John Kounios

8.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
91 papers, 6.0k citations indexed

About

John Kounios is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and Developmental and Educational Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, John Kounios has authored 91 papers receiving a total of 6.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 70 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 23 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and 11 papers in Developmental and Educational Psychology. Recurrent topics in John Kounios's work include Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies (30 papers), EEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces (21 papers) and Creativity in Education and Neuroscience (18 papers). John Kounios is often cited by papers focused on Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies (30 papers), EEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces (21 papers) and Creativity in Education and Neuroscience (18 papers). John Kounios collaborates with scholars based in United States, Italy and Philippines. John Kounios's co-authors include Mark Beeman, Phillip J. Holcomb, Edward M. Bowden, Jessica I. Fleck, Jennifer L. Frymiare, Marcia K. Johnson, Roderick W. Smith, Karuna Subramaniam, Todd B. Parrish and Deborah L. Green and has published in prestigious journals such as Neuron, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and NeuroImage.

In The Last Decade

John Kounios

90 papers receiving 5.7k citations

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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.

Neural Activity When People Solve Verbal Problems with Insight

2004 677 citations Mark Beeman, Edward M. Bowden et al. PLoS Biology profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
John Kounios United States	37	4.5k	2.5k	1.1k	1.0k	515	91	6.0k
Mark Beeman United States	33	5.0k 1.1×	4.0k 1.6×	1.3k 1.2×	1.3k 1.3×	404 0.8×	73	7.0k
Kevin Dunbar United States	33	2.8k 0.6×	1.9k 0.8×	1.8k 1.7×	830 0.8×	690 1.3×	52	5.5k
Vinod Goel Canada	29	2.8k 0.6×	1.4k 0.6×	850 0.8×	934 0.9×	409 0.8×	64	4.9k
Jason L. Hicks United States	38	3.2k 0.7×	2.4k 1.0×	437 0.4×	1.0k 1.0×	448 0.9×	102	4.3k
Edward Vul United States	29	3.7k 0.8×	1.4k 0.6×	1.5k 1.4×	760 0.7×	1.0k 2.0×	74	6.4k
Thomas H. Carr United States	36	4.4k 1.0×	1.8k 0.7×	2.9k 2.8×	1.3k 1.2×	368 0.7×	79	7.3k
Peter A. Frensch Germany	39	2.5k 0.6×	1.2k 0.5×	1.7k 1.6×	1.0k 1.0×	475 0.9×	114	5.5k
Olivier Houdé France	34	3.6k 0.8×	1.1k 0.4×	1.8k 1.7×	521 0.5×	178 0.3×	154	5.6k
Paul J. Reber United States	36	3.9k 0.9×	1.2k 0.5×	1.2k 1.1×	743 0.7×	283 0.5×	71	5.1k
Thomas O. Nelson United States	43	4.6k 1.0×	2.1k 0.8×	2.8k 2.6×	988 1.0×	1.5k 2.9×	113	7.1k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of John Kounios

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Kounios, John, et al.. (2022). Dynamics of hidden brain states when people solve verbal puzzles. NeuroImage. 255. 119202–119202. 8 indexed citations

Hitchcock, Peter, Evan M. Forman, Fengqing Zhang, et al.. (2021). Rumination Derails Reinforcement Learning With Possible Implications for Ineffective Behavior. Clinical Psychological Science. 10(4). 714–733. 13 indexed citations

Niu, Xin, et al.. (2021). Multidimensional brain-age prediction reveals altered brain developmental trajectory in psychiatric disorders. Cerebral Cortex. 32(22). 5036–5049. 13 indexed citations

Salvi, Carola, Emanuela Bricolo, John Kounios, Edward M. Bowden, & Mark Beeman. (2016). Insight solutions are correct more often than analytic solutions. Thinking & Reasoning. 22(4). 443–460. 135 indexed citations

Kounios, John & Mark Beeman. (2015). The Eureka factor. 1 indexed citations

Green, Deborah L., Lisa Payne, Robi Polikar, et al.. (2015). P50: A candidate ERP biomarker of prodromal Alzheimer׳s disease. Brain Research. 1624. 390–397. 17 indexed citations

Ochner, Christopher N., et al.. (2009). Asymmetric prefrontal cortex activation in relation to markers of overeating in obese humans. Appetite. 53(1). 44–49. 33 indexed citations

Fleck, Jessica I., Deborah L. Green, Jennifer L. Stevenson, et al.. (2008). The transliminal brain at rest: Baseline EEG, unusual experiences, and access to unconscious mental activity. Cortex. 44(10). 1353–1363. 28 indexed citations

Grossman, Murray, Phyllis Koenig, John Kounios, et al.. (2006). Category-specific effects in semantic memory: Category–task interactions suggested by fMRI. NeuroImage. 30(3). 1003–1009. 9 indexed citations

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Parikh, Devi, et al.. (2005). Ensemble Based Data Fusion for Early Diagnosis of Alzheimer's Disease. PubMed. 2005. 2479–2482. 13 indexed citations

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Beeman, Mark, Edward M. Bowden, Jason Haberman, et al.. (2004). Neural Activity When People Solve Verbal Problems with Insight. PLoS Biology. 2(4). e97–e97. 677 indexed citations breakdown →

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Kounios, John, Peter Bachman, Daniel Casasanto, et al.. (2003). Novel concepts mediate word retrieval from human episodic associative memory: evidence from event-related potentials. Neuroscience Letters. 345(3). 157–160. 11 indexed citations

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Kounios, John. (2002). A neural mechanism for non-verbal discourse comprehension. Trends in Cognitive Sciences. 6(7). 272–275. 11 indexed citations

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Casasanto, Daniel, John Kounios, & John A. Detre. (2001). Hemispheric Effects of Concreteness in Pictures and Words. eScholarship (California Digital Library). 23(23). 1 indexed citations

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Kounios, John, Roderick W. Smith, Wei Yang, Peter Bachman, & Mark D’Esposito. (2001). Cognitive Association Formation in Human Memory Revealed by Spatiotemporal Brain Imaging. Neuron. 29(1). 297–306. 54 indexed citations

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Kounios, John, et al.. (2000). On the locus of the semantic satiation effect: Evidence from event-related brain potentials. Memory & Cognition. 28(8). 1366–1377. 43 indexed citations

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Holcomb, Phillip J., et al.. (1999). Dual-coding, context-availability, and concreteness effects in sentence comprehension: An electrophysiological investigation.. Journal of Experimental Psychology Learning Memory and Cognition. 25(3). 721–742. 51 indexed citations

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Smith, Roderick W. & John Kounios. (1996). Sudden insight: All-or-none processing revealed by speed-accuracy decomposition.. Journal of Experimental Psychology Learning Memory and Cognition. 22(6). 1443–1462. 78 indexed citations

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Kounios, John & Roderick W. Smith. (1995). Speed-accuracy decomposition yields a sudden insight into all-or-none information processing. Acta Psychologica. 90(1-3). 229–241. 10 indexed citations

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Johnson, M K, John Kounios, & John A. Reeder. (1994). Time-course studies of reality monitoring and recognition.. Journal of Experimental Psychology Learning Memory and Cognition. 20(6). 1409–1419. 119 indexed citations

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