Chris Sinha

3.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
49 papers, 1.3k citations indexed

About

Chris Sinha is a scholar working on Developmental and Educational Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and Language and Linguistics. According to data from OpenAlex, Chris Sinha has authored 49 papers receiving a total of 1.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 20 papers in Developmental and Educational Psychology, 15 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and 13 papers in Language and Linguistics. Recurrent topics in Chris Sinha's work include Child and Animal Learning Development (18 papers), Language, Metaphor, and Cognition (12 papers) and Categorization, perception, and language (11 papers). Chris Sinha is often cited by papers focused on Child and Animal Learning Development (18 papers), Language, Metaphor, and Cognition (12 papers) and Categorization, perception, and language (11 papers). Chris Sinha collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Denmark and China. Chris Sinha's co-authors include Kim Plunkett, Valerie Walkerdine, Margaret MacLure, Gordon Wells, Allayne Bridges, Peter French, Nick Freeman, Tania Kuteva, Martin F. Møller and Wany Bernardete de Araujo Sampaio and has published in prestigious journals such as Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, Cognition and Behavioral and Brain Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Chris Sinha

44 papers receiving 1.1k citations

Hit Papers

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Chris Sinha United Kingdom	14	589	426	350	252	176	49	1.3k
John Neil Bohannon United States	14	982 1.7×	370 0.9×	292 0.8×	540 2.1×	216 1.2×	30	1.5k
Laura Wagner United States	20	625 1.1×	309 0.7×	302 0.9×	249 1.0×	75 0.4×	63	1.0k
Sandeep Prasada United States	16	860 1.5×	336 0.8×	291 0.8×	470 1.9×	189 1.1×	30	1.4k
Michael H. Kelly United States	20	706 1.2×	670 1.6×	266 0.8×	639 2.5×	233 1.3×	33	1.5k
Ann M. Peters United States	12	1.1k 1.9×	563 1.3×	627 1.8×	460 1.8×	279 1.6×	19	1.7k
Vera Kempe United Kingdom	22	848 1.4×	298 0.7×	349 1.0×	655 2.6×	172 1.0×	66	1.3k
Sherman Wilcox United States	13	790 1.3×	425 1.0×	447 1.3×	117 0.5×	41 0.2×	54	1.1k
Soonja Choi United States	16	1.0k 1.7×	813 1.9×	404 1.2×	197 0.8×	100 0.6×	33	1.6k
Victoria A. Murphy United Kingdom	16	720 1.2×	230 0.5×	271 0.8×	327 1.3×	109 0.6×	57	1.2k
Jacqueline Sachs United States	13	802 1.4×	402 0.9×	406 1.2×	531 2.1×	294 1.7×	19	1.5k

Countries citing papers authored by Chris Sinha

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Fields of papers citing papers by Chris Sinha

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Chris Sinha

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Chris Sinha. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Chris Sinha based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Chris Sinha. Chris Sinha is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

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Sinha, Chris. (2021). Language, Culture and Mind. Cadernos de Linguística e Teoria da Literatura (Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais). 27(1). 78–105. 4 indexed citations

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Grinevald, Colette & Chris Sinha. (2020). North-South relations in linguistic science: Collaboration or colonialism?. UEA Digital Repository (University of East Anglia). 43–61. 1 indexed citations

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Arbib, Michael A., Francisco Aboitiz, Judith M. Burkart, et al.. (2018). The comparative neuroprimatology 2018 (CNP-2018) road map for research on How the Brain Got Language. Interaction Studies Social Behaviour and Communication in Biological and Artificial Systems. 19(1-2). 370–387. 6 indexed citations

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Sinha, Vera da Silva, Wany Bernardete de Araujo Sampaio, & Chris Sinha. (2017). The Many Ways to Count the World: Counting Terms in Indigenous Languages and Cultures of Rondônia, Brazil. 1(1). 2 indexed citations

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Sinha, Chris. (2017). Ten Lectures on Language, Culture and Mind. 5 indexed citations

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Sinha, Chris & Enrique Bernárdez. (2016). Espaço, tempo e espaço-tempo: metáforas, mapas e fusões. UEA Digital Repository (University of East Anglia). 7(1). 53–77.

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Sinha, Chris. (2015). Language and other artifacts: socio-cultural dynamics of niche construction. Frontiers in Psychology. 6. 1601–1601. 42 indexed citations

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Sinha, Chris. (2012). (Dis-)Continuity, (inter-)corporeality and conventionality in dialogical development. Lund University Publications (Lund University).

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Sinha, Chris. (2011). Iconology and imagination in human development: explorations in sociogenetic economies. Lund University Publications (Lund University). 97–116. 1 indexed citations

10.

Sinha, Chris. (2009). Objects in a storied world: materiality, narrativity and normativity. Journal of Consciousness Studies. 16. 167–190. 10 indexed citations

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Sinha, Chris & Cintia Rodríguez. (2008). Language and the signifying object. Foot & Ankle International. 22(11). 890–4. 1 indexed citations

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Sinha, Chris. (2006). Epigenetics, Semiotics, and the Mysteries of the Organism. Biological Theory. 1(2). 112–115. 6 indexed citations

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López, Kristine M. Jensen de, et al.. (2005). Early Shaping of Spatial Meaning in Three Languages and Cultures: linguistic or cultural relativity?. 31. 379–388.

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Sinha, Chris & Tania Kuteva. (1995). Distributed Spatial Semantics. Nordic Journal of Linguistics. 18(2). 167–199. 66 indexed citations

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Sinha, Chris, et al.. (1995). A coding system for spatial relational reference. Cognitive Linguistics. 6(2-3). 261–309. 13 indexed citations

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Sinha, Chris, et al.. (1994). Comparative Spatial Semantics and Language Acquisition: Evidence from Danish, English, and Japanese. Journal of Semantics. 11(4). 253–287. 34 indexed citations

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Plunkett, Kim & Chris Sinha. (1992). Connectionism and developmental theory. British Journal of Developmental Psychology. 10(3). 209–254. 123 indexed citations

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Sinha, Chris. (1989). Reading Vygotsky. History of the Human Sciences. 2(3). 309–331. 2 indexed citations

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Sinha, Chris. (1986). Psychology, Education and the Ghost of Kaspar Hauser. Disability Handicap & Society. 1(3). 245–259. 3 indexed citations

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Freeman, Nick, Stacey Lloyd, & Chris Sinha. (1980). Infant search tasks reveal early concepts of containment and canonical usage of objects. Cognition. 8(3). 243–262. 85 indexed citations

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