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61
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3302
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1859

Research.com Recognitions

  • 1990 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

Overview

Frank C. Keil is affiliated with Yale University in the United States and has contributed extensively to the field of psychology, with a particular focus on developmental and educational psychology. Their research spans multiple subfields, including cognitive neuroscience, statistics and probability, social psychology, and sociology and political science. Throughout their career, they have published 48 papers in psychology-related topics.

Their work covers a range of main topics including child and animal learning development, educational strategies and epistemologies, and cognitive and developmental aspects of mathematical skills. Other notable topics include visual perception and processing mechanisms, mathematics education and teaching techniques, spatial cognition and navigation, and action observation and synchronization.

Frequent publication venues for Frank C. Keil include:

  • Cognition
  • Journal of Experimental Psychology General
  • Journal of Vision
  • Developmental Psychology
  • Trends in Cognitive Sciences

Among the recent papers authored or coauthored by Frank C. Keil are:

  • Online Developmental Science to Foster Innovation, Access, and Impact, 2020, Trends in Cognitive Sciences
  • Win-win denial: The psychological underpinnings of zero-sum thinking., 2021, Journal of Experimental Psychology General
  • The trajectory of counterfactual simulation in development., 2021, Developmental Psychology
  • There is no privileged link between kinds and essences early in development, 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Area, not number, dominates estimates of visual quantities, 2020, Scientific Reports

They have collaborated frequently with the following coauthors:

  • Sami R. Yousif
  • Mark Sheskin
  • Kristi L. Lockhart
  • Alexander Noyes
  • Amanda M. McCarthy

Frank C. Keil has also published a book titled Wonder in 2022, released by The MIT Press.

The scholar was recognized as a Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in 1990.

Best Publications

  • Concepts, Kinds, and Cognitive Development

    Frank C. Keil

  • The seductive allure of neuroscience explanations

    Deena Skolnick Weisberg;Frank C. Keil;Joshua Goodstein;Elizabeth Rawson

  • Explanation and Understanding

    Frank C. Keil

  • The MIT encyclopedia of the cognitive sciences

    Robert Andrew Wilson;Frank Keil

  • The misunderstood limits of folk science: an illusion of explanatory depth

    Leonid Rozenblit;Frank C. Keil

  • Conceptualizing a Nonnatural Entity: Anthropomorphism in God Concepts

    Justin L. Barrett;Frank C. Keil

  • The hidden structure of overimitation

    Derek E. Lyons;Andrew G. Young;Frank C. Keil

  • The birth and nurturance of concepts by domains: The origins of concepts of living things.

    Frank C. Keil

  • Constraints on knowledge and cognitive development.

    Frank C. Keil

  • Semantic and Conceptual Development: An Ontological Perspective

    Frank C. Keil

  • Categorical effects in the perception of faces

    James M. Beale;Frank C. Keil

  • Early understanding of the division of cognitive labor.

    Donna J. Lutz;Frank C. Keil

  • Searching for explanations: How the Internet inflates estimates of internal knowledge.

    Matthew Fisher;Mariel K. Goddu;Frank C. Keil

  • A Characteristic-to-Defining Shift in the Development of Word Meaning.

    Frank C. Keil;Nancy Batterman

  • The origins of an autonomous biology.

    Frank C. Keil

  • The growth of causal understandings of natural kinds.

    Frank C. Keil

  • Acquisition of the hierarchy of tonal functions in music.

    Carol L. Krumhansl;Frank C. Keil

  • An abstract to concrete shift in the development of biological thought: the insides story

    Daniel J. Simons;Frank C. Keil

  • Explanation and Cognition

    Frank Keil;Robert Andrew Wilson

  • The scope and limits of overimitation in the transmission of artefact culture

    Derek E. Lyons;Diana H. Damrosch;Jennifer K. Lin;Deanna M. Macris;Deanna M. Macris

  • Two dogmas of conceptual empiricism : implications for hybrid models of the structure of knowledge

    Frank C Keil;W Carter Smith;Daniel J Simons;Daniel T Levin

Frequent Co-Authors

Karen Wynn
Karen Wynn Yale University
Paul Bloom
Paul Bloom Columbia University
Joshua Knobe
Joshua Knobe Yale University
Yarrow Dunham
Yarrow Dunham Yale University
Willis F. Overton
Willis F. Overton Temple University
Daniel J. Simons
Daniel J. Simons University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Gilbert Gottlieb
Gilbert Gottlieb University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Patrick Cavanagh
Patrick Cavanagh York University
Elliot Turiel
Elliot Turiel University of California, Berkeley

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