Stavroula Kousta

3.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
23 papers, 1.8k citations indexed

About

Stavroula Kousta is a scholar working on Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Social Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, Stavroula Kousta has authored 23 papers receiving a total of 1.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 8 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, 6 papers in Social Psychology and 6 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in Stavroula Kousta's work include Language, Metaphor, and Cognition (6 papers), Action Observation and Synchronization (5 papers) and Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism (3 papers). Stavroula Kousta is often cited by papers focused on Language, Metaphor, and Cognition (6 papers), Action Observation and Synchronization (5 papers) and Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism (3 papers). Stavroula Kousta collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Italy. Stavroula Kousta's co-authors include Gabriella Vigliocco, David Vinson, Mark Andrews, Elena Campo, Lotte Meteyard, Leun J. Otten, Horacio A. Barber, Stefano F. Cappa, Marco Tettamanti and Pasquale Anthony Della Rosa and has published in prestigious journals such as Trends in Cognitive Sciences, Brain Research and Cerebral Cortex.

In The Last Decade

Stavroula Kousta

21 papers receiving 1.7k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

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.

The representation of abstract words: Why emotion matters.

2010 540 citations Stavroula Kousta, Gabriella Vigliocco et al. Journal of Experimental Psychology General profile →

Peers

Stavroula Kousta

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Barbara Kaup Germany

Louise Connell United Kingdom

René Zeelenberg Netherlands

Diane Pecher Netherlands

Jeremy Goslin United Kingdom

Carolin Dudschig Germany

Mark Andrews United Kingdom

Eiling Yee United States

David A. Robertson United States

Debi Roberson United Kingdom

Barbara Kaup Germany

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1.1k ×1.1

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224 ×1.5

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Citations per year, relative to Stavroula Kousta Stavroula Kousta (= 1×) peers Barbara Kaup

Countries citing papers authored by Stavroula Kousta

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Fields of papers citing papers by Stavroula Kousta

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Stavroula Kousta. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Stavroula Kousta. The network helps show where Stavroula Kousta may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Stavroula Kousta

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Stavroula Kousta. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Stavroula Kousta 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 Stavroula Kousta. Stavroula Kousta is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

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Kousta, Stavroula. (2020). Reducing sugary drink consumption. Nature Human Behaviour. 4(3). 235–235. 1 indexed citations

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Kousta, Stavroula. (2020). The cost of a healthy diet. Nature Human Behaviour. 4(1). 9–9. 3 indexed citations

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Kousta, Stavroula. (2019). Genetics of anorexia nervosa. Nature Human Behaviour. 3(9). 896–896.

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Kousta, Stavroula. (2019). Why gender gaps persist. Nature Human Behaviour. 3(5). 418–418.

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Kousta, Stavroula, Érika Pastrana, & Sowmya Swaminathan. (2019). Three Approaches to Support Reproducible Research. 42(3). 77–82. 5 indexed citations

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Kousta, Stavroula. (2019). Diet changes for longevity. Nature Human Behaviour. 3(8). 780–780. 2 indexed citations

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Kousta, Stavroula. (2017). Reason and emotion in advocacy. Nature Human Behaviour. 1(11). 781–781. 1 indexed citations

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Kousta, Stavroula. (2017). Cognitive science: Flawed reasoning. Nature Human Behaviour. 1(7). 1 indexed citations

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Barber, Horacio A., Leun J. Otten, Stavroula Kousta, & Gabriella Vigliocco. (2013). Concreteness in word processing: ERP and behavioral effects in a lexical decision task. Brain and Language. 125(1). 47–53. 166 indexed citations

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Vigliocco, Gabriella, Stavroula Kousta, Pasquale Anthony Della Rosa, et al.. (2013). The Neural Representation of Abstract Words: The Role of Emotion. Cerebral Cortex. 24(7). 1767–1777. 308 indexed citations

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Kousta, Stavroula. (2013). Mapping the structural and functional architecture of the brain. Trends in Cognitive Sciences. 17(12). 595–595. 3 indexed citations

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Robbins, Trevor W. & Stavroula Kousta. (2011). Uncovering the genetic underpinnings of cognition. Trends in Cognitive Sciences. 15(9). 375–377. 6 indexed citations

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Kousta, Stavroula. (2011). The disordered mind. Trends in Cognitive Sciences. 16(1). 1–2. 10 indexed citations

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Barber, Horacio A., Stavroula Kousta, Leun J. Otten, & Gabriella Vigliocco. (2010). Event-related potentials to event-related words: Grammatical class and semantic attributes in the representation of knowledge. Brain Research. 1332. 65–74. 36 indexed citations

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Kousta, Stavroula, Gabriella Vigliocco, David Vinson, Mark Andrews, & Elena Campo. (2010). The representation of abstract words: Why emotion matters.. Journal of Experimental Psychology General. 140(1). 14–34. 540 indexed citations breakdown →

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Kousta, Stavroula, David Vinson, & Gabriella Vigliocco. (2009). Emotion words, regardless of polarity, have a processing advantage over neutral words. Cognition. 112(3). 473–481. 380 indexed citations

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Vigliocco, Gabriella, Lotte Meteyard, Mark Andrews, & Stavroula Kousta. (2009). Toward a theory of semantic representation. Language and Cognition. 1(2). 219–247. 236 indexed citations

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Kousta, Stavroula, David Vinson, & Gabriella Vigliocco. (2009). The role of emotional valence in the processing of words. 1 indexed citations

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Andrews, Mark, Stavroula Kousta, Gabriella Vigliocco, & David Vinson. (2009). Happiness is… an abstract word: The role of affect in abstract knowledge representation. eScholarship (California Digital Library). 31(31). 10 indexed citations

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Kousta, Stavroula, David Vinson, & Gabriella Vigliocco. (2008). Investigating linguistic relativity through bilingualism: The case of grammatical gender.. Journal of Experimental Psychology Learning Memory and Cognition. 34(4). 843–858. 59 indexed citations

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