Amanda M. Seed

4.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
45 papers, 2.0k citations indexed

About

Amanda M. Seed is a scholar working on Developmental and Educational Psychology, Social Psychology and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics. According to data from OpenAlex, Amanda M. Seed has authored 45 papers receiving a total of 2.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 29 papers in Developmental and Educational Psychology, 26 papers in Social Psychology and 11 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics. Recurrent topics in Amanda M. Seed's work include Child and Animal Learning Development (29 papers), Primate Behavior and Ecology (24 papers) and Animal Behavior and Reproduction (10 papers). Amanda M. Seed is often cited by papers focused on Child and Animal Learning Development (29 papers), Primate Behavior and Ecology (24 papers) and Animal Behavior and Reproduction (10 papers). Amanda M. Seed collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Germany and Austria. Amanda M. Seed's co-authors include Nicola S. Clayton, Nathan J. Emery, Michael Tomasello, Richard W. Byrne, Josep Call, Auguste M. P. von Bayern, Sabine Tebbich, Kevin N. Laland, Christoph J. Völter and Katie E. Slocombe and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Amanda M. Seed

42 papers receiving 2.0k 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.

Primate Cognition

2010 479 citations Amanda M. Seed, Michael Tomasello Topics in Cognitive Science profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Amanda M. Seed United Kingdom	18	1.4k	759	641	514	372	45	2.0k
Alex H. Taylor New Zealand	25	1.1k 0.8×	635 0.8×	476 0.7×	442 0.9×	289 0.8×	88	1.9k
Gavin R. Hunt New Zealand	25	1.7k 1.2×	916 1.2×	588 0.9×	890 1.7×	390 1.0×	49	2.4k
Federica Amici Germany	22	1.1k 0.8×	515 0.7×	355 0.6×	347 0.7×	239 0.6×	95	1.6k
Lydia M. Hopper United States	28	1.7k 1.2×	454 0.6×	716 1.1×	418 0.8×	356 1.0×	80	2.4k
Thibaud Gruber Switzerland	24	988 0.7×	346 0.5×	405 0.6×	541 1.1×	633 1.7×	59	1.9k
Catherine Hobaiter United Kingdom	25	1.7k 1.2×	449 0.6×	985 1.5×	1.2k 2.3×	187 0.5×	89	2.4k
Anne E. Russon Canada	20	1.5k 1.1×	300 0.4×	942 1.5×	393 0.8×	391 1.1×	49	2.3k
Jackie Chappell United Kingdom	22	877 0.6×	479 0.6×	540 0.8×	356 0.7×	335 0.9×	39	1.5k
Alison Jolly United Kingdom	21	1.4k 1.0×	784 1.0×	591 0.9×	524 1.0×	247 0.7×	51	2.7k
Linda F. Marchant United States	23	2.1k 1.5×	534 0.7×	759 1.2×	579 1.1×	1.3k 3.4×	52	2.9k

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Jacobs, Ivo, et al.. (2025). Physio-behavioural manifestations of ‘surprise’ in two parrot species: kea ( Nestor notabilis ) and Goffin’s cockatoos ( Cacatua goffiniana ). Royal Society Open Science. 12(12).

Völter, Christoph J., et al.. (2022). Evidence for abstract representations in children but not capuchin monkeys. Cognitive Psychology. 140. 101530–101530. 1 indexed citations

Völter, Christoph J., et al.. (2022). Exploring the development of attentional set shifting in young children with a novel Intradimensional/Extradimensional shift task. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology. 221. 105428–105428. 3 indexed citations

Völter, Christoph J., et al.. (2022). The structure of executive functions in preschool children and chimpanzees. Scientific Reports. 12(1). 6456–6456. 10 indexed citations

Seed, Amanda M., et al.. (2020). Sensitivity to ostension is not sufficient for pedagogical reasoning by toddlers.. Cognitive Science. 1 indexed citations

Slocombe, Katie E. & Amanda M. Seed. (2019). Cooperation in children. Current Biology. 29(11). R470–R473. 6 indexed citations

Ainge, James A., et al.. (2018). The Role of Association in Pre-schoolers’ Solutions to “Spoon Tests” of Future Planning. Current Biology. 28(14). 2309–2313.e2. 22 indexed citations

Ball, Derek, et al.. (2017). Saber sin saber: la cognición implícita y las mentes de niños pequeños y animales. 38(1). 49–62. 1 indexed citations

Gómez, Juan Carlos, et al.. (2017). Knowing without knowing: implicit cognition and the minds of infants and animals / Saber sin saber: la cognición implícita y las mentes de niños pequeños y animales. Studies in Psychology Estudios de Psicología. 38(1). 37–62. 9 indexed citations

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Lambert, Megan L., et al.. (2016). Diffusion of novel foraging behaviour in Amazon parrots through social learning. Animal Cognition. 20(2). 285–298. 11 indexed citations

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Sebastián‐Enesco, Carla, et al.. (2015). Comparing humans and nonhuman great apes in the broken cloth problem: Is their knowledge causal or perceptual?. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology. 139. 174–189. 4 indexed citations

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Seed, Amanda M. & Josep Call. (2014). Space or physics? Children use physical reasoning to solve the trap problem from 2.5 years of age.. Developmental Psychology. 50(7). 1951–1962. 13 indexed citations

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Call, Josep, et al.. (2014). Abstract Knowledge in the Broken-String Problem: Evidence from Nonhuman Primates and Pre-Schoolers. PLoS ONE. 9(10). e108597–e108597. 15 indexed citations

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Seed, Amanda M., et al.. (2013). Animal Cognition: An End to Insight?. Current Biology. 23(2). R67–R69. 18 indexed citations

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Seed, Amanda M. & Michael Tomasello. (2010). Primate Cognition. Topics in Cognitive Science. 2(3). 407–419. 479 indexed citations breakdown →

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Seed, Amanda M. & Richard W. Byrne. (2010). Animal Tool-Use. Current Biology. 20(23). R1032–R1039. 156 indexed citations

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Seed, Amanda M., Josep Call, Nathan J. Emery, & Nicola S. Clayton. (2009). Chimpanzees solve the trap problem when the confound of tool-use is removed.. Journal of Experimental Psychology Animal Behavior Processes. 35(1). 23–34. 83 indexed citations

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Seed, Amanda M., Nicola S. Clayton, & Nathan J. Emery. (2007). Postconflict Third-Party Affiliation in Rooks, Corvus frugilegus. Current Biology. 17(2). 152–158. 126 indexed citations

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Seed, Amanda M., Sabine Tebbich, Nathan J. Emery, & Nicola S. Clayton. (2006). Investigating Physical Cognition in Rooks, Corvus frugilegus. Current Biology. 16(7). 697–701. 126 indexed citations

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Tebbich, Sabine, Amanda M. Seed, Nathan J. Emery, & Nicola S. Clayton. (2006). Non-tool-using rooks, Corvus frugilegus, solve the trap-tube problem. Animal Cognition. 10(2). 225–231. 72 indexed citations

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