Howard E. Egeth

21.3k total citations · 3 hit papers
155 papers, 16.4k citations indexed

About

Howard E. Egeth is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and Social Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Howard E. Egeth has authored 155 papers receiving a total of 16.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 110 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 43 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and 21 papers in Social Psychology. Recurrent topics in Howard E. Egeth's work include Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies (86 papers), Visual perception and processing mechanisms (84 papers) and Multisensory perception and integration (25 papers). Howard E. Egeth is often cited by papers focused on Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies (86 papers), Visual perception and processing mechanisms (84 papers) and Multisensory perception and integration (25 papers). Howard E. Egeth collaborates with scholars based in United States, Israel and Netherlands. Howard E. Egeth's co-authors include Daniel Kahneman, Steven Yantis, William F. Bacon, Andrew B. Leber, Robert A. Virzi, Dominique Lamy, Jeffrey L. Santee, Cathleen M. Moore, Charles L. Folk and Donald A. Norman and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Psychological Bulletin and Journal of the American Statistical Association.

In The Last Decade

Howard E. Egeth

145 papers receiving 15.2k 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.

Attention and Effort

1975 5.5k citations Howard E. Egeth, Daniel Kahneman The American Journal of Psychology profile →
VISUAL ATTENTION: Control, Representation, and Time Course

1997 923 citations Howard E. Egeth et al. profile →
Overriding stimulus-driven attentional capture

1994 912 citations Howard E. Egeth et al. Perception & Psychophysics profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Howard E. Egeth United States	57	12.0k	4.2k	2.7k	1.5k	1.4k	155	16.4k
Daniel J. Simons United States	73	14.2k 1.2×	3.9k 0.9×	3.0k 1.1×	2.3k 1.5×	1.7k 1.2×	230	21.6k
Steven Yantis United States	73	16.6k 1.4×	4.1k 1.0×	2.2k 0.8×	819 0.5×	2.0k 1.4×	132	19.1k
Nilli Lavie United Kingdom	59	13.1k 1.1×	4.2k 1.0×	2.2k 0.8×	904 0.6×	723 0.5×	130	15.4k
Geraint Rees United Kingdom	87	21.6k 1.8×	4.8k 1.1×	3.2k 1.1×	1.3k 0.9×	693 0.5×	367	28.2k
Zenon W. Pylyshyn United States	43	8.4k 0.7×	4.2k 1.0×	2.5k 0.9×	2.5k 1.6×	1.1k 0.8×	120	14.3k
Charles W. Eriksen United States	51	14.9k 1.2×	5.1k 1.2×	3.1k 1.1×	2.6k 1.7×	773 0.5×	148	19.0k
Geoffrey R. Loftus United States	40	6.0k 0.5×	2.1k 0.5×	1.6k 0.6×	1.7k 1.1×	875 0.6×	118	8.8k
Harold Pashler United States	72	14.6k 1.2×	5.5k 1.3×	3.6k 1.3×	4.9k 3.2×	1.1k 0.7×	185	23.2k
Steven P. Tipper United Kingdom	59	11.3k 0.9×	3.5k 0.8×	3.2k 1.2×	2.2k 1.4×	515 0.4×	178	13.3k
Glyn W. Humphreys United Kingdom	81	24.6k 2.1×	6.7k 1.6×	5.6k 2.0×	5.5k 3.6×	2.1k 1.5×	656	29.4k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Firestone, Chaz, et al.. (2025). Sensitivity to visual features in inattentional blindness. eLife. 13.

Stilwell, Brad T., Howard E. Egeth, & Nicholas Gaspelin. (2024). Evidence against the low-salience account of attentional suppression.. Journal of Experimental Psychology Human Perception & Performance. 50(10). 1033–1047. 6 indexed citations

Gaspelin, Nicholas, Dominique Lamy, Howard E. Egeth, et al.. (2023). The Distractor Positivity Component and the Inhibition of Distracting Stimuli. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. 35(11). 1693–1715. 36 indexed citations

Stilwell, Brad T., et al.. (2023). The role of salience in the suppression of distracting stimuli. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review. 30(6). 2262–2271. 15 indexed citations

Qin, Michael K., et al.. (2019). Unique objects attract attention even when faint. Vision Research. 160. 60–71. 12 indexed citations

Cunningham, Corbin A. & Howard E. Egeth. (2017). The capture of attention by entirely irrelevant pictures of calorie-dense foods. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review. 25(2). 586–595. 29 indexed citations

Cunningham, Corbin A. & Howard E. Egeth. (2016). Taming the White Bear. Psychological Science. 27(4). 476–485. 108 indexed citations

Egeth, Howard E., et al.. (2015). When does feature search fail to protect against attentional capture?. Visual Cognition. 23(9-10). 1098–1123. 27 indexed citations

Lamy, Dominique, Yoav Bar‐Anan, & Howard E. Egeth. (2008). The role of within-dimension singleton priming in visual search.. Journal of Experimental Psychology Human Perception & Performance. 34(2). 268–285. 21 indexed citations

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Egeth, Howard E., et al.. (1997). Beyond similarity: Masking of the target is sufficient to cause the attentional blink. Perception & Psychophysics. 59(2). 266–274. 65 indexed citations

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Mordkoff, J. Toby & Howard E. Egeth. (1993). Response time and accuracy revisited: Converging support for the interactive race model.. Journal of Experimental Psychology Human Perception & Performance. 19(5). 981–991. 38 indexed citations

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Pang, Kevin, Megan Williams, Howard E. Egeth, & David S. Olton. (1993). Nucleus basalis magnocellularis and attention: Effects of muscimol infusions.. Behavioral Neuroscience. 107(6). 1031–1038. 55 indexed citations

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Dagenbach, Dale, et al.. (1991). Further evidence for a time-independent shift of the focus of attention. Perception & Psychophysics. 49(5). 473–480. 120 indexed citations

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Egeth, Howard E., et al.. (1989). Capacity limitations in visual word processing.. Journal of Experimental Psychology Human Perception & Performance. 15(1). 111–123. 11 indexed citations

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Egeth, Howard E., et al.. (1988). Redundant-target detection and processing capacity: The problem of positional preferences. Perception & Psychophysics. 43(6). 607–610. 26 indexed citations

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Santee, Jeffrey L. & Howard E. Egeth. (1980). Selective attention in the speeded classification and comparison of multidimensional stimuli. Perception & Psychophysics. 28(3). 191–204. 31 indexed citations

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Egeth, Howard E. & Daniel Kahneman. (1975). Attention and Effort. The American Journal of Psychology. 88(2). 339–339. 5530 indexed citations breakdown →

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Atkinson, Janette & Howard E. Egeth. (1973). Right hemisphere superiority in visual orientation matching.. Canadian Journal of Psychology/Revue Canadienne de Psychologie. 27(2). 152–158. 49 indexed citations

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Egeth, Howard E. & Edward E. Smith. (1967). On the nature of errors in a choice reaction task. Psychonomic Science. 8(8). 345–346. 33 indexed citations

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Smith, Edward E. & Howard E. Egeth. (1966). Effects of association value on perceptual search.. Journal of Experimental Psychology. 71(5). 687–690. 7 indexed citations

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