Ian A. Apperly

12.3k total citations · 2 hit papers
122 papers, 7.6k citations indexed

About

Ian A. Apperly is a scholar working on Developmental and Educational Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience and Social Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Ian A. Apperly has authored 122 papers receiving a total of 7.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 83 papers in Developmental and Educational Psychology, 64 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience and 40 papers in Social Psychology. Recurrent topics in Ian A. Apperly's work include Child and Animal Learning Development (79 papers), Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies (23 papers) and Action Observation and Synchronization (20 papers). Ian A. Apperly is often cited by papers focused on Child and Animal Learning Development (79 papers), Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies (23 papers) and Action Observation and Synchronization (20 papers). Ian A. Apperly collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Belgium. Ian A. Apperly's co-authors include Dana Samson, Stephen Butterfill, Glyn W. Humphreys, Andrew Surtees, Claudia Chiavarino, Iroise Dumontheil, Sarah‐Jayne Blakemore, Sarah R. Beck, Jason J. Braithwaite and P. Hansen and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Neuroscience, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and Nature Neuroscience.

In The Last Decade

Ian A. Apperly

118 papers receiving 7.3k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Do humans have two systems to track beliefs and belief-like states?

2009 718 citations Ian A. Apperly, Stephen Butterfill profile →
Seeing it their way: Evidence for rapid and involuntary computation of what other people see.

2010 491 citations Dana Samson, Ian A. Apperly et al. Journal of Experimental Psychology Human Perception & Performance profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Ian A. Apperly United Kingdom	47	4.1k	3.8k	3.2k	1.7k	723	122	7.6k
Philippe Rochat United States	47	3.3k 0.8×	2.4k 0.6×	2.7k 0.8×	781 0.5×	597 0.8×	124	6.0k
Thomas Suddendorf Australia	40	3.6k 0.9×	3.8k 1.0×	2.4k 0.7×	2.0k 1.2×	465 0.6×	135	7.5k
Amanda L. Woodward United States	46	6.1k 1.5×	2.9k 0.8×	3.9k 1.2×	1.2k 0.7×	548 0.8×	107	8.1k
Chris Moore Canada	48	5.5k 1.3×	3.5k 0.9×	2.7k 0.8×	1.3k 0.8×	1.4k 1.9×	139	8.7k
Gergely Csibra United Kingdom	61	8.6k 2.1×	7.2k 1.9×	5.7k 1.8×	2.4k 1.4×	845 1.2×	157	14.7k
Colwyn Trevarthen United Kingdom	42	2.8k 0.7×	4.0k 1.0×	2.8k 0.9×	1.3k 0.8×	2.0k 2.7×	125	8.5k
Ted Ruffman New Zealand	47	4.1k 1.0×	3.1k 0.8×	2.7k 0.8×	1.5k 0.9×	1.5k 2.1×	124	8.0k
David F. Bjorklund United States	44	3.5k 0.8×	2.2k 0.6×	1.7k 0.5×	1.9k 1.1×	737 1.0×	176	6.6k
Louis J. Moses United States	31	4.2k 1.0×	2.5k 0.7×	2.1k 0.7×	1.3k 0.8×	1.2k 1.7×	41	6.9k
Maggie Moore United States	20	3.0k 0.7×	2.1k 0.5×	2.6k 0.8×	1.0k 0.6×	493 0.7×	43	5.4k

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Apperly, Ian A., et al.. (2025). Greater sensitivity to communication partners’ perspectives in children learning a second language at school. Bilingualism Language and Cognition. 28(5). 1304–1318.

Devine, Rory T., et al.. (2025). Longitudinal development of theory of mind in adolescence and its associations with fiction reading experience.. Developmental Psychology. 61(6). 1126–1135. 1 indexed citations

Samuel, Steven, Thorsten M. Erle, Louise P. Kirsch, et al.. (2024). Three key questions to move towards a theoretical framework of visuospatial perspective taking. Cognition. 247. 105787–105787. 3 indexed citations

Apperly, Ian A., et al.. (2024). A transdiagnostic approach to neurodiversity in a representative population sample: The N+ 4 model. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 4(2). e12219–e12219. 12 indexed citations

Devine, Rory T., et al.. (2024). Mindreading quality versus quantity: A theoretically and empirically motivated two-factor structure for individual differences in adults’ mindreading. PLoS ONE. 19(6). e0305270–e0305270.

Apperly, Ian A., et al.. (2023). It is not all about you: Communicative cooperation is determined by your partner’s theory of mind abilities as well as your own.. Journal of Experimental Psychology Learning Memory and Cognition. 50(5). 833–844. 1 indexed citations

Wilson, Ross, et al.. (2023). Is recursive “mindreading” really an exception to limitations on recursive thinking?. Journal of Experimental Psychology General. 152(5). 1454–1468. 5 indexed citations

Apperly, Ian A., et al.. (2022). Reading fiction and reading minds in early adolescence: A longitudinal study. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology. 222. 105476–105476. 7 indexed citations

Devine, Rory T. & Ian A. Apperly. (2021). Willing and able? Theory of mind, social motivation, and social competence in middle childhood and early adolescence. Developmental Science. 25(1). e13137–e13137. 41 indexed citations

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Meconi, Federica, Juan Linde‐Domingo, Catarina S. Ferreira, et al.. (2021). EEG and fMRI evidence for autobiographical memory reactivation in empathy. Human Brain Mapping. 42(14). 4448–4464. 7 indexed citations

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Oliver, Chris, et al.. (2020). An Observational Study of Social Interaction Skills and Behaviors in Cornelia de Lange, Fragile X and Rubinstein-Taybi Syndromes. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders. 50(11). 4001–4010. 12 indexed citations

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Apperly, Ian A.. (2019). How is mindreading really like reading?. Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 42. e170–e170. 1 indexed citations

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Cane, James E., Heather J. Ferguson, & Ian A. Apperly. (2017). Using perspective to resolve reference: The impact of cognitive load and motivation.. Journal of Experimental Psychology Learning Memory and Cognition. 43(4). 591–610. 42 indexed citations

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Beck, Sarah R., Clare Williams, Nicola Cutting, Ian A. Apperly, & Jackie Chappell. (2016). Individual differences in children's innovative problem-solving are not predicted by divergent thinking or executive functions. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 371(1690). 20150190–20150190. 48 indexed citations

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Low, Jason, Ian A. Apperly, Stephen Butterfill, & Hannes Rakoczy. (2016). Cognitive Architecture of Belief Reasoning in Children and Adults: A Primer on the Two-Systems Account. Child Development Perspectives. 10(3). 184–189. 72 indexed citations

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Beck, Sarah R., et al.. (2016). Young children spontaneously invent wild great apes’ tool-use behaviours. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 283(1825). 20152402–20152402. 35 indexed citations

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Becchio, Cristina, et al.. (2015). Altercentric interference in level 1 visual perspective taking reflects the ascription of mental states, not submentalizing.. Journal of Experimental Psychology Human Perception & Performance. 42(2). 158–163. 102 indexed citations

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Samson, Dana, et al.. (2010). Seeing it their way: Evidence for rapid and involuntary computation of what other people see.. Journal of Experimental Psychology Human Perception & Performance. 36(5). 1255–1266. 491 indexed citations breakdown →

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Apperly, Ian A., Dana Samson, & Glyn W. Humphreys. (2009). Studies of adults can inform accounts of theory of mind development.. Developmental Psychology. 45(1). 190–201. 177 indexed citations

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Apperly, Ian A., et al.. (2007). The cost of thinking about false beliefs: Evidence from adults’ performance on a non-inferential theory of mind task. Cognition. 106(3). 1093–1108. 101 indexed citations

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