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Árni Kristjánsson

Árni Kristjánsson

D-Index & Metrics

Psychology

D-Index
48
Citations
7714
World Ranking
5991
National Ranking
1

Neuroscience

D-Index
48
Citations
8082
World Ranking
6217
National Ranking
1

Árni Kristjánsson 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 Árni Kristjánsson sits on this spectrum.

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31 publications 705+

This scientist: 251 publications — 81st percentile

81% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Árni Kristjánsson 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 Árni Kristjánsson sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 144+

This scientist: 48 D-Index — 49th percentile

49% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Árni Kristjánsson is affiliated with the University of Iceland in Iceland and has an extensive research profile primarily within the field of Neuroscience. Their work focuses on Cognitive Neuroscience and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, with additional contributions in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Social Psychology, and Developmental and Educational Psychology.

The scientist's research topics cover several areas related to perception and neural dynamics, including:

  • Visual perception and processing mechanisms
  • Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
  • Multisensory perception and integration
  • Visual Attention and Saliency Detection
  • Neural dynamics and brain function
  • Tactile and Sensory Interactions
  • Color perception and design

Kristjánsson has published frequently in scientific journals, with notable venues including:

  • Journal of Vision
  • Attention Perception & Psychophysics
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Scientific Reports
  • Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology

Some recent papers authored or coauthored by Kristjánsson reflect a consistent focus on visual perception and cognition:

  • "Keeping it real: Looking beyond capacity limits in visual cognition," 2021, Attention Perception & Psychophysics
  • "Serial dependence in visual perception: A review," 2023, Journal of Vision
  • "Optimizing perception: Attended and ignored stimuli create opposing perceptual biases," 2020, Attention Perception & Psychophysics
  • "Dissociating implicit and explicit ensemble representations reveals the limits of visual perception and the richness of behavior," 2021, Scientific Reports
  • "Dynamics of attentional and oculomotor orienting in visual foraging tasks," 2020, Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology

Frequent collaborators in research include:

  • David Pascucci
  • Andrey Chetverikov
  • Sabrina Hansmann-Roth
  • Ömer Dağlar Tanrıkulu
  • Rúnar Unnþórsson

In addition to journal articles, Árni Kristjánsson has contributed to the academic literature through book publications. One such work is titled Representing Variability, published by Cambridge University Press in 2024.

Best Publications

  • Where perception meets memory: A review of repetition priming in visual search tasks

    Árni Kristjánsson;Gianluca Campana

  • The role of priming in conjunctive visual search

    Árni Kristjánsson;DeLiang Wang;Ken Nakayama

  • Priming in visual search: Separating the effects of target repetition, distractor repetition and role-reversal

    Árni Kristjánsson;Jon Driver

  • An internationally standardised antisaccade protocol

    Chrystalina Antoniades;Ulrich Ettinger;Bertrand Gaymard;Iain Gilchrist

  • Efficient visual search without top-down or bottom-up guidance.

    DeLiang Wang;Arni Kristjansson;Ken Nakayama

  • In Search of Remembrance: Evidence for Memory in Visual Search

    Árni Kristjánsson

  • Fortune and reversals of fortune in visual search : reward contingencies for pop-out targets affect search efficiency and target repetition effects

    Árni Kristjánsson;Ólafía Sigurjónsdóttir;Jon Driver

  • Neural Basis for Priming of Pop-Out during Visual Search Revealed with fMRI

    Árni Kristjánsson;Patrik Vuilleumier;Sophie Schwartz;Emiliano Macaluso

  • Is goal-directed attentional guidance just intertrial priming? A review

    Dominique F Lamy;Arni Kristjánsson

  • Simultaneous priming along multiple feature dimensions in a visual search task.

    Árni Kristjánsson

  • Common attentional constraints in visual foraging.

    Árni Kristjánsson;Ómar I. Jóhannesson;Ian M. Thornton

  • Priming of Color and Position during Visual Search in Unilateral Spatial Neglect

    Aacute;rni Kristjánsson;Patrik Vuilleumier;Paresh Malhotra

  • Designing sensory-substitution devices: Principles, pitfalls and potential1.

    Árni Kristjánsson;Alin Moldoveanu;Ómar I. Jóhannesson;Oana Balan

  • Rapid learning in attention shifts: A review

    Árni Kristjánsson

  • Building ensemble representations: How the shape of preceding distractor distributions affects visual search

    Andrey Chetverikov;Andrey Chetverikov;Andrey Chetverikov;Gianluca Campana;Árni Kristjánsson

  • Less attention is more in the preparation of antisaccades, but not prosaccades.

    Árni Kristjánsson;Yue Chen;Ken Nakayama

  • The attentional blink in space and time

    Árni Kristjánsson;Ken Nakayama

  • A primitive memory system for the deployment of transient attention.

    Árni Kristjánsson;Ken Nakayama

  • On-Line Attentional Selection From Competing Stimuli in Opposite Visual Fields: Effects on Human Visual Cortex and Control Processes

    Joy J. Geng;Evelyn Eger;Christian C. Ruff;Árni Kristjánsson

  • On the joys of perceiving: Affect as feedback for perceptual predictions.

    Andrey Chetverikov;Andrey Chetverikov;Andrey Chetverikov;Árni Kristjánsson

  • Rapid, object-based learning in the deployment of transient attention

    Árni Kristjánsson;Manfred Mackeben;Ken Nakayama

  • Efficient Visual Search without Top-down or Bottom-up Guidance: A Putative Role for Perceptual Organization

    DeLiang Wang;Arni Kristjansson;Ken Nakayama

Frequent Co-Authors

David Whitney
David Whitney University of California, Berkeley
Ken Nakayama
Ken Nakayama Harvard University
Paul M. G. Emmelkamp
Paul M. G. Emmelkamp University of Amsterdam
Claus Bundesen
Claus Bundesen University of Copenhagen
Joy J. Geng
Joy J. Geng University of California, Davis
Christian C. Ruff
Christian C. Ruff University of Zurich
DeLiang Wang
DeLiang Wang Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen
Chris Rorden
Chris Rorden University of South Carolina
Patrik Vuilleumier
Patrik Vuilleumier University of Geneva
Randolph Blake
Randolph Blake Vanderbilt University

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