2026 James S. Magnuson: Psychology Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Psychology	41	7780	7260	4176	3797	121	9659

Overview

James S. Magnuson is affiliated with the University of Connecticut in the United States and has a research focus spanning several interrelated fields including Computer Science, Psychology, and Neuroscience. Their work often intersects with key subfields such as Cognitive Neuroscience, Artificial Intelligence, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Signal Processing, and Developmental and Educational Psychology.

Their main topics of research encompass Phonetics and Phonology Research, Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism, Speech Recognition and Synthesis, Speech and Audio Processing, Reading and Literacy Development, Neural Networks and Applications, and Neural dynamics and brain function.

Magnuson's publication record includes contributions to multiple prominent venues frequently publishing research in cognition and perception. These venues include Cognitive Science, Attention Perception & Psychophysics, Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, Journal of Experimental Psychology Learning Memory and Cognition, and Cognition.

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Magnuson illustrate specific research interests and advances in speech recognition, word recognition, and the integration of feedback mechanisms in language processing. Notable publications include:

EARSHOT: A Minimal Neural Network Model of Incremental Human Speech Recognition, 2020, Cognitive Science
Talker familiarity and the accommodation of talker variability, 2021, Attention Perception & Psychophysics
Contra assertions, feedback improves word recognition: How feedback and lateral inhibition sharpen signals over noise, 2023, Cognition

Frequent collaborators include Sahil Luthra, Anne Marie Crinnion, David Saltzman, Emily B. Myers, and Heejo You, indicating active engagement in cooperative research efforts.

Best Publications

Tracking the Time Course of Spoken Word Recognition Using Eye Movements: Evidence for Continuous Mapping Models

Paul D. Allopenna;James S. Magnuson;Michael K. Tanenhaus

2109
Citations
Time course of frequency effects in spoken-word recognition: evidence from eye movements.

Delphine Dahan;James S. Magnuson;Michael K. Tanenhaus

607
Citations
Statistical and computational models of the visual world paradigm: Growth curves and individual differences

Daniel Mirman;James A. Dixon;James S. Magnuson

606
Citations
Subcategorical mismatches and the time course of lexical access: Evidence for lexical competition

Delphine Dahan;James S. Magnuson;Michael K. Tanenhaus;Ellen M. Hogan

423
Citations
Actions and Affordances in Syntactic Ambiguity Resolution.

Craig G. Chambers;Michael K. Tanenhaus;James S. Magnuson

412
Citations
Eye movements and lexical access in spoken-language comprehension: evaluating a linking hypothesis between fixations and linguistic processing.

Michael K. Tanenhaus;James S. Magnuson;Delphine Dahan;Craig Chambers

349
Citations
The Dynamics of Lexical Competition During Spoken Word Recognition

James S. Magnuson;James A. Dixon;Michael K. Tanenhaus;Richard N. Aslin

328
Citations
Acoustic differences, listener expectations, and the perceptual accommodation of talker variability.

James S. Magnuson;Howard C. Nusbaum

296
Citations
The time course of spoken word learning and recognition: studies with artificial lexicons.

James S. Magnuson;Michael K. Tanenhaus;Richard N. Aslin;Delphine Dahan

286
Citations
Linguistic Gender and Spoken-Word Recognition in French

Delphine Dahan;Daniel Swingley;Michael K. Tanenhaus;James S. Magnuson

249
Citations
Spoken Word Recognition

Delphine Dahan;James S. Magnuson;James S. Magnuson

212
Citations
The Time Course of Anticipatory Constraint Integration

Anuenue Kukona;Shin-Yi Fang;Shin-Yi Fang;Karen A. Aicher;Karen A. Aicher;Helen Chen

197
Citations
Attractor Dynamics and Semantic Neighborhood Density: Processing Is Slowed by Near Neighbors and Speeded by Distant Neighbors

Daniel Mirman;James S. Magnuson

184
Citations
Spoken word recognition without a TRACE

Thomas Hannagan;James S. Magnuson;James S. Magnuson;Jonathan Grainger

175
Citations
The Link between Statistical Segmentation and Word Learning in Adults.

Daniel Mirman;James S. Magnuson;James S. Magnuson;Katharine Graf Estes;James A. Dixon;James A. Dixon

173
Citations
The dynamics of insight: mathematical discovery as a phase transition.

Damian G. Stephen;Rebecca A. Boncoddo;James S. Magnuson;James S. Magnuson;James A. Dixon;James A. Dixon

163
Citations
Lexical effects on compensation for coarticulation: the ghost of Christmash past

James S. Magnuson;Bob McMurray;Michael K. Tanenhaus;Richard N. Aslin

161
Citations
jTRACE: A reimplementation and extension of the TRACE model of speech perception and spoken word recognition

Ted J. Strauss;Harlan D. Harris;James S. Magnuson;James S. Magnuson

148
Citations
Vocabulary does not complicate the simple view of reading

David Braze;Leonard Katz;Leonard Katz;James S. Magnuson;James S. Magnuson;W. Einar Mencl

145
Citations
Theories of spoken word recognition deficits in aphasia: evidence from eye-tracking and computational modeling

Daniel Mirman;Eiling Yee;Sheila E. Blumstein;James S. Magnuson;James S. Magnuson

127
Citations
Eye Movements and Spoken Language Comprehension

Michael K. Tanenhaus;John C. Trueswell

97
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Michael K. Tanenhaus University of Rochester

Daniel Mirman University of Edinburgh

Donald Shankweiler University of Connecticut

Richard N. Aslin Yale University

Kenneth R. Pugh Haskins Laboratories

Leonard Katz Haskins Laboratories

Carol A. Fowler University of Connecticut

Bob McMurray University of Iowa

Elena L. Grigorenko University of Houston

Howard C. Nusbaum University of Chicago

External Links

Personal website of James S. Magnuson

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