Susan Carey

32.9k total citations · 8 hit papers
167 papers, 20.3k citations indexed

About

Susan Carey is a scholar working on Developmental and Educational Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience and Statistics and Probability. According to data from OpenAlex, Susan Carey has authored 167 papers receiving a total of 20.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 110 papers in Developmental and Educational Psychology, 44 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience and 44 papers in Statistics and Probability. Recurrent topics in Susan Carey's work include Child and Animal Learning Development (91 papers), Cognitive and developmental aspects of mathematical skills (44 papers) and Language Development and Disorders (21 papers). Susan Carey is often cited by papers focused on Child and Animal Learning Development (91 papers), Cognitive and developmental aspects of mathematical skills (44 papers) and Language Development and Disorders (21 papers). Susan Carey collaborates with scholars based in United States, Australia and United Kingdom. Susan Carey's co-authors include Rhea Diamond, Lisa Feigenson, Fei Xu, Elizabeth S. Spelke, Michael A. Hauser, Rebecca Saxe, Elsa J. Bartlett, Carol L. Smith, Mathieu Le Corre and Deborah Zaitchik and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and American Psychologist.

In The Last Decade

Susan Carey

164 papers receiving 18.9k citations

Hit Papers

Why faces are and are not special: An effect of expertise. 1977 2026 1993 2009 1986 1986 2000 1978 1977 400 800 1.2k
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.

  1. Why faces are and are not special: An effect of expertise.
    1986 1.3k citations Rhea Diamond, Susan Carey profile →
  2. Why faces are and are not special: An effect of expertise.
    1986 1.1k citations Rhea Diamond, Susan Carey profile →
  3. The Origin of Concepts
    2000 914 citations Susan Carey profile →
  4. Acquiring a Single New Word
    1978 640 citations Susan Carey et al. profile →
  5. From Piecemeal to Configurational Representation of Faces
    1977 624 citations Susan Carey, Rhea Diamond profile →
  6. One, two, three, four, nothing more: An investigation of the conceptual sources of the verbal counting principles
    2007 510 citations Mathieu Le Corre, Susan Carey Cognition profile →
  7. Consequences of “Minimal” Group Affiliations in Children
    2011 428 citations Yarrow Dunham, Susan Carey et al. Child Development profile →
  8. The child as word learner
    1978 400 citations Susan Carey profile →

Peers

Susan Carey
Elizabeth S. Spelke United States
Linda B. Smith United States
Max Coltheart Australia
Mark H. Johnson United Kingdom
Martha J. Farah United States
Janellen Huttenlocher United States
Uta Frith United Kingdom
Susan Goldin‐Meadow United States
Annette Karmiloff‐Smith United Kingdom
Nora S. Newcombe United States
Elizabeth S. Spelke United States
Susan Carey
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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Susan Carey

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Kominsky, Jonathan F. & Susan Carey. (2018). Early-Developing Causal Perception is Sensitive to Multiple Physical Constraints.. Cognitive Science. 3 indexed citations
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Hochmann, Jean‐Rémy, Susan Carey, & Jacques Mehler. (2018). Infants learn a rule predicated on the relation same but fail to simultaneously learn a rule predicated on the relation different. Cognition. 177. 49–57. 25 indexed citations
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Carey, Susan. (2011). Concept innateness, concept continuity, and bootstrapping. Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 34(3). 152–162. 6 indexed citations
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Carey, Susan. (2011). Précis of The Origin of Concepts. Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 34(3). 113–124. 97 indexed citations
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Muentener, Paul & Susan Carey. (2010). Infants’ causal representations of state change events. Cognitive Psychology. 61(2). 63–86. 82 indexed citations
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Carey, Susan. (2010). Beyond Fast Mapping. Language Learning and Development. 6(3). 184–205. 101 indexed citations
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Li, Peggy, Yarrow Dunham, & Susan Carey. (2009). Of substance: The nature of language effects on entity construal. Cognitive Psychology. 58(4). 487–524. 62 indexed citations
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Barner, David, et al.. (2007). On the relation between the acquisition of singular–plural morpho‐syntax and the conceptual distinction between one and more than one. Developmental Science. 10(3). 365–373. 90 indexed citations
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Corre, Mathieu Le & Susan Carey. (2007). One, two, three, four, nothing more: An investigation of the conceptual sources of the verbal counting principles. Cognition. 105(2). 395–438. 510 indexed citations breakdown →
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Lombrozo, Tania & Susan Carey. (2005). Functional explanation and the function of explanation. Cognition. 99(2). 167–204. 185 indexed citations
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Vandewalle, Gilles, et al.. (2005). Re-visiting the competence/performance debate in the acquisition of the counting principles. Cognitive Psychology. 52(2). 130–169. 225 indexed citations
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Astuti, Rita, et al.. (2004). I. Introduction. Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development. 69(3). 1–24. 53 indexed citations
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Astuti, Rita, Gregg E. A. Solomon, & Susan Carey. (2004). Abstract. Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development. 69(3). vii–viii. 193 indexed citations
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Xu, Fei, et al.. (1999). Infants' ability to use object kind information for object individuation. Cognition. 70(2). 137–166. 90 indexed citations
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Rhodes, Gillian, et al.. (1998). Coding spatial variations in faces and simple shapes: a test of two models. Vision Research. 38(15-16). 2307–2321. 39 indexed citations
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Carey, Susan. (1997). Do constraints on word meanings reflect prelinguistic cognitive architecture. 4(1). 35–58. 4 indexed citations
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Carey, Susan. (1992). Becoming a face expert. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 335(1273). 95–103. 250 indexed citations
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Sodian, Beate, Deborah Zaitchik, & Susan Carey. (1991). Young Children's Differentiation of Hypothetical Beliefs from Evidence. Child Development. 62(4). 753–753. 129 indexed citations
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Carey, Susan. (1984). 15 Nonfiction Books for Developing Adult Readers.. The Journal of Reading. 27(6). 1 indexed citations
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Carey, Susan, et al.. (1978). Upright and Inverted Faces: The Right Hemisphere Knows the Difference. Cortex. 14(3). 411–419. 158 indexed citations

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