Iris van Rooij

3.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
77 papers, 1.7k citations indexed

About

Iris van Rooij is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Artificial Intelligence and Developmental and Educational Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Iris van Rooij has authored 77 papers receiving a total of 1.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 28 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 28 papers in Artificial Intelligence and 22 papers in Developmental and Educational Psychology. Recurrent topics in Iris van Rooij's work include Child and Animal Learning Development (19 papers), Action Observation and Synchronization (17 papers) and Computability, Logic, AI Algorithms (13 papers). Iris van Rooij is often cited by papers focused on Child and Animal Learning Development (19 papers), Action Observation and Synchronization (17 papers) and Computability, Logic, AI Algorithms (13 papers). Iris van Rooij collaborates with scholars based in Netherlands, Canada and United States. Iris van Rooij's co-authors include Johan Kwisthout, Giosuè Baggio, Todd Wareham, Harold Bekkering, Pim Haselager, Mark Blokpoel, Sebo Uithol, Ulrike Stege, Ivan Toni and Ron Dotsch and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Iris van Rooij

74 papers receiving 1.6k 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.

Theory Before the Test: How to Build High-Verisimilitude Explanatory Theories in Psychological Science

2021 152 citations Iris van Rooij, Giosuè Baggio Perspectives on Psychological Science profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Iris van Rooij Netherlands	25	712	454	424	319	289	77	1.7k
Eugène United States	6	747 1.0×	440 1.0×	310 0.7×	457 1.4×	483 1.7×	22	2.2k
Sangeet Khemlani United States	22	370 0.5×	636 1.4×	243 0.6×	417 1.3×	261 0.9×	82	1.5k
Keith Stenning United Kingdom	23	380 0.5×	967 2.1×	151 0.4×	687 2.2×	467 1.6×	85	2.2k
Danielle Navarro Australia	27	780 1.1×	1.1k 2.4×	251 0.6×	698 2.2×	472 1.6×	127	2.7k
Aaron Sloman United Kingdom	24	568 0.8×	851 1.9×	376 0.9×	106 0.3×	419 1.4×	121	1.8k
Richard Cooper United Kingdom	22	885 1.2×	285 0.6×	432 1.0×	540 1.7×	358 1.2×	96	1.7k
Amy Perfors Australia	21	699 1.0×	755 1.7×	182 0.4×	992 3.1×	356 1.2×	71	2.1k
John E. Hummel United States	17	712 1.0×	708 1.6×	288 0.7×	942 3.0×	441 1.5×	44	1.9k
Chris L. Baker United States	12	406 0.6×	420 0.9×	365 0.9×	422 1.3×	90 0.3×	19	1.2k
Falk Lieder United States	20	1.1k 1.6×	471 1.0×	218 0.5×	278 0.9×	415 1.4×	60	2.3k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Iris van Rooij

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All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Rooij, Iris van, et al.. (2024). Reclaiming AI as a Theoretical Tool for Cognitive Science. Computational Brain & Behavior. 7(4). 616–636. 17 indexed citations

Rooij, Iris van. (2024). How the curse of intractability can be cognitive science’s blessing. PsyArXiv (OSF Preprints).

Slors, Marc, et al.. (2021). Joint Simon effect in movement trajectories. PLoS ONE. 16(12). e0261735–e0261735. 2 indexed citations

Rooij, Iris van & Giosuè Baggio. (2021). Theory Before the Test: How to Build High-Verisimilitude Explanatory Theories in Psychological Science. Perspectives on Psychological Science. 16(4). 682–697. 152 indexed citations breakdown →

Blokpoel, Mark, et al.. (2020). How Intractability Spans the Cognitive and Evolutionary Levels of Explanation. Topics in Cognitive Science. 12(4). 1382–1402. 13 indexed citations

Kayhan, Ezgi, et al.. (2019). Young children integrate current observations, priors and agent information to predict others’ actions. PLoS ONE. 14(5). e0200976–e0200976. 9 indexed citations

Blokpoel, Mark, et al.. (2019). Naturalism, tractability and the adaptive toolbox. Synthese. 198(6). 5749–5784. 10 indexed citations

Rooij, Iris van, et al.. (2018). Parameterized Complexity of Theory of Mind Reasoning in Dynamic Epistemic Logic. Journal of Logic Language and Information. 27(3). 255–294. 12 indexed citations

Kokal, Idil, Mark Blokpoel, Rui Liu, et al.. (2017). Oxytocin modulates human communication by enhancing cognitive exploration. Psychoneuroendocrinology. 86. 64–72. 5 indexed citations

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Dotsch, Ron, et al.. (2016). Do we spontaneously form stable trustworthiness impressions from facial appearance?. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 111(5). 655–664. 61 indexed citations

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Kwisthout, Johan, Harold Bekkering, & Iris van Rooij. (2016). To be precise, the details don’t matter: On predictive processing, precision, and level of detail of predictions. Brain and Cognition. 112. 84–91. 48 indexed citations

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Wareham, Todd, et al.. (2015). How did Homo Heuristicus become ecologically rational. Cognitive Science. 4 indexed citations

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Kwisthout, Johan & Iris van Rooij. (2013). Predictive coding and the Bayesian brain: Intractability hurdles that are yet to be overcome.. Cognitive Science. 3 indexed citations

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Uithol, Sebo, Iris van Rooij, Harold Bekkering, & Pim Haselager. (2012). Hierarchies in Action and Motor Control. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. 24(5). 1077–1086. 46 indexed citations

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Uithol, Sebo, Iris van Rooij, Harold Bekkering, & Pim Haselager. (2011). What do mirror neurons mirror?. Philosophical Psychology. 24(5). 607–623. 25 indexed citations

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Wareham, Todd, Johan Kwisthout, Pim Haselager, & Iris van Rooij. (2011). Ignorance is bliss: A complexity perspective on adapting reactive architectures. Radboud Repository (Radboud University). 19. 1–5. 6 indexed citations

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Rooij, Iris van, Johan Kwisthout, Mark Blokpoel, et al.. (2011). Intentional Communication: Computationally Easy or Difficult?. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience. 5. 52–52. 25 indexed citations

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Paulus, Markus, et al.. (2011). The role of frequency information and teleological reasoning in infants' and adults' action prediction.. Developmental Psychology. 47(4). 976–983. 54 indexed citations

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Rooij, Iris van. (2008). The Tractable Cognition Thesis. Cognitive Science. 32(6). 939–984. 150 indexed citations

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Rooij, Iris van, Raoul M. Bongers, & Pim Haselager. (2000). The dynamics of simple prediction: Judging reachability. Conference Cognitive Science. 22(22). 535–540. 4 indexed citations

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