John Cerella

5.3k total citations · 2 hit papers
46 papers, 3.3k citations indexed

About

John Cerella is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and Artificial Intelligence. According to data from OpenAlex, John Cerella has authored 46 papers receiving a total of 3.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 27 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 14 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and 10 papers in Artificial Intelligence. Recurrent topics in John Cerella's work include Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies (13 papers), Memory Processes and Influences (9 papers) and Visual perception and processing mechanisms (7 papers). John Cerella is often cited by papers focused on Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies (13 papers), Memory Processes and Influences (9 papers) and Visual perception and processing mechanisms (7 papers). John Cerella collaborates with scholars based in United States and Germany. John Cerella's co-authors include Paul Verhaeghen, William J. Hoyer, Sandra Hale, David W. Steitz, Martin J. Sliwinski, Michael Lamport Commons, John M. Rybash, James L. Fozard, Chandramallika Basak and Leonard W. Poon and has published in prestigious journals such as Psychological Bulletin, Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews and Developmental Psychology.

In The Last Decade

John Cerella

46 papers receiving 3.1k 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.

Information processing rates in the elderly.

1985 592 citations John Cerella profile →
Aging, executive control, and attention: a review of meta-analyses

2002 526 citations Paul Verhaeghen, John Cerella Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
John Cerella United States	24	2.2k	914	761	589	358	46	3.3k
Sandra Hale United States	39	3.5k 1.6×	2.0k 2.2×	1.6k 2.1×	456 0.8×	653 1.8×	98	5.5k
Anderson D. Smith United States	30	2.8k 1.3×	1.2k 1.3×	721 0.9×	529 0.9×	619 1.7×	51	3.9k
Mark E. Faust United States	23	2.9k 1.3×	1.1k 1.2×	1.6k 2.0×	273 0.5×	610 1.7×	39	4.1k
Jessica Simon United States	29	3.9k 1.7×	1.3k 1.4×	929 1.2×	1.2k 2.0×	259 0.7×	102	5.0k
Tomaso Vecchi Italy	35	2.8k 1.2×	1.3k 1.5×	542 0.7×	702 1.2×	499 1.4×	160	4.4k
Mary M. Smyth United Kingdom	28	1.4k 0.6×	455 0.5×	1.6k 2.1×	536 0.9×	563 1.6×	65	3.3k
Bruce A. Schneider Canada	51	6.5k 2.9×	2.4k 2.6×	1.0k 1.4×	401 0.7×	126 0.4×	168	7.8k
Hazel Emslie United Kingdom	25	2.9k 1.3×	1.6k 1.7×	1.9k 2.5×	282 0.5×	1.2k 3.4×	31	5.6k
Tilo Strobach Germany	30	1.5k 0.7×	1.0k 1.1×	473 0.6×	446 0.8×	217 0.6×	100	2.6k
J. Scott Saults United States	31	2.7k 1.2×	1.5k 1.6×	1.0k 1.3×	443 0.8×	207 0.6×	57	3.9k

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Price, John M., Gregory J. H. Colflesh, John Cerella, & Paul Verhaeghen. (2014). Making working memory work: The effects of extended practice on focus capacity and the processes of updating, forward access, and random access. Acta Psychologica. 148. 19–24. 4 indexed citations

Verhaeghen, Paul, et al.. (2011). Working memory at work: How the updating process alters the nature of working memory transfer. Acta Psychologica. 139(1). 77–83. 9 indexed citations

Lange, Elke B., John Cerella, & Paul Verhaeghen. (2011). Ease of access to list items in short-term memory depends on the order of the recognition probes.. Journal of Experimental Psychology Learning Memory and Cognition. 37(3). 608–620. 10 indexed citations

Hoyer, William J., et al.. (2011). A Search-By-Clusters Model of Visual Search: Fits to Data From Younger and Older Adults. The Journals of Gerontology Series B. 66B(4). 402–410. 5 indexed citations

Lange, Elke B., Paul Verhaeghen, & John Cerella. (2010). Dual representation of item positions in verbal short-term memory: Evidence for two access modes. The European Journal of Cognitive Psychology. 22(3). 463–479. 4 indexed citations

Cerella, John, et al.. (2008). Rules and more rules: The effects of multiple tasks, extensive training, and aging on task-switching performance. Memory & Cognition. 36(4). 735–748. 33 indexed citations

Onyper, Serge V., William J. Hoyer, & John Cerella. (2008). Effects of Item Difficulty on the Retrieval of Solutions during Cognitive Skill Acquisition: Age Differences. Aging Neuropsychology and Cognition. 15(3). 358–383. 8 indexed citations

Cerella, John, et al.. (2007). Strategy transitions during cognitive skill learning in younger and older adults: Effects of interitem confusability. Memory & Cognition. 35(8). 2106–2117. 9 indexed citations

Cerella, John, Serge V. Onyper, & William J. Hoyer. (2006). The associative-memory basis of cognitive skill learning: Adult age differences.. Psychology and Aging. 21(3). 483–498. 21 indexed citations

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Onyper, Serge V., William J. Hoyer, & John Cerella. (2006). Determinants of retrieval solutions during cognitive skill training: Source confusions. Memory & Cognition. 34(3). 538–549. 11 indexed citations

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Touron, Dayna R., William J. Hoyer, & John Cerella. (2004). Cognitive Skill Learning: Age-Related Differences in Strategy Shifts and Speed of Component Operations.. Psychology and Aging. 19(4). 565–580. 33 indexed citations

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Verhaeghen, Paul, John Cerella, & Chandramallika Basak. (2004). A Working Memory Workout: How to Expand the Focus of Serial Attention From One to Four Items in 10 Hours or Less.. Journal of Experimental Psychology Learning Memory and Cognition. 30(6). 1322–1337. 99 indexed citations

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Verhaeghen, Paul, David W. Steitz, Martin J. Sliwinski, & John Cerella. (2003). Aging and dual-task performance: A meta-analysis.. Psychology and Aging. 18(3). 443–460. 366 indexed citations

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Hoyer, William J., John Cerella, & Serge V. Onyper. (2003). Item learning in cognitive skill training: Effects of item difficulty. Memory & Cognition. 31(8). 1260–1270. 23 indexed citations

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Verhaeghen, Paul, et al.. (2002). Cognitive efficiency modes in old age: Performance on sequential and coordinative verbal and visuospatial tasks.. Psychology and Aging. 17(4). 558–570. 29 indexed citations

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Verhaeghen, Paul & John Cerella. (2002). Aging, executive control, and attention: a review of meta-analyses. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews. 26(7). 849–857. 526 indexed citations breakdown →

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Touron, Dayna R., William J. Hoyer, & John Cerella. (2001). Cognitive skill acquisition and transfer in younger and older adults.. Psychology and Aging. 16(4). 555–563. 25 indexed citations

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Cerella, John & Sandra Hale. (1994). The rise and fall in information-processing rates over the life span. Acta Psychologica. 86(2-3). 109–197. 224 indexed citations

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Cerella, John, John M. Rybash, William J. Hoyer, & Michael Lamport Commons. (1993). Adult information processing : limits on loss. Academic Press eBooks. 313 indexed citations

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Cerella, John, Dana J. Plude, & William Milberg. (1987). Radial localization in the aged.. Psychology and Aging. 2(1). 52–55. 9 indexed citations

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