2026 Sotaro Kita: Psychology Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Psychology	50	5337	4952	557	527	156	17633

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

1257
Citations
Can language restructure cognition? The case for space

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

1000
Citations
How representational gestures help speaking

Sotaro Kita

955
Citations
Children Creating Core Properties of Language: Evidence from an Emerging Sign Language in Nicaragua

Ann Senghas;Sotaro Kita;Asli Ozyurek

940
Citations
Gesture and the process of speech production: We think, therefore we gesture

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

871
Citations
Semantic Typology and Spatial Conceptualization

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

756
Citations
Pointing: Where language, culture, and cognition meet

Sotaro Kita

727
Citations
Sound symbolism facilitates early verb learning.

Mutsumi Imai;Sotaro Kita;Miho Nagumo;Hiroyuki Okada

613
Citations
The sound symbolism bootstrapping hypothesis for language acquisition and language evolution

Mutsumi Imai;Sotaro Kita

574
Citations
Movement Phase in Signs and Co-Speech Gestures, and Their Transcriptions by Human Coders

Sotaro Kita;Ingeborg van Gijn;Harry van der Hulst

541
Citations
Returning the tables: language affects spatial reasoning

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

520
Citations
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

472
Citations
Cross-cultural variation of speech-accompanying gesture: A review

Sotaro Kita

431
Citations
The nature of gestures' beneficial role in spatial problem solving.

Mingyuan Chu;Sotaro Kita

403
Citations
Two-dimensional semantic analysis of Japanese mimetics

Sotaro Kita

385
Citations
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

384
Citations
Demonstratives in Space and Interaction: Data from Lao Speakers and Implications for Semantic Analysis

N. J. Enfield

375
Citations
How Do Gestures Influence Thinking and Speaking? The Gesture-for-Conceptualization Hypothesis

Sotaro Kita;Martha W. Alibali;Mingyuan Chu

369
Citations
Principles of event segmentation in language: The case of motion events

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

356
Citations
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

283
Citations
Sound symbolism scaffolds language development in preverbal infants

Michiko Asano;Mutsumi Imai;Sotaro Kita;Keiichi Kitajo

261
Citations
Japanese sound symbolism facilitates word learning in English speaking children

Katerina Kantartzis;Mutsumi Imai;Sotaro Kita

249
Citations
Spontaneous Gestures Influence Strategy Choices in Problem Solving

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

198
Citations
Spontaneous Gestures During Mental Rotation Tasks: Insights Into the Microdevelopment of the Motor Strategy

Mingyuan Chu;Sotaro Kita

196
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Mutsumi Imai Keio University

Martha W. Alibali University of Wisconsin–Madison

Guillaume Thierry Bangor University

Stephen C. Levinson Radboud University

Peter Hagoort Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics

Joanna Moss University of Surrey

Chris Oliver University of Birmingham

Ian A. Apperly University of Birmingham

Christine Mohr University of Lausanne

Susan Goldin-Meadow University of Chicago

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