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James W. Tanaka

James W. Tanaka

D-Index & Metrics

Psychology

D-Index
64
Citations
25041
World Ranking
2907
National Ranking
178

Neuroscience

D-Index
64
Citations
25042
World Ranking
3201
National Ranking
186

James W. Tanaka publication distribution in Psychology in 2026

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31 publications 705+

This scientist: 211 publications — 72nd percentile

72% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

James W. Tanaka 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 James W. Tanaka sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 144+

This scientist: 64 D-Index — 75th percentile

75% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2019 - Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada Academy of Social Sciences

Overview

James W. Tanaka is affiliated with the University of Victoria in Canada and has made contributions primarily within the fields of neuroscience and computer science. Their research includes a strong focus on cognitive neuroscience and computer vision, emphasizing visual perception and processing mechanisms.

The main topics that characterize Tanaka's work include:

  • Face Recognition and Perception
  • Visual Attention and Saliency Detection
  • Visual perception and processing mechanisms
  • Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
  • Face recognition and analysis
  • Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment
  • Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior

Tanaka has collaborated frequently with several coauthors throughout their career. The notable collaborators include:

  • Alison Campbell
  • Megan K. Lall
  • Amy vanWell
  • Brett D. Roads
  • Regan Fry

They have published in a variety of academic venues, with repeated contributions to several journals. The journals featuring Tanaka's work most frequently are:

  • Journal of Vision
  • Studies in Health Technology and Informatics
  • Neuropsychologia
  • Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders
  • Visual Cognition

The scientist's recent papers encompass studies on neural mechanisms underlying face familiarity, developmental prosopagnosia, and perceptual expertise. Notable publications include:

  • Identity-specific neural responses to three categories of face familiarity (own, friend, stranger) using fast periodic visual stimulation, 2020, Neuropsychologia
  • When a stranger becomes a friend: Measuring the neural correlates of real-world face familiarisation, 2021, Visual Cognition
  • Investigating the Influence of Autism Spectrum Traits on Face Processing Mechanisms in Developmental Prosopagnosia, 2022, Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders
  • Hidden in Plain Sight: Overlooked Results and Other Errors in Evaluating Online Laboratory Results, 2022, Studies in Health Technology and Informatics
  • The culture of perceptual expertise and the other-race effect, 2023, British Journal of Psychology

James W. Tanaka's contributions extend to book publications as well, with a notable title published by Cambridge University Press:

  • The Expertise of Perception, 2022

In recognition of their academic work, Tanaka was awarded Fellowship of the Royal Society of Canada in 2019, cited by the Academy of Social Sciences.

Best Publications

  • The NimStim set of facial expressions: Judgments from untrained research participants

    Nim Tottenham;James W. Tanaka;Andrew C. Leon;Thomas McCarry

  • Parts and wholes in face recognition

    James W. Tanaka;Martha J. Farah

  • Controlling low-level image properties: the SHINE toolbox.

    Verena Willenbockel;Javid Sadr;Daniel Fiset;Greg O. Horne

  • Object categories and expertise: Is the basic level in the eye of the beholder?

    James W Tanaka;Marjorie Taylor

  • Features and their configuration in face recognition

    James W. Tanaka;Joseph A. Sengco

  • What causes the face inversion effect

    M J Farah;J W Tanaka;H M Drain

  • Holistic and part-based face recognition in children with autism

    Robert M. Joseph;James Tanaka

  • A Neural Basis for Expert Object Recognition

    James W. Tanaka;Tim Curran

  • A holistic account of the own-race effect in face recognition: evidence from a cross-cultural study.

    James W Tanaka;Markus Kiefer;Cindy M Bukach

  • Training ‘greeble’ experts: a framework for studying expert object recognition processes

    Isabel Gauthier;Pepper Williams;Michael J. Tarr;James Tanaka

  • The Body-Inversion Effect

    Catherine L. Reed;Valerie E. Stone;Senia Bozova;James Tanaka

  • Activation of Preexisting and Acquired Face Representations: The N250 Event-related Potential as an Index of Face Familiarity

    James W. Tanaka;Tim Curran;Albert L. Porterfield;Daniel Collins

  • Using computerized games to teach face recognition skills to children with autism spectrum disorder: the Let's Face It! program.

    James W. Tanaka;Julie M. Wolf;Cheryl Klaiman;Kathleen Koenig

  • The role of color in high-level vision

    James Tanaka;Daniel Weiskopf;Pepper Williams

  • The entry point of face recognition: evidence for face expertise.

    James W. Tanaka

  • The "Eye Avoidance" Hypothesis of Autism Face Processing.

    James W. Tanaka;Andrew Sung

  • Color diagnosticity in object recognition

    James W. Tanaka;Lynn M. Presnell

  • What causes the face inversion effect?

    Unknown

  • The neural plasticity of other-race face recognition.

    James W. Tanaka;Lara J. Pierce

  • Face recognition in young children : When the whole is greater than the sum of its parts

    James W. Tanaka;Joshua B. Kay;Eliza Grinnell;Brent Stansfield

  • Expertise in Object and Face Recognition

    James Tanaka;Isabel Gauthier

Frequent Co-Authors

Tim Curran
Tim Curran University of Colorado Boulder
Paul C. Quinn
Paul C. Quinn University of Delaware
Olivier Pascalis
Olivier Pascalis Grenoble Alpes University
Kang Lee
Kang Lee University of Toronto
Isabel Gauthier
Isabel Gauthier Vanderbilt University
Alan Slater
Alan Slater University of Exeter
Daniel N. Bub
Daniel N. Bub University of Victoria
Michael J. Tarr
Michael J. Tarr Carnegie Mellon University
Edouard Gentaz
Edouard Gentaz University of Geneva
Frédéric Gosselin
Frédéric Gosselin University of Montreal

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