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Psychology

D-Index
90
Citations
24043
World Ranking
969
National Ranking
52

Neuroscience

D-Index
91
Citations
24796
World Ranking
1085
National Ranking
34

Sonja A. Kotz 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 Sonja A. Kotz sits on this spectrum.

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31 publications 705+

This scientist: 480 publications — 97th percentile

97% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Sonja A. Kotz 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 Sonja A. Kotz sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 144+

This scientist: 90 D-Index — 92nd percentile

92% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Sonja A. Kotz is affiliated with Maastricht University in the Netherlands. Their research primarily spans the field of neuroscience, with a significant focus on cognitive neuroscience. Subfields of study that Kotz contributes to include experimental and cognitive psychology, neurology, psychiatry and mental health, and social psychology.

The core topics within their research portfolio cover neuroscience and music perception, neural dynamics and brain function, hearing loss and rehabilitation, multisensory perception and integration, neurobiology of language and bilingualism, psychosomatic disorders and their treatments, and functional brain connectivity studies.

Recent publications by Kotz include the following papers:

  • Identifying a brain network for musical rhythm: A functional neuroimaging meta-analysis and systematic review, 2022, Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews
  • Cognition through the lens of a body-brain dynamic system, 2022, Trends in Neurosciences
  • The representational dynamics of perceived voice emotions evolve from categories to dimensions, 2021, Nature Human Behaviour
  • Magnetoencephalography recordings reveal the spatiotemporal dynamics of recognition memory for complex versus simple auditory sequences, 2022, Communications Biology
  • Comment: The Next Frontier: Prosody Research Gets Interpersonal, 2021, Emotion Review

Kotz has collaborated frequently with other researchers throughout their career. The most frequent coauthors include:

  • Michael Schwartze
  • Antonio Criscuolo
  • Ana P. Pinheiro
  • Suvarnalata Xanthate Duggirala
  • David E.J. Linden

Publication venues where Kotz has contributed multiple papers comprise a mix of neuroscience and psychology journals:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Cortex
  • NeuroImage
  • Cognition
  • Schizophrenia Bulletin

Best Publications

  • Beyond the right hemisphere: brain mechanisms mediating vocal emotional processing.

    Annett Schirmer;Sonja A. Kotz

  • Concreteness in emotional words: ERP evidence from a hemifield study.

    Philipp Kanske;Sonja A. Kotz

  • The brain basis of syntactic processes: Functional imaging and lesion studies

    Angela D Friederici;Sonja A Kotz

  • Cortical speech processing unplugged: a timely subcortico-cortical framework.

    Sonja A. Kotz;Michael Schwartze

  • Non-motor basal ganglia functions: a review and proposal for a model of sensory predictability in auditory language perception.

    Sonja A. Kotz;Michael Schwartze;Maren Schmidt-Kassow

  • On the lateralization of emotional prosody: an event-related functional MR investigation.

    Sonja A Kotz;Martin Meyer;Kai Alter;Mireille Besson

  • Modulation of the Lexical-Semantic Network by Auditory Semantic Priming: An Event-Related Functional MRI Study

    Sonja A. Kotz;Stefano F. Cappa;D. Y. Von Cramon;A. D. Friederici

  • Sex differentiates the role of emotional prosody during word processing

    Annett Schirmer;Sonja A Kotz;Angela D Friederici

  • Factors in the recognition of vocally expressed emotions: A comparison of four languages

    Marc D. Pell;Silke Paulmann;Silke Paulmann;Chinar Dara;Areej Alasseri

  • Recognizing emotions in a foreign language

    Marc D. Pell;Laura Monetta;Silke Paulmann;Sonja A. Kotz

  • Expectancy Constraints in Degraded Speech Modulate the Language Comprehension Network

    Jonas Obleser;Sonja A. Kotz

  • A Critical Review of ERP and fMRI Evidence on L2 Syntactic Processing.

    Sonja A. Kotz

  • The Evolution of Rhythm Processing.

    S. A. Kotz;Andrea Ravignani;W. T. Fitch

  • ERP Evidence for a Sex-Specific Stroop Effect in Emotional Speech

    Annett Schirmer;Sonja A. Kotz

  • Bilateral speech comprehension reflects differential sensitivity to spectral and temporal features

    Jonas Obleser;Frank Eisner;Sonja A. Kotz

  • Language related brain potentials in patients with cortical and subcortical left hemisphere lesions

    Angela D. Friederici;D. Yves von Cramon;Sonja A. Kotz

  • Zooming into L2: Global language context and adjustment affect processing of interlingual homographs in sentences

    Kerrie E. Elston-Güttler;Thomas C. Gunter;Sonja A. Kotz

  • Musically Cued Gait-Training Improves Both Perceptual and Motor Timing in Parkinson’s Disease

    Charles-Etienne Benoit;Charles-Etienne Benoit;Simone Dalla Bella;Simone Dalla Bella;Nicolas Farrugia;Nicolas Farrugia;Hellmuth Obrig;Hellmuth Obrig

  • The sound of emotions-Towards a unifying neural network perspective of affective sound processing.

    Sascha Frühholz;Wiebke Trost;Sonja A. Kotz

  • Emotion triggers executive attention: Anterior cingulate cortex and amygdala responses to emotional words in a conflict task

    Philipp Kanske;Sonja A. Kotz

  • Syntactic language processing: ERP lesion data on the role of the basal ganglia

    Sonja A. Kotz;Stefan Frisch;D. Yves von Cramon;Angela D. Friederici

  • Is it timing after all

    Sonja A. Kotz;D. Yves von Cramon

Frequent Co-Authors

Angela D. Friederici
Angela D. Friederici Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences
Silke Paulmann
Silke Paulmann University of Essex
Erich Schröger
Erich Schröger Leipzig University
Philipp Kanske
Philipp Kanske TU Dresden
Marc D. Pell
Marc D. Pell McGill University
Thomas C. Gunter
Thomas C. Gunter Max Planck Society
D. Yves von Cramon
D. Yves von Cramon Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences
Jonas Obleser
Jonas Obleser University of Lübeck
Annett Schirmer
Annett Schirmer University of Innsbruck
Robert Turner
Robert Turner Max Planck Society

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