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Hiram Brownell

Hiram Brownell

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Psychology

D-Index
39
Citations
8585
World Ranking
8457
National Ranking
4521

Overview

Hiram Brownell is a researcher affiliated with Boston College in the United States. Their academic work spans multiple fields, primarily focused on neuroscience and psychology, with an emphasis on cognitive neuroscience and experimental and cognitive psychology.

Their research addresses a variety of topics, including:

  • Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism
  • Health disparities and outcomes
  • Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment
  • Social and Intergroup Psychology
  • Emotions and Moral Behavior
  • Spatial Neglect and Hemispheric Dysfunction
  • Multisensory perception and integration

Brownell has contributed papers to several scholarly venues. Frequently publishing in the Journal of Experimental Psychology General, other publication venues include:

  • Emotion
  • American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology
  • International Journal of Drug Policy
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

Among their recent publications are:

  • "Is purity a distinct and homogeneous domain in moral psychology?" (2022), Journal of Experimental Psychology General
  • "On evidence for a dozen new basic emotions: A methodological critique." (2020), Emotion
  • "Aprosodia Following Focal Brain Damage: What's Right and What's Left?" (2022), American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology
  • "Evidence that intergenerational income mobility is the strongest predictor of drug overdose deaths in U. S. Midwest counties" (2024), International Journal of Drug Policy
  • "On the set of emotions with facial signals." (2022), Journal of Experimental Psychology General

They have collaborated regularly with several co-authors, including:

  • Dolichan Kollareth
  • Juan I. Durán
  • Kristine Lundgren
  • Gene M. Heyman
  • Ehri Ryu

Best Publications

  • Acquired 'theory of mind' impairments following stroke.

    Francesca Happé;Hiram Brownell;Ellen Winner

  • The getting of wisdom: Theory of mind in old age.

    Francesca G. E. Happé;Ellen Winner;Hiram Brownell

  • Inference deficits in right brain-damaged patients

    Hiram H. Brownell;Hiram H. Brownell;Heather H. Potter;Heather H. Potter;Amy M. Bihrle;Amy M. Bihrle;Howard Gardner;Howard Gardner;Howard Gardner

  • Distinguishing Lies from Jokes: Theory of Mind Deficits and Discourse Interpretation in Right Hemisphere Brain-Damaged Patients

    Ellen Winner;Hiram Brownell;Francesca Happé;Ari Blum

  • Surprise but not coherence: Sensitivity to verbal humor in right-hemisphere patients☆

    Hiram H Brownell;Dee Michel;John Powelson;Howard Gardner

  • Appreciation of metaphoric alternative word meanings by left and right brain-damaged patients.

    Hiram H. Brownell;Tracy L. Simpson;Tracy L. Simpson;Amy M. Bihrle;Amy M. Bihrle;Heather H. Potter;Heather H. Potter

  • Comprehension of humorous and nonhumorous materials by left and right brain-damaged patients

    Amy M. Bihrle;Amy M. Bihrle;Hiram H. Brownell;Hiram H. Brownell;John A. Powelson;John A. Powelson;Howard Gardner;Howard Gardner;Howard Gardner

  • Category differentiation in object recognition: typicality constraints on the basic category advantage.

    Gregory L. Murphy;Hiram H. Brownell

  • The effects of right hemisphere damage on the pragmatic interpretation of conversational remarks.

    Joan A. Kaplan;Hiram H. Brownell;Janet R. Jacobs;Howard Gardner

  • Sensitivity to lexical denotation and connotation in brain-damaged patients: a double dissociation?

    Hiram H Brownell;Heather H Potter;Diane Michelow;Howard Gardner;Howard Gardner

  • 9 – Missing the Point: The Role of the Right Hemisphere in the Processing of Complex Linguistic Materials1

    Howard Gardner;Hiram H. Brownell;Wendy Wapner;Diane Michelow

  • Does reading a single passage of literary fiction really improve theory of mind? An attempt at replication.

    Maria Eugenia Panero;Deena Skolnick Weisberg;Jessica Black;Thalia R. Goldstein

  • Appreciation of indirect requests by left- and right-brain-damaged patients: The effects of verbal context and conventionality of wording☆

    Sally T. Weylman;Hiram H. Brownell;Hiram H. Brownell;Hiram H. Brownell;Mary Roman;Mary Roman;Howard Gardner;Howard Gardner;Howard Gardner

  • The allocation of memory resources during sentence comprehension: evidence from the elderly.

    Edgar Zurif;David Swinney;Penney Prather;Penney Prather;Arthur Wingfield;Arthur Wingfield

  • The semantic deficit hypothesis: Perceptual parsing and object classification by aphasic patients ☆

    Alfonso Caramazza;Rita Sloan Berndt;Hiram H. Brownell

  • Speed of Lexical Activation in Nonfluent Broca's Aphasia and Fluent Wernicke's Aphasia

    P.A. Prather;P.A. Prather;P.A. Prather;Edgar Zurif;Edgar Zurif;Tracy Love;Hiram Brownell;Hiram Brownell;Hiram Brownell

  • Discourse ability and brain damage : theoretical and empirical perspectives

    Yves Joanette;Hiram Brownell

  • Discourse Comprehension by Right-Hemisphere Stroke Patients: Deficits of Prediction and Revision

    Raymond Molloy;Hiram H. Brownell;Howard Gardner

  • The use of pronoun anaphora and speaker mood in the interpretation of conversational utterances by right hemisphere brain-damaged patients

    Hiram H. Brownell;John J. Carroll;Alexandra Rehak;Alexandra Rehak;Arthur Wingfield;Arthur Wingfield

  • Judging up and down.

    Herbert H. Clark;Hiram H. Brownell

  • Narrative Discourse in Neurologically Impaired and Normal Aging Adults

    Hiram H. Brownell;Yves Joanette

Frequent Co-Authors

Howard Gardner
Howard Gardner Harvard University
Ellen Winner
Ellen Winner Boston College
Arthur Wingfield
Arthur Wingfield Brandeis University
Francesca Happé
Francesca Happé King's College London
Edgar Zurif
Edgar Zurif Brandeis University
Mary J. Roman
Mary J. Roman Cornell University
Ori Friedman
Ori Friedman University of Waterloo
Donna B. Pincus
Donna B. Pincus Boston University
Marilyn S. Albert
Marilyn S. Albert Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Elissa Koff
Elissa Koff Wellesley College

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