2026 Herbert S. Terrace: Psychology Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Psychology	49	5592	5191	3049	2762	165	13014

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

1174
Citations
Ordering of the Numerosities 1 to 9 by Monkeys

Elizabeth M. Brannon;Herbert S. Terrace

878
Citations
Can an ape create a sentence

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

803
Citations
Errorless transfer of a discrimination across two continua.

H. S. Terrace

534
Citations
Autoshaping and Conditioning Theory

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

533
Citations
Transfer of Metacognitive Skills and Hint Seeking in Monkeys

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

485
Citations
Representation of the numerosities 1–9 by rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta).

Elizabeth M. Brannon;Herbert S. Terrace

423
Citations
The Biology of Learning

P. Marler;H. S. Terrace

363
Citations
Trial and intertrial durations in autoshaping.

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

351
Citations
The missing link in cognition : origins of self-reflective consciousness

Herbert S. Terrace;Janet Metcalfe

301
Citations
In the beginning was the "name".

H. S. Terrace

253
Citations
Cognitive imitation in rhesus macaques.

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

247
Citations
Knowledge of the Ordinal Position of List Items in Rhesus Monkeys

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

244
Citations
Chunking by a pigeon in a serial learning task.

H. S. Terrace

235
Citations
Partial reinforcement in autoshaping with pigeons

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

216
Citations
Temporal factors influencing the acquisition and maintenance of an autoshaped keypeck

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

213
Citations
Generalization of serial learning in the pigeon.

R. O. Straub;H. S. Terrace

200
Citations
Discrimination learning, the peak shift, and behavioral contrast.

H. S. Terrace

198
Citations
Serial learning in the pigeon.

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

189
Citations
Sources of Variance in an Information Processing Theory of Timing

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

90
Citations
The Missing Link in CognitionOrigins of self-reflective consciousness

Herbert S. Terrace;Janet Metcalfe

71
Citations
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

2
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Nate Kornell Williams College

Elizabeth M. Brannon University of Pennsylvania

Jessica F. Cantlon Carnegie Mellon University

Shawn M. McClintock The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center

Janet Metcalfe Columbia University

Michael Colombo University of Otago

Peter D. Balsam Columbia University

Alexander Weiss University of Edinburgh

James S. Magnuson University of Connecticut

Russell M. Church Brown University

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