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Psychology

D-Index
54
Citations
21885
World Ranking
4490
National Ranking
32

Neuroscience

D-Index
54
Citations
21894
World Ranking
4830
National Ranking
31

Moshe Bar 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 Moshe Bar sits on this spectrum.

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31 publications 705+

This scientist: 142 publications — 45th percentile

45% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Moshe Bar 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 Moshe Bar sits on this spectrum.

30–31 D-Index: 398 scientists 32–33 D-Index: 702 scientists 34–35 D-Index: 671 scientists 36–37 D-Index: 659 scientists 38–39 D-Index: 641 scientists 40–41 D-Index: 671 scientists 42–43 D-Index: 617 scientists 44–45 D-Index: 558 scientists 46–47 D-Index: 495 scientists 48–49 D-Index: 487 scientists 50–51 D-Index: 445 scientists 52–53 D-Index: 390 scientists 54–55 D-Index: 408 scientists 56–57 D-Index: 345 scientists 58–59 D-Index: 325 scientists 60–61 D-Index: 321 scientists 62–63 D-Index: 248 scientists 64–65 D-Index: 290 scientists 66–67 D-Index: 218 scientists 68–69 D-Index: 219 scientists 70–71 D-Index: 215 scientists 72–73 D-Index: 183 scientists 74–75 D-Index: 169 scientists 76–77 D-Index: 132 scientists 78–79 D-Index: 137 scientists 80–81 D-Index: 120 scientists 82–83 D-Index: 112 scientists 84–85 D-Index: 86 scientists 86–87 D-Index: 101 scientists 88–89 D-Index: 83 scientists 90–91 D-Index: 77 scientists 92–93 D-Index: 70 scientists 94–95 D-Index: 78 scientists 96–97 D-Index: 58 scientists 98–99 D-Index: 53 scientists 100–101 D-Index: 57 scientists 102–103 D-Index: 48 scientists 104–105 D-Index: 53 scientists 106–107 D-Index: 46 scientists 108–109 D-Index: 24 scientists 110–111 D-Index: 35 scientists 112–113 D-Index: 27 scientists 114–115 D-Index: 32 scientists 116–117 D-Index: 31 scientists 118–119 D-Index: 22 scientists 120–121 D-Index: 16 scientists 122–123 D-Index: 24 scientists 124–125 D-Index: 18 scientists 126–127 D-Index: 11 scientists 128–129 D-Index: 19 scientists 130–131 D-Index: 10 scientists 132–133 D-Index: 16 scientists 134–135 D-Index: 10 scientists 136–137 D-Index: 12 scientists 138–139 D-Index: 8 scientists 140–141 D-Index: 5 scientists 142–143 D-Index: 12 scientists 144+ D-Index: 98 scientists
30 D-Index 144+

This scientist: 54 D-Index — 61st percentile

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

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

Overview

What is he best known for?

The fields of study he is best known for:

  • Cognition
  • Artificial intelligence
  • Neuroscience

Cognitive psychology, Communication, Cognition, Cognitive neuroscience of visual object recognition and Perception are his primary areas of study. His studies in Cognitive psychology integrate themes in fields like Functional magnetic resonance imaging, Brain mapping and Episodic memory. His Communication research is multidisciplinary, incorporating perspectives in Pattern recognition, Spatial relation and Spatial contextual awareness.

While the research belongs to areas of Cognition, Moshe Bar spends his time largely on the problem of Cognitive science, intersecting his research to questions surrounding Variety and Cognitive neuroscience. The various areas that Moshe Bar examines in his Cognitive neuroscience of visual object recognition study include Temporal cortex, Form perception, Visual cortex and Visual Objects. Moshe Bar works in the field of Perception, focusing on Visual perception in particular.

His most cited work include:

  • Top-down facilitation of visual recognition (1163 citations)
  • Visual objects in context (1133 citations)
  • The proactive brain: using analogies and associations to generate predictions (799 citations)

What are the main themes of his work throughout his whole career to date?

Moshe Bar mainly investigates Cognitive psychology, Perception, Cognitive neuroscience of visual object recognition, Neuroscience and Cognition. His Cognitive psychology research includes elements of Contextual Associations, Visual perception, Functional magnetic resonance imaging and Priming. His research in Contextual Associations intersects with topics in Cortex and Episodic memory.

His Perception research incorporates elements of Social psychology, Affect, Cognitive science and Sensory system. His Cognitive neuroscience of visual object recognition research includes themes of Facilitation, Speech recognition, Form perception and Communication. When carried out as part of a general Cognition research project, his work on Default mode network is frequently linked to work in Function, Action, Associative processing and Mechanism, therefore connecting diverse disciplines of study.

He most often published in these fields:

  • Cognitive psychology (55.70%)
  • Perception (32.89%)
  • Cognitive neuroscience of visual object recognition (32.21%)

What were the highlights of his more recent work (between 2015-2021)?

  • Cognitive psychology (55.70%)
  • Perception (32.89%)
  • Cognition (23.49%)

In recent papers he was focusing on the following fields of study:

Moshe Bar spends much of his time researching Cognitive psychology, Perception, Cognition, Cognitive science and Associative property. His research in Cognitive psychology is mostly concerned with Similarity. His study in the field of Visual perception also crosses realms of Top-down and bottom-up design and Spatial analysis.

In the subject of general Cognition, his work in Default mode network and Contextual Associations is often linked to Action, thereby combining diverse domains of study. His Cognitive science study incorporates themes from Representation, Precuneus, Communication and Set. In his work, Brain mapping is strongly intertwined with Cognitive neuroscience of visual object recognition, which is a subfield of Affect.

Between 2015 and 2021, his most popular works were:

  • Predictions penetrate perception: Converging insights from brain, behaviour and disorder (82 citations)
  • The default network and the combination of cognitive processes that mediate self-generated thought. (42 citations)
  • Affective response to architecture – investigating human reaction to spaces with different geometry (27 citations)

In his most recent research, the most cited papers focused on:

  • Cognition
  • Artificial intelligence
  • Neuroscience

Moshe Bar mainly focuses on Cognitive psychology, Cognition, Developmental psychology, Contextual Associations and Perception. His work deals with themes such as Language production, Sentence and Speech production, which intersect with Cognitive psychology. His Cognition research incorporates themes from Consciousness, Functional magnetic resonance imaging and Pooling.

His Developmental psychology research focuses on subjects like Mood, which are linked to Brain mapping. His Contextual Associations study introduces a deeper knowledge of Neuroscience. His work in Perception covers topics such as Spatial relation which are related to areas like Cognitive science.

Best Publications

  • Visual objects in context

    Moshe Bar

  • Top-down facilitation of visual recognition

    M. Bar;K. S. Kassam;A. S. Ghuman;J. Boshyan

  • The proactive brain: using analogies and associations to generate predictions

    Moshe Bar

  • A Cortical Mechanism for Triggering Top-Down Facilitation in Visual Object Recognition

    Moshe Bar

  • Very First Impressions

    Moshe Bar;Maital Neta;Heather Linz

  • The role of the parahippocampal cortex in cognition

    Elissa M. Aminoff;Kestutis Kveraga;Moshe Bar;Moshe Bar

  • Humans Prefer Curved Visual Objects

    Moshe Bar;Maital Neta

  • See it with feeling: affective predictions during object perception

    L.F. Barrett;Moshe Bar

  • The proactive brain: memory for predictions

    Moshe Bar

  • Cortical analysis of visual context.

    Moshe Bar;Elissa Aminoff

  • Top-Down Predictions in the Cognitive Brain.

    Kestutis Kveraga;Avniel S. Ghuman;Moshe Bar

  • Cortical Mechanisms Specific to Explicit Visual Object Recognition

    Moshe Bar;Roger B.H Tootell;Daniel L Schacter;Doug N Greve

  • Magnocellular Projections as the Trigger of Top-Down Facilitation in Recognition

    Kestutis Kveraga;Jasmine Boshyan;Moshe Bar

  • The Parahippocampal Cortex Mediates Spatial and Nonspatial Associations

    E Aminoff;N Gronau;M Bar

  • Visual elements of subjective preference modulate amygdala activation.

    Moshe Bar;Maital Neta

  • Cultural specificity in amygdala response to fear faces

    Joan Y. Chiao;Tetsuya Iidaka;Heather L. Gordon;Junpei Nogawa

  • Scenes unseen: the parahippocampal cortex intrinsically subserves contextual associations, not scenes or places per se.

    Moshe Bar;Elissa Aminoff;Daniel L. Schacter

  • Spatial Context in Recognition

    Moshe Bar;Shimon Ullman

  • Subliminal Visual Priming

    Moshe Bar;Irving Biederman

  • The units of thought.

    Moshe Bar;Elissa Aminoff;Malia Mason;Mark Fenske

Frequent Co-Authors

Lisa Feldman Barrett
Lisa Feldman Barrett Northeastern University
Daniel L. Schacter
Daniel L. Schacter Harvard University
Irving Biederman
Irving Biederman University of Southern California
Matti Hämäläinen
Matti Hämäläinen Harvard Medical School
Geraint Rees
Geraint Rees University College London
Pamela D. Butler
Pamela D. Butler Nathan Kline Institute for Psychiatric Research
Reginald B. Adams
Reginald B. Adams Pennsylvania State University
Amitai Shenhav
Amitai Shenhav Brown University
Michael J. Tarr
Michael J. Tarr Carnegie Mellon University
Sonja A. Kotz
Sonja A. Kotz Maastricht University

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