2026 Irving Biederman: Psychology Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Psychology	63	3050	2807	1735	1561	251	29908

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World Ranking

Current World Ranking

National Ranking

Current National Ranking

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Psychology

3050

2807

1735

1561

251

29908

Research.com Recognitions

1980 - Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA)
1977 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Irving Biederman is affiliated with the University of Southern California in the United States. Their research primarily spans the field of Neuroscience, with focused work in subfields including Cognitive Neuroscience, Ophthalmology, and Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition.

The topics explored in Biederman's work cover a diverse range including:

Visual perception and processing mechanisms
Ocular and Laser Science Research
Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
Face Recognition and Perception
Visual Attention and Saliency Detection

Biederman's recent publications include:

Vision: A Product of a Society of Independent Experts (2020), published in Current Biology
The sizable difficulty in matching unfamiliar faces differing only moderately in orientation in depth is a function of image dissimilarity (2022), published in Vision Research

Frequent co-authors associated with Biederman's research are:

Catrina Hacker
Tianyi Zhu
Miles Nelken
Emily Meschke

The venues where Biederman has published include:

Current Biology
Vision Research

Biederman has received recognition in the form of Fellowships from prominent scientific organizations. They were named a Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA) in 1980 and a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 1977.

Best Publications

Recognition-by-Components: A Theory of Human Image Understanding.

Irving Biederman

8350
Citations
Human image understanding : Recent research and a theory

Irving Biederman

2088
Citations
Scene Perception" Detecting and Judging Objects Undergoing Relational Violations

Irving Biederman;Robert J. Mezzanotte;Jan C. Rabinowitz

1532
Citations
Dynamic binding in a neural network for shape recognition.

John E. Hummel;Irving Biederman

1358
Citations
Perceiving Real-World Scenes

Irving Biederman

1036
Citations
Surface versus Edge-Based Determinants of Visual Recognition.

Irving Biederman;Ginny Ju

970
Citations
Recognizing depth-rotated objects: Evidence and conditions for three-dimensional viewpoint invariance.

Irving Biederman;Peter C. Gerhardstein

959
Citations
On the Semantics of a Glance at a Scene

Irving Biederman

743
Citations
Sexing day-old chicks: A case study and expert systems analysis of a difficult perceptual-learning task.

Irving Biederman;Margaret M. Shiffrar

687
Citations
Mental set and mental shift revisited

Amos Spector;Irving Biederman

597
Citations
Priming contour-deleted images: evidence for intermediate representations in visual object recognition.

Irving Biederman;Eric E Cooper

595
Citations
Size invariance in visual object priming

Irving Biederman;Eric E. Cooper

550
Citations
Evidence for complete translational and reflectional invariance in visual object priming.

Irving Biederman;Eric E Cooper

530
Citations
Perceptual Pleasure and the Brain A novel theory explains why the brain craves information and seeks it through the senses

Irving Biederman;Edward A. Vessel

530
Citations
Searching for objects in real-world scenes.

Irving Biederman;Arnold L. Glass;E. Webb Stacy

453
Citations
On the information extracted from a glance at a scene.

Irving Biederman;Jan C. Rabinowitz;Arnold L. Glass;E. Webb Stacy

431
Citations
Visual object recognition

Irving Biederman

408
Citations
Perceptual Pleasure and the Brain

Irving Biederman;Edward A. Vessel

404
Citations
Neurocomputational bases of object and face recognition

Irving Biederman;Peter Kalocsai

337
Citations
Subliminal Visual Priming

Moshe Bar;Irving Biederman

334
Citations
"Recognizing depth-rotated objects: Evidence and conditions for three-dimensional viewpoint invariance": Correction to Biederman and Gerhardstein.

Irving Biederman;Peter C. Gehardstein

5
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Edward A. Wasserman University of Iowa

Moshe Bar Bar-Ilan University

John E. Hummel University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Jules Davidoff Goldsmiths University of London

Anupam Madhukar University of Southern California

Philippe G. Schyns University of Glasgow

Frédéric Gosselin University of Montreal

Naoyuki Osaka Kyoto University

Jean-Marie Danion University of Strasbourg

Johan Wagemans KU Leuven

External Links

Personal website of Irving Biederman

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