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J. David Smith is affiliated with Georgia State University in the United States and specializes in research primarily within the fields of Psychology and Neuroscience. Their work extensively covers subfields such as Cognitive Neuroscience, Developmental and Educational Psychology, Social Psychology, Psychiatry and Mental Health, and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology.

The scientist's research topics encompass a variety of areas including Child and Animal Learning Development, Free Will and Agency, Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies, Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments, Social Representations and Identity, Language, Metaphor, and Cognition, as well as Action Observation and Synchronization.

Recent publications by J. David Smith include the following papers:

  • "Launch! Self-agency as a discriminative cue for humans (Homo sapiens) and monkeys (Macaca Mulatta)." (2021) published in Journal of Experimental Psychology General
  • "A dissociative framework for understanding same-different conceptualization" (2020) published in Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences
  • "Conceptual anchoring dissociates implicit and explicit category learning." (2021) published in Journal of Experimental Psychology Learning Memory and Cognition

Their frequent coauthors include:

  • Barbara A. Church
  • Brooke N. Jackson
  • Markie N Adamczyk
  • Carmen N Shaw
  • Michael J. Beran

J. David Smith has published in a variety of venues, notably:

  • Journal of Experimental Psychology General
  • Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences
  • Journal of Experimental Psychology Learning Memory and Cognition

Best Publications

  • Prototypes in the Mist: The Early Epochs of Category Learning

    J. David Smith;John Paul Minda

  • The comparative psychology of uncertainty monitoring and metacognition.

    J. David Smith;Wendy E. Shields;David A. Washburn

  • The uncertain response in the bottlenosed dolphin (Tursiops truncatus).

    J. David Smith;Jonathan Schull;Jared Strote;Kelli McGee

  • Overall similarity in adults' classification: The child in all of us.

    J. David Smith;Deborah G. Kemler

  • Prototypes in category learning: The effects of category size, category structure, and stimulus complexity.

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  • The study of animal metacognition

    J. David Smith

  • Memory monitoring by animals and humans

    J. David Smith;Wendy E. Shields;Kenneth R. Allendoerfer;David A. Washburn

  • Distinguishing prototype-based and exemplar-based processes in dot-pattern category learning

    J. David Smith;John Paul Minda

  • Comparing prototype-based and exemplar-based accounts of category learning and attentional allocation.

    John Paul Minda;J. David Smith

  • The role of subvocalization in auditory imagery.

    J. David Smith;Margaret Wilson;Daniel Reisberg

  • Implicit and explicit categorization: a tale of four species.

    J. David Smith;Mark E. Berg;Robert G. Cook;Matthew S. Murphy

  • The comparative study of metacognition: sharper paradigms, safer inferences.

    J. David Smith;Michael J. Beran;Justin J. Couchman;Mariana V. C. Coutinho

  • Dissociating uncertainty responses and reinforcement signals in the comparative study of uncertainty monitoring.

    J. David Smith;Michael J. Beran;Joshua S. Redford;David A. Washburn

  • Animal Metacognition: A Tale of Two Comparative Psychologies

    J. David Smith;Justin J. Couchman;Michael J. Beran

  • The occurrence of holistic categorization

    J.David Smith;June H Shapiro

  • Implicit and explicit category learning by macaques (Macaca mulatta) and humans (Homo sapiens).

    J. David Smith;Michael J. Beran;Matthew J. Crossley;Joseph. T. Boomer

  • The Highs and Lows of Theoretical Interpretation in Animal-Metacognition Research

    J. David Smith;Justin J. Couchman;Michael J. Beran

  • Straight talk about linear separability

    J. David Smith;Morgan J. Murray Jr.;John Paul Minda

  • Information seeking by rhesus monkeys (Macaca mulatta) and capuchin monkeys (Cebus apella).

    Michael J. Beran;J. David Smith

  • Aesthetic preference and syntactic prototypicality in music: 'tis the gift to be simple.

    J.David Smith;Robert J. Melara

  • Rhesus macaques (macaca mulatta) monitor uncertainty during numerosity judgments.

    Michael J. Beran;J. David Smith;Joshua S. Redford;David A. Washburn

  • Pigeons’ categorization may be exclusively nonanalytic

    J. David Smith;F. Gregory Ashby;Mark E. Berg;Matthew S. Murphy

  • Category learning in rhesus monkeys: A study of the Shepard, Hovland, and Jenkins (1961) tasks

    J. David Smith;John Paul Minda;David A. Washburn

Frequent Co-Authors

Michael J. Beran
Michael J. Beran Georgia State University
David A. Washburn
David A. Washburn Georgia State University
F. Gregory Ashby
F. Gregory Ashby University of California, Santa Barbara
Daniel Reisberg
Daniel Reisberg Reed College
Robert G. Cook
Robert G. Cook Tufts University
Randolph C. Grace
Randolph C. Grace University of Canterbury
Leonard H. Epstein
Leonard H. Epstein University at Buffalo, State University of New York
Michael A. Sayette
Michael A. Sayette University of Pittsburgh
Judy S. DeLoache
Judy S. DeLoache University of Virginia
Aron K. Barbey
Aron K. Barbey University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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