Visual Cognition

Visual Cognition is a subfield of cognitive psychology that investigates the mental processes involved in perceiving, interpreting, representing, and maintaining visual information, distinguishing itself from other cognitive domains by its focus on the mechanisms underlying visual perception and awareness.

6.2K

Publications

548.1K

Citations

12.2K

Authors

2.5K

Institutions

Publications per year

2017–2026

1.1K

Parents

Cognitive PsychologyExperimental Psychology

Children

Figure-ground SegmentationObject ConstancyReading PerceptionScene Gist PerceptionVisual AwarenessVisual Object TrackingVisual Priming

Publications

6.2K

The Ecological Approach to Visual Perception

Marc H. Bornstein, James J. Gibson · Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism · 1980 · 23.2K citations

Medicine, Psychology, Vision Science +17

Orienting of Attention

Michael I. Posner · Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology · 1980 · 9.6K citations

Medicine, Neuroscience, Psychology +14

Controlled and automatic human information processing: II. Perceptual learning, automatic attending and a general theory.

Richard M. Shiffrin, Walter Schneider · Psychological Review · 1977 · 7.1K citations

Medicine, Behavioral Sciences, Psychology +17

Vision: A computational investigation into the human representation and processing of visual information

H. B. Barlow · Journal of Mathematical Psychology · 1983 · 5.6K citations

Medicine, Computer Science, Vision Science +16

Unified theories of cognition

Choice Reviews Online · 1991 · 4.3K citations

Social Sciences, Behavioral Sciences, Psychology +10

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Authors

12.2K

SM
Stephen M. Kosslyn
Harvard University, United States
47 publications · 10.4K citations
34
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GW
Glyn W. Humphreys
University of Birmingham, United Kingdom
30 publications · 3.2K citations
23
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SJ
Steven J. Luck
University of California, Davis, United States
24 publications · 11.4K citations
23
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JP
Joel Pearson
UNSW Sydney, Australia
25 publications · 2.4K citations
22
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YJ
Yuhong Jiang
University of Minnesota, United States
23 publications · 2.7K citations
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1–5 of 12.2K

Institutions

2.5K

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Venues

Journal of Experimental Psychology Human Perception & Performance
195 publications · 21K citations
73
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Psychological Science
81 publications · 12.9K citations
52
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Journal of Experimental Psychology Learning Memory and Cognition
120 publications · 7.9K citations
50
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Neuropsychologia
107 publications · 8.2K citations
50
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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
PNAS · 63 publications · 8.7K citations
48
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