2026 Ronald A. Rensink: Psychology Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Computer Science	30	13821	13399	538	516	100	10915
Psychology	35	9657	9037	670	629	108	15364

Overview

Ronald A. Rensink is affiliated with the University of British Columbia in Canada. Their research spans multiple domains, focusing on various aspects of visual perception, cognitive neuroscience, and social psychology.

The scientist has contributed to several fields of study including:

Cognitive Neuroscience
Social Psychology
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Management Science and Operations Research
Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

Main topics covered in their work include:

Visual perception and processing mechanisms
Data Visualization and Analytics
Aesthetic Perception and Analysis
Paranormal Experiences and Beliefs
Death Anxiety and Social Exclusion
Action Observation and Synchronization
Forecasting Techniques and Applications

Recent publications authored or co-authored by Ronald A. Rensink are:

"Visualization as a stimulus domain for vision science," 2021, Journal of Vision
"Visual features as carriers of abstract quantitative information," 2022, Journal of Experimental Psychology General

Additional recent papers featuring collaborations or related to the research community include:

"A psychologically based taxonomy of Magicians' forcing Techniques: How magicians influence our choices, and how to use this to study psychological mechanisms," 2020, Consciousness and Cognition
"Further Evidence that Probability Density Shape is a Proxy for Correlation," 2020, Journal of Vision
"Correlation structure does not affect number judgment," 2020, Journal of Vision

Frequent co-authors in Ronald A. Rensink's research include:

Madison Elliott
Alice Pailhès
Gustav Kuhn
F. Holmes Atwater
Caitlin Coyiuto

Publication venues where their work regularly appears include:

Journal of Vision
Consciousness and Cognition
Journal of Experimental Psychology General

Best Publications

To See or not to See: The Need for Attention to Perceive Changes in Scenes

Ronald A. Rensink;J. Kevin O'Regan;James J. Clark

3344
Citations
Change blindness: past, present, and future.

Daniel J. Simons;Ronald A. Rensink

1526
Citations
The Dynamic Representation of Scenes

Ronald A. Rensink

1440
Citations
Competition for consciousness among visual events : The psychophysics of reentrant visual processes

Vincent Di Lollo;James T. Enns;Ronald A. Rensink

1008
Citations
Change-Blindness As a Result of 'Mudsplashes'

J. Kevin O'Regan;Ronald A. Rensink;James J. Clark

857
Citations
Seeing, sensing, and scrutinizing.

Ronald A Rensink

745
Citations
Picture Changes During Blinks: Looking Without Seeing and Seeing Without Looking

J. Kevin O'Regan;Heiner Deubel;James J. Clark;Ronald A. Rensink

709
Citations
On the failure to detect changes in scenes across brief interruptions.

Ronald A. Rensink;J. Kevin O'Regan;James J. Clark

420
Citations
Influence of scene-based properties on visual search

James T. Enns;Ronald A. Rensink

356
Citations
Visual Search for Change: A Probe into the Nature of Attentional Processing

Ronald A. Rensink

343
Citations
A Principled Way of Assessing Visualization Literacy

Jeremy Boy;Ronald A. Rensink;Enrico Bertini;Jean Daniel Fekete

331
Citations
Preattentive recovery of three-dimensional orientation from line drawings.

James T. Enns;Ronald A. Rensink

300
Citations
Preemption effects in visual search: evidence for low-level grouping.

Ronald A. Rensink;James T. Enns

279
Citations
Early completion of occluded objects

Ronald A. Rensink;James T. Enns

274
Citations
Towards a science of magic

Gustav Kuhn;Alym A. Amlani;Ronald A. Rensink

250
Citations
Visual Sensing Without Seeing

Ronald A. Rensink

231
Citations
Active versus Passive Processing of Biological Motion

Ian M Thornton;Ronald A Rensink;Maggie Shiffrar

225
Citations
Two strategies for learning a route in a driving simulator

Vlada Aginsky;Catherine Harris;Ronald Rensink;Jack Beusmans

207
Citations
Sensitivity to Three-Dimensional Orientation in Visual Search

James T. Enns;Ronald A. Rensink

201
Citations
The perception of correlation in scatterplots

Ronald A. Rensink;Gideon Baldridge

189
Citations
A framework for using magic to study the mind

Ronald A. Rensink;Gustav Kuhn

153
Citations
Rapid Resumption of Interrupted Visual Search New Insights on the Interaction Between Vision and Memory

Alejandro Lleras;Ronald A. Rensink;James T. Enns

109
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

James T. Enns University of British Columbia

Gustav Kuhn Plymouth University

J. Kevin O'Regan Université Paris Cité

Daniel J. Simons University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Vincent Di Lollo Simon Fraser University

David E. Meyer University of Michigan–Ann Arbor

Shinobu Kitayama University of Michigan–Ann Arbor

Amir Raz Chapman University

Patrick Cavanagh York University

Maggie Shiffrar Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

External Links

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