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Lawrence W. Barsalou

Lawrence W. Barsalou

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Psychology
UK
2026

D-Index & Metrics

Psychology

D-Index
91
Citations
56919
World Ranking
898
National Ranking
106

Lawrence W. Barsalou publication distribution in Psychology in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Psychology in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Lawrence W. Barsalou sits on this spectrum.

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31 publications 705+

This scientist: 180 publications — 62nd percentile

62% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 705 publications or more.

Lawrence W. Barsalou D-index placement in Psychology in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Psychology scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Lawrence W. Barsalou sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 144+

This scientist: 91 D-Index — 92nd percentile

92% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 144 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Psychology in United Kingdom Leader Award
  • 2010 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 2002 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

Overview

Lawrence W. Barsalou is affiliated with the University of Glasgow in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily focuses on psychology, with significant contributions across several subfields including social psychology, applied psychology, experimental and cognitive psychology, clinical psychology, and cognitive neuroscience.

The topics frequently addressed in Barsalou's work include:

  • Action Observation and Synchronization
  • Behavioral Health and Interventions
  • Language, Metaphor, and Cognition
  • Child and Animal Learning Development
  • Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
  • Obsessive-Compulsive Spectrum Disorders
  • Embodied and Extended Cognition

Barsalou has published in a variety of academic venues with notable frequency, including:

  • Appetite
  • Journal of Cognition
  • Current Directions in Psychological Science
  • Scientific Reports
  • Topics in Cognitive Science

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Barsalou highlight a focus on grounded cognition and conceptual processing:

  • Challenges and Opportunities for Grounding Cognition (2020, Journal of Cognition)
  • Implications of Grounded Cognition for Conceptual Processing Across Cultures (2023, Topics in Cognitive Science)

Other recent influential papers in related areas include:

  • Understanding Desire for Food and Drink: A Grounded-Cognition Approach (2020, Current Directions in Psychological Science)
  • Brain correlates of action word memory revealed by fMRI (2022, Scientific Reports)
  • The Situated Assessment Method (SAM2): Establishing individual differences in habitual behavior (2023, PLoS ONE)

Frequent collaborators in Barsalou's research include:

  • Esther K. Papies
  • Léo Dutriaux
  • Amy Rodger
  • Christoph Scheepers
  • Courtney Taylor Browne Lūka

Barsalou has been recognized with fellowships from scientific organizations including:

  • Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 2010
  • Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, 2002

Best Publications

  • Perceptual symbol systems.

    Lawrence W. Barsalou

  • Grounded Cognition

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  • Ad hoc categories

    Lawrence W. Barsalou

  • Embodiment in Attitudes, Social Perception, and Emotion

    Paula M. Niedenthal;Lawrence W. Barsalou;Piotr Winkielman;Silvia Krauth-Gruber

  • Grounding conceptual knowledge in modality-specific systems.

    Lawrence W. Barsalou;W. Kyle Simmons;Aron K. Barbey;Christine D. Wilson

  • Ideals' central tendency, and frequency of instantiation as determinants of graded structure in categories

    Lawrence W. Barsalou

  • Situated Simulation in the Human Conceptual System.

    Lawrence W. Barsalou

  • Simulation, situated conceptualization, and prediction

    Lawrence W. Barsalou

  • Frames, concepts, and conceptual fields.

    Lawrence W. Barsalou

  • Context-independent and context-dependent information in concepts

    Lawrence W. Barsalou

  • Grounded Cognition: Past, Present, and Future

    Lawrence W. Barsalou

  • Cognitive Psychology: An Overview for Cognitive Scientists

    Lawrence W. Barsalou

  • Deriving Categories to Achieve Goals

    Lawrence W. Barsalou

  • Mind wandering and attention during focused meditation: a fine-grained temporal analysis of fluctuating cognitive states.

    Wendy Hasenkamp;Wendy Hasenkamp;Christine D. Wilson-Mendenhall;Erica Duncan;Erica Duncan;Lawrence W. Barsalou

  • Language and simulation in conceptual processing

    Lawrence W. Barsalou;Ava Santos;W. Kyle Simmons amp Wilson;D Christine

  • The content and organization of autobiographical memories

    Lawrence W. Barsalou

  • Situating Abstract Concepts

    Lawrence W. Barsalou;Katja Wiemer-Hastings

  • The instability of graded structure: implications for the nature of concepts

    Lawrence W. Barsalou

  • Perceptions of perceptual symbols

    Lawrence W. Barsalou

  • Pictures of Appetizing Foods Activate Gustatory Cortices for Taste and Reward

    W. Kyle Simmons;Alex Martin;Lawrence W. Barsalou

  • Reuniting perception and conception.

    Robert L Goldstone;Lawrence W Barsalou

Frequent Co-Authors

Lisa Feldman Barrett
Lisa Feldman Barrett Northeastern University
W. Kyle Simmons
W. Kyle Simmons Oklahoma State University Center for Health Sciences
Esther K. Papies
Esther K. Papies University of Glasgow
Diane Pecher
Diane Pecher Erasmus University Rotterdam
René Zeelenberg
René Zeelenberg Erasmus University Rotterdam
Ken McRae
Ken McRae University of Western Ontario
Alex Martin
Alex Martin National Institutes of Health
Paula M. Niedenthal
Paula M. Niedenthal University of Wisconsin–Madison
Michael J. Spivey
Michael J. Spivey University of California, Merced
Aron K. Barbey
Aron K. Barbey University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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