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

Hit Papers

Mental Imagery: Functiona... 2015 2026 2018 2022 2015 2019 200 400 600
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. Mental Imagery: Functional Mechanisms and Clinical Applications
    2015 602 citations Joel Pearson et al. profile →
  2. The human imagination: the cognitive neuroscience of visual mental imagery
    2019 398 citations Joel Pearson profile →

Author Peers

Peers are selected by citation overlap in the author's most active subfields. citations · hero ref

Author Last Decade Papers Cites
Joel Pearson 3.7k 1.2k 757 413 278 93 4.8k
Katharina von Kriegstein 3.4k 0.9× 2.0k 1.6× 589 0.8× 619 1.5× 217 0.8× 92 4.5k
René Marois 6.5k 1.8× 1.4k 1.1× 1.0k 1.3× 423 1.0× 268 1.0× 90 8.0k
Alan J. Pegna 3.2k 0.9× 819 0.7× 494 0.7× 611 1.5× 165 0.6× 141 3.9k
Naotsugu Tsuchiya 5.1k 1.4× 1.1k 0.9× 830 1.1× 266 0.6× 321 1.2× 113 6.1k
Ifat Levy 4.1k 1.1× 1.1k 0.9× 676 0.9× 289 0.7× 486 1.7× 74 5.4k
Nathalie George 4.7k 1.3× 1.2k 1.0× 815 1.1× 250 0.6× 242 0.9× 93 5.4k
Sebastiaan Mathôt 3.1k 0.8× 1.2k 0.9× 828 1.1× 647 1.6× 161 0.6× 75 4.5k
Ernst Pöppel 4.1k 1.1× 1.5k 1.2× 1.0k 1.4× 315 0.8× 160 0.6× 151 5.6k
Paul E. Dux 3.6k 1.0× 738 0.6× 572 0.8× 554 1.3× 178 0.6× 137 4.4k
Benjamin Y. Hayden 5.0k 1.3× 1.1k 0.9× 949 1.3× 603 1.5× 223 0.8× 124 6.8k

Countries citing papers authored by Joel Pearson

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Fields of papers citing papers by Joel Pearson

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Joel Pearson

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Joel Pearson. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Joel Pearson 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 Joel Pearson. Joel Pearson 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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Koenig‐Robert, Roger, Rebecca Keogh, & Joel Pearson. (2025). The potential risks of opening the mind’s eye with psychedelic therapies. Cortex. 191. 167–171. 1 indexed citations
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Keogh, Rebecca, et al.. (2024). Slower but more accurate mental rotation performance in aphantasia linked to differences in cognitive strategies. Consciousness and Cognition. 121. 103694–103694. 15 indexed citations
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Zeman, Adam, et al.. (2024). Definition: Aphantasia. Cortex. 182. 212–213. 5 indexed citations
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Keogh, Rebecca, et al.. (2023). Multisensory subtypes of aphantasia: Mental imagery as supramodal perception in reverse. Neuroscience Research. 201. 50–59. 21 indexed citations
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Koenig‐Robert, Roger, et al.. (2023). Different Mechanisms for Supporting Mental Imagery and Perceptual Representations: Modulation Versus Excitation. Psychological Science. 34(11). 1229–1243. 12 indexed citations
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Burns, Emma, et al.. (2022). High school students' out‐of‐school science participation: A latent class analysis and unique associations with science aspirations and achievement. Journal of Research in Science Teaching. 60(3). 451–483. 13 indexed citations
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Martin, Andrew J., et al.. (2021). Challenge and threat appraisals in high school science: investigating the roles of psychological and physiological factors. Educational Psychology. 41(5). 618–639. 17 indexed citations
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Keogh, Rebecca, et al.. (2021). The critical role of mental imagery in human emotion: insights from fear-based imagery and aphantasia. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 288(1946). 20210267–20210267. 106 indexed citations
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Keogh, Rebecca, et al.. (2021). Visual working memory in aphantasia: Retained accuracy and capacity with a different strategy. Cortex. 143. 237–253. 65 indexed citations
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Koenig‐Robert, Roger & Joel Pearson. (2020). Decoding Nonconscious Thought Representations during Successful Thought Suppression. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. 32(12). 2272–2284. 11 indexed citations
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Keogh, Rebecca & Joel Pearson. (2020). Attention driven phantom vision: measuring the sensory strength of attentional templates and their relation to visual mental imagery and aphantasia. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 376(1817). 20190688–20190688. 33 indexed citations
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Keogh, Rebecca, Johanna Bergmann, & Joel Pearson. (2020). Cortical excitability controls the strength of mental imagery. eLife. 9. 51 indexed citations
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Keogh, Rebecca, et al.. (2020). Hallucinations on demand: the utility of experimentally induced phenomena in hallucination research. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 376(1817). 20200233–20200233. 17 indexed citations
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Martin, Andrew J., et al.. (2019). What happens when students reflect on their self-efficacy during a test? Exploring test experience and test outcome in science. Learning and Individual Differences. 73. 59–66. 11 indexed citations
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Atasoy, Selen, Gustavo Deco, Morten L. Kringelbach, & Joel Pearson. (2017). Harmonic Brain Modes: A Unifying Framework for Linking Space and Time in Brain Dynamics. The Neuroscientist. 24(3). 277–293. 79 indexed citations
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Pearson, Joel, et al.. (2016). Sensory dynamics of visual hallucinations in the normal population. eLife. 5. 22 indexed citations
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Lewis, David E., Sieu K. Khuu, & Joel Pearson. (2013). The color "fruit": Object memories defined by color. Journal of Vision. 13(9). 1009–1009.
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Knapen, Tomas, Jan W. Brascamp, Joel Pearson, Raymond van Ee, & Randolph Blake. (2011). The Role of Frontal and Parietal Brain Areas in Bistable Perception. Journal of Neuroscience. 31(28). 10293–10301. 165 indexed citations
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Pearson, Joel. (2010). Inner vision: seeing the minds eye. 16(1). 1 indexed citations

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