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3912
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6796
National Ranking
265

Overview

Frank Wijnen is affiliated with Utrecht University in the Netherlands. Their research primarily spans the fields of psychology and medicine, with an emphasis on developmental and educational psychology, molecular biology, cognitive neuroscience, clinical psychology, and genetics.

The main topics of Wijnen's research include:

  • Language Development and Disorders
  • Reading and Literacy Development
  • Congenital Heart Defects Research
  • Congenital Heart Disease Studies
  • Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism
  • Genetics and Neurodevelopmental Disorders
  • Child and Animal Learning Development

Among their recent published papers are:

  • Language in schizophrenia: relation with diagnosis, symptomatology and white matter tracts, 2020, Schizophrenia
  • Language disturbances in schizophrenia: the relation with antipsychotic medication, 2020, Schizophrenia
  • Acoustic speech markers for schizophrenia-spectrum disorders: a diagnostic and symptom-recognition tool, 2021, Psychological Medicine
  • Natural Language Processing Markers for Psychosis and Other Psychiatric Disorders: Emerging Themes and Research Agenda From a Cross-Linguistic Workshop, 2023, Schizophrenia Bulletin
  • The contribution of individual differences in statistical learning to reading and spelling performance in children with and without dyslexia, 2021, Dyslexia

Frequent publication venues for Wijnen include:

  • Schizophrenia
  • Schizophrenia Bulletin
  • Language Speech and Hearing Services in Schools
  • Frontiers in Psychology
  • International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders

Collaborative work features several recurring coauthors, among them:

  • Tessel Boerma
  • Ellen Gerrits
  • Iris Selten
  • Jacob Vorstman
  • Janna N. de Boer

Best Publications

  • The (non)realization of unstressed elements in children's utterances: evidence for a rhythmic constraint[*]

    F Wijnen;E Krikhaar;E Denos

  • Phonological Encoding and Monitoring in Normal and Pathological Speech

    R.J. Hartsuiker;Y.R.M. Bastiaanse;A. Postma;F.N.K. Wijnen

  • Narrative abilities of monolingual and bilingual children with and without language impairment: implications for clinical practice.

    Tessel Boerma;Paul Leseman;Mona Timmermeister;Frank Wijnen

  • Early language development in children with a genetic risk of dyslexia

    Petra M. Van Alphen;Elise De Bree;Ellen Gerrits;Jan De Jong

  • The Acquisition of Dutch Syntax

    Frank Wijnen;Peter Coopmans;Jan de Jong;Peter Jordens

  • A Quasi-Universal Nonword Repetition Task as a Diagnostic Tool for Bilingual Children Learning Dutch as a Second Language

    Tessel Boerma;Shula Chiat;Paul Leseman;Mona Timmermeister

  • Storage and Computation in the Language Faculty

    S. Nooteboom;F. Wijnen

  • Differential diagnostic characteristics between cluttering and stuttering--part one.

    Y. Van Zaalen op ’t Hof;F. Wijnen;P.H. De Jonckere

  • The development of sentence planning.

    Frank Wijnen

  • Root infinitives in Dutch early child language: an effect of input?

    Frank Wijnen;Masja Kempen;Steven Gillis

  • Statistical Learning in Specific Language Impairment : A Meta-Analysis

    Imme Lammertink;Paul Boersma;Frank Wijnen;Judith Rispens

  • Language disturbances in schizophrenia: the relation with antipsychotic medication.

    J N de Boer;J N de Boer;A E Voppel;S G Brederoo;F N K Wijnen

  • Incidental word and sound errors in young speakers

    Frank Wijnen

  • Non-word repetition and literacy in Dutch children at-risk of dyslexia and children with SLI: results of the follow-up study.

    Elise de Bree;Frank Wijnen;Ellen Gerrits

  • Non-adjacent Dependency Learning in Humans and Other Animals.

    Benjamin P. Wilson;Michelle J. Spierings;Andrea Ravignani;Jutta L. Mueller

  • Acoustic speech markers for schizophrenia-spectrum disorders: a diagnostic and symptom-recognition tool

    J N de Boer;J N de Boer;A E Voppel;S G Brederoo;H G Schnack

  • Phonological priming effects in stutterers

    Frank Wijnen;Inge Boers

  • Phonological encoding and word stress in stuttering and nonstuttering subjects

    Remca Burger;Frank Wijnen

  • The temporal interpretation of Dutch children's root infinitivals: the effect of eventivity

    Frank Wijnen

  • Visual artificial grammar learning in dyslexia: A meta-analysis.

    Merel van Witteloostuijn;Paul Boersma;Frank Wijnen;Judith Rispens

  • Prediction and integration in native and second-language processing of elliptical structures

    Edith Kaan;Joseph Kirkham;Frank Wijnen

  • "MetaTaal": Enhancing Complex Syntax in Children with Specific Language Impairment--A Metalinguistic and Multimodal Approach.

    Rob Zwitserlood;Frank Wijnen;Marjolijn van Weerdenburg;Ludo Verhoeven

  • Non-adjacent dependency learning in infants at familial risk of dyslexia

    Annemarie Kerkhoff;Elise De Bree;Maartje De Klerk;Frank Wijnen

  • Gapping: Electrophysiological evidence for immediate processing of "missing" verbs in sentence comprehension.

    Edith Kaan;Frank Wijnen;Tamara Y Swaab

  • The article’s noun and the noun’s article: explorations into the representation and access of linguistic gender in Dutch

    Werner Deutsch;Frank Wijnen

  • Syntactic predictions in second-language sentence processing

    Edith Kaan;Andrea Dallas;Frank Wijnen

Frequent Co-Authors

Ludo Verhoeven
Ludo Verhoeven Radboud University
Paul P.M. Leseman
Paul P.M. Leseman Utrecht University
Hugo G. Schnack
Hugo G. Schnack Utrecht University
Robert J. Hartsuiker
Robert J. Hartsuiker Ghent University
Mariska J. Vansteensel
Mariska J. Vansteensel Utrecht University
Kenneth Hugdahl
Kenneth Hugdahl University of Bergen
Herman H.J. Kolk
Herman H.J. Kolk Radboud University
Denis K Burnham
Denis K Burnham Western Sydney University
André Aleman
André Aleman University Medical Center Groningen
Albert Postma
Albert Postma Utrecht University

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