Gary Marcus

10.3k total citations · 2 hit papers
107 papers, 4.6k citations indexed

About

Gary Marcus is a scholar working on Developmental and Educational Psychology, Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, Gary Marcus has authored 107 papers receiving a total of 4.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 34 papers in Developmental and Educational Psychology, 24 papers in Artificial Intelligence and 18 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in Gary Marcus's work include Language Development and Disorders (27 papers), Child and Animal Learning Development (22 papers) and Reading and Literacy Development (14 papers). Gary Marcus is often cited by papers focused on Language Development and Disorders (27 papers), Child and Animal Learning Development (22 papers) and Reading and Literacy Development (14 papers). Gary Marcus collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Germany. Gary Marcus's co-authors include Ernest Davis, Harald Clahsen, Simon E. Fisher, Steven Pinker, Michelle Hollander, Scott P. Johnson, Fei Xu, Tarina Rosen, Michael T. Ullman and Ursula Brinkmann and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Gary Marcus

95 papers receiving 4.2k citations

Hit Papers

Overregularization in Language Acquisition 1992 2026 2003 2014 1992 2019 100 200 300 400 500
What are hit papers?

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.

  1. Overregularization in Language Acquisition
    1992 578 citations Gary Marcus, Steven Pinker et al. profile →
  2. Rebooting AI: Building Artificial Intelligence We Can Trust
    2019 219 citations Gary Marcus, Ernest Davis profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Gary Marcus United States 30 2.1k 1.5k 1.2k 835 725 107 4.6k
Robert C. Berwick United States 27 865 0.4× 663 0.5× 1.2k 1.1× 529 0.6× 895 1.2× 98 3.3k
Domenico Parisi United States 31 1.4k 0.7× 1.3k 0.9× 1.6k 1.4× 680 0.8× 396 0.5× 132 6.9k
Michael C. Frank United States 44 3.7k 1.7× 2.2k 1.5× 1.6k 1.4× 1.9k 2.2× 811 1.1× 243 7.8k
Thomas G. Bever United States 39 2.8k 1.4× 3.1k 2.1× 937 0.8× 1.9k 2.2× 1.3k 1.8× 130 5.9k
Rick Dale United States 39 1.7k 0.8× 2.6k 1.8× 1.1k 1.0× 2.0k 2.4× 707 1.0× 153 6.8k
Simon Kirby United Kingdom 36 1.2k 0.6× 810 0.6× 1.3k 1.1× 1.7k 2.0× 1.2k 1.7× 225 6.0k
Stevan Harnad United Kingdom 41 648 0.3× 1.6k 1.1× 741 0.6× 1.4k 1.6× 165 0.2× 267 7.4k
Fei Xu United States 43 4.4k 2.1× 1.8k 1.2× 872 0.7× 1.2k 1.4× 350 0.5× 112 6.7k
Gary Lupyan United States 39 1.3k 0.6× 1.6k 1.1× 505 0.4× 2.8k 3.4× 475 0.7× 141 5.0k
Kim Plunkett United Kingdom 44 5.4k 2.6× 2.7k 1.9× 1.1k 0.9× 1.9k 2.2× 761 1.0× 149 7.7k

Countries citing papers authored by Gary Marcus

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Fields of papers citing papers by Gary Marcus

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Gary Marcus

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Gary Marcus. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Gary Marcus 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 Gary Marcus. Gary Marcus is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Murphy, Elliot, et al.. (2025). Fundamental principles of linguistic structure are not represented by ChatGPT. Biolinguistics. 19.
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Davis, Ernest, et al.. (2023). The defeat of the Winograd Schema Challenge. Artificial Intelligence. 325. 103971–103971. 16 indexed citations
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Marcus, Gary. (2023). Controlling AI. Communications of the ACM. 66(10). 6–7. 1 indexed citations
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Berent, Iris & Gary Marcus. (2019). No Integration without Structured Representations: Response to Pater. Language. 95(1). e75–e86. 3 indexed citations
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Berent, Iris & Gary Marcus. (2019). No integration without structured representations: Response to Pater. Language. 1 indexed citations
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Davis, Ernest, et al.. (2017). Commonsense reasoning about containers using radically incomplete information. Artificial Intelligence. 248. 46–84. 18 indexed citations
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Marcus, Gary, et al.. (2017). The roles of item repetition and position in infant sequence learning.. Cognitive Science.
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Freeman, Jeremy L. & Gary Marcus. (2015). The Future of the Brain. Princeton University Press eBooks. 13 indexed citations
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Davis, Ernest & Gary Marcus. (2015). The scope and limits of simulation in automated reasoning. Artificial Intelligence. 233. 60–72. 32 indexed citations
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Koch, Christof & Gary Marcus. (2014). Cracking the brain's codes. Technology Review. 117(4). 42–46. 1 indexed citations
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Tchernichovski, Ofer & Gary Marcus. (2014). Vocal learning beyond imitation: mechanisms of adaptive vocal development in songbirds and human infants. Current Opinion in Neurobiology. 28. 42–47. 27 indexed citations
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Rabagliati, Hugh, Liina Pylkkänen, & Gary Marcus. (2012). Top-down influence in young children's linguistic ambiguity resolution.. Developmental Psychology. 49(6). 1076–1089. 21 indexed citations
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Marcus, Gary, et al.. (2011). What can individual differences tell us about the specialization of function?. Cognitive Neuropsychology. 28(3-4). 288–303. 14 indexed citations
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Marcus, Gary. (2009). Misrepresentational Innateness. Child Development Perspectives. 3(2). 94–95. 2 indexed citations
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Frank, Michael C., Jonathan A. Slemmer, Gary Marcus, & Scott P. Johnson. (2009). Information from multiple modalities helps 5‐month‐olds learn abstract rules. Developmental Science. 12(4). 504–509. 82 indexed citations
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Marcus, Gary. (2009). Kluge : the haphazard evolution of the human mind. Houghton Mifflin eBooks. 41 indexed citations
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Marcus, Gary, et al.. (2005). From semantics to syntax and back again: Argument structure in the third year of life. Cognition. 100(2). B10–B20. 45 indexed citations
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Marcus, Gary. (2004). Behold the talking chimp. 18(11). 32–33. 2 indexed citations
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Marcus, Gary. (1997). Review of Exercises in Rethinking Innateness. Trends in Cognitive Sciences. 1. 318–319. 1 indexed citations
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Marcus, Gary, Ursula Brinkmann, Harald Clahsen, Richard Wiese, & Steven Pinker. (1995). German Inflection: The Exception That Proves the Rule. Cognitive Psychology. 29(3). 189–256. 358 indexed citations

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