Most cited papers in Child and Animal Learning Development
What are the most cited papers in Child and Animal Learning Development?
The most cited paper in Child and Animal Learning Development is "The magical number seven, plus or minus two: Some limits on our capacity for processing information." (George Miller, 1956), with 17,806 citations. Next come "Toward an experimental ecology of human development." (10,424) and "Levels of processing: A framework for memory research" (9,656).
Showing 50 of 100 papers. Every paper with more than 1,887 citations is listed.
| # | Paper | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The magical number seven, plus or minus two: Some limits on our capacity for processing information. George Miller · Psychological Review | Mar 1956 | 17,806 |
| 2 | Toward an experimental ecology of human development. Urie Bronfenbrenner · American Psychologist | Jul 1977 | 10,424 |
| 3 | Levels of processing: A framework for memory research Fergus I. M. Craik, Robert S. Lockhart · Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior | Dec 1972 | 9,656 |
| 4 | Does the chimpanzee have a theory of mind? David Premack, Guy Woodruff · Behavioral and Brain Sciences | Dec 1978 | 8,737 |
| 5 | Features of similarity. Amos Tversky · Psychological Review | Jul 1977 | 7,354 |
| 6 | Conflict monitoring and cognitive control. Matthew Botvinick, Todd Samuel Braver, Deanna M. Barch et al. · Psychological Review | 2001 | 7,222 |
| 7 | THE MIRROR-NEURON SYSTEM Giacomo Rizzolatti, Laila Craighero · Annual Review of Neuroscience | 24 Jun 2004 | 7,193 |
| 8 | Beliefs about beliefs: Representation and constraining function of wrong beliefs in young children's understanding of deception Heinz Wimmer · Cognition | 1983 | 6,373 |
| 9 | Family resemblances: Studies in the internal structure of categories Eleanor H. Rosch, Carolyn B. Mervis · Cognitive Psychology | Oct 1975 | 5,991 |
| 10 | Statistical Learning by 8-Month-Old Infants Jenny R. Saffran, Richard Ν. Aslin, Elissa L. Newport · Science | 13 Dec 1996 | 5,779 |
| 11 | Grounded Cognition Lawrence W. Barsalou · Annual Review of Psychology | 17 Aug 2007 | 5,703 |
| 12 | Basic objects in natural categories Eleanor H. Rosch, Carolyn B. Mervis, Wayne D. Gray et al. · Cognitive Psychology | Jul 1976 | 5,578 |
| 13 | Toward a model of text comprehension and production. Walter Kintsch, Teun A. van Dijk · Psychological Review | Sep 1978 | 5,088 |
| 14 | Mood and memory. Gordon H. Bower · American Psychologist | 1981 | 5,043 |
| 15 | Episodic Memory: From Mind to Brain Endel Tulving · Annual Review of Psychology | Feb 2002 | 5,027 |
| 16 | Understanding and sharing intentions: The origins of cultural cognition Michael Tomasello, Malinda Carpenter, Josep Call et al. · Behavioral and Brain Sciences | Oct 2005 | 4,912 |
| 17 | Memory and consciousness. Endel Tulving · Canadian Psychology/Psychologie canadienne | 1985 | 4,660 |
| 18 | Encoding specificity and retrieval processes in episodic memory. Endel Tulving, Donald M. Thomson · Psychological Review | Sep 1973 | 4,600 |
| 19 | Meta-Analysis of Theory-of-Mind Development: The Truth about False Belief Henry M. Wellman, David Cross, Julanne King Watson · Child Development | May 2001 | 4,505 |
| 20 | The cognitive control of emotion Kevin N. Ochsner, John M. Gross · Trends in Cognitive Sciences | 29 Apr 2005 | 4,501 |
| 21 | Individual differences in reasoning: Implications for the rationality debate? Keith E. Stanovich, Richard F. West · Behavioral and Brain Sciences | Oct 2000 | 4,303 |
| 22 | A capacity theory of comprehension: Individual differences in working memory. Marcel Adam Just, Patricia A. Carpenter · Psychological Review | 1992 | 4,155 |
| 23 | WEIRD languages have misled us, too [Comment on Henrich et al.] Asifa Majid, Stephen C. Levinson · MPG.PuRe (Max Planck Society) | 2010 | 4,095 |
| 24 | Depth of processing and the retention of words in episodic memory. Fergus I. M. Craik, Endel Tulving · Journal of Experimental Psychology General | Sep 1975 | 3,990 |
| 25 | The empirical case for two systems of reasoning. Steven A. Sloman · Psychological Bulletin | 1996 | 3,711 |
| 26 | Acquisition of cognitive skill. John R. Anderson · Psychological Review | Jul 1982 | 3,600 |
| 27 | Theory of mind Chris Frith, Uta Frith · Current Biology | Sep 2005 | 3,489 |
| 28 | Working Memory, Comprehension, and Aging: A Review and a New View Lynn Hasher, Rose T. Zacks · The Psychology of learning and motivation/The psychology of learning and motivation | 1988 | 3,478 |
| 29 | DISCONNEXION SYNDROMES IN ANIMALS AND MAN Norman Geschwind · Brain | 1965 | 3,430 |
| 30 | The Functional Architecture of Human Empathy Jean Decety, Philip L. Jackson · Behavioral and Cognitive Neuroscience Reviews | Jun 2004 | 3,386 |
| 31 | Imitation of Facial and Manual Gestures by Human Neonates Andrew N. Meltzoff, Maggie Moore · Science | 7 Oct 1977 | 3,262 |
| 32 | Mirror neurons and the simulation theory of mind-reading Vittorio Gallese · Trends in Cognitive Sciences | Dec 1998 | 3,221 |
| 33 | Norm theory: Comparing reality to its alternatives. Daniel J. Kahneman, Dale T. Miller · Psychological Review | Apr 1986 | 3,072 |
| 34 | A model for Pavlovian learning: Variations in the effectiveness of conditioned but not of unconditioned stimuli. John M. Pearce, Geoffrey Hall · Psychological Review | 1980 | 3,053 |
| 35 | Context theory of classification learning. Douglas L. Medin, Marguerite M. Schaffer · Psychological Review | May 1978 | 3,005 |
| 36 | Nature-nurture reconceptualized in developmental perspective: A bioecological model. Urie Bronfenbrenner, Stephen J. Ceci · Psychological Review | Oct 1994 | 2,991 |
| 37 | Schema induction and analogical transfer Mary L. Gick, Keith J. Holyoak · Cognitive Psychology | 1983 | 2,962 |
| 38 | Concreteness, imagery, and meaningfulness values for 925 nouns. Allan Paivio, John C. Yuille, Stephen A. Madigan · Journal of Experimental Psychology | 1968 | 2,857 |
| 39 | Language within our grasp Giacomo Rizzolatti, Michael A. Arbib · Trends in Neurosciences | May 1998 | 2,841 |
| 40 | Where do you know what you know? The representation of semantic knowledge in the human brain Karalyn E. Patterson, Peter J. Nestor, Timothy T. Rogers · Nature reviews. Neuroscience | 20 Nov 2007 | 2,828 |
| 41 | Self-projection and the brain Randy Lee Buckner, Daniel C. Carroll · Trends in Cognitive Sciences | 23 Dec 2006 | 2,754 |
| 42 | The ecology of developmental processes. Urie Bronfenbrenner, Pamela Morris | 1998 | 2,752 |
| 43 | Social Cognition, Joint Attention, and Communicative Competence from 9 to 15 Months of Age Malinda Carpenter, Katherine Nagell, Michael Tomasello et al. · Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development | 1998 | 2,751 |
| 44 | The Brain's concepts: the role of the Sensory-motor system in conceptual knowledge Vittorio Gallese, George P. Lakoff · Cognitive Neuropsychology | 11 Jan 2005 | 2,747 |
| 45 | The role of theories in conceptual coherence. Gregory L. Murphy, Douglas L. Medin · Psychological Review | 1985 | 2,695 |
| 46 | Executive function in preschoolers: A review using an integrative framework. Nancy Garon, Susan E. Bryson, Isabel Mary Smith · Psychological Bulletin | 2008 | 2,694 |
| 47 | Habituation: A model phenomenon for the study of neuronal substrates of behavior. Richard F. Thompson, William Alden Spencer · Psychological Review | 1966 | 2,650 |
| 48 | Analogical problem solving Mary L. Gick, Keith J. Holyoak · Cognitive Psychology | Jul 1980 | 2,573 |
| 49 | Toward a Universal Law of Generalization for Psychological Science Roger N. Shepard · Science | 11 Sep 1987 | 2,512 |
| 50 | Core systems of number Lisa Feigenson, Stanislas Dehaene, Elizabeth S. Spelke · Trends in Cognitive Sciences | 15 Jun 2004 | 2,489 |
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