2026 David A. Gallo: Psychology Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Psychology	39	8391	7836	4474	4073	97	12568

Overview

David A. Gallo is affiliated with the University of Chicago in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of neuroscience, medicine, and psychology, with particular focus on cognitive neuroscience, cellular and molecular neuroscience, developmental and educational psychology, oncology, and clinical psychology.

Their work explores topics including memory processes and influences, cancer-related molecular pathways, memory and neural mechanisms, psychedelics and drug studies, neurotransmitter receptor influence on behavior, nicotinic acetylcholine receptors study, and deception detection and forensic psychology.

Recent publications by Gallo include:

The acute effects of psychoactive drugs on emotional episodic memory encoding, consolidation, and retrieval: A comprehensive review (2023) in Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews
Unique effects of sedatives, dissociatives, psychedelics, stimulants, and cannabinoids on episodic memory: A review and reanalysis of acute drug effects on recollection, familiarity, and metamemory. (2023) in Psychological Review
Foreign language reduces false memories by increasing memory monitoring. (2023) in Journal of Experimental Psychology General
Unique Effects of Sedatives, Dissociatives, Psychedelics, Stimulants, and Cannabinoids on Episodic Memory: A Review and Reanalysis of Acute Drug Effects on Recollection, Familiarity, and Metamemory (2022) in bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
Adaptive measurement of cognitive function based on multidimensional item response theory (2024) in Alzheimer's & Dementia Translational Research & Clinical Interventions

Frequent collaborators in Gallo's research include:

Jimmy Fourtounis
Rino Stocco
Anne Roulston
Manoj K. Doss
Harriet de Wit

Common venues for publication are:

Molecular Cancer Therapeutics
Revista médica (Colegio de Médicos y Cirujanos de Guatemala)
AEA Randomized Controlled Trials
Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews
Psychological Review

Best Publications

Overdependence on degraded gist memory in Alzheimer's disease.

David A. Gallo;Kameron R. Shahid;Meredith A. Olson;Todd M. Solomon

1499
Citations
Factors that determine false recall: a multiple regression analysis.

Henry L. Roediger;Jason M. Watson;Kathleen B. McDermott;David A. Gallo

1085
Citations
False memories and fantastic beliefs: 15 years of the DRM illusion

David A. Gallo

662
Citations
Associative Illusions of Memory: False Memory Research in DRM and Related Tasks

David A. Gallo

419
Citations
Remembering words not presented in lists: Can we avoid creating false memories?

David A. Gallo;Meredith J. Roberts;John G. Seamon

400
Citations
Variability among word lists in eliciting memory illusions: evidence for associative activation and monitoring

David A. Gallo;Henry L. Roediger

390
Citations
Processing approaches to cognition: the impetus from the levels-of-processing framework.

Henry L. Roediger;David A. Gallo;Lisa Geraci

293
Citations
Modality effects in false recall and false recognition.

David A. Gallo;Kathleen B. McDermott;Jenny M. Percer;Henry L. Roediger

280
Citations
Associative false recognition occurs without strategic criterion shifts.

David A. Gallo;Henry L. Roediger;Kathleen B. McDermott

280
Citations
Creating False Memories of Words With or Without Recognition of List Items: Evidence for Nonconscious Processes

John G. Seamon;Chun R. Luo;David A. Gallo

254
Citations
Using Recall to Reduce False Recognition: Diagnostic and Disqualifying Monitoring.

David A. Gallo

250
Citations
Associative recognition in Alzheimer's disease: evidence for impaired recall-to-reject.

David A. Gallo;Alison L. Sullivan;Kirk R. Daffner;Daniel L. Schacter

167
Citations
Two types of recollection-based monitoring in younger and older adults: Recall-to-reject and the distinctiveness heuristic

David A. Gallo;Deborah M. Bell;Jonathan S. Beier;Daniel L. Schacter

161
Citations
The effects of associations and aging on illusory recollection.

David A. Gallo;Henry L. Roediger

155
Citations
Reducing false recognition with criterial recollection tests: Distinctiveness heuristic versus criterion shifts

David A. Gallo;Jonathan A. Weiss;Daniel L. Schacter

136
Citations
Deep levels of processing elicit a distinctiveness heuristic: Evidence from the criterial recollection task

David A. Gallo;Nathaniel G. Meadow;Elizabeth L. Johnson;Katherine T. Foster

130
Citations
Age-related positivity effects and autobiographical memory detail: evidence from a past/future source memory task.

David A. Gallo;Laura E. Korthauer;Ian M. McDonough;Salom Teshale

128
Citations
Reduced False Memory after Sleep.

Kimberly M. Fenn;David A. Gallo;Daniel Margoliash;Henry L. Roediger

121
Citations
Elevated false recollection of emotional pictures in young and older adults.

David A. Gallo;Katherine T. Foster;Elizabeth L. Johnson

116
Citations
False memory propensity in people reporting recovered memories of past lives.

Cynthia A. Meyersburg;Ryan Bogdan;David A. Gallo;Richard J. McNally

114
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Henry L. Roediger Washington University in St. Louis

Harriet de Wit University of Chicago

Daniel L. Schacter Harvard University

Andrew E. Budson Boston University

Kathleen B. McDermott Washington University in St. Louis

Elizabeth A. Kensinger Boston College

Stanley Finger Washington University in St. Louis

Ryan Bogdan Washington University in St. Louis

Richard J. McNally Harvard University

Gordon G. Gallup University at Albany, State University of New York

External Links

Personal website of David A. Gallo

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