Derek Besner

1.0k total citations
19 papers, 698 citations indexed

About

Derek Besner is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Developmental and Educational Psychology and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Derek Besner has authored 19 papers receiving a total of 698 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 16 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 9 papers in Developmental and Educational Psychology and 5 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. Recurrent topics in Derek Besner's work include Reading and Literacy Development (8 papers), Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies (8 papers) and Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism (7 papers). Derek Besner is often cited by papers focused on Reading and Literacy Development (8 papers), Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies (8 papers) and Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism (7 papers). Derek Besner collaborates with scholars based in Canada, Australia and United Kingdom. Derek Besner's co-authors include James R. Schmidt, Karalyn Patterson, Daniel Smilek, David R. Thomson, Max Coltheart, Chris Blais, Laurie Manwell, Troy A. W. Visser, Matthew S. Brown and Michael Reynolds and has published in prestigious journals such as Psychological Review, Psychological Science and Journal of Experimental Psychology Human Perception & Performance.

In The Last Decade

Derek Besner

19 papers receiving 663 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Derek Besner Canada 12 571 220 206 100 89 19 698
Dino Chincotta United Kingdom 11 474 0.8× 304 1.4× 222 1.1× 83 0.8× 26 0.3× 14 667
Douglas G. Lowe Canada 8 529 0.9× 175 0.8× 231 1.1× 52 0.5× 47 0.5× 10 607
Mathieu Servant France 15 568 1.0× 77 0.3× 102 0.5× 102 1.0× 95 1.1× 26 706
E. C. Dalrymple‐Alford Lebanon 11 528 0.9× 230 1.0× 316 1.5× 87 0.9× 42 0.5× 29 712
Jeff Moher United States 14 697 1.2× 111 0.5× 147 0.7× 143 1.4× 54 0.6× 29 794
Robert Gaschler Germany 13 417 0.7× 120 0.5× 103 0.5× 123 1.2× 59 0.7× 36 545
Ferenc Honbolygó Hungary 14 426 0.7× 239 1.1× 235 1.1× 30 0.3× 29 0.3× 57 573
Margrit Glaser Germany 4 1.0k 1.8× 513 2.3× 535 2.6× 159 1.6× 50 0.6× 5 1.3k
Cynthia L. Dulaney United States 11 322 0.6× 108 0.5× 160 0.8× 51 0.5× 20 0.2× 19 443
Brett DeSchepper United States 5 547 1.0× 146 0.7× 192 0.9× 44 0.4× 20 0.2× 6 648

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Fields of papers citing papers by Derek Besner

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Derek Besner

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Derek Besner. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Derek Besner 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 Derek Besner. Derek Besner is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

19 of 19 papers shown
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Reynolds, Michael, et al.. (2020). Does Posture Influence the Stroop Effect?. Psychological Science. 31(11). 1452–1460. 16 indexed citations
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Besner, Derek, Evan F. Risko, Jennifer A. Stolz, et al.. (2016). Varieties of Attention. Current Directions in Psychological Science. 25(3). 162–168. 23 indexed citations
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Thomson, David R., Derek Besner, & Daniel Smilek. (2015). A critical examination of the evidence for sensitivity loss in modern vigilance tasks.. Psychological Review. 123(1). 70–83. 68 indexed citations
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Thomson, David R., Daniel Smilek, & Derek Besner. (2015). Reducing the vigilance decrement: The effects of perceptual variability. Consciousness and Cognition. 33. 386–397. 21 indexed citations
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Schmidt, James R., Jim Cheesman, & Derek Besner. (2012). You can’t Stroop a lexical decision: Is semantic processing fundamentally facilitative?. Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology/Revue canadienne de psychologie expérimentale. 67(2). 130–139. 8 indexed citations
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Schmidt, James R. & Derek Besner. (2008). The Stroop effect: Why proportion congruent has nothing to do with congruency and everything to do with contingency.. Journal of Experimental Psychology Learning Memory and Cognition. 34(3). 514–523. 247 indexed citations
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Blais, Chris & Derek Besner. (2006). Reverse stroop effects with untranslated responses.. Journal of Experimental Psychology Human Perception & Performance. 32(6). 1345–1353. 35 indexed citations
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Manwell, Laurie, et al.. (2004). Single letter coloring and spatial cuing eliminates a semantic contribution to the Stroop effect. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review. 11(3). 458–462. 39 indexed citations
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Brown, Matthew S., et al.. (2001). Semantic processing in visual word recognition: Activation blocking and domain specificity. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review. 8(4). 778–784. 19 indexed citations
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Besner, Derek. (2001). The myth of ballistic processing: Evidence from Stroop’s paradigm. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review. 8(2). 324–330. 68 indexed citations
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Visser, Troy A. W. & Derek Besner. (2001). On the dominance of whole-word knowledge in reading aloud. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review. 8(3). 560–567. 21 indexed citations
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Smith, Marilyn C., Nachshon Meiran, & Derek Besner. (1996). When is a direct test of memory more sensitive than an indirect test?. Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology/Revue canadienne de psychologie expérimentale. 50(1). 139–148. 3 indexed citations
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Joordens, Steve & Derek Besner. (1994). When banking on meaning is not (yet) money in the bank: Explorations in connectionist modeling.. Journal of Experimental Psychology Learning Memory and Cognition. 20(5). 1051–1062. 1 indexed citations
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Besner, Derek & M. P. Bryden. (1988). Rolling the dice: A comment on Klein and McInnes “visual field differences in the processing of numerical stimuli”. Brain and Cognition. 7(3). 381–387. 2 indexed citations
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Patterson, Karalyn & Derek Besner. (1984). Is the right hemisphere literate?. Cognitive Neuropsychology. 1(4). 315–341. 63 indexed citations
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Patterson, Karalyn & Derek Besner. (1984). Reading from the left: A reply to Rabinowicz and Moscovitch and to Zaidel and Schweiger. Cognitive Neuropsychology. 1(4). 365–380. 6 indexed citations
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Besner, Derek. (1983). Deep dyslexia and the right hemisphere hypothesis: Evidence from the U.S.A. and the U.S.S.R.. Canadian Journal of Psychology/Revue Canadienne de Psychologie. 37(4). 565–571. 10 indexed citations
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Besner, Derek. (1981). Deep dyslexia and the right-hemisphere hypothesis: What’s left?. Bulletin of the Psychonomic Society. 18(4). 176–178. 5 indexed citations
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Besner, Derek & Max Coltheart. (1976). Mental size scaling examined. Memory & Cognition. 4(5). 525–531. 43 indexed citations

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