2026 Gerry T. M. Altmann: Psychology Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Psychology	46	6300	5859	3408	3091	111	15063

Overview

Gerry T. M. Altmann is affiliated with the University of Connecticut in the United States. Their research spans multiple areas within psychology and neuroscience, focusing on language, cognition, and brain processes.

The primary fields of study for this scientist include:

Psychology
Neuroscience

Within these fields, their work further specializes in several subfields:

Cognitive Neuroscience
Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
Artificial Intelligence
Social Psychology
Developmental and Educational Psychology

The main research topics addressed include:

Language, Metaphor, and Cognition
Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism
Action Observation and Synchronization
EEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces
Child and Animal Learning Development
Categorization, perception, and language
Memory and Neural Mechanisms

Gerry T. M. Altmann has contributed articles to various publication venues. Notable venues with frequent publications are:

Behavioral and Brain Sciences
Cognitive Neuropsychology
Behavior Research Methods
Acta Psychologica
Journal of Experimental Psychology Learning Memory and Cognition

Among recent papers authored or co-authored by this researcher are:

"Situational systematicity: A role for schema in understanding the differences between abstract and concrete concepts," 2020, Cognitive Neuropsychology
"Online eye tracking and real-time sentence processing: On opportunities and efficacy for capturing psycholinguistic effects of different magnitudes and diversity," 2023, Behavior Research Methods
"The activation of object-state representations during online language comprehension," 2020, Acta Psychologica
"Finding event structure in time: What recurrent neural networks can tell us about event structure in mind," 2021, Cognition
"Investigating the interplay between morphosyntax and event comprehension from the perspective of intersecting object histories," 2023, Journal of Experimental Psychology Learning Memory and Cognition

Frequent collaborators in their research include:

Eiling Yee
Charles P. Davis
Yanina Prystauka
Zachary Ekves
Gitte H. Joergensen

Best Publications

Incremental interpretation at verbs: restricting the domain of subsequent reference

Gerry T.M Altmann;Yuki Kamide

2151
Citations
Interaction with context during human sentence processing.

Gerry Altmann;Mark Steedman

1526
Citations
The time-course of prediction in incremental sentence processing: Evidence from anticipatory eye-movements

Yuki Kamide;Gerry T.M Altmann;Sarah L Haywood

1241
Citations
The Oxford handbook of psycholinguistics

M. Gareth Gaskell;Gerry T. M. Altmann

550
Citations
The real-time mediation of visual attention by language and world knowledge: Linking anticipatory (and other) eye movements to linguistic processing

Gerry T.M. Altmann;Yuki Kamide

545
Citations
Word meaning and the control of eye fixation: Semantic competitor effects and the visual world paradigm

Falk Huettig;Gerry T. M. Altmann

505
Citations
Unconscious knowledge of artificial grammars is applied strategically.

Zoltán Dienes;Gerry T.M. Altmann;Liam Kwan;Alastair Goode

489
Citations
Integration of syntactic and semantic information in predictive processing: cross-linguistic evidence from German and English

Yuki Kamide;Christoph Scheepers;Gerry T. M. Altmann

471
Citations
Incrementality and Prediction in Human Sentence Processing

Gerry T. M. Altmann;Jelena Mirković

453
Citations
Language-mediated eye movements in the absence of a visual world: the 'blank screen paradigm'.

Gerry T.M Altmann

372
Citations
Avoiding the garden path: Eye movements in context

Gerry T.M Altmann;Alan Garnham;Yvette Dennis

365
Citations
Cognitive models of speech processing

Gerry T. M. Altmann

320
Citations
On the modality independence of implicitly learned grammatical knowledge

Gerry T M Altmann;Zoltán Dienes;Alastair Goode

290
Citations
The Ascent of Babel: An Exploration of Language, Mind, and Understanding

Gerry T. M. Altmann

284
Citations
Discourse-mediation of the mapping between language and the visual world: eye movements and mental representation.

Gerry T.M. Altmann;Yuki Kamide

251
Citations
The recognition of words after their acoustic offsets in spontaneous speech: effects of subsequent context.

Ellen Gurman Bard;Richard Shillcock;G. T. M. Altmann

246
Citations
Now you see it, now you don't: mediating the mapping between language and the visual world

Gerry T. M. Altmann;Yuki Kamide

246
Citations
Transfer of implicit knowledge across domains? How implicit and how abstract?

Zoltán Dienes;Gerry Altmann

221
Citations
Ambiguity in sentence processing

Gerry T.M Altmann

193
Citations
Investigating individual differences in children's real-time sentence comprehension using language-mediated eye movements.

Kate Nation;Catherine M Marshall;Catherine M Marshall;Gerry T.M Altmann

187
Citations
Cognitive models of speech processing: psycholinguistics and computational perspectives

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119
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Zoltan Dienes University of Sussex

Alan Garnham University of Sussex

Sharon L. Thompson-Schill University of Pennsylvania

Emmanuel Dupoux School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences

Jacques Mehler International School for Advanced Studies

Anne Cutler Western Sydney University

Daniel C. Richardson University College London

Dennis Norris University of Cambridge

Kate Nation University of Oxford

Rolf A. Zwaan Erasmus University Rotterdam

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