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Derek Besner publication distribution in Psychology in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Psychology in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Derek Besner sits on this spectrum.

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31 publications 705+

This scientist: 198 publications — 68th percentile

68% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 705 publications or more.

Derek Besner D-index placement in Psychology in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Psychology scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Derek Besner sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 144+

This scientist: 60 D-Index — 70th percentile

70% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 144 D-Index or more.

Overview

Derek Besner is affiliated with the University of Waterloo in Canada and conducts research primarily in the field of Neuroscience. Their work spans several subfields, including Cognitive Neuroscience, Developmental and Educational Psychology, Social Psychology, Statistics and Probability, and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology.

The main topics of Derek Besner's research include:

  • Face Recognition and Perception
  • Reading and Literacy Development
  • Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
  • Hemispheric Asymmetry in Neuroscience
  • Action Observation and Synchronization
  • Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism
  • Cognitive and developmental aspects of mathematical skills

Derek Besner has contributed several recent papers, demonstrating a consistent focus on cognitive and experimental psychology:

  • On the determination of eye gaze and arrow direction: Automaticity reconsidered. (2021), Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology/Revue canadienne de psychologie expérimentale
  • On the joint effects of stimulus quality and word frequency in lexical decision: Conditions that promote staged versus cascaded processing. (2022), Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology/Revue canadienne de psychologie expérimentale
  • Do eyes and arrows elicit automatic orienting? Three mutually exclusive hypotheses and a test. (2021), Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology
  • Revealing hidden interactions in mean performance through distributional analyses: Evidence from Chinese lexical decision performance. (2024), Psychonomic Bulletin & Review
  • Visual word recognition: Attention, intention, context, and processing dynamics. (2022), Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology/Revue canadienne de psychologie expérimentale

Frequent co-authors in their work include:

  • Torin Young
  • David McLean
  • Melvin J. Yap
  • Chi-Shing Tse
  • An Qi Lim

Publication venues where Derek Besner most often appears include:

  • Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology/Revue canadienne de psychologie expérimentale
  • Attention Perception & Psychophysics
  • Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology
  • Psychonomic Bulletin & Review
  • Consciousness and Cognition

Best Publications

  • Basic processes in reading : visual word recognition

    Derek Besner;Glyn W. Humphreys

  • A resource-control account of sustained attention: evidence from mind-wandering and vigilance paradigms.

    David R. Thomson;Derek Besner;Daniel Smilek

  • On the association between connectionism and data: Are a few words necessary?

    Derek Besner;Leslie Twilley;Robert S. McCann;Ken Seergobin

  • The stroop effect and the myth of automaticity

    Derek Besner;Jennifer A. Stolz;Clay Boutilier

  • Reading pseudohomophones: Implications for models of pronunciation assembly and the locus of word-frequency effects in naming.

    Robert S. McCann;Derek Besner

  • The Stroop effect: why proportion congruent has nothing to do with congruency and everything to do with contingency

    James R. Schmidt;Derek Besner

  • Ideographic and alphabetic processing in skilled reading of English.

    Derek Besner;Max Coltheart

  • Visual Word Recognition: Evidence for Strategic Control of Lexical and Nonlexical Routines in Oral Reading

    Bahman Baluch;Derek Besner

  • Phonological encoding in the lexical decision task

    Max Coltheart;Derek Besner;Jon Torfi Jonasson;Eileen Davelaar

  • Visual word recognition: a multistage activation model.

    Ron Borowsky;Derek Besner

  • Phonological recoding and lexical access

    Eileen Davelaar;Max Coltheart;Derek Besner;Jon Torfi Jonasson

  • Phonology, lexical access in reading, and articulatory suppression: A critical review

    Derek Besner

  • Reading for meaning: The effects of concurrent articulation

    Derek Besner;Julia Davies;Shona Daniels

  • Contingency learning without awareness: Evidence for implicit control

    James R. Schmidt;Matthew J.C. Crump;Jim Cheesman;Derek Besner

  • Event perception and the word repetition effect

    Glyn W. Humphreys;Derek Besner;Philip T. Quinlan

  • Item-specific adaptation and the conflict-monitoring hypothesis: a computational model.

    Chris Blais;Serje Robidoux;Evan F. Risko;Derek Besner

  • Basic processes in reading: Two phonological codes.

    Derek Besner;Eileen Davelaar

  • Models of visual word recognition: When obscuring the stimulus yields a clearer view.

    Derek Besner;Marilyn C. Smith

  • Word frequency and pattern distortion in visual word identification and production: An examination of four classes of models.

    Derek Besner;Robert S. McCann

  • Orthographic and phonological codes in the oral reading of Japanese Kana.

    Derek Besner;Nancy Hildebrandt

Frequent Co-Authors

Evan F. Risko
Evan F. Risko University of Waterloo
Max Coltheart
Max Coltheart Macquarie University
Daniel Smilek
Daniel Smilek University of Waterloo
Kathleen Rastle
Kathleen Rastle Royal Holloway University of London
Glyn W. Humphreys
Glyn W. Humphreys University of Oxford
David A. Balota
David A. Balota Washington University in St. Louis
Pierre Jolicoeur
Pierre Jolicoeur University of Montreal
Nachshon Meiran
Nachshon Meiran Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Karalyn Patterson
Karalyn Patterson MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit
Paul Seli
Paul Seli Duke University

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