James L. McClelland

83.5k total citations · 24 hit papers
267 papers, 53.9k citations indexed

About

James L. McClelland is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Developmental and Educational Psychology and Artificial Intelligence. According to data from OpenAlex, James L. McClelland has authored 267 papers receiving a total of 53.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 115 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 104 papers in Developmental and Educational Psychology and 90 papers in Artificial Intelligence. Recurrent topics in James L. McClelland's work include Reading and Literacy Development (53 papers), Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism (51 papers) and Child and Animal Learning Development (45 papers). James L. McClelland is often cited by papers focused on Reading and Literacy Development (53 papers), Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism (51 papers) and Child and Animal Learning Development (45 papers). James L. McClelland collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Canada. James L. McClelland's co-authors include David E. Rumelhart, Mark S. Seidenberg, Randall C. O’Reilly, Bruce L. McNaughton, Jeffrey L. Elman, Marius Usher, Timothy T. Rogers, Karalyn Patterson, David C. Plaut and Axel Cleeremans and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Journal of Neuroscience.

In The Last Decade

James L. McClelland

257 papers receiving 50.2k citations

Hit Papers

Parallel Distributed Processing 1979 2026 1994 2010 1986 1995 1981 1989 1987 2.5k 5.0k 7.5k 10.0k

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
James L. McClelland United States 89 29.0k 17.9k 14.7k 9.5k 4.4k 267 53.9k
David E. Rumelhart United States 47 11.6k 0.4× 7.2k 0.4× 19.6k 1.3× 4.4k 0.5× 2.4k 0.5× 89 50.8k
John R. Anderson United States 94 14.2k 0.5× 14.6k 0.8× 14.4k 1.0× 8.6k 0.9× 6.8k 1.6× 431 48.5k
Alan Baddeley United Kingdom 113 36.7k 1.3× 21.0k 1.2× 4.1k 0.3× 15.9k 1.7× 6.1k 1.4× 390 60.7k
Peter Dayan United Kingdom 93 32.1k 1.1× 2.5k 0.1× 8.5k 0.6× 7.0k 0.7× 3.9k 0.9× 442 54.8k
Stephen Grossberg United States 89 19.6k 0.7× 1.8k 0.1× 12.6k 0.9× 2.3k 0.2× 2.3k 0.5× 425 35.7k
Karl Friston United Kingdom 214 154.6k 5.3× 10.4k 0.6× 6.7k 0.5× 26.7k 2.8× 20.0k 4.6× 1.2k 207.0k
Matthew Botvinick United States 64 26.0k 0.9× 3.2k 0.2× 3.6k 0.2× 6.2k 0.7× 4.0k 0.9× 136 34.8k
Paul M. Thompson United States 157 34.1k 1.2× 2.9k 0.2× 2.7k 0.2× 5.5k 0.6× 3.4k 0.8× 2.1k 119.5k
Joshua B. Tenenbaum United States 76 7.0k 0.2× 6.4k 0.4× 13.9k 0.9× 2.6k 0.3× 2.4k 0.6× 413 34.1k
Stephen M. Smith United Kingdom 131 83.3k 2.9× 2.9k 0.2× 2.8k 0.2× 12.2k 1.3× 4.1k 0.9× 442 142.7k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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McClelland, James L., et al.. (2024). Systematic Human Learning and Generalization From a Brief Tutorial With Explanatory Feedback. Open Mind. 8. 148–176.
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McClelland, James L., et al.. (2023). Causal interventions expose implicit situation models for commonsense language understanding. 13265–13293. 1 indexed citations
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Burt, April, E. Fernando Cagua, Janske van de Crommenacker, et al.. (2021). Combining monitoring data from multiple sites to assess population status and trends of White-tailed Tropicbirds (Phaethon lepturus) in the Seychelles. Avian Conservation and Ecology. 16(2). 2 indexed citations
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McClelland, James L., Bruce L. McNaughton, & Andrew K. Lampinen. (2020). Integration of new information in memory: new insights from a complementary learning systems perspective. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 375(1799). 20190637–20190637. 57 indexed citations
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McClelland, James L., Felix Hill, Maja Rudolph, Jason Baldridge, & Hinrich Schütze. (2020). Placing language in an integrated understanding system: Next steps toward human-level performance in neural language models. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 117(42). 25966–25974. 54 indexed citations
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McClelland, James L.. (2020). Exemplar models are useful and deep neural networks overcome their limitations: A commentary on Ambridge (2020). First Language. 40(5-6). 612–615. 3 indexed citations
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Suri, Gaurav, James J. Gross, & James L. McClelland. (2019). Value-based decision making: An interactive activation perspective.. Psychological Review. 127(2). 153–185. 20 indexed citations
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Lampinen, Andrew K., et al.. (2017). Analogies Emerge from Learning Dyamics in Neural Networks.. Cognitive Science. 2 indexed citations
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Rabovsky, Milena, Steven Hansen, & James L. McClelland. (2016). N400 amplitudes reflect change in a probabilistic representation of meaning: Evidence from a connectionist model.. Cognitive Science. 2 indexed citations
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McClelland, James L., et al.. (2014). A neural network model of learning mathematical equivalence.. Cognitive Science. 36(36). 2 indexed citations
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McClelland, James L.. (2013). Cognitive neuroscience: emergence of mind from brain an introduction to the cognitive neuroscience series. ˜The œbiomedical & life sciences collection.. 2013(1). e1003450–e1003450. 1 indexed citations
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Saxe, Andrew, James L. McClelland, & Surya Ganguli. (2013). Learning hierarchical categories in deep neural networks. Cognitive Science. 35(35). 8 indexed citations
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Kumaran, Dharshan & James L. McClelland. (2012). Generalization through the recurrent interaction of episodic memories: A model of the hippocampal system.. Psychological Review. 119(3). 573–616. 236 indexed citations
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McClelland, James L.. (2004). Phonology without Phonemes. eScholarship (California Digital Library). 26(26).
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Maia, Tiago V. & James L. McClelland. (2004). A reexamination of the evidence for the somatic marker hypothesis: What participants really know in the Iowa gambling task. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 101(45). 16075–16080. 374 indexed citations
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Mirman, Daniel, James L. McClelland, & Lori L. Holt. (2004). Attentional Modulation of Lexical Effects in an Interactive Model of Speech Perception. eScholarship (California Digital Library). 26(26). 1 indexed citations
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Servan‐Schreiber, David, Axel Cleeremans, & James L. McClelland. (1988). Learning Sequential Structure in Simple Recurrent Networks. Dépôt institutionnel de l'Université libre de Bruxelles (Université Libre de Bruxelles). 1. 643–652. 113 indexed citations
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Hinton, Geoffrey E. & James L. McClelland. (1987). Learning Representations by Recirculation. Queensland's institutional digital repository (The University of Queensland). 358–366. 67 indexed citations
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McClelland, James L., et al.. (1986). Mechanisms of sentence processing: assigning roles to constituents. MIT Press eBooks. 272–325. 89 indexed citations
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Rumelhart, David E. & James L. McClelland. (1986). Parallel distributed processing: explorations in the microstructure of cognition, vol. 2: psychological and biological models. MIT Press eBooks. 663 indexed citations breakdown →

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