Sturt University of Edinburgh
Rose T. Zacks
Rose T. Zacks Michigan State University
Andrew Hollingworth
Andrew Hollingworth University of Iowa
Martin J. Pickering
Martin J. Pickering University of Edinburgh
Jennifer M. Rodd
Jennifer M. Rodd University College London
Michael K. Tanenhaus
Michael K. Tanenhaus University of Rochester

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