Gerard O’Brien

969 total citations
20 papers, 260 citations indexed

About

Gerard O’Brien is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and Philosophy. According to data from OpenAlex, Gerard O’Brien has authored 20 papers receiving a total of 260 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 13 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 9 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and 4 papers in Philosophy. Recurrent topics in Gerard O’Brien's work include Embodied and Extended Cognition (10 papers), Philosophy and Theoretical Science (8 papers) and Neural dynamics and brain function (5 papers). Gerard O’Brien is often cited by papers focused on Embodied and Extended Cognition (10 papers), Philosophy and Theoretical Science (8 papers) and Neural dynamics and brain function (5 papers). Gerard O’Brien collaborates with scholars based in Australia and United States. Gerard O’Brien's co-authors include Jon Opie, Jon Jureidini, John Sutton, C. A. Hooker and Naomi Quinn and has published in prestigious journals such as Behavioral and Brain Sciences, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research and Philosophical Studies.

In The Last Decade

Gerard O’Brien

19 papers receiving 228 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Gerard O’Brien Australia 10 187 70 52 35 34 20 260
Jon Opie Australia 9 175 0.9× 66 0.9× 50 1.0× 34 1.0× 19 0.6× 17 237
Bruce Mangan United States 6 211 1.1× 91 1.3× 95 1.8× 45 1.3× 33 1.0× 13 296
Güven Güzeldere United States 9 248 1.3× 127 1.8× 69 1.3× 21 0.6× 78 2.3× 19 389
Mario Villalobos Chile 9 229 1.2× 28 0.4× 116 2.2× 36 1.0× 32 0.9× 23 286
Jennifer Mundale United States 4 146 0.8× 84 1.2× 36 0.7× 18 0.5× 32 0.9× 6 280
Austen Clark United States 8 158 0.8× 119 1.7× 74 1.4× 14 0.4× 39 1.1× 25 253
Josefa Toribio Spain 8 282 1.5× 110 1.6× 138 2.7× 43 1.2× 78 2.3× 36 406
Kenneth Williford United States 7 228 1.2× 57 0.8× 67 1.3× 11 0.3× 44 1.3× 24 313
Nicholas Humphrey 3 159 0.9× 93 1.3× 74 1.4× 30 0.9× 29 0.9× 3 250
Sara Bizarro Portugal 1 141 0.8× 45 0.6× 49 0.9× 11 0.3× 32 0.9× 3 281

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Gerard O’Brien

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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O’Brien, Gerard & Jon Opie. (2015). Intentionality Lite or Analog Content?. Philosophia. 43(3). 723–729. 13 indexed citations
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O’Brien, Gerard. (2011). Defending the Semantic Conception of Computation in Cognitive Science. 12(4). 385–406. 1 indexed citations
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O’Brien, Gerard & Jon Opie. (2008). The role of representation in computation. Cognitive Processing. 10(1). 53–62. 17 indexed citations
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O’Brien, Gerard & Jon Opie. (2005). How do connectionist networks compute?. Cognitive Processing. 7(1). 30–41. 21 indexed citations
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O’Brien, Gerard & Jon Opie. (2002). The computational baby, the classical bathwater, and the middle way. Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 25(3). 348–349. 1 indexed citations
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O’Brien, Gerard & Jon Jureidini. (2002). Dispensing With the Dynamic Unconscious. Philosophy, psychiatry & psychology. 9(2). 141–153. 14 indexed citations
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O’Brien, Gerard & Jon Opie. (2002). Radical connectionism: thinking with (not in) language. Language & Communication. 22(3). 313–329. 16 indexed citations
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O’Brien, Gerard & Jon Jureidini. (2002). The Last Rites of the Dynamic Unconscious. Philosophy, psychiatry & psychology. 9(2). 161–166. 1 indexed citations
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O’Brien, Gerard & Jon Opie. (2001). Connectionist vehicles, structural resemblance, and the phenomenal mind. Adelaide Research & Scholarship (AR&S) (University of Adelaide). 34. 13–38. 11 indexed citations
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O’Brien, Gerard & Jon Opie. (2000). Disunity defended: A reply to Bayne. Australasian Journal of Philosophy. 78(2). 255–263. 4 indexed citations
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O’Brien, Gerard & Jon Opie. (1999). A connectionist theory of phenomenal experience. Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 22(1). 127–148. 93 indexed citations
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O’Brien, Gerard & Jon Opie. (1999). Putting content into a vehicle theory of consciousness. Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 22(1). 175–192. 13 indexed citations
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O’Brien, Gerard & Jon Opie. (1999). A Defense of Cartesian Materialism. Philosophy and Phenomenological Research. 59(4). 939–939. 3 indexed citations
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O’Brien, Gerard. (1998). Connectionism, Analogicity and Mental Content. Acta Analytica. 13. 9 indexed citations
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O’Brien, Gerard & Jon Opie. (1998). The disunity of consciousness. Australasian Journal of Philosophy. 76(3). 378–395. 19 indexed citations
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Hooker, C. A., Gerard O’Brien, Naomi Quinn, & John Sutton. (1998). Being there: Putting philosopher, researcher and student together again. Metascience. 7(1). 70–95. 2 indexed citations
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O’Brien, Gerard & Jon Opie. (1997). Cognitive science and phenomenal consciousness: A dilemma, and how to avoid it. Philosophical Psychology. 10(3). 269–286. 14 indexed citations
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O’Brien, Gerard. (1993). A conflation of folk psychologies. 3. 1 indexed citations
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O’Brien, Gerard. (1991). Is connectionism commonsense?. Philosophical Psychology. 4(2). 165–178. 7 indexed citations
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O’Brien, Gerard. (1987). Eliminative materialism and our psychological self-knowledge. Philosophical Studies. 52(1). 49–70.

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