Benny Shanon

1.8k total citations
75 papers, 1.1k citations indexed

About

Benny Shanon is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and Developmental and Educational Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Benny Shanon has authored 75 papers receiving a total of 1.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 27 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 22 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and 19 papers in Developmental and Educational Psychology. Recurrent topics in Benny Shanon's work include Child and Animal Learning Development (10 papers), Embodied and Extended Cognition (10 papers) and Psychedelics and Drug Studies (8 papers). Benny Shanon is often cited by papers focused on Child and Animal Learning Development (10 papers), Embodied and Extended Cognition (10 papers) and Psychedelics and Drug Studies (8 papers). Benny Shanon collaborates with scholars based in Israel, United States and China. Benny Shanon's co-authors include Diane Gillespie and Henri Atlan and has published in prestigious journals such as Psychological Bulletin, Neuropsychologia and Behavioral and Brain Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Benny Shanon

71 papers receiving 967 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Benny Shanon Israel 20 420 287 272 205 188 75 1.1k
Paul Thomas Young United States 21 405 1.0× 292 1.0× 217 0.8× 166 0.8× 658 3.5× 82 2.3k
David V. Cross United States 16 632 1.5× 355 1.2× 191 0.7× 276 1.3× 182 1.0× 21 1.7k
Robert A. M. Gregson New Zealand 18 362 0.9× 240 0.8× 70 0.3× 82 0.4× 164 0.9× 102 1.1k
Joseph R. Royce Canada 19 277 0.7× 471 1.6× 281 1.0× 223 1.1× 507 2.7× 67 1.7k
Maria Czyzewska United States 14 678 1.6× 411 1.4× 135 0.5× 568 2.8× 365 1.9× 21 1.4k
Joel R. Davitz United States 13 271 0.6× 307 1.1× 191 0.7× 158 0.8× 557 3.0× 29 1.3k
Heather Stark United States 7 654 1.6× 177 0.6× 42 0.2× 288 1.4× 171 0.9× 13 1.0k
Kathleen M. Gates United States 32 1.3k 3.1× 1.4k 4.7× 517 1.9× 230 1.1× 288 1.5× 92 2.8k
Catherine L. Harris United States 18 603 1.4× 467 1.6× 414 1.5× 191 0.9× 224 1.2× 42 1.4k
William S. Terry United States 13 352 0.8× 156 0.5× 53 0.2× 128 0.6× 96 0.5× 47 739

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Fields of papers citing papers by Benny Shanon

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Benny Shanon

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Shanon, Benny. (2008). Biblical Entheogens: a Speculative Hypothesis. Time and Mind. 1(1). 51–74. 25 indexed citations
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Shanon, Benny. (2003). Altered states and the study of consciousness: The case of Ayahuasca. ˜The œJournal of mind and behavior. 24(2). 125–154. 18 indexed citations
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Shanon, Benny. (1998). What is the function of consciousness. Journal of Consciousness Studies. 5(3). 9 indexed citations
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Shanon, Benny. (1991). Cognitive psychology and modern physics: Some analogies. The European Journal of Cognitive Psychology. 3(2). 201–234. 1 indexed citations
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Shanon, Benny. (1991). Chauvinism – A Misdirected Accusation: A Reply. Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour. 21(3). 369–371. 1 indexed citations
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Shanon, Benny. (1991). Representations: Senses and reasons. Philosophical Psychology. 4(3). 355–374. 6 indexed citations
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Shanon, Benny & Henri Atlan. (1990). Von Foerster's theorem on connectedness and organization: Semantic applications. New Ideas in Psychology. 8(1). 81–90. 5 indexed citations
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Shanon, Benny. (1990). Non-representational frameworks for psychology: A typology. The European Journal of Cognitive Psychology. 2(1). 1–22. 5 indexed citations
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Shanon, Benny. (1990). The Knot in the Handkerchief. 5(2). 109–114. 5 indexed citations
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Shanon, Benny. (1988). On similarity of features. New Ideas in Psychology. 6. 7 indexed citations
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Shanon, Benny. (1988). On the similarity of features. New Ideas in Psychology. 6(3). 307–321. 20 indexed citations
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Shanon, Benny. (1988). Semantic representation of meaning: A critique.. Psychological Bulletin. 104(1). 70–83. 52 indexed citations
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Shanon, Benny. (1987). The non-abstractness of mental representations. New Ideas in Psychology. 5(1). 117–126. 7 indexed citations
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Shanon, Benny. (1987). Why Doesn't a Stone Have a Grammar of Physics?. Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour. 17(1). 83–91. 1 indexed citations
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Shanon, Benny, et al.. (1984). Dream-reporting discourse. Text - Interdisciplinary Journal for the Study of Discourse. 4(4). 2 indexed citations
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Shanon, Benny. (1981). Classification of Musical Information Presented to the Right and Left Ear. Cortex. 17(4). 583–595. 9 indexed citations
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Shanon, Benny. (1979). Lateralization Effects in Response to Words and Non-Words. Cortex. 15(4). 541–549. 26 indexed citations
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Shanon, Benny. (1978). Writing positions in Americans and Israelis. Neuropsychologia. 16(5). 587–591. 19 indexed citations
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Shanon, Benny. (1976). Aristotelianism, Newtonianism and the Physics of the Layman. Perception. 5(2). 241–243. 71 indexed citations
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Shanon, Benny. (1974). Lateralization Effects in Reaction Time to Simple Sentences. Cortex. 10(4). 360–365. 6 indexed citations

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