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Jonathan D. Nelson

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Jonathan D. Nelson — researcher profile on SciRah

h-index: 18
Works: 59
Citations: 2,655

Most-cited papers

Human cortical representations for reaching: Mirror neurons for execution, observation, and imagery
Flavia Filimon, Jonathan D. Nelson, D. Hagler, M. Sereno
2007NeuroImage514 citations Open access
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Confirmation Bias
Jonathan D. Nelson, C. Mckenzie
2021Explaining the Evidence312 citations
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Multiple Parietal Reach Regions in Humans: Cortical Representations for Visual and Proprioceptive Feedback during On-Line Reaching
Flavia Filimon, Jonathan D. Nelson, Ruey-Song Huang, M. Sereno
2009Journal of Neuroscience266 citations Open access
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What a speaker’s choice of frame reveals: Reference points, frame selection, and framing effects
C. Mckenzie, Jonathan D. Nelson
2003Psychonomic Bulletin & Review266 citations Open access
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Finding useful questions: on Bayesian diagnosticity, probability, impact, and information gain.
Jonathan D. Nelson
2005Psychology Review248 citations Open access
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Generalization guides human exploration in vast decision spaces
Charley M. Wu, Eric Schulz, M. Speekenbrink, Jonathan D. Nelson +1 more
2017Nature Human Behaviour230 citations Open access
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How Embodied Is Perceptual Decision Making? Evidence for Separate Processing of Perceptual and Motor Decisions
Flavia Filimon, M. Philiastides, Jonathan D. Nelson, N. Kloosterman +1 more
2013Journal of Neuroscience112 citations Open access
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Asking the right questions about the psychology of human inquiry: Nine open challenges
A. Coenen, Jonathan D. Nelson, T. Gureckis
2018Psychonomic Bulletin & Review83 citations Open access
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Experience Matters: Information Acquisition Optimizes Probability Gain
Jonathan D. Nelson, C. Mckenzie, G. Cottrell, T. Sejnowski
2010Psychology Science81 citations Open access
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Children's sequential information search is sensitive to environmental probabilities.
Jonathan D. Nelson, Bojana Divjak, G. Gudmundsdottir, L. Martignon +1 more
2014Cognition80 citations Open access
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Generalized Information Theory Meets Human Cognition: Introducing a Unified Framework to Model Uncertainty and Information Search
Vincenzo Crupi, Jonathan D. Nelson, Björn Meder, G. Cevolani +1 more
2018Cognitive Sciences74 citations Open access
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Experience matters 1 Experience matters : Information acquisition optimizes probability gain
Jonathan D. Nelson
200954 citations
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Information search with situation-specific reward functions
Björn Meder, Jonathan D. Nelson
2012Judgment and Decision Making45 citations Open access
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Towards a rational theory of human information acquisition
Jonathan D. Nelson
200744 citations
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The ventral striatum dissociates information expectation, reward anticipation, and reward receipt
Flavia Filimon, Jonathan D. Nelson, T. Sejnowski, M. Sereno +1 more
2020Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America42 citations Open access
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Simple Heuristics and the Modelling of Crowd Behaviours
Mehdi Moussaïd, Jonathan D. Nelson
201435 citations
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Asking Better Questions: How Presentation Formats Influence Information Search
Charley M. Wu, Björn Meder, Flavia Filimon, Jonathan D. Nelson
2017Journal of Experimental Psychology. Learning, Memory and Cognition33 citations Open access
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Mapping the unknown: The spatially correlated multi-armed bandit
Charley M. Wu, Eric Schulz, M. Speekenbrink, Jonathan D. Nelson +1 more
2017bioRxiv24 citations Open access
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Naïve optimality: Subjects' heuristics can be better motivated than experimenters' optimal models
Jonathan D. Nelson
2009Behavioral and Brain Sciences15 citations
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Increased Anxiety is Associated with Better Learning from Negative Feedback
Daniella L. Jones, Jonathan D. Nelson, B. Opitz
202114 citations Open access
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Naïve and Robust: Class-Conditional Independence in Human Classification Learning
J. Jarecki, Björn Meder, Jonathan D. Nelson
2018Cognitive Sciences12 citations Open access
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Towards a theory of heuristic and optimal planning for sequential information search
Jonathan D. Nelson, Björn Meder, Matthew Jones
201810 citations Open access
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Yarbus lives: a foveated exploration of how task influences saccadic eye movement
Jonathan D. Nelson, G. Cottrell, J. Movellan, M. Sereno
200410 citations Open access
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Probabilistic functionalism: A unifying paradigm for the cognitive sciences
J. Movellan, Jonathan D. Nelson
200110 citations
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Exploration and generalization in vast spaces 1
Charley M. Wu, Eric Schulz, M. Speekenbrink, Jonathan D. Nelson +1 more
20179 citations
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Exploring the space of human exploration
Eric Schulz, L. Bertram, M. Hofer, Jonathan D. Nelson
2019bioRxiv8 citations Open access
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The Assumption of Class-conditional Independence in Category Learning
J. Jarecki, Björn Meder, Jonathan D. Nelson
2013Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society8 citations
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Emotion, entropy evaluations and subjective uncertainty
L. Bertram, Eric Schulz, M. Hofer, Jonathan D. Nelson
20204 citations Open access
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What makes a good query? Prospects for a comprehensive theory of human information acquisition
Björn Meder, Vincenzo Crupi, Jonathan D. Nelson
20212 citations Open access
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Subjective probability is modulated by emotions
Lara Abel, Eric Schulz, Jonathan D. Nelson
2021Scientific Reports2 citations Open access
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The Likelihood Difference Heuristic and Binary Test Selection Given Situation-Specific Utilities
Jonathan D. Nelson, Christine Rosenauer, Vincenzo Crupi, K. Tentori +1 more
2021Decision2 citations Open access
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Active inference in concept induction UCSD MPLAB TR 2000.03
Jonathan D. Nelson, J. Movellan
20062 citations
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Playing Entropy Mastermind can Foster Children’s Information-Theoretical Intuitions
Elif Özel, Jonathan D. Nelson, L. Bertram, L. Martignon
2021Frontiers in Education1 citations Open access
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The Psychology of Human Entropy Intuitions
L. Bertram, Eric Schulz, M. Hofer, Jonathan D. Nelson
2020Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society1 citations
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The Paradox of Help Seeking in the Entropy Mastermind Game
Nichola Taylor, M. Hofer, Jonathan D. Nelson
2020Frontiers in Education1 citations Open access
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Data for "The Ventral Stratium dissociates information expectation, reward anticipation, and reward receipt."
Flavia Filimon, Jonathan D. Nelson, T. Sejnowski, M. Sereno +1 more
20201 citations
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Masterminding in Education: Bringing cognition, emotion and motivation together in a unified mathematical framework
L. Bertram, Eric Schulz, Elif Özel, M. Hofer +2 more
2019Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society1 citations
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A Unified Model of Entropy and the Value of Information
Jonathan D. Nelson, Vincenzo Crupi, Björn Meder, G. Cevolani +1 more
2017Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society1 citations
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Informavores: Active information foraging and human cognition
D. Markant, T. Gureckis, Björn Meder, Jonathan D. Nelson +2 more
2013Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society1 citations
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Parietal cortex involvement in visually guided, non-visually guided, observed, and imagined reaching, compared to saccades
Flavia Filimon, Jonathan D. Nelson, M. Sereno
20101 citations Open access
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AI-Mediated Ethical Communication: Epistemic Totalization the Fabricatable Zone and the Governmental Chain of Custody as Terminus
Jonathan D. Nelson
2026International Journal of Innovative Science and Research Technology0 citations Open access
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Data for "The Paradox of Help Seeking in the Entropy Mastermind Game"
Nichola Taylor, M. Hofer, Jonathan D. Nelson
20200 citations
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From Efficient Coding to Information Gain: Information-Theoretic Principles in Models of Human Decision Making
Mikaela Akrenius, L. Maloney, Jonathan D. Nelson
2020Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society0 citations
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Author Correction: Generalization guides human exploration in vast decision spaces
Charley M. Wu, Eric Schulz, M. Speekenbrink, Jonathan D. Nelson +1 more
2020Nature Human Behaviour0 citations Open access
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Entropy Mastermind: Learning from humans about intelligent systems
L. Bertram, Eric Schulz, M. Hofer, Jonathan D. Nelson
20190 citations
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On falsification and Optimal Experimental Design approaches to the value of information
Jonathan D. Nelson, Vincenzo Crupi, Flavia Filimon, G. Cottrell
2019Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society0 citations
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GENERALIZED INFORMATION THEORY AND HUMAN COGNITION 3 Generalized Information Theory Meets Human Cognition : Introducing a Unified Framework to Model Uncertainty and Information Search 1
Vincenzo Crupi, Jonathan D. Nelson, Björn Meder, G. Cevolani +1 more
20180 citations
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Navigating uncertainty through information search
Charley M. Wu, Björn Meder, Jonathan D. Nelson
2018Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society0 citations
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Sequential search behavior changes according to distribution shape despite having a rank-based goal
T. Wong, Jonathan D. Nelson, L. Schooler
20170 citations
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Which test to perform? Modeling utility of medical tests: information gain, patient risk and financial costs
C. Schirren, Stefanie C. Hautz, W. Hautz, Juliane E. Kämmer +2 more
2017Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society0 citations
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