George A. Alvarez

13.9k total citations · 3 hit papers
141 papers, 9.1k citations indexed

About

George A. Alvarez is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, George A. Alvarez has authored 141 papers receiving a total of 9.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 113 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 31 papers in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition and 15 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. Recurrent topics in George A. Alvarez's work include Visual perception and processing mechanisms (74 papers), Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies (62 papers) and Neural dynamics and brain function (37 papers). George A. Alvarez is often cited by papers focused on Visual perception and processing mechanisms (74 papers), Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies (62 papers) and Neural dynamics and brain function (37 papers). George A. Alvarez collaborates with scholars based in United States, France and Netherlands. George A. Alvarez's co-authors include Timothy F. Brady, Patrick Cavanagh, Talia Konkle, Aude Oliva, Steven Franconeri, Daryl Fougnie, Viola S. Störmer, Jordan W. Suchow, Jeremy M. Wolfe and Todd S. Horowitz and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

George A. Alvarez

132 papers receiving 8.8k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

The Capacity of Visual Short-Term Memory is Set Both by Visual Information Load and by Number of Objects

2004 950 citations George A. Alvarez, Patrick Cavanagh profile →
Visual long-term memory has a massive storage capacity for object details

2008 725 citations Timothy F. Brady, Talia Konkle et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
Representing multiple objects as an ensemble enhances visual cognition

2011 429 citations George A. Alvarez profile →

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James T. Enns Canada

Yuhong Jiang United States

Kyle R. Cave United States

Gordon E. Legge United States

Ronald A. Rensink Canada

George Sperling United States

Patrick Cavanagh United States

Dennis M. Levi United States

Barbara Anne Dosher United States

Todd S. Horowitz United States

James T. Enns Canada

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Brady, Timothy F., Viola S. Störmer, & George A. Alvarez. (2016). Working memory is not fixed-capacity: More active storage capacity for real-world objects than for simple stimuli. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 113(27). 7459–7464. 159 indexed citations

Cohen, Michael B., Talia Konkle, Juliana Y. Rhee, Ken Nakayama, & George A. Alvarez. (2014). Processing multiple visual objects is limited by overlap in neural channels. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 111(24). 8955–8960. 70 indexed citations

Fougnie, Daryl, Timothy F. Brady, & George A. Alvarez. (2014). If at first you dont retrieve, try, try again: The role of retrieval failures in visual working memory. Journal of Vision. 14(10). 851–851. 1 indexed citations

Suchow, Jordan W. & George A. Alvarez. (2014). The more you try to remember, the faster you forget: load-dependent forgetting and mnemonic overreaching. Journal of Vision. 14(10). 388–388. 1 indexed citations

Fougnie, Daryl, Jordan W. Suchow, & George A. Alvarez. (2013). Gradual decay and death by natural causes in visual working memory.. Journal of Vision. 13(9). 19–19. 2 indexed citations

Störmer, Viola S., Patrick Cavanagh, & George A. Alvarez. (2013). The profile of multifocal attention: surround-suppression between and within hemifields. Journal of Vision. 13(9). 1283–1283. 1 indexed citations

Suchow, Jordan W., Benjamin Allen, Martin A. Nowak, & George A. Alvarez. (2013). Evolutionary dynamics of visual memory. Journal of Vision. 13(9). 20–20. 2 indexed citations

Herman, L., Jordan W. Suchow, & George A. Alvarez. (2013). Frequency-Based Synesthetic Associations between Letters and Colors. Journal of Vision. 13(9). 880–880. 2 indexed citations

Fougnie, Daryl, et al.. (2012). Object-based benefits without object-based representations.. Journal of Vision. 12(9). 300–300. 2 indexed citations

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Alvarez, George A., et al.. (2012). Estimating the quantity and quality of working memory representations with continuous report versus change detection. Journal of Vision. 12(9). 345–345. 1 indexed citations

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Brady, Timothy F. & George A. Alvarez. (2012). Structured representations in visual working memory: Using results from individual displays to constrain cognitive theory. Journal of Vision. 12(9). 711–711. 2 indexed citations

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Suchow, Jordan W. & George A. Alvarez. (2011). Which kinds of motion silence awareness of visual change?. Journal of Vision. 11(11). 734–734. 5 indexed citations

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Brady, Thomas J., Talia Konkle, George A. Alvarez, & Aude Oliva. (2011). Are real-world objects represented as bound units? Independent decay of object details from short-term to long-term memory. Journal of Vision. 11(11). 1289–1289. 1 indexed citations

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Thompson, T. W., John D. E. Gabrieli, & George A. Alvarez. (2010). Adaptive Training in Multiple Object Tracking Expands Attentional Capacity. Journal of Vision. 10(7). 308–308. 2 indexed citations

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Alvarez, George A., et al.. (2010). A Cost for Hemifield "Crossover" During Attentional Tracking. Journal of Vision. 10(7). 313–313. 1 indexed citations

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Suchow, Jordan W. & George A. Alvarez. (2010). Silent updating: cross-dimensional change suppression. Journal of Vision. 10(7). 299–299. 1 indexed citations

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Vul, Ed, George A. Alvarez, Joshua B. Tenenbaum, & Michael J. Black. (2009). Explaining human multiple object tracking as resource-constrained approximate inference in a dynamic probabilistic model. Digital Access to Scholarship at Harvard (DASH) (Harvard University). 22. 1955–1963. 72 indexed citations

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Brady, Timothy F., Talia Konkle, & George A. Alvarez. (2008). Efficient Coding in Visual Short-Term Memory: Evidence for an Information-Limited Capacity. eScholarship (California Digital Library). 30(30). 1 indexed citations

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Alvarez, George A. & Steven Franconeri. (2007). How many objects can you attentively track?: Evidence for a resource-limited tracking mechanism. Journal of Vision. 7(13). 26 indexed citations

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Alvarez, George A., et al.. (1980). Finger wrinkling after immersion in water.. BMJ. 281(6240). 586.2–587. 13 indexed citations

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