Lera Boroditsky

15.1k total citations · 5 hit papers
69 papers, 6.9k citations indexed

About

Lera Boroditsky is a scholar working on Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Social Psychology and Developmental and Educational Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Lera Boroditsky has authored 69 papers receiving a total of 6.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 52 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, 12 papers in Social Psychology and 12 papers in Developmental and Educational Psychology. Recurrent topics in Lera Boroditsky's work include Language, Metaphor, and Cognition (46 papers), Categorization, perception, and language (39 papers) and Action Observation and Synchronization (10 papers). Lera Boroditsky is often cited by papers focused on Language, Metaphor, and Cognition (46 papers), Categorization, perception, and language (39 papers) and Action Observation and Synchronization (10 papers). Lera Boroditsky collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and United Kingdom. Lera Boroditsky's co-authors include Daniel Casasanto, Paul H. Thibodeau, Michael Ramscar, Orly Fuhrman, Jonathan Winawer, Caitlin M. Fausey, Kelly McCormick, Alice Gaby, Michael C. Frank and Nathan Witthoft and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, PLoS ONE and Trends in Neurosciences.

In The Last Decade

Lera Boroditsky

63 papers receiving 6.3k citations

Hit Papers

Metaphoric structuring: understanding time through spatia... 2000 2026 2008 2017 2000 2001 2007 2011 2007 250 500 750

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Lera Boroditsky United States 29 4.7k 1.9k 1.3k 1.1k 1.1k 69 6.9k
Ellen Winner United States 55 3.8k 0.8× 2.4k 1.3× 4.1k 3.1× 642 0.6× 2.7k 2.5× 172 9.5k
Daniel Casasanto United States 34 2.8k 0.6× 1.7k 0.9× 2.0k 1.5× 396 0.4× 1.1k 1.1× 124 5.0k
Asifa Majid Netherlands 38 3.7k 0.8× 2.3k 1.3× 1.5k 1.2× 923 0.8× 1.1k 1.0× 174 7.9k
Jean M. Mandler United States 50 2.9k 0.6× 1.6k 0.9× 2.5k 1.9× 915 0.8× 5.0k 4.7× 116 9.1k
Gregory L. Murphy United States 47 3.2k 0.7× 1.6k 0.9× 2.4k 1.9× 774 0.7× 4.2k 4.0× 147 8.9k
Rolf A. Zwaan Netherlands 56 6.7k 1.4× 4.4k 2.4× 4.7k 3.6× 1.2k 1.0× 5.2k 4.9× 169 12.9k
William F. Brewer United States 34 1.9k 0.4× 1.6k 0.8× 1.8k 1.4× 309 0.3× 4.1k 3.9× 89 8.7k
Morton Ann Gernsbacher United States 54 3.2k 0.7× 1.1k 0.6× 6.4k 4.9× 1.1k 1.0× 5.1k 4.8× 140 11.2k
Boaz Keysar United States 42 3.2k 0.7× 2.2k 1.2× 2.4k 1.8× 1.5k 1.4× 1.9k 1.8× 74 7.3k
Arthur M. Glenberg United States 50 5.5k 1.2× 4.6k 2.5× 5.5k 4.2× 631 0.6× 5.1k 4.8× 130 12.1k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Lera Boroditsky

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Phillips, Webb, et al.. (2017). Effects of Grammatical Gender on Object Description.. Cognitive Science. 5 indexed citations
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Boroditsky, Lera & Alice Gaby. (2010). Remembrances of Times East. Psychological Science. 21(11). 1635–1639. 185 indexed citations
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Flusberg, Stephen J., et al.. (2010). Motor Affordances in Object Perception. eScholarship (California Digital Library). 32(32).
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Casasanto, Daniel, Olga Fotakopoulou, & Lera Boroditsky. (2010). Space and Time in the Child’s Mind: Evidence for a Cross-Dimensional Asymmetry. MPG.PuRe (Max Planck Society).
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Boroditsky, Lera, James L. McClelland, & Paul H. Thibodeau. (2009). When a bad metaphor may not be a victimless crime: The role of metaphor in social policy. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. 31(31). 470–4. 11 indexed citations
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Winawer, Jonathan, Alexander C. Huk, & Lera Boroditsky. (2008). A Motion Aftereffect From Still Photographs Depicting Motion. Psychological Science. 19(3). 276–283. 71 indexed citations
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Fausey, Caitlin M. & Lera Boroditsky. (2008). English and Spanish Speakers Remember Causal Agents Differently. eScholarship (California Digital Library). 30(30). 5 indexed citations
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Casasanto, Daniel & Lera Boroditsky. (2008). Time in the Mind: Using Space to Think About Time. MPG.PuRe (Max Planck Society). 6 indexed citations
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Fausey, Caitlin M. & Lera Boroditsky. (2007). Language Changes Causal Attributions about Agents and Objects. eScholarship (California Digital Library). 29(29). 2 indexed citations
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McClelland, James L., et al.. (2007). How Language Affects Thought in a Connectionist Model. eScholarship (California Digital Library). 29(29). 11 indexed citations
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Fuhrman, Orly & Lera Boroditsky. (2007). Mental Time-Lines Follow Writing Direction: Comparing English and Hebrew Speakers. eScholarship (California Digital Library). 29(29). 12 indexed citations
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Boroditsky, Lera & Caitlin M. Fausey. (2006). Linguistic Contributions to Reasoning about Causal Agents. eScholarship (California Digital Library). 28(28).
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Boroditsky, Lera, Jonathan Winawer, & Nathan Witthoft. (2006). How Looking at Someone You Don't Know Can Help You to Recognize Someone You Do. eScholarship (California Digital Library). 28(28). 1 indexed citations
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McNamara, Danielle S., Max M. Louwerse, Xiangen Hu, et al.. (2004). NLS: A Non-Latent Similarity Algorithm. eScholarship (California Digital Library). 26(26). 180–185. 7 indexed citations
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Casasanto, Daniel & Lera Boroditsky. (2003). Do we think about time in terms of space. eScholarship (California Digital Library). 25(25). 17 indexed citations
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Phillips, Webb & Lera Boroditsky. (2003). Can Quirks of Grammar Affect the Way You Think? Grammatical Gender and Object Concepts. eScholarship (California Digital Library). 25(25). 53 indexed citations
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Casasanto, Daniel, Webb Phillips, & Lera Boroditsky. (2003). Do we think about music in terms of space? Metaphoric representation of musical pitch.. eScholarship (California Digital Library). 25(25). 14 indexed citations
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Matlock, Teenie, Michael Ramscar, & Lera Boroditsky. (2003). The experiential basis of meaning. eScholarship (California Digital Library). 25(25). 9 indexed citations
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Prather, Richard & Lera Boroditsky. (2003). Left of Zero: Representing Negative Numbers on the Mental Number line. eScholarship (California Digital Library). 25(25). 1 indexed citations
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Boroditsky, Lera, Michael Ramscar, & Michael C. Frank. (2001). The Roles of Body and Mind in Abstract Thought. eScholarship (California Digital Library). 23(23). 3 indexed citations

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