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Wilma Koutstaal

D-Index & Metrics

Psychology

D-Index
36
Citations
11406
World Ranking
9324
National Ranking
4931

Neuroscience

D-Index
36
Citations
11406
World Ranking
8892
National Ranking
3763

Wilma Koutstaal publication distribution in Neuroscience in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Neuroscience in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Wilma Koutstaal sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 887+

This scientist: 96 publications — 15th percentile

15% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Wilma Koutstaal D-index placement in Neuroscience in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Neuroscience scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Wilma Koutstaal sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 36 D-Index — 7th percentile

7% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2014 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Wilma Koutstaal is affiliated with the University of Minnesota in the United States, focusing primarily on psychology with extensive work in experimental and cognitive psychology. Their research spans cognitive neuroscience, clinical psychology, mechanical engineering, and social psychology, reflecting a multidisciplinary approach to understanding human behavior and brain function.

The scientist's research concentrates on creativity, education, and neuroscience, particularly the intersection of psychological and educational research studies. Their work also covers mind wandering and attention, design education and practice, aesthetic perception and analysis, as well as art therapy and mental health. Child therapy and development form another area within their broader scope of study.

Coauthors frequently collaborating with Wilma Koutstaal include Kathryn R. Cullen, Michaelle E. DiMaggio-Potter, Bonnie Klimes-Dougan, Bryon A. Mueller, and Yuko Taniguchi.

Wilma Koutstaal has published several papers, among which the following are notable:

  • "Charting the contributions of cognitive flexibility to creativity: Self-guided transitions as a process-based index of creativity-related adaptivity" (2020, PLoS ONE)
  • "Evaluating the predictive validity of four divergent thinking tasks for the originality of design product ideation" (2022, PLoS ONE)
  • "Capturing, clarifying, and consolidating the curiosity-creativity connection" (2022, Scientific Reports)
  • "The Multifaceted Role of Self-Generated Question Asking in Curiosity-Driven Learning" (2023, Cognitive Science)
  • "Fostering creative minds: what predicts and boosts design competence in the classroom?" (2020, International Journal of Technology and Design Education)

Wilma Koutstaal's work has appeared in journals and publication venues such as Harvard Dataverse, PLoS ONE, Creativity Research Journal, Cognitive Science, and Scientific Reports.

In recognition of their contributions to science, Wilma Koutstaal was named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2014.

Best Publications

  • Building Memories: Remembering and Forgetting of Verbal Experiences as Predicted by Brain Activity

    Anthony D. Wagner;Daniel L. Schacter;Michael Rotte;Wilma Koutstaal

  • THE COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE OF CONSTRUCTIVE MEMORY

    Daniel L. Schacter;Kenneth Andrew Norman;Wilma Koutstaal

  • Functional-anatomic correlates of object priming in humans revealed by rapid presentation event-related fMRI

    Randy L. Buckner;Julie Goodman;Marc Burock;Michael Rotte;Michael Rotte

  • Gist-Based False Recognition of Pictures in Older and Younger Adults

    Wilma Koutstaal;Daniel L. Schacter

  • Late Onset of Anterior Prefrontal Activity during True and False Recognition: An Event-Related fMRI Study

    Daniel L. Schacter;Randy L. Buckner;Wilma Koutstaal;Anders M. Dale

  • Functional neuroimaging studies of encoding, priming, and explicit memory retrieval

    Randy L. Buckner;Wilma Koutstaal

  • Functional–Anatomic Study of Episodic Retrieval Using fMRI: I. Retrieval Effort versus Retrieval Success

    Randy L. Buckner;Wilma Koutstaal;Daniel L. Schacter;Anthony D. Wagner

  • Perceptual specificity in visual object priming: functional magnetic resonance imaging evidence for a laterality difference in fusiform cortex.

    W Koutstaal;A.D Wagner;A.D Wagner;M Rotte;A Maril

  • Functional MRI evidence for a role of frontal and inferior temporal cortex in amodal components of priming.

    Randy L. Buckner;Wilma Koutstaal;Daniel L. Schacter;Bruce R. Rosen

  • Functional-anatomic study of episodic retrieval. II. Selective averaging of event-related fMRI trials to test the retrieval success hypothesis.

    Randy L. Buckner;Randy L. Buckner;Wilma Koutstaal;Daniel L. Schacter;Anders M. Dale

  • When encoding yields remembering: insights from event-related neuroimaging.

    Anthony D. Wagner;Wilma Koutstaal;Daniel L. Schacter

  • Task-specific Repetition Priming in Left Inferior Prefrontal Cortex

    Anthony D. Wagner;Wilma Koutstaal;Anat Maril;Daniel L. Schacter

  • Neural mechanisms of visual object priming: evidence for perceptual and semantic distinctions in fusiform cortex

    Jon S. Simons;Wilma Koutstaal;Wilma Koutstaal;Steven E. Prince;Anthony D. Wagner

  • False memories and aging.

    Daniel L. Schacter;Wilma Koutstaal;Kenneth Andrew Norman

  • False recollection induced by photographs: a comparison of older and younger adults.

    Daniel L. Schacter;Wilma Koutstaal;Marcia K. Johnson;Mara S. Gross

  • Reducing gist-based false recognition in older adults: encoding and retrieval manipulations.

    Wilma Koutstaal;Daniel L. Schacter;Lissa Galluccio;Kathryn A. Stofer

  • Older Adults Encode—But Do Not Always Use—Perceptual Details Intentional Versus Unintentional Effects of Detail on Memory Judgments

    Wilma Koutstaal

  • Facilitation and impairment of event memory produced by photograph review.

    Wilma Koutstaal;Daniel L. Schacter;Marcia K. Johnson;Lissa Galluccio

  • Age and flexible thinking: an experimental demonstration of the beneficial effects of increased cognitively stimulating activity on fluid intelligence in healthy older adults

    Lesley J. Tranter;Wilma Koutstaal

  • False recognition of abstract versus common objects in older and younger adults: testing the semantic categorization account.

    Wilma Koutstaal;Chandan Reddy;Eric M. Jackson;Steve Prince

Frequent Co-Authors

Daniel L. Schacter
Daniel L. Schacter Harvard University
Randy L. Buckner
Randy L. Buckner Harvard University
Anthony D. Wagner
Anthony D. Wagner Stanford University
Michael Rotte
Michael Rotte Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg
Bruce R. Rosen
Bruce R. Rosen Harvard University
Yuhong V. Jiang
Yuhong V. Jiang University of Minnesota
Mieke Verfaellie
Mieke Verfaellie Boston University
Anders M. Dale
Anders M. Dale J. Craig Venter Institute
Kenneth A. Norman
Kenneth A. Norman Princeton University
Anthony J. Cleare
Anthony J. Cleare King's College London

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