Evan F. Risko

7.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
138 papers, 5.2k citations indexed

About

Evan F. Risko is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and Developmental and Educational Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Evan F. Risko has authored 138 papers receiving a total of 5.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 100 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 41 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and 29 papers in Developmental and Educational Psychology. Recurrent topics in Evan F. Risko's work include Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies (53 papers), Mind wandering and attention (29 papers) and Memory Processes and Influences (21 papers). Evan F. Risko is often cited by papers focused on Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies (53 papers), Mind wandering and attention (29 papers) and Memory Processes and Influences (21 papers). Evan F. Risko collaborates with scholars based in Canada, United States and United Kingdom. Evan F. Risko's co-authors include Alan Kingstone, Daniel Smilek, Paul Seli, Sam J. Gilbert, Timothy L. Dunn, Jonathan A. Fugelsang, Erin A. Maloney, Nicola Anderson, Derek Besner and Daniel L. Schacter and has published in prestigious journals such as PLoS ONE, Psychological Review and Trends in Cognitive Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Evan F. Risko

134 papers receiving 5.1k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Cognitive Offloading

2016 416 citations Evan F. Risko, Sam J. Gilbert Trends in Cognitive Sciences profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Evan F. Risko Canada	39	3.2k	2.0k	964	839	644	138	5.2k
Peter A. Frensch Germany	39	2.5k 0.8×	1.2k 0.6×	1.7k 1.8×	1.0k 1.2×	701 1.1×	114	5.5k
Edward Vul United States	29	3.7k 1.2×	1.4k 0.7×	1.5k 1.6×	760 0.9×	520 0.8×	74	6.4k
Laura Germine United States	33	2.7k 0.9×	1.6k 0.8×	629 0.7×	782 0.9×	385 0.6×	104	5.0k
Natasha Z. Kirkham United Kingdom	29	2.3k 0.7×	1.3k 0.7×	2.6k 2.7×	764 0.9×	455 0.7×	61	4.9k
Scott P. Johnson United States	46	3.5k 1.1×	1.4k 0.7×	3.5k 3.6×	918 1.1×	635 1.0×	191	7.0k
Alan D. Castel United States	38	4.6k 1.4×	2.2k 1.1×	1.8k 1.9×	701 0.8×	412 0.6×	159	6.2k
Vinod Goel Canada	29	2.8k 0.9×	1.4k 0.7×	850 0.9×	934 1.1×	204 0.3×	64	4.9k
María Kozhevnikov United States	26	943 0.3×	1.4k 0.7×	1.0k 1.0×	627 0.7×	694 1.1×	69	4.2k
Thomas H. Carr United States	36	4.4k 1.4×	1.8k 0.9×	2.9k 3.1×	1.3k 1.5×	394 0.6×	79	7.3k
John Sloboda United Kingdom	42	4.7k 1.5×	1.6k 0.8×	1.0k 1.1×	1.9k 2.2×	722 1.1×	119	7.1k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Evan F. Risko

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All Works

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Risko, Evan F., et al.. (2025). Boredom signals deviation from a cognitive homeostatic set point. Communications Psychology. 3(1). 22–22.

Risko, Evan F., et al.. (2025). Does expecting external memory support cost recognition memory?. Memory & Cognition. 53(6). 1865–1887. 1 indexed citations

Risko, Evan F., et al.. (2024). Semantic partitioning facilitates memory for object location through category-partition cueing. Memory. 32(3). 339–357.

MacLeod, Colin M., et al.. (2024). Productions Need Not Match Study Items to Confer a Production Advantage, But It Helps. Experimental Psychology (formerly Zeitschrift für Experimentelle Psychologie). 71(1). 2–13. 1 indexed citations

Risko, Evan F., et al.. (2021). The gist of it: offloading memory does not reduce the benefit of list categorisation. Memory. 30(4). 396–411. 10 indexed citations

Mandel, David R., et al.. (2020). Effect of confidence interval construction on judgment accuracy. Judgment and Decision Making. 15(5). 783–797. 6 indexed citations

Chisholm, Joseph D., et al.. (2020). Cognitive load but not immersion plays a significant role in embodied cognition as seen through the spontaneous act of leaning. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology. 73(11). 2000–2007. 2 indexed citations

Hutt, Stephen, et al.. (2017). Gaze-based Detection of Mind Wandering during Lecture Viewing.. Educational Data Mining. 28 indexed citations

Risko, Evan F., et al.. (2016). The semantic Stroop effect: An ex-Gaussian analysis. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review. 23(5). 1576–1581. 16 indexed citations

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Risko, Evan F. & Sam J. Gilbert. (2016). Cognitive Offloading. Trends in Cognitive Sciences. 20(9). 676–688. 416 indexed citations breakdown →

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Shi, Feng, et al.. (2015). Breaking off Engagement: Readers' Disengagement as a Function of Reader and Text Characteristics.. Educational Data Mining.

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Farley, James, Evan F. Risko, & Alan Kingstone. (2013). Everyday attention and lecture retention: the effects of time, fidgeting, and mind wandering. Frontiers in Psychology. 4. 619–619. 121 indexed citations

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Risko, Evan F., et al.. (2013). Measuring the separate effects of practice and fatigue on eye movements during visual search. Cognitive Science. 35(35). 2 indexed citations

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Dawson, Shane, Leah P. Macfadyen, Evan F. Risko, Tom Foulsham, & Alan Kingstone. (2012). Using technology to encourage self-directed learning. ASCILITE Publications. 246–255. 7 indexed citations

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Risko, Evan F., et al.. (2011). Don't look! Orienting to the eyes is not (entirely) under volitional control. Journal of Vision. 11(11). 620–620. 1 indexed citations

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Anderson, Nicola, Evan F. Risko, & Alan Kingstone. (2011). Exploiting human sensitivity to gaze for tracking the eyes. Behavior Research Methods. 43(3). 843–852. 12 indexed citations

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Chisholm, Joseph D., Evan F. Risko, & Alan Kingstone. (2010). Embodying attentional states: The role of posture in task performance. eScholarship (California Digital Library). 32(32). 1 indexed citations

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Risko, Evan F. & Alan Kingstone. (2010). Eyes wide shut: implied social presence, eye tracking and attention. Attention Perception & Psychophysics. 73(2). 291–296. 122 indexed citations

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Besner, Derek, et al.. (2005). Spatial Attention as a Necessary Preliminary to Early Processes in Reading.. Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology/Revue canadienne de psychologie expérimentale. 59(2). 99–108. 46 indexed citations

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Risko, Evan F., Mike J. Dixon, Derek Besner, & Susanne Ferber. (2005). The ties that keep us bound: Top-down influences on the persistence of shape-from-motion. Consciousness and Cognition. 15(2). 475–483. 6 indexed citations

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