2026 Julia Simner: Psychology Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Psychology	40	8233	7688	816	778	132	6974

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Overview

Julia Simner is affiliated with the University of Sussex in the United Kingdom. Their research spans across multiple domains within neuroscience and psychology, with a focus on cognitive neuroscience and experimental and cognitive psychology.

The main fields of study in their work include:

Neuroscience
Psychology

They specialize in several subfields, namely:

Cognitive Neuroscience
Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
Sensory Systems
Clinical Psychology
Social Psychology

Julia Simner has contributed to research topics such as:

Multisensory perception and integration
Face Recognition and Perception
Olfactory and Sensory Function Studies
Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
Neuroscience and Music Perception
Hearing, Cochlea, Tinnitus, Genetics
Visual perception and processing mechanisms

Their recent publications include the following papers:

Attention, flexibility, and imagery in misophonia: Does attention exacerbate everyday disliking of sound? (2021, Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology)
Sensory representations in primary visual cortex are not sufficient for subjective imagery (2024, Current Biology)

In addition, they have collaborated frequently with the following co-authors:

Jamie Ward
Carla Dance
Louisa J. Rinaldi
Rebecca Smees
Abby Dunn

Julia Simner has published multiple papers in notable venues including:

Cortex
Consciousness and Cognition
The Lancet Regional Health - Europe
PsycTESTS Dataset
Perception

Best Publications

Synaesthesia: The prevalence of atypical cross-modal experiences

Julia Simner;Catherine Mulvenna;Noam Sagiv;Elias Tsakanikos

790
Citations
Non-random associations of graphemes to colours in synaesthetic and non-synaesthetic populations.

Julia Simner;Jamie Ward;Monika Lanz;Ashok Jansari

361
Citations
Lexical-gustatory synaesthesia: linguistic and conceptual factors

Jamie Ward;Julia Simner

350
Citations
Defining synaesthesia: Defining synaesthesia

Julia Simner

263
Citations
What is the relationship between synaesthesia and visuo-spatial number forms?

Noam Sagiv;Julia Simner;James Collins;Brian Butterworth

231
Citations
Beyond perception: synaesthesia as a psycholinguistic phenomenon

Julia Simner

215
Citations
What sound does that taste? Cross-modal mappings across gustation and audition

Julia Simner;Christine Cuskley;Simon Kirby

198
Citations
Is synaesthesia an X-linked dominant trait with lethality in males?

Jamie Ward;Julia Simner

192
Citations
Early detection of markers for synaesthesia in childhood populations.

Julia Simner;Jenny Harrold;Harriet Creed;Louise Monro

178
Citations
A comparison of lexical-gustatory and grapheme-colour synaesthesia

Jamie Ward;Julia Simner;Vivian Auyeung

163
Citations
A foundation for savantism? Visuo-spatial synaesthetes present with cognitive benefits

Julia Simner;Neil Mayo;Mary-Jane Spiller

161
Citations
What colour does that feel? Tactile–visual mapping and the development of cross-modality

Vera U. Ludwig;Vera U. Ludwig;Julia Simner;Julia Simner

153
Citations
Ordinal Linguistic Personification as a Variant of Synesthesia

Julia Simner;Emma Holenstein

150
Citations
Atypical sensory sensitivity as a shared feature between synaesthesia and autism

Jamie Ward;Claire Hoadley;James E A Hughes;Paula Smith

122
Citations
Phonological and orthographic influences in the bouba–kiki effect

Christine Cuskley;Julia Simner;Simon Kirby

118
Citations
A longitudinal study of grapheme-color synesthesia in childhood: 6/7 years to 10/11 years

Julia Simner;Angela E. Bain

106
Citations
Synaesthesia: the taste of words on the tip of the tongue.

Julia Simner;Jamie Ward

104
Citations
Cross-modal tactile–taste interactions in food evaluations

B.G. Slocombe;D.A. Carmichael;J. Simner

104
Citations
Beyond visual imagery: how modality-specific is enhanced mental imagery in synesthesia?

Mary Jane Spiller;Clare N. Jonas;Julia Simner;Julia Simner;Ashok S. Jansari

103
Citations
Linguistic determinants of word colouring in grapheme-colour synaesthesia.

Julia Simner;Louise Glover;Alice Mowat

101
Citations
Encyclopedia of Neuroscience

Julia Simner

80
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Katarzyna Pisanski French National Centre for Scientific Research

Simon Kirby University of Edinburgh

David J. Porteous University of Edinburgh

Simon Baron-Cohen University of Cambridge

Simon E. Fisher Max Planck Society

Martin J. Pickering University of Edinburgh

Carrie Allison University of Cambridge

Alan Garnham University of Sussex

Holly P. Branigan University of Edinburgh

Adam Zeman University of Exeter

External Links

Personal website of Julia Simner

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