2026 Michael Ramscar: Social Sciences and Humanities Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Social Sciences and Humanities	37	6183	5743	159	142	144	7376

Overview

Michael Ramscar is affiliated with the University of Tübingen in Germany. Their research spans a range of topics primarily within psychology and computer science, with a focus on language, cognition, and learning processes.

The main fields of study for Ramscar include:

Psychology
Computer Science

Within these fields, their work delves into several subfields, notably:

Developmental and Educational Psychology
Artificial Intelligence
Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
Cognitive Neuroscience
Cultural Studies

Key topics of research addressed by Ramscar encompass:

Language and cultural evolution
Child and Animal Learning Development
Language Development and Disorders
Phonetics and Phonology Research
Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism
Language, Metaphor, and Cognition
Speech and dialogue systems

Ramscar has published extensively, contributing to journals that include:

Cognitive Science
arXiv (Cornell University)
Language Cognition and Neuroscience
Scientific Study of Literature
Psychological Research

Their recent papers include:

"Order Matters! Influences of Linear Order on Linguistic Category Learning" (2020), Cognitive Science
"Quantifying the speech-gesture relation with massive multimodal datasets: Informativity in time expressions" (2020), PLoS ONE
"Modal and amodal cognition: an overarching principle in various domains of psychology" (2023), Psychological Research
"Language learning as uncertainty reduction: The role of prediction error in linguistic generalization and item-learning" (2021), Journal of Memory and Language
"A discriminative account of the learning, representation and processing of inflection systems" (2021), Language Cognition and Neuroscience

Collaborative work is a feature of Ramscar's research, with frequent co-authors including:

Fabian Tomaschek
Jacolien van Rij
Elizabeth Wonnacott
Barbara Kaup
Mandy Hütter

Best Publications

The Roles of Body and Mind in Abstract Thought

Lera Boroditsky;Michael Ramscar

1226
Citations
Cognition Without Control When a Little Frontal Lobe Goes a Long Way

Sharon L. Thompson-Schill;Michael Ramscar;Evangelia G. Chrysikou

402
Citations
The Myth of Cognitive Decline: Non‐Linear Dynamics of Lifelong Learning

Michael Ramscar;Peter Hendrix;Cyrus Shaoul;Petar Milin

394
Citations
The Effects of Feature-Label-Order and Their Implications for Symbolic Learning

Michael Ramscar;Daniel Yarlett;Melody Dye;Katherine Denny

382
Citations
The role of meaning in inflection: why the past tense does not require a rule.

Michael Ramscar

344
Citations
On the Experiential Link Between Spatial and Temporal Language

Teenie Matlock;Michael Ramscar;Lera Boroditsky

327
Citations
Error and expectation in language learning: The curious absence of mouses in adult speech

Michael Ramscar;Melody Dye;Stewart M. McCauley

279
Citations
Linguistic self-correction in the absence of feedback: a new approach to the logical problem of language acquisition.

Michael Ramscar;Daniel Yarlett

232
Citations
Granularity and the acquisition of grammatical gender: How order-of-acquisition affects what gets learned

Inbal Arnon;Michael Ramscar

223
Citations
Testing the Distributioanl Hypothesis: The influence of Context on Judgements of Semantic Similarity

Scott McDonald;Michael Ramscar

214
Citations
Discrimination in lexical decision

Petar Milin;Laurie Beth Feldman;Michael Ramscar;Peter Hendrix

199
Citations
Frequency in lexical processing

R. Harald Baayen;Petar Milin;Michael Ramscar

189
Citations
Developmental change and the nature of learning in childhood.

Michael Ramscar;Nicole Gitcho

168
Citations
The Role of Learning Strategies in Second Language Acquisition

Asha Halima Smith;Michael Ramscar

140
Citations
Similarity and categorization

Ulrike Hahn;Michael Ramscar

139
Citations
New Perspectives on the Aging Lexicon

Dirk U. Wulff;Simon De Deyne;Michael N. Jones;Rui Mata

137
Citations
The Zipfian paradigm cell filling problem

James P. Blevins;Petar Milin;Michael Ramscar

133
Citations
Children Value Informativity Over Logic in Word Learning

Michael Ramscar;Melody Dye;Joseph Klein

133
Citations
Comprehension without segmentation: a proof of concept with naive discriminative learning

R. Harald Baayen;Cyrus Shaoul;Jon Anthony Willits;Michael Ramscar

129
Citations
Relationships Between Language Structure and Language Learning: The Suffixing Preference and Grammatical Categorization

Michelle C. St. Clair;Padraic Monaghan;Michael Ramscar

122
Citations
The Roles of Body and Mind in Abstract Thought

Lera Boroditsky;Michael Ramscar;Michael C. Frank

3
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

R. Harald Baayen University of Tübingen

Lera Boroditsky University of California, San Diego

Ulrike Hahn Birkbeck, University of London

Martin Corley University of Edinburgh

Bradley C. Love University College London

Tracy Packiam Alloway University of North Florida

Natasha Z. Kirkham Birkbeck, University of London

Michael C. Frank Stanford University

Laurie Beth Feldman University at Albany, State University of New York

Yee Lee Shing Goethe University Frankfurt

External Links

Personal website of Michael Ramscar Google Scholar page

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