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Overview

Daniel J. Simons is affiliated with the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in the United States. Their research spans multiple disciplines, primarily focused on physics and neuroscience, with an emphasis on subfields such as nuclear and high energy physics, cognitive neuroscience, sociology and political science, experimental and cognitive psychology, and general decision sciences.

Their recent publications cover topics in both physics and behavioral sciences. Notable papers include:

  • The Trajectory of Truth: A Longitudinal Study of the Illusory Truth Effect, 2021, Journal of Cognition
  • A reproducible systematic map of research on the illusory truth effect, 2021, Psychonomic Bulletin & Review
  • Gamma-ray performance study of the HERD payload, 2021, Proceedings of 37th International Cosmic Ray Conference - PoS(ICRC2021)
  • Nerve Wrap for Local Delivery of FK506/Tacrolimus Accelerates Nerve Regeneration, 2024, International Journal of Molecular Sciences
  • Form factor and model dependence in neutrino-nucleus cross section predictions, 2022, arXiv (Cornell University)

Their research output is distributed among several publication venues, including:

  • Journal of Cognition
  • Psychonomic Bulletin & Review
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • International Journal of Molecular Sciences
  • Cognitive Research Principles and Implications

Frequent co-authors in their work are:

  • Yifan Ding
  • Yannick Meurice
  • Connor M. Hults
  • Emma Henderson
  • Rishi Raja

The main topics of research include:

  • Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
  • Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies
  • Neutrino Physics Research
  • Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions
  • Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics
  • Media Influence and Health
  • Nerve injury and regeneration

This extensive body of work reflects a multidisciplinary approach, bridging gaps between physical sciences and cognitive neuroscience through both theoretical and experimental methods. Their investigations in particle physics focus on neutrino interactions and quantum chromodynamics, while their neuroscience-related work examines behavioral psychology, decision-making processes, and neural regeneration.

Best Publications

  • Gorillas in our midst: sustained inattentional blindness for dynamic events.

    Daniel J Simons;Christopher F Chabris

  • Change blindness: past, present, and future.

    Daniel J. Simons;Ronald A. Rensink

  • The effects of video game playing on attention, memory, and executive control.

    Walter R. Boot;Arthur F. Kramer;Daniel J. Simons;Monica Fabiani

  • Failure to detect changes to people during a real-world interaction

    Daniel J. Simons;Daniel T. Levin

  • Do “Brain-Training” Programs Work?:

    Daniel J. Simons;Walter R. Boot;Neil Charness;Susan E. Gathercole

  • The Invisible Gorilla: And Other Ways Our Intuitions Deceive Us

    Christopher F. Chabris;Daniel J. Simons

  • Constraints on Generality (COG): A Proposed Addition to All Empirical Papers:

    Daniel J. Simons;Yuichi Shoda;D. Stephen Lindsay

  • Current Approaches to Change Blindness

    Daniel J. Simons

  • Moving and looming stimuli capture attention.

    Steven L. Franconeri;Daniel J. Simons

  • Attentional capture and inattentional blindness

    Daniel J. Simons

  • Failure to detect changes to attended objects in motion pictures

    Daniel T. Levin;Daniel J. Simons

  • 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

  • The Pervasive Problem With Placebos in Psychology Why Active Control Groups Are Not Sufficient to Rule Out Placebo Effects

    Walter R. Boot;Daniel J. Simons;Cary Stothart;Cassie Stutts

  • The Value of Direct Replication

    Daniel J. Simons

  • In Sight, Out of Mind: When Object Representations Fail

    Daniel J. Simons

  • Do Action Video Games Improve Perception and Cognition

    Walter Richard Boot;Daniel P Blakely;Daniel J Simons

  • 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

  • Spatiotemporal continuity, smoothness of motion and object identity in infancy

    Elizabeth S. Spelke;Roberta Kestenbaum;Daniel J. Simons;Debra Wein

  • Perceiving Real-World Viewpoint Changes

    Daniel J. Simons;Ranxiao Frances Wang

  • Change blindness blindness: The metacognitive error of overestimating change-detection ability.

    Daniel T. Levin;Nausheen Momen;Sarah B. Drivdahl;Daniel J. Simons

Frequent Co-Authors

Walter R. Boot
Walter R. Boot Florida State University
Christopher F. Chabris
Christopher F. Chabris Geisinger Health System
Arthur F. Kramer
Arthur F. Kramer Northeastern University
Steven Franconeri
Steven Franconeri Northwestern University
Daniel Memmert
Daniel Memmert German Sport University Cologne
Stephen R. Mitroff
Stephen R. Mitroff George Washington University
Ruchika Shaurya Prakash
Ruchika Shaurya Prakash The Ohio State University
D. Stephen Lindsay
D. Stephen Lindsay University of Victoria
Brian J. Scholl
Brian J. Scholl Yale University
Kirk I. Erickson
Kirk I. Erickson University of Pittsburgh

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