Helena Miton

675 total citations
21 papers, 334 citations indexed

About

Helena Miton is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Cultural Studies and Cognitive Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, Helena Miton has authored 21 papers receiving a total of 334 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 11 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 9 papers in Cultural Studies and 8 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in Helena Miton's work include Language and cultural evolution (9 papers), Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation (7 papers) and Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment (5 papers). Helena Miton is often cited by papers focused on Language and cultural evolution (9 papers), Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation (7 papers) and Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment (5 papers). Helena Miton collaborates with scholars based in United States, France and Germany. Helena Miton's co-authors include Hugo Mercier, Mathieu Charbonneau, Olivier Morin, Nicolas Claidière, Alberto Acerbi, Dan Sperber, Thom Scott‐Phillips, Pascal Boyer, Piers Kelly and James Winters and has published in prestigious journals such as PLoS ONE, Trends in Cognitive Sciences and Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Helena Miton

18 papers receiving 316 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Helena Miton United States	11	172	123	74	55	42	21	334
Joseph Stubbersfield United Kingdom	11	180 1.0×	88 0.7×	49 0.7×	68 1.2×	28 0.7×	14	291
Melanie Nyhof United States	4	148 0.9×	51 0.4×	57 0.8×	95 1.7×	60 1.4×	7	245
Cristina Moya United States	13	247 1.4×	110 0.9×	54 0.7×	165 3.0×	37 0.9×	26	467
Leonora H. Astete Philippines	4	118 0.7×	42 0.3×	27 0.4×	76 1.4×	5 0.1×	5	236
Marilyn Ngales Philippines	4	116 0.7×	42 0.3×	27 0.4×	76 1.4×	5 0.1×	4	234
Thom Scott‐Phillips United Kingdom	10	121 0.7×	101 0.8×	57 0.8×	83 1.5×	2 0.0×	22	280
Emily Burdett United Kingdom	11	133 0.8×	92 0.7×	76 1.0×	204 3.7×	39 0.9×	27	372
Wataru Toyokawa Japan	10	142 0.8×	43 0.3×	23 0.3×	59 1.1×	5 0.1×	13	278
Sam Passmore New Zealand	9	60 0.3×	65 0.5×	20 0.3×	29 0.5×	5 0.1×	19	180
Stephanie Gomes‐Ng New Zealand	4	91 0.5×	71 0.6×	15 0.2×	40 0.7×	6 0.1×	17	217

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20 of 20 papers shown

Miton, Helena & Joshua Conrad Jackson. (2025). Complex technology requires cultural innovations for distributing cognition. Trends in Cognitive Sciences. 30(2). 124–135.

Chrisomalis, Stephen & Helena Miton. (2025). Cognitive Technologies and Their Histories. Topics in Cognitive Science. 18(1). 7–25.

Miton, Helena, et al.. (2023). Statistical signals of copying are robust to time- and space-averaging. Evolutionary Human Sciences. 5. e10–e10. 4 indexed citations

Miton, Helena, et al.. (2023). Zipf’s Law of Abbreviation holds for individual characters across a broad range of writing systems. Cognition. 238. 105527–105527. 6 indexed citations

Miton, Helena, et al.. (2022). WikiArtVectors: Style and Color Representations of Artworks for Cultural Analysis via Information Theoretic Measures. Entropy. 24(9). 1175–1175. 7 indexed citations

Miton, Helena & Olivier Morin. (2021). Graphic complexity in writing systems. Cognition. 214. 104771–104771. 22 indexed citations

Kelly, Piers, James Winters, Helena Miton, & Olivier Morin. (2021). The Predictable Evolution of Letter Shapes. Current Anthropology. 62(6). 669–691. 11 indexed citations

Acerbi, Alberto, Mathieu Charbonneau, Helena Miton, & Thom Scott‐Phillips. (2021). Culture without copying or selection. Evolutionary Human Sciences. 3. e50–e50. 12 indexed citations

Taylor, William, Xiaolin Ma, Yanfeng Hou, et al.. (2021). Understanding early horse transport in eastern Eurasia through analysis of equine dentition. Antiquity. 95(384). 1478–1494. 18 indexed citations

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Miton, Helena, Dan Sperber, & Mikołaj Hernik. (2020). A Forward Bias in Human Profile‐Oriented Portraits. Cognitive Science. 44(6). e12866–e12866. 4 indexed citations

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Miton, Helena, Thomas Wolf, Cordula Vesper, Günther Knoblich, & Dan Sperber. (2020). Motor constraints influence cultural evolution of rhythm. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 287(1937). 20202001–20202001. 11 indexed citations

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Miton, Helena & Olivier Morin. (2019). When iconicity stands in the way of abbreviation: No Zipfian effect for figurative signals. PLoS ONE. 14(8). e0220793–e0220793. 11 indexed citations

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Mercier, Hugo & Helena Miton. (2019). Utilizing simple cues to informational dependency. Evolution and Human Behavior. 40(3). 301–314.

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Acerbi, Alberto, Mathieu Charbonneau, Helena Miton, & Thom Scott‐Phillips. (2019). Codes for simulations described in 'Culture without copying or selection'. OSF Preprints (OSF Preprints). 2 indexed citations

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Morin, Olivier & Helena Miton. (2018). Detecting wholesale copying in cultural evolution. Evolution and Human Behavior. 39(4). 392–401. 6 indexed citations

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Mercier, Hugo, et al.. (2018). Willingness to transmit and the spread of pseudoscientific beliefs. Applied Cognitive Psychology. 32(4). 499–505. 13 indexed citations

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Leeuwen, Florian van, et al.. (2018). Individual Choose-to-Transmit Decisions Reveal Little Preference for Transmitting Negative or High-Arousal Content. Journal of Cognition and Culture. 18(1-2). 124–153. 11 indexed citations

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Leeuwen, Florian van, Helena Miton, Rengin B. Firat, & Pascal Boyer. (2016). Perception of Gay Men as Defectors and Commitment to Group Defense Predict Aggressive Homophobia. Evolutionary Psychology. 14(3). 1 indexed citations

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Miton, Helena & Hugo Mercier. (2015). Cognitive Obstacles to Pro-Vaccination Beliefs. Trends in Cognitive Sciences. 19(11). 633–636. 75 indexed citations

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Miton, Helena, Nicolas Claidière, & Hugo Mercier. (2015). Universal cognitive mechanisms explain the cultural success of bloodletting. Evolution and Human Behavior. 36(4). 303–312. 70 indexed citations

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