| Cumulative cultural evolution in the laboratory: An experimental approach to the origins of structure in human language S Kirby, H Cornish, K Smith Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 105 (31), 10681-10686, 2008 | 925 | 2008 |
| Iterated learning: A framework for the emergence of language K Smith, S Kirby, H Brighton Artificial life 9 (4), 371-386, 2003 | 328 | 2003 |
| Compression and communication in the cultural evolution of linguistic structure S Kirby, M Tamariz, H Cornish, K Smith Cognition 141, 87-102, 2015 | 315 | 2015 |
| Iterated learning and the evolution of language S Kirby, T Griffiths, K Smith Current opinion in neurobiology 28, 108-114, 2014 | 220 | 2014 |
| Eliminating unpredictable variation through iterated learning K Smith, E Wonnacott Cognition 116 (3), 444-449, 2010 | 207 | 2010 |
| Language as an evolutionary system H Brighton, K Smith, S Kirby Physics of Life Reviews 2 (3), 177-226, 2005 | 194 | 2005 |
| Cultural evolution: implications for understanding the human language faculty and its evolution K Smith, S Kirby Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 363 …, 2008 | 192 | 2008 |
| Complex systems in language evolution: the cultural emergence of compositional structure K Smith, H Brighton, S Kirby Advances in Complex Systems 6 (4), 537-558, 2003 | 192 | 2003 |
| Cross‐situational learning: An experimental study of word‐learning mechanisms K Smith, ADM Smith, RA Blythe Cognitive Science 35 (3), 480-498, 2011 | 145 | 2011 |
| Auditory artificial grammar learning in macaque and marmoset monkeys B Wilson, H Slater, Y Kikuchi, AE Milne, WD Marslen-Wilson, K Smith, ... Journal of Neuroscience 33 (48), 18825-18835, 2013 | 136 | 2013 |
| From UG to universals: Linguistic adaptation through iterated learning S Kirby, K Smith, H Brighton Studies in Language. International Journal sponsored by the Foundation …, 2004 | 125 | 2004 |
| Cultural evolution of systematically structured behaviour in a non-human primate N Claidière, K Smith, S Kirby, J Fagot Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 281 (1797), 20141541, 2014 | 118 | 2014 |
| Culture shapes the evolution of cognition B Thompson, S Kirby, K Smith Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 113 (16), 4530-4535, 2016 | 113 | 2016 |
| Cultural selection for learnability: Three principles underlying the view that language adapts to be learnable H Brighton, S Kirby, K Smith Language origins: Perspectives on evolution, ed. M. Tallerman, 291-309, 2005 | 102 | 2005 |
| The evolution of vocabulary K Smith Journal of theoretical biology 228 (1), 127-142, 2004 | 94 | 2004 |
| The cultural evolution of communication in a population of neural networks K Smith Connection Science 14 (1), 65-84, 2002 | 77 | 2002 |
| Learning times for large lexicons through cross‐situational learning RA Blythe, K Smith, ADM Smith Cognitive Science 34 (4), 620-642, 2010 | 76 | 2010 |
| Auditory sequence processing reveals evolutionarily conserved regions of frontal cortex in macaques and humans B Wilson, Y Kikuchi, L Sun, D Hunter, F Dick, K Smith, A Thiele, ... Nature communications 6 (1), 1-12, 2015 | 70 | 2015 |
| Investigating the mechanisms of cultural acquisition E Flynn, K Smith Social Psychology, 2012 | 70 | 2012 |
| Cultural evolution and perpetuation of arbitrary communicative conventions in experimental microsocieties CA Caldwell, K Smith PloS one 7 (8), e43807, 2012 | 67 | 2012 |
