2026 Robert F. Hess: Engineering and Technology Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

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Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Engineering and Technology	78	615	582	23	22	473	19567

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Engineering and Technology

615

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473

19567

Engineering and Technology

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19567

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615

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Overview

Robert F. Hess is affiliated with McGill University in Canada. Their research focuses on multiple aspects of visual perception and ophthalmology, contributing extensively to the fields of neuroscience and medicine.

Their main fields of study encompass:

Neuroscience
Medicine

Within these fields, Robert F. Hess has further specialized in several subfields, including:

Cognitive Neuroscience
Epidemiology
Ophthalmology
Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics
Media Technology

The primary research topics covered in their work are:

Visual perception and processing mechanisms
Ophthalmology and Visual Impairment Studies
Glaucoma and retinal disorders
Neural dynamics and brain function
Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
Color Science and Applications
Advanced Optical Imaging Technologies

Robert F. Hess has published numerous papers in notable journals. Some recent publications include:

"Suppression Rather Than Visual Acuity Loss Limits Stereoacuity in Amblyopia" (2020), Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science
"Shifting eye balance using monocularly directed attention in normal vision" (2021), Journal of Vision
"Interocular Differences in Spatial Frequency Influence the Pulfrich Effect" (2020), Vision
"Interocular suppressive interactions in amblyopia depend on spatial frequency" (2020), Vision Research
"The Flash-lag Effect in Amblyopia" (2021), Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science

This scientist frequently collaborates with other researchers. Frequent co-authors include:

Alexandre Reynaud
Alex S. Baldwin
Seung Hyun Min
Sara Alarcon Carrillo
Jiawei Zhou

Robert F. Hess's work is regularly published in the following venues:

Journal of Vision
Vision Research
Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science
Ophthalmic and Physiological Optics
bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

Best Publications

Contour integration by the human visual system: evidence for a local "association field".

David J. Field;Anthony Hayes;Robert F. Hess

2086
Citations
The threshold contrast sensitivity function in strabismic amblyopia: Evidence for a two type classification

R.F. Hess;E.R. Howell

578
Citations
Human peripheral spatial resolution for achromatic and chromatic stimuli: limits imposed by optical and retinal factors.

S J Anderson;K T Mullen;R F Hess

332
Citations
A new binocular approach to the treatment of Amblyopia in adults well beyond the critical period of visual development

RF Hess;B Mansouri;Benjamin Thompson

320
Citations
Deficits to global motion processing in human amblyopia

Anita J Simmers;Tim Ledgeway;Robert F Hess;Paul V McGraw

318
Citations
The functional area for summation to threshold for sinusoidal gratings.

E.R. Howell;R.F. Hess

306
Citations
Amblyopia and the binocular approach to its therapy.

Robert F. Hess;Benjamin Thompson

284
Citations
On the nature of the neural abnormality in human amblyopia; neural aberrations and neural sensitivity loss.

Hess Rf;Campbell Fw;Greenhalgh T

267
Citations
Temporal properties of human visual filters: number, shapes and spatial covariation.

R.F. Hess;R.J. Snowden

260
Citations
Measurement of suprathreshold binocular interactions in amblyopia.

B. Mansouri;B. Thompson;R.F. Hess

248
Citations
Brain Plasticity in the Adult: Modulation of Function in Amblyopia with rTMS

Benjamin Thompson;Behzad Mansouri;Lisa Koski;Robert F. Hess

243
Citations
The contrast sensitivity gradient across the human visual field: with emphasis on the low spatial frequency range.

J.S. Pointer;R.F. Hess

239
Citations
A binocular approach to treating amblyopia: antisuppression therapy.

Robert F. Hess;Behzad Mansouri;Benjamin Thompson

232
Citations
Binocular vision in amblyopia: structure, suppression and plasticity

Robert F Hess;Benjamin Thompson;Daniel Hart Baker

225
Citations
A Game Platform for Treatment of Amblyopia

Long To;B Thompson;J R Blum;G Maehara

213
Citations
The accessory optic system and its relation to the vestibulocerebellum.

J.I. Simpson;R.E. Soodak;R. Hess

210
Citations
Contrast masking in strabismic amblyopia: attenuation, noise, interocular suppression and binocular summation.

Daniel H. Baker;Timothy S. Meese;Robert F. Hess

188
Citations
The spatial localization deficit in amblyopia

Robert F. Hess;Ian E. Holliday

174
Citations
Effectiveness of a Binocular Video Game vs Placebo Video Game for Improving Visual Functions in Older Children, Teenagers, and Adults With Amblyopia: A Randomized Clinical Trial.

Tina Y. Gao;Cindy X. Guo;Raiju J. Babu;Joanna M. Black

168
Citations
Is the spatial deficit in strabismic amblyopia due to loss of cells or an uncalibrated disarray of cells

Robert F. Hess;David J. Field

164
Citations
Texture Segregation in the Human Visual Cortex: A

Leslie G. Ungerleider;Ken W. S. Tan;J. Edwin Dickinson;David R. Badcock

1
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