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Jonathan Grainger

Jonathan Grainger

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Psychology
France
2026

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Psychology

D-Index
101
Citations
33818
World Ranking
604
National Ranking
2

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Psychology in France Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Psychology in France Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Psychology in France Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Psychology in France Leader Award

Overview

Jonathan Grainger is affiliated with Aix-Marseille University in France and has contributed extensively to the fields of Psychology and Neuroscience, with a particular focus on Developmental and Educational Psychology as well as Cognitive Neuroscience. Their research encompasses experimental and cognitive psychology, artificial intelligence, and statistical methods applied within these domains.

Their main research topics include:

  • Reading and Literacy Development
  • Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism
  • Phonetics and Phonology Research
  • Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
  • Cognitive and developmental aspects of mathematical skills
  • Text Readability and Simplification
  • Second Language Acquisition and Learning

Jonathan Grainger has published frequently in several academic venues, with notable recurrent contributions to:

  • Language Cognition and Neuroscience
  • Attention Perception & Psychophysics
  • Journal of Experimental Psychology Learning Memory and Cognition
  • Psychonomic Bulletin & Review
  • Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Jonathan Grainger include:

  • Orthographic consistency influences morphological processing in reading aloud: Evidence from a cross-linguistic study (2020, Developmental Science)
  • The influence of word frequency on the transposed-phoneme priming effect (2020, Attention Perception & Psychophysics)
  • Parafoveal-on-foveal repetition effects in sentence reading: A co-registered eye-tracking and electroencephalogram study (2020, Psychophysiology)
  • Morphological Processing across Modalities and Languages (2020, Scientific Studies of Reading)
  • Using virtual reality to study reading: An eye-tracking investigation of transposed-word effects (2020, Methods in Psychology)

They have collaborated frequently with the following co-authors:

  • Jonathan Mirault
  • Sophie Dufour
  • Stéphane Dufau
  • Elisabeth Beyersmann
  • Phillip J. Holcomb

Jonathan Grainger's body of work provides insight into the cognitive mechanisms underlying reading and language processing, incorporating cross-linguistic perspectives and innovative methodologies such as eye-tracking and virtual reality. Their contributions span a broad range of topics relevant to understanding literacy development and bilingualism within psychological and neuroscientific frameworks.

Best Publications

  • Orthographic Processing in Visual Word Recognition: A Multiple Read-Out Model

    Jonathan Grainger;Arthur M. Jacobs

  • Orthographic neighborhood effects in bilingual word recognition

    Walter J.B. van Heuven;Ton Dijkstra;Jonathan Grainger

  • Recognition of Cognates and Interlingual Homographs: The Neglected Role of Phonology

    Ton Dijkstra;Jonathan Grainger;Walter J.B. van Heuven

  • Word frequency and neighborhood frequency effects in lexical decision and naming.

    Jonathan Grainger

  • A Dual-Route Approach to Orthographic Processing

    Jonathan Grainger;Johannes C. Ziegler

  • Watching the Word Go by: On the Time-course of Component Processes in Visual Word Recognition.

    Jonathan Grainger;Phillip J. Holcomb

  • On the role of competing word units in visual word recognition: the neighborhood frequency effect.

    Jonathan Grainger;J. Kevin O’regan;Arthur M. Jacobs;Juan Segui

  • Models of visual word recognition: Sampling the state of the art.

    Arthur M. Jacobs;Jonathan Grainger

  • Priming word recognition with orthographic neighbors: effects of relative prime-target frequency.

    Juan Segui;Jonathan Grainger

  • Modeling letter position coding in printed word perception

    J. Grainger;W.J.B. van Heuven

  • Effects of orthographic neighborhood in visual word recognition: cross-task comparisons.

    Manuel Carreiras;Manuel Perea;Jonathan Grainger

  • On the Time Course of Visual Word Recognition: An Event-related Potential Investigation using Masked Repetition Priming

    Phillip J. Holcomb;Jonathan Grainger

  • On the Representation and Use of Language Information in Bilinguals

    Jonathan Grainger;Ton Dijkstra

  • An Electrophysiological Study of the Effects of Orthographic Neighborhood Size on Printed Word Perception

    Phillip J. Holcomb;Jonathan Grainger;Tim O'rourke

  • Accessing interlexical homographs: Some limitations of a language-selective access

    Cécile Beauvillain;Jonathan Grainger

  • Cracking the orthographic code: An introduction

    Jonathan Grainger

  • Phonology and orthography in visual word recognition: Evidence from masked non-word priming

    Ludovic Ferrand;Jonathan Grainger

  • Localist connectionist approaches to human cognition

    Jonathan Grainger;Arthur M. Jacobs

  • Neighborhood frequency effects in visual word recognition: a comparison of lexical decision and masked identification latencies.

    Jonathan Grainger;Juan Segui

  • Letter position coding in printed word perception: Effects of repeated and transposed letters.

    Sofie Schoonbaert;Jonathan Grainger

Frequent Co-Authors

Phillip J. Holcomb
Phillip J. Holcomb San Diego State University
Johannes C. Ziegler
Johannes C. Ziegler Aix-Marseille University
Ludovic Ferrand
Ludovic Ferrand University of Clermont Auvergne
Arthur M. Jacobs
Arthur M. Jacobs Freie Universität Berlin
Joël Fagot
Joël Fagot Aix-Marseille University
Ton Dijkstra
Ton Dijkstra Radboud University
Manuel Carreiras
Manuel Carreiras Basque Center on Cognition, Brain and Language
Jon Andoni Duñabeitia
Jon Andoni Duñabeitia Nebrija University
Martijn Meeter
Martijn Meeter Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Manuel Perea
Manuel Perea University of Valencia

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