William F. Brewer

14.9k total citations · 4 hit papers
89 papers, 8.7k citations indexed

About

William F. Brewer is a scholar working on Artificial Intelligence, Developmental and Educational Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, William F. Brewer has authored 89 papers receiving a total of 8.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 27 papers in Artificial Intelligence, 26 papers in Developmental and Educational Psychology and 23 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in William F. Brewer's work include Science Education and Pedagogy (16 papers), Language, Metaphor, and Cognition (15 papers) and Memory Processes and Influences (11 papers). William F. Brewer is often cited by papers focused on Science Education and Pedagogy (16 papers), Language, Metaphor, and Cognition (15 papers) and Memory Processes and Influences (11 papers). William F. Brewer collaborates with scholars based in United States, Greece and Netherlands. William F. Brewer's co-authors include Stella Vosniadou, Clark A. Chinn, Edward Lichtenstein, Gerald DeJong, Ann L. Brown, Brian H. Ross, Edward E. Smith, Allan Collins, Rand J. Spiro and Lawrence W. Barsalou and has published in prestigious journals such as Child Development, Developmental Psychology and Cognition.

In The Last Decade

William F. Brewer

88 papers receiving 7.3k 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.

Similarity and Analogical Reasoning

1989 1.6k citations Stella Vosniadou, Lance J. Rips et al. Cambridge University Press eBooks profile →
Mental models of the earth: A study of conceptual change in childhood

1992 1.1k citations Stella Vosniadou, William F. Brewer profile →
The Role of Anomalous Data in Knowledge Acquisition: A Theoretical Framework and Implications for Science Instruction

1993 992 citations Clark A. Chinn, William F. Brewer profile →
Role of schemata in memory for places

1981 527 citations William F. Brewer et al. profile →

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

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Accuracy and completeness of autobiographical memory: evidence from a wearable camera study 2024 ·Memory ·Jason R. Finley, William F. Brewer	4
2	The effects of end-of-day picture review and a sensor-based picture capture procedure on autobiographical memory using SenseCam 2011 ·Memory ·Jason R. Finley, William F. Brewer, Aaron S. Benjamin	33
3	The nature and functions of schemas 2010 ·Illinois Digital Environment for Access to Learning and Scholarship (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) ·William F. Brewer, Glenn V. Nakamura	80
4	The role of unconscious memory errors in judgments of confidence for sentence recognition 2009 ·Memory & Cognition ·Cristina Sampaio, William F. Brewer	23
5	Perceptual symbols: The power and limitations of a theory of dynamic imagery and structured frames 1999 ·Behavioral and Brain Sciences ·William F. Brewer	3
6	American Society of Animal Science 89th annual meeting. 1997. Abstracts. 1997 ·Journal of Animal Science ·Stacy Birch, William F. Brewer	0
7	Reports of Mental Imagery in Retrieval from Long-Term Memory 1996 ·Consciousness and Cognition ·William F. Brewer, John R. Pani	35
8	Charles Egerton Osgood: 1916-1991. 1994 ·PubMed ·William F. Brewer	1
9	The Role of Anomalous Data in Knowledge Acquisition: A Theoretical Framework and Implications for Science Instruction. Technical Report No. 583. 1993 ·Clark A. Chinn, William F. Brewer	1
10	Affect and Accuracy in Recall 1992 ·Cambridge University Press eBooks ·Eugene Winograd, Ulric Neisser, Steen F. Larsen, John Neil Bohannon, Amye R. Warren, David B. Pillemer, Paul E. Gold, Daniel Reisberg, Sven‐Åke Christianson, Elizabeth F. Loftus, Michael McCloskey, David C. Rubin, William F. Brewer	224
11	A Cross-Cultural Investigation of Children's Conceptions about the Earth, the Sun and the Moon: Greek and American Data. Technical Report No. 497. 1990 ·Stella Vosniadou, William F. Brewer	6
12	Similarity and Analogical Reasoning breakdown → 1989 ·Cambridge University Press eBooks ·Stella Vosniadou, Lance J. Rips, Edward E. Smith, Lawrence W. Barsalou, Ryszard S. Michalski, Linda B. Smith, Douglas L. Medin, Dedre Gentner, Keith J. Holyoak, John R. Anderson, David E. Rumelhart, P. N. Johnson‐Laird, Stephen Palmer, Gerald DeJong, Ann L. Brown, Brian H. Ross, John D. Bransford, Rand J. Spiro, William F. Brewer, Allan Collins	1600
13	Autobiographical Memory 1986 ·Cambridge University Press eBooks ·David C. Rubin, John A. Robinson, William F. Brewer, Marigold Linton, Ulric Neisser, Craig R. Barclay, Brian J. Reiser, Joseph M. Fitzgerald, Norman Brown, Scott Wetzler, Alan Baddeley, Nelson Butters, Herbert F. Crovitz	458
14	Use of plan schemata in the recall and recognition of goal-directed actions. 1983 ·Journal of Experimental Psychology Learning Memory and Cognition ·William F. Brewer, (unknown)	77
15	Plan understanding, narrative comprehension, and story schemas 1982 ·National Conference on Artificial Intelligence ·William F. Brewer	4
16	Comprehension and memory of the literal and figurative meaning of proverbs 1980 ·Journal of Psycholinguistic Research ·J. Kathryn Bock, William F. Brewer	13
17	Alfred Binet on memory for ideas. 1978 ·Thomas J. Thieman, William F. Brewer	16
18	Memory for the pragmatic implications of sentences 1977 ·Memory & Cognition ·William F. Brewer	123
19	Recall of logical and pragmatic implications in sentences with dichotomous and continuous antonyms 1975 ·Memory & Cognition ·William F. Brewer, Edward Lichtenstein	22
20	Memory for ideas: Synonym substitution 1975 ·Memory & Cognition ·William F. Brewer	46

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