Steven Pinker

45.0k citations
186 papers · 23.6k indexed · 15 hit papers · h-index 59

Steven Pinker

167 papers receiving 20.1k citations

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Steven Pinker
Comparison fields: 5 of 214
  • Developmental and Educational Psychology 8.5k
  • Language and Linguistics 4.8k
  • Cultural Studies 3.7k
  • Experimental and Cognitive Psychology 5.6k
  • Cognitive Neuroscience 7.5k
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The 25 scholars most cited alongside Steven Pinker, linked wherever they have co-authored with each other. Click a name or a connecting line to browse the papers they share.

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All Works

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1
Universality and diversity in human songbreakdown →
2019266
2
Everybody lies : what the Internet can tell us about who we really are
201820
3
The better angels of our nature : a history of violence and humanity
2012113
4
The better angels of our nature : the decline of violence in history and its causes
2011158
5
The Lessons of the Ashkenazim: Groups and Genes
20063
6
Sniffing Out the Gay Gene
20050
7
College Makeover: The matrix, revisited
20051
8
La tabla rasa : la negación moderna de la naturaleza humana
200312
9
Cómo funciona la mente
200019
10
Life in the Fourth Millennium
20002
11
The Irregular Verbs
20002
12
Racist Language, Real and Imagined
19991
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The Brain's Versatile Toolbox.
19971
14 1996121
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Der Sprachinstinkt : wie der Geist die Sprache bildet
19961
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The language instinct : the new science of language and mind
1995300
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El instinto del lenguaje : cómo crea el lenguaje la mente
19959
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Generalizations of regular and irregular morphology
199315
19 199223
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Some evidence that irregular forms are retrieved from memory but regular forms are rule generated
199052

About Steven Pinker

Steven Pinker is a scholar working on Developmental and Educational Psychology, Cultural Studies and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, having authored 186 papers that have together received 23.6k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Language Development and Disorders (23 papers), Language and cultural evolution (19 papers), Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation (18 papers), Child and Animal Learning Development (15 papers), Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism (14 papers), Reading and Literacy Development (14 papers), Spatial Cognition and Navigation (12 papers) and Categorization, perception, and language (10 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Developmental and Educational Psychology (8.5k citations), Language and Linguistics (4.8k citations) and Cultural Studies (3.7k citations). Steven Pinker has collaborated with scholars based in United States, Canada and Israel. Frequent co-authors include Ellen Bialystok, Paul Bloom, Alan Prince, Michael T. Ullman, Ray Jackendoff, Michael J. Tarr, Nolan Miller, Gerda Oldham, Michelle Hollander and Sandeep Prasada. Their work appears in journals such as Behavioral and Brain Sciences, Cognition, Science, Journal of Experimental Psychology Learning Memory and Cognition and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

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