Harold Pashler

33.7k total citations · 10 hit papers
185 papers, 23.2k citations indexed

About

Harold Pashler is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and Developmental and Educational Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Harold Pashler has authored 185 papers receiving a total of 23.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 122 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 48 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and 30 papers in Developmental and Educational Psychology. Recurrent topics in Harold Pashler's work include Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies (70 papers), Visual perception and processing mechanisms (45 papers) and Memory Processes and Influences (31 papers). Harold Pashler is often cited by papers focused on Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies (70 papers), Visual perception and processing mechanisms (45 papers) and Memory Processes and Influences (31 papers). Harold Pashler collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and Dominican Republic. Harold Pashler's co-authors include Doug Rohrer, Edward Vul, Christine R. Harris, James C. Johnston, Nicholas J. Cepeda, John T. Wixted, Eric‐Jan Wagenmakers, Ling-Po Shiu, Liqiang Huang and L. Mark Carrier and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Psychological Bulletin and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Harold Pashler

183 papers receiving 21.8k citations

Hit Papers

Dual-task interference in simple tasks: Data and theory. 1988 2026 2000 2013 1994 2008 2006 1997 2009 500 1000 1.5k 2.0k
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.

  1. Dual-task interference in simple tasks: Data and theory.
    1994 2.3k citations Harold Pashler profile →
  2. Learning Styles
    2008 1.2k citations Harold Pashler et al. profile →
  3. Distributed practice in verbal recall tasks: A review and quantitative synthesis.
    2006 1.2k citations Harold Pashler, Edward Vul et al. profile →
  4. The Psychology of Attention
    1997 1.1k citations Harold Pashler profile →
  5. Puzzlingly High Correlations in fMRI Studies of Emotion, Personality, and Social Cognition
    2009 1.0k citations Edward Vul, Christine R. Harris et al. Perspectives on Psychological Science profile →
  6. Editors’ Introduction to the Special Section on Replicability in Psychological Science
    2012 913 citations Harold Pashler et al. Perspectives on Psychological Science profile →
  7. Familiarity and visual change detection
    1988 776 citations Harold Pashler profile →
  8. Attention and Performance
    2001 659 citations Harold Pashler et al. profile →
  9. How persuasive is a good fit? A comment on theory testing.
    2000 547 citations Harold Pashler et al. profile →
  10. Is the Replicability Crisis Overblown? Three Arguments Examined
    2012 447 citations Harold Pashler, Christine R. Harris Perspectives on Psychological Science profile →

Peers

Harold Pashler
Richard M. Shiffrin United States
Nelson Cowan United States
Marcel Adam Just United States
Patricia A. Carpenter United States
Edward E. Smith United States
Robert A. Bjork United States
Roger Ratcliff United States
Eleanor Rosch United States
Marcia K. Johnson United States
John Jonides United States
Richard M. Shiffrin United States
Harold Pashler
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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Harold Pashler

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

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Mozer, Michael C., et al.. (2018). Textbook annotations as an early predictor of student learning.. Educational Data Mining. 1 indexed citations
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Mozer, Michael C., et al.. (2018). Can Textbook Annotations Serve as an Early Predictor of Student Learning. Educational Data Mining. 5 indexed citations
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Pashler, Harold, et al.. (2015). Fragile associations coexist with robust memories for precise details in long-term memory.. Journal of Experimental Psychology Learning Memory and Cognition. 42(3). 379–393. 11 indexed citations
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Pashler, Harold. (2013). Encyclopedia of the mind. Sage eBooks. 9 indexed citations
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Lindsey, Robert, Michael C. Mozer, William J. Huggins, & Harold Pashler. (2013). Optimizing Instructional Policies. Neural Information Processing Systems. 26. 2778–2786. 19 indexed citations
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Kang, Sean H. K., Tamar H. Gollan, & Harold Pashler. (2013). Don’t just repeat after me: Retrieval practice is better than imitation for foreign vocabulary learning. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review. 20(6). 1259–1265. 43 indexed citations
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Kamienkowski, Juan E., Harold Pashler, Stanislas Dehaene, & Mariano Sigman. (2011). Effects of practice on task architecture: Combined evidence from interference experiments and random-walk models of decision making. Cognition. 119(1). 81–95. 41 indexed citations
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Pashler, Harold, et al.. (2010). Improving Human Judgments by Decontaminating Sequential Dependencies. Neural Information Processing Systems. 23. 1705–1713. 5 indexed citations
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Lindsey, Robert, et al.. (2010). Predicting Students' Retention of Facts from Feedback during Study. eScholarship (California Digital Library). 32(32). 1 indexed citations
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Vul, Edward, Christine R. Harris, Piotr Winkielman, & Harold Pashler. (2009). Puzzlingly High Correlations in fMRI Studies of Emotion, Personality, and Social Cognition. Perspectives on Psychological Science. 4(3). 274–290. 1038 indexed citations breakdown →
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Harris, Christine R., et al.. (2009). Puzzlingly high correlations in fMRI studies of emotion, personality, and social.
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Carpenter, Shana K., Harold Pashler, John T. Wixted, & Edward Vul. (2008). The effects of tests on learning and forgetting. Memory & Cognition. 36(2). 438–448. 206 indexed citations
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Becker, Mark W., Harold Pashler, & Jeffrey Lubin. (2007). Object-intrinsic oddities draw early saccades.. Journal of Experimental Psychology Human Perception & Performance. 33(1). 20–30. 65 indexed citations
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Pashler, Harold, V. S. Ramachandran, & Mark W. Becker. (2006). Attending to a misoriented word causes the eyeball to rotate in the head. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review. 13(6). 954–957. 7 indexed citations
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Carpenter, Shana K., Harold Pashler, & Edward Vul. (2006). What types of learning are enhanced by a cued recall test?. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review. 13(5). 826–830. 141 indexed citations
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Huang, Liqiang & Harold Pashler. (2005). Quantifying object salience by equating distractor effects. Vision Research. 45(14). 1909–1920. 19 indexed citations
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Pashler, Harold, Karen R. Dobkins, & Liqiang Huang. (2004). Is contrast just another feature for visual selective attention?. Vision Research. 44(12). 1403–1410. 19 indexed citations
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Dell’Acqua, Roberto, Harold Pashler, & Franca Stablum. (2003). Multitasking costs in close-head injury patients. Experimental Brain Research. 152(1). 29–41. 8 indexed citations
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Awh, Edward & Harold Pashler. (2000). Evidence for split attentional foci.. Journal of Experimental Psychology Human Perception & Performance. 26(2). 834–846. 237 indexed citations
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Pashler, Harold & Ling-Po Shiu. (1999). Do images involuntarily trigger search? A test of Pillsbury’s hypothesis. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review. 6(3). 445–448. 75 indexed citations

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