2026 Anna Franklin: Psychology Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Psychology	35	9927	9294	980	937	125	4586

Overview

Anna Franklin is affiliated with the University of Sussex in the United Kingdom and has a significant research footprint in the fields of psychology and neuroscience. Their work focuses on several subfields, including cognitive neuroscience, experimental and cognitive psychology, social psychology, atomic and molecular physics and optics, and sensory systems.

Their primary research topics include:

Color perception and design
Multisensory perception and integration
Visual perception and processing mechanisms
Categorization, perception, and language
Aesthetic perception and analysis
Color science and applications
Olfactory and sensory function studies

Anna Franklin has contributed to numerous peer-reviewed journals, with frequent publications in the following venues:

Journal of Vision
Vision Research
bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
Preprints.org
Annual Review of Psychology

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Franklin include:

The Development of Color Perception and Cognition (2022), Annual Review of Psychology
Color-biased regions in the ventral visual pathway are food selective (2022), Current Biology
Color constancy and color term knowledge are positively related during early childhood (2020), Journal of Experimental Child Psychology
Infant color perception: Insight into perceptual development (2022), Child Development Perspectives
Colour vision is aligned with natural scene statistics at 4 months of age (2023), Developmental Science

Frequent collaborators include:

Jenny M. Bosten
John Maule
Alice E. Skelton
Ian Pennock
Chris Racey

Best Publications

Categorical perception of color is lateralized to the right hemisphere in infants, but to the left hemisphere in adults

A. Franklin;G. V. Drivonikou;L. Bevis;I. R. L. Davies

320
Citations
Further Evidence That Whorfian Effects Are Stronger in the Right Visual Field Than the Left

G. V. Drivonikou;P. Kay;T. Regier;R. B. Ivry

270
Citations
New evidence for infant colour categories

Anna Franklin;Ian R.L. Davies

255
Citations
Color term knowledge does not affect categorical perception of color in toddlers

Anna Franklin;Ally Clifford;Emma Williamson;Ian Davies

199
Citations
Lateralization of categorical perception of color changes with color term acquisition

A. Franklin;G. V. Drivonikou;A. Clifford;P. Kay

184
Citations
Color preferences are not universal.

Chloe Taylor;Alexandra Clifford;Anna Franklin

184
Citations
Biological origins of color categorization.

Alice E Skelton;Gemma Catchpole;Joshua T Abbott;Jenny M Bosten

178
Citations
The nature of infant color categorization: evidence from eye movements on a target detection task.

Anna Franklin;Michael Pilling;Ian Davies

170
Citations
Color Perception in Children with Autism

Anna Franklin;Paul Sowden;Rachel Burley;Leslie Notman

143
Citations
Handbook of color psychology

Andrew J. Elliot;Mark D. Fairchild;Anna Franklin

133
Citations
Categorical encoding of color in the brain

Chris M. Bird;Samuel C. Berens;Aidan J. Horner;Anna Franklin

124
Citations
Electrophysiological markers of categorical perception of color in 7-month old infants.

Alexandra Clifford;Anna Franklin;Ian R.L. Davies;Amanda Holmes

106
Citations
Color categories affect pre-attentive color perception

Alexandra Clifford;Amanda Holmes;Ian R.L. Davies;Anna Franklin

104
Citations
Biological components of colour preference in infancy.

Anna Franklin;Laura Bevis;Yazhu Ling;Anya Hurlbert

101
Citations
Color preferences in infants and adults are different

Chloe Taylor;Karen Schloss;Stephen E. Palmer;Anna Franklin

99
Citations
Neurophysiological evidence for categorical perception of color

Amanda Holmes;Anna Franklin;Alexandra Clifford;Ian Davies

99
Citations
Effects of ensemble complexity and perceptual similarity on rapid averaging of hue

John Maule;Anna Franklin

99
Citations
The relationship between color-object associations and color preference: further investigation of ecological valence theory.

Chloe Taylor;Anna Franklin

85
Citations
A systematic investigation of conceptual color associations.

Diana Su Yun Tham;Paul T Sowden;Alexandra Grandison;Anna Franklin

76
Citations
The Development of Color Perception and Cognition

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75
Citations
Reduced chromatic discrimination in children with autism spectrum disorders.

Anna Franklin;Paul Sowden;Leslie Notman;Melissa Gonzalez-Dixon

67
Citations
Categorical similarity may affect colour pop-out in infants after all

Ian Davies;Anna Franklin

62
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Andrew J. Elliot University of Rochester

Amanda Holmes University of Roehampton

Neil G. Muggleton National Central University

Elizabeth Pellicano University College London

Asifa Majid University of York

Stephen E. Palmer University of California, Berkeley

Michael J. Banissy Goldsmiths University of London

Pamela Heaton Goldsmiths University of London

Elisabeth L. Hill Goldsmiths University of London

Arnold J. Wilkins University of Essex

External Links

Personal website of Anna Franklin

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