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D-Index
49
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World Ranking
4242
National Ranking
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Daniel Kersten publication distribution in Engineering and Technology in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Engineering and Technology in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Daniel Kersten sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 804+

This scientist: 213 publications — 53rd percentile

53% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 804 publications or more.

Daniel Kersten D-index placement in Engineering and Technology in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Engineering and Technology scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Daniel Kersten sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 107+

This scientist: 49 D-Index — 57th percentile

57% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 107 D-Index or more.

Overview

Daniel Kersten is affiliated with the University of Minnesota in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Neuroscience and Medicine, with a focus on Cognitive Neuroscience, Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging, Social Psychology, Epidemiology, and Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition.

The main topics of Kersten's work include:

  • Visual perception and processing mechanisms
  • Face Recognition and Perception
  • Action Observation and Synchronization
  • Infrared Thermography in Medicine
  • Ophthalmology and Visual Impairment Studies
  • Impact of Light on Environment and Health
  • Tactile and Sensory Interactions

Daniel Kersten has contributed to several scientific publications across various reputable venues. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Journal of Vision
  • Scientific Reports
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • PLoS ONE
  • i-Perception

Representative recent papers by Kersten and collaborators are:

  • "Multivoxel Pattern of Blood Oxygen Level Dependent Activity can be sensitive to stimulus specific fine scale responses," 2020, Scientific Reports
  • "General lighting can overcome accidental viewing," 2023, i-Perception
  • "Visual adaptation selective for individual limbs reveals hierarchical human body representation," 2021, Journal of Vision
  • "Effect of expansive optic flow and lateral motion parallax on depth estimation with normal and artificially reduced acuity," 2023, Journal of Vision
  • "We May Develop Medications Effective Against COVID-19, but Can We Distribute Them Equitably?", 2020, Health Equity

Kersten frequently collaborates with researchers such as Gordon E. Legge, Alexander Bratch, Alan Yuille, Siyun Liu, and Hongru Zhu. These coauthors have repeatedly contributed to research in areas related to visual perception and cognitive neuroscience.

Best Publications

  • Object Perception as Bayesian Inference

    Daniel Kersten;Pascal Mamassian;Alan L Yuille

  • Vision as Bayesian inference: analysis by synthesis?

    Alan L Yuille;Daniel Kersten

  • Shape perception reduces activity in human primary visual cortex

    Scott O. Murray;Daniel Kersten;Bruno A. Olshausen;Paul Schrater

  • The representation of perceived angular size in human primary visual cortex

    Scott O. Murray;Huseyin Boyaci;Daniel J Kersten

  • Bayesian models of object perception.

    Daniel Kersten;Alan L Yuille

  • Perception of three-dimensional shape influences colour perception through mutual illumination

    M. G. Bloj;D. Kersten;A. C. Hurlbert

  • Contrast discrimination in noise.

    Gordon E. Legge;Daniel Kersten;Arthur E. Burgess

  • The perception of cast shadows

    Pascal Mamassian;David C. Knill;Daniel Kersten

  • APPARENT SURFACE CURVATURE AFFECTS LIGHTNESS PERCEPTION

    David C. Knill;Daniel Kersten

  • Moving Cast Shadows Induce Apparent Motion in Depth

    Daniel Kersten;Pascal Mamassian;David C Knill

  • Illusory motion from shadows

    Daniel Kersten;David C. Knill;Pascal Mamassian;Isabella Bülthoff

  • Orientation-tuned fMRI adaptation in human visual cortex

    Fang Fang;Scott O. Murray;Daniel J. Kersten;Sheng He

  • Perceptual grouping and the interactions between visual cortical areas

    Scott O. Murray;Paul Schrater;Daniel Kersten

  • Human efficiency for recognizing 3-D objects in luminance noise

    Bosco S. Tjan;Wendy L. Braje;Gordon E. Legge;Daniel Kersten

  • Object classification for human and ideal observers

    Zili Liu;David C. Knill;Daniel Kersten

  • Predictability and redundancy of natural images.

    Daniel Kersten

  • Illumination effects in face recognition

    Wendy L. Braje;Daniel J Kersten;Michael J. Tarr;Nikolaus F. Troje

  • Is Color an Intrinsic Property of Object Representation

    Galit Naor-Raz;Michael J Tarr;Daniel Kersten

  • Visual motion and the perception of surface material.

    Katja Doerschner;Roland W. Fleming;Ozgur Yilmaz;Paul R. Schrater

  • Perceptual grouping and inverse fMRI activity patterns in human visual cortex.

    Fang Fang;Daniel Kersten;Scott O. Murray

  • Why the visual recognition system might encode the effects of illumination

    Michael J Tarr;Daniel Kersten;Heinrich H Bülthoff

  • Light and dark bars; contrast discrimination.

    Gordon E. Legge;Daniel Kersten

  • Spatial summation in visual noise.

    Daniel Kersten

  • BOLD fMRI and psychophysical measurements of contrast response to broadband images.

    Cheryl A. Olman;Kamil Ugurbil;Paul Schrater;Daniel Kersten

  • Viewpoint-dependent recognition of familiar faces.

    Nikolaus F. Troje;Daniel J Kersten

  • Geometry of shadows.

    David C. Knill;Pascal Mamassian;Daniel Kersten

  • Bootstrapped learning of novel objects.

    Mark J. Brady;Daniel J Kersten

  • Distinguishing shiny from matte

    Bruce Hartung;Daniel Kersten

  • Introduction: a Bayesian formulation of visual perception

    David C. Knill;Daniel Kersten;Alan Yuille

Frequent Co-Authors

Paul Schrater
Paul Schrater University of Minnesota
Scott O. Murray
Scott O. Murray University of Washington
David C. Knill
David C. Knill University of Rochester
Pascal Mamassian
Pascal Mamassian École Normale Supérieure
Alan L. Yuille
Alan L. Yuille Johns Hopkins University
Heinrich H. Bülthoff
Heinrich H. Bülthoff Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics
Michael J. Tarr
Michael J. Tarr Carnegie Mellon University
Peter W. Battaglia
Peter W. Battaglia DeepMind (United Kingdom)
William B. Thompson
William B. Thompson University of Utah
Kamil Ugurbil
Kamil Ugurbil University of Minnesota

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