John J. McDonald

7.2k total citations
75 papers, 5.3k citations indexed

About

John J. McDonald is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and Social Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, John J. McDonald has authored 75 papers receiving a total of 5.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 66 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 26 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and 9 papers in Social Psychology. Recurrent topics in John J. McDonald's work include Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies (48 papers), Neural dynamics and brain function (34 papers) and Visual perception and processing mechanisms (31 papers). John J. McDonald is often cited by papers focused on Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies (48 papers), Neural dynamics and brain function (34 papers) and Visual perception and processing mechanisms (31 papers). John J. McDonald collaborates with scholars based in Canada, United States and Italy. John J. McDonald's co-authors include Steven A. Hillyard, Wolfgang A. Teder-Sälejärvi, Clayton Hickey, Lawrence M. Ward, Jessica J. Green, John M. Gaspar, Vincent Di Lollo, Francesco Di Russo, Grace Iarocci and Jan Theeuwes and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

John J. McDonald

72 papers receiving 5.2k citations

Peers

John J. McDonald
Lynn C. Robertson United States
Joy J. Geng United States
Geoffrey F. Woodman United States
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This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of John J. McDonald. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of John J. McDonald 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 John J. McDonald. John J. McDonald is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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Jannati, Ali, et al.. (2022). Dynamic inhibitory control prevents salience-driven capture of visual attention.. Journal of Experimental Psychology Human Perception & Performance. 48(1). 37–51. 12 indexed citations
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McDonald, John J., et al.. (2022). Isolating the Neural Substrates of Visually Guided Attention Orienting in Humans. Journal of Neuroscience. 42(20). 4174–4186. 4 indexed citations
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Kappenman, Emily S., et al.. (2021). Recoiling From Threat: Anxiety Is Related to Heightened Suppression of Threat, Not Increased Attention to Threat. Clinical Psychological Science. 9(3). 434–448. 16 indexed citations
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Green, Jessica J., Thomas M. Spalek, & John J. McDonald. (2019). From alternation to repetition: Spatial attention biases contribute to sequential effects in a choice reaction-time task. Cognitive Neuroscience. 11(1-2). 24–36. 1 indexed citations
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Störmer, Viola S., John J. McDonald, & Steven A. Hillyard. (2019). Involuntary orienting of attention to sight or sound relies on similar neural biasing mechanisms in early visual processing. Neuropsychologia. 132. 107122–107122. 10 indexed citations
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Feng, Wenfeng, Viola S. Störmer, Antı́gona Martı́nez, John J. McDonald, & Steven A. Hillyard. (2017). Involuntary orienting of attention to a sound desynchronizes the occipital alpha rhythm and improves visual perception. NeuroImage. 150. 318–328. 43 indexed citations
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Feng, Wenfeng, Viola S. Störmer, Antı́gona Martı́nez, John J. McDonald, & Steven A. Hillyard. (2014). Sounds Activate Visual Cortex and Improve Visual Discrimination. Journal of Neuroscience. 34(29). 9817–9824. 78 indexed citations
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Jannati, Ali, John M. Gaspar, & John J. McDonald. (2013). Tracking target and distractor processing in fixed-feature visual search: Evidence from human electrophysiology.. Journal of Experimental Psychology Human Perception & Performance. 39(6). 1713–1730. 126 indexed citations
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McDonald, John J., et al.. (2012). Electrophysiological evidence of multitasking impairment of attentional deployment reflects target-specific processing, not distractor inhibition. International Journal of Psychophysiology. 86(2). 152–159. 46 indexed citations
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McDonald, John J.. (2010). Islam’s Narrative in American Literature. International Journal of Arabic-English Studies. 11(1). 53–60. 2 indexed citations
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Doesburg, Sam M., Jessica J. Green, John J. McDonald, & Lawrence M. Ward. (2009). From local inhibition to long-range integration: A functional dissociation of alpha-band synchronization across cortical scales in visuospatial attention. Brain Research. 1303. 97–110. 93 indexed citations
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Prime, David J., John J. McDonald, Jessica J. Green, & Lawrence M. Ward. (2008). When cross-modal spatial attention fails.. Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology/Revue canadienne de psychologie expérimentale. 62(3). 192–197. 9 indexed citations
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McDonald, John J. & Jessica J. Green. (2008). Isolating event-related potential components associated with voluntary control of visuo-spatial attention. Brain Research. 1227. 96–109. 23 indexed citations
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Green, Jessica J. & John J. McDonald. (2006). An event‐related potential study of supramodal attentional control and crossmodal attention effects. Psychophysiology. 43(2). 161–171. 37 indexed citations
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McDonald, John J., Wolfgang A. Teder-Sälejärvi, Francesco Di Russo, & Steven A. Hillyard. (2005). Neural basis of auditory-induced shifts in visual time-order perception. Nature Neuroscience. 8(9). 1197–1202. 119 indexed citations
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McDonald, John J.. (2004). Psychic Occupation: Western Narrative Style in Beer in the Snooker Club and Season of Migration to the North. International Journal of Arabic-English Studies. 5(1). 19–32.
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Teder-Sälejärvi, Wolfgang A., John J. McDonald, Francesco Di Russo, & Steven A. Hillyard. (2002). An analysis of audio-visual crossmodal integration by means of event-related potential (ERP) recordings. Cognitive Brain Research. 14(1). 106–114. 270 indexed citations
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Tata, Matthew S., David J. Prime, John J. McDonald, & Lawrence M. Ward. (2001). Transient spatial attention modulates distinct components of the auditory ERP. Neuroreport. 12(17). 3679–3682. 12 indexed citations
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McDonald, John J., Wolfgang A. Teder-Sälejärvi, & Steven A. Hillyard. (2000). Involuntary orienting to sound improves visual perception. Nature. 407(6806). 906–908. 370 indexed citations
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Kiehl, Kent A., Robert D. Hare, Peter F. Liddle, & John J. McDonald. (1999). Reduced P300 responses in criminal psychopaths during a visual oddball task. Biological Psychiatry. 45(11). 1498–1507. 99 indexed citations

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