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Ton Dijkstra is affiliated with Radboud University in the Netherlands and has contributed extensively to the fields of psychology and neuroscience. Their research focuses primarily on developmental and educational psychology, cognitive neuroscience, and experimental and cognitive psychology, with additional work related to artificial intelligence and language and linguistics.

Their main topics of study include neurobiology of language and bilingualism, reading and literacy development, language development and disorders, second language acquisition and learning, language, metaphor, and cognition, categorization, perception, and language, as well as speech and dialogue systems.

Dijkstra's publication record features several recent papers that demonstrate ongoing involvement in bilingualism and language processing research. Notable papers include:

  • Orthographic and semantic priming effects in neighbour cognates: Experiments and simulations (2022), published in Bilingualism Language and Cognition
  • Cross-linguistic influence during online sentence processing in bilingual children (2022), published in Bilingualism Language and Cognition
  • Cross-linguistic influence in simultaneous and early sequential bilingual children: a meta-analysis (2021), published in Journal of Child Language
  • Individual word activation and word frequency effects during the processing of opaque idiomatic expressions (2021), published in Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology
  • Interactive Alignment and Lexical Triggering of Code-Switching in Bilingual Dialogue (2020), published in Frontiers in Psychology

Frequent coauthors with whom Dijkstra has collaborated include Gerrit Jan Kootstra, Sharon Unsworth, Frank T. Leone, Elly Koutamanis, and David Peeters.

Publication venues with multiple contributions by Dijkstra are:

  • Bilingualism Language and Cognition
  • Frontiers in Psychology
  • Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology
  • Neuropsychologia
  • Language Learning

Throughout their career, the scientist has concentrated research efforts in two major fields of study: psychology, with nearly fifty publications, and neuroscience, accounting for two dozen publications. Among subfields, developmental and educational psychology and cognitive neuroscience stand out as areas of particular focus.

Best Publications

  • The architecture of the bilingual word recognition system: From identification to decision

    Ton Dijkstra;Walter J.B. van Heuven

  • Orthographic neighborhood effects in bilingual word recognition

    Walter J.B. van Heuven;Ton Dijkstra;Jonathan Grainger

  • Recognition of Cognates and Interlingual Homographs: The Neglected Role of Phonology

    Ton Dijkstra;Jonathan Grainger;Walter J.B. van Heuven

  • Singulars and plurals in Dutch: Evidence for a parallel dual-route model

    R.Harald Baayen;Ton Dijkstra;Robert Schreuder

  • Foreign language knowledge can influence native language performance in exclusively native contexts

    Janet G. van Hell;Ton Dijkstra

  • Bilingual Visual Word Recognition and Lexical Access.

    Ton Dijkstra

  • Interlingual homograph recognition: Effects of task demands and language intermixing

    Ton Dijkstra;Henk Van Jaarsveld;Sjoerd Ten Brinke

  • How cross-language similarity and task demands affect cognate recognition

    Ton Dijkstra;Koji Miwa;Bianca Brummelhuis;Maya Sappelli

  • On the Representation and Use of Language Information in Bilinguals

    Jonathan Grainger;Ton Dijkstra

  • Recognizing cognates and interlingual homographs: effects of code similarity in language-specific and generalized lexical decision.

    Kristin Lemhöfer;Ton Dijkstra

  • Language Conflict in the Bilingual Brain

    Walter J.B. van Heuven;Walter J.B. van Heuven;Herbert Schriefers;Ton Dijkstra;Peter Hagoort

  • Theta Responses Are Involved in Lexical–Semantic Retrieval during Language Processing

    Marcel C.M. Bastiaansen;Marieke Van Der Linden;Mariken Ter Keurs;Ton Dijkstra

  • On being blinded by your other language: Effects of task demands on interlingual homograph recognition

    Ton Dijkstra;Mark Timmermans;Herbert Schriefers

  • Three languages, one ECHO: Cognate effects in trilingual word recognition

    Kristin Lemhofer;Ton Dijkstra;Marije C. Michel

  • Multilink: a computational model for bilingual word recognition and word translation

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  • Language comprehension in the bilingual brain: fMRI and ERP support for psycholinguistic models

    Walter J.B. van Heuven;Ton Dijkstra

  • Native language influences on word recognition in a second language: a megastudy.

    Kristin Lemhöfer;Ton Dijkstra;Herbert Schriefers;R. Harald Baayen

  • Simulating cross-language competition with the bilingual interactive activation model.

    Ton Dijkstra;Walter J.B. Van Heuven;Jonathan Grainger

  • Domain-general inhibition areas of the brain are involved in language switching: FMRI evidence from trilingual speakers

    Angela Maria Theresia De Bruin;Ardi Roelofs;Ton Dijkstra;Ian FitzPatrick;Ian FitzPatrick

  • Distributions of cognates in Europe as based on Levenshtein distance

    Job Schepens;Ton Dijkstra;Franc Grootjen

  • Changes in PTSD patients' narratives during prolonged exposure therapy: a replication and extension.

    Agnes van Minnen;Ineke Wessel;Ton Dijkstra;Karin Roelofs

  • Syntactic alignment and shared word order in code-switched sentence production: Evidence from bilingual monologue and dialogue

    Gerrit Jan Kootstra;Janet G. van Hell;Janet G. van Hell;Ton Dijkstra

Frequent Co-Authors

Janet G. van Hell
Janet G. van Hell Pennsylvania State University
Jonathan Grainger
Jonathan Grainger Aix-Marseille University
Herbert Schriefers
Herbert Schriefers Radboud University
Marcel C. M. Bastiaansen
Marcel C. M. Bastiaansen Tilburg University
Ardi Roelofs
Ardi Roelofs Radboud University
Ellen R.A. de Bruijn
Ellen R.A. de Bruijn Leiden University
Dorothee J. Chwilla
Dorothee J. Chwilla Radboud University
Peter Hagoort
Peter Hagoort Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics
Agnes van Minnen
Agnes van Minnen Radboud University
James M. McQueen
James M. McQueen Radboud University

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