Deborah Zaitchik

3.5k total citations
29 papers, 2.5k citations indexed

About

Deborah Zaitchik is a scholar working on Developmental and Educational Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience and Social Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Deborah Zaitchik has authored 29 papers receiving a total of 2.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 21 papers in Developmental and Educational Psychology, 16 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience and 4 papers in Social Psychology. Recurrent topics in Deborah Zaitchik's work include Child and Animal Learning Development (21 papers), Memory and Neural Mechanisms (9 papers) and Face Recognition and Perception (5 papers). Deborah Zaitchik is often cited by papers focused on Child and Animal Learning Development (21 papers), Memory and Neural Mechanisms (9 papers) and Face Recognition and Perception (5 papers). Deborah Zaitchik collaborates with scholars based in United States. Deborah Zaitchik's co-authors include Susan Carey, Helen Tager‐Flusberg, Kathleen E. Sullivan, Beate Sodian, Gregg E. A. Solomon, Elissa Koff, Susan Johnson, Ella Daly, Jeanette Günther and Marilyn Albert and has published in prestigious journals such as Child Development, Psychological Science and Developmental Psychology.

In The Last Decade

Deborah Zaitchik

28 papers receiving 2.3k citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Deborah Zaitchik United States 19 1.3k 831 604 485 442 29 2.5k
Sujin Yang South Korea 23 832 0.6× 693 0.8× 380 0.6× 319 0.7× 277 0.6× 76 2.1k
Giovanni Sala United Kingdom 23 786 0.6× 700 0.8× 300 0.5× 394 0.8× 230 0.5× 58 2.2k
Michaël Stevens Belgium 21 1.2k 0.9× 1.8k 2.2× 320 0.5× 238 0.5× 295 0.7× 28 3.3k
F. Richard Ferraro United States 29 558 0.4× 1.2k 1.5× 439 0.7× 171 0.4× 327 0.7× 151 2.8k
Simona Ghetti United States 37 1.7k 1.3× 2.6k 3.2× 564 0.9× 277 0.6× 185 0.4× 122 4.2k
J. Bruce Morton Canada 26 898 0.7× 1.4k 1.7× 190 0.3× 262 0.5× 198 0.4× 58 2.4k
Alexander R. Luria Japan 9 1.1k 0.8× 1.4k 1.7× 363 0.6× 291 0.6× 377 0.9× 12 2.8k
Astrid F. Fry United States 11 711 0.5× 1.0k 1.2× 292 0.5× 161 0.3× 283 0.6× 12 2.8k
Paul Whitney United States 29 697 0.5× 1.3k 1.6× 424 0.7× 162 0.3× 154 0.3× 76 3.0k
Marilyn C. Welsh United States 21 1.2k 0.9× 1.5k 1.7× 187 0.3× 409 0.8× 1.3k 2.9× 36 3.5k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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All Works

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Bascandziev, Igor, et al.. (2018). The role of domain-general cognitive resources in children’s construction of a vitalist theory of biology. Cognitive Psychology. 104. 1–28. 31 indexed citations
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Bascandziev, Igor, et al.. (2017). Some consequences of normal aging for generating conceptual explanations: A case study of vitalist biology. Cognitive Psychology. 95. 145–163. 10 indexed citations
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Carey, Susan, Deborah Zaitchik, & Igor Bascandziev. (2015). Theories of development: In dialog with Jean Piaget. Developmental Review. 38. 36–54. 53 indexed citations
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Zaitchik, Deborah, et al.. (2013). The Effect of Executive Function on Biological Reasoning in Young Children: An Individual Differences Study. Child Development. 85(1). 160–175. 86 indexed citations
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Solomon, Gregg E. A. & Deborah Zaitchik. (2011). Folkbiology. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Cognitive Science. 3(1). 105–115. 14 indexed citations
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Zaitchik, Deborah, Caren M. Walker, Saul L. Miller, et al.. (2010). Mental state attribution and the temporoparietal junction: An fMRI study comparing belief, emotion, and perception. Neuropsychologia. 48(9). 2528–2536. 48 indexed citations
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Zaitchik, Deborah & Gregg E. A. Solomon. (2008). Animist thinking in the elderly and in patients with Alzheimer's disease. Cognitive Neuropsychology. 25(1). 27–37. 41 indexed citations
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Zaitchik, Deborah & Gregg E. A. Solomon. (2008). Inhibitory Mechanisms and Impairment in Domain-Specific Reasoning: Studies of Healthy Elderly Adults and Patients with Alzheimer's Disease. eScholarship (California Digital Library). 30(30). 3 indexed citations
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Zaitchik, Deborah, Elissa Koff, Hiram Brownell, Ellen Winner, & Marilyn Albert. (2006). Inference of beliefs and emotions in patients with Alzheimer's disease.. Neuropsychology. 20(1). 11–20. 59 indexed citations
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Koff, Elissa, Hiram Brownell, Ellen Winner, Marilyn Albert, & Deborah Zaitchik. (2004). Inference of mental states in patients with Alzheimer's disease. Cognitive Neuropsychiatry. 9(4). 301–313. 42 indexed citations
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Daly, Ella, et al.. (2003). Psychiatric Symptomatology and Prodromal Alzheimer's Disease. Alzheimer Disease & Associated Disorders. 17(1). 1–8. 98 indexed citations
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Daly, Ella, et al.. (2000). Predicting Conversion to Alzheimer Disease Using Standardized Clinical Information. Archives of Neurology. 57(5). 675–675. 289 indexed citations
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Koff, Elissa, Deborah Zaitchik, Joann M. Montepare, & Marilyn S. Albert. (1999). Emotion processing in the visual and auditory domains by patients with Alzheimer's disease. Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society. 5(1). 32–40. 69 indexed citations
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Solomon, Gregg E. A., Susan Johnson, Deborah Zaitchik, & Susan Carey. (1996). Like Father, Like Son: Young Children's Understanding of How and Why Offspring Resemble Their Parents. Child Development. 67(1). 151–171. 145 indexed citations
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Solomon, Gregg E. A., Susan Johnson, Deborah Zaitchik, & Susan Carey. (1996). Like Father, like Son: Young Children's Understanding of How and Why Offspring Resemble Their Parents. Child Development. 67(1). 151–151. 111 indexed citations
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Sullivan, Kathleen E., Deborah Zaitchik, & Helen Tager‐Flusberg. (1994). Preschoolers can attribute second-order beliefs.. Developmental Psychology. 30(3). 395–402. 366 indexed citations
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Sodian, Beate, Deborah Zaitchik, & Susan Carey. (1991). Young Children's Differentiation of Hypothetical Beliefs from Evidence. Child Development. 62(4). 753–753. 129 indexed citations
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Zaitchik, Deborah. (1991). Is only seeing really believing?: Sources of the true belief in the false belief task. Cognitive Development. 6(1). 91–103. 133 indexed citations
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Zaitchik, Deborah. (1990). When representations conflict with reality: The preschooler's problem with false beliefs and “false” photographs. Cognition. 35(1). 41–68. 301 indexed citations

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