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2452
National Ranking
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Overview

Richard J. Haier is affiliated with the University of California, Irvine, in the United States. Their research broadly spans several disciplines, with a primary focus on psychology and neuroscience, complemented by work in computer science.

Their main fields of study include:

  • Psychology
  • Neuroscience
  • Computer Science

Within these fields, Haier's subfields of specialization cover:

  • Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Social Psychology
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Genetics

Their research topics emphasize cognitive processes and brain function, including:

  • Cognitive Abilities and Testing
  • Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
  • Emotional Intelligence and Performance
  • Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
  • Cognitive Science and Mapping
  • Genetic Associations and Epidemiology
  • Genetics and Neurodevelopmental Disorders

Haier has contributed articles to multiple publication venues, primarily:

  • Cambridge University Press eBooks
  • Intelligence

Recent papers include:

  • Academic freedom and social responsibility: Finding a balance, 2020, published in Intelligence
  • Are we thinking big enough about the road ahead? Overview of the special issue on the future of intelligence research, 2021, published in Intelligence
  • Index, 2021, published in Cambridge University Press eBooks
  • Index, 2023, published in Cambridge University Press eBooks
  • Index, 2023, published in Cambridge University Press eBooks

Haier has also authored books published by Cambridge University Press. Two noted titles from 2023 are:

  • The Science of Human Intelligence
  • The Neuroscience of Intelligence

Frequent collaborators in Haier's work include:

  • Roberto Colom
  • Earl Hunt
  • Aron K. Barbey
  • Sherif Karama

Best Publications

  • The Parieto-Frontal Integration Theory (P-FIT) of intelligence: converging neuroimaging evidence.

    Rex E. Jung;Richard J. Haier

  • Schizophrenia: The epigenetic puzzle

    Richard J. Haier

  • Amygdala activity at encoding correlated with long-term, free recall of emotional information.

    Larry Cahill;Richard J. Haier;James Fallon;Michael T. Alkire

  • Cortical glucose metabolic rate correlates of abstract reasoning and attention studied with positron emission tomography

    Richard J. Haier;Benjamin V. Siegel;Keith H. Nuechterlein;Erin Hazlett

  • Structural brain variation and general intelligence.

    Richard J. Haier;Rex E. Jung;Ronald A. Yeo;Kevin Head

  • Regional glucose metabolic changes after learning a complex visuospatial/motor task: a positron emission tomographic study.

    Richard J. Haier;Benjamin V. Siegel;Andrew MacLachlan;Eric Soderling

  • Sex-related difference in amygdala activity during emotionally influenced memory storage.

    Larry Cahill;Richard J. Haier;T. Nathan S. White;James Fallon

  • Intelligence and changes in regional cerebral glucose metabolic rate following learning

    Richard J. Haier;Benjamin V. Siegel;Chuck Tang;Lennart Abel

  • The neuroanatomy of general intelligence: sex matters

    Richard J. Haier;Rex E. Jung;Ronald A. Yeo;Kevin Head

  • Toward a unified theory of narcosis: brain imaging evidence for a thalamocortical switch as the neurophysiologic basis of anesthetic-induced unconsciousness.

    M.T. Alkire;R.J. Haier;J.H. Fallon

  • Neuroanatomy of creativity.

    Rex E. Jung;Rex E. Jung;Judith M. Segall;H. Jeremy Bockholt;Ranee A. Flores

  • Frontostriatal disorder of cerebral metabolism in never-medicated schizophrenics.

    M S Buchsbaum;R J Haier;S G Potkin;K Nuechterlein

  • Glucose metabolic rate in normals and schizophrenics during the Continuous Performance Test assessed by positron emission tomography.

    Monte S. Buchsbaum;Keith H. Nuechterlein;Richard J. Haier;Joseph Wu

  • Cerebral metabolism during propofol anesthesia in humans studied with positron emission tomography

    Michael T. Alkire;Richard J. Haier;Steven J. Barker;Nitin K. Shah

  • PET and MRI of the Thalamus in Never-Medicated Patients With Schizophrenia

    Monte S. Buchsbaum;Toshiyuki Someya;Chuck Ying Teng;Lennart Abel

  • Human intelligence and brain networks

    Roberto Colom;Sherif Karama;Rex E. Jung;Richard J. Haier

  • Distributed brain sites for the g-factor of intelligence.

    Roberto Colom;Rex E. Jung;Richard J. Haier

  • A controlled trial of desipramine in 18 men with posttraumatic stress disorder.

    Christopher Reist;Curtis D. Kauffmann;Richard J. Haier;Christopher Sangdahl

  • Intrinsic Enjoyment and Boredom Coping scales: Validation with personality, evoked potential and attention measures.

    Jean A. Hamilton;Jean A. Hamilton;Richard J. Haier;Monte S. Buchsbaum

  • Cortical-striatal-thalamic circuits and brain glucose metabolic activity in 70 unmedicated male schizophrenic patients.

    Benjamin V. Siegel;Monte S. Buchsbaum;William E. Bunney;Louis A. Gottschalk

  • MRI assessment of cortical thickness and functional activity changes in adolescent girls following three months of practice on a visual-spatial task

    Richard J Haier;Sherif Karama;Leonard Leyba;Rex E Jung

Frequent Co-Authors

Roberto Colom
Roberto Colom Autonomous University of Madrid
Keith H. Nuechterlein
Keith H. Nuechterlein University of California, Los Angeles
Ronald A. Yeo
Ronald A. Yeo University of New Mexico
Ian J. Deary
Ian J. Deary University of Edinburgh
Wendy Johnson
Wendy Johnson University of Edinburgh
Larry J. Siever
Larry J. Siever Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Robert F. Asarnow
Robert F. Asarnow University of California, Los Angeles
David Rosenthal
David Rosenthal City University of New York
Salvatore R. Maddi
Salvatore R. Maddi University of California, Irvine
Philip S. Holzman
Philip S. Holzman Harvard University

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