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Robert L. Goldstone

Robert L. Goldstone

Indiana University
United States

D-Index & Metrics

Psychology

D-Index
73
Citations
20805
World Ranking
1960
National Ranking
1146

Neuroscience

D-Index
77
Citations
22146
World Ranking
1834
National Ranking
883

Robert L. Goldstone publication distribution in Neuroscience in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Neuroscience in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Robert L. Goldstone sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 887+

This scientist: 331 publications — 86th percentile

86% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 887 publications or more.

Robert L. Goldstone D-index placement in Neuroscience in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Neuroscience scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Robert L. Goldstone sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 163+

This scientist: 77 D-Index — 81st percentile

81% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 163 D-Index or more.

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

  • The development of features in object concepts

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

  • Influences of categorization on perceptual discrimination.

    Robert L. Goldstone

  • The role of similarity in categorization: providing a groundwork.

    Robert L. Goldstone

  • Reuniting perception and conception.

    Robert L Goldstone;Lawrence W Barsalou

  • The Transfer of Scientific Principles Using Concrete and Idealized Simulations

    Robert L. Goldstone;Ji Y. Son

  • Relational similarity and the nonindependence of features in similarity judgments.

    Robert L Goldstone;Douglas L Medin;Dedre Gentner

  • Similarity-Dissimilarity Competition in Disjunctive Classification Tasks

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

  • Computational models of collective behavior

    Robert L. Goldstone;Marco A. Janssen

  • Similarity, interactive activation, and mapping

    Robert Lee Goldstone

  • Altering object representations through category learning.

    Robert L Goldstone;Yvonne Lippa;Richard M Shiffrin

  • The transfer of abstract principles governing complex adaptive systems

    Robert L Goldstone;Yasuaki Sakamoto

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

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

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

    Samuel B. Day;Robert L. Goldstone

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

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

  • Recognizing group cognition

    Georg Theiner;Colin Allen;Robert L. Goldstone

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

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

  • Effects of Categorization on Color Perception

    Robert L. Goldstone

  • The sensitization and differentiation of dimensions during category learning.

    Robert L. Goldstone;Mark Steyvers

  • Promoting Transfer by Grounding Complex Systems Principles.

    Robert L. Goldstone;Uri Wilensky

  • Categorical perception

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Frequent Co-Authors

Peter M. Todd
Peter M. Todd Indiana University
Douglas L. Medin
Douglas L. Medin Northwestern University
Thomas L. Griffiths
Thomas L. Griffiths Princeton University
Mark Steyvers
Mark Steyvers University of California, Irvine
Loet Leydesdorff
Loet Leydesdorff University of Amsterdam
Gary Lupyan
Gary Lupyan University of Wisconsin–Madison
Linda B. Smith
Linda B. Smith Indiana University
Philippe G. Schyns
Philippe G. Schyns University of Glasgow
Arthur B. Markman
Arthur B. Markman The University of Texas at Austin
Dedre Gentner
Dedre Gentner Northwestern University

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