Irving Biederman

21.4k total citations · 4 hit papers
182 papers, 14.9k citations indexed

About

Irving Biederman is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Irving Biederman has authored 182 papers receiving a total of 14.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 116 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 45 papers in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition and 24 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. Recurrent topics in Irving Biederman's work include Face Recognition and Perception (80 papers), Visual perception and processing mechanisms (68 papers) and Neural dynamics and brain function (23 papers). Irving Biederman is often cited by papers focused on Face Recognition and Perception (80 papers), Visual perception and processing mechanisms (68 papers) and Neural dynamics and brain function (23 papers). Irving Biederman collaborates with scholars based in United States, Belgium and United Kingdom. Irving Biederman's co-authors include Eric E. Cooper, Peter Gerhardstein, John E. Hummel, Jan C. Rabinowitz, Edward A. Vessel, Moshe Bar, Amos Spector, Richard A. Monty, Dennis F. Fisher and John W. Senders and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Journal of Neuroscience.

In The Last Decade

Irving Biederman

176 papers receiving 13.8k 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.

Recognition-by-components: A theory of human image understanding.

1987 3.7k citations Irving Biederman profile →
Scene perception: Detecting and judging objects undergoing relational violations

1982 772 citations Irving Biederman et al. profile →
Dynamic binding in a neural network for shape recognition.

1992 642 citations Irving Biederman et al. profile →
Eye Movements: Cognition and Visual Perception

1982 591 citations Irving Biederman et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Irving Biederman United States	49	10.2k	4.5k	3.3k	2.0k	1.8k	182	14.9k
Michael J. Tarr United States	51	9.1k 0.9×	3.1k 0.7×	3.2k 1.0×	1.3k 0.6×	1.3k 0.7×	140	11.6k
Jeremy M. Wolfe United States	71	16.5k 1.6×	5.6k 1.2×	4.2k 1.2×	3.0k 1.5×	951 0.5×	369	22.1k
Johan Wagemans Belgium	57	9.7k 0.9×	1.6k 0.4×	2.6k 0.8×	2.3k 1.1×	1.9k 1.1×	557	13.0k
George Sperling United States	48	10.5k 1.0×	2.0k 0.4×	2.8k 0.8×	1.4k 0.7×	796 0.4×	153	12.5k
John M. Henderson United States	64	10.5k 1.0×	5.8k 1.3×	2.7k 0.8×	1.2k 0.6×	1.9k 1.1×	264	15.1k
Anne Treisman United States	66	25.7k 2.5×	5.6k 1.2×	8.2k 2.4×	4.5k 2.2×	2.6k 1.5×	116	31.9k
Shimon Ullman Israel	45	7.4k 0.7×	8.0k 1.8×	1.2k 0.3×	788 0.4×	509 0.3×	144	14.7k
HH Bülthoff Germany	75	12.3k 1.2×	5.9k 1.3×	4.1k 1.2×	3.9k 1.9×	1.1k 0.6×	731	21.9k
Dana H. Ballard United States	43	7.2k 0.7×	9.1k 2.0×	1.3k 0.4×	1.3k 0.7×	847 0.5×	149	19.1k
Garry A. Gelade United Kingdom	17	6.3k 0.6×	2.4k 0.5×	2.0k 0.6×	1.4k 0.7×	534 0.3×	32	9.7k

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Peissig, Jessie J., Michael E. Young, Edward A. Wasserman, & Irving Biederman. (2018). Pigeons spontaneously form three-dimensional shape categories. Behavioural Processes. 158. 70–76. 5 indexed citations

Amir, Ofer, et al.. (2014). Greater Sensitivity to Nonaccidental than Metric Shape Properties in Preschool Children. Journal of Vision. 14(10). 1291–1291. 1 indexed citations

Amir, Ofer & Irving Biederman. (2014). The Claim that Pre-School Children are Insensitive to Nonaccidental vs. Metric Shape Properties Challenged by Biologically-Based Shape Scaling. Journal of Vision. 14(10). 232–232. 1 indexed citations

Amir, Ori, et al.. (2014). Greater sensitivity to nonaccidental than metric shape properties in preschool children. Vision Research. 97. 83–88. 15 indexed citations

Amir, Ori, et al.. (2013). Ha Ha! Versus Aha! A Direct Comparison of Humor to Nonhumorous Insight for Determining the Neural Correlates of Mirth. Cerebral Cortex. 25(5). 1405–1413. 70 indexed citations

Amir, Ori, Irving Biederman, & Kenneth J. Hayworth. (2012). Sensitivity to nonaccidental properties across various shape dimensions. Vision Research. 62. 35–43. 30 indexed citations

Yue, Xiaomin, Irving Biederman, M. C. Mangini, Christoph von der Malsburg, & Ori Amir. (2012). Predicting the psychophysical similarity of faces and non-face complex shapes by image-based measures. Vision Research. 55. 41–46. 40 indexed citations

Biederman, Irving, et al.. (2011). The Benefit of Object Interactions Arises in the Lateral Occipital Cortex Independent of Attentional Modulation from the Intraparietal Sulcus: A Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Study. Journal of Neuroscience. 31(22). 8320–8324. 26 indexed citations

Amir, Ori, Irving Biederman, & Kenneth J. Hayworth. (2011). The neural basis for shape preferences. Vision Research. 51(20). 2198–2206. 33 indexed citations

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Biederman, Irving, et al.. (2009). Adaptation to objects in the lateral occipital complex (LOC): Shape or semantics?. Vision Research. 49(18). 2297–2305. 57 indexed citations

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Russell, Richard, et al.. (2006). The utility of surface reflectance for the recognition of upright and inverted faces. Vision Research. 47(2). 157–165. 82 indexed citations

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Yue, Xiaomin, Bosco S. Tjan, & Irving Biederman. (2006). What makes faces special?. Vision Research. 46(22). 3802–3811. 68 indexed citations

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Boucart, Muriel, et al.. (2002). Effect of benzodiazepines on structural and conceptual/lexical priming. Psychopharmacology. 165(1). 43–50. 8 indexed citations

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Fiser, József & Irving Biederman. (2001). Invariance of long-term visual priming to scale, reflection, translation, and hemisphere. Vision Research. 41(2). 221–234. 40 indexed citations

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Biederman, Irving & Moshe Bar. (1999). One-shot viewpoint invariance in matching novel objects. Vision Research. 39(17). 2885–2899. 137 indexed citations

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Dickinson, Sven, et al.. (1993). The Use of Geons for Generic 3D Object Recognition.. International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence. 94(6). 1693–1702. 7 indexed citations

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Biederman, Irving & Peter Gerhardstein. (1993). Recognizing depth-rotated objects: Evidence and conditions for three-dimensional viewpoint invariance.. Journal of Experimental Psychology Human Perception & Performance. 19(6). 1162–1182. 441 indexed citations

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York, James L. & Irving Biederman. (1991). Hand Movement Speed and Accuracy in Detoxified Alcoholics. Alcoholism Clinical and Experimental Research. 15(6). 982–990. 33 indexed citations

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Biederman, Irving & Eric E. Cooper. (1991). Object recognition and laterality: Null effects. Neuropsychologia. 29(7). 685–694. 38 indexed citations

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Biederman, Irving. (1990). Higher-level vision. MIT Press eBooks. 41–72. 36 indexed citations

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