Terry Regier

7.8k total citations
72 papers, 3.8k citations indexed

About

Terry Regier is a scholar working on Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Artificial Intelligence and Cultural Studies. According to data from OpenAlex, Terry Regier has authored 72 papers receiving a total of 3.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 45 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, 12 papers in Artificial Intelligence and 12 papers in Cultural Studies. Recurrent topics in Terry Regier's work include Categorization, perception, and language (44 papers), Language, Metaphor, and Cognition (36 papers) and Multisensory perception and integration (21 papers). Terry Regier is often cited by papers focused on Categorization, perception, and language (44 papers), Language, Metaphor, and Cognition (36 papers) and Multisensory perception and integration (21 papers). Terry Regier collaborates with scholars based in United States, Australia and Netherlands. Terry Regier's co-authors include Paul Kay, Charles Kemp, Naveen Khetarpal, Richard B. Ivry, Aubrey L. Gilbert, Laura A. Carlson, Yang Xu, Richard S. Cook, Gerd Gigerenzer and Anna Franklin and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Psychological Bulletin.

In The Last Decade

Terry Regier

68 papers receiving 3.5k citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Terry Regier United States 32 2.4k 885 770 639 573 72 3.8k
Gary Lupyan United States 39 2.8k 1.2× 1.0k 1.2× 505 0.7× 1.3k 2.0× 1.6k 2.8× 141 5.0k
Penny Boyes-Braem United States 5 1.2k 0.5× 698 0.8× 613 0.8× 1.6k 2.5× 1.1k 1.9× 8 3.6k
Max M. Louwerse United States 31 1.1k 0.4× 841 1.0× 1.9k 2.5× 1.6k 2.5× 673 1.2× 147 4.4k
Rafael Núñez United States 26 1.6k 0.7× 577 0.7× 236 0.3× 1.0k 1.6× 601 1.0× 60 3.6k
Daniel C. Richardson United Kingdom 33 1.6k 0.7× 1.6k 1.8× 440 0.6× 1.1k 1.8× 2.1k 3.7× 82 4.2k
Léonard Talmy United States 15 2.6k 1.1× 351 0.4× 638 0.8× 661 1.0× 289 0.5× 34 4.1k
Barbara C. Malt United States 31 1.5k 0.6× 408 0.5× 469 0.6× 1.1k 1.8× 648 1.1× 74 2.7k
Michael Ramscar Germany 26 1.2k 0.5× 363 0.4× 775 1.0× 1.4k 2.1× 1.2k 2.0× 91 3.0k
Fei Xu United States 43 1.2k 0.5× 895 1.0× 872 1.1× 4.4k 6.8× 1.8k 3.2× 112 6.7k
Michael J. Spivey United States 34 2.5k 1.0× 1.4k 1.6× 633 0.8× 2.1k 3.3× 3.7k 6.5× 117 6.0k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Terry Regier

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Terry Regier

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

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Zaslavsky, Noga, et al.. (2022). The evolution of color naming reflects pressure for efficiency: Evidence from the recent past. 7(2). 184–199. 9 indexed citations
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Zaslavsky, Noga, et al.. (2019). Evolution and efficiency in color naming: The case of Nafaanra.. Cognitive Science. 68. 1 indexed citations
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Regier, Terry, et al.. (2019). Efficient use of ambiguity in an early writing system: Evidence from Sumerian cuneiform.. Cognitive Science. 422–427. 1 indexed citations
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Regier, Terry & Yang Xu. (2017). The Sapir‐Whorf hypothesis and inference under uncertainty. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Cognitive Science. 8(6). e1464–e1464. 29 indexed citations
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Regier, Terry, et al.. (2016). A computational investigation of the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis: The case of spatial relations. Radboud Repository (Radboud University). 2231–2236. 3 indexed citations
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Regier, Terry, et al.. (2015). An adaptive cue combination model of spatial reorientation.. Cognitive Science. 1 indexed citations
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Regier, Terry, et al.. (2014). Testing a rational account of pragmatic reasoning: The case of spatial language. Cognitive Science. 36(36). 5 indexed citations
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Regier, Terry, et al.. (2014). Language evolution in the lab tends toward informative communication. Cognitive Science. 36(36). 10 indexed citations
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Regier, Terry, et al.. (2013). Individuals recapitulate the proposed evolutionary development of spatial lexicons. Cognitive Science. 35(35). 1 indexed citations
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Khetarpal, Naveen, et al.. (2013). Spatial terms across languages support near-optimal communication: Evidence from Peruvian Amazonia, and computational analyses. Cognitive Science. 35(35). 764–769. 9 indexed citations
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Abbott, Joshua T., Terry Regier, & Thomas L. Griffiths. (2012). Predicting focal colors with a rational model of representativeness. Cognitive Science. 34(34). 4 indexed citations
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Khetarpal, Naveen, Asifa Majid, & Terry Regier. (2009). Spatial terms reflect near-optimal spatial categories. eScholarship (California Digital Library). 31(31). 2396–2401. 14 indexed citations
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Franklin, Anna, et al.. (2008). Lateralization of categorical perception of color changes with color term acquisition. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 105(47). 18221–18225. 101 indexed citations
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Regier, Terry. (2007). Color naming and the effect of language on perception. Color and Imaging Conference. 15(1). 1–2. 2 indexed citations
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Regier, Terry, Paul Kay, & Naveen Khetarpal. (2007). Color Naming is Near Optimal. eScholarship (California Digital Library). 29(29).
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Perfors, Andrew, et al.. (2006). Poverty of the Stimulus? A Rational Approach. Adelaide Research & Scholarship (AR&S) (University of Adelaide). 28(28). 62 indexed citations
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Cook, Richard S., Paul Kay, & Terry Regier. (2005). Universal Foci and Varying Boundaries in Linguistic Color Categories. eScholarship (California Digital Library). 27(27). 8 indexed citations
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Regier, Terry & Mingyu Zheng. (2003). An Attentional Constraint on Spatial Meaning. eScholarship (California Digital Library). 25(25). 14 indexed citations
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Regier, Terry, et al.. (2001). The Emergence of Words. eScholarship (California Digital Library). 23(23). 11 indexed citations
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Regier, Terry. (1991). Line labeling and junction labeling: a coupled system for image interpretation. International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence. 1305–1310. 1 indexed citations

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