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Ruth Kimchi 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 Ruth Kimchi sits on this spectrum.

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31 publications 705+

This scientist: 97 publications — 18th percentile

18% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Ruth Kimchi 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 Ruth Kimchi sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 144+

This scientist: 32 D-Index — 6th percentile

6% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Ruth Kimchi is affiliated with the University of Haifa in Israel. Their research primarily explores various aspects of neuroscience, with a particular focus on cognitive neuroscience. This body of work spans multiple subfields including computer vision and pattern recognition, general decision sciences, experimental and cognitive psychology, and social psychology.

The scientist's main areas of study involve visual perception and processing mechanisms, neural dynamics and brain function, and neural and behavioral psychology. Additional research topics include face recognition and perception, visual attention and saliency detection, decision-making and behavioral economics, as well as EEG and brain-computer interfaces.

Ruth Kimchi has published extensively in journals such as:

  • Cognition
  • Attention Perception & Psychophysics
  • Behavioral and Brain Sciences
  • Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders
  • Symmetry

Notable recent papers include:

  • The role of visual awareness in processing of global structure: Evidence from the perceptual organization of hierarchical patterns, 2020, Cognition
  • Functional involvement of subcortical structures in global-local processing, 2020, Cognition
  • Visual Detection and Decoding Skills of Aerial Photography by Adults with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), 2021, Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders
  • Studying unconscious processing: Contention and consensus, 2025, Behavioral and Brain Sciences
  • Visual Awareness Is Essential for Grouping Based on Mirror Symmetry, 2020, Symmetry

Among frequent collaborators, Ruth Kimchi has worked multiple times with Shahar Sabary, Dina Devyatko, Mikel Jimenez, Amit Yashar, and François Stockart. These collaborations suggest interdisciplinary engagement within their research domains.

Best Publications

  • Primacy of wholistic processing and global/local paradigm: a critical review.

    Ruth Kimchi

  • Form and texture in hierarchically constructed patterns.

    Ruth Kimchi;Stephen E. Palmer

  • A century of Gestalt psychology in visual perception: II. Conceptual and theoretical foundations.

    Johan Wagemans;Jacob Feldman;Sergei Gepshtein;Ruth Kimchi

  • The information processing approach to cognition

    Stephen Palmer;Ruth Kimchi

  • What does visual agnosia tell us about perceptual organization and its relationship to object perception

    Marlene Behrmann;Ruth Kimchi

  • Microgenesis and Ontogenesis of Perceptual Organization Evidence From Global and Local Processing of Hierarchical Patterns

    Ruth Kimchi;Batsheva Hadad;Marlene Behrmann;Stephen E. Palmer

  • Emergence of global shape processing continues through adolescence.

    K. Suzanne Scherf;Marlene Behrmann;Ruth Kimchi;Beatriz Luna

  • Figure-ground segmentation can occur without attention

    Ruth Kimchi;Mary A. Peterson

  • Perceptual organization in vision : behavioral and neural perspectives

    Ruth Kimchi;Marlene Behrmann;Carl R. Olson

  • Uniform connectedness and grouping in the perceptual organization of hierarchical patterns.

    Ruth Kimchi

  • Selective attention to global and local levels in the comparison of hierarchical patterns.

    Ruth Kimchi

  • Automatic, stimulus-driven attentional capture by objecthood.

    Ruth Kimchi;Yaffa Yeshurun;Aliza Cohen-Savransky

  • The perceptual organization of visual objects: a microgenetic analysis.

    Ruth Kimchi

  • Influence of past experience on perceptual grouping

    Ruth Kimchi;Bat-Sheva Hadad

  • The role of wholistic/configural properties versus global properties in visual form perception.

    Ruth Kimchi

  • Perceptual grouping and attention: not all groupings are equal.

    Ruth Kimchi;Irene Razpurker-Apfeld

  • Hemispheric processing of global form, local form, and texture.

    Ruth Kimchi;Ilana Merhav

  • Missing the Big Picture: Impaired Development of Global Shape Processing in Autism

    K. Suzanne Scherf;Beatriz Luna;Ruth Kimchi;Nancy Minshew

  • Separability and integrality of global and local levels of hierarchical patterns.

    Ruth Kimchi;Stephen E. Palmer

  • Perceptual organization and visual attention.

    Ruth Kimchi

Frequent Co-Authors

Marlene Behrmann
Marlene Behrmann Carnegie Mellon University
Mary A. Peterson
Mary A. Peterson University of Arizona
Stephen E. Palmer
Stephen E. Palmer University of California, Berkeley
Galia Avidan
Galia Avidan Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Beatriz Luna
Beatriz Luna University of Pittsburgh
Marisa Carrasco
Marisa Carrasco New York University
Jacob A. Burack
Jacob A. Burack McGill University
Asher Koriat
Asher Koriat University of Haifa

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