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Robert L. Goldstone

Psychology · Indiana University

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Established · publishing since 1990
Child and Animal Learning DevelopmentEvolutionary Game Theory and CooperationLanguage and cultural evolutionVisual and Cognitive Learning ProcessesCategorization, perception, and language

Publications

399

Citations

15,594

Est. group size

—

Recurring co-author estimate

Active years

37

Publishing since 1990

Research summary
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Robert L. Goldstone studies how people learn, perceive, and form concepts, spanning individual cognition (such as perceptual learning and concept formation) and group-level processes (how beliefs and knowledge spread through communities). His work often connects human learning to educational settings, statistics instruction, and comparisons between human and machine intelligence. He also investigates collective behavior, cultural evolution, and how groups adapt and specialize.

Perceptual learning and concept formationCollective behavior and knowledge spread in groupsLearning in educational and statistics settingsGrounded and embodied cognitionHuman and machine intelligence

Publication output was steady at roughly 13-16 per year through the late 2010s and has declined in the most recent years, averaging about 7.4 per year over the last five years.

Generated by claude-opus-4-8 from public bibliographic data · Jul 9, 2026

Funding
Public award records

No award with a current end date on record.

6 earlier awards
  • NSF 2224813Apr 2022 – Nov 2023 · $49k awarded

    Workshops on Augmenting Individual Intelligence by Collaborating with People and Technologies

  • NSF 0910218Sep 2009 – Aug 2014 · $1.1M awarded

    Transfer of perceptually grounded principles

  • NSF 0527920Oct 2005 – Sep 2009

    Grounded and Transferable Knowledge of Complex Systems Using Computer Simulations

  • NSF 0125287Oct 2001 – Sep 2005 · $331k awarded

    ROLE: Facilitating the Understanding of Complex Adaptive Systems Through Computer Simulations

  • NIH R01MH056871Sep 1999 – May 2004 · $72k awarded

    INTERACTIONS BETWEEN PERCEPTUAL AND CONCEPTUAL LEARNING

  • NSF 9409232Aug 1994 – Jul 1997 · $96k awarded

    Concepts, Perceptions and Their Interactions

Matched to public NIH RePORTER and NSF records by name and institution. Awards from other agencies are not shown, and a match is not always found — this list may be incomplete.

In context
Among 478 established Psychology PIs within our index
Citations: 15,594cohort median 2,193
h-index: 61cohort median 22
Publications / year (recent): 7.4cohort median 3

Typically publishes in teams of ~3 · 61% small-team papers (≤3 authors) · across 52 venues

Publication cadence
Publications per year over the last 10 years — averaging 7.4/year recently
2017: 12 publications172018: 15 publications182019: 17 publications17192020: 15 publications202021: 14 publications212022: 14 publications222023: 10 publications232024: 5 publications242025: 6 publications252026: 2 publications26
Collaborators per year
Distinct co-authors at Indiana University each year — a rough indication of whether the group around this researcher has been growing or contracting. An estimate from co-authorship, not a roster: collaborators are not necessarily lab members, and recent years can be under-counted while indexing catches up.
2017: 3 collaborators at the same institution2018: 0 collaborators at the same institution2019: 3 collaborators at the same institution2020: 2 collaborators at the same institution2021: 4 collaborators at the same institution2022: 4 collaborators at the same institution2023: 4 collaborators at the same institution2024: 0 collaborators at the same institution2025: 5 collaborators at the same institution1719212325
Recent publications
Publishes in
  • eScholarship (California Digital Library)×19
  • Cognitive Science×6
  • Cognitive Research Principles and Implications×4
  • Cognition×4
  • PLoS ONE×4
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Last updated Sep 1, 2026.

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