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4596
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Mike E. Le Pelley 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 Mike E. Le Pelley sits on this spectrum.

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31 publications 705+

This scientist: 158 publications — 53rd percentile

53% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Mike E. Le Pelley 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 Mike E. Le Pelley sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 144+

This scientist: 38 D-Index — 24th percentile

24% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Mike E. Le Pelley is affiliated with the University of New South Wales in Australia and has conducted research primarily in the fields of Neuroscience and Psychology. Their work spans multiple subfields, with significant contributions in Cognitive Neuroscience, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Applied Psychology, Clinical Psychology, and General Decision Sciences.

Their research topics cover a wide range of areas including:

  • Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
  • Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
  • Visual perception and processing mechanisms
  • Behavioral Health and Interventions
  • Neural dynamics and brain function
  • Neuroscience and Music Perception
  • Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics

Mike E. Le Pelley's frequent coauthors include:

  • Daniel Pearson
  • Poppy Watson
  • Bradley N. Jack
  • Thomas J. Whitford
  • Oren Griffiths

The following venues have published multiple papers by Le Pelley, reflecting their active engagement in key journals:

  • Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology
  • Journal of Experimental Psychology Human Perception & Performance
  • Attention Perception & Psychophysics
  • Emotion
  • Journal of Experimental Psychology General

Recent notable publications include:

  • "Reward-driven distraction: A meta-analysis." (2020), Psychological Bulletin
  • "Reward-related attentional capture and cognitive inflexibility interact to determine greater severity of compulsivity-related problems" (2020), Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry
  • "How top-down and bottom-up attention modulate risky choice" (2021), Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "Attentional economics links value-modulated attentional capture and decision-making" (2022), Nature Reviews Psychology
  • "Overt attentional capture by reward-related stimuli overcomes inhibitory suppression." (2020), Journal of Experimental Psychology Human Perception & Performance

Best Publications

  • Attention and associative learning in humans: An integrative review

    Mike E. Le Pelley;Chris J. Mitchell;Tom Beesley;David N. George

  • When goals conflict with values: Counterproductive attentional and oculomotor capture by reward-related stimuli

    Mike E. Le Pelley;Daniel Pearson;Oren Griffiths;Tom Beesley

  • Learned Associability and Associative Change in Human Causal Learning

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  • Attention to Irrelevant Cues Is Related to Positive Symptoms in Schizophrenia

    Richard Morris;Oren Griffiths;Michael E. Le Pelley;Thomas W. Weickert;Thomas W. Weickert

  • Oculomotor capture by stimuli that signal the availability of reward

    Michel Failing;Tom Nissens;Tom Nissens;Daniel Pearson;Mike Le Pelley

  • Cognitive control and counterproductive oculomotor capture by reward-related stimuli

    Daniel Pearson;Chris Donkin;Sophia C. Tran;Steven B. Most

  • Neurophysiological evidence of efference copies to inner speech

    Thomas J Whitford;Bradley N Jack;Daniel Pearson;Oren Griffiths

  • Uncertainty and predictiveness determine attention to cues during human associative learning.

    Tom Beesley;Katherine P. Nguyen;Daniel Pearson;Mike E. Le Pelley

  • Learned predictiveness influences rapid attentional capture: evidence from the dot probe task.

    Mike E. Le Pelley;Miguel Vadillo;David Luque

  • Overt attention and predictiveness in human contingency learning.

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  • Attention and Associative Learning: From Brain to Behaviour

    Chris Mitchell;Mike E. Le Pelley

  • Stereotype formation: Biased by association

    Mike E. Le Pelley;Stian J. Reimers;Guglielmo Calvini;Russell Spears

  • Reward-related attentional capture is associated with severity of addictive and obsessive–compulsive behaviors.

    Lucy Albertella;Mike E. Le Pelley;Samuel R. Chamberlain;Fred Westbrook

  • Blocking and Unblocking in Human Causal Learning.

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  • The outcome specificity of learned predictiveness effects: parallels between human causal learning and animal conditioning.

    M. E. Le Pelley;S. M. Oakeshott;A. J. Wills;I. P. L. McLaren

  • Measuring habit formation through goal-directed response switching.

    David Luque;Sara Molinero;Poppy Watson;Francisco J. López

  • Prioritizing pleasure and pain: attentional capture by reward-related and punishment-related stimuli

    Poppy Watson;Daniel Pearson;Reinout W Wiers;Mike E Le Pelley

  • Goal-Directed and Habit-Like Modulations of Stimulus Processing during Reinforcement Learning.

    David Luque;Tom Beesley;Richard W. Morris;Bradley N. Jack

  • Selective attention moderates the relationship between attentional capture by signals of nondrug reward and illicit drug use.

    Lucy Albertella;Jan Copeland;Daniel Pearson;Poppy Watson;Poppy Watson

  • Value-modulated oculomotor capture by task-irrelevant stimuli is a consequence of early competition on the saccade map

    Daniel Pearson;Raphaella Osborn;Thomas J. Whitford;Michel Failing

  • Inner speech is accompanied by a temporally-precise and content-specific corollary discharge

    Bradley N. Jack;Bradley N. Jack;Mike E. Le Pelley;Nathan Han;Anthony W.F. Harris

  • Persistence of value-modulated attentional capture is associated with risky alcohol use.

    Lucy Albertella;Lucy Albertella;Poppy Watson;Murat Yücel;Mike E. Le Pelley

  • Age moderates the association between frequent cannabis use and negative schizotypy over time.

    Lucy Albertella;Lucy Albertella;Mike E. Le Pelley;Murat Yücel;Jan Copeland

  • Author response: Neurophysiological evidence of efference copies to inner speech

    Thomas J Whitford;Bradley N Jack;Daniel Pearson;Oren Griffiths

Frequent Co-Authors

Miguel A. Vadillo
Miguel A. Vadillo Autonomous University of Madrid
Jan Theeuwes
Jan Theeuwes Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Murat Yücel
Murat Yücel QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute
Ben R. Newell
Ben R. Newell University of New South Wales
Reinout W. Wiers
Reinout W. Wiers University of Amsterdam
Melissa J. Green
Melissa J. Green University of New South Wales
Kevin M. Spencer
Kevin M. Spencer VA Boston Healthcare System
Chris Donkin
Chris Donkin Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Leonardo F. Fontenelle
Leonardo F. Fontenelle Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
Samuel R. Chamberlain
Samuel R. Chamberlain University of Southampton

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