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Psychology

D-Index
41
Citations
7085
World Ranking
7901
National Ranking
780

Overview

What is he best known for?

The fields of study he is best known for:

  • Artificial intelligence
  • Cognition
  • Cognitive psychology

His main research concerns Cognitive psychology, Cognition, Priming, Word recognition and Orthography. His Cognitive psychology research includes elements of Perception, Indirect tests of memory, Implicit memory and Neural coding. His Indirect tests of memory research incorporates elements of Memoria, Associative priming, Paired associate learning and Intentionality.

Cognition is a subfield of Neuroscience that Jeffrey S. Bowers explores. His Word recognition research is multidisciplinary, incorporating elements of Semantics, Visual perception and Communication. Jeffrey S. Bowers usually deals with Orthography and limits it to topics linked to Phonology and Backward masking, Set, Speech production and Spelling.

His most cited work include:

  • Implicit memory and test awareness. (359 citations)
  • Intention, awareness, and implicit memory: The retrieval intentionality criterion (316 citations)
  • Bayesian just-so stories in psychology and neuroscience (247 citations)

What are the main themes of his work throughout his whole career to date?

The scientist’s investigation covers issues in Cognitive psychology, Artificial intelligence, Priming, Cognition and Artificial neural network. The concepts of his Cognitive psychology study are interwoven with issues in Orthography, Speech perception, Perception, Word and Word recognition. His Word recognition research focuses on Visual perception and how it relates to Speech recognition.

His studies examine the connections between Artificial intelligence and genetics, as well as such issues in Natural language processing, with regards to Semantics and Categorization. His studies in Priming integrate themes in fields like Implicit memory and Lexical decision task. His Cognition research incorporates themes from Bayesian probability, Cognitive science, Reading and Set.

He most often published in these fields:

  • Cognitive psychology (31.54%)
  • Artificial intelligence (27.69%)
  • Priming (20.77%)

What were the highlights of his more recent work (between 2017-2021)?

  • Artificial intelligence (27.69%)
  • Convolutional neural network (7.69%)
  • Pattern recognition (7.69%)

In recent papers he was focusing on the following fields of study:

Jeffrey S. Bowers mostly deals with Artificial intelligence, Convolutional neural network, Pattern recognition, Artificial neural network and Reading. His Artificial intelligence research focuses on subjects like Natural language processing, which are linked to Range and Agreement. His research integrates issues of Adversarial system, Speech recognition and Pooling in his study of Convolutional neural network.

His Connectionism study, which is part of a larger body of work in Artificial neural network, is frequently linked to Selectivity, Task analysis and Context-free language, bridging the gap between disciplines. The Reading study which covers Spelling that intersects with Word, Speech sounds and Alphabetic principle. His Word research includes elements of Cognitive psychology, Vocabulary and Cognition.

Between 2017 and 2021, his most popular works were:

  • Phonemes: Lexical access and beyond. (18 citations)
  • Reconsidering the evidence that systematic phonics is more effective than alternative methods of reading instruction (13 citations)
  • Progress in Reading Instruction Requires a Better Understanding of the English Spelling System (9 citations)

In his most recent research, the most cited papers focused on:

  • Artificial intelligence
  • Cognition
  • Cognitive science

Artificial intelligence, Phonics, Artificial neural network, Pattern recognition and Reading are his primary areas of study. His research in the fields of Convolutional neural network and Deep learning overlaps with other disciplines such as Translation and Biological constraints. Phonics is closely attributed to Cognitive psychology in his research.

His biological study deals with issues like Theoretical computer science, which deal with fields such as Generalization. His Pattern recognition study incorporates themes from Pixel, Cognitive neuroscience of visual object recognition, Visual processing and Feature. His Reading research is multidisciplinary, relying on both Spelling and Meaning.

Best Publications

  • Bayesian just-so stories in psychology and neuroscience

    Jeffrey S. Bowers;Colin J. Davis

  • Implicit memory and test awareness.

    Jeffrey S. Bowers;Daniel L. Schacter

  • Intention, awareness, and implicit memory: The retrieval intentionality criterion

    Daniel L. Schacter;Jeffrey Bowers;Jill Booker

  • Locus of semantic interference in picture-word interference tasks

    Markus F. Damian;Jeffrey S. Bowers

  • The practical and principled problems with educational neuroscience.

    Jeffrey S Bowers

  • On the biological plausibility of grandmother cells: Implications for neural network theories in psychology and neuroscience

    Jeffrey S. Bowers

  • Orthographic, phonological, and articulatory contributions to masked letter and word priming

    Jeffrey S. Bowers;Gabriella Vigliocco;Richard Haan

  • Effects of orthography on speech production in a form-preparation paradigm

    Markus F E Damian;Jeffrey S Bowers

  • Interfering neighbours : The impact of novel word learning on the identification of visually similar words

    Jeffrey S. Bowers;Colin J. Davis;Colin J. Davis;Derek A. Hanley

  • Contrasting five different theories of letter position coding: evidence from orthographic similarity effects

    Colin J. Davis;Jeffrey S. Bowers

  • Beyond Phonics: The Case for Teaching Children the Logic of the English Spelling System

    Jeffrey S. Bowers;Peter N. Bowers

  • In defense of abstractionist theories of repetition priming and word identification

    Jeffrey S. Bowers

  • Automatic semantic activation of embedded words: Is there a hat in that?

    Jeffrey S. Bowers;Colin J. Davis;Derek A. Hanley

  • Masked priming: State of the Art

    Jeffrey S Bowers

  • Rethinking Implicit Memory

    Jeffrey S. Bowers;Chad J. Marsolek

  • Swearing, Euphemisms, and Linguistic Relativity

    Jeffrey S. Bowers;Christopher W. Pleydell-Pearce

  • Teaching adults new words: the role of practice and consolidation.

    Felix Clay;Jeffrey S. Bowers;Colin J. Davis;Derek A. Hanley

  • Is that what Bayesians believe? reply to Griffiths, Chater, Norris, and Pouget (2012).

    Jeffrey S. Bowers;Colin J. Davis

  • What do letter migration errors reveal about letter position coding in visual word recognition

    Colin J. Davis;Jeffrey S. Bowers

  • Different perceptual codes support priming for words and pseudowords: was Morton right all along?

    Jeffrey S. Bowers

  • Converging methods for understanding reading and dyslexia

    Jeffrey S Bowers

Frequent Co-Authors

Markus F. Damian
Markus F. Damian University of Bristol
Martin Arguin
Martin Arguin University of Montreal
Daniel L. Schacter
Daniel L. Schacter Harvard University
Gabriella Vigliocco
Gabriella Vigliocco University College London
Sven L. Mattys
Sven L. Mattys University of York
Stephen J. Lupker
Stephen J. Lupker University of Western Ontario
David P. Vinson
David P. Vinson University College London
Marcus R. Munafò
Marcus R. Munafò University of Bath
Kenneth I. Forster
Kenneth I. Forster University of Arizona
Amina Memon
Amina Memon Royal Holloway University of London

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