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Herbert S. Terrace

Herbert S. Terrace

D-Index & Metrics

Psychology

D-Index
49
Citations
13014
World Ranking
5590
National Ranking
3050

Herbert S. Terrace 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 Herbert S. Terrace sits on this spectrum.

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31 publications 705+

This scientist: 165 publications — 56th percentile

56% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Herbert S. Terrace 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 Herbert S. Terrace sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 144+

This scientist: 49 D-Index — 52nd percentile

52% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Research.com Recognitions

  • 1970 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 1969 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
  • 1968 - Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA)

Overview

Herbert S. Terrace is affiliated with Columbia University in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on the intersections of psychology, neuroscience, and mathematics with an emphasis on developmental and educational psychology, cognitive neuroscience, and statistical methods.

They have contributed significantly to topics including:

  • Child and Animal Learning Development
  • Cognitive and developmental aspects of mathematical skills
  • Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
  • Primate Behavior and Ecology
  • Language and cultural evolution
  • Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies
  • Sensory Analysis and Statistical Methods

Herbert S. Terrace's published papers include:

  • "Intersubjectivity and the Emergence of Words" (2022) in Frontiers in Psychology
  • "Transitive inference after minimal training in rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta)" (2021) in Journal of Experimental Psychology Animal Learning and Cognition
  • "Learned Representation of Implied Serial Order in Posterior Parietal Cortex" (2020) in Scientific Reports
  • "Positional inference in rhesus macaques" (2021) in Animal Cognition
  • "Category learning in a transitive inference paradigm" (2021) in Memory & Cognition

Frequent co-authors in Terrace's work include:

  • Greg Jensen
  • Vincent P. Ferrera
  • Fabián Muñoz
  • Allain-Thibeault Le Sourd Ferhat
  • Yelda Alkan

Terrace has published frequently in venues such as:

  • Columbia Undergraduate Science Journal
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Frontiers in Psychology
  • Journal of Experimental Psychology Animal Learning and Cognition
  • Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Awards received by Herbert S. Terrace include:

  • Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 1970
  • Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, 1969
  • Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA), 1968

Best Publications

  • Discrimination learning with and without "errors".

    H. S. Terrace

  • Ordering of the Numerosities 1 to 9 by Monkeys

    Elizabeth M. Brannon;Herbert S. Terrace

  • Can an ape create a sentence

    H. S. Terrace;L. A. Petitto;R. J. Sanders;T. G. Bever

  • Errorless transfer of a discrimination across two continua.

    H. S. Terrace

  • Autoshaping and Conditioning Theory

    Charles C. Perkins;C. W. Locurto;H. S. Terrace;J. Gibbon

  • Transfer of Metacognitive Skills and Hint Seeking in Monkeys

    Nate Kornell;Lisa K. Son;Herbert S. Terrace

  • Representation of the numerosities 1–9 by rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta).

    Elizabeth M. Brannon;Herbert S. Terrace

  • The Biology of Learning

    P. Marler;H. S. Terrace

  • Trial and intertrial durations in autoshaping.

    J. Gibbon;M. D. Baldock;C. Locurto;L. Gold

  • The missing link in cognition : origins of self-reflective consciousness

    Herbert S. Terrace;Janet Metcalfe

  • In the beginning was the "name".

    H. S. Terrace

  • Cognitive imitation in rhesus macaques.

    Francys Subiaul;Jessica F. Cantlon;Ralph L. Holloway;Herbert S. Terrace

  • Knowledge of the Ordinal Position of List Items in Rhesus Monkeys

    Shaofu Chen;Karyl B. Swartz;H.S. Terrace

  • Chunking by a pigeon in a serial learning task.

    H. S. Terrace

  • Partial reinforcement in autoshaping with pigeons

    J. Gibbon;L. Farrell;C. M. Locurto;C. M. Locurto;H. J. Duncan

  • Temporal factors influencing the acquisition and maintenance of an autoshaped keypeck

    H. S. Terrace;J. Gibbon;L. Farrell;M. D. Baldock

  • Generalization of serial learning in the pigeon.

    R. O. Straub;H. S. Terrace

  • Discrimination learning, the peak shift, and behavioral contrast.

    H. S. Terrace

  • Serial learning in the pigeon.

    R. O. Straub;M. S. Seidenberg;Thomas G. Bever;H. S. Terrace

  • Sources of Variance in an Information Processing Theory of Timing

    H. L. Roitblat;H. S. Terrace;T. G. Bever

  • The Missing Link in CognitionOrigins of self-reflective consciousness

    Herbert S. Terrace;Janet Metcalfe

  • The biology of learning : report of the Dahlem Workshop on the Biology of Learning, Berlin 1983, October 23-28

    Peter Robert Marler;Herbert S. Terrace

Frequent Co-Authors

Thomas G. Bever
Thomas G. Bever University of Arizona
Vincent P. Ferrera
Vincent P. Ferrera Columbia University
John D. Gibbon
John D. Gibbon Imperial College London
Nate Kornell
Nate Kornell Williams College
Sarah H. Lisanby
Sarah H. Lisanby Arizona State University
Elizabeth M. Brannon
Elizabeth M. Brannon University of Pennsylvania
Jessica F. Cantlon
Jessica F. Cantlon Carnegie Mellon University
Shawn M. McClintock
Shawn M. McClintock The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Janet Metcalfe
Janet Metcalfe Columbia University
Peter D. Balsam
Peter D. Balsam Columbia University

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