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Michael E. R. Nicholls

Michael E. R. Nicholls

D-Index & Metrics

Psychology

D-Index
43
Citations
7226
World Ranking
7287
National Ranking
431

Neuroscience

D-Index
43
Citations
7205
World Ranking
7400
National Ranking
218

Michael E. R. Nicholls 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 Michael E. R. Nicholls sits on this spectrum.

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31 publications 705+

This scientist: 176 publications — 61st percentile

61% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Michael E. R. Nicholls 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 Michael E. R. Nicholls sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 144+

This scientist: 43 D-Index — 38th percentile

38% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Michael E. R. Nicholls is affiliated with Flinders University in Australia. Their research spans the fields of Neuroscience and Psychology, with a particular focus on Cognitive Neuroscience and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. Additional subfields include Social Psychology, Automotive Engineering, and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics.

The main topics of Nicholls' work include:

  • Hemispheric Asymmetry in Neuroscience
  • Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior
  • Spatial Neglect and Hemispheric Dysfunction
  • Face Recognition and Perception
  • Aesthetic Perception and Analysis
  • Spatial Cognition and Navigation
  • Ergonomics and Musculoskeletal Disorders

The researcher has published multiple papers across various journals. Recent papers include:

  • "The dissociable influence of social context on judgements of facial attractiveness and trustworthiness," 2021, British Journal of Psychology
  • "The effect of cognitive load on horizontal and vertical spatial asymmetries," 2021, Laterality Asymmetries of Body Brain and Cognition
  • "The cheerleader effect is robust to experimental manipulations of presentation time," 2020, Journal of Cognitive Psychology
  • "The "cheerleader effect" in facial and bodily attractiveness: A result of memory bias and not perceptual encoding," 2020, Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology
  • "One-handed motor activity does not interfere with naming lateralized pictures of tools," 2020, Journal of Experimental Psychology Human Perception & Performance

Nicholls frequently collaborates with several co-authors, including:

  • O. Scott Gwinn
  • Nicole A. Thomas
  • Megan L. Bartlett
  • Daniel J. Carragher
  • Oren Griffiths

The main publication venues for Nicholls' work are:

  • Laterality Asymmetries of Body Brain and Cognition
  • Journal of Experimental Psychology Human Perception & Performance
  • British Journal of Psychology
  • Journal of Cognitive Psychology
  • Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology

Best Publications

  • The cost of expecting events in the wrong sensory modality.

    Charles Spence;Michael E. R. Nicholls;J. O. N. Driver

  • Cross-modal links in exogenous covert spatial orienting between touch, audition, and vision.

    Charles Spence;Michael E. R. Nicholls;Nicole Gillespie;Jon Driver

  • The Flinders Handedness survey (FLANDERS): A brief measure of skilled hand preference

    Michael E.R. Nicholls;Nicole A. Thomas;Tobias Loetscher;Gina M. Grimshaw

  • Free-viewing perceptual asymmetries for the judgement of brightness, numerosity and size.

    Michael E.R Nicholls;John L Bradshaw;Jason B Mattingley

  • Can free-viewing perceptual asymmetries be explained by scanning, pre-motor or attentional biases?

    Michael E. R. Nicholls;Georgina R. Roberts

  • Eye position predicts what number you have in mind

    Tobias Loetscher;Tobias Loetscher;Christopher J. Bockisch;Michael E.R. Nicholls;Peter Brugger

  • Inhibition of return is supramodal: a demonstration between all possible pairings of vision, touch, and audition.

    Charles Spence;Donna Lloyd;Francis McGlone;Mike E.R. Nicholls

  • Emoticons in mind: an event-related potential study.

    Owen Churches;Mike Nicholls;Myra Thiessen;Mark Kohler

  • Nature's Experiment?: Handedness and Early Childhood Development

    David W. Johnston;Michael E. R. Nicholls;Manisha Shah;Michael A. Shields

  • The greyscales task: a perceptual measure of attentional bias following unilateral hemispheric damage

    Jason B Mattingley;Nadja Berberovic;Louise A Corben;Melissa J Slavin

  • Size Matters: Non-Numerical Magnitude Affects the Spatial Coding of Response

    Ping Ren;Michael E. R. Nicholls;Yuan-ye Ma;Yuan-ye Ma;Lin Chen

  • Temporal processing asymmetries between the cerebral hemispheres: evidence and implications.

    Michael E.R. Nicholls

  • Satisfaction Guaranteed: The Effect of Spatial Biases on Responses to Likert Scales

    Michael Elmo Richard Nicholls;Catherine Orr;Matia Okubo;Andrea Loftus

  • A Japanese version of the FLANDERS handedness questionnaire

    Matia Okubo;Hikaru Suzuki;Michael E. R. Nicholls

  • Detecting hemifacial asymmetries in emotional expression with three-dimensional computerized image analysis.

    Michael E. R. Nicholls;Brooke E. Ellis;John G. Clement;Mineo Yoshino

  • Left to right: representational biases for numbers and the effect of visuomotor adaptation.

    Andrea M Loftus;Michael E R Nicholls;Jason B Mattingley;John Lockyer Bradshaw

  • The effect of left and right poses on the expression of facial emotion.

    Michael E.R. Nicholls;Bradley J. Wolfgang;Danielle Clode;Annukka K. Lindell

  • The relationship between hand preference, hand performance, and general cognitive ability.

    Michael E.R. Nicholls;Heidi L. Chapman;Tobias Loetscher;Gina M. Grimshaw

  • Hemispheric asymmetries for the temporal resolution of brief auditory stimuli.

    Suzanne Brown;Michael E. R. Nicholls

  • Corporeal awareness and proprioceptive sense of the phantom.

    Melita J. Giummarra;Nellie. Georgiou-Karistianis;Michael E. R. Nicholls;Stephen J. Gibson

  • Cerebral lateralization and cognitive functioning in patients with congenital adrenal hyperplasia.

    Wendy M. Kelso;Michael E. R. Nicholls;Garry L. Warne;Margaret Zacharin

Frequent Co-Authors

John L. Bradshaw
John L. Bradshaw Monash University
Jason B. Mattingley
Jason B. Mattingley University of Queensland
Peter Brugger
Peter Brugger University of Zurich
Michael A. Shields
Michael A. Shields Monash University
Charles Spence
Charles Spence University of Oxford
Anne Castles
Anne Castles Macquarie University
Amanda G. Wood
Amanda G. Wood Deakin University
Con Stough
Con Stough Swinburne University of Technology
Giorgio Vallortigara
Giorgio Vallortigara University of Trento

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