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

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Psychology	61	3346	3081	1887	1698	212	16728

Research.com Recognitions

2012 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
2005 - Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA)

Overview

David A. Rosenbaum is affiliated with the University of California, Riverside in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields primarily within psychology and neuroscience, with a notable focus on cognitive neuroscience. Other key subfields include general decision sciences, developmental and educational psychology, statistics and probability, and experimental and cognitive psychology.

The scientist's published work covers a diverse range of topics including neural and behavioral psychology studies, decision-making and behavioral economics, motor control and adaptation, cognitive and developmental aspects of mathematical skills, perfectionism, procrastination, anxiety studies, action observation and synchronization, and visual perception and processing mechanisms.

Frequent coauthors include Marius Usher, Iman Feghhi, Aviad Ozana, Frouke Hermens, and Moshe Glickman.

Publications by David A. Rosenbaum have appeared mainly in the following venues: Psychological Research, Attention Perception & Psychophysics, Acta Psychologica, Brazilian Journal of Motor Behavior, and Psychological Science.

Some recent papers authored by Rosenbaum are:

Ensemble perception: Extracting the average of perceptual versus numerical stimuli (2021), published in Attention Perception & Psychophysics
The Cognition/Metacognition Trade-Off (2022), published in Psychological Science
Carrying groceries: More items in early trips than in later trips or the reverse? Implications for pre-crastination (2022), published in Psychological Research
Effort avoidance is not simply error avoidance (2020), published in Psychological Research
The averaging of numerosities: A psychometric investigation of the mental line (2020), published in Attention Perception & Psychophysics

David A. Rosenbaum has received recognition as a Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in 2012 and as a Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA) in 2005.

Best Publications

Human Motor Control

David A. Rosenbaum

1526
Citations
Human Movement Initiation: Specification of Arm, Direction, and Extent

David A. Rosenbaum

1199
Citations
Cognitive Science: An Introduction

Neil A. Stillings;Mark H. Feinstein;Jay L. Garfield;Edwina L. Rissland

852
Citations
Planning reaches by evaluating stored postures.

David A. Rosenbaum;Loukia D. Loukopoulos;Ruud G. J. Meulenbroek;Jonathan Vaughan

601
Citations
Cognition and Motor Processes

W. Prinz;D. A. Allport;P. Bach-y-Rita;R. B. Freeman

596
Citations
Constraints for Action Selection: Overhand Versus Underhand Grips

David A. Rosenbaum;Frank Marchak;Heather Jane Barnes;Jonathan Vaughan

572
Citations
Posture-based motion planning: applications to grasping.

David A. Rosenbaum;Ruud J. Meulenbroek;Jonathan Vaughan;Chris Jansen

517
Citations
Acquisition of intellectual and perceptual-motor skills.

David A. Rosenbaum;Richard A. Carlson;Rick O. Gilmore

510
Citations
Hierarchical control of rapid movement sequences.

David A. Rosenbaum;Sandra B. Kenny;Marcia A. Derr

416
Citations
The Cinderella of psychology: the neglect of motor control in the science of mental life and behavior.

David A. Rosenbaum

372
Citations
Grasping the meaning of words.

Scott Glover;Scott Glover;David A. Rosenbaum;Jeremy Graham;Peter Dixon

362
Citations
Cognition, action, and object manipulation.

David A. Rosenbaum;Kate M. Chapman;Matthias Weigelt;Daniel J. Weiss

344
Citations
Where grasps are made reveals how grasps are planned: generation and recall of motor plans

Rajal G. Cohen;David A. Rosenbaum

326
Citations
Time course of movement planning: selection of handgrips for object manipulation.

David A. Rosenbaum;Jonathan Vaughan;Heather J. Barnes;Matthew J. Jorgensen

325
Citations
The problem of serial order in behavior: Lashley's legacy.

David A. Rosenbaum;Rajal G. Cohen;Steven A. Jax;Daniel J. Weiss

315
Citations
Planning macroscopic aspects of manual control

David A. Rosenbaum;Matthew J. Jorgensen

303
Citations
From cognition to biomechanics and back: the end-state comfort effect and the middle-is-faster effect

D A Rosenbaum;C M van Heugten;G E Caldwell

259
Citations
The Movement Precuing Technique: Assumptions, Applications, and Extensions

David A. Rosenbaum

255
Citations
Choosing between movement sequences: A hierarchical editor model.

David A. Rosenbaum;Albrecht W. Inhoff;Andrew M. Gordon

255
Citations
A priming method for investigating the selection of motor responses

David A. Rosenbaum;Sylvan Kornblum

242
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Ruud G. J. Meulenbroek Radboud University

Wolfgang Prinz Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences

Thomas Schack Bielefeld University

Edmund Wascher TU Dortmund University

Florian Waszak Université Paris Cité

Janet G. van Hell Pennsylvania State University

Peter E. Keller University of Sydney

Iring Koch RWTH Aachen University

Bert Steenbergen Radboud University

Martin H. Fischer University of Potsdam

External Links

Personal website of David A. Rosenbaum

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