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Alan D. Castel publication distribution in Psychology in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Psychology in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Alan D. Castel sits on this spectrum.

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31 publications 705+

This scientist: 172 publications — 59th percentile

59% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 705 publications or more.

Alan D. Castel D-index placement in Psychology in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Psychology scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Alan D. Castel sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 144+

This scientist: 52 D-Index — 57th percentile

57% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 144 D-Index or more.

Overview

Alan D. Castel is affiliated with the University of California, Los Angeles in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on the fields of neuroscience and psychology, with a significant body of work related to cognitive neuroscience and experimental and cognitive psychology. Their expertise extends into subfields such as developmental and educational psychology, neuropsychology and physiological psychology, and artificial intelligence.

The scientist's main topics of study include:

  • Memory Processes and Influences
  • Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
  • Cognitive Functions and Memory
  • Aging and Gerontology Research
  • Memory and Neural Mechanisms
  • Identity, Memory, and Therapy
  • Visual and Cognitive Learning Processes

Alan D. Castel has published frequently in several academic journals, with notable venues including:

  • Memory & Cognition
  • Memory
  • Psychology and Aging
  • Aging Neuropsychology and Cognition
  • Applied Cognitive Psychology

Some of their recent papers are:

  • "Memory and Reward-Based Learning: A Value-Directed Remembering Perspective" (2021) published in Annual Review of Psychology
  • "Learning in double time: The effect of lecture video speed on immediate and delayed comprehension" (2021) published in Applied Cognitive Psychology
  • "Younger and Older Adults' Mood and Expectations Regarding Aging During COVID-19" (2020) published in Gerontology and Geriatric Medicine
  • "Responsible remembering and forgetting as contributors to memory for important information" (2021) published in Memory & Cognition
  • "The role of attention and ageing in the retrieval dynamics of value-directed remembering" (2021) published in Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology

Within their collaborative work, frequent coauthors of Alan D. Castel include:

  • Dillon H. Murphy
  • Mary C. Whatley
  • Shawn T. Schwartz
  • Barbara J. Knowlton
  • Kara M. Hoover

Best Publications

  • Seeing is believing: the effect of brain images on judgments of scientific reasoning.

    David P. McCabe;Alan D. Castel

  • Perceiving numbers causes spatial shifts of attention

    Martin H Fischer;Alan D Castel;Michael D Dodd;Jay Pratt

  • The effects of action video game experience on the time course of inhibition of return and the efficiency of visual search

    Alan D. Castel;Alan D. Castel;Jay Pratt;Emily Drummond

  • Memory Predictions Are Influenced by Perceptual Information : Evidence for Metacognitive Illusions

    Matthew G. Rhodes;Alan D. Castel

  • The effects of aging and divided attention on memory for item and associative information.

    Alan D. Castel;Fergus I. M. Craik

  • Memory for grocery prices in younger and older adults: the role of schematic support.

    Alan D. Castel

  • The effects of aging on selectivity and control in short-term recall.

    Alan D. Castel;Aaron S. Benjamin;Fergus I. M. Craik;Michael J. Watkins

  • The Adaptive and Strategic Use of Memory By Older Adults: Evaluative Processing and Value-Directed Remembering

    Alan D. Castel

  • Spacing as the friend of both memory and induction in young and older adults.

    Nate Kornell;Alan D. Castel;Teal S. Eich;Robert A. Bjork

  • The Ease-of-Processing Heuristic and the Stability Bias Dissociating Memory, Memory Beliefs, and Memory Judgments

    Nate Kornell;Matthew G. Rhodes;Alan D. Castel;Sarah K. Tauber

  • Metacognitive Illusions for Auditory Information: Effects on Monitoring and Control

    Matthew G. Rhodes;Alan D. Castel

  • When disfluency is—and is not—a desirable difficulty: The influence of typeface clarity on metacognitive judgments and memory

    Carole L. Yue;Alan D. Castel;Robert A. Bjork

  • Illusions of competence and overestimation of associative memory for identical items: evidence from judgments of learning.

    Alan D. Castel;David P. McCabe;Henry L. Roediger

  • Memory for general and specific value information in younger and older adults: Measuring the limits of strategic control

    Alan D. Castel;Norman A. S. Farb;Fergus I. M. Craik

  • Memory Efficiency and the Strategic Control of Attention at Encoding: Impairments of Value-Directed Remembering in Alzheimer's Disease

    Alan D. Castel;David A. Balota;David P. McCabe

  • Thirst for knowledge: The effects of curiosity and interest on memory in younger and older adults.

    Shannon McGillivray;Kou Murayama;Alan D. Castel

  • Selecting valuable information to remember: age-related differences and similarities in self-regulated learning.

    Alan D. Castel;Kou Murayama;Michael C. Friedman;Shannon McGillivray

  • Memory and metamemory for inverted words: illusions of competency and desirable difficulties.

    Victor W. Sungkhasettee;Michael C. Friedman;Alan D. Castel

  • Spatial attention and response control in healthy younger and older adults and individuals with Alzheimer's disease: evidence for disproportionate selection impairments in the Simon task.

    Alan D. Castel;David A. Balota;Keith A. Hutchison;Jessica M. Logan

  • The Development of Memory Efficiency and Value-Directed Remembering across the Life Span: A Cross-Sectional Study of Memory and Selectivity.

    Alan D. Castel;Kathryn L. Humphreys;Steve S. Lee;Adriana Galván

  • Metacognition and learning about primacy and recency effects in free recall: the utilization of intrinsic and extrinsic cues when making judgments of learning.

    Alan D. Castel

Frequent Co-Authors

Kou Murayama
Kou Murayama University of Reading
Matthew G. Rhodes
Matthew G. Rhodes Colorado State University
Jay Pratt
Jay Pratt University of Toronto
David P. McCabe
David P. McCabe Colorado State University
Fergus I. M. Craik
Fergus I. M. Craik University of Toronto
Barbara J. Knowlton
Barbara J. Knowlton University of California, Los Angeles
David A. Balota
David A. Balota Washington University in St. Louis
Robert A. Bjork
Robert A. Bjork University of California, Los Angeles
Alison L. Chasteen
Alison L. Chasteen University of Toronto
Charles T. Scialfa
Charles T. Scialfa University of Calgary

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