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Colin W. G. Clifford publication distribution in Neuroscience in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Neuroscience in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Colin W. G. Clifford sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 279 publications — 80th percentile

80% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Colin W. G. Clifford D-index placement in Neuroscience in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Neuroscience scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Colin W. G. Clifford sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 56 D-Index — 54th percentile

54% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Overview

Colin W. G. Clifford is affiliated with the University of New South Wales in Australia. Their research spans the fields of Neuroscience and Psychology, with particular focus on Cognitive Neuroscience, Social Psychology, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, and Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience.

The scientist's work centers on several main topics, including:

  • Visual perception and processing mechanisms
  • Face Recognition and Perception
  • Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior
  • Color perception and design
  • Neural dynamics and brain function
  • Aesthetic Perception and Analysis
  • Visual Attention and Saliency Detection

They have published articles in various research venues, with frequent publications in:

  • Cognition
  • Journal of Vision
  • Vision Research
  • Journal of Experimental Psychology General
  • Frontiers in Molecular Neuroscience

Some recent papers include:

  • "Analyzing Event-Related Transients: Confidence Intervals, Permutation Tests, and Consecutive Thresholds" (2020), Frontiers in Molecular Neuroscience
  • "The Mesolimbic Dopamine Activity Signatures of Relapse to Alcohol-Seeking" (2020), Journal of Neuroscience
  • "Face Pareidolia Recruits Mechanisms for Detecting Human Social Attention" (2020), Psychological Science
  • "Nice and slow: Measuring sensitivity and visual preference toward naturalistic stimuli varying in their amplitude spectra in space and time" (2021), Vision Research
  • "Angular tuning of tilt illusion depends on stimulus duration" (2020), Vision Research

Frequent coauthors in their research team include:

  • Colin J. Palmer
  • W. Paul Boyce
  • Erin Goddard
  • Lindsay Peterson
  • Philip Jean-Richard-dit-Bressel

Best Publications

  • Fitting the Mind to the World: Face Adaptation and Attractiveness Aftereffects

    Gillian Rhodes;Linda Jeffery;Tamara L. Watson;Colin W.G. Clifford

  • Visual adaptation: neural, psychological and computational aspects.

    Colin W.G. Clifford;Michael A. Webster;Garrett B. Stanley;Alan A. Stocker

  • The Functional Impact of Mental Imagery on Conscious Perception

    Joel Pearson;Joel Pearson;Colin W.G. Clifford;Frank Tong

  • Universal aesthetic of fractals

    Branka Spehar;Colin W.G. Clifford;Ben R. Newell;Richard P. Taylor

  • A functional angle on some after-effects in cortical vision.

    Colin W. G. Clifford;Peter Wenderoth;Branka Spehar

  • Fundamental mechanisms of visual motion detection: models, cells and functions

    Colin W.G. Clifford;Michael Ibbotson

  • Fitting the Mind to the World: Adaptation and after-effects in high-level vision

    Colin W. G. Clifford;Gillian Rhodes

  • Orientation-Contingent Face Aftereffects and Implications for Face-Coding Mechanisms

    Gillian Rhodes;Linda Jeffery;Tamara L. Watson;Emma Jaquet

  • Perceptual adaptation: motion parallels orientation

    Colin W.G. Clifford

  • The coding of color, motion, and their conjunction in the human visual cortex.

    Kiley Seymour;Colin W.G. Clifford;Nikos K. Logothetis;Nikos K. Logothetis;Andreas Bartels

  • Coding and Binding of Color and Form in Visual Cortex

    Kiley Seymour;Colin W.G. Clifford;Nikos K. Logothetis;Andreas Bartels

  • Pulling faces: an investigation of the face-distortion aftereffect.

    Tamara L Watson;Colin W G Clifford

  • Perceptual and physiological responses to the visual complexity of fractal patterns.

    R P Taylor;B Spehar;J A Wise;C W G Clifford

  • The functional effect of transcranial magnetic stimulation: Signal suppression or neural noise generation?

    Justin A. Harris;Colin W. G. Clifford;Carlo Miniussi

  • The timecourse of higher-level face aftereffects.

    Gillian Rhodes;Linda Jeffery;Colin W.G. Clifford;David A. Leopold

  • Humans Have an Expectation That Gaze Is Directed Toward Them

    Isabelle Mareschal;Andrew J. Calder;Colin W.G. Clifford

  • Visual representation of eye gaze is coded by a nonopponent multichannel system.

    Andrew J. Calder;Rob Jenkins;Anneli Cassel;Colin W. G. Clifford

  • Orthogonal adaptation improves orientation discrimination.

    Colin W. G. Clifford;Anna M. A. Wyatt;Derek H. Arnold;Stuart T. Smith

  • The tilt illusion: phenomenology and functional implications.

    Colin W.G. Clifford

  • Asynchronous processing in vision: color leads motion.

    Derek H Arnold;Colin W.G Clifford;Peter Wenderoth

  • A unified account of three apparent motion illusions.

    A. Johnston;C.W.G. Clifford

Frequent Co-Authors

Justin A. Harris
Justin A. Harris University of Sydney
Peter Wenderoth
Peter Wenderoth Macquarie University
Gillian Rhodes
Gillian Rhodes University of Western Australia
Joel Pearson
Joel Pearson University of New South Wales
Linda Jeffery
Linda Jeffery Curtin University
Samuel G. Solomon
Samuel G. Solomon University College London
Andrew J. Calder
Andrew J. Calder University of Cambridge
Keith Langley
Keith Langley University College London
Steven C. Dakin
Steven C. Dakin University of Auckland
Gavan P. McNally
Gavan P. McNally University of New South Wales

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