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Ronald A. Rensink 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 Ronald A. Rensink sits on this spectrum.

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31 publications 705+

This scientist: 108 publications — 25th percentile

25% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Ronald A. Rensink 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 Ronald A. Rensink sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 144+

This scientist: 35 D-Index — 16th percentile

16% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

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

  • Change blindness: past, present, and future.

    Daniel J. Simons;Ronald A. Rensink

  • The Dynamic Representation of Scenes

    Ronald A. Rensink

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

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

  • Change-Blindness As a Result of 'Mudsplashes'

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

  • Seeing, sensing, and scrutinizing.

    Ronald A Rensink

  • Picture Changes During Blinks: Looking Without Seeing and Seeing Without Looking

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

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

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

  • Influence of scene-based properties on visual search

    James T. Enns;Ronald A. Rensink

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

    Ronald A. Rensink

  • A Principled Way of Assessing Visualization Literacy

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

  • Preattentive recovery of three-dimensional orientation from line drawings.

    James T. Enns;Ronald A. Rensink

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

    Ronald A. Rensink;James T. Enns

  • Early completion of occluded objects

    Ronald A. Rensink;James T. Enns

  • Towards a science of magic

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

  • Visual Sensing Without Seeing

    Ronald A. Rensink

  • Active versus Passive Processing of Biological Motion

    Ian M Thornton;Ronald A Rensink;Maggie Shiffrar

  • Two strategies for learning a route in a driving simulator

    Vlada Aginsky;Catherine Harris;Ronald Rensink;Jack Beusmans

  • Sensitivity to Three-Dimensional Orientation in Visual Search

    James T. Enns;Ronald A. Rensink

  • The perception of correlation in scatterplots

    Ronald A. Rensink;Gideon Baldridge

  • A framework for using magic to study the mind

    Ronald A. Rensink;Gustav Kuhn

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

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

Frequent Co-Authors

James T. Enns
James T. Enns University of British Columbia
Gustav Kuhn
Gustav Kuhn Plymouth University
Tamara Munzner
Tamara Munzner University of British Columbia
J. Kevin O'Regan
J. Kevin O'Regan Université Paris Cité
Daniel J. Simons
Daniel J. Simons University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Michiel van de Panne
Michiel van de Panne University of British Columbia
Vincent Di Lollo
Vincent Di Lollo Simon Fraser University
Shinobu Kitayama
Shinobu Kitayama University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
David E. Meyer
David E. Meyer University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Patrick Cavanagh
Patrick Cavanagh York University

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