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Victor S. Ferreira 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 Victor S. Ferreira sits on this spectrum.

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44 publications 570+

This scientist: 140 publications — 36th percentile

36% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Victor S. Ferreira 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 Victor S. Ferreira sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 37 D-Index — 23rd percentile

23% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Victor S. Ferreira is affiliated with the University of California, San Diego in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of psychology and neuroscience, with a strong focus on developmental and educational psychology as well as cognitive neuroscience.

Their work addresses topics related to the neurobiology of language and bilingualism, reading and literacy development, and language development and disorders. Other areas of interest include syntax, semantics, linguistic variation, second language acquisition and learning, language, metaphor, and cognition, and speech and dialogue systems.

Frequent publication venues for Ferreira include the Journal of Memory and Language, Cognitive Psychology, Cognition, Memory & Cognition, and Bilingualism Language and Cognition.

Frequent co-authors in their body of work are Tamar H. Gollan, Howard Burton, Shota Momma, Danbi Ahn, and Adam Milton Morgan.

Selected recent papers by Victor S. Ferreira are:

  • Precision fMRI reveals that the language-selective network supports both phrase-structure building and lexical access during language production, 2022, Cerebral Cortex
  • Precision fMRI reveals that the language-selective network supports both phrase-structure building and lexical access during language production, 2021, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Beyond linear order: The role of argument structure in speaking, 2021, Cognitive Psychology
  • Shared syntax between comprehension and production: Multi-paradigm evidence that resumptive pronouns hinder comprehension, 2020, Cognition
  • Minimal overlap in language control across production and comprehension: Evidence from read-aloud versus eye-tracking tasks, 2020, Journal of Neurolinguistics

Best Publications

  • Structural priming: a critical review.

    Martin J. Pickering;Victor S. Ferreira

  • 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

  • Effect of ambiguity and lexical availability on syntactic and lexical production.

    Victor S. Ferreira;Gary S. Dell

  • 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 functions of structural priming

    Victor S. Ferreira;Kathryn Bock

  • Semantic and phonological information flow in the production lexicon.

    J. Cooper Cutting;Victor S. Ferreira

  • Is It Better to Give Than to Donate? Syntactic Flexibility in Language Production

    Victor S. Ferreira

  • The persistence of optional complementizer production: Why saying “that” is not saying “that” at all

    Victor S Ferreira

  • Central bottleneck influences on the processing stages of word production.

    Victor S. Ferreira;Harold Pashler

  • Memory for syntax despite amnesia.

    Victor S. Ferreira;Kathryn Bock;Michael P. Wilson;Neal J. Cohen

  • The Oxford Handbook of Language Production

    Matthew Andrew Goldrick;Victor S. Ferreira;Michele Miozzo

  • Given-New Ordering Effects on the Production of Scrambled Sentences in Japanese.

    Victor S. Ferreira;Hiromi Yoshita

  • How do speakers avoid ambiguous linguistic expressions

    Victor S. Ferreira;L. Robert Slevc;Erin S. Rogers

  • Speaker-external versus speaker-internal forces on utterance form: Do cognitive demands override threats to referential success?

    Liane Wardlow Lane;Victor S. Ferreira

  • When a seven is not a seven: Self-ratings of bilingual language proficiency differ between and within language populations

    Brendan Tomoschuk;Victor S. Ferreira;Tamar H. Gollan

  • Don’t Talk About Pink Elephants! : Speakers’ Control Over Leaking Private Information During Language Production

    Liane Wardlow Lane;Michelle Groisman;Victor S. Ferreira

  • Why is that? Structural prediction and ambiguity resolution in a very large corpus of English sentences.

    Douglas Roland;Jeffrey L. Elman;Victor S. Ferreira

  • Cognitive constraints on constituent order: Evidence from elicited pantomime

    Matthew L. Hall;Rachel I. Mayberry;Victor S. Ferreira

  • Phonological Influences on Lexical (Mis)Selection

    Victor S. Ferreira;Zenzi Margareta Griffin

  • Halting in single word production: A test of the perceptual loop theory of speech monitoring

    L. Robert Slevc;Victor S. Ferreira

  • More than use it or lose it: The number-of-speakers effect on heritage language proficiency

    Tamar H. Gollan;Jennie Starr;Victor S. Ferreira

  • Ambiguity, Accessibility, and a Division of Labor for Communicative Success

    Victor S. Ferreira

  • A disadvantage in bilingual sentence production modulated by syntactic frequency and similarity across languages.

    Elin Runnqvist;Tamar H. Gollan;Albert Costa;Albert Costa;Victor S. Ferreira

  • Investigating constituent order change with elicited pantomime: a functional account of SVO emergence.

    Matthew L. Hall;Victor S. Ferreira;Rachel I. Mayberry

  • Syntactic priming in American Sign Language.

    Matthew L. Hall;Victor S. Ferreira;Rachel I. Mayberry

Frequent Co-Authors

Tamar H. Gollan
Tamar H. Gollan University of California, San Diego
Rachel I. Mayberry
Rachel I. Mayberry University of California, San Diego
Gary S. Dell
Gary S. Dell University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Albert Costa
Albert Costa Pompeu Fabra University
Kathryn Bock
Kathryn Bock University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Keith Rayner
Keith Rayner University of California, San Diego
Atul Humar
Atul Humar University Health Network
Martin J. Pickering
Martin J. Pickering University of Edinburgh
Liina Pylkkänen
Liina Pylkkänen New York University Abu Dhabi

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