Nick Chater

28.8k total citations · 6 hit papers
321 papers, 16.4k citations indexed

About

Nick Chater is a scholar working on Artificial Intelligence, General Decision Sciences and Developmental and Educational Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Nick Chater has authored 321 papers receiving a total of 16.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 106 papers in Artificial Intelligence, 81 papers in General Decision Sciences and 75 papers in Developmental and Educational Psychology. Recurrent topics in Nick Chater's work include Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics (81 papers), Child and Animal Learning Development (51 papers) and Language and cultural evolution (43 papers). Nick Chater is often cited by papers focused on Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics (81 papers), Child and Animal Learning Development (51 papers) and Language and cultural evolution (43 papers). Nick Chater collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Germany. Nick Chater's co-authors include Mike Oaksford, Morten H. Christiansen, Neil Stewart, Gordon D. A. Brown, George Loewenstein, Martin Redington, Susan Hurley, Paul Vitányi, Ian Neath and Gordon D. A. Brown and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology and Journal of Neuroscience.

In The Last Decade

Nick Chater

309 papers receiving 15.4k citations

Hit Papers

A rational analysis of the selection task as optimal data... 1994 2026 2004 2015 1994 2007 2008 2007 2015 100 200 300 400 500

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Nick Chater United Kingdom 67 5.4k 4.7k 4.4k 3.8k 2.7k 321 16.4k
Thomas L. Griffiths United States 69 5.5k 1.0× 12.1k 2.5× 4.8k 1.1× 1.9k 0.5× 2.8k 1.0× 394 25.7k
Keith J. Holyoak United States 71 6.3k 1.2× 6.4k 1.3× 10.6k 2.4× 1.9k 0.5× 6.5k 2.4× 260 25.6k
P. N. Johnson‐Laird United States 62 4.3k 0.8× 6.8k 1.4× 6.1k 1.4× 3.0k 0.8× 5.6k 2.0× 272 21.4k
Douglas L. Medin United States 70 4.8k 0.9× 4.3k 0.9× 9.2k 2.1× 1.2k 0.3× 5.0k 1.8× 228 21.6k
Jonathan St. B. T. Evans United Kingdom 52 4.6k 0.8× 4.0k 0.8× 3.6k 0.8× 5.8k 1.5× 2.6k 0.9× 182 17.6k
Allen Newell United States 47 3.3k 0.6× 9.0k 1.9× 3.3k 0.7× 831 0.2× 3.0k 1.1× 165 22.3k
Steven A. Sloman United States 42 2.2k 0.4× 2.9k 0.6× 2.4k 0.5× 2.1k 0.6× 1.4k 0.5× 125 10.1k
R. Duncan Luce United States 62 5.3k 1.0× 2.9k 0.6× 1.9k 0.4× 4.3k 1.2× 2.4k 0.9× 222 20.0k
Arthur B. Markman United States 53 2.0k 0.4× 1.7k 0.4× 2.9k 0.6× 788 0.2× 2.7k 1.0× 165 9.7k
John K. Kruschke United States 38 3.3k 0.6× 1.8k 0.4× 2.7k 0.6× 701 0.2× 1.8k 0.6× 89 10.2k

Countries citing papers authored by Nick Chater

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Fields of papers citing papers by Nick Chater

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Nick Chater

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All Works

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Zhu, Jian-Qiao, et al.. (2024). The statistics of cognitive variability: Explaining common patterns in individuals, groups and financial markets. Cognition. 250. 105858–105858. 1 indexed citations
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León-Villagrá, Pablo, et al.. (2021). Local sampling with momentum accounts for human random sequence generation. Warwick Research Archive Portal (University of Warwick). 43(43). 1 indexed citations
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Vlaev, Ivo, Ben Seymour, Nick Chater, et al.. (2012). Prices need no preferences: Social trends determine decisions in experimental markets for pain relief.. Health Psychology. 33(1). 66–76. 6 indexed citations
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Kusev, Petko, Peter Ayton, Paul van Schaik, et al.. (2011). Judgments relative to patterns: How temporal sequence patterns affect judgments and memory.. Journal of Experimental Psychology Human Perception & Performance. 37(6). 1874–1886. 8 indexed citations
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Janssen, Christian P., et al.. (2010). A cognitively bounded rational analysis model of dual-task performance trade-offs. UCL Discovery (University College London).
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Oaksford, Mike & Nick Chater. (2007). Bayesian Rationality: The Probabilistic Approach to Human Reasoning. Medical Entomology and Zoology. 11. rbae063–rbae063. 442 indexed citations breakdown →
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Chater, Nick, Josh Tenenbaum, & Alan Yuille. (2006). Probabilistic models of cognition. Special Issue.. UCL Discovery (University College London). 6 indexed citations
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Stewart, Neil, Gordon D. A. Brown, & Nick Chater. (2005). Absolute Identification by Relative Judgment.. Psychological Review. 112(4). 881–911. 245 indexed citations
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Christiansen, Morten H. & Nick Chater. (2003). Constituency and recursion in language. UCL Discovery (University College London). 1 indexed citations
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Stewart, Neil, Nick Chater, Henry Stott, & Stian Reimers. (2003). Prospect relativity: How choice options influence decision under risk.. Journal of Experimental Psychology General. 132(1). 23–46. 101 indexed citations
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Pothos, Emmanuel M. & Nick Chater. (2002). A simplicity principle in unsupervised human categorization. Cognitive Science. 26(3). 303–343. 137 indexed citations
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Hahn, Ulrike, et al.. (2001). Similarity: A Transformational Approach. eScholarship (California Digital Library). 23(23). 1 indexed citations
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Christiansen, Morten H., et al.. (1999). Special issue - Connectionist models of human language processing: Progress and prospects. UCL Discovery (University College London). 2 indexed citations
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Christiansen, Morten H. & Nick Chater. (1999). Connectionist Natural Language Processing: The State of the Art. Cognitive Science. 23(4). 417–437. 62 indexed citations
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Chater, Nick, Martin Redington, Ramin Charles Nakisa, & Mike Oaksford. (1997). Rationality the Fast and Frugal Way. UCL Discovery (University College London). 1 indexed citations
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Hahn, Ulrike, et al.. (1996). Weighting in Similarity Judgements: Investigating the "MAX Hypothesis". UCL Discovery (University College London). 1 indexed citations
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Chater, Nick, et al.. (1995). Connectionist modelling: Implications for neuropsychology. UCL Discovery (University College London). 1 indexed citations
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Redington, Martin, Nick Chater, & Steven Finch. (1993). DISTRIBUTIONAL INFORMATION AND THE ACQUISITION OF LINGUISTIC CATEGORIES - A STATISTICAL APPROACH. UCL Discovery (University College London). 9 indexed citations
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Finch, Steven & Nick Chater. (1992). BOOTSTRAPPING SYNTACTIC CATEGORIES. UCL Discovery (University College London). 18 indexed citations
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Chater, Nick & Giorgio Ganis. (1991). DOUBLE DISSOCIATION AND ISOLABLE COGNITIVE-PROCESSES. UCL Discovery (University College London). 2 indexed citations

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