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John J. McDonald

John J. McDonald

Simon Fraser University
Canada

D-Index & Metrics

Psychology

D-Index
39
Citations
8631
World Ranking
8451
National Ranking
568

Neuroscience

D-Index
39
Citations
8646
World Ranking
8244
National Ranking
483

John J. McDonald 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 John J. McDonald sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 887+

This scientist: 81 publications — 8th percentile

8% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

John J. McDonald 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 John J. McDonald sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 163+

This scientist: 39 D-Index — 15th percentile

15% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

John J. McDonald is affiliated with Simon Fraser University in Canada and conducts research primarily within the field of Neuroscience. Their work spans several subfields including Cognitive Neuroscience, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, General Health Professions, and Applied Psychology.

The scientist's recent publications cover a range of topics related to neural and behavioral psychology, visual perception, and attention mechanisms. These papers include:

  • "Recoiling From Threat: Anxiety Is Related to Heightened Suppression of Threat, Not Increased Attention to Threat" (2021), Clinical Psychological Science
  • "Dynamic inhibitory control prevents salience-driven capture of visual attention." (2022), Journal of Experimental Psychology Human Perception & Performance
  • "Searching for Visual Singletons Without A Feature to Guide Attention" (2022), Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
  • "Attentional enhancement predicts individual differences in visual working memory under go/no-go search conditions" (2022), PLoS Biology
  • "Difficulty suppressing visual distraction while dual tasking" (2022), Psychonomic Bulletin & Review

Frequent co-authors of John J. McDonald include:

  • Daniel Tay
  • Steven A. Hillyard
  • David Prime
  • Emily S. Kappenman
  • Raphael Geddert

Common venues where this scientist publishes work are:

  • Journal of Vision
  • Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Psychonomic Bulletin & Review
  • Clinical Psychological Science
  • Journal of Experimental Psychology Human Perception & Performance

Their research focuses on several main topics including:

  • Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
  • Visual perception and processing mechanisms
  • Neural dynamics and brain function
  • Visual Attention and Saliency Detection
  • EEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces
  • Cognitive Functions and Memory
  • Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes

John J. McDonald's work contributes to understanding cognitive and neural mechanisms underlying attention, visual processing, and behavioral responses, with implications for psychological states such as anxiety. Their integration of various subfields aligns with interdisciplinary research trends in Neuroscience and Cognitive Science.

Best Publications

  • Electrophysiological indices of target and distractor processing in visual search

    Clayton Hickey;Vincent Di Lollo;John J. McDonald

  • Electrophysiological Evidence of the Capture of Visual Attention

    Clayton Hickey;John J. McDonald;Jan Theeuwes

  • Involuntary orienting to sound improves visual perception

    John J. McDonald;Wolfgang A. Teder-Sälejärvi;Steven A. Hillyard

  • Sensory Integration and the Perceptual Experience of Persons with Autism.

    Grace Iarocci;John McDonald

  • Performance monitoring in the anterior cingulate is not all error related: Expectancy deviation and the representation of action-outcome associations

    Flavio T. P. Oliveira;John J. McDonald;David Goodman

  • An analysis of audio-visual crossmodal integration by means of event-related potential (ERP) recordings.

    W.A Teder-Sälejärvi;J.J McDonald;F Di Russo;S.A Hillyard

  • Suppression of Salient Objects Prevents Distraction in Visual Search

    John M Gaspar;John J McDonald

  • Semantic and affective processing in psychopaths: An event-related potential (ERP) study

    Kent A. Kiehl;Robert D. Hare;John J. McDonald;Johann Brink

  • Effects of Spatial Congruity on Audio-Visual Multimodal Integration

    W. A. Teder-sälejärvi;F. Di Russo;J. J. McDonald;S. A. Hillyard

  • Rhythms of consciousness: binocular rivalry reveals large-scale oscillatory network dynamics mediating visual perception.

    Sam M. Doesburg;Jessica J. Green;John J. McDonald;Lawrence M. Ward

  • Cross-modal cueing of attention alters appearance and early cortical processing of visual stimuli

    Viola S. Störmer;John J. McDonald;Steven A. Hillyard

  • Reduced P300 responses in criminal psychopaths during a visual oddball task.

    Kent A Kiehl;Robert D Hare;Peter F Liddle;John J McDonald

  • Inability to suppress salient distractors predicts low visual working memory capacity

    John M. Gaspar;Gregory J. Christie;David J. Prime;Pierre Jolicœur

  • Neural Substrates of Perceptual Enhancement by Cross-Modal Spatial Attention

    John J. Mcdonald;Wolfgang A. Teder-sälejärvi;Francesco Di Russo;Steven A. Hillyard

  • An event-related brain potential study of inhibition of return.

    John J. Mcdonald;Lawrence M. Ward;Kent A. Kiehl

  • Tracking target and distractor processing in fixed-feature visual search: Evidence from human electrophysiology.

    Ali Jannati;John M. Gaspar;John J. McDonald

  • Neural basis of auditory-induced shifts in visual time-order perception

    John J McDonald;Wolfgang A Teder-Sälejärvi;Francesco Di Russo;Steven A Hillyard

  • Exogenous spatial cuing studies of human crossmodal attention and multisensory integration

    Charles Spence;John Mcdonald;Jon Driver

  • Involuntary Listening Aids Seeing: Evidence From Human Electrophysiology

    John J. McDonald;Lawrence M. Ward

  • From local inhibition to long-range integration: a functional dissociation of alpha-band synchronization across cortical scales in visuospatial attention.

    Sam M. Doesburg;Jessica J. Green;John J. McDonald;Lawrence M. Ward

  • On the electrophysiological evidence for the capture of visual attention.

    John J. McDonald;Jessica J. Green;Ali Jannati;Vincent Di Lollo

Frequent Co-Authors

Steven A. Hillyard
Steven A. Hillyard University of California, San Diego
Lawrence M. Ward
Lawrence M. Ward University of British Columbia
Antigona Martinez
Antigona Martinez Nathan Kline Institute for Psychiatric Research
Sam M. Doesburg
Sam M. Doesburg Simon Fraser University
Kent A. Kiehl
Kent A. Kiehl University of New Mexico
Roberto Dell'Acqua
Roberto Dell'Acqua University of Padua
Vincent Di Lollo
Vincent Di Lollo Simon Fraser University
Francesco Di Russo
Francesco Di Russo Foro Italico University of Rome
Pierre Jolicoeur
Pierre Jolicoeur University of Montreal
Robert D. Hare
Robert D. Hare University of British Columbia

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