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Categorization, perception, and language

Last updated July 7, 2026

Rising Stars

New and hot

Rising Stars Researchers

1
Aine Ito
University of Edinburgh
2
Alexei J. Dawes
RIKEN Center for Brain Science
3
Matthias Urban
Laboratoire Dynamique du Langage
4
Nicola Del Maschio
Vita-Salute San Raffaele University
5
Gerlind Große
Max Planck Society
6
Mostafa Abdou
Princeton University
7
Thorsten Sander
University of Duisburg-Essen
8
Alice E. Skelton
University of Sussex
9
Anna Jaglarz
Wrocław University of Science and Technology
10
Johanne Nedergaard
University of Copenhagen

Rising Stars Papers

1
Not Everybody Has an Inner Voice: Behavioral Consequences of Anendophasia
Psychological Science|2024
55 cit.
2
Color as a Key Factor in Creating Sustainable Living Spaces for Seniors
Sustainability|2024
16 cit.
3
Effects of visual diet on colour discrimination and preference
Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences|2024
15 cit.
4
Sandhi-based predictability of pitch accent facilitates word recognition in Kansai Japanese speakers
Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology|2024
7 cit.
5
Emotion-specific vocabulary and its relation to emotion understanding in children and adolescents
Cognition & Emotion|2024
6 cit.
6
Cognate facilitation effect on verb-based semantic prediction in L2 is modulated by L2 proficiency
Bilingualism Language and Cognition|2024
5 cit.
7
Tracing Human Diversity in South America's Southern Cone: Linguistic, Morphometric, and Genetic Perspectives
American Journal of Biological Anthropology|2025
5 cit.
8
Neurocognitive mechanisms of emotional interference in native and foreign languages: evidence from proficient bilinguals
Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience|2024
3 cit.
9
Gradient in grammatical structure of indigenous languages reflects pathway of human expansion in the Americas
Scientific Reports|2025
3 cit.
10
Effects of Task Instructions on Predictive Eye Movements and Word Recognition During Second Language Sentence Comprehension
Language Learning|2024
2 cit.

Emerging Leaders

Gaining momentum

Emerging Leaders Researchers

1
José Antonio Sánchez Fajardo
University of Alicante
2
Yoon Mi Oh
Ajou University
3
Erin Rogers
New York University
4
Shulan Jiao
Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
5
Phillip M. Alday
University of South Australia
6
Siobhán Campbell
The Open University
7
Gakuji Kumagai
Keio University
8
Yumiko Muto
Tamagawa University
9
Sang Ah Lee
Seoul National University
10
Mark T. Harnett
McGovern Institute for Brain Research

Emerging Leaders Papers

1
Contrast coding choices in a decade of mixed models
Journal of Memory and Language|2022
162 cit.
2
Filopodia are a structural substrate for silent synapses in adult neocortex
Nature|2022
101 cit.
3
Social Determinants of Health and Diabetes-Related Distress in Patients With Insulin-Dependent Type 2 Diabetes: Cross-sectional, Mixed Methods Approach
JMIR Formative Research|2022
22 cit.
4
Wearable functional near‐infrared spectroscopy for measuring dissociable activation dynamics of prefrontal cortex subregions during working memory
Human Brain Mapping|2024
19 cit.
5
Hippocampal orchestration of associative and sequential memory networks for episodic retrieval
Cell Reports|2023
18 cit.
6
Coordinated head direction representations in mouse anterodorsal thalamic nucleus and retrosplenial cortex
eLife|2024
17 cit.
7
Integrating Financial Coaching and Referrals into a Smoking Cessation Program for Low-income Smokers: a Randomized Waitlist Control Trial
Journal of General Internal Medicine|2022
15 cit.
8
What’s in a Japanese kawaii ‘cute’ name? A linguistic perspective
Frontiers in Psychology|2022
11 cit.
9
Scene construction processes in the anterior hippocampus during temporal episodic memory retrieval
Hippocampus|2024
9 cit.
10
Domain-General and Domain-Specific Electrophysiological Markers of Cognitive Distance Coding for <i>What</i> , <i>Where</i> , and <i>When</i> Memory Retrieval
Journal of Neuroscience|2023
8 cit.

Current Senior Leaders

Established & currently active

Current Senior Leaders Researchers

1
Laura Johnson
Emory University
2
Susan Dumais
Microsoft (United States)
3
Carolyn Β. Mervis
Rome Foundation
4
Lera Boroditsky
Stanford University
5
Stephen C. Levinson
Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics
6
Dedre Gentner
Northwestern University
7
Asifa Majid
University of Oxford
8
Victor Kuperman
McMaster University
9
Barbara Tversky
Stanford University
10
Charles Spence
University of Oxford

Current Senior Leaders Papers

1
How Many Interviews Are Enough?
Field Methods|2005
19.4k cit.
2
A solution to Plato's problem: The latent semantic analysis theory of acquisition, induction, and representation of knowledge.
Psychological Review|1997
6.1k cit.
3
Family resemblances: Studies in the internal structure of categories
Cognitive Psychology|1975
5.9k cit.
4
Structure‐Mapping: A Theoretical Framework for Analogy*
Cognitive Science|1983
5.1k cit.
5
WEIRD languages have misled us, too [Comment on Henrich et al.]
Max Planck Digital Library|2010
4.1k cit.
6
The myth of language universals: Language diversity and its importance for cognitive science
Behavioral and Brain Sciences|2009
2.6k cit.
7
Categorization of Natural Objects
Annual Review of Psychology|1981
2k cit.
8
Concreteness ratings for 40 thousand generally known English word lemmas
Behavior Research Methods|2013
1.9k cit.
9
Metaphoric structuring: understanding time through spatial metaphors
Cognition|2000
1.8k cit.
10
Does Language Shape Thought?: Mandarin and English Speakers' Conceptions of Time
Cognitive Psychology|2001
1.8k cit.

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