2026 Robert L. Goldstone: Neuroscience Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Neuroscience	77	1834	1673	883	786	331	22146
Psychology	73	1962	1775	1146	1013	316	20805

Research.com Recognitions

2016 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
2004 - Troland Research Awards, United States National Academy of Sciences For novel experimental analyses and elegant modeling that show how perceptual learning dynamically adjusts dimensions and boundaries of categories and concepts in human thought.

Overview

Robert L. Goldstone is affiliated with Indiana University in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of psychology and social sciences, with significant contributions in developmental and educational psychology, experimental and cognitive psychology, cognitive neuroscience, sociology and political science, and artificial intelligence.

The scientist's work addresses several key topics, including:

Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation
Opinion Dynamics and Social Influence
Action Observation and Synchronization
Child and Animal Learning Development
Language and Cultural Evolution
Categorization, Perception, and Language
Visual and Cognitive Learning Processes

Among frequent co-authors are Marina Dubova, Benjamin Motz, Emily R. Fyfe, Paulo F. Carvalho, and Edgar Andrade-Lotero. Collaborative efforts have often appeared in prominent venues reflecting cognitive and psychological research.

Robert L. Goldstone has published extensively in the following venues:

Cognitive Science
Cognitive Research Principles and Implications
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Cognition
Journal of The Royal Society Interface

Selected recent publications include:

Why does peer instruction benefit student learning? (2020), published in Cognitive Research Principles and Implications
Beyond collective intelligence: Collective adaptation (2023), published in Journal of The Royal Society Interface
ManyClasses 1: Assessing the Generalizable Effect of Immediate Feedback Versus Delayed Feedback Across Many College Classes (2021), published in Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science
The present and future of peer review: Ideas, interventions, and evidence (2025), published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Coordination and Consonance Between Interacting, Improvising Musicians (2020), published in Open Mind

Robert L. Goldstone has been recognized with the Troland Research Awards from the United States National Academy of Sciences in 2004 for work related to perceptual learning and category adjustment. In 2016, they were named a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Best Publications

Respects for similarity

Douglas L. Medin;Robert L. Goldstone;Dedre Gentner

1753
Citations
The development of features in object concepts

Philippe G. Schyns;Robert L. Goldstone;Jean-Pierre Thibaut

896
Citations
Influences of categorization on perceptual discrimination.

Robert L. Goldstone

892
Citations
The role of similarity in categorization: providing a groundwork.

Robert L. Goldstone

792
Citations
Reuniting perception and conception.

Robert L Goldstone;Lawrence W Barsalou

713
Citations
The Transfer of Scientific Principles Using Concrete and Idealized Simulations

Robert L. Goldstone;Ji Y. Son

621
Citations
Relational similarity and the nonindependence of features in similarity judgments.

Robert L Goldstone;Douglas L Medin;Dedre Gentner

562
Citations
Similarity-Dissimilarity Competition in Disjunctive Classification Tasks

Fabien Mathy;Harry Haroutioun Haladjian;Eric Laurent;Rob. L. Goldstone

485
Citations
Computational models of collective behavior

Robert L. Goldstone;Marco A. Janssen

481
Citations
Similarity, interactive activation, and mapping

Robert Lee Goldstone

436
Citations
Altering object representations through category learning.

Robert L Goldstone;Yvonne Lippa;Richard M Shiffrin

424
Citations
The transfer of abstract principles governing complex adaptive systems

Robert L Goldstone;Yasuaki Sakamoto

418
Citations
Concreteness Fading in Mathematics and Science Instruction: A Systematic Review.

Emily R. Fyfe;Nicole M. McNeil;Ji Y. Son;Robert L. Goldstone

402
Citations
The Import of Knowledge Export: Connecting Findings and Theories of Transfer of Learning

Samuel B. Day;Robert L. Goldstone

389
Citations
Transformational Play as a Curricular Scaffold: Using Videogames to Support Science Education

Sasha A. Barab;Brianna Scott;Sinem Siyahhan;Robert Goldstone

382
Citations
Recognizing group cognition

Georg Theiner;Colin Allen;Robert L. Goldstone

318
Citations
Similarity Involving Attributes and Relations: Judgments of Similarity and Difference Are Not Inverses

Douglas L. Medin;Robert L. Goldstone;Dedre Gentner

298
Citations
Effects of Categorization on Color Perception

Robert L. Goldstone

289
Citations
The sensitization and differentiation of dimensions during category learning.

Robert L. Goldstone;Mark Steyvers

286
Citations
Promoting Transfer by Grounding Complex Systems Principles.

Robert L. Goldstone;Uri Wilensky

278
Citations
Categorical perception

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243
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Peter M. Todd Indiana University

Douglas L. Medin Northwestern University

Philippe G. Schyns University of Glasgow

Linda B. Smith Indiana University

Gary Lupyan University of Wisconsin–Madison

Dedre Gentner Northwestern University

Arthur B. Markman The University of Texas at Austin

Robert M. Nosofsky Indiana University

Woo-kyoung Ahn Yale University

Jamin Halberstadt University of Otago

External Links

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