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D-Index
52
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34002
World Ranking
4877
National Ranking
2683

Zenon W. Pylyshyn 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 Zenon W. Pylyshyn sits on this spectrum.

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31 publications 705+

This scientist: 149 publications — 49th percentile

49% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Zenon W. Pylyshyn 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 Zenon W. Pylyshyn sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 144+

This scientist: 52 D-Index — 57th percentile

57% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2004 - Jean Nicod Prize, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
  • 1997 - Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada Academy of Social Sciences
  • 1994 - Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) For sustained contributions to the foundations of artificial intelligence and cognitive science.
  • 1990 - CPA Donald O. Hebb Award for Distinguished Contributions to Psychology as a Science, Canadian Psychological Association (CPA)

Overview

Zenon W. Pylyshyn is affiliated with Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey in the United States. The academic is recognized within several professional organizations and has received multiple awards over their career.

Notable awards include the Jean Nicod Prize from the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) awarded in 2004, recognizing contributions in relevant research fields. They were named a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 1997, associated with the Academy of Social Sciences. In 1994, they became a Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) for sustained contributions to the foundations of artificial intelligence and cognitive science. Earlier, in 1990, they received the CPA Donald O. Hebb Award for Distinguished Contributions to Psychology as a Science from the Canadian Psychological Association (CPA).

Best Publications

  • Connectionism and cognitive architecture: a critical analysis

    Jerry A. Fodor;Zenon W. Pylyshyn

  • Computation and Cognition: Toward a Foundation for Cognitive Science

    Zenon W. Pylyshyn

  • Tracking multiple independent targets: Evidence for a parallel tracking mechanism*

    Zenon W. Pylyshyn;Ron W. Storm

  • What the Mind’s Eye Tells the Mind’s Brain: A Critique of Mental Imagery

    Zenon W. Pylyshyn

  • Computation and cognition: Issues in the foundations of cognitive science.

    Zenon W. Pylyshyn

  • Is vision continuous with cognition? The case for cognitive impenetrability of visual perception

    Zenon Pylyshyn

  • Why are small and large numbers enumerated differently? A limited-capacity preattentive stage in vision.

    Lana M. Trick;Zenon W. Pylyshyn

  • The imagery debate: Analogue media versus tacit knowledge.

    Zenon W. Pylyshyn

  • How direct is visual perception?: Some reflections on Gibson's “ecological approach”

    Jerry A. Fodor;Zenon W. Pylyshyn

  • The role of location indexes in spatial perception: a sketch of the FINST spatial-index model.

    Zenon Pylyshyn

  • Visual indexes, preconceptual objects, and situated vision.

    Zenon W Pylyshyn

  • The imagery debate: Analog media vs. tacit knowledge

    Zenon W. Pylyshyn

  • Mental imagery: in search of a theory.

    Zenon W. Pylyshyn

  • Tracking Multiple Items Through Occlusion: Clues to Visual Objecthood

    Brian J. Scholl;Zenon W. Pylyshyn

  • What enumeration studies can show us about spatial attention: evidence for limited capacity preattentive processing.

    Lana M. Trick;Zenon W. Pylyshyn

  • Seeing and Visualizing: It's Not What You Think

    Zenon W. Pylyshyn

  • What is a visual object? Evidence from target merging in multiple object tracking

    Brian J Scholl;Zenon W Pylyshyn;Jacob Feldman

  • Tracking an object through feature space

    Erik Blaser;Zenon W. Pylyshyn;Alex O. Holcombe

  • Connectionism and cognitive architecture

    Jerry A. Fodor;Zenon W. Pylyshyn

  • Return of the mental image: are there really pictures in the brain?

    Zenon Pylyshyn

  • Concepts: Where Cognitive Science Went Wrong: by Jerry A. Fodor

    Zenon W. Pylyshyn

  • What is Cognitive Science

    Ernest LePore;Zenon W. Pylyshyn

Frequent Co-Authors

Brian J. Scholl
Brian J. Scholl Yale University
Jerry A. Fodor
Jerry A. Fodor Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Steven Franconeri
Steven Franconeri Northwestern University
Sylvie Chokron
Sylvie Chokron Université Paris Cité
James T. Enns
James T. Enns University of British Columbia
Barbara Tversky
Barbara Tversky Columbia University
Ronald A. Rensink
Ronald A. Rensink University of British Columbia
Xiaolan Fu
Xiaolan Fu Chinese Academy of Sciences
George A. Alvarez
George A. Alvarez Harvard University
Patrick Cavanagh
Patrick Cavanagh York University

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