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Joel Pearson publication distribution in Neuroscience in 2026

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

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38 publications 887+

This scientist: 126 publications — 31st percentile

31% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 887 publications or more.

Joel Pearson D-index placement in Neuroscience in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Neuroscience scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Joel Pearson sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 163+

This scientist: 47 D-Index — 35th percentile

35% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 163 D-Index or more.

Overview

Joel Pearson is affiliated with the University of New South Wales in Australia, with research contributions primarily in the fields of Neuroscience and Psychology. Their work spans several specialized areas including Cognitive Neuroscience, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Social Psychology, Safety Research, and Molecular Biology.

The main areas of study for Joel Pearson include:

  • Neuroscience
  • Psychology

The scientist's subfields of focus are:

  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
  • Social Psychology
  • Safety Research
  • Molecular Biology

Joel Pearson's research topics frequently revolve around:

  • Face Recognition and Perception
  • Visual perception and processing mechanisms
  • Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
  • Neural dynamics and brain function
  • Education, Achievement, and Giftedness
  • Motivation and Self-Concept in Sports
  • Retinal Development and Disorders

Among the recent publications authored or co-authored by Joel Pearson are the following papers:

  • "A cognitive profile of multi-sensory imagery, memory and dreaming in aphantasia," 2020, published in Scientific Reports
  • "The critical role of mental imagery in human emotion: insights from fear-based imagery and aphantasia," 2021, Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • "Optimizing science self-efficacy: A multilevel examination of the moderating effects of anxiety on the relationship between self-efficacy and achievement in science," 2020, Contemporary Educational Psychology
  • "The pupillary light response as a physiological index of aphantasia, sensory and phenomenological imagery strength," 2022, eLife
  • "Challenge and threat appraisals in high school science: investigating the roles of psychological and physiological factors," 2021, Educational Psychology

Joel Pearson frequently collaborates with several researchers, including:

  • Rebecca Keogh
  • Andrew J. Martin
  • Roger Kennett
  • Roger Koenig-Robert
  • Emma Burns

The venues where Joel Pearson has published multiple works reflect the areas of their research focus:

  • Cortex
  • Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • eLife
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Neuroscience Research

Best Publications

  • Mental Imagery: Functional Mechanisms and Clinical Applications.

    Joel Pearson;Thomas Naselaris;Emily A. Holmes;Stephen M. Kosslyn

  • The human imagination: the cognitive neuroscience of visual mental imagery

    Joel Pearson

  • The Functional Impact of Mental Imagery on Conscious Perception

    Joel Pearson;Joel Pearson;Colin W.G. Clifford;Frank Tong

  • Human brain networks function in connectome-specific harmonic waves

    Selen Atasoy;Isaac Donnelly;Joel Pearson

  • Mental imagery

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  • The blind mind: No sensory visual imagery in aphantasia.

    Rebecca Keogh;Joel Pearson

  • The heterogeneity of mental representation: Ending the imagery debate

    Joel Pearson;Stephen M. Kosslyn

  • Single-Cell Analysis of Human Retina Identifies Evolutionarily Conserved and Species-Specific Mechanisms Controlling Development

    Yufeng Lu;Fion Shiau;Wenyang Yi;Suying Lu

  • The Role of Frontal and Parietal Brain Areas in Bistable Perception

    T.H.J. Knapen;J.W. Brascamp;J. Pearson;R. van Ee;R. van Ee

  • A cognitive profile of multi-sensory imagery, memory and dreaming in aphantasia

    Alexei J. Dawes;Rebecca Keogh;Thomas Andrillon;Thomas Andrillon;Joel Pearson

  • Mental imagery and visual working memory.

    Rebecca Keogh;Joel Pearson

  • Sensory memory for ambiguous vision

    Joel Pearson;Jan Brascamp

  • Evaluating the Mind’s Eye The Metacognition of Visual Imagery

    Joel Pearson;Joel Pearson;Rosanne L. Rademaker;Frank Tong

  • Smaller Primary Visual Cortex Is Associated with Stronger, but Less Precise Mental Imagery

    Johanna Bergmann;Erhan Genç;Axel Kohler;Wolf Singer

  • The critical role of mental imagery in human emotion: insights from fear-based imagery and aphantasia.

    Marcus Wicken;Rebecca Keogh;Joel Pearson

  • Binary pan-cancer classes with distinct vulnerabilities defined by pro- or anti-cancer YAP/TEAD activity

    Joel D. Pearson;Katherine Huang;Marek Pacal;Sean R. McCurdy

  • Phantom perception: voluntary and involuntary nonretinal vision.

    Joel Pearson;Fred Westbrook

  • The pupillary light response as a physiological index of aphantasia, sensory and phenomenological imagery strength

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  • Harmonic Brain Modes: A Unifying Framework for Linking Space and Time in Brain Dynamics.

    Selen Atasoy;Gustavo Deco;Morten L. Kringelbach;Joel Pearson

  • The sensory strength of voluntary visual imagery predicts visual working memory capacity.

    Rebecca Keogh;Joel Pearson

  • Optimizing science self-efficacy: A multilevel examination of the moderating effects of anxiety on the relationship between self-efficacy and achievement in science

    Emma C. Burns;Andrew J. Martin;Roger K. Kennett;Joel Pearson

  • New Directions in Mental-Imagery Research The Binocular-Rivalry Technique and Decoding fMRI Patterns

    Joel Pearson

Frequent Co-Authors

Rod Bremner
Rod Bremner Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute
Colin W. G. Clifford
Colin W. G. Clifford University of New South Wales
Randolph Blake
Randolph Blake Vanderbilt University
Laurence Pelletier
Laurence Pelletier Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute
Tony Mazzulli
Tony Mazzulli University Health Network
Jeffrey L. Wrana
Jeffrey L. Wrana Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute
Andrew J. Martin
Andrew J. Martin University of New South Wales
Morten L. Kringelbach
Morten L. Kringelbach University of Oxford
Liliana Attisano
Liliana Attisano University of Toronto
Loyal A. Goff
Loyal A. Goff Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

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