J. A. Fodor

5.0k citations

36 papers · 2.6k indexed · 1 hit paper · h-index 16

Cognitive Neuroscience top 2%
Developmental and Educational Psychology top 1%
Experimental and Cognitive Psychology top 1%
Language and Linguistics top 1%
Artificial Intelligence top 5%

Co-authors: Thomas G. Bever Zenon W. Pylyshyn Merrill F. Garrett Robert St. Clair Edward Walker Charles S. Chihara Ernie Lepore Georges Rey
Topics: Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation (7 papers)Philosophy and Theoretical Science (5 papers)Language, Metaphor, and Cognition (3 papers)
Cited by: Developmental and Educational Psychology Experimental and Cognitive Psychology Cognitive Neuroscience
Journals: Psychological Review Cognition Behavioral and Brain Sciences
Partner nations: United States Netherlands Canada

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J. A. Fodor

32 papers receiving 2.1k citations

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The Psychology of Language

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Connectionism and the problem of systematicity (continued): why Smolensky's solution still doesn't work 1997 ·Cognition ·J. A. Fodor	20
2	Still looking for structural complexity effects in the representation of lexical concepts 1996 ·Roberto G. de Almeida,J. A. Fodor	1
3	Churchland on state space semantics 1996 ·J. A. Fodor,Ernie Lepore	1
4	Folk Psychology from the Standpoint of Conceptual Analysis 1996 ·J. A. Fodor,(unknown),Georges Rey	4
5	A theory of the child's theory of mind 1992 ·Cognition ·J. A. Fodor	330
6	Psychosemantics: The Problem of Meaning In the Philosophy of Mind. 1991 ·Philosophy and Phenomenological Research ·Jay L. Garfield,J. A. Fodor	2
7	What is wrong with tensor product connectionism 1991 ·J. A. Fodor,(unknown)	1
8	1 A Situated Grandmother? Some Remarks on Proposals by Barwise and Perry 1987 ·Mind & Language ·J. A. Fodor	15
9	Information and association. 1986 ·Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic ·J. A. Fodor	45
10	Cognitive science and the twin-Earth problem. 1982 ·Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic ·J. A. Fodor	36
11	How direct is visual perception?: Some reflections on Gibson's “ecological approach” 1981 ·Cognition ·J. A. Fodor,Zenon W. Pylyshyn	427
12	Against definitions 1980 ·Cognition ·J. A. Fodor,Merrill F. Garrett,Edward Walker,(unknown)	126
13	Searle on what only brains can do 1980 ·Behavioral and Brain Sciences ·J. A. Fodor	14
14	Tom Swift and his procedural grandmother 1978 ·Cognition ·J. A. Fodor	79
15	Computation and Reduction 1978 ·University of Minnesota Digital Conservancy (University of Minnesota) ·J. A. Fodor	9
16	Could There Be a Theory of Perception? 1966 ·The Journal of Philosophy ·J. A. Fodor	3
17	On the acquisition of syntax: A critique of "contextual generalization." 1965 ·Psychological Review ·Thomas G. Bever,J. A. Fodor,(unknown)	52
18	Some Types of Ambiguous Tokens 1963 ·Analysis ·J. A. Fodor,(unknown)	8
19	Of words and uses¹ 1961 ·Inquiry ·J. A. Fodor	0
20	Projection and Paraphrase in Semantics 1961 ·Analysis ·J. A. Fodor	8

About J. A. Fodor

J. A. Fodor is a scholar working on Language and Linguistics, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and Philosophy, having authored 36 papers that have together received 2.6k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation (7 papers), Philosophy and Theoretical Science (5 papers) and Language, Metaphor, and Cognition (3 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Developmental and Educational Psychology (1.1k citations), Experimental and Cognitive Psychology (833 citations) and Cognitive Neuroscience (1.1k citations). J. A. Fodor has collaborated with scholars based in United States, Netherlands and Canada. Frequent co-authors include Thomas G. Bever, Zenon W. Pylyshyn, Merrill F. Garrett, Robert St. Clair, Edward Walker, Charles S. Chihara, Ernie Lepore, Georges Rey, Roberto G. de Almeida and Jay L. Garfield. Their work appears in journals such as Psychological Review, Cognition and Behavioral and Brain Sciences.

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