Topic · Language and cultural evolution
Most cited papers in Language and cultural evolution
What are the most cited papers in Language and cultural evolution?
The most cited paper in Language and cultural evolution is "Finding Structure in Time" (Jeffrey L. Elman, 1990), with 11,110 citations. Next come "Statistical Learning by 8-Month-Old Infants" (5,779) and "The Faculty of Language: What Is It, Who Has It, and How Did It Evolve?" (5,242).
Showing 50 of 99 papers. Every paper with more than 865 citations is listed.
| # | Paper | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finding Structure in Time Jeffrey L. Elman · Cognitive Science | Mar 1990 | 11,110 |
| 2 | Statistical Learning by 8-Month-Old Infants Jenny R. Saffran, Richard Ν. Aslin, Elissa L. Newport · Science | 13 Dec 1996 | 5,779 |
| 3 | 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 |
| 4 | WEIRD languages have misled us, too [Comment on Henrich et al.] Asifa Majid, Stephen C. Levinson · MPG.PuRe (Max Planck Society) | 2010 | 4,095 |
| 5 | Connectionism and cognitive architecture: A critical analysis Jerry A. Fodor, Zenon W. Pylyshyn · Cognition | Mar 1988 | 4,072 |
| 6 | Acquisition of cognitive skill. John R. Anderson · Psychological Review | Jul 1982 | 3,600 |
| 7 | Natural language processing with Python Steven Bird, Ewan Klein, Edward Loper · CERN Document Server (European Organization for Nuclear Research) | 2009 | 3,444 |
| 8 | Quantitative Analysis of Culture Using Millions of Digitized Books Jean-Baptiste Michel, Yuan Kui Shen, Aviva Presser Aiden et al. · Science | 16 Dec 2010 | 3,145 |
| 9 | Rules and Representations. Terry L. Smith, Noam Chomsky · The Philosophical Review | 1982 | 2,821 |
| 10 | Three models for the description of language Noam Chomsky · IEEE Transactions on Information Theory | Sep 1956 | 2,819 |
| 11 | 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 |
| 12 | Three Factors in Language Design Noam Chomsky · Linguistic Inquiry | 2005 | 2,659 |
| 13 | The evolution of prestige: freely conferred deference as a mechanism for enhancing the benefits of cultural transmission Joseph Henrich, Francisco J. Gil-White · Evolution and Human Behavior | May 2001 | 2,549 |
| 14 | Natural language and natural selection Steven A. Pinker, Paul Bloom · Behavioral and Brain Sciences | Dec 1990 | 2,478 |
| 15 | Sequencing in Conversational Openings 1 Emanuel A. Schegloff · American Anthropologist | Dec 1968 | 2,449 |
| 16 | Early language acquisition: cracking the speech code Patricia K. Kuhl · Nature reviews. Neuroscience | 20 Oct 2004 | 2,319 |
| 17 | Implicit Learning and Tacit Knowledge Arthur S. Reber · The MIT Press eBooks | 25 Apr 2003 | 2,022 |
| 18 | Implicit learning of artificial grammars Arthur S. Reber · Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior | Dec 1967 | 1,992 |
| 19 | Producing high-dimensional semantic spaces from lexical co-occurrence Kevin Lund, Curt Burgess · Behavior Research Methods, Instruments, & Computers | Jun 1996 | 1,864 |
| 20 | A Theory of Fads, Fashion, Custom, and Cultural Change as Informational Cascades Sushil Bikhchandani, David A. Hirshleifer, Ivo Welch · Journal of Political Economy | Oct 1992 | 1,820 |
| 21 | The Structural Sources of Verb Meanings Lila R. Gleitman · Language Acquisition | 1990 | 1,790 |
| 22 | Structure mapping in analogy and similarity. Dedre Gentner, Arthur B. Markman · American Psychologist | 1997 | 1,720 |
| 23 | Natural pedagogy Gergely Csibra, György Gergely · Trends in Cognitive Sciences | 14 Mar 2009 | 1,626 |
| 24 | Contextual correlates of semantic similarity George Armitage Miller, Walter G. Charles · Language and Cognitive Processes | 1991 | 1,612 |
| 25 | NOTES ON A SCHEMA FOR STORIES David E. Rumelhart · Elsevier eBooks | 1975 | 1,604 |
| 26 | Humans Have Evolved Specialized Skills of Social Cognition: The Cultural Intelligence Hypothesis Esther Herrmann, Josep Call, María Victoria Hernández‐Lloreda et al. · Science | 7 Sep 2007 | 1,602 |
| 27 | Regular morphology and the lexicon Joan Bybee · Language and Cognitive Processes | Oct 1995 | 1,542 |
| 28 | The visual word form area: expertise for reading in the fusiform gyrus Bruce D. McCandliss, Laurent Cohen, Stanislas Dehaene · Trends in Cognitive Sciences | Jul 2003 | 1,531 |
| 29 | The faculty of language: what's special about it? Steven A. Pinker, Ray S. Jackendoff · Cognition | 25 Jan 2005 | 1,437 |
| 30 | Word Segmentation: The Role of Distributional Cues Jenny R. Saffran, Elissa L. Newport, Richard Ν. Aslin · Journal of Memory and Language | Aug 1996 | 1,434 |
| 31 | Infant sensitivity to distributional information can affect phonetic discrimination Jessica Maye, Janet F. Werker, LouAnn Gerken · Cognition | 2002 | 1,388 |
| 32 | “John thinks that Mary thinks that…” attribution of second-order beliefs by 5- to 10-year-old children Josef Perner, Heinz Wimmer · Journal of Experimental Child Psychology | Jun 1985 | 1,382 |
| 33 | Domain-Specific Knowledge Systems in the Brain: The Animate-Inanimate Distinction Alfonso Caramazza, Jennifer R. Shelton · Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience | 1998 | 1,380 |
| 34 | Folk Psychology as Simulation Robert M. Gordon · Mind & Language | Jun 1986 | 1,370 |
| 35 | Explanation and Understanding Frank C. Keil · Annual Review of Psychology | 9 Aug 2005 | 1,356 |
| 36 | Movement Operations after Syntax David Embick, Rolf Noyer · Linguistic Inquiry | Oct 2001 | 1,349 |
| 37 | The cultural niche: Why social learning is essential for human adaptation Robert T. Boyd, Peter J. Richerson, Joseph Henrich · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | 20 Jun 2011 | 1,348 |
| 38 | The dynamical hypothesis in cognitive science Tim van Gelder · Behavioral and Brain Sciences | Oct 1998 | 1,344 |
| 39 | Do humans have two systems to track beliefs and belief-like states? Ian A. Apperly, Stephen Butterfill · Psychological Review | 2009 | 1,296 |
| 40 | Problems of projection Noam Chomsky · Lingua | 6 Jan 2013 | 1,280 |
| 41 | Analogical Mapping by Constraint Satisfaction Keith J. Holyoak, Paul R. Thagard · Cognitive Science | Jul 1989 | 1,270 |
| 42 | Predicting Human Brain Activity Associated with the Meanings of Nouns Tom M. Mitchell, Svetlana V. Shinkareva, J. Andrew Carlson et al. · Science | 29 May 2008 | 1,260 |
| 43 | The Evolution of Conformist Transmission and the Emergence of Between-Group Differences Joe Henrich, Robert T. Boyd · Evolution and Human Behavior | Jul 1998 | 1,257 |
| 44 | A Dynamic Systems Theory approach to second language acquisition Kees de Bot, Wander M. Lowie, Marjolijn H. Verspoor · Bilingualism Language and Cognition | Mar 2007 | 1,239 |
| 45 | The Mentality of Crows: Convergent Evolution of Intelligence in Corvids and Apes Nathan J. Emery, Nicola Susan Clayton · Science | 10 Dec 2004 | 1,222 |
| 46 | Ratcheting up the ratchet: on the evolution of cumulative culture Claudio Tennie, Josep Call, Michael Tomasello · Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences | 19 Jul 2009 | 1,217 |
| 47 | Darwin's mistake: Explaining the discontinuity between human and nonhuman minds Derek C. Penn, Keith J. Holyoak, Daniel J. Povinelli · Behavioral and Brain Sciences | Apr 2008 | 1,201 |
| 48 | Characteristics of dissociable human learning systems David R. Shanks, Mark F. St. John · Behavioral and Brain Sciences | Sep 1994 | 1,185 |
| 49 | Event structure in perception and conception. Jeffrey M. Zacks, Barbara Tversky · Psychological Bulletin | 2001 | 1,175 |
| 50 | The Evolution of Communication Sam Gliksman · Corwin eBooks | 2016 | 1,175 |
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