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D-Index
45
Citations
11960
World Ranking
6578
National Ranking
3569

Research.com Recognitions

  • 1989 - Joseph Zubin Award, Society for Research in Psychopathology

Overview

David Rosenthal is affiliated with the City University of New York in the United States. Their research spans multiple subfields of neuroscience and psychology, with a strong focus on cognitive neuroscience and the philosophy and history of science.

The scientist has contributed to various main fields of study including:

  • Neuroscience
  • Psychology

Within these broader fields, their work particularly concentrates on subfields such as:

  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
  • History and Philosophy of Science
  • Philosophy
  • Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition

The main topics covered in their research include:

  • Philosophy and Theoretical Science
  • Neural dynamics and brain function
  • Embodied and Extended Cognition
  • Philosophy and History of Science
  • Visual Attention and Saliency Detection
  • Chemical Synthesis and Analysis
  • Synthetic Organic Chemistry Methods

David Rosenthal has published in several academic venues, with frequent publications in:

  • Journal of Vision
  • Cognitive Neuropsychology
  • Frontiers in Chemistry
  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • European Journal of Philosophy

Their recent papers, listing full titles with publication year and venue, include:

  • Competing models of consciousness (2020, Cognitive Neuropsychology)
  • Assessing criteria for theories (2020, Cognitive Neuroscience)
  • Thought, Consciousness, and the Given (2025, European Journal of Philosophy)

David Rosenthal's frequent coauthors include:

  • Brian Odegaard
  • Alan Lee
  • Addison Sans
  • Isaac Lee
  • Leo Ng

In 1989, David Rosenthal received the Joseph Zubin Award from the Society for Research in Psychopathology.

Best Publications

  • Two concepts of consciousness

    David M. Rosenthal

  • Consciousness and mind

    David M. Rosenthal

  • Empirical support for higher-order theories of conscious awareness

    Hakwan Lau;Hakwan Lau;David Rosenthal

  • The types and prevalence of mental illness in the biological and adoptive families of adopted schizophrenics

    Seymour S. Kety;David Rosenthal;Paul H. Wender;Fini Schulsinger

  • Quality-space theory in olfaction

    Benjamin D. Young;Andreas Keller;David Rosenthal

  • Psychiatric disorders in the biological and adoptive families of adopted individuals with affective disorders.

    Paul H. Wender;Seymour S. Kety;David Rosenthal;Fini Schulsinger

  • Mental illness in the biological and adoptive families of adopted individuals who have become schizophrenic: a preliminary report based on psychiatric interviews.

    Kety Ss;Rosenthal D;Wender Ph;Schulsinger F

  • Thinking that one thinks.

    David M. Rosenthal

  • The Adopted-Away Offspring of Schizophrenics

    David Rosenthal;Paul H. Wender;Seymour S. Kety;Joseph Welner

  • Mental Illness in the Biological and Adoptive Families of Adopted Schizophrenics

    Seymour S. Kety;David Rosenthal;Paul H. Wender;Fini Schulsinger

  • Crossfostering. A research strategy for clarifying the role of genetic and experiential factors in the etiology of schizophrenia.

    Paul H. Wender;David Rosenthal;Seymour S. Kety;Fini Schulsinger

  • Consciousness and its function.

    David M. Rosenthal

  • The Independence of Consciousness and Sensory Quality

    David M. Rosenthal

  • HOW TO THINK ABOUT MENTAL QUALITIES

    David Rosenthal

  • Schizophrenics' offspring reared in adoptive homes

    David Rosenthal;Paul H. Wender;Seymour S. Kety;Fini Schulsinger

  • The offspring of schizophrenics. Fetal and neonatal deaths.

    Ronald O. Rieder;David Rosenthal;Paul Wender

  • State Consciousness and Transitive Consciousness

    David M. Rosenthal

  • Consciousness, content, and metacognitive judgments.

    David M. Rosenthal

  • Materialism and the mind-body problem

    David M. Rosenthal

  • Exaggerated reports: reply to Block

    David Rosenthal

  • How many kinds of consciousness

    David M Rosenthal

Frequent Co-Authors

Hakwan Lau
Hakwan Lau Sungkyunkwan University
Ned Block
Ned Block New York University
Robert W. Kentridge
Robert W. Kentridge Durham University
Stephen M. Fleming
Stephen M. Fleming University College London
Theodore P. Zahn
Theodore P. Zahn National Institutes of Health
Stanislas Dehaene
Stanislas Dehaene Collège de France
Dominique Lamy
Dominique Lamy Tel Aviv University
Richard J. Haier
Richard J. Haier University of California, Irvine
Frank Tong
Frank Tong Vanderbilt University
Cecilia Heyes
Cecilia Heyes University of Oxford

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