Joel Pearson

8.6k total citations · 2 hit papers
93 papers, 4.8k citations indexed

About

Joel Pearson is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and Social Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Joel Pearson has authored 93 papers receiving a total of 4.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 74 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 17 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and 13 papers in Social Psychology. Recurrent topics in Joel Pearson's work include Visual perception and processing mechanisms (53 papers), Neural dynamics and brain function (38 papers) and Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies (30 papers). Joel Pearson is often cited by papers focused on Visual perception and processing mechanisms (53 papers), Neural dynamics and brain function (38 papers) and Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies (30 papers). Joel Pearson collaborates with scholars based in Australia, United States and United Kingdom. Joel Pearson's co-authors include Rebecca Keogh, Stephen M. Kosslyn, Colin W. G. Clifford, Emily A. Holmes, Thomas Naselaris, Frank Tong, Jan W. Brascamp, Selen Atasoy, I. C. Donnelly and Rosanne L. Rademaker and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nature Communications and Journal of Neuroscience.

In The Last Decade

Joel Pearson

92 papers receiving 4.7k citations

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Mental Imagery: Functional Mechanisms and Clinical Applications

2015 602 citations Joel Pearson et al. profile →
The human imagination: the cognitive neuroscience of visual mental imagery

2019 398 citations Joel Pearson profile →

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	The potential risks of opening the mind’s eye with psychedelic therapies 2025 ·Cortex ·Roger Koenig‐Robert, Rebecca Keogh, Joel Pearson	1
2	Slower but more accurate mental rotation performance in aphantasia linked to differences in cognitive strategies 2024 ·Consciousness and Cognition ·(unknown), Rebecca Keogh, Joel Pearson	15
3	Definition: Aphantasia 2024 ·Cortex ·Adam Zeman, Merlin Monzel, Joel Pearson, (unknown), Julia Simner	5
4	Revisiting the blind mind: Still no evidence for sensory visual imagery in individuals with aphantasia 2024 ·Neuroscience Research ·Rebecca Keogh, Joel Pearson	15
5	Multisensory subtypes of aphantasia: Mental imagery as supramodal perception in reverse 2023 ·Neuroscience Research ·(unknown), Rebecca Keogh, Joel Pearson	21
6	High school students' out‐of‐school science participation: A latent class analysis and unique associations with science aspirations and achievement 2022 ·Journal of Research in Science Teaching ·Emma Burns, Andrew J. Martin, (unknown), Joel Pearson, (unknown)	13
7	The pupillary light response as a physiological index of aphantasia, sensory and phenomenological imagery strength 2022 ·eLife ·(unknown), Rebecca Keogh, Thomas Andrillon, Joel Pearson	66
8	The critical role of mental imagery in human emotion: insights from fear-based imagery and aphantasia 2021 ·Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences ·(unknown), Rebecca Keogh, Joel Pearson	106
9	Visual working memory in aphantasia: Retained accuracy and capacity with a different strategy 2021 ·Cortex ·Rebecca Keogh, (unknown), Joel Pearson	65
10	Challenge and threat appraisals in high school science: investigating the roles of psychological and physiological factors 2021 ·Educational Psychology ·Andrew J. Martin, (unknown), Joel Pearson, Marianne Mansour, Brad Papworth, Lars‐Erik Malmberg	17
11	Decoding Nonconscious Thought Representations during Successful Thought Suppression 2020 ·Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience ·Roger Koenig‐Robert, Joel Pearson	11
12	Hallucinations on demand: the utility of experimentally induced phenomena in hallucination research 2020 ·Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences ·(unknown), Rebecca Keogh, Joel Pearson	17
13	Attention driven phantom vision: measuring the sensory strength of attentional templates and their relation to visual mental imagery and aphantasia 2020 ·Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences ·Rebecca Keogh, Joel Pearson	33
14	Cortical excitability controls the strength of mental imagery 2020 ·eLife ·Rebecca Keogh, Johanna Bergmann, Joel Pearson	51
15	What happens when students reflect on their self-efficacy during a test? Exploring test experience and test outcome in science 2019 ·Learning and Individual Differences ·Andrew J. Martin, Lars‐Erik Malmberg, (unknown), Marianne Mansour, Brad Papworth, Joel Pearson	11
16	Harmonic Brain Modes: A Unifying Framework for Linking Space and Time in Brain Dynamics 2017 ·The Neuroscientist ·Selen Atasoy, Gustavo Deco, Morten L. Kringelbach, Joel Pearson	79
17	The color "fruit": Object memories defined by color 2013 ·Journal of Vision ·David E. Lewis, Sieu K. Khuu, Joel Pearson	0
18	The Role of Frontal and Parietal Brain Areas in Bistable Perception 2011 ·Journal of Neuroscience ·Tomas Knapen, Jan W. Brascamp, Joel Pearson, Raymond van Ee, Randolph Blake	165
19	Inner vision: seeing the minds eye 2010 ·Joel Pearson	1
20	THE RECOGNITION AND MANAGEMENT OF NERVE DAMAGE UNDER FIELD CONDITIONS 1975 ·Leprosy Review ·(unknown), Joel Pearson	2

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