Alan Costall

5.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
102 papers, 3.3k citations indexed

About

Alan Costall is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Social Psychology and Developmental and Educational Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Alan Costall has authored 102 papers receiving a total of 3.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 33 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 30 papers in Social Psychology and 19 papers in Developmental and Educational Psychology. Recurrent topics in Alan Costall's work include Child and Animal Learning Development (13 papers), Academic and Historical Perspectives in Psychology (13 papers) and Social Representations and Identity (11 papers). Alan Costall is often cited by papers focused on Child and Animal Learning Development (13 papers), Academic and Historical Perspectives in Psychology (13 papers) and Social Representations and Identity (11 papers). Alan Costall collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Germany and United States. Alan Costall's co-authors include Vasudevi Reddy, Gary Bente, Bert Timmermans, Leonhard Schilbach, Tobias Schlicht, Kai Vogeley, Arthur Still, Ivan Leudar, Emma Williams and James Ost and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Developmental Psychology and The American Journal of Cardiology.

In The Last Decade

Alan Costall

99 papers receiving 3.1k citations

Hit Papers

Toward a second-person neuroscience 2013 2026 2017 2021 2013 250 500 750
What are hit papers?

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.

  1. Toward a second-person neuroscience
    2013 973 citations Vasudevi Reddy, Alan Costall et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Alan Costall United Kingdom 27 1.6k 1.6k 827 627 339 102 3.3k
Vasudevi Reddy United Kingdom 26 1.8k 1.1× 1.7k 1.1× 1.4k 1.7× 596 1.0× 208 0.6× 64 3.4k
Kathy Pezdek United States 35 2.1k 1.3× 1.1k 0.7× 873 1.1× 779 1.2× 547 1.6× 122 3.7k
Maggie Moore United States 20 2.1k 1.2× 2.6k 1.7× 3.0k 3.7× 1.0k 1.6× 332 1.0× 43 5.4k
Stanley B. Klein United States 38 2.6k 1.6× 1.1k 0.7× 1.8k 2.1× 1.0k 1.6× 723 2.1× 87 4.3k
Hanne De Jaegher United Kingdom 22 2.3k 1.4× 1.8k 1.2× 740 0.9× 630 1.0× 364 1.1× 38 3.7k
Seymour Wapner United States 30 1.4k 0.9× 957 0.6× 657 0.8× 907 1.4× 390 1.2× 138 4.0k
Marshall R. Jones United States 5 822 0.5× 1.1k 0.7× 772 0.9× 601 1.0× 939 2.8× 8 3.7k
Maria Gendron United States 24 1.7k 1.0× 1.4k 0.9× 318 0.4× 1.4k 2.2× 280 0.8× 46 3.2k
Stephen Hutt United States 24 1.0k 0.6× 1.0k 0.6× 729 0.9× 513 0.8× 380 1.1× 78 3.2k
Linda A. Camras United States 33 1.1k 0.7× 1.8k 1.2× 633 0.8× 991 1.6× 639 1.9× 76 4.2k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Alan Costall

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Alan Costall

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Costall, Alan, et al.. (2017). The Ecological Revolution: The Senses Considered as Perceptual Systems, 50 Years Later - Part 2. Ecological Psychology. 29(3). 161–164. 5 indexed citations
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Marková, Gabriela, et al.. (2016). Not Just Being Lifted: Infants are Sensitive to Delay During a Pick-Up Routine. Frontiers in Psychology. 6. 2065–2065. 17 indexed citations
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Costall, Alan & Paul Morris. (2015). The “textbook Gibson”: The assimilation of dissidence.. History of Psychology. 18(1). 1–14. 22 indexed citations
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Leudar, Ivan & Alan Costall. (2009). On historical antecedents of theory of mind. The American Journal of Cardiology. 78(12). 1350–4. 1 indexed citations
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Costall, Alan & Ivan Leudar. (2007). Getting over “the problem of other minds”: Communication in context. Infant Behavior and Development. 30(2). 289–295. 6 indexed citations
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Costall, Alan. (2006). ‘Introspectionism’ and the mythical origins of scientific psychology. Consciousness and Cognition. 15(4). 634–654. 47 indexed citations
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Bard, Kim A., Masako Myowa‐Yamakoshi, Masaki Tomonaga, et al.. (2005). Group differences in the mutual gaze of chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes).. Developmental Psychology. 41(4). 616–624. 88 indexed citations
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Leudar, Ivan, Alan Costall, & David Francis. (2004). Theory of Mind Framework: Critical Analysis. Theory & Psychology. 14. 2 indexed citations
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Costall, Alan & Ivan Leudar. (2004). Theorizing the occult mind. Theory & Psychology. 14. 3 indexed citations
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Roberson, Debi, Ian Davies, Jules Davidoff, et al.. (2002). Theories, Technologies, Instrumentalities of Color:Anthropological and Historiographic Perspectives. University Press of America eBooks. 5 indexed citations
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Kádár, Endre E., et al.. (2002). Drifting towards a diffuse control model of exploratory motor learning: A comparison of global and within-trial performance measures. Biological Cybernetics. 87(1). 1–9. 2 indexed citations
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Ost, James & Alan Costall. (2002). Misremembering Bartlett: A study in serial reproduction. British Journal of Psychology. 93(2). 243–255. 24 indexed citations
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Stins, John F., Endre E. Kádár, & Alan Costall. (2001). A kinematic analysis of hand selection in a reaching task. Laterality Asymmetries of Body Brain and Cognition. 6(4). 347–367. 4 indexed citations
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Valsiner, Jaan, Emily Abbey, Thomas Slunecko, et al.. (2001). The Cambridge Handbook of Sociocultural Psychology. Cambridge University Press eBooks. 83 indexed citations
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Stins, John F., Endre E. Kádár, & Alan Costall. (2001). A kinematic analysis of hand selection in a reaching task. Laterality Asymmetries of Body Brain and Cognition. 6(4). 347–367. 46 indexed citations
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Williams, Emma, Vasudevi Reddy, & Alan Costall. (2001). Taking a Closer Look at Functional Play in Children with Autism. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders. 31(1). 67–77. 135 indexed citations
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Williams, Emma, Alan Costall, & Vasudevi Reddy. (1999). Children with Autism Experience Problems with Both Objects and People. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders. 29(5). 367–378. 48 indexed citations
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Costall, Alan. (1999). Dire straits: The divisive legacy of the 1898 Cambridge anthropological expedition. Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences. 35(4). 345–358. 6 indexed citations
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Costall, Alan. (1998). From the "Pure" to the "Applied": C.S. Myers and British Psychology. Revista de historia de la psicología. 19(1). 143–164. 1 indexed citations
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Costall, Alan. (1980). The limits of language: Wittgenstein's later philosophy and Skinner's radical behaviorism. 8(2). 8 indexed citations

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