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Phillip J. Holcomb publication distribution in Psychology in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Psychology in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Phillip J. Holcomb sits on this spectrum.

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31 publications 705+

This scientist: 240 publications — 79th percentile

79% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 705 publications or more.

Phillip J. Holcomb D-index placement in Psychology in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Psychology scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Phillip J. Holcomb sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 144+

This scientist: 83 D-Index — 89th percentile

89% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 144 D-Index or more.

Overview

Phillip J. Holcomb is affiliated with San Diego State University in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of psychology and neuroscience, with a significant focus on cognitive neuroscience and developmental and educational psychology.

Their work addresses multiple subfields including experimental and cognitive psychology, human-computer interaction, and social psychology. Holcomb's main research topics include hearing impairment and communication, neurobiology of language and bilingualism, as well as reading and literacy development. Other areas of interest involve tactile and sensory interactions, hand gesture recognition systems, neural and behavioral psychology studies, and multisensory perception and integration.

Holcomb has published extensively in several academic venues. Frequent publication outlets include Neuropsychologia, Psychophysiology, Brain and Language, Language Cognition and Neuroscience, and Bilingualism Language and Cognition.

Collaboration has been a notable aspect of Holcomb's career, with frequent coauthors including Katherine J. Midgley, Karen Emmorey, Jonathan Grainger, Gabriela Meade, and Megan Mott.

Recent papers by Holcomb include:

  • Cross-modal translation priming and iconicity effects in deaf signers and hearing learners of American Sign Language, 2020, Bilingualism Language and Cognition
  • Parafoveal-on-foveal repetition effects in sentence reading: A co-registered eye-tracking and electroencephalogram study, 2020, Psychophysiology
  • On the Connection Between Language Control and Executive Control-An ERP Study, 2021, Neurobiology of Language
  • Neurophysiological Correlates of Frequency, Concreteness, and Iconicity in American Sign Language, 2020, Neurobiology of Language
  • ERPs reveal how semantic and syntactic processing unfold across parafoveal and foveal vision during sentence comprehension, 2022, Language Cognition and Neuroscience

Best Publications

  • Event-related brain potentials elicited by syntactic anomaly

    Lee Osterhout;Phillip J Holcomb

  • The P600 as an index of syntactic integration difficulty

    Edith Kaan;Anthony Harris;Edward Gibson;Phillip Holcomb

  • Processing Syntactic Relations in Language and Music: An Event-Related Potential Study

    Aniruddh D. Patel;Edward Gibson;Jennifer Ratner;Mireille Besson

  • Auditory and Visual Semantic Priming in Lexical Decision: A Comparison Using Event-related Brain Potentials

    Phillip J. Holcomb;Helen J. Neville

  • Semantic priming and stimulus degradation: Implications for the role of the N400 in language processing

    Phillip J. Holcomb

  • Brain potentials elicited by garden-path sentences : Evidence of the application of verb information during parsing

    Lee Osterhout;Phillip J. Holcomb;David A. Swinney

  • Concreteness effects in semantic processing: ERP evidence supporting dual-coding theory.

    John Kounios;Phillip J. Holcomb

  • Electrophysiological distinctions in processing conceptual relationships within simple sentences.

    Gina R Kuperberg;Tatiana Sitnikova;David Caplan;Phillip J Holcomb

  • Automatic and attentional processing: An event-related brain potential analysis of semantic priming

    Phillip J. Holcomb

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

    Jonathan Grainger;Phillip J. Holcomb

  • An electrophysiological investigation of semantic priming with pictures of real objects.

    W. Brian McPHERSON;Phillip J. Holcomb

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

    Phillip J. Holcomb;Jonathan Grainger

  • Imaginal, Semantic, and Surface-Level Processing of Concrete and Abstract Words: An Electrophysiological Investigation

    W. Caroline West;Phillip J. Holcomb

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

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

  • Dual-coding, context-availability, and concreteness effects in sentence comprehension: an electrophysiological investigation.

    Holcomb Pj;Kounios J;Anderson Je;West Wc

  • Visual and auditory sentence processing: A developmental analysis using event‐related brain potentials

    Phillip J. Holcomb;Sharon A. Coffey;Helen J. Neville

  • The neurobiology of sensory and language processing in language-impaired children

    Helen J. Neville;Sharon A. Coffey;Phillip J. Holcomb;Paula Tallal

  • Event related potentials and language comprehension.

    Lee Osterhout;Phillip J. Holcomb

  • Event-related potentials and syntactic anomaly: Evidence of anomaly detection during the perception of continuous speech

    Lee Osterhout;Phillip J. Holcomb

  • The central role of the prefrontal cortex in directing attention to novel events.

    Kirk R. Daffner;Marek-Marsel Mesulam;L. F.M. Scinto;D. Acar

Frequent Co-Authors

Jonathan Grainger
Jonathan Grainger Aix-Marseille University
Kirk R. Daffner
Kirk R. Daffner Brigham and Women's Hospital
Gina R. Kuperberg
Gina R. Kuperberg Tufts University
Andrew E. Budson
Andrew E. Budson Boston University
Dorene M. Rentz
Dorene M. Rentz Harvard Medical School
David Caplan
David Caplan Harvard University
David A. Wolk
David A. Wolk University of Pennsylvania
Helen J. Neville
Helen J. Neville University of Oregon
Lee Osterhout
Lee Osterhout University of Washington

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