Douglas L. Nelson

10.7k total citations · 2 hit papers
147 papers, 7.9k citations indexed

About

Douglas L. Nelson is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Developmental and Educational Psychology and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Douglas L. Nelson has authored 147 papers receiving a total of 7.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 65 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 56 papers in Developmental and Educational Psychology and 42 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. Recurrent topics in Douglas L. Nelson's work include Memory Processes and Influences (58 papers), Child and Animal Learning Development (25 papers) and Visual and Cognitive Learning Processes (25 papers). Douglas L. Nelson is often cited by papers focused on Memory Processes and Influences (58 papers), Child and Animal Learning Development (25 papers) and Visual and Cognitive Learning Processes (25 papers). Douglas L. Nelson collaborates with scholars based in United States, Australia and United Kingdom. Douglas L. Nelson's co-authors include Cathy L. McEvoy, Thomas A. Schreiber, Valerie S. Reed, Keith A. Hutchison, Melvin J. Yap, Brett Kessler, James H. Neely, Michael J. Cortese, Rebecca Treiman and Greg B. Simpson and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, The Journal of Immunology and Psychological Review.

In The Last Decade

Douglas L. Nelson

145 papers receiving 7.2k citations

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The English Lexicon Project

2007 2.0k citations Douglas L. Nelson et al. profile →
The University of South Florida free association, rhyme, and word fragment norms

2004 1.4k citations Douglas L. Nelson, Cathy L. McEvoy et al. Behavior Research Methods, Instruments, & Computers profile →

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John Morton United Kingdom

Bennet B. Murdock Canada

Benton J. Underwood United States

Allan M. Collins United States

Arthur S. Reber United States

Eugene Galanter United States

Robert S. Lockhart Canada

Robert L. Goldstone United States

John T. Wixted United States

Morton Ann Gernsbacher United States

John Morton United Kingdom

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Nelson, Douglas L., et al.. (2013). How activation, entanglement, and searching a semantic network contribute to event memory. Memory & Cognition. 41(6). 797–819. 33 indexed citations

Bruza, Peter, Kirsty Kitto, Douglas L. Nelson, & Cathy L. McEvoy. (2009). Is there something quantum-like about the human mental lexicon?. Journal of Mathematical Psychology. 53(5). 362–377. 94 indexed citations

Nelson, Douglas L. & Cathy L. McEvoy. (2007). Entangled Associative Structures and Context.. National Conference on Artificial Intelligence. 98–105. 12 indexed citations

Nelson, Douglas L., et al.. (2007). How does delayed testing reduce effects of implicit memory: Context infusion or cuing with context?. Memory & Cognition. 35(5). 1014–1023. 6 indexed citations

Nelson, Douglas L., et al.. (2007). Implicitly activated memories are associated to general context cues. Memory & Cognition. 35(8). 1878–1891. 6 indexed citations

Nelson, Douglas L., Gunvor Marie Dyrdal, & Leilani B. Goodmon. (2005). What is preexisting strength? Predicting free association probabilities, similarity ratings, and cued recall probabilities. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review. 12(4). 711–719. 37 indexed citations

Nelson, Douglas L., Cathy L. McEvoy, & Thomas A. Schreiber. (2004). The University of South Florida free association, rhyme, and word fragment norms. Behavior Research Methods, Instruments, & Computers. 36(3). 402–407. 1449 indexed citations breakdown →

Nelson, Douglas L., et al.. (2003). Are implicitly activated associates selectively activated?. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review. 10(1). 118–124. 4 indexed citations

Nelson, Douglas L. & Leilani B. Goodmon. (2003). Disrupting attention: The need for retrieval cues in working memory theories. Memory & Cognition. 31(1). 65–76. 34 indexed citations

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Nelson, Douglas L., Cathy L. McEvoy, & Simon Dennis. (2000). What is free association and what does it measure?. Memory & Cognition. 28(6). 887–899. 203 indexed citations

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Nelson, Douglas L. & Cathy L. McEvoy. (2000). What is this thing called frequency?. Memory & Cognition. 28(4). 509–522. 40 indexed citations

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McEvoy, Cathy L., et al.. (1999). What is the connection between true and false memories? The differential roles of interitem associations in recall and recognition.. Journal of Experimental Psychology Learning Memory and Cognition. 25(5). 1177–1194. 108 indexed citations

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Nelson, Douglas L., et al.. (1998). Interpreting the influence of implicitly activated memories on recall and recognition.. Psychological Review. 105(2). 299–324. 157 indexed citations

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McEvoy, Cathy L., et al.. (1995). Age effects in cued recall: Sources from implicit and explicit memory.. Psychology and Aging. 10(3). 314–324. 16 indexed citations

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Gay, Roger, et al.. (1992). The living skin equivalent as a model in vitro for ranking the toxic potential of dermal irritants. Toxicology in Vitro. 6(4). 303–315. 77 indexed citations

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Nelson, Douglas L., Thomas A. Schreiber, & Cathy L. McEvoy. (1992). Processing implicit and explicit representations.. Psychological Review. 99(2). 322–348. 154 indexed citations

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Nelson, Douglas L., M. Teresa Bajo, Cathy L. McEvoy, & Thomas A. Schreiber. (1989). Prior knowledge: The effects of natural category size on memory for implicitly encoded concepts.. Journal of Experimental Psychology Learning Memory and Cognition. 15(5). 957–967. 2 indexed citations

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Nelson, Douglas L., Cathy L. McEvoy, & M. Teresa Bajo. (1988). Lexical and Semantic Search in Cued Recall, Fragment Completion, Perceptual Identification, and Recognition. The American Journal of Psychology. 101(4). 465–465. 15 indexed citations

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Nelson, Douglas L., et al.. (1987). Comparing word fragment completion and cued recall with letter cues.. Journal of Experimental Psychology Learning Memory and Cognition. 13(4). 542–552. 50 indexed citations

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Nelson, Douglas L., et al.. (1975). Sensory and meaning features in stimulus recognition and associative retrieval.. Journal of Experimental Psychology Human Learning & Memory. 1(6). 711–719. 13 indexed citations

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