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42
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4677
National Ranking
2221

Overview

Terry Regier is affiliated with the University of California, Berkeley in the United States. Their research spans multiple domains within psychology and social sciences, focusing especially on language and cultural evolution, categorization and perception related to language, and cognitive aspects of mathematical skills.

The main fields of study for Terry Regier include:

  • Psychology
  • Social Sciences

With a specialization in subfields, their work predominantly covers:

  • Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
  • Cultural Studies
  • Language and Linguistics
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Statistics and Probability

Terry Regier's research topics reflect a focus on the intersections between language, cognition, and culture, including:

  • Language and cultural evolution
  • Categorization, perception, and language
  • Language, Metaphor, and Cognition
  • Multisensory perception and integration
  • Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation
  • Natural Language Processing Techniques
  • Cognitive and developmental aspects of mathematical skills

Recent publications by Terry Regier include:

  • The forms and meanings of grammatical markers support efficient communication, 2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Numeral Systems Across Languages Support Efficient Communication: From Approximate Numerosity to Recursion, 2020, Open Mind
  • The evolution of color naming reflects pressure for efficiency: Evidence from the recent past, 2022, Journal of Language Evolution
  • The evolution of color naming reflects pressure for efficiency: Evidence from the recent past, 2021, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Sunlight exposure cannot explain "grue" languages, 2023, Scientific Reports

These publications appear in journals and venues such as:

  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Journal of Language Evolution
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Open Mind
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

Frequent collaborators in Terry Regier's research include:

  • Charles Kemp
  • Noga Zaslavsky
  • Naftali Tishby
  • Karee Garvin
  • Ekaterina Vylomova

Terry Regier's work contributes to understanding how language functions within cognitive and cultural systems, addressing how communication systems evolve to maintain efficiency and how perceptual and cognitive factors influence linguistic structure and use.

Best Publications

  • Whorf hypothesis is supported in the right visual field but not the left

    Aubrey L. Gilbert;Terry Regier;Paul Kay;Richard B. Ivry

  • Language, thought, and color: Whorf was half right

    Terry Regier;Paul Kay

  • The human semantic potential: Spatial language and constrained connectionism.

    Terry Regier

  • Color naming reflects optimal partitions of color space

    Terry Regier;Paul Kay;Naveen Khetarpal

  • Resolving the question of color naming universals

    Paul Kay;Terry Regier

  • Focal colors are universal after all

    Terry Regier;Paul Kay;Richard S. Cook

  • Grounding spatial language in perception: an empirical and computational investigation.

    Terry Regier;Laura A. Carlson

  • Kinship Categories Across Languages Reflect General Communicative Principles

    Charles Kemp;Terry Regier

  • The Learnability of Abstract Syntactic Principles.

    Amy Perfors;Joshua B. Tenenbaum;Terry Regier

  • Categorical perception of color is lateralized to the right hemisphere in infants, but to the left hemisphere in adults

    A. Franklin;G. V. Drivonikou;L. Bevis;I. R. L. Davies

  • The emergence of words: attentional learning in form and meaning.

    Terry Regier

  • Further Evidence That Whorfian Effects Are Stronger in the Right Visual Field Than the Left

    G. V. Drivonikou;P. Kay;T. Regier;R. B. Ivry

  • Efficient compression in color naming and its evolution

    Noga Zaslavsky;Charles Kemp;Terry Regier;Naftali Tishby

  • Language, thought and color: recent developments

    Paul Kay;Terry Regier

  • Word Meanings across Languages Support Efficient Communication

    Terry Regier;Charles Kemp;Paul Kay

  • The human semantic potential

    Terry Regier

  • Semantic Typology and Efficient Communication

    Charles Kemp;Yang Xu;Terry Regier

  • Attention to Endpoints: A Cross‐Linguistic Constraint on Spatial Meaning

    Terry Regier;Mingyu Zheng

  • Lateralization of categorical perception of color changes with color term acquisition

    A. Franklin;G. V. Drivonikou;A. Clifford;P. Kay

  • Learning the unlearnable: the role of missing evidence

    Terry Regier;Susanne Gahl

Frequent Co-Authors

Paul Kay
Paul Kay University of California, Berkeley
Asifa Majid
Asifa Majid University of York
Richard B. Ivry
Richard B. Ivry University of California, Berkeley
Anna Franklin
Anna Franklin University of Sussex
Barbara C. Malt
Barbara C. Malt Lehigh University
Nora S. Newcombe
Nora S. Newcombe Temple University
Susan C. Levine
Susan C. Levine University of Chicago
Linda B. Smith
Linda B. Smith Indiana University
Amanda L. Woodward
Amanda L. Woodward University of Chicago
Steven A. Sloman
Steven A. Sloman Brown University

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