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62
Citations
16501
World Ranking
3212
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Research.com Recognitions

  • 1980 - Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA)
  • 1973 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Howard E. Egeth is affiliated with Johns Hopkins University in the United States. Their work primarily focuses on neuroscience with substantial contributions in cognitive neuroscience specifically. Research largely revolves around visual perception and processing mechanisms, neural and behavioral psychology studies, and visual attention and saliency detection.

The scientist has published extensively, with frequent contributions to key journals including the Journal of Vision, Attention Perception & Psychophysics, and the Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. Additional publication venues include eLife and bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory).

Major topics covered in their work include:

  • Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
  • Visual perception and processing mechanisms
  • Visual Attention and Saliency Detection
  • Face Recognition and Perception
  • Neural dynamics and brain function
  • EEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces
  • Multisensory perception and integration

Main fields and subfields of study are:

  • Neuroscience
  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
  • Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
  • Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging
  • Sensory Systems

Frequent co-authors include:

  • Nicholas Gaspelin
  • Brad T. Stilwell
  • Makaela Nartker
  • Chaz Firestone
  • Ian Phillips

Recent papers authored or co-authored by the scientist encompass:

  • "Electrophysiological Evidence for the Suppression of Highly Salient Distractors," 2022, Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
  • "The Distractor Positivity Component and the Inhibition of Distracting Stimuli," 2023, Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
  • "Terms of debate: Consensus definitions to guide the scientific discourse on visual distraction," 2024, Attention Perception & Psychophysics
  • "Can salient stimuli really be suppressed?," 2020, Attention Perception & Psychophysics
  • "Eye movements reveal the contributions of early and late processes of enhancement and suppression to the guidance of visual search," 2022, Attention Perception & Psychophysics

The scientist was recognized as a Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA) in 1980 and a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 1973.

Best Publications

  • VISUAL ATTENTION: Control, Representation, and Time Course

    Howard E. Egeth;Steven Yantis

  • Overriding stimulus-driven attentional capture

    William F. Bacon;Howard E. Egeth

  • Searching for conjunctively defined targets.

    Howard E. Egeth;Robert A. Virzi;Hadley Garbart

  • Visual Attention: Bottom-Up Versus Top-Down

    Charles E. Connor;Howard E. Egeth;Steven Yantis

  • On the distinction between visual salience and stimulus-driven attentional capture.

    Steven Yantis;Howard E. Egeth

  • Coordination of voluntary and stimulus-driven attentional control in human cortex

    John T. Serences;Sarah Shomstein;Andrew B. Leber;Xavier Golay;Xavier Golay

  • Made you blink! Contingent attentional capture produces a spatial blink.

    Charles L. Folk;Andrew B. Leber;Howard E. Egeth

  • It's under control: top-down search strategies can override attentional capture.

    Andrew B. Leber;Howard E. Egeth

  • Perception without attention: Evidence of grouping under conditions of inattention.

    Cathleen M. Moore;Howard Egeth

  • Parallel processing of multielement displays

    Howard Egeth;John Jonides;John Jonides;Sally Wall

  • Parallel versus serial processes in multidimensional stimulus discrimination

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  • Failure of spatial selectivity in vision

    Suzanne V. Gatti;Howard E. Egeth

  • Toward a translational model of Stroop interference.

    Robert A. Virzi;Howard E. Egeth

  • Eyewitness identification: What can a psychologist tell a jury?

    Michael McCloskey;Howard E. Egeth

  • The ignoring paradox: cueing distractor features leads first to selection, then to inhibition of to-be-ignored items.

    Jeff Moher;Howard E. Egeth

  • Do reaction time and accuracy measure the same aspects of letter recognition

    Jeffrey L. Santee;Howard E. Egeth

  • Attentional capture in singleton-detection and feature-search modes.

    Dominique Lamy;Howard E. Egeth

  • Effects of task relevance and stimulus-driven salience in feature-search mode.

    Dominique Lamy;Andrew Leber;Howard E. Egeth

  • Further evidence for a time-independent shift of the focus of attention.

    Ho Wan Kwak;Dale Dagenbach;Howard Egeth

  • Inhibition of return to object-based and environment-based locations.

    Bradley S. Gibson;Howard Egeth

  • Attention and Preattention

    Howard Egeth

Frequent Co-Authors

Dominique Lamy
Dominique Lamy Tel Aviv University
Barbara Landau
Barbara Landau Johns Hopkins University
Charles L. Folk
Charles L. Folk Villanova University
Michael McCloskey
Michael McCloskey Johns Hopkins University
James E. Hoffman
James E. Hoffman University of Delaware
Árni Kristjánsson
Árni Kristjánsson University of Iceland
John Jonides
John Jonides University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Edward E. Smith
Edward E. Smith Columbia University
Hiram Brownell
Hiram Brownell Boston College
E. Mark Mahone
E. Mark Mahone Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

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