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James T. Townsend

James T. Townsend

D-Index & Metrics

Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
61
Citations
19192
World Ranking
1330
National Ranking
620

James T. Townsend publication distribution in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where James T. Townsend sits on this spectrum.

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44 publications 570+

This scientist: 218 publications — 71st percentile

71% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 570 publications or more.

James T. Townsend D-index placement in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Social Sciences and Humanities scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where James T. Townsend sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 61 D-Index — 83rd percentile

83% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 100 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2004 - Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA)

Overview

James T. Townsend is affiliated with Indiana University in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields, primarily focusing on Computer Science and Neuroscience. Within these areas, they have contributed significantly to the subfields of Cognitive Neuroscience, Artificial Intelligence, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Computational Theory and Mathematics, and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology.

Their work covers a broad range of topics including Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies, Algorithms and Data Compression, Advanced Data Compression Techniques, Cognitive Science and Mapping, Face Recognition and Perception, Numerical Methods and Algorithms, and Generative Adversarial Networks and Image Synthesis.

Among their recent publications are the following papers:

  • "Unmet supportive care needs of people with advanced cancer and their caregivers: A systematic scoping review" (2022) published in Critical Reviews in Oncology/Hematology
  • "A show about nothing: No-signal processes in systems factorial technology." (2020) published in Psychological Review
  • "Interactive Parallel Models: No Virginia, Violation of Miller's Race Inequality does not Imply Coactivation and Yes Virginia, Context Invariance is Testable" (2020) published in The Quantitative Methods for Psychology
  • "A tutorial on the range variant of asymmetric numeral systems" (2020) published in arXiv (Cornell University)
  • "A beginning quantitative taxonomy of cognitive activation systems and application to continuous flow processes" (2021) published in Attention Perception & Psychophysics

James T. Townsend has published in several frequent venues including:

  • arXiv (Cornell University) - 11 publications
  • Journal of Mathematical Psychology - 4 publications
  • Attention Perception & Psychophysics - 3 publications
  • Psychological Review - 2 publications
  • Journal of Vision - 2 publications

They have collaborated regularly with several coauthors, notably:

  • Michael J. Wenger (10 coauthored publications)
  • Daniel Severo (5 coauthored publications)
  • Sarah Newbolds (5 coauthored publications)
  • Ashish Khisti (4 coauthored publications)
  • Alireza Makhzani (4 coauthored publications)

James T. Townsend is recognized as a Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA), an honor awarded in 2004.

Best Publications

  • Decision Field Theory: A Dynamic-Cognitive Approach to Decision Making in an Uncertain Environment.

    Jerome R. Busemeyer;James T. Townsend

  • The Stochastic Modeling of Elementary Psychological Processes

    James T. Townsend;F. Gregory Ashby

  • Varieties of perceptual independence.

    F. Gregory Ashby;James T. Townsend

  • Multialternative Decision Field Theory: A Dynamic Connectionist Model of Decision Making

    Robert M. Roe;Jermone R. Busemeyer;James T. Townsend

  • Theoretical analysis of an alphabetic confusion matrix

    J. T. Townsend

  • Serial vs. Parallel Processing: Sometimes They Look Like Tweedledum and Tweedledee but They Can (and Should) Be Distinguished

    James T. Townsend

  • Spatio-temporal properties of elementary perception: an investigation of parallel, serial, and coactive theories

    James T. Townsend;Georgie Nozawa

  • Quantum dynamics of human decision-making

    Jerome R. Busemeyer;Zheng Wang;James T. Townsend

  • Methods of Modeling Capacity in Simple Processing Systems

    James T. Townsend;F. Gregory Ashby

  • A note on the identifiability of parallel and serial processes.

    J. T. Townsend

  • A theory of interactive parallel processing: new capacity measures and predictions for a response time inequality series.

    James T. Townsend;Michael J. Wenger

  • SOME RESULTS CONCERNING THE IDENTIFIABILITY OF PARALLEL AND SERIAL PROCESSES

    J. T. Townsend

  • Measurement Scales and Statistics: The Misconception Misconceived

    James T. Townsend;F. Gregory Ashby

  • Fundamental derivations from decision field theory

    Jerome R. Busemeyer;James T. Townsend

  • Lateral masking for letters with unlimited viewing time

    J. T. Townsend;S. G. Taylor;D. R. Brown

  • Truth and consequences of ordinal differences in statistical distributions: toward a theory of hierarchical inference.

    James T. Townsend

  • Uncovering mental processes with factorial experiments

    James T. Townsend

  • The serial-parallel dilemma: A case study in a linkage of theory and method

    James T. Townsend;Michael J. Wenger

  • Pymanopt: a python toolbox for optimization on manifolds using automatic differentiation

    James Townsend;Niklas Koep;Sebastian Weichwald

  • A trichotomy: Interactions of factors prolonging sequential and concurrent mental processes in stochastic discrete mental (PERT) networks

    Richard Schweickert;James T. Townsend

  • Toward the trichotomy method of reaction times: laying the foundation of stochastic mental networks

    James T. Townsend;Richard Schweickert

Frequent Co-Authors

Jerome R. Busemeyer
Jerome R. Busemeyer Indiana University
F. Gregory Ashby
F. Gregory Ashby University of California, Santa Barbara
Hans Colonius
Hans Colonius Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg
Donald L. Fisher
Donald L. Fisher University of Massachusetts Amherst
Richard W. J. Neufeld
Richard W. J. Neufeld University of Western Ontario
Richard M. McFall
Richard M. McFall Indiana University
David B. Pisoni
David B. Pisoni Indiana University
Julie C. Stout
Julie C. Stout Monash University
Daniel Algom
Daniel Algom Tel Aviv University
George A. Alvarez
George A. Alvarez Harvard University

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