Patricia Ganea

Patricia Ganea

University of Toronto

H-index: 32

North America-Canada

About Patricia Ganea

Patricia Ganea, With an exceptional h-index of 32 and a recent h-index of 25 (since 2020), a distinguished researcher at University of Toronto, specializes in the field of Developmental Psychology, Language and Cognitive Development.

His recent articles reflect a diverse array of research interests and contributions to the field:

Promoting scientific understanding and conceptual change in young children using explanations and guidance.

Do children interpret metaphors literally because they are fantastical thinkers?

A follow up investigation of placental pathology, responsive parenting, and preschool children’s executive functioning and language development

Children's hypothetical reasoning about complex and dynamic systems

How do young children interpret conditionals?

Language as a mechanism for reasoning about possibilities

Linking early maternal input during shared reading to later theory of mind through receptive language and executive function: A within-and between-family design

Learning science concepts through prompts to consider alternative possible worlds

Patricia Ganea Information

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Citations(all)

3778

Citations(since 2020)

2216

Cited By

2408

hIndex(all)

32

hIndex(since 2020)

25

i10Index(all)

50

i10Index(since 2020)

46

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University of Toronto

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Patricia Ganea Skills & Research Interests

Developmental Psychology

Language and Cognitive Development

Top articles of Patricia Ganea

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Journal

Author(s)

Publication Date

Promoting scientific understanding and conceptual change in young children using explanations and guidance.

Developmental psychology

Vaunam P Venkadasalam

Nicole E Larsen

Patricia A Ganea

2024/2/15

Do children interpret metaphors literally because they are fantastical thinkers?

Mary Beth Neff

Patricia A Ganea

Ingrid Lossius Falkum

2023/6/9

A follow up investigation of placental pathology, responsive parenting, and preschool children’s executive functioning and language development

Child Neuropsychology

Sahar Borairi

Begum Ozdemir

Jennifer Jenkins

Prakesh S Shah

John Kingdom

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2023/10/8

Children's hypothetical reasoning about complex and dynamic systems

Child Development

Angela Nyhout

Hilary Sweatman

Patricia A Ganea

2023

How do young children interpret conditionals?

Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society

Amina A Shmanova

Myrto Grigoroglou

Patricia Ganea

2022

Language as a mechanism for reasoning about possibilities

Myrto Grigoroglou

Patricia A Ganea

2022/12/19

Linking early maternal input during shared reading to later theory of mind through receptive language and executive function: A within-and between-family design

Journal of Experimental Child Psychology

Vaunam P Venkadasalam

Jennifer M Jenkins

Patricia A Ganea

Mark Wade

2022/11/1

Learning science concepts through prompts to consider alternative possible worlds

Journal of Experimental Child Psychology

Angela Nyhout

Patricia A Ganea

2022/10/1

Children’s and adults’ use of fictional discourse and semantic knowledge for prediction in language processing

PloS one

Ruth Lee

Craig G Chambers

Falk Huettig

Patricia A Ganea

2022/4/28

Children’s reasoning about hypothetical interventions to complex and dynamic causal systems

Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society

Angela Nyhout

Hilary Sweatman

Patricia Ganea

2021

Scientific reasoning and counterfactual reasoning in development

Advances in Child Development and Behavior

Angela Nyhout

Patricia A Ganea

2021/6/22

Learning to learn from video? 30-month-olds benefit from continued use of supportive scaffolding

Infant Behavior and Development

Gabrielle A Strouse

Patricia A Ganea

2021/8/1

The role of alternative theories and anomalous evidence in children’s scientific belief revision

Child Development

Patricia A Ganea

Nicole E Larsen

Vaunam P Venkadasalam

2021/5

The effect of object similarity and alignment of examples on children’s learning and transfer from picture books

Journal of Experimental Child Psychology

Gabrielle A Strouse

Patricia A Ganea

2021/3/1

Acquiring the meaning of conditionals

Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society

Myrto Grigoroglou

Patricia Ganea

2021

What is and what never should have been: Children’s causal and counterfactual judgments about the same events

Journal of Experimental Child Psychology

Angela Nyhout

Patricia A Ganea

2020/4/1

Children's use of linguistic and non-linguistic negation in reasoning by the disjunctive syllogism.

Myrto Grigoroglou

Patricia Ganea

2020

Children's expectations of reciprocity in referential communication.

Myrto Grigoroglou

Patricia Ganea

2020

Designing narrative-focused role-playing games for visualization literacy in young children

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics

Elaine Huynh

Angela Nyhout

Patricia Ganea

Fanny Chevalier

2020/10/13

Science & engineering goals: Learning about the control-of-variable strategy from picture books.

Vaunam Venkadasalam

Lynn G Nguyen

Nicole Larsen

Angela Nyhout

Patricia Ganea

2020

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Co-Authors

H-index: 122
Elizabeth Spelke

Elizabeth Spelke

Harvard University

H-index: 114
Paul Harris

Paul Harris

Harvard University

H-index: 92
Alison GOPNIK

Alison GOPNIK

University of California, Berkeley

H-index: 88
Kang Lee

Kang Lee

University of Toronto

H-index: 69
Eric Turkheimer

Eric Turkheimer

University of Virginia

H-index: 62
jennifer jenkins

jennifer jenkins

University of Toronto

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