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Mary A. Peterson 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 Mary A. Peterson sits on this spectrum.

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31 publications 705+

This scientist: 194 publications — 67th percentile

67% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Mary A. Peterson 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 Mary A. Peterson sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 144+

This scientist: 40 D-Index — 30th percentile

30% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Mary A. Peterson is affiliated with the University of Arizona in the United States. Their research is primarily situated in the field of neuroscience, with a strong focus on cognitive neuroscience. Additional areas of study include computer vision and pattern recognition, social psychology, experimental and cognitive psychology, and sensory systems.

The scientist's body of work extensively covers topics including face recognition and perception, visual perception and processing mechanisms, neural and behavioral psychology studies, visual attention and saliency detection, neural dynamics and brain function, multisensory perception and integration, and aesthetic perception and analysis.

Mary A. Peterson has contributed to several recent publications. These include:

  • Prior Experience Alters the Appearance of Blurry Object Borders, 2020, Scientific Reports
  • Normative data for an expanded set of stimuli for testing high-level influences on object perception: OMEFA-II, 2020, PLoS ONE
  • Effects of Conceptual Titles on the Aesthetic Appreciation of Artistic Photographs, 2022, Empirical Studies of the Arts
  • Semantic Expectation Effects on Object Detection: Using Figure Assignment to Elucidate Mechanisms, 2022, Vision
  • Holistic processing is modulated by the probability that parts contain task-congruent information, 2023, Attention Perception & Psychophysics

The frequent venues where their work appears include:

  • Journal of Vision
  • Attention Perception & Psychophysics
  • Scientific Reports
  • PLoS ONE
  • Empirical Studies of the Arts

Frequent collaborators in Mary A. Peterson's research include Colin S. Flowers, Jingming Xue, Diana C. Perez, Rachel M. Skocypec, and Robert C. Wilson. These collaborations suggest active engagement with colleagues across various subfields related to visual and cognitive neuroscience.

Best Publications

  • A Century of Gestalt Psychology in Visual Perception I. Perceptual Grouping and Figure-Ground Organization

    Johan Wagemans;James H. Elder;Michael Kubovy;Stephen E. Palmer

  • Implicit memory for possible and impossible objects: constraints on the construction of structural descriptions

    Daniel L. Schacter;Lynn A. Cooper;Suzanne M. Delaney;Mary A. Peterson

  • Must Figure-Ground Organization Precede Object Recognition? An Assumption in Peril

    Mary A. Peterson;Bradley S. Gibson

  • Object recognition contributions to figure-ground organization: Operations on outlines and subjective contours

    Mary A. Peterson;Bradley S. Gibson

  • Shape Recognition Inputs to Figure-Ground Organization in Three-Dimensional Displays.

    Mary A. Peterson;Bradley S. Gibson

  • Object Recognition Processes Can and Do Operate Before Figure–Ground Organization

    Mary A. Peterson

  • Opposed-set measurement procedure: A quantitative analysis of the role of local cues and intention in form perception.

    Mary A. Peterson;Julian Hochberg

  • Perception of faces, objects, and scenes : analytic and holistic processes

    Mary A. Peterson;Gillian Rhodes

  • Piecemeal organization and cognitive components in object perception: perceptually coupled responses to moving objects.

    Julian Hochberg;Mary A. Peterson

  • Mental images can be ambiguous: reconstruals and reference-frame reversals.

    Mary A. Peterson;John F. Kihlstrom;Patricia M. Rose;Martha L. Glisky

  • Language and space

    Paul Bloom;Mary A. Peterson;Lynn Nadel;Merrill F. Garrett

  • Shape recognition contributions to figure-ground reversal: which route counts?

    Mary A. Peterson;Erin M. Harvey;Hollis J. Weidenbacher

  • Reduction in white matter connectivity, revealed by diffusion tensor imaging, may account for age-related changes in face perception

    Cibu Thomas;Linda Moya;Galia Avidan;Kate Humphreys

  • Figure-ground segmentation can occur without attention

    Ruth Kimchi;Mary A. Peterson

  • Directing spatial attention within an object: altering the functional equivalence of shape descriptions.

    Mary A. Peterson;Bradley S. Gibson

  • EEG phase synchrony differences across visual perception conditions may depend on recording and analysis methods.

    Logan T. Trujillo;Mary A. Peterson;Alfred W. Kaszniak;John J.B. Allen

  • The hippocampus: part of an interactive posterior representational system spanning perceptual and memorial systems

    Lynn Nadel;Mary A. Peterson

  • The initial identification of figure-ground relationships: Contributions from shape recognition processes

    Mary A. Peterson;Bradley S. Gibson

  • Does orientation-independent object recognition precede orientation-dependent recognition? Evidence from a cuing paradigm.

    Bradley S. Gibson;Mary A. Peterson

  • Object memory effects on figure assignment: conscious object recognition is not necessary or sufficient.

    Mary A. Peterson;Beatrice De Gelder;Steven Z. Rapcsak;Peter C. Gerhardstein

  • Inhibitory competition in figure-ground perception: context and convexity.

    Mary A. Peterson;Elizabeth Salvagio

Frequent Co-Authors

Patrick J. Bennett
Patrick J. Bennett McMaster University
Allison B. Sekuler
Allison B. Sekuler McMaster University
John J.B. Allen
John J.B. Allen University of Arizona
Ruth Kimchi
Ruth Kimchi University of Haifa
Morgan D. Barense
Morgan D. Barense University of Toronto
Lynn Nadel
Lynn Nadel University of Arizona
Jay Pratt
Jay Pratt University of Toronto
David M. Schnyer
David M. Schnyer The University of Texas at Austin
Stephen E. Palmer
Stephen E. Palmer University of California, Berkeley
Rebecca L. Gómez
Rebecca L. Gómez University of Arizona

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