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Jan Theeuwes publication distribution in Psychology in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Psychology in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Jan Theeuwes sits on this spectrum.

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31 publications 705+

This scientist: 512 publications — 97th percentile

97% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Jan Theeuwes 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 Jan Theeuwes sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 144+

This scientist: 101 D-Index — 95th percentile

95% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

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

  • Perceptual selectivity for color and form.

    Jan Theeuwes

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

    Edward Awh;Artem V. Belopolsky;Jan Theeuwes

  • Top–down and bottom–up control of visual selection

    Jan Theeuwes

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

    Jan Theeuwes

  • Cross-dimensional perceptual selectivity

    Jan Theeuwes

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

    Jan Theeuwes

  • 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

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

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

  • Top-down search strategies cannot override attentional capture.

    Jan Theeuwes

  • Reward Changes Salience in Human Vision via the Anterior Cingulate

    Clayton Hickey;Leonardo Chelazzi;Jan Theeuwes

  • Electrophysiological Evidence of the Capture of Visual Attention

    Clayton Hickey;John J. McDonald;Jan Theeuwes

  • Pip and pop: Nonspatial auditory signals improve spatial visual search

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

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

    Richard Godijn;Jan Theeuwes

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

    Jan Theeuwes;Paul Atchley;Arthur F. Kramer

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

    Wieske van Zoest;Mieke Donk;Jan Theeuwes

  • Influence of attentional capture on oculomotor control

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

  • DRIVING SIMULATOR VALIDITY: SOME CONSIDERATIONS

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

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

    Thomas Koelewijn;Adelbert Bronkhorst;Jan Theeuwes

  • Progress Toward Resolving the Attentional Capture Debate.

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

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

    Jan Theeuwes;Remca Burger

Frequent Co-Authors

Christian N. L. Olivers
Christian N. L. Olivers Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Stefan Van der Stigchel
Stefan Van der Stigchel Utrecht University
Arthur F. Kramer
Arthur F. Kramer Northeastern University
Durk Talsma
Durk Talsma Ghent University
Martijn Meeter
Martijn Meeter Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Leonardo Chelazzi
Leonardo Chelazzi University of Verona
Paul Atchley
Paul Atchley University of South Florida
David E. Irwin
David E. Irwin University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Dirk J. Heslenfeld
Dirk J. Heslenfeld Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Lihui Wang
Lihui Wang Royal Institute of Technology

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