Marieke Schouwstra

1.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
33 papers, 949 citations indexed

About

Marieke Schouwstra is a scholar working on Developmental and Educational Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and Cultural Studies. According to data from OpenAlex, Marieke Schouwstra has authored 33 papers receiving a total of 949 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 17 papers in Developmental and Educational Psychology, 16 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and 11 papers in Cultural Studies. Recurrent topics in Marieke Schouwstra's work include Hearing Impairment and Communication (17 papers), Language, Metaphor, and Cognition (14 papers) and Language and cultural evolution (11 papers). Marieke Schouwstra is often cited by papers focused on Hearing Impairment and Communication (17 papers), Language, Metaphor, and Cognition (14 papers) and Language and cultural evolution (11 papers). Marieke Schouwstra collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Netherlands and United States. Marieke Schouwstra's co-authors include Simon Kirby, Jennifer Culbertson, Kenny Smith, Henriëtte de Swart, Michael Ellman, Bart de Boer, Andrew Smith, Bill Thompson, Keith Smith and Bram de Boer and has published in prestigious journals such as Cognition, Language and Frontiers in Psychology.

In The Last Decade

Marieke Schouwstra

31 papers receiving 930 citations

Hit Papers

Proceedings of the 39th Annual Conference of the Cognitiv... 2017 2026 2020 2023 2017 200 400 600
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  1. Proceedings of the 39th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society
    2017 602 citations Marieke Schouwstra, Jennifer Culbertson et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Marieke Schouwstra United Kingdom 8 379 340 249 178 176 33 949
Mónica Tamariz United Kingdom 14 338 0.9× 380 1.1× 255 1.0× 308 1.7× 151 0.9× 52 1.2k
Sieghard Beller Germany 21 377 1.0× 515 1.5× 195 0.8× 115 0.6× 216 1.2× 71 1.2k
Sandeep Prasada United States 16 860 2.3× 336 1.0× 470 1.9× 189 1.1× 188 1.1× 30 1.4k
Jay L. Garfield United States 19 243 0.6× 283 0.8× 282 1.1× 166 0.9× 227 1.3× 87 1.5k
Florencia Reali United States 16 374 1.0× 228 0.7× 294 1.2× 254 1.4× 77 0.4× 44 1.0k
Karsten Olsen United Kingdom 7 143 0.4× 213 0.6× 379 1.5× 141 0.8× 323 1.8× 7 939
Julian Jara‐Ettinger United States 17 747 2.0× 310 0.9× 458 1.8× 253 1.4× 427 2.4× 84 1.5k
Bahador Bahrami United Kingdom 15 161 0.4× 250 0.7× 610 2.4× 93 0.5× 242 1.4× 35 1.1k
Laura Wagner United States 20 625 1.6× 309 0.9× 249 1.0× 75 0.4× 108 0.6× 63 1.0k
Alejandro López Mexico 7 615 1.6× 218 0.6× 175 0.7× 264 1.5× 242 1.4× 21 1.0k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Marieke Schouwstra

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Marieke Schouwstra

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All Works

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Kirby, Simon, et al.. (2022). From improvisation to learning: How naturalness and systematicity shape language evolution. Cognition. 228. 105206–105206. 5 indexed citations
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Schouwstra, Marieke, et al.. (2022). The Effects of Iconicity and Conventionalization on Word Order Preferences. Cognitive Science. 46(10). e13203–e13203. 2 indexed citations
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Schouwstra, Marieke, et al.. (2022). Investigating Word Order Emergence: Constraints From Cognition and Communication. Frontiers in Psychology. 13. 805144–805144. 2 indexed citations
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Culbertson, Jennifer, Marieke Schouwstra, & Simon Kirby. (2020). From the world to word order: Deriving biases innoun phrase order from statistical properties of the world. Language. 5 indexed citations
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Culbertson, Jennifer, Marieke Schouwstra, & Simon Kirby. (2020). From the World to Word Order: Deriving Biases in Noun Phrase Order from Statistical Properties of the World. Language. 96(3). 696–717. 20 indexed citations
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Schouwstra, Marieke, et al.. (2019). Evolving artificial sign languages in the lab: From improvised gesture to systematic sign. Cognition. 192. 103964–103964. 52 indexed citations
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Schouwstra, Marieke, et al.. (2019). Do all aspects of learning benefit from iconicity? Evidence from motion capture. Language and Cognition. 12(1). 36–55. 1 indexed citations
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Schouwstra, Marieke, Henriëtte de Swart, & Bill Thompson. (2019). Interpreting Silent Gesture: Cognitive Biases and Rational Inference in Emerging Language Systems. Cognitive Science. 43(7). e12732–e12732. 7 indexed citations
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Schouwstra, Marieke, et al.. (2018). Do we see word order patterns from silent gesture studies in a new natural language?. 2 indexed citations
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Schouwstra, Marieke, et al.. (2018). The emergence of spatial modulation in artificial sign languages. OSF Preprints (OSF Preprints). 3 indexed citations
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Schouwstra, Marieke, Simon Kirby, & Jennifer Culbertson. (2017). Silent gesture and noun phrase universals. Cognitive Science. 3095–3100. 1 indexed citations
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Schouwstra, Marieke, et al.. (2017). The cultural evolution of complex linguistic constructions in artificial sign languages. Cognitive Science. 7 indexed citations
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Schouwstra, Marieke. (2016). Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Psychological Science. Springer US. 107 indexed citations
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Schouwstra, Marieke, Kenny Smith, & Simon Kirby. (2016). From natural order to convention in silent gesture. 4 indexed citations
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Schouwstra, Marieke & Henriëtte de Swart. (2014). The semantic origins of word order. Cognition. 131(3). 431–436. 64 indexed citations
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Schouwstra, Marieke, et al.. (2014). From silent gesture to artificial sign languages. 1 indexed citations
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Schouwstra, Marieke, et al.. (2011). Semantic Structure in Improvised Communication. Cognitive Science. 33(33). 1497–1502. 4 indexed citations
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Smith, Andrew, Marieke Schouwstra, Bram de Boer, & Keith Smith. (2010). The evolution of language : proceedings of the 8th International Conference (EVOLANG8), Utrecht, Netherlands, 14-17 April 2010. Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS). 2 indexed citations

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