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Overview

Kevin Dunbar is affiliated with the University of Maryland, College Park in the United States. Their research intersects multiple main fields of study, including Medicine, Mathematics, and Social Sciences. Within these broader areas, their work delves into specialized subfields such as Infectious Diseases, Modeling and Simulation, and Health.

The scientist's main topics of research focus on SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19-related studies. Specifically, their work addresses areas such as COVID-19 epidemiological studies and vaccine coverage and hesitancy.

Among their recent publications is the paper titled "Effects of Second Dose of SARS-CoV-2 Vaccination on Household Transmission, England", published in 2023 in the journal Emerging Infectious Diseases. This article contributes to the understanding of vaccination impact on virus transmission within household settings.

  • Asad Zaidi
  • Ross Harris
  • Jennifer Hall
  • Sarah C Woodhall
  • Nick Andrews

Kevin Dunbar often collaborates with the following co-authors:

  • Asad Zaidi
  • Ross Harris
  • Jennifer Hall
  • Sarah C Woodhall
  • Nick Andrews

The primary venue for their publications so far has been Emerging Infectious Diseases.

Best Publications

  • On the control of automatic processes: A parallel distributed processing account of the stroop effect

    Jonathan D. Cohen;Kevin Dunbar;James L. McClelland

  • Dual space search during scientific reasoning

    David Klahr;Kevin Dunbar

  • HOW SCIENTISTS REALLY REASON: SCIENTIFIC REASONING IN REAL-WORLD LABORATORIES

    Kevin Dunbar

  • Training and Stroop-like interference: Evidence for a continuum of automaticity.

    Colin M. MacLeod;Kevin Dunbar

  • How scientists think: On-line creativity and conceptual change in science.

    Kevin Dunbar

  • Heuristics for scientific experimentation: a developmental study.

    David Klahr;Anne L. Fay;Kevin Dunbar

  • Concept discovery in a scientific domain

    Kevin Dunbar

  • How analogies are generated: the roles of structural and superficial similarity.

    Isabelle Blanchette;Kevin Dunbar

  • The in vivo/in vitro approach to cognition: the case of analogy

    Kevin Dunbar;Isabelle Blanchette

  • Scientific Thinking and Reasoning

    Kevin N. Dunbar;David Klahr

  • A Horse Race of a Different Color: Stroop Interference Patterns With Transformed Words

    Kevin Dunbar;Colin M. MacLeod

  • Frontopolar cortex mediates abstract integration in analogy.

    Adam E. Green;Jonathan A. Fugelsang;David J.M. Kraemer;Noah A. Shamosh

  • Connecting Long Distance: Semantic Distance in Analogical Reasoning Modulates Frontopolar Cortex Activity

    Adam E. Green;David J. M. Kraemer;David J. M. Kraemer;Jonathan A. Fugelsang;Jeremy R. Gray

  • Developmental Differences in Scientific Discovery Processes

    Kevin Dunbar;David Klahr

  • How Scientists Think in the Real World: Implications for Science Education

    Kevin Dunbar

  • Brain-based mechanisms underlying complex causal thinking

    Jonathan A. Fugelsang;Kevin N. Dunbar

  • Analogy use in naturalistic settings: the influence of audience, emotion, and goals.

    Isabelle Blanchette;Kevin Dunbar

  • Priming, analogy, and awareness in complex reasoning

    Christian D. Schunn;Kevin Dunbar

  • Neural Correlates of Creativity in Analogical Reasoning

    Adam E. Green;David J. M. Kraemer;Jonathan A. Fugelsang;Jeremy R. Gray

  • Understanding Fluency and Originality: A latent variable perspective

    Denis Dumas;Kevin N. Dunbar

  • Theory and data interactions of the scientific mind: evidence from the molecular and the cognitive laboratory.

    Jonathan A. Fugelsang;Courtney B. Stein;Adam E. Green;Kevin N. Dunbar

Frequent Co-Authors

Jonathan A. Fugelsang
Jonathan A. Fugelsang University of Waterloo
David Klahr
David Klahr Carnegie Mellon University
Michael S. Gazzaniga
Michael S. Gazzaniga University of California, Santa Barbara
Paul M. Corballis
Paul M. Corballis University of Auckland
Jonathan D. Cohen
Jonathan D. Cohen Princeton University
Jeremy R. Gray
Jeremy R. Gray Michigan State University
Valerie A. Thompson
Valerie A. Thompson University of Saskatchewan
James P. Byrnes
James P. Byrnes Temple University
James L. McClelland
James L. McClelland Stanford University
Joshua D. Greene
Joshua D. Greene Harvard University

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