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Stefano Ghirlanda

Stefano Ghirlanda

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Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
34
Citations
6360
World Ranking
6889
National Ranking
96

Overview

Stefano Ghirlanda is affiliated with Stockholm University in Sweden and has contributed to the field of psychology, focusing on multiple subfields including social psychology, cultural studies, cognitive neuroscience, developmental and educational psychology, and artificial intelligence.

Their research spans several main topics such as language and cultural evolution, child and animal learning development, memory and neural mechanisms, zebrafish biomedical research applications, neuroendocrine regulation and behavior, evolutionary algorithms and applications, and genomics and phylogenetic studies.

Stefano Ghirlanda has published papers in several venues, with repeated contributions to the Journal of Experimental Psychology Animal Learning and Cognition, Behavioural Processes, Princeton University Press eBooks, as well as notable publications in PLoS ONE and Psychonomic Bulletin & Review.

  • A test of memory for stimulus sequences in great apes, 2023, PLoS ONE
  • A-learning: A new formulation of associative learning theory, 2020, Psychonomic Bulletin & Review
  • Sequence representation as an early step in the evolution of language, 2023, PLoS Computational Biology
  • Learning Simulator: A simulation software for animal and human learning, 2021, The Journal of Open Source Software
  • A joint future for cultural evolution and developmental psychology, 2024, Developmental Review

Ghirlanda has also contributed to book publications with Princeton University Press, including two editions of The Human Evolutionary Transition published in 2022 and 2023.

Frequently collaborating coauthors include:

  • Magnus Enquist
  • Johan Lind
  • Markus Jonsson
  • Vera Vinken

These collaborations align with the underlying themes in Ghirlanda's research activities, spanning experimental psychology, learning mechanisms, and cultural evolutionary theory.

Best Publications

  • Why Copy Others? Insights from the Social Learning Strategies Tournament

    Luke Rendell;R Boyd;D Cownden;Magnus Enquist

  • A century of generalization

    Stefano Ghirlanda;Magnus Enquist

  • The evolution of brain lateralization: a game-theoretical analysis of population structure

    Stefano Ghirlanda;Giorgio Vallortigara

  • Critical Social Learning: A Solution to Rogers's Paradox of Nonadaptive Culture

    Magnus Enquist;Kimmo Eriksson;Stefano Ghirlanda

  • Motor cortex hyperexcitability to transcranial magnetic stimulation in Alzheimer’s disease

    V Di Lazzaro;A Oliviero;F Pilato;E Saturno

  • General properties of overlap probability distributions in disordered spin systems. Toward Parisi ultrametricity

    Stefano Ghirlanda;Francesco Guerra

  • Intraspecific competition and coordination in the evolution of lateralization

    Stefano Ghirlanda;Elisa Frasnelli;Giorgio Vallortigara

  • General properties of overlap probability distributions in disordered spin systems. Towards Parisi ultrametricity

    Stefano Ghirlanda;Francesco Guerra

  • Neurophysiological predictors of long term response to AChE inhibitors in AD patients

    Di Lazzaro;A Oliviero;F Pilato;E Saturno

  • Modelling the evolution and diversity of cumulative culture.

    Magnus Enquist;Stefano Ghirlanda;Stefano Ghirlanda;Kimmo Eriksson

  • Fashion vs. Function in Cultural Evolution: The Case of Dog Breed Popularity

    Stefano Ghirlanda;Alberto Acerbi;Harold A. Herzog;James A. Serpell

  • Animal memory: A review of delayed matching-to-sample data.

    Johan Lind;Magnus Enquist;Stefano Ghirlanda

  • CRITICAL POINTS IN CURRENT THEORY OF CONFORMIST SOCIAL LEARNING

    Kimmo Eriksson;Magnus Enquist;Stefano Ghirlanda

  • Why does human culture increase exponentially

    Magnus Enquist;Stefano Ghirlanda;Stefano Ghirlanda;Arne Jarrick;C-A Wachtmeister

  • Artificial neural networks as models of stimulus control

    Stefano Ghirlanda;Magnus Enquist

  • Neural networks and animal behavior

    Magnus Enquist;Stefano Ghirlanda

  • Evolution of social learning does not explain the origin of human cumulative culture.

    Magnus Enquist;Stefano Ghirlanda

  • Dog Movie Stars and Dog Breed Popularity: A Case Study in Media Influence on Choice

    Stefano Ghirlanda;Alberto Acerbi;Harold A. Herzog

  • The logic of fashion cycles

    Alberto Acerbi;Stefano Ghirlanda;Stefano Ghirlanda;Magnus Enquist

  • An ethological theory of attractiveness.

    Magnus Enquist;Stefano Ghirlanda;Daniel Lundqvist;Carl-Adam Wachtmeister

Frequent Co-Authors

Magnus Enquist
Magnus Enquist Stockholm University
Harold A. Herzog
Harold A. Herzog Western Carolina University
Giorgio Vallortigara
Giorgio Vallortigara University of Trento
Guido Gainotti
Guido Gainotti Catholic University of the Sacred Heart
Michele Dileone
Michele Dileone CEU San Pablo University
Anna M. Borghi
Anna M. Borghi Sapienza University of Rome
P.A. Tonali
P.A. Tonali Catholic University of the Sacred Heart
Fabio Pilato
Fabio Pilato Università Campus Bio-Medico
Antonio Oliviero
Antonio Oliviero Hospital Nacional de Parapléjicos de Toledo
Camillo Marra
Camillo Marra Agostino Gemelli University Polyclinic

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