2026 Joseph Tzelgov: Psychology Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Psychology	35	9772	9145	115	106	112	6437

Overview

Joseph Tzelgov is affiliated with Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Israel. Their research primarily focuses on several intersecting fields and topics within neuroscience, psychology, and mathematics. The main fields of study cover Neuroscience, Psychology, and Mathematics, with subfields emphasizing Cognitive Neuroscience, Statistics and Probability, Education, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, and Developmental and Educational Psychology.

Their scientific endeavors explore a variety of topics including:

Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
Cognitive and developmental aspects of mathematical skills
Mathematics Education and Teaching Techniques
Multisensory perception and integration
Visual perception and processing mechanisms
Child and Animal Learning Development
Motor Control and Adaptation

Joseph Tzelgov's significant recent publications reflect a focus on cognitive processes and numerical cognition. Selected papers include:

"Neutral stimuli and pupillometric task conflict," 2020, Psychological Research
"On the indicators for perceiving empty sets as zero," 2020, Acta Psychologica
"The contribution of meaning to the detection of task conflict," 2021, Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology
"Nonsymbolic and symbolic representations of null numerosity," 2021, Psychological Research
"How can caching explain automaticity?," 2022, Psychonomic Bulletin & Review

Their work has been published in multiple venues with repeat contributions to Psychological Research and the Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, alongside publications in Memory & Cognition, Acta Psychologica, and Psychonomic Bulletin & Review.

Frequent collaborators in their research include:

Rut Zaks-Ohayon
Michal Pinhas
Nir Fresco
Ronen Hershman
Yulia Levin

Best Publications

Is three greater than five: The relation between physical and semantic size in comparison tasks

Avishai Henik;Joseph Tzelgov

808
Citations
SUPPRESSION SITUATIONS IN PSYCHOLOGICAL RESEARCH : DEFINITIONS, IMPLICATIONS, AND APPLICATIONS

Joseph Tzelgov;Avishai Henik

791
Citations
Automatic and intentional processing of numerical information

Joseph Tzelgov;Joachim Meyer;Avishai Henik

406
Citations
Controlling Stroop effects by manipulating expectations for color words.

Joseph Tzelgov;Avishai Henik;Jacqueline Berger

391
Citations
Controlling Stroop interference: Evidence from a bilingual task.

Joseph Tzelgov;Avishai Henik;David Leiser

276
Citations
Automatic comparisons of artificial digits never compared: learning linear ordering relations.

Joseph Tzelgov;Vered Yehene;Lital Kotler;Ariel Alon

195
Citations
Unintentional word reading via the phonological route: The Stroop effect with cross-script homophones.

Joseph Tzelgov;Avishai Henik;Rinat Sneg;Oshrit Baruch

184
Citations
Specifying the relations between automaticity and consciousness: a theoretical note.

J Tzelgov

180
Citations
Distinguishing between Automaticity and Attention in the Processing of Emotionally-Significant Stimuli.

Hadas Okon-Singer;Joseph Tzelgov;Avishai Henik

179
Citations
A generalized fraction: an entity smaller than one on the mental number line.

Arava Y. Kallai;Joseph Tzelgov

152
Citations
Automatic processes in lexical access and spreading activation.

Frances J. Friedrich;Avishai Henik;Joseph Tzelgov

131
Citations
Automaticity of two-digit numbers.

Dana Ganor-Stern;Joseph Tzelgov;Ravid Ellenbogen

131
Citations
Components of the between-language semantic priming effect

Joseph Tzelgov;Sigal Eben-ezra

109
Citations
Capacity demands of automatic processes in semantic priming

Avishai Henik;Frances J. Friedrich;Joseph Tzelgov;Sara Tramer

100
Citations
Automaticity and consciousness: is perceiving the word necessary for reading it?

Joseph Tzelgov;Ziv Porat;Avishai Henik

95
Citations
Across-notation automatic numerical processing.

Dana Ganor-Stern;Joseph Tzelgov

94
Citations
A synesthetic walk on the mental number line: the size effect.

Roi Cohen Kadosh;Joseph Tzelgov;Joseph Tzelgov;Avishai Henik

93
Citations
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91
Citations
Interactions Between Encoding and Retrieval in the Domain of Sequence-Learning

Amotz Perlman;Joseph Tzelgov

89
Citations
Nonintentional task set activation: Evidence from implicit task sequence learning

Alex Gotler;Nachshon Meiran;Joseph Tzelgov

81
Citations
Computation of Semantic Number from Morphological Information

Iris Berent;Steven Pinker;Joseph Tzelgov;Uri Bibi

67
Citations
On stereo image coding

I. Dinstein;G. Guy;J. Rabany;J. Tzelgov

65
Citations
Expanding on the mental number line: Zero is perceived as the “smallest”.

Michal Pinhas;Joseph Tzelgov

48
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Avishai Henik Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

Emmanuel M. Pothos City, University of London

Avi Assor Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

Nachshon Meiran Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

Hans-Christoph Nuerk University of Tübingen

Daniel Algom Tel Aviv University

Steven Pinker Harvard University

Clemens Kirschbaum TU Dresden

External Links

Personal website of Joseph Tzelgov

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