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34
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6833
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10079
National Ranking
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Alan Costall publication distribution in Psychology in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Psychology in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Alan Costall sits on this spectrum.

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31 publications 705+

This scientist: 114 publications — 29th percentile

29% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 705 publications or more.

Alan Costall D-index placement in Psychology in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Psychology scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Alan Costall sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 144+

This scientist: 34 D-Index — 13th percentile

13% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 144 D-Index or more.

Overview

Alan Costall is affiliated with the University of Portsmouth in the United Kingdom. Their research contributions span multiple areas within psychology and related interdisciplinary fields.

The primary fields of study for Costall include psychology, with five publications focusing on subfields such as developmental and educational psychology, clinical psychology, language and linguistics, cognitive neuroscience, and even mechanical engineering.

The main topics covered in their work include:

  • Child and animal learning development
  • Language, discourse, communication strategies
  • Hearing impairment and communication
  • Embodied and extended cognition
  • Design education and practice
  • Rhetoric and communication studies
  • Social and cultural dynamics

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Alan Costall are:

  • "Playful teasing and the emergence of pretence," 2022, Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences
  • "What does the concept of affordances afford?", 2021, Adaptive Behavior
  • "The serial reproduction of an urban myth: revisiting Bartlett's schema theory," 2022, Memory
  • "On Two Aspects Of 'The Gestalt Revolution,'" 2022, Philosophia Scientae

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Costall include:

  • Vasudevi Reddy
  • Emma Williams
  • Rob Withagen
  • James Ost
  • Julie Udell

Costall's work has been published in various journals, notably:

  • Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences
  • Adaptive Behavior
  • Memory
  • Philosophia Scientae

Best Publications

  • Toward a second-person neuroscience.

    Leonhard Schilbach;Bert Timmermans;Vasudevi Reddy;Alan Costall

  • The emotional connotations of color: A qualitative investigation

    Tom Clarke;Alan Costall

  • Taking a closer look at functional play in children with autism

    Emma Williams;Vasudevi Reddy;Alan Costall

  • Michotte's experimental phenomenology of perception

    Georges Thinés;Alan Paul Costall;George Butterworth

  • Against Cognitivism: Alternative Foundations for Cognitive Psychology

    Arthur Still;Alan Costall

  • Crashing memories and reality monitoring: distinguishing between perceptions, imaginations and ‘false memories’

    James Ost;Aldert Vrij;Alan Costall;R. A. Y. Bull

  • Group Differences in the Mutual Gaze of Chimpanzees (Pan Troglodytes).

    Kim A. Bard;Masako Myowa-Yamakoshi;Masaki Tomonaga;Masayuki Tanaka

  • Rethinking the Development of “Nonbasic” Emotions: A Critical Review of Existing Theories☆

    Riccardo Draghi-Lorenz;Vasudevi Reddy;Alan Costall

  • ‘Introspectionism’ and the mythical origins of scientific psychology

    Alan Costall

  • Children's drawings: le dessin enfants

    Georges Henri Luquet;Alan Costall

  • Against theory of mind

    Ivan Leudar;Alan Costall

  • Canonical affordances in context

    Alan Paul Costall

  • ARE THEORIES OF PERCEPTION NECESSARY? A REVIEW OF GIBSON'S THE ECOLOGICAL APPROACH TO VISUAL PERCEPTION

    Costall Ap

  • FROM DARWIN TO WATSON (AND COGNITIVISM) AND BACK AGAIN: THE PRINCIPLE OF ANIMAL-ENVIRONMENT MUTUALITY

    Alan Costall

  • Doing Things with Things : The Design and Use of Everyday Objects

    Alan Costall;O. Dreier

  • The vocal communication of different kinds of smile

    Amy Drahota;Alan Costall;Vasudevi Reddy

  • Jointly structuring triadic spaces of meaning and action: book sharing from 3 months on

    Nicole Rossmanith;Alan Costall;Andreas F. Reichelt;Beatriz López

  • Children with Autism Experience Problems with Both Objects and People.

    Emma Williams;Alan Costall;Vasudevi Reddy

  • On the persistence of the ‘Problem of Other Minds’ in psychology: Chomsky, Grice and theory of mind

    Ivan Leudar;Alan Costall

  • Cognitive Psychology in Question

    Alan Costall;Arthur Still

  • 'introspectionism' and the mythical origins of scientific psychology. Commentary

    Alan Costall;C. D. Frith;H. C. Lau

Frequent Co-Authors

Vasudevi Reddy
Vasudevi Reddy University of Portsmouth
Ray Bull
Ray Bull University of Derby
Chris D. Frith
Chris D. Frith University College London
John F. Stins
John F. Stins Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Leonhard Schilbach
Leonhard Schilbach Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Gary Bente
Gary Bente Michigan State University
Jaan Valsiner
Jaan Valsiner Aalborg University
Tetsuro Matsuzawa
Tetsuro Matsuzawa California Institute of Technology
Kim A. Bard
Kim A. Bard University of Portsmouth
Masaki Tomonaga
Masaki Tomonaga University of Human Environments

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