Jon Willits

739 total citations
20 papers, 419 citations indexed

About

Jon Willits is a scholar working on Artificial Intelligence, Developmental and Educational Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, Jon Willits has authored 20 papers receiving a total of 419 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 11 papers in Artificial Intelligence, 7 papers in Developmental and Educational Psychology and 3 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in Jon Willits's work include Natural Language Processing Techniques (8 papers), Topic Modeling (7 papers) and Reading and Literacy Development (5 papers). Jon Willits is often cited by papers focused on Natural Language Processing Techniques (8 papers), Topic Modeling (7 papers) and Reading and Literacy Development (5 papers). Jon Willits collaborates with scholars based in United States. Jon Willits's co-authors include Michael N. Jones, Simon Dennis, Mark S. Seidenberg, Jenny R. Saffran, Paul H. Lysaker, Kyle S. Minor, R. Harald Baayen, Erica H. Wojcik, Michael Ramscar and Cyrus Shaoul and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Psychological Review and Cognition.

In The Last Decade

Jon Willits

18 papers receiving 392 citations

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Jon Willits United States 10 165 162 146 101 55 20 419
Evelina Leivada Spain 13 184 1.1× 161 1.0× 95 0.7× 51 0.5× 48 0.9× 51 419
Simona Amenta Italy 11 365 2.2× 369 2.3× 104 0.7× 153 1.5× 32 0.6× 30 573
Bob van Tiel Netherlands 12 173 1.0× 84 0.5× 101 0.7× 66 0.7× 21 0.4× 26 321
Arnaud Destrebecqz Belgium 4 345 2.1× 240 1.5× 81 0.6× 87 0.9× 18 0.3× 7 505
Matthew W. Lowder United States 15 448 2.7× 329 2.0× 160 1.1× 153 1.5× 15 0.3× 30 609
Anna M. Thornton Italy 8 230 1.4× 181 1.1× 107 0.7× 147 1.5× 16 0.3× 24 466
Harlan D. Harris United States 7 214 1.3× 173 1.1× 90 0.6× 120 1.2× 25 0.5× 14 348
Cory Shain United States 13 287 1.7× 170 1.0× 205 1.4× 50 0.5× 23 0.4× 25 449
Nichol Castro United States 12 240 1.5× 110 0.7× 131 0.9× 112 1.1× 16 0.3× 34 377
Andrea Krott United Kingdom 15 463 2.8× 524 3.2× 131 0.9× 167 1.7× 22 0.4× 48 855

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Fields of papers citing papers by Jon Willits

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Jon Willits

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Montag, Jessica L., et al.. (2023). Using known words to learn more words: A distributional model of child vocabulary acquisition. Journal of Memory and Language. 132. 104446–104446. 1 indexed citations
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Willits, Jon, et al.. (2023). Spatial versus graphical representation of distributional semantic knowledge.. Psychological Review. 131(1). 104–137.
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Willits, Jon, et al.. (2023). Analogical inference from distributional structure: What recurrent neural networks can tell us about word learning. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 13. 100478–100478.
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Willits, Jon, et al.. (2021). Scaffolded input promotes atomic organization in the recurrent neural network language model. 408–422. 2 indexed citations
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Willits, Jon, et al.. (2020). Order matters: Developmentally plausible acquisition of lexical categories.. Cognitive Science. 1 indexed citations
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Minor, Kyle S., et al.. (2018). Measuring disorganized speech in schizophrenia: automated analysis explains variance in cognitive deficits beyond clinician-rated scales. Psychological Medicine. 49(3). 440–448. 46 indexed citations
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Willits, Jon, et al.. (2018). Structured Semantic Knowledge Can Emerge Automatically from Predicting Word Sequences in Child-Directed Speech. Frontiers in Psychology. 9. 133–133. 34 indexed citations
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Willits, Jon, Timothy N. Rubin, Michael N. Jones, Kyle S. Minor, & Paul H. Lysaker. (2017). Evidence of disturbances of deep levels of semantic cohesion within personal narratives in schizophrenia. Schizophrenia Research. 197. 365–369. 33 indexed citations
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Willits, Jon, Michael N. Jones, & David Landy. (2016). Learning that numbers are the same, while learning that they are different.. Cognitive Science. 4 indexed citations
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Asr, Fatemeh Torabi, Jon Willits, & Michael N. Jones. (2016). Comparing Predictive and Co-occurrence Based Models of Lexical Semantics Trained on Child-directed Speech.. Cognitive Science. 24 indexed citations
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Jones, Michael N., Jon Willits, & Simon Dennis. (2015). Models of Semantic Memory. Oxford University Press eBooks. 105 indexed citations
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Willits, Jon, Michael S. Amato, & Maryellen C. MacDonald. (2015). Language knowledge and event knowledge in language use. Cognitive Psychology. 78. 1–27. 26 indexed citations
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Baayen, R. Harald, Cyrus Shaoul, Jon Willits, & Michael Ramscar. (2015). Comprehension without segmentation: a proof of concept with naive discriminative learning. Language Cognition and Neuroscience. 31(1). 106–128. 53 indexed citations
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Willits, Jon, Mark S. Seidenberg, & Jenny R. Saffran. (2014). Distributional structure in language: Contributions to noun–verb difficulty differences in infant word recognition. Cognition. 132(3). 429–436. 11 indexed citations
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Rubin, Timothy N., et al.. (2014). Organizing the space and behavior of semantic models.. PubMed. 2014. 1329–1334. 6 indexed citations
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Willits, Jon, Erica H. Wojcik, Mark S. Seidenberg, & Jenny R. Saffran. (2013). Toddlers Activate Lexical Semantic Knowledge in the Absence of Visual Referents: Evidence from Auditory Priming. Infancy. 18(6). 1053–1075. 51 indexed citations
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Goldwater, Micah B. & Jon Willits. (2010). The Linguistic Distribution of Relational Categories. eScholarship (California Digital Library). 32(32). 1 indexed citations
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Willits, Jon, Mark S. Seidenberg, & Jenny R. Saffran. (2009). Verbs are lookING good in early language acquisition. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. 31(31). 4 indexed citations
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Willits, Jon, Rachel S. Sussman, & Michael S. Amato. (2008). Event knowledge vs. verb knowledge. 6 indexed citations
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Willits, Jon, Sidney K. D’Mello, Nicholas D. Duran, & Andrew M. Olney. (2007). Distributional Statistics and Thematic Role Relationships. eScholarship (California Digital Library). 29(29). 11 indexed citations

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