Mike Dowman

817 total citations · 1 hit paper
16 papers, 451 citations indexed

About

Mike Dowman is a scholar working on Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Artificial Intelligence and Cultural Studies. According to data from OpenAlex, Mike Dowman has authored 16 papers receiving a total of 451 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 9 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, 4 papers in Artificial Intelligence and 3 papers in Cultural Studies. Recurrent topics in Mike Dowman's work include Categorization, perception, and language (9 papers), Multisensory perception and integration (6 papers) and Language and cultural evolution (3 papers). Mike Dowman is often cited by papers focused on Categorization, perception, and language (9 papers), Multisensory perception and integration (6 papers) and Language and cultural evolution (3 papers). Mike Dowman collaborates with scholars based in United States, Japan and Australia. Mike Dowman's co-authors include Thomas L. Griffiths, Simon Kirby, Jing Xu, Borislav Popov, Valentin Tablan, Hamish Cunningham, Virginia Savova, Konrad P. Körding, Matthew Purver and Joshua B. Tenenbaum and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences and Cognitive Science.

In The Last Decade

Mike Dowman

14 papers receiving 418 citations

Hit Papers

Innateness and culture in the evolution of language 2007 2026 2013 2019 2007 50 100 150 200
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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. Innateness and culture in the evolution of language
    2007 249 citations Simon Kirby, Mike Dowman et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →

Peers

Mike Dowman
Christian Bentz Germany
Jinyun Ke United States
Steven Moran Switzerland
Andreea S. Calude New Zealand
Joe Jackson United States
Lyle Jenkins Austria
Haim Dubossarsky United Kingdom
Isabelle Dautriche France
Alexander Koplenig Germany
Michael Cysouw Germany
Christian Bentz Germany
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Countries citing papers authored by Mike Dowman

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Fields of papers citing papers by Mike Dowman

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Mike Dowman

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Mike Dowman. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Mike Dowman based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Mike Dowman. Mike Dowman is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

16 of 16 papers shown
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Xu, Jing, Mike Dowman, & Thomas L. Griffiths. (2013). Cultural transmission results in convergence towards colour term universals. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 280(1758). 20123073–20123073. 42 indexed citations
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Xu, Jing, Thomas L. Griffiths, & Mike Dowman. (2010). Replicating Color Term Universals through Human Iterated Learning. eScholarship (California Digital Library). 32(32). 5 indexed citations
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Dowman, Mike. (2008). The Nature of Words in Human Protolanguages: It's Not a Holophrastic-Atomic Meanings Dichotomy. Artificial Life. 14(4). 445–465. 5 indexed citations
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Dowman, Mike, Jing Xu, & Thomas L. Griffiths. (2008). A HUMAN MODEL OF COLOR TERM EVOLUTION. The Evolution of Language. 421–422. 2 indexed citations
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Dowman, Mike. (2007). Explaining Color Term Typology With an Evolutionary Model. Cognitive Science. 31(1). 99–132. 32 indexed citations
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Kirby, Simon, Mike Dowman, & Thomas L. Griffiths. (2007). Innateness and culture in the evolution of language. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 104(12). 5241–5245. 249 indexed citations breakdown →
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Dowman, Mike. (2007). Explaining Color Term Typology With an Evolutionary Model. Cognitive Science. 30(1). 99–132. 4 indexed citations
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Dowman, Mike, Simon Kirby, & Thomas L. Griffiths. (2006). INNATENESS AND CULTURE IN THE EVOLUTION OF LANGUAGE. The Evolution of Language. 83–90. 22 indexed citations
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Dowman, Mike. (2006). A Bayesian Approach To Colour Term Semantics.
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Dowman, Mike, Valentin Tablan, Hamish Cunningham, & Borislav Popov. (2005). Web-assisted annotation, semantic indexing and search of television and radio news. 225–225. 47 indexed citations
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Dowman, Mike. (2005). Investigating the Effect of Random Noise on the Evolution of Colour Terms. 1. 581–587. 1 indexed citations
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Dowman, Mike, Valentin Tablan, Hamish Cunningham, & Borislav Popov. (2005). Content Augmentation for Mixed-Mode News Broadcasts. 3 indexed citations
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Dowman, Mike. (2004). Colour Terms, Syntax and Bayes Modelling Acquisition and Evolution. The Sydney eScholarship Repository (The University of Sydney). 1 indexed citations
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Dowman, Mike. (2003). Explaining Color Term Typology as the Product of Cultural Evolution using a Bayesian Multi-agent Model. eScholarship (California Digital Library). 25(25). 2 indexed citations
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Dowman, Mike. (2000). Addressing the Learnability of Verb Subcategorization with Bayesian Inference. eScholarship (California Digital Library). 22(22). 21 indexed citations

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