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Michael McCloskey 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 McCloskey sits on this spectrum.

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31 publications 705+

This scientist: 279 publications — 85th percentile

85% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Michael McCloskey 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 McCloskey sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 144+

This scientist: 69 D-Index — 80th percentile

80% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Michael McCloskey is a researcher affiliated with Johns Hopkins University in the United States whose work primarily focuses on neuroscience. Their published research spans various aspects of cognitive neuroscience, cellular and molecular neuroscience, developmental and educational psychology, as well as neurology. The main fields covered in their publications include neuroscience with a strong emphasis on cognitive neuroscience.

Their research touches on several specific topics in brain science, including:

  • Neural dynamics and brain function
  • Memory and neural mechanisms
  • Neural and behavioral psychology studies
  • Face recognition and perception
  • Neurotransmitter receptor influence on behavior
  • Functional brain connectivity studies
  • Neurobiology of language and bilingualism

Among their recent scientific articles are:

  • "Lack of awareness despite complex visual processing: Evidence from event-related potentials in a case of selective metamorphopsia," 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "Do animals dream?," 2021, Consciousness and Cognition
  • "Reading proficiency influences the effects of transcranial direct current stimulation: Evidence from selective modulation of dorsal and ventral pathways of reading in bilinguals," 2020, Brain and Language
  • "Corticostriatal responses to social reward are linked to trait reward sensitivity and subclinical substance use in young adults," 2024, Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience
  • "Functions of ventral visual cortex after bilateral medial temporal lobe damage," 2020, Progress in Neurobiology

Frequent collaborators in Michael McCloskey's research include Shi Pui Donald Li, Jia-Yu Shao, Zhengang Lu, James Β. Wyngaarden, and Camille Johnston.

The scientist regularly publishes in journals such as the Journal of Vision, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Consciousness and Cognition, and Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience.

In addition to articles, their book contributions include a publication with the Water Environment Federation titled "Using AI(Artificial Intelligence) to Measure IA(Impervious Acreage) In a Rapidly Changing Landscape," published in 2020.

Best Publications

  • Catastrophic interference in connectionist networks: the sequential learning problem

    Michael McCloskey;Neal J. Cohen

  • Naive Theories of Motion.

    Michael McCloskey

  • Misleading postevent information and memory for events: arguments and evidence against memory impairment hypotheses.

    Michael McCloskey;Maria Zaragoza

  • Curvilinear Motion in the Absence of External Forces: Naïve Beliefs About the Motion of Objects

    Michael McCloskey;Alfonso Caramazza;Bert Green

  • Cognitive mechanisms in number processing and calculation: evidence from dyscalculia

    Michael McCloskey;Alfonso Caramazza;Annamaria Basili

  • Cognitive mechanisms in numerical processing: evidence from acquired dyscalculia.

    Michael McCloskey

  • Amygdala and orbitofrontal reactivity to social threat in individuals with impulsive aggression.

    Emil F. Coccaro;Michael S. McCloskey;Daniel A. Fitzgerald;K. Luan Phan

  • Natural categories: Well defined or fuzzy sets?

    Michael E. McCloskey;Sam Glucksberg

  • Naive beliefs in “sophisticated” subjects: misconceptions about trajectories of objects ☆

    Alfonso Caramazza;Michael McCloskey;Bert Green

  • IQ and nonplanning impulsivity are independently associated with delay discounting in middle-aged adults

    Harriet de Wit;Janine D. Flory;Janine D. Flory;Ashley Acheson;Michael McCloskey

  • Is There a Special Flashbulb-Memory Mechanism?

    Michael McCloskey;Cynthia G. Wible;Neal J. Cohen

  • Intuitive Physics: The Straight-Down Belief and Its Origin.

    Michael McCloskey;Allyson Washburn;Linda Felch

  • Decision processes in verifying category membership statements: Implications for models of semantic memory.

    Michael McCloskey;Sam Glucksberg

  • Cognitive processes in verbal-number production: inferences from the performance of brain-damaged subjects.

    Michael McCloskey;Scott M. Sokol;Roberta Ann Goodman

  • The case for single-patient studies

    Alfonso Caramazza;Michael McCloskey

  • The necessity of the medial temporal lobe for statistical learning

    Anna C. Schapiro;Emma Gregory;Barbara Landau;Michael McCloskey

  • Cognitive representations and processes in arithmetic: inferences from the performance of brain-damaged subjects.

    Scott M. Sokol;Michael McCloskey;Neal J. Cohen;Donna Aliminosa

  • Naive physics: the curvilinear impetus principle and its role in interactions with moving objects

    Michael McCloskey;Deborah Kohl

  • Networks and Theories: The Place of Connectionism in Cognitive Science

    Michael McCloskey

  • Representing and using numerical information.

    Michael McCloskey;Paul Macaruso

Frequent Co-Authors

Emil F. Coccaro
Emil F. Coccaro The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center
Mitchell E. Berman
Mitchell E. Berman Mississippi State University
Brenda Rapp
Brenda Rapp Johns Hopkins University
Royce Lee
Royce Lee University of Chicago
Alfonso Caramazza
Alfonso Caramazza Harvard University
Barbara Landau
Barbara Landau Johns Hopkins University
Evan M. Kleiman
Evan M. Kleiman Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
K. Luan Phan
K. Luan Phan The Ohio State University
Howard E. Egeth
Howard E. Egeth Johns Hopkins University

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