Most cited papers in Categorization, perception, and language
What are the most cited papers in Categorization, perception, and language?
The most cited paper in Categorization, perception, and language is "How Many Interviews Are Enough?" (Greg Guest, Arwen Bunce, Laura Johnson, 2005), with 20,652 citations. Next come "Feeling and thinking: Preferences need no inferences." (7,922) and "Features of similarity." (7,354).
Showing 50 of 100 papers. Every paper with more than 738 citations is listed.
| # | Paper | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | How Many Interviews Are Enough? Greg Guest, Arwen Bunce, Laura Johnson · Field Methods | 23 Dec 2005 | 20,652 |
| 2 | Feeling and thinking: Preferences need no inferences. Robert B. Zajonc · American Psychologist | Feb 1980 | 7,922 |
| 3 | Features of similarity. Amos Tversky · Psychological Review | Jul 1977 | 7,354 |
| 4 | Family resemblances: Studies in the internal structure of categories Eleanor H. Rosch, Carolyn B. Mervis · Cognitive Psychology | Oct 1975 | 5,991 |
| 5 | Basic objects in natural categories Eleanor H. Rosch, Carolyn B. Mervis, Wayne D. Gray et al. · Cognitive Psychology | Jul 1976 | 5,578 |
| 6 | The contemporary theory of metaphor George P. Lakoff · Cambridge University Press eBooks | 26 Nov 1993 | 5,349 |
| 7 | The Faculty of Language: What Is It, Who Has It, and How Did It Evolve? MARC DAVID HAUSER, Noam Chomsky, W. Tecumseh Fitch · Science | 21 Nov 2002 | 5,242 |
| 8 | Cognitive representations of semantic categories. Eleanor H. Rosch · Journal of Experimental Psychology General | Sep 1975 | 4,527 |
| 9 | Culture and systems of thought: Holistic versus analytic cognition. Richard E. Nisbett, Kaiping Peng, Incheol Choi et al. · Psychological Review | Apr 2001 | 4,281 |
| 10 | The empirical case for two systems of reasoning. Steven A. Sloman · Psychological Bulletin | 1996 | 3,711 |
| 11 | Context theory of classification learning. Douglas L. Medin, Marguerite M. Schaffer · Psychological Review | May 1978 | 3,005 |
| 12 | Integration of Visual and Linguistic Information in Spoken Language Comprehension Michael K. Tanenhaus, Michael J. Spivey-Knowlton, Kathleen M. Eberhard et al. · Science | 16 Jun 1995 | 2,977 |
| 13 | Situation models in language comprehension and memory. Rolf Antonius Zwaan, Gabriel A. Radvansky · Psychological Bulletin | 1998 | 2,794 |
| 14 | The role of theories in conceptual coherence. Gregory L. Murphy, Douglas L. Medin · Psychological Review | 1985 | 2,695 |
| 15 | The myth of language universals: Language diversity and its importance for cognitive science Nicholas D. Evans, Stephen C. Levinson · Behavioral and Brain Sciences | Oct 2009 | 2,671 |
| 16 | The MRC Psycholinguistic Database Max Coltheart · The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology Section A | Nov 1981 | 2,489 |
| 17 | Natural categories Eleanor H. Rosch · Cognitive Psychology | May 1973 | 2,371 |
| 18 | Feature analysis in early vision: Evidence from search asymmetries. Anne Treisman, Stephen Gormican · Psychological Review | 1988 | 2,240 |
| 19 | Force Dynamics in Language and Cognition Léonard Talmy · Cognitive Science | 1988 | 2,020 |
| 20 | Concreteness ratings for 40 thousand generally known English word lemmas Marc Brysbaert, Amy Beth Warriner, Victor Kuperman · Behavior Research Methods | 18 Oct 2013 | 1,925 |
| 21 | Ad hoc categories Lawrence W. Barsalou · Memory & Cognition | May 1983 | 1,885 |
| 22 | Metaphoric structuring: understanding time through spatial metaphors Lera Boroditsky · Cognition | Apr 2000 | 1,853 |
| 23 | Does Language Shape Thought?: Mandarin and English Speakers' Conceptions of Time Lera Boroditsky · Cognitive Psychology | Aug 2001 | 1,806 |
| 24 | Pan-Cultural Elements in Facial Displays of Emotion Paul Ekman, E. Richard Sorenson, Wallace V. Friesen · Science | 4 Apr 1969 | 1,774 |
| 25 | Features and Objects: The Fourteenth Bartlett Memorial Lecture Anne Treisman · The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology Section A | May 1988 | 1,770 |
| 26 | Components of attention. Michael I. Posner, Stephen J. Boies · Psychological Review | Sep 1971 | 1,757 |
| 27 | Conceptual Integration Networks Gilles Fauconnier, Mark B. Turner · Cognitive Science | Mar 1998 | 1,739 |
| 28 | A Multimodal Database for Affect Recognition and Implicit Tagging Mohammad Soleymani, Jeroen F. Lichtenauer, Thierry Pun et al. · IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing | 15 Aug 2011 | 1,677 |
| 29 | Crossmodal correspondences: A tutorial review Charles J. Spence · Attention Perception & Psychophysics | 19 Jan 2011 | 1,628 |
| 30 | Multicultural minds: A dynamic constructivist approach to culture and cognition. Ying-yi Hong, Michael Wyatt Morris, Chi-yue Chiu et al. · American Psychologist | 2000 | 1,609 |
| 31 | Cognitive reference points Eleanor H. Rosch · Cognitive Psychology | Oct 1975 | 1,443 |
| 32 | Hedges: A study in meaning criteria and the logic of fuzzy concepts George P. Lakoff · Journal of Philosophical Logic | Oct 1973 | 1,441 |
| 33 | Integration of Word Meaning and World Knowledge in Language Comprehension Peter Hagoort, Lea A. Hald, MARCEL C.M. BASTIAANSEN et al. · Science | 22 Mar 2004 | 1,423 |
| 34 | How Learning to Read Changes the Cortical Networks for Vision and Language Stanislas Dehaene, Felipe Pegado, Lúcia Willadino Braga et al. · Science | 11 Nov 2010 | 1,345 |
| 35 | FRAME SEMANTICS AND THE NATURE OF LANGUAGE* Charles J. Fillmore · Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences | Oct 1976 | 1,334 |
| 36 | The Career of Metaphor. Brian F. Bowdle, Dedre Gentner · Psychological Review | 2005 | 1,293 |
| 37 | Culture and the categorization of emotions. James A. Russell · Psychological Bulletin | 1991 | 1,276 |
| 38 | Universals and cultural differences in the judgments of facial expressions of emotion. Paul Ekman, Wallace V. Friesen, Maureen O’Sullivan et al. · Journal of Personality and Social Psychology | 1987 | 1,269 |
| 39 | How to build a baby: II. Conceptual primitives. Jean Matter Mandler · Psychological Review | 1992 | 1,224 |
| 40 | Functional anatomy of a common semantic system for words and pictures Rik R. Vandenberghe, Catherine J. Price, Richard G. Wise et al. · Nature | Sep 1996 | 1,206 |
| 41 | The importance of shape in early lexical learning Barbara Landau, Linda B. Smith, Susan Scanlon Jones · Cognitive Development | Jul 1988 | 1,204 |
| 42 | Time in the mind: Using space to think about time Daniel J. Casasanto, Lera Boroditsky · Cognition | 17 May 2007 | 1,197 |
| 43 | Categories and induction in young children Susan A. Gelman, Ellen M. Markman · Cognition | Aug 1986 | 1,177 |
| 44 | The Organization of Language and the Brain Norman Geschwind · Science | 27 Nov 1970 | 1,157 |
| 45 | The capacity for joint visual attention in the infant Mike Scaife, Jerome S. Bruner · Nature | 1975 | 1,154 |
| 46 | With the Future Behind Them: Convergent Evidence From Aymara Language and Gesture in the Crosslinguistic Comparison of Spatial Construals of Time Rafael E. Núñez, Eve E. Sweetser · Cognitive Science | May 2006 | 1,146 |
| 47 | On the process of comparing sentences against pictures Herbert H. Clark, William G. Chase · Cognitive Psychology | Jul 1972 | 1,141 |
| 48 | Perceptual causality and animacy Brian J. Scholl, Patrice Dolhonde Tremoulet · Trends in Cognitive Sciences | Aug 2000 | 1,132 |
| 49 | The Development of Cognitive Anthropology. Mark Theo Bloch, Roy G. D’Andrade · Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute | Jun 1997 | 1,105 |
| 50 | Metaphors We Think With: The Role of Metaphor in Reasoning Paul H. Thibodeau, Lera Boroditsky · PLoS ONE | 23 Feb 2011 | 1,101 |
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