2026 Randolph Blake: Neuroscience Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Neuroscience	96	874	783	470	412	434	30446
Psychology	92	886	775	562	481	386	28710

Research.com Recognitions

2012 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
2006 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
1987 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Randolph Blake is affiliated with Vanderbilt University in the United States, focusing primarily on the field of neuroscience. Their research encompasses multiple subfields including cognitive neuroscience, computer vision and pattern recognition, epidemiology, ophthalmology, and experimental and cognitive psychology.

The central themes of their work include visual perception and processing mechanisms, with 36 publications addressing this topic. Other significant areas of study focus on face recognition and perception, ophthalmology and visual impairment studies, neural dynamics and brain function, visual attention and saliency detection, multisensory perception and integration, and glaucoma and retinal disorders.

Blake has published extensively, appearing repeatedly in journals such as the Journal of Vision, which features seven of their works. Other frequent publication venues include bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) with three publications, Behavior Research Methods and eLife with two each, and Attention Perception & Psychophysics with two publications.

Their recent papers illustrate the scope and variety of their research interests and include:

Visual-Tactile Spatial Multisensory Interaction in Adults With Autism and Schizophrenia (2020), published in Frontiers in Psychiatry
The Perceptual Magic of Binocular Rivalry (2022), published in Current Directions in Psychological Science
CFS-crafter: An open-source tool for creating and analyzing images for continuous flash suppression experiments (2022), published in Behavior Research Methods
Judging Relative Onsets and Offsets of Audiovisual Events (2020), published in Vision
Optics and neural adaptation jointly limit human stereovision (2021), published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Collaborations have been an important part of Blake's research activity. Frequent coauthors include David Alais, Duje Tadin, Oakyoon Cha, Jacob Coorey, and Matthew Davidson, with multiple joint publications across various projects.

Blake has been recognized with several honors throughout their career. They have been elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) since 1987, a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences since 2006, and a Member of the National Academy of Sciences since 2012.

Best Publications

Brain Areas Involved in Perception of Biological Motion

E. Grossman;M. Donnelly;R. Price;D. Pickens

1224
Citations
Perception of Human Motion

Randolph Blake;Maggie Shiffrar

1196
Citations
Visual competition

Unknown

954
Citations
Neural bases of binocular rivalry.

Frank Tong;Ming Meng;Randolph Blake

878
Citations
Brain Areas Active during Visual Perception of Biological Motion

Emily D Grossman;Randolph Blake

862
Citations
A Neural Theory of Binocular Rivalry

Randolph Blake

834
Citations
Visual Recognition of Biological Motion is Impaired in Children With Autism

Randolph Blake;Lauren M. Turner;Moria J. Smoski;Stacie L. Pozdol

716
Citations
Neuronal activity in human primary visual cortex correlates with perception during binocular rivalry.

Alex Polonsky;Randolph Blake;Jochen Braun;David J. Heeger

663
Citations
Psychophysical magic : rendering the visible 'invisible'

Chai-Youn Kim;Randolph Blake

520
Citations
Fearful expressions gain preferential access to awareness during continuous flash suppression.

Eunice Yang;David H. Zald;Randolph Blake

509
Citations
Brain activity evoked by inverted and imagined biological motion

E.D. Grossman;R. Blake

472
Citations
A Primer on Binocular Rivalry, Including Current Controversies

Randolph Blake

460
Citations
The psychophysical inquiry into binocular summation

Randolph Blake;Robert Fox

414
Citations
Perceptual consequences of centre–surround antagonism in visual motion processing

Duje Tadin;Joseph S. Lappin;Lee A. Gilroy;Randolph Blake

401
Citations
Dynamics of travelling waves in visual perception

Hugh R. Wilson;Randolph Blake;Sang-Hun Lee

353
Citations
Traveling waves of activity in primary visual cortex during binocular rivalry

Sang Hun Lee;Randolph Blake;David J. Heeger

348
Citations
Further developments in binocular summation

Randolph Blake;Michael Sloane;Robert Fox

338
Citations
Hearing What the Eyes See: Auditory Encoding of Visual Temporal Sequences

Sharon E. Guttman;Lee A. Gilroy;Randolph Blake

338
Citations
Depth of interocular suppression associated with continuous flash suppression, flash suppression, and binocular rivalry

Naotsugu Tsuchiya;Christof Koch;Lee A. Gilroy;Randolph Blake

290
Citations
The perceptual reality of synesthetic colors

Thomas J. Palmeri;Randolph Blake;René Marois;Marci A. Flanery

285
Citations
Spatial zones of binocular rivalry in central and peripheral vision

Randolph Blake;Robert P. O'Shea;T. J. Mueller

263
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Duje Tadin University of Rochester

David J. Heeger New York University

David Alais University of Sydney

Joseph S. Lappin Vanderbilt University

Joel Pearson University of New South Wales

Sohee Park Vanderbilt University

Katsumi Watanabe Waseda University

Thomas J. Palmeri Vanderbilt University

Isabel Gauthier Vanderbilt University

Frank Tong Vanderbilt University

External Links

Personal website of Randolph Blake Google Scholar page

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