James T. Townsend

15.0k total citations · 5 hit papers
166 papers, 10.3k citations indexed

About

James T. Townsend is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and Artificial Intelligence. According to data from OpenAlex, James T. Townsend has authored 166 papers receiving a total of 10.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 82 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 45 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and 21 papers in Artificial Intelligence. Recurrent topics in James T. Townsend's work include Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies (37 papers), Visual perception and processing mechanisms (31 papers) and Multisensory perception and integration (23 papers). James T. Townsend is often cited by papers focused on Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies (37 papers), Visual perception and processing mechanisms (31 papers) and Multisensory perception and integration (23 papers). James T. Townsend collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Australia. James T. Townsend's co-authors include Jerome R. Busemeyer, F. Gregory Ashby, Joan Gay Snodgrass, Michael J. Wenger, Robert M. Roe, Joseph W. Houpt, Ami Eidels, Richard Schweickert, Zheng Wang and Mario Fifić and has published in prestigious journals such as The Lancet, Psychological Bulletin and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

James T. Townsend

157 papers receiving 9.6k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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.

Decision field theory: A dynamic-cognitive approach to decision making in an uncertain environment.

1993 1.3k citations Jerome R. Busemeyer, James T. Townsend Psychological Review profile →
Stochastic Modeling of Elementary Psychological Processes

1985 1.2k citations James T. Townsend et al. profile →
Varieties of perceptual independence.

1986 574 citations James T. Townsend et al. Psychological Review profile →
Multialternative decision field theory: A dynamic connectionst model of decision making.

2001 539 citations Robert M. Roe, Jerome R. Busemeyer et al. Psychological Review profile →
Unmet supportive care needs of people with advanced cancer and their caregivers: A systematic scoping review

2022 124 citations James T. Townsend et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
James T. Townsend United States	48	5.9k	2.7k	1.5k	1.5k	1.4k	166	10.3k
Michael Lee United States	51	3.2k 0.5×	1.6k 0.6×	1.3k 0.8×	1.8k 1.2×	1.1k 0.8×	384	12.1k
Scott Brown Australia	44	5.9k 1.0×	1.5k 0.6×	1.8k 1.2×	1.0k 0.7×	683 0.5×	227	9.5k
Andrew Heathcote Australia	45	5.4k 0.9×	1.8k 0.7×	1.4k 0.9×	962 0.6×	806 0.6×	217	8.0k
Jeffrey N. Rouder United States	49	7.9k 1.3×	3.2k 1.2×	1.2k 0.8×	1.6k 1.0×	2.1k 1.5×	132	14.5k
Richard D. Morey United States	36	6.6k 1.1×	2.8k 1.0×	762 0.5×	1.1k 0.7×	1.9k 1.4×	78	12.1k
Raymond S. Nickerson United States	41	2.6k 0.4×	1.5k 0.6×	758 0.5×	1.1k 0.8×	1.7k 1.2×	141	10.2k
Philip L. Smith Australia	46	4.4k 0.8×	1.6k 0.6×	946 0.6×	538 0.4×	1.2k 0.9×	158	9.3k
Gail McKoon United States	61	8.7k 1.5×	3.3k 1.2×	1.0k 0.7×	1.9k 1.3×	1.2k 0.9×	146	12.4k
Robert M. Nosofsky United States	49	5.6k 0.9×	3.5k 1.3×	1.0k 0.7×	3.5k 2.3×	1.6k 1.2×	141	12.2k
F. Gregory Ashby United States	56	8.8k 1.5×	3.8k 1.4×	938 0.6×	2.0k 1.4×	2.6k 1.9×	168	15.2k

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Wenger, Michael J., et al.. (2025). The sequential categorization-identification paradigm (SCIP): A paradigm for the concurrent testing of strong hypotheses regarding psychological representation and processing. Attention Perception & Psychophysics. 88(2). 55–55.

Townsend, James T., et al.. (2024). A proposal for a Riemannian face space and application to atypical vs. typical face similarities. Journal of Mathematical Psychology. 122. 102870–102870.

Townsend, James T., et al.. (2022). Varieties of Selective Influence: Toward a More Complete Taxonomy and Implications for Systems Identification. Mathematics. 10(7). 1059–1059.

Townsend, James T., et al.. (2022). Don’t be a Square: The processing mechanisms characterising the elemental dimensions of width and height. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology. 76(4). 792–826. 1 indexed citations

Townsend, James T., et al.. (2020). Can the wrong horse win: The ability of race models to predict fast or slow errors. Journal of Mathematical Psychology. 97. 102360–102360. 1 indexed citations

Townsend, James T., et al.. (2020). Assessing cross-modal interference in the detection response task. Journal of Mathematical Psychology. 98. 102390–102390. 2 indexed citations

Townsend, James T., et al.. (2019). Practical lossless compression with latent variables using bits back coding. UCL Discovery (University College London). 6 indexed citations

Townsend, James T., Niklas Koep, & Sebastian Weichwald. (2016). Pymanopt: a python toolbox for optimization on manifolds using automatic differentiation. Journal of Machine Learning Research. 17(1). 4755–4759. 33 indexed citations

Hawkins, Robert D., Joseph W. Houpt, Ami Eidels, & James T. Townsend. (2015). Can two dots form a Gestalt? Measuring emergent features with the capacity coefficient. Vision Research. 126. 19–33. 9 indexed citations

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Zandt, Trisha Van & James T. Townsend. (2013). Designs for and Analyses of Response Time Experiments. Oxford University Press eBooks. 10 indexed citations

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Houpt, Joseph W., et al.. (2010). Facial Perception as a Configural Process. Journal of Vision. 10(7). 688–688. 2 indexed citations

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Houpt, Joseph W. & James T. Townsend. (2010). A New Perspective on Visual Word Processing Efficiency. Journal of Bioresource Management. 32(32). 2 indexed citations

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Blaha, Leslie M., Thomas A. Busey, & James T. Townsend. (2009). An LDA Approach to the Neural Correlates of Configural Learning. eScholarship (California Digital Library). 31(31). 7 indexed citations

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Silbert, Noah H., Kenneth J. de Jong, Robin D. Thomas, & James T. Townsend. (2009). Diagonal d′ does not (always) diagnose failure of separability: An addendum to Kingston, Diehl, Kirk, and Castleman (2008). Journal of Phonetics. 37(3). 339–343. 1 indexed citations

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Fifić, Mario, James T. Townsend, & Ami Eidels. (2008). Studying visual search using systems factorial methodology with target-distractor similarity as the factor. Perception & Psychophysics. 70(4). 583–603. 30 indexed citations

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Roe, Robert M., Jerome R. Busemeyer, & James T. Townsend. (2001). Multialternative decision field theory: A dynamic connectionst model of decision making.. Psychological Review. 108(2). 370–392. 539 indexed citations breakdown →

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Busemeyer, Jerome R. & James T. Townsend. (1993). Decision field theory: A dynamic-cognitive approach to decision making in an uncertain environment.. Psychological Review. 100(3). 432–459. 1292 indexed citations breakdown →

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Fisher, Donald L. & James T. Townsend. (1993). Models of Morse Code Skill Acquisition: Simulation and Analysis. Defense Technical Information Center (DTIC). 2 indexed citations

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Collins, J.V., T. J. H. Clark, D Brown, & James T. Townsend. (1975). The Use of Corticosteroids in the Treatment of Acute Asthma. QJM. 64 indexed citations

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Townsend, James T.. (1971). Theoretical analysis of an alphabetic confusion matrix. Perception & Psychophysics. 9(1). 40–50. 424 indexed citations

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