Fred Attneave

12.3k total citations · 2 hit papers
31 papers, 4.9k citations indexed

About

Fred Attneave is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Automotive Engineering and Social Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Fred Attneave has authored 31 papers receiving a total of 4.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 15 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 5 papers in Automotive Engineering and 5 papers in Social Psychology. Recurrent topics in Fred Attneave's work include Visual perception and processing mechanisms (13 papers), Spatial Cognition and Navigation (5 papers) and Color perception and design (5 papers). Fred Attneave is often cited by papers focused on Visual perception and processing mechanisms (13 papers), Spatial Cognition and Navigation (5 papers) and Color perception and design (5 papers). Fred Attneave collaborates with scholars based in United States. Fred Attneave's co-authors include Malcolm D. Arnoult, Richard K. Olson, Julian Hochberg, Robert Frost, Gene D. Block and Paul Farrar and has published in prestigious journals such as Psychological Bulletin, Psychological Review and American Psychologist.

In The Last Decade

Fred Attneave

29 papers receiving 4.3k 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.

Some informational aspects of visual perception.

1954 2.0k citations Fred Attneave profile →
The quantitative study of shape and pattern perception.

1956 511 citations Fred Attneave, Malcolm D. Arnoult Psychological Bulletin profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Fred Attneave United States	22	3.1k	1.1k	914	764	453	31	4.9k
Lloyd Kaufman United States	36	6.0k 1.9×	642 0.6×	1.3k 1.4×	1.3k 1.7×	329 0.7×	91	8.3k
Ralph Norman Haber United States	35	2.7k 0.9×	514 0.5×	1.8k 1.9×	869 1.1×	369 0.8×	107	5.1k
Irvin Rock United States	45	6.2k 2.0×	1.2k 1.1×	2.1k 2.3×	1.5k 2.0×	818 1.8×	107	8.5k
Michael Kubovy United States	32	3.4k 1.1×	699 0.6×	1.5k 1.6×	910 1.2×	245 0.5×	92	4.8k
James E. Cutting United States	43	4.1k 1.3×	1.7k 1.6×	1.5k 1.7×	1.9k 2.5×	439 1.0×	149	7.2k
Kenneth R. Boff United States	13	2.8k 0.9×	443 0.4×	1.1k 1.2×	1.2k 1.6×	229 0.5×	35	4.5k
Charles K. West United States	12	2.6k 0.8×	413 0.4×	1.3k 1.4×	1.3k 1.7×	255 0.6×	43	5.3k
W. R. Garner United States	36	4.4k 1.4×	523 0.5×	2.9k 3.1×	1.7k 2.2×	335 0.7×	89	8.2k
James R. Pomerantz United States	22	2.9k 0.9×	467 0.4×	1.4k 1.5×	759 1.0×	305 0.7×	53	4.1k
Jo Ingleby United Kingdom	7	4.1k 1.3×	361 0.3×	1.2k 1.4×	1.0k 1.3×	58 0.1×	15	7.1k

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Attneave, Fred. (2007). Earl B. Hunt. Concept learning: An information processing problem. New York: John Wiley and Co., 1962. Systems Research and Behavioral Science. 8(4). 346–346.

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Attneave, Fred, et al.. (1983). Locational representation in imagery: A moving spot task.. Journal of Experimental Psychology Human Perception & Performance. 9(1). 20–30. 25 indexed citations

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Attneave, Fred, et al.. (1983). Locational representation in imagery: A moving spot task.. Journal of Experimental Psychology Human Perception & Performance. 9(1). 20–30. 21 indexed citations

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Attneave, Fred. (1974). APPARENT MOVEMENT AND THE WHAT-WHERE CONNECTION. PSYCHOLOGIA. 17(2). 108–120. 40 indexed citations

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Attneave, Fred & Gene D. Block. (1974). Absence of masking in the path of apparent movement. Perception & Psychophysics. 16(2). 205–207. 5 indexed citations

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Attneave, Fred. (1974). How do you know?. American Psychologist. 29(7). 493–499. 91 indexed citations

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Attneave, Fred & Gene D. Block. (1973). Apparent movement in tridimensional space. Perception & Psychophysics. 13(2). 301–307. 63 indexed citations

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Attneave, Fred & Richard K. Olson. (1971). Pitch as a Medium: A New Approach to Psychophysical Scaling. The American Journal of Psychology. 84(2). 147–147. 228 indexed citations

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Olson, Richard K. & Fred Attneave. (1970). What Variables Produce Similarity Grouping?. The American Journal of Psychology. 83(1). 1–1. 149 indexed citations

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Attneave, Fred, et al.. (1969). Spatial coding of tactual stimulation.. Journal of Experimental Psychology. 81(2). 216–222. 38 indexed citations

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Attneave, Fred & Robert Frost. (1969). The determination of perceived tridimensional orientation by minimum criteria. Perception & Psychophysics. 6(6). 391–396. 111 indexed citations

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Attneave, Fred. (1968). Triangles as Ambiguous Figures. The American Journal of Psychology. 81(3). 447–447. 114 indexed citations

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Attneave, Fred & Richard K. Olson. (1967). Discriminability of stimuli varying in physical and retinal orientation.. Journal of Experimental Psychology. 74(2, Pt.1). 149–157. 100 indexed citations

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Attneave, Fred. (1966). Power of Negative Thinking. Contemporary Psychology. 11(1). 35–36.

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Hochberg, Julian & Fred Attneave. (1961). Applications of Information Theory to Psychology: A Summary of Basic Concepts, Methods, and Results. The American Journal of Psychology. 74(2). 319–319. 238 indexed citations

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Attneave, Fred. (1957). Transfer of experience with a class-schema to identification-learning of patterns and shapes.. Journal of Experimental Psychology. 54(2). 81–88. 90 indexed citations

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Attneave, Fred. (1957). Physical determinants of the judged complexity of shapes.. Journal of Experimental Psychology. 53(4). 221–227. 272 indexed citations

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Attneave, Fred, et al.. (1957). An improved method for deriving equal-discriminability scales from ratings.. Psychological Bulletin. 54(3). 253–255. 4 indexed citations

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Attneave, Fred & Malcolm D. Arnoult. (1956). The quantitative study of shape and pattern perception.. Psychological Bulletin. 53(6). 452–471. 511 indexed citations breakdown →

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Attneave, Fred. (1953). Psychological probability as a function of experienced frequency.. Journal of Experimental Psychology. 46(2). 81–86. 138 indexed citations

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