Rafael Núñez

Rafael Núñez 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 Rafael Núñez sits on this spectrum.

Rafael Núñez 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 Rafael Núñez sits on this spectrum.

Research.com Recognitions

• 2003 - Hellman Fellow

Best Publications

• Where mathematics comes from : how the embodied mind brings mathematics into being

  George Lakoff;Rafael E. Núñez

  2315
  Citations

• With the Future Behind Them: Convergent Evidence From Aymara Language and Gesture in the Crosslinguistic Comparison of Spatial Construals of Time

  Rafael E. Núñez;Eve Sweetser

  1102
  Citations

• Embodied cognition as grounding for situatedness and context in mathematics education

  Rafael E. Nunez;Laurie D. Edwards;Joao Filipe Matos

  546
  Citations

• The tangle of space and time in human cognition

  Rafael Núñez;Kensy Cooperrider

  485
  Citations

• Time after time: The psychological reality of the Ego- and Time-Reference-Point distinction in metaphorical construals of time.

  Rafael E. Nunez;Benjamin A. Motz;Ursina Teuscher

  287
  Citations

• Is There Really an Evolved Capacity for Number

  Rafael E. Núñez

  231
  Citations

• What happened to cognitive science

  Rafael Núñez;Michael Allen;Richard Gao;Carson Miller Rigoli

  214
  Citations

• Contours of time: Topographic construals of past, present, and future in the Yupno valley of Papua New Guinea

  Rafael Núñez;Kensy Cooperrider;D Doan;Jürg Wassmann

  188
  Citations

• Reclaiming cognition : the primacy of action, intention and emotion

  Rafael Núñez;Walter J. Freeman

  166
  Citations

• Across time, across the body: Transversal temporal gestures

  Kensy Cooperrider;Rafael Núñez

  161
  Citations

• Do Real Numbers Really Move? Language, Thought, and Gesture: The Embodied Cognitive Foundations of Mathematics

  Rafael E. Núñez

  146
  Citations

• The Metaphorical Structure of Mathematics: Sketching Out Cognitive Foundations for a Mind-Based Mathematics

  George Lakoff;Rafael E. Nunez

  138
  Citations

• No Innate Number Line in the Human Brain

  Rafael E. Núñez

  121
  Citations

• The motion behind the symbols: a vital role for dynamism in the conceptualization of limits and continuity in expert mathematics.

  Tyler Marghetis;Rafael E. Núñez

  117
  Citations

• Facing the sunrise: cultural worldview underlying intrinsic-based encoding of absolute frames of reference in aymara.

  Rafael E. Núñez;Carlos Cornejo

  114
  Citations

• Doing arithmetic by hand: Hand movements during exact arithmetic reveal systematic, dynamic spatial processing

  Tyler Marghetis;Rafael Núñez;Benjamin K. Bergen

  109
  Citations

• Gesture and metaphor comprehension: Electrophysiological evidence of cross-modal coordination by audiovisual stimulation

  Carlos Cornejo;Franco Simonetti;Agustín Ibáñez;Nerea Aldunate

  104
  Citations

• Creating mathematical infinities: Metaphor, blending, and the beauty of transfinite cardinals

  Rafael E. Núñez

  83
  Citations

• The Preference for Pointing With the Hand Is Not Universal.

  Kensy Cooperrider;James D. Slotta;Rafael E. Núñez

  69
  Citations

• Could the future taste purple? Reclaiming mind, body and cognition

  Rafael E. Nunez

  66
  Citations