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44
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4181
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1987

Ronnie B. Wilbur publication distribution in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Ronnie B. Wilbur sits on this spectrum.

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44 publications 570+

This scientist: 193 publications — 61st percentile

61% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 570 publications or more.

Ronnie B. Wilbur D-index placement in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Social Sciences and Humanities scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Ronnie B. Wilbur sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 44 D-Index — 49th percentile

49% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 100 D-Index or more.

Overview

Ronnie B. Wilbur is affiliated with Purdue University West Lafayette in the United States. Their research primarily intersects the fields of psychology and computer science, with a significant focus on both developmental and educational psychology as well as human-computer interaction and cognitive neuroscience.

Their work engages various subfields, including:

  • Developmental and Educational Psychology
  • Human-Computer Interaction
  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Language and Linguistics
  • Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

Wilbur's research centers on several core topics such as hearing impairment and communication, hand gesture recognition systems, action observation and synchronization, language, metaphor and cognition, linguistics and terminology studies, neural dynamics and brain function, and EEG and brain-computer interfaces.

  • Hearing Impairment and Communication
  • Hand Gesture Recognition Systems
  • Action Observation and Synchronization
  • Language, Metaphor, and Cognition
  • Linguistics and Terminology Studies
  • Neural Dynamics and Brain Function
  • EEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces

Recent publications illustrate Wilbur's research scope across several top venues and salient topics. Notable papers include:

  • The Perils and Pitfalls of Block Design for EEG Classification Experiments, 2020, IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
  • Age of Sign Language Acquisition Has Lifelong Effect on Syntactic Preferences in Sign Language Users, 2020, International Journal of Behavioral Development
  • Confounds in the Data-Comments on "Decoding Brain Representations by Multimodal Learning of Neural Activity and Visual Features", 2021, IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
  • Low-Frequency Entrainment to Visual Motion Underlies Sign Language Comprehension, 2021, IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering
  • Psycholinguistic Mechanisms of Classifier Processing in Sign Language, 2020, Journal of Experimental Psychology Learning Memory and Cognition

Wilbur frequently publishes in several specialized venues, including:

  • IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
  • Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America
  • Hrvatska Revija za Rehabilitacijska Istraživanja
  • Sign Language & Linguistics
  • FEAST Formal and Experimental Advances in Sign Language Theory

Collaborations are an integral part of Wilbur's research activity, yielding repeated joint publications with coauthors such as Evie Malaia, Julia Krebs, Dietmar Roehm, Jeffrey Mark Siskind, and Hermann Schwameder.

Best Publications

  • American Sign Language: Linguistic and Applied Dimensions

    Ronnie Bring Wilbur

  • American sign language and sign systems

    Ronnie Bring Wilbur

  • The Use of ASL to Support the Development of English and Literacy.

    Ronnie B. Wilbur

  • Phonological and Prosodic Layering of Nonmanuals in American Sign Language

    Ronnie B. Wilbur

  • Eyeblinks and ASL Phrase Structure.

    Ronnie Wilbur

  • Academic Achievement of Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Students in an ASL/English Bilingual Program.

    Iva Hrastinski;Ronnie B. Wilbur

  • Stress in ASL: empirical evidence and linguistic issues.

    Ronnie B. Wilbur

  • The Duration of Syllables in American Sign Language

    Ronnie B. Wilbur;Susan Bobbitt Nolkn

  • Syntactic Correlates of Brow Raise in ASL

    Ronnie B. Wilbur;Cynthia Patschke

  • Body leans and the marking of contrast in American Sign Language

    Ronnie B. Wilbur;Cynthia G. Patschke

  • Comprehension of Relativized Sentences by Deaf Students

    S. P. Quigley;N. L. Smith;R. B. Wilbur

  • The effects of linguistic stress on ASL signs.

    Ronnie B. Wilbur;Brenda S. Schick

  • SYLLABLES AND SEGMENTS: HOLD THE MOVEMENT AND MOVE THE HOLDS!

    Ronnie B. Wilbur

  • COMPLEX PREDICATES INVOLVING EVENTS, TIME AND ASPECT: IS THIS WHY SIGN LANGUAGES LOOK SO SIMILAR?

    Ronnie B. Wilbur

  • Foregrounding structures in American sign language

    Ronnie B. Wilbur

  • Purdue RVL-SLLL ASL database for automatic recognition of American Sign Language

    A.M. Martinez;R.B. Wilbur;R. Shay;A.C. Kak

  • Question Formation in the Language of Deaf Students

    S. P. Quigley;R. B. Wilbur;D. S. Montanelli

  • The deaf child as a linguistic minority

    Veda R. Charrow;Ronnie B. Wilbur

  • Representations of Telicity in ASL

    Ronnie B. Wilbur

  • An Explanation of Deaf Children's Difficulty with Certain Syntactic Structures of English.

    Ronnie Bring Wilbur

  • The not face: A grammaticalization of facial expressions of emotion

    C. Fabian Benitez-Quiroz;Ronnie B. Wilbur;Aleix M. Martinez

Frequent Co-Authors

Aleix M. Martinez
Aleix M. Martinez The Ohio State University
Jason J. Corso
Jason J. Corso University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Caiming Xiong
Caiming Xiong Salesforce (United States)
Christiane Fellbaum
Christiane Fellbaum Princeton University
Barak A. Pearlmutter
Barak A. Pearlmutter National University of Ireland, Maynooth
Avinash C. Kak
Avinash C. Kak Purdue University West Lafayette
Diane Brentari
Diane Brentari University of Chicago
Amanda Seidl
Amanda Seidl Purdue University West Lafayette

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