Howard C. Nusbaum

11.4k total citations · 2 hit papers
163 papers, 7.4k citations indexed

About

Howard C. Nusbaum is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and Artificial Intelligence. According to data from OpenAlex, Howard C. Nusbaum has authored 163 papers receiving a total of 7.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 78 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 76 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and 31 papers in Artificial Intelligence. Recurrent topics in Howard C. Nusbaum's work include Phonetics and Phonology Research (37 papers), Neuroscience and Music Perception (34 papers) and Multisensory perception and integration (29 papers). Howard C. Nusbaum is often cited by papers focused on Phonetics and Phonology Research (37 papers), Neuroscience and Music Perception (34 papers) and Multisensory perception and integration (29 papers). Howard C. Nusbaum collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and China. Howard C. Nusbaum's co-authors include Steven L. Small, Daniel Margoliash, Kimberly M. Fenn, Susan Goldin‐Meadow, Jeremy I Skipper, Alexander L. Francis, David B. Pisoni, Susan Wagner, Spencer D. Kelly and Shannon L. M. Heald and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.

In The Last Decade

Howard C. Nusbaum

151 papers receiving 7.0k citations

Hit Papers

Explaining Math: Gesturing Lightens the Load 2001 2026 2009 2017 2001 2006 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. Explaining Math: Gesturing Lightens the Load
    2001 555 citations Susan Goldin‐Meadow, Howard C. Nusbaum et al. profile →
  2. Recursive syntactic pattern learning by songbirds
    2006 392 citations Timothy Q. Gentner, Kimberly M. Fenn et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Howard C. Nusbaum United States 45 3.9k 3.5k 2.2k 1.7k 786 163 7.4k
Sophie K. Scott United Kingdom 65 12.2k 3.1× 5.8k 1.6× 3.2k 1.5× 3.0k 1.8× 398 0.5× 184 16.4k
Carol A. Fowler United States 50 3.3k 0.8× 5.4k 1.5× 2.6k 1.2× 953 0.6× 2.0k 2.5× 147 8.1k
Douglas Davidson United States 13 4.2k 1.1× 2.4k 0.7× 3.1k 1.4× 748 0.4× 925 1.2× 28 7.2k
Stephen D. Goldinger United States 39 3.6k 0.9× 3.7k 1.0× 2.1k 1.0× 586 0.4× 1.4k 1.7× 86 6.5k
Bruno H. Repp United States 55 9.0k 2.3× 4.6k 1.3× 1.2k 0.6× 2.2k 1.3× 918 1.2× 237 11.6k
Pascal Belin Canada 56 10.8k 2.8× 5.7k 1.6× 1.6k 0.7× 1.9k 1.1× 429 0.5× 165 13.2k
Jonathan W. Peirce United Kingdom 20 6.1k 1.6× 2.2k 0.6× 1.2k 0.5× 1.5k 0.9× 394 0.5× 45 8.6k
Sonja A. Kotz Germany 69 11.3k 2.9× 5.1k 1.5× 3.0k 1.4× 2.6k 1.5× 352 0.4× 349 13.9k
Christophe Pallier France 41 4.8k 1.2× 3.0k 0.8× 3.2k 1.5× 515 0.3× 1.1k 1.4× 91 7.3k
Donald Shankweiler United States 55 8.0k 2.1× 4.5k 1.3× 9.7k 4.4× 662 0.4× 1.2k 1.5× 128 15.2k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Nusbaum, Howard C., et al.. (2025). Bayesian p-curve mixture models as a tool to dissociate effect size and effect prevalence. Communications Psychology. 3(1). 9–9. 1 indexed citations
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Nusbaum, Howard C.. (2025). Understanding the Psychology of Practical Wisdom. The Journal of Medicine and Philosophy A Forum for Bioethics and Philosophy of Medicine. 50(2). 104–116.
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Nusbaum, Howard C., et al.. (2024). Cardiac afferent signals can facilitate visual dominance in binocular rivalry. eLife. 13. 1 indexed citations
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Nusbaum, Howard C., et al.. (2024). Metacognition bridges experiences and beliefs in sense of agency. Consciousness and Cognition. 124. 103745–103745.
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Heald, Shannon L. M., et al.. (2023). Generalizing across tonal context, timbre, and octave in rapid absolute pitch training. Attention Perception & Psychophysics. 85(2). 525–542. 2 indexed citations
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Heald, Shannon L. M., et al.. (2021). Going Beyond Rote Auditory Learning: Neural Patterns of Generalized Auditory Learning. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. 34(3). 425–444. 1 indexed citations
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Jeste, Dilip V., Ellen Lee, Rachel Caspari, et al.. (2019). The New Science of Practical Wisdom. Perspectives in biology and medicine. 62(2). 216–236. 29 indexed citations
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Nusbaum, Howard C., et al.. (2018). Consolidating skill learning through sleep. Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences. 20. 174–182. 6 indexed citations
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Heald, Shannon L. M., Stephen C. Van Hedger, & Howard C. Nusbaum. (2017). Perceptual Plasticity for Auditory Object Recognition. Frontiers in Psychology. 8. 781–781. 10 indexed citations
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Nusbaum, Howard C.. (2016). Turning Points: Finding Experiential Forks in the Path to Wisdom and Virtues. SHAREOK (University of Oklahoma). 1 indexed citations
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Nusbaum, Howard C.. (2016). Robust Science Depends on Understanding the Science of Humans. APS observer. 30(1). 1 indexed citations
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Hedger, Stephen C. Van, Shannon L. M. Heald, & Howard C. Nusbaum. (2016). What the [bleep]? Enhanced absolute pitch memory for a 1000 Hz sine tone. Cognition. 154. 139–150. 10 indexed citations
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Skipper, Jeremy I, Susan Goldin‐Meadow, Howard C. Nusbaum, & Steven L. Small. (2009). Gestures Orchestrate Brain Networks for Language Understanding. Current Biology. 19(8). 661–667. 95 indexed citations
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Margoliash, Daniel & Howard C. Nusbaum. (2009). Language: the perspective from organismal biology. Trends in Cognitive Sciences. 13(12). 505–510. 23 indexed citations
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Fenn, Kimberly M., et al.. (2007). Complex Acoustic Pattern Learning in Songbirds and Humans. eScholarship (California Digital Library). 29(29). 1 indexed citations
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Shintel, Hadas & Howard C. Nusbaum. (2007). Speed accommodation in context: Context modulation of the effect of speech rate on response speed. eScholarship (California Digital Library). 29(29). 1 indexed citations
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Hasson, Uri, Howard C. Nusbaum, & Steven L. Small. (2007). Brain Networks Subserving the Extraction of Sentence Information and Its Encoding to Memory. Cerebral Cortex. 17(12). 2899–2913. 59 indexed citations
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Nusbaum, Howard C., Jeremy I Skipper, & Steven L. Small. (2001). A sensory-attentional account of speech perception. Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 24(5). 995–996. 1 indexed citations
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Greenspan, Steven L., Howard C. Nusbaum, & David B. Pisoni. (1988). Perceptual learning of synthetic speech produced by rule.. Journal of Experimental Psychology Learning Memory and Cognition. 14(3). 421–433. 96 indexed citations
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Nusbaum, Howard C.. (1984). Sizing up the Hoosier Mental Lexicon: Measuring the Familiarity of 20,000 Words, Research on Speech Perception. 10. 357–376. 155 indexed citations

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