Susan E. Brennan

13.9k total citations · 2 hit papers
66 papers, 6.4k citations indexed

About

Susan E. Brennan is a scholar working on Artificial Intelligence, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and Language and Linguistics. According to data from OpenAlex, Susan E. Brennan has authored 66 papers receiving a total of 6.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 36 papers in Artificial Intelligence, 31 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and 30 papers in Language and Linguistics. Recurrent topics in Susan E. Brennan's work include Speech and dialogue systems (34 papers), Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (26 papers) and Language, Metaphor, and Cognition (21 papers). Susan E. Brennan is often cited by papers focused on Speech and dialogue systems (34 papers), Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (26 papers) and Language, Metaphor, and Cognition (21 papers). Susan E. Brennan collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and Switzerland. Susan E. Brennan's co-authors include Herbert H. Clark, Michael F. Schober, Joy E. Hanna, Tanya Kraljic, Moyra Williams, Carl Pollard, Heather Bortfeld, Gillian Rhodes, Susan Carey and Alexia Galati and has published in prestigious journals such as Psychological Science, Cognition and Behavioral and Brain Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Susan E. Brennan

64 papers receiving 5.8k citations

Hit Papers

Conceptual pacts and lexical choice in conversation. 1996 2026 2006 2016 1996 1996 250 500 750
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. Conceptual pacts and lexical choice in conversation.
    1996 767 citations Susan E. Brennan, Herbert H. Clark Journal of Experimental Psychology Learning Memory and Cognition profile →
  2. Conceptual pacts and lexical choice in conversation.
    1996 634 citations Susan E. Brennan, Herbert H. Clark Journal of Experimental Psychology Learning Memory and Cognition profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Susan E. Brennan United States 37 2.7k 2.7k 1.8k 1.7k 1.3k 66 6.4k
Emiel Krahmer Netherlands 36 3.0k 1.1× 1.7k 0.6× 874 0.5× 716 0.4× 1.1k 0.8× 359 5.8k
Simon Garrod United Kingdom 39 2.6k 1.0× 3.8k 1.4× 2.3k 1.3× 3.8k 2.2× 2.8k 2.1× 87 9.4k
Frank Keller United Kingdom 36 3.0k 1.1× 1.1k 0.4× 1.1k 0.6× 1.9k 1.1× 1.4k 1.1× 148 6.1k
Robert M. Krauss United States 43 1.4k 0.5× 2.7k 1.0× 1.8k 1.0× 1.1k 0.6× 2.3k 1.7× 68 6.9k
Michael C. Frank United States 44 1.6k 0.6× 1.9k 0.7× 811 0.5× 2.2k 1.2× 3.7k 2.8× 243 7.8k
Adam Kendon United States 31 951 0.4× 3.5k 1.3× 3.2k 1.8× 999 0.6× 3.4k 2.6× 74 8.3k
Fernanda Ferreira United States 47 1.9k 0.7× 2.7k 1.0× 2.0k 1.1× 6.6k 3.8× 4.9k 3.7× 147 9.0k
Dominic W. Massaro United States 57 1.7k 0.6× 5.4k 2.0× 465 0.3× 5.6k 3.2× 3.2k 2.4× 255 11.3k
Michael J. Spivey United States 34 633 0.2× 2.5k 0.9× 446 0.2× 3.7k 2.1× 2.1k 1.6× 117 6.0k
Jon Oberlander United Kingdom 37 2.4k 0.9× 861 0.3× 458 0.3× 635 0.4× 883 0.7× 143 4.7k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Colle, Brian A., et al.. (2023). Risk Perception and Preparation for Storm Surge Flooding: A Virtual Workshop with Visualization and Stakeholder Interaction. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. 104(7). E1232–E1240. 3 indexed citations
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Brennan, Susan E., et al.. (2013). Entrainment on the Move and in the Lab: The Walking Around Corpus. Cognitive Science. 35(35). 12 indexed citations
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Kuhlen, Anna K. & Susan E. Brennan. (2012). Language in dialogue: when confederates might be hazardous to your data. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review. 20(1). 54–72. 112 indexed citations
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Neider, Mark B., Xin Chen, Christopher A. Dickinson, Susan E. Brennan, & Gregory J. Zelinsky. (2010). Coordinating spatial referencing using shared gaze. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review. 17(5). 718–724. 90 indexed citations
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Brennan, Susan E. & Joy E. Hanna. (2009). Partner‐Specific Adaptation in Dialog. Topics in Cognitive Science. 1(2). 274–291. 158 indexed citations
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Brennan, Susan E., et al.. (2008). Collaborative recall in face-to-face and electronic groups. Memory. 16(3). 245–261. 38 indexed citations
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Brennan, Susan E., Xin Chen, Christopher A. Dickinson, Mark B. Neider, & Gregory J. Zelinsky. (2007). Coordinating cognition: The costs and benefits of shared gaze during collaborative search. Cognition. 106(3). 1465–1477. 252 indexed citations
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Kraljic, Tanya, Susan E. Brennan, & Arthur G. Samuel. (2007). Accommodating variation: Dialects, idiolects, and speech processing. Cognition. 107(1). 54–81. 139 indexed citations
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Brennan, Susan E.. (2007). Caricature Generator: The Dynamic Exaggeration of Faces by Computer. Leonardo. 40(4). 392–400. 58 indexed citations
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Holte, Lenore, et al.. (2006). Issues in the Evaluation of Infants and Young Children Who Are Suspected of or Who Are Deaf-Blind. Infants & Young Children. 19(3). 213–227. 16 indexed citations
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Brennan, Susan E., et al.. (2004). Two steps forward, one step back: Partner-specific effects in a psychology of dialogue. Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 27(2). 192–193. 6 indexed citations
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Kraljic, Tanya & Susan E. Brennan. (2004). Prosodic disambiguation of syntactic structure: For the speaker or for the addressee?. Cognitive Psychology. 50(2). 194–231. 125 indexed citations
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Brennan, Susan E., et al.. (2002). Addressees' needs influence speakers' early syntactic choices. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review. 9(3). 550–557. 120 indexed citations
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Brennan, Susan E., Alain Giboin, & David Traum. (1999). Psychological models of communication in collaborative systems : papers from the 1999 AAAI Fall Symposium, November 5-7, North Falmouth, Massachusetts. 3 indexed citations
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Brennan, Susan E., et al.. (1999). Why do electronic conversations seem less polite? the costs and benefits of hedging. ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes. 24(2). 227–235. 11 indexed citations
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Brennan, Susan E. & Herbert H. Clark. (1996). Conceptual pacts and lexical choice in conversation.. Journal of Experimental Psychology Learning Memory and Cognition. 22(6). 1482–1493. 767 indexed citations breakdown →
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Brennan, Susan E.. (1996). LEXICAL ENTRAINMENT IN SPONTANEOUS DIALOG. 141 indexed citations
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Brennan, Susan E.. (1990). Seeking and providing evidence for mutual understanding. 63 indexed citations
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Brennan, Susan E., et al.. (1989). Default Risk, Mortality Rates, and the Performance of Corporate Bonds. 13 indexed citations
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Brennan, Susan E., et al.. (1987). A centering approach to pronouns. 155–162. 363 indexed citations

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