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Apophenia, theory of mind and schizotypy: Perceiving meaning and intentionality in randomness

Overview of attention for article published in Cortex: A Journal Devoted to the Study of the Nervous System & Behavior, June 2008
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (98th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (87th percentile)

Mentioned by

news
5 news outlets
blogs
2 blogs
twitter
7 X users
wikipedia
3 Wikipedia pages
reddit
2 Redditors

Readers on

mendeley
241 Mendeley
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Article details
Title
Apophenia, theory of mind and schizotypy: Perceiving meaning and intentionality in randomness
Published in
Cortex: A Journal Devoted to the Study of the Nervous System & Behavior, June 2008
DOI 10.1016/j.cortex.2007.07.009
Pubmed ID
Authors

Sophie Fyfe, Claire Williams, Oliver J. Mason, Graham J. Pickup

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X Demographics

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Mendeley demographics

Mendeley demographics

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
United Kingdom 6 2%
Sweden 2 <1%
Netherlands 2 <1%
Italy 2 <1%
Spain 2 <1%
United States 1 <1%
Japan 1 <1%
France 1 <1%
Germany 1 <1%
Other 1 <1%
Unknown 222 92%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 46 19%
Student > Bachelor 33 14%
Student > Master 32 13%
Researcher 31 13%
Student > Doctoral Student 18 7%
Other 49 20%
Unknown 32 13%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 124 51%
Neuroscience 11 5%
Medicine and Dentistry 11 5%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 9 4%
Unspecified 7 3%
Other 33 14%
Unknown 46 19%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 58. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 01 June 2026.
All research outputs
#922,559
of 34,405,952 outputs
Outputs from Cortex: A Journal Devoted to the Study of the Nervous System & Behavior
#140
of 3,468 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#1,859
of 138,575 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Cortex: A Journal Devoted to the Study of the Nervous System & Behavior
#4
of 33 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,405,952 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 97th percentile: it's in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 3,468 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 13.9. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 95% of its peers.
Older research outputs will score higher simply because they've had more time to accumulate mentions. To account for age we can compare this Altmetric Attention Score to the 138,575 tracked outputs that were published within six weeks on either side of this one in any source. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 98% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 33 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has done well, scoring higher than 87% of its contemporaries.