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David Premack

Psychology

#417

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#574

Historical Rank

#275

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Cognitive Psychology

#184

World Rank

#190

Historical Rank

#72

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According to Wikipedia, David Premack was an American psychologist who was a professor of psychology at the University of Pennsylvania. He was educated at the University of Minnesota when logical positivism was in full bloom. The departments of Psychology and Philosophy were closely allied. Herbert Feigl, Wilfred Sellars, and Paul Meehl led the philosophy seminars, while Group Dynamics was led by Leon Festinger and Stanley Schachter.

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David Premack's Published Works

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Does the chimpanzee have a theory of mind? (1978) (5394)
Causal cognition : a multidisciplinary debate (1996) (689)
Toward empirical behavior laws. I. positive reinforcement. (1959) (571)
The infant's theory of self-propelled objects (1990) (561)
Intentional communication in the chimpanzee: The development of deception (1979) (535)
The codes of man and beasts (1983) (506)
Intelligence In Ape And Man (1976) (494)
Do Infants Have a Sense of Fairness? (2012) (431)
Language in chimpanzee? (1971) (425)
Human and animal cognition: Continuity and discontinuity (2007) (302)
“Gavagai!” or the future history of the animal language controversy (1985) (263)
Chimpanzee problem-solving: a test for comprehension. (1978) (255)
Reversibility of the Reinforcement Relation (1962) (246)
Infants Attribute Value to the Goal-Directed Actions of Self-propelled Objects (1997) (230)
The Mind of an Ape (1983) (227)
Teaching language to an ape. (1972) (205)
Spontaneous transfer of matching by infant chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes). (1988) (176)
A functional analysis of language. (1970) (162)
Artificial language training in global aphasics. (1973) (161)
Primative mathematical concepts in the chimpanzee: proportionality and numerosity (1981) (157)
Reasoning in the Chimpanzee: I. Analogical Reasoning (1981) (149)
Conservation of Liquid and Solid Quantity by the Chimpanzee (1978) (144)
Is Language the Key to Human Intelligence? (2004) (134)
The perception of intention. (1989) (130)
Children's comprehension and memory for stories. (1979) (120)
Infant chimpanzees spontaneously perceive both concrete and abstract same/different relations. (1990) (102)
Putting a face together. (1975) (102)
Levels of causal understanding in chimpanzees and children (1994) (100)
Origins of human social competence. (1995) (99)
Original intelligence : unlocking the mystery of who we are (2003) (78)
REINFORCEMENT OF DRINKING BY RUNNING: EFFECT OF FIXED RATIO AND REINFORCEMENT TIME. (1964) (70)
Mapping the mind: Moral belief: Form versus content (1994) (69)
Chapter 4 - On the Assessment of Language Competence in the Chimpanzee1 (1971) (67)
Rate differential reinforcement in monkey manipulation. (1963) (62)
Intention as psychological cause (1996) (62)
CHAPTER 5 – On Some Boundary Conditions of Contrast1 (1969) (61)
Increased eating in rats deprived of running. (1963) (61)
Language and Intelligence in Ape and Man (1976) (57)
Why Humans Are Unique: Three Theories (2010) (49)
MECHANISMS OF INTELLIGENCE: PRECONDITIONS FOR LANGUAGE * (1976) (47)
Pedagogy and Aesthetics as Sources of Culture (1984) (46)
Prediction of the Comparative Reinforcement Values of Running and Drinking (1963) (43)
Map reading by chimpanzees. (1978) (42)
Duration of looking and number of brief looks as dependent variables (1966) (42)
Analysis of nonreinforcement variables affecting response probability. (1962) (40)
Perceptual origins and conceptual evidence for theory of mind in apes and children. (1991) (39)
Running as Both a Positive and Negative Reinforcer (1963) (35)
Words: What are they, and do animals have them? (1990) (32)
Choice and habituation as measures of response similarity. (1970) (31)
Predicting instrumental performance from the independent rate of the contingent response. (1961) (31)
Motor competence as integral to attribution of goal (1997) (31)
Pangloss to Cyrano de Bergerac: “nonsense, it's perfect!” A reply to Bickerton (1986) (31)
Children with autism can track others' beliefs in a competitive game. (2013) (30)
Cause/induced motion: intention/spontaneous motion (1996) (27)
Some parameters affecting the distributional properties of operant-level running in rats. (1963) (26)
On the possibilities of slef-control in man and animals. (1973) (22)
Paper-Marking Test for Chimpanzee: Simple Control for Social Cues (1978) (20)
Evidence for shift effects in the consummatory response. (1962) (19)
Distributional properties of operant-level locomotion in the rat. (1962) (19)
ON THE DIFFERENT EFFECTS OF RANDOM REINFORCEMENT AND PRESOLUTION REVERSAL ON HUMAN CONCEPT IDENTIFICATION. (1965) (18)
On the Abstractness of Human Concepts: Why It Would be Difficult to Talk to a Pigeon (2018) (18)
Concordant preferences as a precondition for affective but not for symbolic communication (or How to do experimental anthropology) (1972) (16)
On the proportionality between the probability of not-running and the punishment effect of being forced to run (1970) (15)
A description of free responding in the rat (1970) (14)
Operant-level lever pressing by a monkey as a function of interest interval. (1959) (13)
Psychology. Is language the key to human intelligence? (2004) (13)
Possible General Effects of Language Training on the Chimpanzee (1984) (12)
FOUNDATIONS OF MORALITY IN THE INFANT (2007) (12)
Chimpanzee theory of mind: Part I. Perception of causality and purpose in the child and chimpanzee (1978) (10)
Intentionality: How to tell Mae West from a crocodile (1988) (9)
Mechanisms of Self-Control (2017) (9)
Comparison of reinforcement and punishment functions produced by the same contingent event in the same subjects (1974) (9)
Chimpanzee problem comprehension: insufficient evidence. (1979) (8)
The Effect on Extinction of the Preference Relations between the Instrumental and Contingent Events (1972) (7)
Why Animals Lack Pedagogy and Some Cultures Have More of It Than Others (2018) (7)
A whale of a tale: Calling it culture doesn't help (2001) (7)
On the coevolution of language and social competence (1990) (7)
Evolution Versus Invention (2005) (6)
Chapter 20 – On the Origins of Language* (1975) (6)
Education for the prepared mind (2004) (6)
Rats prefer the Home Cage to the Runway following Intermittent but not Consistent Reinforcement (1968) (6)
CHAPTER 3 – Some General Characteristics of a Method for Teaching Language to Organisms That Do Not Ordinarily Acquire It (1971) (6)
On the origins of domain-specific primitives. (1992) (5)
The Human Ape (1977) (4)
TWO PROBLEMS IN COGNITION: SYMBOLIZATION, AND FROM ICON TO PHONEME (1972) (4)
On the Study of Intelligence in Chimpanzees (1976) (4)
Relation between intersession interval frequency of competing responses and rate of learning. (1962) (3)
A method for mapping stimulus distance into reinforcement value (1971) (3)
The abstract code as a translation device (1983) (3)
Gavagai! On the Future History of the Animal Language Controversy (1987) (2)
Intelligence in Ape and Man (Psychology Revivals) (2014) (2)
Intentional schema will not do the work of a theory of mind (1996) (2)
Piggyback with Darwin. (1996) (1)
Waiting for Manifesto 2 (2000) (1)
SYMPOSIUM: SEQUENTIAL VERBAL BEHAVIOR: DISCUSSION. (1964) (1)
DISCUSSION (1976) (0)
Letter to the editor. (1975) (0)
Part I : Causal representation in animal cognition Instrumental action and causal representation (2014) (0)
Thanks to our guest reviewers (1990) (0)
article in "American Secondary Education." (1996) (0)
Broadbent, Hilary A., 55 Caramazza, Alfonso, 243 Cheney, Dorothy L., 167 (1990) (0)
Response : Promising Chimpanzee (1975) (0)
Cultivating Abstraction in an Ape’s Mind: Conceptual versus Sensory * (2018) (0)
ARTTFICTAL LANGUAGE TRAINING TN GLOBAL APHASICS (1973) (0)
"Piggyback With Darwin": Erratum. (1996) (0)
IDoes the chimpanzee have a theory of m i nd ? 1 revisited (2005) (0)
Letters to the Editor. (1963) (0)
Book review: Apes, Monkeys, Children and the Growth of Mind (2005) (0)
Contents of Volume 36 (1990) (0)
Language and Systems of Symbols [3] (multiple letters) (2004) (0)
Why self-control is both difficult and difficult to explicate (1995) (0)
Contents, Vol. 27, 1984 (1984) (0)
Memories Amy Samuels (1950–2008) (2010) (0)

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The Mind of an Ape