Kate Plaisted

5.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
27 papers, 4.3k citations indexed

About

Kate Plaisted is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Developmental and Educational Psychology and Psychiatry and Mental health. According to data from OpenAlex, Kate Plaisted has authored 27 papers receiving a total of 4.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 19 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 12 papers in Developmental and Educational Psychology and 5 papers in Psychiatry and Mental health. Recurrent topics in Kate Plaisted's work include Autism Spectrum Disorder Research (14 papers), Behavioral and Psychological Studies (10 papers) and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (4 papers). Kate Plaisted is often cited by papers focused on Autism Spectrum Disorder Research (14 papers), Behavioral and Psychological Studies (10 papers) and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (4 papers). Kate Plaisted collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom. Kate Plaisted's co-authors include Michelle O’Riordan, Simon Baron‐Cohen, John Swettenham, Valerie E. Stone, Jon Driver, Elizabeth Milne, Ruth Campbell, P. Hansen, Greg Davis and Lisa M. Saksida and has published in prestigious journals such as Psychological Science, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences and Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry.

In The Last Decade

Kate Plaisted

26 papers receiving 4.1k citations

Hit Papers

Recognition of Faux Pas b... 1999 2026 2008 2017 1999 250 500 750
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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.

  1. Recognition of Faux Pas by Normally Developing Children and Children with Asperger Syndrome or High-Functioning Autism
    1999 840 citations Simon Baron‐Cohen, Michelle O’Riordan et al. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders profile →

Author Peers

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Author Last Decade Papers Cites
Kate Plaisted 3.6k 1.8k 736 730 503 27 4.3k
Michelle O’Riordan 2.8k 0.8× 1.4k 0.8× 600 0.8× 690 0.9× 407 0.8× 16 3.3k
Jill Boucher 4.4k 1.2× 2.4k 1.4× 732 1.0× 1.1k 1.5× 605 1.2× 76 5.1k
Dermot Bowler 3.9k 1.1× 2.5k 1.4× 787 1.1× 714 1.0× 432 0.9× 116 4.7k
Loisa Bennetto 2.8k 0.8× 1.6k 0.9× 667 0.9× 555 0.8× 358 0.7× 44 3.4k
Isabelle Soulières 3.3k 0.9× 1.2k 0.7× 591 0.8× 702 1.0× 549 1.1× 61 3.6k
Beate Hermelin 2.7k 0.7× 1.7k 1.0× 424 0.6× 410 0.6× 381 0.8× 99 3.6k
Elizabeth Milne 2.5k 0.7× 849 0.5× 422 0.6× 532 0.7× 317 0.6× 82 3.0k
Inge‐Marie Eigsti 3.5k 1.0× 1.8k 1.0× 1.0k 1.4× 1.6k 2.2× 693 1.4× 105 5.0k
Gaia Scerif 2.7k 0.7× 1.8k 1.0× 1.0k 1.4× 762 1.0× 1.1k 2.1× 158 5.7k
Christine Deruelle 2.7k 0.7× 922 0.5× 350 0.5× 602 0.8× 215 0.4× 94 3.5k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Kate Plaisted

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Kate Plaisted

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Falter, Christine M., Kate Plaisted, & Greg Davis. (2007). Visuo-spatial Processing in Autism—Testing the Predictions of Extreme Male Brain Theory. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders. 38(3). 507–515. 87 indexed citations
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Plaisted, Kate, et al.. (2006). The Microgenesis of Global Perception in Autism. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders. 36(1). 107–116. 33 indexed citations
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Kovács, Kristóf, Kate Plaisted, & N. J. Mackintosh. (2006). Difficulties differentiating dissociations. Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 29(2). 138–139. 1 indexed citations
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Plaisted, Kate, et al.. (2005). Top-Down Attentional Modulation in Autistic Spectrum Disorders Is Stimulus-Specific. Psychological Science. 16(12). 987–994. 65 indexed citations
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Plaisted, Kate, Lisa M. Saksida, José I. Alcántara, & Emma Weisblatt. (2003). Towards an understanding of the mechanisms of weak central coherence effects: experiments in visual configural learning and auditory perception. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 358(1430). 375–386. 137 indexed citations
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Milne, Elizabeth, et al.. (2002). High motion coherence thresholds in children with autism. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry. 43(2). 255–263. 301 indexed citations
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O’Riordan, Michelle, Kate Plaisted, Jon Driver, & Simon Baron‐Cohen. (2001). Superior visual search in autism.. Journal of Experimental Psychology Human Perception & Performance. 27(3). 719–730. 398 indexed citations
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O’Riordan, Michelle & Kate Plaisted. (2001). Enhanced discrimination in autism. The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology Section A. 54(4). 961–979. 179 indexed citations
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O’Riordan, Michelle & Kate Plaisted. (2001). Enhanced discrimination in autism. The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology Section A. 54(4). 961–979. 32 indexed citations
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O’Riordan, Michelle, Kate Plaisted, Jon Driver, & Simon Baron‐Cohen. (2001). Superior visual search in autism.. Journal of Experimental Psychology Human Perception & Performance. 27(3). 719–730. 312 indexed citations
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Plaisted, Kate. (2001). Reduced Generalization in Autism: An Alternative to Weak Central Coherence. Apollo (University of Cambridge). 162 indexed citations
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Swettenham, Jennifer B., Elizabeth Milne, Ruth Campbell, & Kate Plaisted. (2000). Visuospatial orienting in response to social stimuli. UCL Discovery (University College London). 2 indexed citations
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Baron‐Cohen, Simon, et al.. (1999). Recognition of Faux Pas by Normally Developing Children and Children with Asperger Syndrome or High-Functioning Autism. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders. 29(5). 407–418. 840 indexed citations breakdown →
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Plaisted, Kate, et al.. (1999). Children with Autism Show Local Precedence in a Divided Attention Task and Global Precedence in a Selective Attention Task. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry. 40(5). 733–742. 295 indexed citations
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Plaisted, Kate, et al.. (1999). Children with Autism Show Local Precedence in a Divided Attention Task and Global Precedence in a Selective Attention Task. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry. 40(5). 733–742. 297 indexed citations
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Plaisted, Kate, Michelle O’Riordan, & Simon Baron‐Cohen. (1998). Enhanced Discrimination of Novel, Highly Similar Stimuli by Adults with Autism During a Perceptual Learning Task. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry. 39(5). 765–775. 171 indexed citations
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Plaisted, Kate, Michelle O’Riordan, & Simon Baron‐Cohen. (1998). Enhanced Visual Search for a Conjunctive Target in Autism: A Research Note. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry. 39(5). 777–783. 182 indexed citations
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Plaisted, Kate. (1997). The effect of interstimulus interval on the discrimination of cryptic targets.. Journal of Experimental Psychology Animal Behavior Processes. 23(2). 248–259. 12 indexed citations
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Plaisted, Kate & N. J. Mackintosh. (1995). Visual search for cryptic stimuli in pigeons: implications for the search image and search rate hypotheses. Animal Behaviour. 50(5). 1219–1232. 41 indexed citations
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McLaren, I.P.L., Cavan Bennett, Kate Plaisted, Michael R. F. Aitken, & N. J. Mackintosh. (1994). Latent inhibition, context specificity, and context familiarity.. PubMed. 47(4). 387–400. 30 indexed citations

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