Chaz Firestone

3.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
71 papers, 1.7k citations indexed

About

Chaz Firestone is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and Social Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Chaz Firestone has authored 71 papers receiving a total of 1.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 47 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 23 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and 12 papers in Social Psychology. Recurrent topics in Chaz Firestone's work include Visual perception and processing mechanisms (21 papers), Multisensory perception and integration (17 papers) and Aesthetic Perception and Analysis (16 papers). Chaz Firestone is often cited by papers focused on Visual perception and processing mechanisms (21 papers), Multisensory perception and integration (17 papers) and Aesthetic Perception and Analysis (16 papers). Chaz Firestone collaborates with scholars based in United States, Mexico and Morocco. Chaz Firestone's co-authors include Brian J. Scholl, Zekun Sun, Alon Hafri, Rosalind W. Picard, Ziv Epstein, Matthew Groh, Jorge Morales, Ian Phillips, Benjamin Scholl and Frank C. Keil and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Chaz Firestone

56 papers receiving 1.6k citations

Hit Papers

Cognition does not affect perception: Evaluating the evid... 2015 2026 2018 2022 2015 200 400 600
What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. Cognition does not affect perception: Evaluating the evidence for “top-down” effects
    2015 617 citations Chaz Firestone, Brian J. Scholl Behavioral and Brain Sciences profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Chaz Firestone United States 16 1.1k 546 443 169 165 71 1.7k
Alex O. Holcombe Australia 27 2.0k 1.7× 628 1.2× 372 0.8× 125 0.7× 292 1.8× 104 2.7k
Michael A. Cohen United States 25 1.6k 1.4× 448 0.8× 282 0.6× 127 0.8× 163 1.0× 72 2.3k
Anne M. Cleary United States 23 1.1k 1.0× 312 0.6× 354 0.8× 236 1.4× 124 0.8× 69 1.3k
Moreno I. Coco United Kingdom 17 873 0.8× 569 1.0× 354 0.8× 752 4.4× 181 1.1× 52 2.0k
Vincent de Gardelle France 22 1.7k 1.5× 458 0.8× 197 0.4× 115 0.7× 63 0.4× 62 2.0k
Tom Froese Mexico 26 1.5k 1.4× 292 0.5× 922 2.1× 250 1.5× 58 0.4× 128 2.3k
Megan H. Papesh United States 17 825 0.7× 421 0.8× 302 0.7× 142 0.8× 129 0.8× 38 1.3k
Ruth Kimchi Israel 29 2.5k 2.3× 819 1.5× 650 1.5× 414 2.4× 337 2.0× 85 3.3k
Bence Nánay Belgium 23 1.3k 1.1× 866 1.6× 451 1.0× 114 0.7× 56 0.3× 130 2.0k
Marieke Rohde Germany 14 780 0.7× 174 0.3× 555 1.3× 77 0.5× 34 0.2× 25 1.2k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Chaz Firestone

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Chaz Firestone

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Chaz Firestone. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Chaz Firestone based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Chaz Firestone. Chaz Firestone is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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Hafri, Alon, et al.. (2025). “Core Perception”: Re-imagining Precocious Reasoning as Sophisticated Perceiving. Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 1–75.
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Firestone, Chaz, et al.. (2025). Number adaptation survives spatial displacement. Current Biology. 35(23). 5923–5929.e3.
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Firestone, Chaz, et al.. (2025). Event-based warping: A relative distortion of time within events.. Journal of Experimental Psychology General. 154(11). 2981–2989. 1 indexed citations
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Firestone, Chaz, et al.. (2025). Sensitivity to visual features in inattentional blindness. eLife. 13.
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Sun, Zekun, Chaz Firestone, & Alon Hafri. (2025). The psychophysics of compositionality: Relational scene perception occurs in a canonical order. Cognitive Psychology. 161. 101765–101765. 1 indexed citations
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Firestone, Chaz, et al.. (2025). The psychophysics of style. Nature Human Behaviour. 9(12). 2497–2509.
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Hafri, Alon, et al.. (2024). A Phone in a Basket Looks Like a Knife in a Cup: Role-Filler Independence in Visual Processing. Open Mind. 8. 766–794. 5 indexed citations
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Phillips, Ian, et al.. (2023). The perception of silence. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 120(29). e2301463120–e2301463120. 9 indexed citations
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Zhou, Zhenglong, et al.. (2023). When will AI misclassify? Intuiting failures on natural images. Journal of Vision. 23(4). 4–4. 2 indexed citations
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Firestone, Chaz & Ian Phillips. (2023). Seeing fast and thinking slow The Border Between Seeing and Thinking Ned Block Oxford University Press, 2023. 560 pp.. Science. 379(6638). 1196–1196. 1 indexed citations
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Firestone, Chaz, et al.. (2023). Visual guessing relies on metacognitive reasoning. Journal of Vision. 23(9). 5346–5346. 1 indexed citations
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Hafri, Alon, et al.. (2022). Melting Ice With Your Mind: Representational Momentum for Physical States. Psychological Science. 33(5). 725–735. 16 indexed citations
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Sun, Zekun & Chaz Firestone. (2021). Seeing and speaking: How verbal “description length” encodes visual complexity.. Journal of Experimental Psychology General. 151(1). 82–96. 7 indexed citations
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Yu, Qian, et al.. (2021). Hi-def memories of lo-def scenes. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review. 28(3). 928–936. 9 indexed citations
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Sun, Zekun & Chaz Firestone. (2020). The Dark Room Problem. Trends in Cognitive Sciences. 24(5). 346–348. 36 indexed citations
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Sun, Zekun & Chaz Firestone. (2020). Optimism and Pessimism in the Predictive Brain. Trends in Cognitive Sciences. 24(9). 683–685. 4 indexed citations
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Zhou, Zhenglong & Chaz Firestone. (2018). Taking a machine's perspective: Human deciphering of adversarial images.. arXiv (Cornell University). 1 indexed citations
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Firestone, Chaz & Brian J. Scholl. (2015). ‘Moral Perception’ Reflects Neither Morality Nor Perception. Trends in Cognitive Sciences. 20(2). 75–76. 13 indexed citations
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Firestone, Chaz & Brian J. Scholl. (2014). Enhanced visual awareness for morality and pajamas? Perception vs. memory in ‘top-down’ effects. Cognition. 136. 409–416. 33 indexed citations
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Firestone, Chaz & Benjamin Scholl. (2013). 'Top-down' effects where none should be found: The El Greco fallacy in perception research. Journal of Vision. 13(9). 780–780. 11 indexed citations

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