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79
Citations
76364
World Ranking
393
National Ranking
185

Research.com Recognitions

  • 1992 - APA Award for Distinguished Scientific Contributions to Psychology, American Psychological Association
  • 1978 - Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA)

Overview

Walter Kintsch was a researcher affiliated with the University of Colorado Boulder in the United States. Throughout their career, they contributed primarily to the fields of psychology and neuroscience, with a stronger focus on psychology based on the number of publications.

Their research spanned several subfields including general psychology, social psychology, and cognitive neuroscience. Main topics addressed in their work included academic and historical perspectives in psychology, social representations and identity, and cognitive science and education research.

Kintsch had publications in the journal Discourse Processes, reflecting their involvement in discourse and cognitive processing studies.

  • A history of psychology as it happened to me, 2025, Discourse Processes

They did not frequently collaborate with other authors, as no frequent co-authors were listed.

Throughout their career, Kintsch was recognized by professional organizations. They were named a Fellow of the American Psychological Association in 1978. Later, in 1992, they received the APA Award for Distinguished Scientific Contributions to Psychology from the American Psychological Association.

Best Publications

  • Strategies of discourse comprehension

    Teun Adrianus van Dijk;Walter Kintsch

  • Toward a model of text comprehension and production.

    Walter Kintsch;Teun A. van Dijk

  • Comprehension: A Paradigm for Cognition

    Walter Kintsch

  • The role of knowledge in discourse comprehension : a construction-integration model

    Walter Kintsch

  • Long-term working memory

    K A Ericsson;W Kintsch

  • Memory and cognition

    Walter Kintsch

  • The representation of meaning in memory

    Walter Kintsch

  • Are Good Texts Always Better? Interactions of Text Coherence, Background Knowledge, and Levels of Understanding in Learning From Text

    Danielle S. McNamara;Danielle S. McNamara;Eileen Kintsch;Nancy Butler Songer;Walter Kintsch

  • Handbook of latent semantic analysis

    Thomas K. Landauer;Danielle S. McNamara;Simon Dennis;Walter Kintsch

  • Learning from texts: Effects of prior knowledge and text coherence

    Danielle S. McNamara;Walter Kintsch

  • The Measurement of Textual Coherence with Latent Semantic Analysis.

    Peter W. Foltz;Walter Kintsch;Thomas K Landauer

  • Understanding and solving word arithmetic problems.

    Walter Kintsch;James G. Greeno

  • Text comprehension, memory, and learning.

    Walter Kintsch

  • Reading rate and retention as a function of the number of propositions in the base structure of sentences

    Walter Kintsch;Janice Keenan

  • The role of understanding in solving word problems

    Denise Dellarosa Cummins;Walter Kintsch;Kurt Reusser;Rhonda Weimer

  • Comprehension and recall of text as a function of content variables

    W. Kintsch;E. Kozminsky;W.J. Streby;G. McKoon

  • 11 – Models for Free Recall and Recognition1

    Walter Kintsch

  • Sentence memory: A theoretical analysis ☆

    Walter Kintsch;David Welsch;Franz Schmalhofer;Susan Zimny

  • Learning from text, levels of comprehension, or: Why anyone would read a story anyway

    Walter Kintsch

  • A theory of algebra-word-problem comprehension and its implications for the design of learning environments.

    Mitchell J. Nathan;Walter Kintsch;Emilie Young

  • Strategies of Discourse Comprehension

    Douglas Biber;Teun A. van Dijk;Walter Kintsch

Frequent Co-Authors

Danielle S. McNamara
Danielle S. McNamara Arizona State University
Teun A. van Dijk
Teun A. van Dijk Pompeu Fabra University
Lyle E. Bourne
Lyle E. Bourne University of Colorado Boulder
Elizabeth Bates
Elizabeth Bates University of California, San Diego
K. Anders Ericsson
K. Anders Ericsson Florida State University
Katherine A. Rawson
Katherine A. Rawson Kent State University
Vimla L. Patel
Vimla L. Patel Columbia University
David Premack
David Premack University of Pennsylvania
Herman Buschke
Herman Buschke Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Janice M. Keenan
Janice M. Keenan University of Denver

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