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Evan Thompson 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 Evan Thompson sits on this spectrum.

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31 publications 705+

This scientist: 135 publications — 41st percentile

41% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Evan Thompson 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 Evan Thompson sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 144+

This scientist: 53 D-Index — 59th percentile

59% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Evan Thompson is affiliated with the University of British Columbia in Canada. Their research spans multiple disciplines, chiefly in neuroscience and the arts and humanities, with a focus on cognitive neuroscience and related subfields.

Their work addresses several interconnected topics including:

  • Embodied and Extended Cognition
  • Indian and Buddhist Studies
  • Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation
  • Action Observation and Synchronization
  • Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment
  • Philosophy and History of Science
  • Philosophy and Theoretical Science

Frequent coauthors in their recent research include:

  • Alva Noë
  • Sally Prior
  • Anke Brüning-Richardson
  • Ezequiel A. Di Paolo
  • Randall D. Beer

Evan Thompson regularly publishes in a variety of venues. The most recurrent journals and conferences for their work are:

  • Philosophy and the Mind Sciences
  • Journal of Consciousness Studies
  • Seminars in Cell and Developmental Biology
  • Trends in Cognitive Sciences
  • Sophia

Their recent papers demonstrate the breadth of these interests, with notable titles including:

  • "Could All Life Be Sentient?" (2022) published in the Journal of Consciousness Studies
  • "Laying down a forking path: Tensions between enaction and the free energy principle" (2022) published in Philosophy and the Mind Sciences

Other significant recent research in related fields, though authored by collaborators, includes works such as:

  • "Brain organoids, consciousness, ethics and moral status" (2022) in Seminars in Cell and Developmental Biology
  • "Daydreaming as spontaneous immersive imagination: A phenomenological analysis" (2024) in Philosophy and the Mind Sciences
  • "LLMs don't know anything: reply to Yildirim and Paul" (2024) in Trends in Cognitive Sciences

The scholar's primary research areas extend into interdisciplinary studies, merging insights from cognitive neuroscience with philosophical analysis, religious studies, and social psychology.

Best Publications

  • The Embodied Mind: Cognitive Science and Human Experience

    Francisco J. Varela;Evan Thompson;Eleanor Rosch

  • The Embodied Mind

    Francisco J. Varela;Evan Thompson;Eleanor Rosch

  • Mind in Life: Biology, Phenomenology, and the Sciences of Mind

    Evan Thompson

  • Radical embodiment: neural dynamics and consciousness.

    Evan Thompson;Francisco J. Varela

  • De cuerpo presente: las ciencias cognitivas y la experiencia humana

    Francisco J. Varela;Eleanor Rosch;Evan Thompson

  • The Embodied Mind: Cognitive Science and Human Experience

    Daniel C. Dennett;Francisco J. Varela;Evan Thompson;Eleanor Rosch

  • Neurophenomenology Integrating Subjective Experience and Brain Dynamics in the Neuroscience of Consciousness

    Antoine Lutz;Evan Thompson

  • Empathy and consciousness

    Evan Thompson

  • Making sense of sense-making: Reflections on enactive and extended mind theories

    Evan Thompson;Mog Stapleton

  • Finding out about filling-in: a guide to perceptual completion for visual science and the philosophy of perception.

    Luiz Pessoa;Evan Thompson;Alva Noë

  • Colour Vision: A study in cognitive science and the philosophy of perception

    Evan Thompson

  • Filling-in is for finding out

    Luiz Pessoa;Evan Thompson;Alva Noë

  • Sensorimotor subjectivity and the enactive approach to experience

    Evan Thompson

  • The Cambridge Handbook of Consciousness

    Philip David Zelazo;Morris Moscovitch;Evan Thompson

  • Waking, Dreaming, Being: Self and Consciousness in Neuroscience, Meditation, and Philosophy

    Evan Thompson

  • Waking, Dreaming, Being

    Evan Thompson

  • On the ways to color

    Evan Thompson;Adrian Palacios;Francisco J. Varela

  • Affect-biased attention as emotion regulation

    Rebecca M. Todd;William A. Cunningham;William A. Cunningham;Adam K. Anderson;Evan Thompson

  • Ways of coloring: Comparative color vision as a case study for cognitive science

    Evan Thompson;Adrian Palacios;Francisco J. Varela

  • Specifying the self for cognitive neuroscience.

    Kalina Christoff;Diego Cosmelli;Dorothée Legrand;Evan Thompson

  • The Cambridge Handbook of Consciousness: NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS: DISORDERS AND NEUROIMAGING

    Philip David Zelazo;Morris Moscovitch;Evan Thompson

Frequent Co-Authors

Francisco J. Varela
Francisco J. Varela Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Kalina Christoff
Kalina Christoff University of British Columbia
Morris Moscovitch
Morris Moscovitch University of Toronto
Philip David Zelazo
Philip David Zelazo University of Minnesota
Luiz Pessoa
Luiz Pessoa University of Maryland, College Park
Dan Zahavi
Dan Zahavi University of Copenhagen
Rebecca M. Todd
Rebecca M. Todd University of British Columbia
Jessica R. Andrews-Hanna
Jessica R. Andrews-Hanna University of Arizona
William A. Cunningham
William A. Cunningham University of Toronto

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