2026 Anthony Chemero: Psychology Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Psychology	31	11047	10341	5759	5260	103	8648

Overview

Anthony Chemero is affiliated with the University of Cincinnati in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of neuroscience and psychology, with key concentration in cognitive neuroscience and social psychology. Other notable subfields include experimental and cognitive psychology, history and philosophy of science, and philosophy.

Their work covers a range of topics, including:

Embodied and Extended Cognition
Action Observation and Synchronization
Neural dynamics and brain function
Philosophy and History of Science
Olfactory and Sensory Function Studies
Complex Systems and Time Series Analysis
Social Representations and Identity

Anthony Chemero has contributed to several academic publications across frequent venues such as:

Physics of Life Reviews
Nature Human Behaviour
Frontiers in Psychology
Adaptive Behavior
Behavioral and Brain Sciences

Among their recent papers are:

The Markov blanket trick: On the scope of the free energy principle and active inference (2021), published in Physics of Life Reviews
Editorial: Enaction and Ecological Psychology: Convergences and Complementarities (2020), published in Frontiers in Psychology
Technology may change cognition without necessarily harming it (2021), published in Nature Human Behaviour
LLMs differ from human cognition because they are not embodied (2023), published in Nature Human Behaviour
Empirical Evidence for Extended Cognitive Systems (2021), published in Cognitive Science

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Anthony Chemero include:

Tim Elmo Feiten
Vicente Raja
Edward Baggs
Kristopher Holland
Michael L. Anderson

Best Publications

Radical Embodied Cognitive Science

Anthony Chemero

2800
Citations
An Outline of a Theory of Affordances

Anthony Chemero

1871
Citations
After the Philosophy of Mind: Replacing Scholasticism with Science*

Anthony Chemero;Michael Silberstein

293
Citations
Phenomenology: An Introduction

Stephan Kaufer;Anthony Chemero

266
Citations
Eroding the Boundaries of Cognition: Implications of Embodiment1

Michael L. Anderson;Michael L. Anderson;Michael J. Richardson;Anthony Chemero;Anthony Chemero

248
Citations
A demonstration of the transition from ready-to-hand to unready-to-hand.

Dobromir G. Dotov;Lin Nie;Anthony Chemero

201
Citations
Complexity and Extended Phenomenological-Cognitive Systems

Michael Silberstein;Anthony Chemero

177
Citations
Improvisation and the self-organization of multiple musical bodies

Ashley E. Walton;Michael J. Richardson;Peter Langland-Hassan;Anthony Chemero

154
Citations
Explanatory Pluralism in Cognitive Science

Rick Dale;Eric Dietrich;Anthony Chemero

149
Citations
Constraints on Localization and Decomposition as Explanatory Strategies in the Biological Sciences

Michael Silberstein;Anthony Chemero

144
Citations
Novel object exploration in mice: not all objects are created equal.

Charles J. Heyser;Anthony Chemero

142
Citations
Radical embodiment in two directions

Edward Baggs;Anthony Chemero

136
Citations
General ecological information supports engagement with affordances for 'higher' cognition.

Jelle P. Bruineberg;Anthony Chemero;Erik Rietveld

133
Citations
Philosophy for the rest of cognitive science.

Nigel Stepp;Anthony Chemero;Michael T. Turvey

131
Citations
Naturalizing Perception Developing the Gibsonian Approach to Perception along Evolutionary Lines

Rob Withagen;Anthony Chemero

127
Citations
Gibsonian Affordances for Roboticists

Anthony Chemero;Michael T. Turvey

121
Citations
Musical creativity and the embodied mind: Exploring the possibilities of 4E cognition and dynamical systems theory

Dylan van der Schyff;Andrea Schiavio;Andrea Schiavio;Ashley Walton;Valerio Velardo

95
Citations
Herd Those Sheep: Emergent Multiagent Coordination and Behavioral-Mode Switching

Patrick Nalepka;Rachel W. Kallen;Anthony Chemero;Elliot Saltzman

79
Citations
Creating Time: Social Collaboration in Music Improvisation

Ashley E. Walton;Auriel Washburn;Peter Langland-Hassan;Anthony Chemero

78
Citations
Events as Changes in the Layout of Affordances

Anthony Chemero;Colin Klein;William Cordeiro

71
Citations
What We Perceive When We Perceive Affordances: Commentary on Michaels (2000) "Information, Perception, and Action"

Anthony Chemero

68
Citations
Affordances and classification: On the significance of a sidebar in James Gibson's last book

Rob Withagen;Anthony Chemero

66
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Michael J. Richardson Macquarie University

Michael T. Turvey University of Connecticut

Kevin Shockley University of Cincinnati

Rick Dale University of California, Los Angeles

Ezequiel A. Di Paolo University of the Basque Country

James E. Cutting Cornell University

Maggie Shiffrar Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

Shaun Gallagher University of Memphis

Laurie Beth Feldman University at Albany, State University of New York

Daniel C. Richardson University College London

External Links

Personal website of Anthony Chemero

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