Adena Schachner

2.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
33 papers, 948 citations indexed

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Adena Schachner is a scholar working on Social Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience and Developmental and Educational Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Adena Schachner has authored 33 papers receiving a total of 948 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 14 papers in Social Psychology, 14 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience and 13 papers in Developmental and Educational Psychology. Recurrent topics in Adena Schachner's work include Child and Animal Learning Development (12 papers), Neuroscience and Music Perception (8 papers) and Action Observation and Synchronization (6 papers). Adena Schachner is often cited by papers focused on Child and Animal Learning Development (12 papers), Neuroscience and Music Perception (8 papers) and Action Observation and Synchronization (6 papers). Adena Schachner collaborates with scholars based in United States, Austria and Sri Lanka. Adena Schachner's co-authors include Timothy F. Brady, Michael A. Hauser, Irene M. Pepperberg, Erin E. Hannon, Joshua K. Hartshorne, Psyche Loui, Bronwyn Tarr, Steven Mithen, Luke Glowacki and W. Tecumseh Fitch and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, PLoS ONE and Current Biology.

In The Last Decade

Adena Schachner

32 papers receiving 904 citations

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Music as a coevolved system for social bonding

2020 236 citations Patrick E. Savage, Psyche Loui et al. Behavioral and Brain Sciences profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Adena Schachner United States	11	539	304	214	191	184	33	948
Nori Jacoby United States	21	963 1.8×	305 1.0×	340 1.6×	300 1.6×	121 0.7×	58	1.5k
Patrick E. Savage Japan	14	528 1.0×	239 0.8×	215 1.0×	175 0.9×	42 0.2×	34	983
Armando Machado Portugal	21	951 1.8×	203 0.7×	82 0.4×	219 1.1×	840 4.6×	98	1.8k
Max M. Krasnow United States	15	498 0.9×	258 0.8×	118 0.6×	403 2.1×	96 0.5×	24	1.1k
Daniel L. Bowling Austria	20	594 1.1×	323 1.1×	372 1.7×	296 1.5×	46 0.3×	40	1.1k
Manvir Singh France	16	324 0.6×	230 0.8×	109 0.5×	215 1.1×	38 0.2×	30	914
Lewis A. Bizo Australia	21	575 1.1×	188 0.6×	43 0.2×	129 0.7×	600 3.3×	70	1.4k
Martin Clayton United Kingdom	17	682 1.3×	317 1.0×	66 0.3×	166 0.9×	40 0.2×	76	1.1k
Nils L. Wallin Italy	2	295 0.5×	124 0.4×	99 0.5×	149 0.8×	44 0.2×	4	475
John R. Vokey Canada	20	858 1.6×	342 1.1×	87 0.4×	363 1.9×	528 2.9×	50	1.4k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Adena Schachner

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Lense, Miriam, Gerardo López, Adena Schachner, et al.. (2024). From Commitment to Action. Music Perception An Interdisciplinary Journal. 41(4). 233–239.

Jara‐Ettinger, Julian & Adena Schachner. (2024). Traces of Our Past: The Social Representation of the Physical World. Current Directions in Psychological Science. 33(5). 334–340. 1 indexed citations

Schachner, Adena, et al.. (2022). Hearing water temperature: Characterizing the development of nuanced perception of sound sources. Developmental Science. 26(3). e13321–e13321. 5 indexed citations

Rottman, Joshua, et al.. (2022). How musicality changes moral consideration: People judge musical entities as more wrong to harm. Psychology of Music. 51(1). 316–336. 1 indexed citations

Schachner, Adena, et al.. (2022). Designing and detecting lies by reasoning about other agents.. Journal of Experimental Psychology General. 152(2). 346–362. 5 indexed citations

Schachner, Adena, et al.. (2022). The origins of dance: Characterizing the development of infants’ earliest dance behavior.. Developmental Psychology. 59(4). 691–706. 12 indexed citations

Savage, Patrick E., Psyche Loui, Bronwyn Tarr, et al.. (2021). Toward inclusive theories of the evolution of musicality. Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 44. e121–e121. 21 indexed citations

Kim, Minju & Adena Schachner. (2021). From Music to Animacy: Causal Reasoning Links Animate Agents with Musical Sounds. PsyArXiv (OSF Preprints). 2 indexed citations

Lee, Michelle, et al.. (2020). Hearing Water Temperature: Characterizing the development of nuanced perception of auditory events. PsyArXiv (OSF Preprints). 3 indexed citations

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Savage, Patrick E., Psyche Loui, Bronwyn Tarr, et al.. (2020). Music as a coevolved system for social bonding. Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 44. e59–e59. 236 indexed citations breakdown →

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Schachner, Adena, et al.. (2019). Designing good deception: Recursive theory of mind in lying and lie detection. eScholarship (California Digital Library). 4 indexed citations

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Brady, Timothy F., et al.. (2019). Detecting social transmission in the design of artifacts via inverse planning. PsyArXiv (OSF Preprints). 4 indexed citations

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Schachner, Adena, Liqi Zhu, Jing Li, & Deborah Kelemen. (2017). Is the bias for function-based explanations culturally universal? Children from China endorse teleological explanations of natural phenomena. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology. 157. 29–48. 24 indexed citations

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Hannon, Erin E., et al.. (2017). Babies know bad dancing when they see it: Older but not younger infants discriminate between synchronous and asynchronous audiovisual musical displays. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology. 159. 159–174. 20 indexed citations

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Schachner, Adena & Susan Carey. (2013). Reasoning about ‘irrational’ actions: When intentional movements cannot be explained, the movements themselves are seen as the goal. Cognition. 129(2). 309–327. 50 indexed citations

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Mehr, Samuel A., Adena Schachner, Rachel Katz, & Elizabeth S. Spelke. (2013). Two Randomized Trials Provide No Consistent Evidence for Nonmusical Cognitive Benefits of Brief Preschool Music Enrichment. PLoS ONE. 8(12). e82007–e82007. 88 indexed citations

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Hartshorne, Joshua K. & Adena Schachner. (2012). Tracking Replicability as a Method of Post-Publication Open Evaluation. Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience. 6. 8–8. 78 indexed citations

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Schachner, Adena & Erin E. Hannon. (2010). Infant-directed speech drives social preferences in 5-month-old infants.. Developmental Psychology. 47(1). 19–25. 65 indexed citations

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Schachner, Adena. (2010). Auditory-motor entrainment in vocal mimicking species. Communicative & Integrative Biology. 3(3). 290–293. 23 indexed citations

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Schachner, Adena, Timothy F. Brady, Irene M. Pepperberg, & Michael A. Hauser. (2009). Spontaneous Motor Entrainment to Music in Multiple Vocal Mimicking Species. Current Biology. 19(10). 831–836. 249 indexed citations

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