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Sotaro Kita 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 Sotaro Kita sits on this spectrum.

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31 publications 705+

This scientist: 156 publications — 52nd percentile

52% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Sotaro Kita 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 Sotaro Kita sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 144+

This scientist: 50 D-Index — 54th percentile

54% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 144 D-Index or more.

Overview

Sotaro Kita is affiliated with the University of Warwick in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily focuses on the field of psychology, with significant contributions in related subfields such as developmental and educational psychology, experimental and cognitive psychology, cognitive neuroscience, human-computer interaction, and language and linguistics.

The research topics covered by Sotaro Kita include:

  • Hearing Impairment and Communication
  • Child and Animal Learning Development
  • Multisensory Perception and Integration
  • Tactile and Sensory Interactions
  • Language, Metaphor, and Cognition
  • Hand Gesture Recognition Systems
  • Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies

The scientist's frequent publication venues are:

  • Exchanges The Interdisciplinary Research Journal
  • Journal of Experimental Psychology General
  • The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
  • Child Development
  • IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering

Notable recent papers authored or coauthored by Sotaro Kita include:

  • "Usefulness of Muscle Synergy Analysis in Individuals With Knee Osteoarthritis During Gait," 2020, IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering
  • "Seeing Iconic Gesture Promotes First- and Second-Order Verb Generalization in Preschoolers," 2020, Child Development
  • "Gesture links language and cognition for spoken and signed languages," 2023, Nature Reviews Psychology
  • "Prior experience with unlabeled actions promotes 3-year-old children's verb learning," 2021, Journal of Experimental Psychology General
  • "Do 14-17-month-old infants use iconic speech and gesture cues to interpret word meanings?" 2024, The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

The scientist has collaborated frequently with several coauthors, including Suzanne Aussems, Magdalena Matyjek, Salvador Soto-Faraco, Katherine H. Mumford, and Mireia Torralba Cuello.

Best Publications

  • What does cross-linguistic variation in semantic coordination of speech and gesture reveal? Evidence for an interface representation of spatial thinking and speaking

    Sotaro Kita;Asli Özyürek

  • Can language restructure cognition? The case for space

    Asifa Majid;Melissa Bowerman;Sotaro Kita;Daniel B. M. Haun

  • How representational gestures help speaking

    Sotaro Kita

  • Children Creating Core Properties of Language: Evidence from an Emerging Sign Language in Nicaragua

    Ann Senghas;Sotaro Kita;Asli Ozyurek

  • Gesture and the process of speech production: We think, therefore we gesture

    Martha W. Alibali;Sotaro Kita;Amanda J. Young

  • Semantic Typology and Spatial Conceptualization

    Eric Pederson;Eve Danziger;David Wilkins;Stephen C. Levinson

  • Pointing: Where language, culture, and cognition meet

    Sotaro Kita

  • Sound symbolism facilitates early verb learning.

    Mutsumi Imai;Sotaro Kita;Miho Nagumo;Hiroyuki Okada

  • The sound symbolism bootstrapping hypothesis for language acquisition and language evolution

    Mutsumi Imai;Sotaro Kita

  • Movement Phase in Signs and Co-Speech Gestures, and Their Transcriptions by Human Coders

    Sotaro Kita;Ingeborg van Gijn;Harry van der Hulst

  • Returning the tables: language affects spatial reasoning

    Stephen C Levinson;Sotaro Kita;Daniel B.M Haun;Björn H Rasch

  • Offering a Hand to Pragmatic Understanding: The Role of Speech and Gesture in Comprehension and Memory

    Spencer D. Kelly;Dale J. Barr;R.Breckinridge Church;Katheryn Lynch

  • Cross-cultural variation of speech-accompanying gesture: A review

    Sotaro Kita

  • The nature of gestures' beneficial role in spatial problem solving.

    Mingyuan Chu;Sotaro Kita

  • Two-dimensional semantic analysis of Japanese mimetics

    Sotaro Kita

  • On-line Integration of Semantic Information from Speech and Gesture: Insights from Event-related Brain Potentials

    Aslı Özyürek;Roel M. Willems;Sotaro Kita;Peter Hagoort

  • Demonstratives in Space and Interaction: Data from Lao Speakers and Implications for Semantic Analysis

    N. J. Enfield

  • How Do Gestures Influence Thinking and Speaking? The Gesture-for-Conceptualization Hypothesis

    Sotaro Kita;Martha W. Alibali;Mingyuan Chu

  • Principles of event segmentation in language: The case of motion events

    Jürgen Bohnemeyer;Nicholas J. Enfield;James Essegbey;Iraide Ibarretxe-Antuñano

  • Language-specific and universal influences in children’s syntactic packaging of Manner and Path: A comparison of English, Japanese, and Turkish

    Shanley Allen;Aslı Özyürek;Sotaro Kita;Amanda Brown

  • Sound symbolism scaffolds language development in preverbal infants

    Michiko Asano;Mutsumi Imai;Sotaro Kita;Keiichi Kitajo

  • Japanese sound symbolism facilitates word learning in English speaking children

    Katerina Kantartzis;Mutsumi Imai;Sotaro Kita

  • Spontaneous Gestures Influence Strategy Choices in Problem Solving

    Martha W. Alibali;Robert C. Spencer;Lucy Knox;Sotaro Kita

  • Spontaneous Gestures During Mental Rotation Tasks: Insights Into the Microdevelopment of the Motor Strategy

    Mingyuan Chu;Sotaro Kita

Frequent Co-Authors

Asli Ozyurek
Asli Ozyurek Max Planck Society
Mutsumi Imai
Mutsumi Imai Keio University
Shanley E. M. Allen
Shanley E. M. Allen Technical University of Kaiserslautern
Martha W. Alibali
Martha W. Alibali University of Wisconsin–Madison
N. J. Enfield
N. J. Enfield University of Sydney
Stephen C. Levinson
Stephen C. Levinson Radboud University
Guillaume Thierry
Guillaume Thierry Bangor University
Joanna Moss
Joanna Moss University of Surrey
Chris Oliver
Chris Oliver University of Birmingham
Ian A. Apperly
Ian A. Apperly University of Birmingham

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