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Richard A. Abrams 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 Richard A. Abrams sits on this spectrum.

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31 publications 705+

This scientist: 130 publications — 38th percentile

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

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

Richard A. Abrams 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 Richard A. Abrams sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 144+

This scientist: 50 D-Index — 54th percentile

54% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Richard A. Abrams is affiliated with Washington University in St. Louis in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Neuroscience and Psychology, with a particular focus on Cognitive Neuroscience and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. They have contributed to topics related to Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies, Visual perception and processing mechanisms, Multisensory perception and integration, Neural dynamics and brain function, Mind wandering and attention, Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics, and Action Observation and Synchronization.

Their recent publication record includes works in several peer-reviewed journals. Notable papers include:

  • "Ignoring the unknown: Attentional suppression of unpredictable visual distraction." (2022), published in Journal of Experimental Psychology Human Perception & Performance
  • "Ensemble perception without attention depends upon attentional control settings" (2020), published in Attention Perception & Psychophysics
  • "Feature-blind attentional suppression of salient distractors" (2023), published in Attention Perception & Psychophysics
  • "Contributions of gains and losses to attentional capture and disengagement: evidence from the gap paradigm" (2021), published in Experimental Brain Research
  • "Simple action alters attention towards visual features" (2021), published in Attention Perception & Psychophysics

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Richard A. Abrams include Xiaojin Ma, Yanju Ren, Shinhae Ahn, Ran Zhuang, and Jan Kubanek. Their research has been published primarily in the following venues:

  • Attention Perception & Psychophysics
  • Journal of Vision
  • Journal of Experimental Psychology Human Perception & Performance
  • Experimental Brain Research
  • Psychological Science

Richard A. Abrams' research domains focus on understanding the mechanisms of attention, perceptual processing, and the neural underpinnings of cognitive function. Their work explores the dynamics of visual perception and attentional control, as well as the integration of multisensory information. Through their studies, they address various aspects of neural and behavioral psychology with an emphasis on experimental methodologies.

Best Publications

  • Optimality in human motor performance: Ideal control of rapid aimed movements.

    D. E. Meyer;R. A. Abrams;S. Kornblum;C. E. Wright

  • Psychological sources of ambiguity avoidance

    Shawn P Curley;J.Frank Yates;Richard A Abrams

  • An Event-Related Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Study of Voluntary and Stimulus-Driven Orienting of Attention

    J. Michelle Kincade;Richard A. Abrams;Serguei V. Astafiev;Gordon L. Shulman

  • Motion onset captures attention.

    Richard A. Abrams;Shawn E. Christ

  • Event boundaries in perception affect memory encoding and updating.

    Khena M. Swallow;Jeffrey M. Zacks;Richard A. Abrams

  • Speed-accuracy tradeoffs in aimed movements: Toward a theory of rapid voluntary action.

    David E. Meyer;J. E. Keith-Smith;Sylvan Kornblum;Richard A. Abrams

  • Eye-hand coordination: oculomotor control in rapid aimed limb movements.

    Richard A. Abrams;David E. Meyer;Sylvan Kornblum

  • Speed and accuracy of saccadic eye movements: characteristics of impulse variability in the oculomotor system.

    Richard A. Abrams;David E. Meyer;Sylvan Kornblum

  • Inhibition of return: effects of attentional cuing on eye movement latencies.

    Richard A. Abrams;Richard S. Dobkin

  • Altered vision near the hands

    Richard A. Abrams;Christopher C. Davoli;Feng Du;William H. Knapp

  • Rapid aimed limb movements: age differences and practice effects in component submovements.

    Jay Pratt;Alison L. Chasteen;Richard A. Abrams

  • It’s Alive! Animate Motion Captures Visual Attention

    Jay Pratt;Petre V. Radulescu;Ruo Mu Guo;Richard A. Abrams

  • Using movement and intentions to understand human activity

    Jeffrey M. Zacks;Shawn Kumar;Richard A. Abrams;Ritesh Mehta

  • Differential use of distance and location information for spatial localization

    Richard A. Abrams;Jonathan Z. Landgraf

  • Color-based inhibition of return

    Mark B. Law;Jay Pratt;Richard A. Abrams

  • Selective interference with the maintenance of location information in working memory.

    Sandra Hale;Joel Myerson;Soo Hyun Rhee;Craig S. Weiss

  • Programming saccadic eye movements.

    Richard A. Abrams;John Jonides

  • Mental Chronometry: Beyond Reaction Time

    Richard A. Abrams;David A. Balota

  • The World Within Reach: Effects of Hand Posture and Tool Use on Visual Cognition

    James R. Brockmole;Christopher C. Davoli;Richard A. Abrams;Jessica K. Witt

  • The effects of eye and limb movements on working memory

    Bonnie M. Lawrence;Joel Myerson;Heather M. Oonk;Richard A. Abrams

Frequent Co-Authors

Jay Pratt
Jay Pratt University of Toronto
Shawn E. Christ
Shawn E. Christ University of Missouri
David A. Balota
David A. Balota Washington University in St. Louis
Joel Myerson
Joel Myerson Washington University in St. Louis
James R. Brockmole
James R. Brockmole University of Notre Dame
David E. Meyer
David E. Meyer University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Jeffrey M. Zacks
Jeffrey M. Zacks Washington University in St. Louis
Alison L. Chasteen
Alison L. Chasteen University of Toronto
Harold Bekkering
Harold Bekkering Radboud University
Sandra Hale
Sandra Hale Washington University in St. Louis

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