World's Best Scientists 2026 revealed!

D-Index & Metrics

Neuroscience

D-Index
135
Citations
81127
World Ranking
231
National Ranking
146

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2013 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Overview

Steven A. Hillyard is affiliated with the University of California, San Diego in the United States. Their research is primarily situated within the field of Neuroscience, with a particular focus on Cognitive Neuroscience. Additional areas of study include Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, General Health Professions, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, and Philosophy.

The scientist's work covers a range of topics centered on neural dynamics and brain function, neural and behavioral psychology studies, EEG and brain-computer interfaces, visual perception and processing mechanisms, functional brain connectivity studies, neuroscience and music perception, as well as tactile and sensory interactions.

Recent publications by Steven A. Hillyard include:

  • Split-Brain: What We Know Now and Why This is Important for Understanding Consciousness, 2020, Neuropsychology Review
  • Dynamics of attentional allocation to targets and distractors during visual search, 2022, NeuroImage
  • Electrophysiological evidence for target facilitation without distractor suppression in two-stimulus search displays, 2021, Cerebral Cortex
  • Attentional capture is modulated by stimulus saliency in visual search as evidenced by event-related potentials and alpha oscillations, 2022, Attention Perception & Psychophysics
  • The time course of feature-selective attention inside and outside the focus of spatial attention, 2024, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Steven A. Hillyard collaborates frequently with other researchers. Notable co-authors include Daniel J. Strauß, Adrian Mai, Norman Forschack, Christopher Gundlach, and Matthias M. Müller.

Their work is regularly published in scientific venues such as bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), NeuroImage, Neuropsychology Review, Cerebral Cortex, and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In recognition of their contributions to science, Steven A. Hillyard was made a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2013.

Best Publications

  • Reading senseless sentences: brain potentials reflect semantic incongruity

    Marta Kutas;Steven A. Hillyard

  • Guidelines for using human event-related potentials to study cognition: Recording standards and publication criteria

    Terence W. Picton;S. Bentin;P. Berg;E. Donchin

  • Two varieties of long-latency positive waves evoked by unpredictable auditory stimuli in man.

    Nancy K Squires;Kenneth C Squires;Steven A Hillyard

  • Brain potentials during reading reflect word expectancy and semantic association

    Marta Kutas;Steven A. Hillyard

  • Electrical Signs of Selective Attention in the Human Brain

    Steven A. Hillyard;Robert F. Hink;Vincent L. Schwent;Terence W. Picton

  • Neural mechanisms of spatial selective attention in areas V1, V2, and V4 of macaque visual cortex

    Steven J. Luck;Leonardo Chelazzi;Steven A. Hillyard;Robert Desimone

  • Human auditory evoked potentials. I. Evaluation of components.

    T.W. Picton;S.A. Hillyard;H.I. Krausz;R. Galambos

  • Event-related brain potentials in the study of visual selective attention

    Steven A. Hillyard;Lourdes Anllo-Vento

  • Electrophysiological correlates of feature analysis during visual search.

    Steven J. Luck;Steven A. Hillyard

  • Sensory gain control (amplification) as a mechanism of selective attention: electrophysiological and neuroimaging evidence

    Steven A. Hillyard;Edward K. Vogel;Steven J. Luck

  • Cortical sources of the early components of the visual evoked potential

    Francesco Di Russo;Antígona Martínez;Martin I. Sereno;Sabrina Pitzalis

  • Spatial filtering during visual search: evidence from human electrophysiology.

    Steven J. Luck;Steven A. Hillyard

  • Stimulus novelty, task relevance and the visual evoked potential in man

    Eric Courchesne;Steven A Hillyard;Robert Galambos

  • Combined spatial and temporal imaging of brain activity during visual selective attention in humans.

    H. J. Heinze;George R Mangun;W. Burchert;H. Hinrichs

  • Human auditory evoked potentials. II - Effects of attention

    T.W. Picton;S.A. Hillyard

  • Involvement of striate and extrastriate visual cortical areas in spatial attention.

    A. Martínez;L. Anllo-Vento;M. I. Sereno;L. R. Frank

  • Modulations of sensory-evoked brain potentials indicate changes in perceptual processing during visual-spatial priming.

    George R. Mangun;Steven A. Hillyard

  • Electrophysiology of cognitive processing.

    Steven A. Hillyard;Marta Kutas

  • Event-related brain potentials to semantically inappropriate and surprisingly large words.

    Marta Kutas;Steven A. Hillyard

  • Event-related brain potentials to grammatical errors and semantic anomalies

    Marta Kutas;Steven A. Hillyard

Frequent Co-Authors

Antigona Martinez
Antigona Martinez Nathan Kline Institute for Psychiatric Research
George R. Mangun
George R. Mangun University of California, Davis
Steven J. Luck
Steven J. Luck University of California, Davis
Marta Kutas
Marta Kutas University of California, San Diego
John J. McDonald
John J. McDonald Simon Fraser University
Hans-Jochen Heinze
Hans-Jochen Heinze Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg
Matthias M. Müller
Matthias M. Müller Leipzig University
Terence W. Picton
Terence W. Picton University of Toronto
Marty G. Woldorff
Marty G. Woldorff Duke University
Michael S. Gazzaniga
Michael S. Gazzaniga University of California, Santa Barbara

If you think any of the details on this page are incorrect, let us know.

Report an issue

We appreciate your kind effort to assist us to improve this page, it would be helpful providing us with as much detail as possible in the text box below:

Best Scientists Citing Steven A. Hillyard

Trending Scientists

Recently Published Articles