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Brian J. Scholl

Brian J. Scholl

D-Index & Metrics

Psychology

D-Index
62
Citations
18714
World Ranking
3192
National Ranking
1814

Brian J. Scholl 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 Brian J. Scholl sits on this spectrum.

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31 publications 705+

This scientist: 239 publications — 79th percentile

79% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Brian J. Scholl 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 Brian J. Scholl sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 144+

This scientist: 62 D-Index — 72nd percentile

72% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Brian J. Scholl is affiliated with Yale University in the United States and conducts research primarily in neuroscience. Their work spans several subfields, including cognitive neuroscience, experimental and cognitive psychology, computer vision and pattern recognition, social psychology, and sociology and political science.

The main topics covered in their research include:

  • Visual perception and processing mechanisms
  • Aesthetic perception and analysis
  • Face recognition and perception
  • Psychology of moral and emotional judgment
  • Neural and behavioral psychology studies
  • Neural dynamics and brain function
  • Multisensory perception and integration

Over their career, Brian J. Scholl has published extensively in various scientific journals. Their frequent publication venues are:

  • Journal of Vision (35 publications)
  • Attention Perception & Psychophysics (7 publications)
  • Cognition (6 publications)
  • Journal of Experimental Psychology General (5 publications)
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (4 publications)

Some recent papers include:

  • Retinotopic adaptation reveals distinct categories of causal perception, 2020, Cognition
  • Gaze deflection reveals how gaze cueing is tuned to extract the mind behind the eyes, 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Visual memorability in the absence of semantic content, 2021, Cognition
  • "Taste typicality" is a foundational and multi-modal dimension of ordinary aesthetic experience, 2022, Current Biology
  • Seeing Soft Materials Draped Over Objects: A Case Study of Intuitive Physics in Perception, Attention, and Memory, 2022, Psychological Science

Their frequent coauthors include:

  • Joan Danielle K. Ongchoco (18 collaborations)
  • Kimberly W. Wong (13 collaborations)
  • Clara Colombatto (11 collaborations)
  • Robert Walter-Terrill (10 collaborations)
  • Ilker Yildirim (8 collaborations)

Brian J. Scholl has contributed to book publications as well. Notably, they have a book published by RAND Corporation eBooks titled RAND Behavioral Finance Forum: Financial Security Over the Lifespan in 2020.

Best Publications

  • Objects and attention: the state of the art

    Brian J Scholl

  • Perceptual causality and animacy

    Brian J Scholl;Patrice D Tremoulet

  • Cognition does not affect perception: Evaluating the evidence for "top-down" effects.

    Chaz Firestone;Brian J. Scholl

  • The Automaticity of Visual Statistical Learning

    Nicholas B. Turk-Browne;Justin A. Jungé;Brian J. Scholl

  • Modularity, Development and ‘Theory of Mind’

    Brian J. Scholl;Alan M. Leslie

  • What You See Is What You Set: Sustained Inattentional Blindness and the Capture of Awareness.

    Steven B. Most;Brian J. Scholl;Erin R. Clifford;Daniel J. Simons

  • Tracking Multiple Items Through Occlusion: Clues to Visual Objecthood

    Brian J. Scholl;Zenon W. Pylyshyn

  • Indexing and the object concept: developing `what' and `where' systems

    Alan M Leslie;Fei Xu;Patrice D Tremoulet;Brian J Scholl

  • Neural evidence of statistical learning: Efficient detection of visual regularities without awareness

    Nicholas B. Turk-Browne;Brian J. Scholl;Marvin M. Chun;Marcia K. Johnson

  • How not to be Seen: The Contribution of Similarity and Selective Ignoring to Sustained Inattentional Blindness

    Steven B. Most;Daniel J. Simons;Brian J. Scholl;Rachel Jimenez

  • What is a visual object? Evidence from target merging in multiple object tracking

    Brian J Scholl;Zenon W Pylyshyn;Jacob Feldman

  • Implicit Perceptual Anticipation Triggered by Statistical Learning

    Nicholas B. Turk-Browne;Brian J. Scholl;Marcia K. Johnson;Marvin M. Chun

  • “Top-Down” Effects Where None Should Be Found The El Greco Fallacy in Perception Research

    Chaz Firestone;Brian J. Scholl

  • The psychophysics of chasing: A case study in the perception of animacy

    Tao Gao;George E. Newman;Brian J. Scholl

  • Minds, Modules, and Meta‐Analysis

    Brian J. Scholl;Alan M. Leslie

  • Object Persistence in Philosophy and Psychology

    Brian J. Scholl

  • The Wolfpack Effect: Perception of Animacy Irresistibly Influences Interactive Behavior

    Tao Gao;Gregory McCarthy;Brian J. Scholl

  • The relationship between object files and conscious perception

    Stephen R Mitroff;Brian J Scholl;Karen Wynn

  • Attenuated Change Blindness for Exogenously Attended Items in a Flicker Paradigm

    Brian J. Scholl

  • 9 Perceiving Animacy and Intentionality: Visual Processing or Higher-Level Judgment?

    Brian J. Scholl;Tao Gao

  • Attentive Tracking of Objects Versus Substances

    Kristy vanMarle;Brian J. Scholl

Frequent Co-Authors

Marvin M. Chun
Marvin M. Chun Yale University
Stephen R. Mitroff
Stephen R. Mitroff George Washington University
Karen Wynn
Karen Wynn Yale University
Zenon W. Pylyshyn
Zenon W. Pylyshyn Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
George E. Newman
George E. Newman Yale University
Gregory McCarthy
Gregory McCarthy Yale University
Daniel J. Simons
Daniel J. Simons University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Laurie R. Santos
Laurie R. Santos Yale University
Alan M. Leslie
Alan M. Leslie Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

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