2026 Gary Lupyan: Psychology Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Psychology	50	5423	5037	2961	2686	186	10620

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Overview

Gary Lupyan is affiliated with the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on the field of psychology, with a particular emphasis on experimental and cognitive psychology.

Their scholarly work explores multiple subfields including:

Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
Developmental and Educational Psychology
Cultural Studies
Cognitive Neuroscience
Artificial Intelligence

The main topics of Lupyan's research encompass:

Language, Metaphor, and Cognition
Categorization, perception, and language
Child and Animal Learning Development
Language and cultural evolution
Multisensory perception and integration
Action Observation and Synchronization
Advanced Text Analysis Techniques

Gary Lupyan has published frequently in the following venues:

Trends in Cognitive Sciences
Nature Human Behaviour
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
Behavior Research Methods
Psychonomic Bulletin & Review

Some recent publications include:

Effects of Language on Visual Perception, 2020, Trends in Cognitive Sciences
How variability shapes learning and generalization, 2022, Trends in Cognitive Sciences
Gender stereotypes are reflected in the distributional structure of 25 languages, 2020, Nature Human Behaviour
The bouba/kiki effect is robust across cultures and writing systems, 2021, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
Cultural influences on word meanings revealed through large-scale semantic alignment, 2020, Nature Human Behaviour

Lupyan has collaborated repeatedly with several co-authors, including:

Marcus Perlman
Christina Schonberg
Haley A. Vlach
Molly Lewis
Jing Paul

Best Publications

Language Structure Is Partly Determined by Social Structure

Gary Lupyan;Rick Dale

907
Citations
Arbitrariness, Iconicity, and Systematicity in Language

Mark Dingemanse;Damián E. Blasi;Gary Lupyan;Morten H. Christiansen

785
Citations
Linguistically modulated perception and cognition: the label-feedback hypothesis.

Gary Lupyan

613
Citations
Language is not Just for Talking Redundant Labels Facilitate Learning of Novel Categories

Gary Lupyan;David H. Rakison;James L. McClelland

445
Citations
Words and the World Predictive Coding and the Language-Perception-Cognition Interface

Gary Lupyan;Andy Clark

405
Citations
Language can boost otherwise unseen objects into visual awareness.

Gary Lupyan;Emily J. Ward

390
Citations
Iconicity in English and Spanish and Its Relation to Lexical Category and Age of Acquisition.

Lynn K. Perry;Marcus Perlman;Gary Lupyan

296
Citations
Cognitive penetrability of perception in the age of prediction: Predictive systems are penetrable systems.

Gary Lupyan

251
Citations
Words Jump-Start Vision: A Label Advantage in Object Recognition

Bastien Boutonnet;Gary Lupyan

233
Citations
From chair to "chair": a representational shift account of object labeling effects on memory.

Gary Lupyan

210
Citations
Effects of language on visual perception

Gary Lupyan;Rasha Abdel Rahman;Lera Boroditsky;Andy Clark;Andy Clark

206
Citations
Iconicity in the speech of children and adults.

Lynn K. Perry;Marcus Perlman;Bodo Winter;Dominic W. Massaro

206
Citations
The evocative power of words: activation of concepts by verbal and nonverbal means.

Gary Lupyan;Sharon L. Thompson-Schill

202
Citations
The conceptual grouping effect: Categories matter (and named categories matter more)

Gary Lupyan

193
Citations
Which words are most iconic?: Iconicity in English sensory words

Bodo Winter;Marcus Perlman;Lynn K. Perry;Gary Lupyan

185
Citations
Conceptual Penetration of Visual Processing

Gary Lupyan;Sharon L. Thompson-Schill;Daniel Swingley

180
Citations
How variability shapes learning and generalization

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179
Citations
Linking language and categorization: evidence from aphasia.

Gary Lupyan;Daniel Mirman

174
Citations
UNDERSTANDING THE ORIGINS OF MORPHOLOGICAL DIVERSITY: THE LINGUISTIC NICHE HYPOTHESIS

Rick Dale;Gary Lupyan

171
Citations
How Language Programs the Mind

Gary Lupyan;Benjamin Bergen

168
Citations
LABELS FACILITATE LEARNING OF NOVEL CATEGORIES

Gary Lupyan

19
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Rick Dale University of California, Los Angeles

Michael J. Spivey University of California, Merced

Robert L. Goldstone Indiana University

Sharon L. Thompson-Schill University of Pennsylvania

Daniel Casasanto Cornell University

Daniel Swingley University of Pennsylvania

Morten H. Christiansen Cornell University

Lera Boroditsky University of California, San Diego

James L. McClelland Stanford University

Paula M. Niedenthal University of Wisconsin–Madison

External Links

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