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Psychology

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49
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12093
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5610
National Ranking
3059

Neuroscience

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47
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6339
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2760

Tamar H. Gollan 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 Tamar H. Gollan sits on this spectrum.

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31 publications 705+

This scientist: 116 publications — 30th percentile

30% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Tamar H. Gollan 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 Tamar H. Gollan sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 144+

This scientist: 49 D-Index — 52nd percentile

52% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Tamar H. Gollan is affiliated with the University of California, San Diego in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on areas intersecting psychology and neuroscience with a strong emphasis on cognitive neuroscience and developmental and educational psychology.

Their work encompasses topics related to the neurobiology of language and bilingualism, language development and disorders, reading and literacy development, dementia and cognitive impairment research, second language acquisition and learning, interpreting and communication in healthcare, and natural language processing techniques.

Some of the recent papers authored by Tamar H. Gollan include:

  • "Which bilinguals reverse language dominance and why?" (2020) in Cognition
  • "The MINT Sprint: Exploring a Fast Administration Procedure with an Expanded Multilingual Naming Test" (2021) in Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society
  • "Inhibitory control of the dominant language: Reversed language dominance is the tip of the iceberg" (2023) in Journal of Memory and Language
  • "Native Spanish-speaker's test performance and the effects of Spanish-English bilingualism: results from the neuropsychological norms for the U.S.-Mexico Border Region in Spanish (NP-NUMBRS) project" (2020) in The Clinical Neuropsychologist
  • "What cognates reveal about default language selection in bilingual sentence production" (2021) in Journal of Memory and Language

Their collaborative work involves frequent coauthorships with researchers including:

  • David P. Salmon
  • Victor S. Ferreira
  • Alena Stasenko
  • Dalia L. Garcia
  • Chuchu Li

Tamar H. Gollan has also contributed extensively to several publication venues, notably:

  • Bilingualism Language and Cognition
  • Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society
  • Journal of Memory and Language
  • Neuropsychology
  • Alzheimer's & Dementia

Their research spans 38 publications in psychology and 36 in neuroscience, with a pronounced concentration in cognitive neuroscience. Subfields include psychiatry and mental health, artificial intelligence, and general health professions, supporting interdisciplinary approaches within their research portfolio.

Best Publications

  • More Use Almost Always Means a Smaller Frequency Effect: Aging, Bilingualism, and the Weaker Links Hypothesis.

    Tamar H. Gollan;Rosa I. Montoya;Cynthia Cera;Tiffany C. Sandoval;Tiffany C. Sandoval

  • Semantic and letter fluency in Spanish-English bilinguals.

    Tamar H. Gollan;Rosa I. Montoya;Grace A. Werner

  • Translation priming with different scripts: Masked priming with cognates and noncognates in Hebrew–English bilinguals.

    Tamar H. Gollan;Kenneth I. Forster;Ram Frost

  • Good Language-Switchers are Good Task-Switchers: Evidence from Spanish-English and Mandarin-English Bilinguals

    Anat Prior;Tamar H. Gollan

  • Self-ratings of spoken language dominance: A Multilingual Naming Test (MINT) and preliminary norms for young and aging Spanish–English bilinguals

    Tamar H. Gollan;Gali H. Weissberger;Elin Runnqvist;Rosa I. Montoya

  • Bilingual Minds

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  • What is a TOT? Cognate and translation effects on tip-of-the-tongue states in Spanish-English and tagalog-English bilinguals.

    Tamar H. Gollan;Lori-Ann R. Acenas

  • Should I stay or should I switch? A cost-benefit analysis of voluntary language switching in young and aging bilinguals.

    Tamar H. Gollan;Victor S. Ferreira

  • Frequency drives lexical access in reading but not in speaking: the frequency-lag hypothesis.

    Tamar H. Gollan;Timothy J. Slattery;Diane Goldenberg;Eva Van Assche

  • What causes the bilingual disadvantage in verbal fluency?: The dual-task analogy

    Tiffany C. Sandoval;Tamar H. Gollan;Victor S. Ferreira;David P. Salmon

  • The bilingual effect on Boston Naming Test performance

    Tamar H. Gollan;Christine Fennema-Notestine;Rosa I. Montoya;Terry L. Jernigan

  • Tip-of-the-tongue states in Hebrew–English bilinguals

    Tamar H. Gollan;Nina B. Silverberg

  • Bimodal bilingualism

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  • Lexical access in bilingual speakers: What's the (hard) problem?

    Matthew Finkbeiner;Tamar H. Gollan;Alfonso Caramazza

  • From tip-of-the-tongue (TOT) data to theoretical implications in two steps: when more TOTs means better retrieval.

    Tamar H. Gollan;Alan S. Brown

  • Degree of bilingualism predicts age of diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease in low-education but not in highly educated Hispanics.

    Tamar H. Gollan;David P. Salmon;Rosa I. Montoya;Douglas R. Galasko

  • Neuropsychological, cognitive, and theoretical considerations for evaluation of bilingual individuals.

    Monica Rivera Mindt;Monica Rivera Mindt;Alyssa Arentoft;Alyssa Arentoft;Kaori Kubo Germano;Kaori Kubo Germano;Erica D’Aquila;Erica D’Aquila

  • Cross-Language Intrusion Errors in Aging Bilinguals Reveal the Link Between Executive Control and Language Selection

    Tamar H. Gollan;Tiffany Sandoval;David P. Salmon

  • Whole-language and item-specific control in bilingual language production.

    Eva Van Assche;Wouter Duyck;Tamar H. Gollan

  • Translation priming with different scripts: Masked priming with cognates and noncognates in Hebrew–English bilinguals.

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  • Bilingual lexical access.

    Tamar H. Gollan;Judith F. Kroll

  • What's easier: doing what you want, or being told what to do? Cued versus voluntary language and task switching.

    Tamar H. Gollan;Daniel Kleinman;Christina E. Wierenga

  • The elusive link between language control and executive control: A case of limited transfer

    Anat Prior;Tamar H. Gollan

  • Being and Becoming Bilingual: Individual Differences and Consequences for Language Production.

    Erica B. Michael;Tamar H. Gollan

Frequent Co-Authors

David P. Salmon
David P. Salmon University of California, San Diego
Victor S. Ferreira
Victor S. Ferreira University of California, San Diego
Karen Emmorey
Karen Emmorey San Diego State University
Wouter Duyck
Wouter Duyck Ghent University
Douglas Galasko
Douglas Galasko University of California, San Diego
Matthew Goldrick
Matthew Goldrick Northwestern University
Christina E. Wierenga
Christina E. Wierenga University of California, San Diego
Mark W. Bondi
Mark W. Bondi University of California, San Diego
Judith F. Kroll
Judith F. Kroll University of California, Irvine
Robert K. Heaton
Robert K. Heaton University of California, San Diego

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