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Donald E. Broadbent

Donald E. Broadbent

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Psychology

D-Index
63
Citations
25653
World Ranking
3056
National Ranking
328

Overview

Donald E. Broadbent is affiliated with the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily focuses on computer science, with notable work in information systems and library and information sciences. Additional areas of study include conservation, education, and the management of technology and innovation.

The scientist's academic output encompasses several main topics, including:

  • Library Collection Development and Digital Resources
  • Library Science and Information Literacy
  • Digital and Traditional Archives Management
  • Research Data Management Practices
  • Web and Library Services
  • Social Development and Education Research
  • Management and Marketing Education

Broadbent has contributed papers to a range of publication venues. Frequent venues where their work appears include:

  • The Journal of Academic Librarianship
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Library Leadership & Management
  • Philosophy and Cosmology

Recent publications feature various aspects of library science, data management, and epistemology. Some of their papers include:

  • Collection weeding: Innovative processes and tools to ease the burden (2020, The Journal of Academic Librarianship)
  • In their own words: Perspectives on collection weeding from library employees and teaching faculty (2022, The Journal of Academic Librarianship)
  • Not Another Survey! Use Interviews Instead to Understand Needs in Your Library (2020, Library Leadership & Management)
  • Could Our Universe Have Been Initiated Intentionally: An Epistemological Framework (2023, Philosophy and Cosmology)
  • Bilateral Distribution Compression: Reducing Both Data Size and Dimensionality (2025, arXiv (Cornell University))

Broadbent's research has benefited from collaboration with several frequent co-authors, including:

  • Gregory M. Nelson
  • Michael C. Goates
  • David Pixton
  • Megan Frost
  • Nick Whiteley

Best Publications

  • The Cognitive Failures Questionnaire (CFQ) and its correlates

    Donald E. Broadbent;P. F. Cooper;P. FitzGerald;Katharine R. Parkes

  • On the relationship between task performance and associated verbalizable knowledge

    Dianne C. Berry;Donald E. Broadbent

  • From detection to identification: response to multiple targets in rapid serial visual presentation.

    Donald E. Broadbent;Margaret H. P. Broadbent

  • On the transfer of information from temporary to permanent memory

    Fergus Ian Muirden Craik

  • Information Conveyed by Vowels

    Peter Ladefoged;D. E. Broadbent

  • The role of auditory localization in attention and memory span.

    Donald E. Broadbent

  • Task combination and selective intake of information

    Donald E. Broadbent

  • What makes interruptions disruptive? A study of length, similarity, and complexity

    Tony Gillie;Donald Broadbent

  • Interactive tasks and the implicit‐explicit distinction

    Dianne C. Berry;Donald E. Broadbent

  • Two modes of learning for interactive tasks

    Neil A. Hayes;Donald E. Broadbent

  • Implicit and explicit knowledge bases in artificial grammar learning.

    Zoltan Dienes;Donald Broadbent;Dianne C. Berry

  • Implicit and explicit knowledge in the control of complex systems

    Donald E. Broadbent;Peter FitzGerald;Margaret H. P. Broadbent

  • A mechanical model for human attention and immediate memory.

    Unknown

  • Anxiety and Attentional Bias: State and Trait

    Donald Broadbent;Margaret Broadbent

  • The hidden preattentive processes.

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  • Levels, hierarchies, and the locus of control

    Donald E. Broadbent

  • Successive Responses to Simultaneous Stimuli

    D. E. Broadbent

  • The combination of explicit and implicit learning processes in task control

    Dianne C. Berry;Donald E. Broadbent

  • The Maltese cross: A new simplistic model for memory

    Donald E. Broadbent

  • Listening to one of two synchronous messages

    Donald E. Broadbent

  • VIGILANCE CONSIDERED AS A STATISTICAL DECISION.

    D. E. Broadbent;Margaret Gregory

  • Recency effects in visual memory

    Donald E. Broadbent;Margaret H. P. Broadbent

  • Tasks, errors and mental models: L P Goodstein, H B Andersen and S E Olsen (eds) Taylor & Francis (1988) £35, ISBN 0-85066-401-2, 342pp

    Donald E. Broadbent

Frequent Co-Authors

Dianne C. Berry
Dianne C. Berry University of Reading
Andrew Paul Smith
Andrew Paul Smith Cardiff University
Katharine R. Parkes
Katharine R. Parkes University of Oxford
Dylan Marc Jones
Dylan Marc Jones Cardiff University
John D. Teasdale
John D. Teasdale MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit
Zoltan Dienes
Zoltan Dienes University of Sussex
Maryanne Martin
Maryanne Martin University of Oxford
David M. Clark
David M. Clark University of Oxford
Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
Vilayanur S. Ramachandran University of California, San Diego

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