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John M. Kennedy

Neuroscience · Indiana University

OpenAlex ORCID
Tactile and Sensory InteractionsVisual perception and processing mechanismsLanguage, Metaphor, and CognitionMultisensory perception and integrationSpatial Cognition and Navigation

Publications

221

Citations

4,195

Est. group size

—

Recurring co-author estimate

Active years

61

Publishing since 1965

Research summary
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John M. Kennedy studies how people perceive and represent visual information, with a particular focus on how blind and sighted individuals understand and produce drawings, perspective, and pictures. Much of the work explores whether people who are blind can grasp spatial concepts like depth, motion, and perspective through touch and drawing, and how metaphor operates in pictures and language. The research bridges perception, cognition, and the theory of how images convey meaning.

Picture perception and perspectiveDrawing by blind and sighted peopleTactile and spatial cognitionMetaphor in images and languageDepiction of motion and depth

Publication activity has been fairly steady over the past decade, averaging a few papers per year with no strong upward or downward trend.

Generated by claude-opus-4-8 from public bibliographic data · Jul 11, 2026

Publication cadence
Publications per year over the last 10 years — averaging 2.4/year recently
2017: 3 publications172018: 2 publications182019: 2 publications192020: 4 publications202021: 5 publications5212022: 2 publications222023: 4 publications232024: 4 publications242025: 2 publications2526
Recent publications
Publishes in
  • Psychology Press eBooks×3
  • Perception×3
  • i-Perception×2
  • Cognitive Semiotics×2
  • Space Science Reviews×1

This profile was generated automatically from public scholarly data (OpenAlex). Group size and activity levels are estimates derived from co-authorship patterns.

Last updated Jul 11, 2026.

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