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Most cited papers in Embodied and Extended Cognition

What are the most cited papers in Embodied and Extended Cognition?

The most cited paper in Embodied and Extended Cognition is "Minds, brains, and programs" (John Rogers Searle, 1980), with 6,674 citations. Next come "Whatever next? Predictive brains, situated agents, and the future of cognitive science" (6,131) and "The Extended Mind" (5,419).

Showing 50 of 98 papers. Every paper with more than 629 citations is listed.

Most cited papers, sortable by citations and release date
#Paper
1 Minds, brains, and programs John Rogers Searle · Behavioral and Brain Sciences Sep 1980 6,674
2 Whatever next? Predictive brains, situated agents, and the future of cognitive science Andy Clark · Behavioral and Brain Sciences Open access 10 May 2013 6,131
3 The Extended Mind Andy Clark, David J. Chalmers · Analysis 1998 5,419
4 Self-Perception Theory Daryl J. Bem · Advances in experimental social psychology Book chapter 1972 5,282
5 Six views of embodied cognition Margaret Mary Wilson · Psychonomic Bulletin & Review Open access Dec 2002 4,734
6 Neurophysiological mechanisms underlying the understanding and imitation of action Giacomo Rizzolatti, Leonardo Fogassi, Vittorio Gallese · Nature reviews. Neuroscience Review Sep 2001 3,325
7 Sociomaterial Practices: Exploring Technology at Work Wanda J. Orlikowski · Organization Studies Sep 2007 3,187
8 Being There: Putting Brain, Body and World Together Again. Tim van Gelder, Andy Clark · The Philosophical Review Oct 1998 3,149
9 Cortical Mechanisms of Human Imitation Marco Iacoboni, Roger P. Woods, Marcel Braß et al. · Science 24 Dec 1999 2,706
10 TIME OF CONSCIOUS INTENTION TO ACT IN RELATION TO ONSET OF CEREBRAL ACTIVITY (READINESS-POTENTIAL) Benjamin Libet, Curtis A. Gleason, Elwood W. Wright et al. · Brain 1983 2,515
11 A unifying view of the basis of social cognition Vittorio Gallese, Christian Keysers, Giacomo Rizzolatti · Trends in Cognitive Sciences 5 Aug 2004 2,246
12 Drives and the C. N. S. (conceptual nervous system). Donald Olding Hebb · Psychological Review 1955 2,085
13 Parietal Lobe: From Action Organization to Intention Understanding Leonardo Fogassi, Pier Francesco Ferrari, Benno G. Gesierich et al. · Science 28 Apr 2005 2,027
14 Behavioural ecology: An evolutionary approach H. Ronald Pulliam · Animal Behaviour Nov 1979 1,999
15 The free-energy principle: a rough guide to the brain? Karl John Friston · Trends in Cognitive Sciences Review 25 Jun 2009 1,920
16 Interoceptive inference, emotion, and the embodied self Anil K. Seth · Trends in Cognitive Sciences ReviewOpen access 12 Oct 2013 1,873
17 On the primacy of affect. Robert B. Zajonc · American Psychologist Feb 1984 1,864
18 Participatory sense-making Hanne De Jaegher, Ezequiel Alejandro Di Paolo · Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences 5 Oct 2007 1,621
19 Imitation, Empathy, and Mirror Neurons Marco Iacoboni · Annual Review of Psychology Review 15 Sep 2008 1,616
20 Methodological solipsism considered as a research strategy in cognitive psychology J. A. Fodor · Behavioral and Brain Sciences Mar 1980 1,492
21 Embodiment in Attitudes, Social Perception, and Emotion Paula M. Niedenthal, Lawrence W. Barsalou, Piotr Winkielman et al. · Personality and Social Psychology Review Aug 2005 1,482
22 The theory of constructed emotion: an active inference account of interoception and categorization Lisa Feldman Barrett · Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience Open access 12 Oct 2016 1,466
23 A free energy principle for the brain Karl John Friston, James Morvan Kilner, Lee M. Harrison · Journal of Physiology-Paris Jul 2006 1,435
24 Facing Up to the Problem of Consciousness David J. Chalmers · The MIT Press eBooks Book chapter 26 Mar 1996 1,426
25 Rational imitation in preverbal infants György Gergely, Harold Bekkering, Ildikó Király · Nature 14 Feb 2002 1,414
26 A critical look at the embodied cognition hypothesis and a new proposal for grounding conceptual content Bradford Z. Mahon, Alfonso Caramazza · Journal of Physiology-Paris 2008 1,391
27 NEUROPHENOMENOLOGY A Methodological Remedy for the Hard Problem Francisco J. Varela · Journal of Consciousness Studies 1996 1,370
28 Embodying Emotion Paula M. Niedenthal · Science 18 May 2007 1,358
29 On the primacy of cognition. Richard S. Lazarus · American Psychologist Feb 1984 1,349
30 Salience, Attention, and Attribution: Top of the Head Phenomena Shelley E. Taylor, Susan T. Fiske · Advances in experimental social psychology Book chapter 1978 1,311
31 An Outline of a Theory of Affordances Anthony P. Chemero · Ecological Psychology Apr 2003 1,297
32 A unifying computational framework for motor control and social interaction Daniel M. Wolpert, Kenji Doya, Mitsuo Kawato · Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences Open access 17 Feb 2003 1,251
33 Enacting the social John Easton Law, John Urry · Economy and Society Aug 2004 1,248
34 Active Inference: A Process Theory Karl John Friston, Thomas H. B. FitzGerald, Francesco Rigoli et al. · Neural Computation Open access 21 Nov 2016 1,239
35 From the Phenomenology to the Mechanisms of Consciousness: Integrated Information Theory 3.0 Masafumi Oizumi, Larissa Albantakis, Giulio Tononi · PLoS Computational Biology Open access 8 May 2014 1,207
36 The Interaction of Cognitive and Physiological Determinants of Emotional State Stanley Schachter · Advances in experimental social psychology Book chapter 1964 1,185
37 The proactive brain: using analogies and associations to generate predictions Moshe Bar · Trends in Cognitive Sciences Review 5 Jun 2007 1,177
38 A Rich Landscape of Affordances Erik Rietveld, Julian D Kiverstein · Ecological Psychology 2 Oct 2014 1,161
39 Radical embodiment: neural dynamics and consciousness Evan Thompson, Francisco J. Varela · Trends in Cognitive Sciences Review Oct 2001 1,159
40 Embodied Cognition: A field guide Michael L. Anderson · Artificial Intelligence Open access 2 Jun 2003 1,131
41 What should we expect from research through design? William W. Gaver Conference paper 5 May 2012 1,112
42 In Defense of Proper Functions Ruth Garrett Millikan · Philosophy of Science Jun 1989 1,107
43 Deictic codes for the embodiment of cognition Dana H. Ballard, Mary Hayhoe, Polly K. Pook et al. · Behavioral and Brain Sciences Dec 1997 1,096
44 The Transparency of Experience M. G. F. Martin · Mind & Language Open access Sep 2002 1,095
45 The dynamics of embodiment: A field theory of infant perseverative reaching Esther Thelen, Gregor Schöner, Christian Scheier et al. · Behavioral and Brain Sciences Feb 2001 1,073
46 Unsupervised Learning H. B. Barlow · Neural Computation Sep 1989 1,064
47 Organizing conceptual knowledge in humans with a gridlike code Alexandra Oana Constantinescu, Jill X. O’Reilly, Timothy E.J. Behrens · Science Open access 16 Jun 2016 1,034
48 Active interoceptive inference and the emotional brain Anil K. Seth, Karl John Friston · Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences Open access 11 Oct 2016 980
49 How we know our minds: The illusion of first-person knowledge of intentionality Alison Gopnik · Behavioral and Brain Sciences Mar 1993 966
50 Embodied simulation: From neurons to phenomenal experience Vittorio Gallese · Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences Mar 2005 946

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