Donald D. Hoffman

5.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
78 papers, 3.5k citations indexed

About

Donald D. Hoffman is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition and Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. According to data from OpenAlex, Donald D. Hoffman has authored 78 papers receiving a total of 3.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 46 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 27 papers in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition and 13 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. Recurrent topics in Donald D. Hoffman's work include Visual perception and processing mechanisms (32 papers), Neural dynamics and brain function (15 papers) and Advanced Vision and Imaging (15 papers). Donald D. Hoffman is often cited by papers focused on Visual perception and processing mechanisms (32 papers), Neural dynamics and brain function (15 papers) and Advanced Vision and Imaging (15 papers). Donald D. Hoffman collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and Netherlands. Donald D. Hoffman's co-authors include W. A. Richards, Manish Singh, Chetan Prakash, Bruce M. Bennett, Bruce E. Flinchbaugh, Myron L. Braunstein, Whitman Richards, Asad Saidpour, Jan J. Koenderink and Carol M. Cicerone and has published in prestigious journals such as Trends in Cognitive Sciences, Psychological Science and Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Donald D. Hoffman

73 papers receiving 3.2k citations

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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.

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Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Donald D. Hoffman United States	29	1.9k	1.6k	382	368	356	78	3.5k
Manish Singh United States	26	2.1k 1.1×	1.0k 0.6×	512 1.3×	205 0.6×	455 1.3×	97	3.2k
Maureen Stone United States	36	742 0.4×	2.2k 1.4×	305 0.8×	237 0.6×	700 2.0×	152	4.8k
W. A. Richards United States	14	914 0.5×	773 0.5×	190 0.5×	202 0.5×	222 0.6×	21	1.8k
James H. Elder Canada	24	1.6k 0.8×	2.0k 1.3×	335 0.9×	78 0.2×	345 1.0×	94	4.2k
Ruth Rosenholtz United States	32	2.1k 1.1×	2.3k 1.5×	615 1.6×	66 0.2×	381 1.1×	93	4.5k
Daniel Kersten United States	36	3.7k 1.9×	895 0.6×	640 1.7×	99 0.3×	626 1.8×	129	4.5k
Wolfgang Stuerzlinger Canada	34	1.6k 0.8×	2.0k 1.3×	248 0.6×	144 0.4×	62 0.2×	229	4.5k
Alan Chalmers United Kingdom	27	528 0.3×	2.2k 1.4×	279 0.7×	162 0.4×	212 0.6×	255	3.4k
Roland W. Fleming Germany	29	2.1k 1.1×	1.4k 0.9×	603 1.6×	220 0.6×	429 1.2×	151	3.4k
Ennio Mingolla United States	34	3.9k 2.1×	1.2k 0.8×	639 1.7×	114 0.3×	290 0.8×	107	4.9k

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All Works

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Prentner, Robert & Donald D. Hoffman. (2024). Interfacing consciousness. Frontiers in Psychology. 15. 1429376–1429376.

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Prakash, Chetan, et al.. (2020). Fitness Beats Truth in the Evolution of Perception. Acta Biotheoretica. 69(3). 319–341. 28 indexed citations

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Fields, Chris, Donald D. Hoffman, Chetan Prakash, & Robert Prentner. (2017). Eigenforms, Interfaces and Holographic Encoding: Toward an Evolutionary Account of Objects and Spacetime. Constructivist Foundations. 12(3). 265–274. 9 indexed citations

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Hoffman, Donald D., Manish Singh, & Chetan Prakash. (2015). The Interface Theory of Perception. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review. 22(6). 1480–1506. 132 indexed citations

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Hoffman, Donald D. & Chetan Prakash. (2014). Objects of consciousness. Frontiers in Psychology. 5. 577–577. 54 indexed citations

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Hoffman, Donald D.. (2008). Conscious Realism and the Mind-Body Problem. 6(1). 19 indexed citations

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Pyles, John A., Javier O. Garcia, Donald D. Hoffman, & Emily D. Grossman. (2007). Visual perception and neural correlates of novel ‘biological motion’. Vision Research. 47(21). 2786–2797. 56 indexed citations

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Hoffman, Donald D.. (2006). Physics From Consciousness. 10 indexed citations

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Singh, Manish, et al.. (1999). Parsing silhouettes: The short-cut rule. Perception & Psychophysics. 61(4). 636–660. 135 indexed citations

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Singh, Manish & Donald D. Hoffman. (1999). Completing visual contours: The relationship between relatability and minimizing inflections. Perception & Psychophysics. 61(5). 943–951. 46 indexed citations

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Singh, Manish & Donald D. Hoffman. (1997). Constructing and representing visual objects. Trends in Cognitive Sciences. 1(3). 98–102. 15 indexed citations

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Cicerone, Carol M., et al.. (1995). The perception of color from motion. Perception & Psychophysics. 57(6). 761–777. 48 indexed citations

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Saidpour, Asad, Myron L. Braunstein, & Donald D. Hoffman. (1994). Interpolation across surface discontinuities in structure from motion Asad Satdpour. Perception & Psychophysics. 55(6). 611–622. 9 indexed citations

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Saidpour, Asad, Myron L. Braunstein, & Donald D. Hoffman. (1992). Interpolation in structure from motion. Perception & Psychophysics. 51(2). 105–117. 27 indexed citations

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Cicerone, Carol M. & Donald D. Hoffman. (1992). Dynamic neon colors: Perceptual evidence for parallel visual pathways. 315. FB19–FB19. 6 indexed citations

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Bennett, Bruce M., et al.. (1989). Structure from two orthographic views of rigid motion. Journal of the Optical Society of America A. 6(7). 1052–1052. 69 indexed citations

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Bennett, Brandon & Donald D. Hoffman. (1987). Shape decomposition for visual recognition: the role of transversality. Ablex Publishing Corp. eBooks. 215–256. 3 indexed citations

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Richards, Whitman & Donald D. Hoffman. (1985). Codon constraints on closed 2D shapes. Computer Vision Graphics and Image Processing. 31(3). 265–281. 100 indexed citations

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Hoffman, Donald D. & W. A. Richards. (1984). Parts of recognition (A). DSpace@MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology). 1. 1215. 48 indexed citations

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Hoffman, Donald D. & W. A. Richards. (1982). Representing smooth plane curves for recognition: implications for figure-ground reversal. National Conference on Artificial Intelligence. 5–8. 26 indexed citations

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