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Nick Chater

Active 1990–2026

187
Papers
22,753
Citations
76
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Citations

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Countries

World map of the countries and regions citing this authorUnited States: 2,164 citing papers, 29.3% of this breakdownUnited Kingdom: 1,242 citing papers, 16.8% of this breakdownGermany: 636 citing papers, 8.6% of this breakdownNetherlands: 368 citing papers, 5% of this breakdownFrance: 309 citing papers, 4.2% of this breakdownCanada: 289 citing papers, 3.9% of this breakdownAustralia: 262 citing papers, 3.5% of this breakdownChina: 205 citing papers, 2.8% of this breakdownItaly: 200 citing papers, 2.7% of this breakdownSwitzerland: 190 citing papers, 2.6% of this breakdownSpain: 159 citing papers, 2.2% of this breakdownIsrael: 136 citing papers, 1.8% of this breakdown
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Institutions

Fields

  • Computer Science26.8%
  • Neuroscience20.8%
  • Psychology20.2%
  • Decision Sciences9.7%
  • Social Sciences9.4%
  • Arts and Humanities3.5%
  • Other9.6%

Topics

  • Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics5%
  • Child and Animal Learning Development4.4%
  • Language and cultural evolution3.5%
  • Natural Language Processing Techniques3.4%
  • Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies3.4%
  • Bayesian Modeling and Causal Inference2.9%
  • Other77.4%

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  1. The i-frame and the s-frame: How focusing on individual-level solutions has led behavioral public policy astray

    Authors: Nick Chater, George Loewenstein - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 2022 cited by 534

  2. Probabilistic models of cognition: exploring representations and inductive biases

    Authors: Thomas L. Griffiths, Nick Chater, Charles Kemp, Amy Perfors, Joshua B. Tenenbaum - Trends in Cognitive Sciences 2010 cited by 585

  3. The Now-or-Never bottleneck: A fundamental constraint on language

    Authors: Morten H. Christiansen, Nick Chater - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 2015 cited by 748

  4. Using Noise to Compute Error Surfaces in Connectionist Networks: A Novel Means of Reducing Catastrophic Forgetting

    Authors: Robert M. French, Nick Chater - Neural Computation, Neural Comput. 2002 cited by 67

  5. Decision by sampling

    Authors: Neil Stewart, Nick Chater, Gordon D. A. Brown - Cognitive Psychology 2006 cited by 743

  6. Relational Norms for Human-AI Cooperation

    Authors: Brian D. Earp, Sebastian Porsdam Mann, Mateo Aboy, Edmond Awad, Monika Betzler, Marietjie Botes, Rachel Calcott, Mina Caraccio, Nick Chater, Mark Coeckelbergh, Mihaela Constantinescu, Hossein Dabbagh, Kate Devlin, Xiaojun Ding, Vilius Dranseika, Jim A. C. Everett, Ruiping Fan, Faisal Feroz, Kathryn B. Francis, Cindy Friedman, Orsolya Friedrich, Iason Gabriel, Ivar R. Hannikainen, Julie Hellmann, Arasj Khodadade Jahrome, Niranjan S. Janardhanan, Paulius Jurcys, Andreas Kappes, Maryam Ali Khan, Gordon Kraft-Todd, Maximilian Kroner Dale, Simon M. Laham, Benjamin Lange, Muriel Leuenberger, Jonathan Lewis, Peng Liu, David M. Lyreskog, Matthijs Maas, John McMillan, Emilian Mihailov, Timo Minssen, Joshua Teperowski Monrad, Kathryn Muyskens, Simon Myers, Sven Nyholm, Alexa M. Owen, Anna Puzio, Christopher Register, Madeline G. Reinecke, Adam Safron, Henry Shevlin, Hayate Shimizu, Peter V. Treit, Cristina Voinea, Karen Yan, Anda Zahiu, Renwen Zhang, Hazem Zohny, Walter Sinnott-Armstrong, Ilina Singh, Julian Savulescu, Margaret S. Clark - ArXiv.org, CoRR 2025 cited by 17

  7. Bayesian Brains without Probabilities

    Authors: Adam N. Sanborn, Nick Chater - Trends in Cognitive Sciences 2016 cited by 328

  8. Herding in humans

    Authors: Ramsey Raafat, Nick Chater, Chris Frith - Trends in Cognitive Sciences 2009 cited by 487

  9. Imagining and building wise machines: The centrality of AI metacognition

    Authors: Samuel G. B. Johnson, Amir-Hossein Karimi, Yoshua Bengio, Nick Chater, Tobias Gerstenberg, Kate Larson, Sydney Levine, Melanie Mitchell, Iyad Rahwan, Bernhard Schölkopf, Igor Grossmann - Trends in Cognitive Sciences 2026 cited by 15

  10. Language as shaped by the brain

    Authors: Morten H. Christiansen, Nick Chater - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 2008 cited by 1,069

  11. Bayesian Rationality

    Authors: Mike Oaksford, Nick Chater - Oxford University Press eBooks 2007 cited by 531

  12. Simplicity: a unifying principle in cognitive science?

    Authors: Nick Chater, Paul Vitányi - Trends in Cognitive Sciences 2003 cited by 517

  13. A rational analysis of the selection task as optimal data selection.

    Authors: Mike Oaksford, Nick Chater - Psychological Review 1994 cited by 1,025

  14. The Bayesian sampler: Generic Bayesian inference causes incoherence in human probability judgments.

    Authors: Jian-Qiao Zhu, Adam N. Sanborn, Nick Chater - Psychological Review 2020 cited by 109

  15. A temporal ratio model of memory.

    Authors: Gordon D. A. Brown, Ian Neath, Nick Chater - Psychological Review 2007 cited by 824

  16. Networks in Cognitive Science

    Authors: Andrea Baronchelli, Ramon Ferrer-i-Cancho, Romualdo Pastor-Satorras, Nick Chater, Morten H. Christiansen - Trends in Cognitive Sciences 2013 cited by 337

  17. The paradox of social interaction: Shared intentionality, we-reasoning, and virtual bargaining.

    Authors: Nick Chater, Hossam Zeitoun, Tigran Melkonyan - Psychological Review 2022 cited by 50

  18. Absolute Identification by Relative Judgment.

    Authors: Neil Stewart, Gordon D. A. Brown, Nick Chater - Psychological Review 2005 cited by 350

  19. Programs as Causal Models: Speculations on Mental Programs and Mental Representation

    Authors: Nick Chater, Mike Oaksford - Cognitive Science, Cogn. Sci. 2013 cited by 53

  20. Resource-rational contractualism: A triple theory of moral cognition

    Authors: Sydney Levine, Nick Chater, Joshua B. Tenenbaum, Fiery Cushman - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 2023 cited by 21

  21. The Probability Heuristics Model of Syllogistic Reasoning

    Authors: Nick Chater, Mike Oaksford - Cognitive Psychology 1999 cited by 324

  22. Creating Language

    Authors: Morten H. Christiansen, Nick Chater - The MIT Press eBooks 2016 cited by 200

  23. ‘Ideal learning’ of natural language: Positive results about learning from positive evidence

    Authors: Nick Chater, Paul Vitányi - Journal of Mathematical Psychology 2007 cited by 115

  24. How could we make a social robot? A virtual bargaining approach

    Authors: Nick Chater - Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences 2023 cited by 14