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Linda B. Smith 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 Linda B. Smith sits on this spectrum.

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31 publications 705+

This scientist: 407 publications — 94th percentile

94% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Linda B. Smith 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 Linda B. Smith sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 144+

This scientist: 103 D-Index — 95th percentile

95% 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

  • 2019 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
  • 2013 - APA Award for Distinguished Scientific Contributions to Psychology, American Psychological Association
  • 2013 - David E. Rumelhart Prize for Contributions to the Theoretical Foundations of Human Cognition
  • 2007 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Overview

Linda B. Smith is affiliated with Indiana University in the United States and has a research focus primarily within the field of Psychology. Their work spans multiple subfields, including Developmental and Educational Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience, Education, Statistics and Probability, and Artificial Intelligence.

Their research encompasses topics such as Child and Animal Learning Development, Language Development and Disorders, Cognitive and developmental aspects of mathematical skills, Face Recognition and Perception, Visual perception and processing mechanisms, Hearing Impairment and Communication, and Reading and Literacy Development.

Linda B. Smith has published extensively in several academic venues. The most frequent venues include:

  • Journal of Vision
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Cognition
  • Infancy
  • Developmental Science

Among their recent papers are the following:

  • What are the building blocks of parent-infant coordinated attention in free-flowing interaction? (2020, Infancy)
  • The infant's view redefines the problem of referential uncertainty in early word learning (2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences)
  • Real-world statistics at two timescales and a mechanism for infant learning of object names (2022, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences)
  • The temporal structure of parent talk to toddlers about objects (2022, Cognition)
  • Learning the generative principles of a symbol system from limited examples (2020, Cognition)

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Linda B. Smith include:

  • Chen Yu
  • T. Rowan Candy
  • Lei Yuan
  • Kelly S. Mix
  • Drew H. Abney

Linda B. Smith has received several notable recognitions throughout their career:

  • Member of the National Academy of Sciences (2019)
  • APA Award for Distinguished Scientific Contributions to Psychology, American Psychological Association (2013)
  • David E. Rumelhart Prize for Contributions to the Theoretical Foundations of Human Cognition (2013)
  • Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2007)

Best Publications

  • A Dynamic systems approach to the development of cognition and action

    Esther Thelen;Linda B. Smith

  • The dynamics of embodiment: a field theory of infant perseverative reaching.

    Esther Thelen;Gregor Schöner;Christian Scheier;Linda B. Smith

  • The importance of shape in early lexical learning

    Barbara Landau;Linda B. Smith;Susan S. Jones

  • Dynamic Systems Theories

    Esther Thelen;Linda B. Smith

  • Development as a dynamic system

    Linda B. Smith;Esther Thelen

  • Infants rapidly learn word-referent mappings via cross-situational statistics

    Linda Smith;Chen Yu

  • Rapid Word Learning Under Uncertainty via Cross-Situational Statistics:

    Chen Yu;Linda B. Smith

  • The Development of Embodied Cognition: Six Lessons from Babies

    Linda Smith;Michael Gasser

  • Object name Learning Provides On-the-Job Training for Attention

    Linda B. Smith;Susan S. Jones;Barbara Landau;Lisa Gershkoff-Stowe

  • Naming in young children: a dumb attentional mechanism?

    Linda B. Smith;Susan S. Jones;Barbara Landau

  • Letting structure emerge: connectionist and dynamical systems approaches to cognition

    James L. McClelland;Matthew M. Botvinick;David C. Noelle;David C. Plaut

  • Knowing in the context of acting: the task dynamics of the A-not-B error.

    Linda B. Smith;Esther Thelen;Robert Titzer;Dewey McLin

  • Embodied attention and word learning by toddlers.

    Chen Yu;Linda B. Smith

  • A dynamic systems approach to development: Applications.

    Linda B. Smith;Esther Thelen

  • Joint attention without gaze following: human infants and their parents coordinate visual attention to objects through eye-hand coordination.

    Chen Yu;Linda B. Smith

  • Early noun vocabularies: do ontology, category structure and syntax correspond?

    Larissa K. Samuelson;Linda B. Smith

  • Cognition as a dynamic system: Principles from embodiment

    Linda B. Smith

  • The place of perception in children's concepts ☆

    Susan S Jones;Linda B Smith

  • Object Properties and Knowledge in Early Lexical Learning.

    Susan S. Jones;Linda B. Smith;Barbara Landau

  • Developmental trends in free classification: Evidence for a new conceptualization of perceptual development

    Linda B. Smith;Deborah G. Kemler

Frequent Co-Authors

Chen Yu
Chen Yu The University of Texas at Austin
Susan Jones
Susan Jones University of Nottingham
Esther Thelen
Esther Thelen Indiana University
Larissa K. Samuelson
Larissa K. Samuelson University of East Anglia
Barbara Landau
Barbara Landau Johns Hopkins University
Kelly S. Mix
Kelly S. Mix University of Maryland, College Park
David J. Crandall
David J. Crandall Indiana University
Angelo Cangelosi
Angelo Cangelosi University of Manchester
Robert L. Goldstone
Robert L. Goldstone Indiana University
John P. Spencer
John P. Spencer University of East Anglia

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