2026 Jan Theeuwes: Psychology Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Neuroscience	101	728	653	19	18	503	42648
Psychology	101	593	517	29	28	512	42610

Overview

Jan Theeuwes is affiliated with Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam in the Netherlands and specializes in neuroscience with a focus on cognitive neuroscience. Their research spans multiple subfields, including experimental and cognitive psychology, computer vision and pattern recognition, social psychology, and developmental and educational psychology.

Theeuwes has contributed to the following main research topics:

Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
Neural dynamics and brain function
Visual perception and processing mechanisms
EEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces
Multisensory perception and integration
Memory and Neural Mechanisms
Visual Attention and Saliency Detection

Theeuwes has authored and coauthored numerous publications, with frequent publication venues including:

Journal of Vision (19 publications)
Attention Perception & Psychophysics (17 publications)
Journal of Experimental Psychology Human Perception & Performance (13 publications)
bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) (13 publications)
Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience (4 publications)

Significant recent papers authored or coauthored by Theeuwes include:

What to expect where and when: how statistical learning drives visual selection, 2022, Trends in Cognitive Sciences
Progress toward resolving the attentional capture debate, 2020, Visual Cognition
Salience determines attentional orienting in visual selection, 2020, Journal of Experimental Psychology Human Perception & Performance
Ten simple rules to study distractor suppression, 2022, Progress in Neurobiology
Proactive distractor suppression elicited by statistical regularities in visual search, 2021, Psychonomic Bulletin & Review

Theeuwes has collaborated frequently with several researchers, with the highest number of coauthorships being:

Dirk van Moorselaar (44 publications)
Benchi Wang (18 publications)
Changrun Huang (12 publications)
Louisa Bogaerts (11 publications)
Dock H. Duncan (10 publications)

In addition to journal articles, Theeuwes has also contributed to book publications, including a title published by Cambridge University Press:

Attentional Selection, 2020

Best Publications

OpenSesame: An open-source, graphical experiment builder for the social sciences

Sebastiaan Mathôt;Daniel Schreij;Jan Theeuwes

2950
Citations
Perceptual selectivity for color and form.

Jan Theeuwes

2125
Citations
Top-down versus bottom-up attentional control: a failed theoretical dichotomy

Edward Awh;Artem V. Belopolsky;Jan Theeuwes

1851
Citations
Top–down and bottom–up control of visual selection

Jan Theeuwes

1690
Citations
Exogenous and endogenous control of attention: the effect of visual onsets and offsets.

Jan Theeuwes

1148
Citations
Cross-dimensional perceptual selectivity

Jan Theeuwes

948
Citations
Stimulus-Driven Capture and Attentional Set: Selective Search for Color and Visual Abrupt Onsets,

Jan Theeuwes

920
Citations
Our Eyes do Not Always Go Where we Want Them to Go: Capture of the Eyes by New Objects:

Jan Theeuwes;Arthur F. Kramer;Sowon Hahn;David E. Irwin

900
Citations
Feature-based memory-driven attentional capture: visual working memory content affects visual attention.

Christian N. L. Olivers;Frank Meijer;Jan Theeuwes

766
Citations
Top-down search strategies cannot override attentional capture.

Jan Theeuwes

699
Citations
Reward Changes Salience in Human Vision via the Anterior Cingulate

Clayton Hickey;Leonardo Chelazzi;Jan Theeuwes

679
Citations
Electrophysiological Evidence of the Capture of Visual Attention

Clayton Hickey;John J. McDonald;Jan Theeuwes

576
Citations
Pip and pop: Nonspatial auditory signals improve spatial visual search

Erik Van der Burg;Christian N. L. Olivers;Adelbert W. Bronkhorst;Jan Theeuwes

575
Citations
Programming of endogenous and exogenous saccades: evidence for a competitive integration model.

Richard Godijn;Jan Theeuwes

523
Citations
On the time course of top-down and bottom-up control of visual attention

Jan Theeuwes;Paul Atchley;Arthur F. Kramer

439
Citations
The Role of Stimulus-Driven and Goal-Driven Control in Saccadic Visual Selection

Wieske van Zoest;Mieke Donk;Jan Theeuwes

421
Citations
Influence of attentional capture on oculomotor control

Jan Theeuwes;Jan Theeuwes;Arthur F. Kramer;Sowon Hahn;David E. Irwin

408
Citations
DRIVING SIMULATOR VALIDITY: SOME CONSIDERATIONS

Nico A. Kaptein;Jan Theeuwes;Richard van der Horst

406
Citations
Attention and the multiple stages of multisensory integration: A review of audiovisual studies

Thomas Koelewijn;Adelbert Bronkhorst;Jan Theeuwes

395
Citations
Progress Toward Resolving the Attentional Capture Debate.

Steven J. Luck;Nicholas Gaspelin;Charles L. Folk;Roger W. Remington

361
Citations
Attentional control during visual search: The effect of irrelevant singletons.

Jan Theeuwes;Remca Burger

342
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Christian N. L. Olivers Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

Stefan Van der Stigchel Utrecht University

Arthur F. Kramer Northeastern University

Martijn Meeter Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

Leonardo Chelazzi University of Verona

Paul Atchley University of South Florida

David E. Irwin University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Dirk J. Heslenfeld Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

Mike E. Le Pelley University of New South Wales

Jonathan Grainger Aix-Marseille University

External Links

Personal website of Jan Theeuwes

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