Timothy J. O’Donnell

1.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
20 papers, 472 citations indexed

About

Timothy J. O’Donnell is a scholar working on Artificial Intelligence, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, Timothy J. O’Donnell has authored 20 papers receiving a total of 472 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 10 papers in Artificial Intelligence, 5 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and 4 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in Timothy J. O’Donnell's work include Natural Language Processing Techniques (9 papers), Language and cultural evolution (4 papers) and Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation (4 papers). Timothy J. O’Donnell is often cited by papers focused on Natural Language Processing Techniques (9 papers), Language and cultural evolution (4 papers) and Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation (4 papers). Timothy J. O’Donnell collaborates with scholars based in Canada, United States and Germany. Timothy J. O’Donnell's co-authors include Joshua K. Hartshorne, Mariela Jennings, Manvir Singh, Jan Simson, Rhea M. Howard, Max M. Krasnow, Constance M. Bainbridge, Nori Jacoby, Dean Knox and Steven Pinker and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Nature Communications and Cognition.

In The Last Decade

Timothy J. O’Donnell

19 papers receiving 460 citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Universality and diversity in human song

2019 266 citations Samuel A. Mehr, Manvir Singh et al. Science profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Timothy J. O’Donnell Canada	9	243	127	110	84	74	20	472
Christophe Coupé France	11	215 0.9×	275 2.2×	45 0.4×	26 0.3×	162 2.2×	39	649
Maurício Martins Austria	14	285 1.2×	103 0.8×	25 0.2×	126 1.5×	41 0.6×	28	515
Jan Simson United States	5	203 0.8×	82 0.6×	90 0.8×	83 1.0×	13 0.2×	7	348
Gaye Soley Türkiye	9	221 0.9×	80 0.6×	84 0.8×	92 1.1×	6 0.1×	18	360
Aaron D. Mitchel United States	10	207 0.9×	217 1.7×	39 0.4×	34 0.4×	52 0.7×	18	423
Egidio Marsico France	8	172 0.7×	223 1.8×	42 0.4×	15 0.2×	119 1.6×	20	416
François Pellegrino France	16	333 1.4×	477 3.8×	213 1.9×	24 0.3×	370 5.0×	59	975
Mariela Jennings United States	6	181 0.7×	86 0.7×	86 0.8×	71 0.8×	9 0.1×	11	376
James D. Harnsberger United States	14	154 0.6×	446 3.5×	161 1.5×	60 0.7×	265 3.6×	32	738
Judith Rosenhouse Israel	12	91 0.4×	130 1.0×	100 0.9×	16 0.2×	89 1.2×	52	396

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20 of 20 papers shown

O’Donnell, Timothy J., et al.. (2025). Information Locality as an Inductive Bias for Neural Language Models. 27995–28013. 1 indexed citations

Ellis, Kevin, Adam Albright, Armando Solar-Lezama, Joshua B. Tenenbaum, & Timothy J. O’Donnell. (2022). Synthesizing theories of human language with Bayesian program induction. Nature Communications. 13(1). 5024–5024. 10 indexed citations

Cheung, Jackie Chi Kit, et al.. (2022). Characterizing Idioms: Conventionality and Contingency. Proceedings of the 60th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers). 4024–4037. 2 indexed citations

O’Donnell, Timothy J., et al.. (2020). The jazz Harmony Treebank. DiVA at Umeå University (Umeå University). 207–215. 1 indexed citations

Morita, Takashi & Timothy J. O’Donnell. (2020). Statistical Evidence for Learnable Lexical Subclasses in Japanese. Linguistic Inquiry. 53(1). 87–120. 1 indexed citations

Tan, Shawn, Yikang Shen, Alessandro Sordoni, Aaron Courville, & Timothy J. O’Donnell. (2020). Recursive Top-Down Production for Sentence Generation with Latent Trees. 2291–2307. 1 indexed citations

Mehr, Samuel A., Manvir Singh, Dean Knox, et al.. (2019). Universality and diversity in human song. Science. 366(6468). 266 indexed citations breakdown →

Hartshorne, Joshua K., Joshua R. de Leeuw, Noah D. Goodman, Mariela Jennings, & Timothy J. O’Donnell. (2019). A thousand studies for the price of one: Accelerating psychological science with Pushkin. Behavior Research Methods. 51(4). 1782–1803. 25 indexed citations

Zuidema, Willem, Robert M. French, Kevin Ellis, et al.. (2019). Five Ways in Which Computational Modeling Can Help Advance Cognitive Science: Lessons From Artificial Grammar Learning. Topics in Cognitive Science. 12(3). 925–941. 7 indexed citations

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O’Donnell, Timothy J., et al.. (2019). Harmonic Syntax in Time: Rhythm Improves Grammatical Models of Harmony. Infoscience (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne). 335–342. 5 indexed citations

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Rohrmeier, Martin, et al.. (2018). A Generalized Parsing Framework for Generative Models of Harmonic Syntax. Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research). 152–159. 9 indexed citations

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Futrell, Richard, Adam Albright, Peter Graff, & Timothy J. O’Donnell. (2017). A Generative Model of Phonotactics. Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics. 5. 73–86. 16 indexed citations

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Hartshorne, Joshua K., et al.. (2016). Psych verbs, the linking problem, and the acquisition of language. Cognition. 157. 268–288. 8 indexed citations

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Hartshorne, Joshua K., Timothy J. O’Donnell, & Joshua B. Tenenbaum. (2015). The causes and consequences explicit in verbs. Language Cognition and Neuroscience. 30(6). 716–734. 33 indexed citations

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O’Donnell, Timothy J.. (2015). Productivity and Reuse in Language. The MIT Press eBooks. 50 indexed citations

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O’Connor, Jillian J.M., Paul J. Fraccaro, Katarzyna Pisanski, et al.. (2014). Social dialect and men's voice pitch influence women's mate preferences. Evolution and Human Behavior. 35(5). 368–375. 11 indexed citations

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O’Donnell, Timothy J., et al.. (2011). Storage and computation in syntax: Evidence from relative clause priming. Cognitive Science. 33(33). 1 indexed citations

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Hartshorne, Joshua K., et al.. (2010). Linking meaning to language: linguistic universals and variation. eScholarship (California Digital Library). 32(32). 4 indexed citations

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Kinney, Hannah C., James J. Filiano, Susan F. Assmann, et al.. (1998). Tritiated-naloxone binding to brainstem opioid receptors in the sudden infant death syndrome. Journal of the Autonomic Nervous System. 69(2-3). 156–163. 20 indexed citations

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Goodsell, David S., Teresa A. Larsen, & Timothy J. O’Donnell. (1995). 1994 Molecular Graphics Art Show and Video Show. Journal of Molecular Graphics. 13(4). 223–234. 1 indexed citations

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