Standout Papers

How the Mind Works 1986 2026 1999 2012 2.1k
  1. How the Mind Works (1999)
    Steven Pinker Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences
  2. On The Language Instinct (1994)
    Steven Pinker Journal of the Neurological Sciences
  3. Quantitative Analysis of Culture Using Millions of Digitized Books (2010)
    Jean-Baptiste Michel, Yuan Shen et al. Science
  4. Language Learnability and Language Development (1986)
    Ellen Bialystok, Steven Pinker Modern Language Journal
  5. Natural language and natural selection (1990)
    Steven Pinker, Paul Bloom Behavioral and Brain Sciences
  6. Language Learnability and Language Development (1985)
    Clifton Pye, Steven Pinker Language
  7. The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language (1994)
    Nolan Miller, Gerda Oldham et al. The Antioch Review
  8. On language and connectionism: Analysis of a parallel distributed processing model of language acquisition (1988)
    Steven Pinker, Alan Prince Cognition
  9. Rules of Language (1991)
    Steven Pinker Science
  10. The faculty of language: what's special about it? (2005)
    Steven Pinker, Ray Jackendoff Cognition
  11. Mental rotation and orientation-dependence in shape recognition (1989)
    Michael J. Tarr, Steven Pinker Cognitive Psychology
  12. Overregularization in Language Acquisition (1992)
    Gary Marcus, Steven Pinker et al. Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development
  13. A Neural Dissociation within Language: Evidence that the Mental Dictionary Is Part of Declarative Memory, and that Grammatical Rules Are Processed by the Procedural System (1997)
    Michael T. Ullman, Suzanne Corkin et al. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
  14. A critical period for second language acquisition: Evidence from 2/3 million English speakers (2018)
    Joshua K. Hartshorne, Joshua B. Tenenbaum et al. Cognition
  15. Universality and diversity in human song (2019)
    Samuel A. Mehr, Manvir Singh et al. Science

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Works of Steven Pinker being referenced

A critical period for second language acquisition: Evidence from 2/3 million English speakers
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The faculty of language: what's special about it?
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Author Peers

Author Last Decade Papers Cites
Steven Pinker 7258 8468 5154 152 21.6k
Jerry A. Fodor 7699 5053 7484 118 19.7k
Stephen C. Levinson 2783 3717 9047 185 22.2k
Herbert H. Clark 4394 5563 7752 88 18.2k
Jerome S. Bruner 4266 13368 4274 201 41.2k
Eleanor Rosch 6198 5861 6175 36 20.1k
Ray Jackendoff 4789 2950 5308 131 14.5k
Walter Kintsch 8633 14794 8033 149 27.6k
Dedre Gentner 3247 10777 7844 223 22.0k
George A. Miller 4119 4083 3966 129 22.2k
R. Harald Baayen 11456 10327 7696 220 22.5k

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