John T. Wixted

21.8k total citations · 5 hit papers
209 papers, 14.5k citations indexed

About

John T. Wixted is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Social Psychology and Artificial Intelligence. According to data from OpenAlex, John T. Wixted has authored 209 papers receiving a total of 14.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 145 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 58 papers in Social Psychology and 34 papers in Artificial Intelligence. Recurrent topics in John T. Wixted's work include Memory Processes and Influences (119 papers), Memory and Neural Mechanisms (57 papers) and Deception detection and forensic psychology (53 papers). John T. Wixted is often cited by papers focused on Memory Processes and Influences (119 papers), Memory and Neural Mechanisms (57 papers) and Deception detection and forensic psychology (53 papers). John T. Wixted collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Canada. John T. Wixted's co-authors include Larry R. Squire, Laura Mickes, Doug Rohrer, Harold Pashler, Nicholas J. Cepeda, Edward Vul, Vincent Stretch, Ebbe Β. Ebbesen, Robert E. Clark and Peter E. Wais and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Neuron and Journal of Neuroscience.

In The Last Decade

John T. Wixted

201 papers receiving 14.0k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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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.

Distributed practice in verbal recall tasks: A review and quantitative synthesis.

2006 1.2k citations Harold Pashler, Edward Vul et al. profile →
Recognition memory and the medial temporal lobe: a new perspective

2007 782 citations Larry R. Squire, John T. Wixted et al. profile →
The Psychology and Neuroscience of Forgetting

2004 678 citations John T. Wixted profile →
Dual-process theory and signal-detection theory of recognition memory.

2007 677 citations John T. Wixted Psychological Review profile →
Memory Consolidation

2015 431 citations Larry R. Squire, John T. Wixted et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
John T. Wixted United States	65	10.5k	3.1k	2.9k	2.3k	2.0k	209	14.5k
Kathleen B. McDermott United States	53	12.4k 1.2×	3.9k 1.3×	3.5k 1.2×	2.1k 0.9×	2.7k 1.3×	108	15.0k
Daniel J. Simons United States	73	14.2k 1.4×	3.0k 1.0×	2.3k 0.8×	799 0.4×	3.9k 2.0×	230	21.6k
Barbara J. Knowlton United States	56	12.3k 1.2×	2.3k 0.8×	3.3k 1.1×	770 0.3×	1.8k 0.9×	165	17.9k
Anthony D. Wagner United States	80	20.1k 1.9×	2.3k 0.8×	3.3k 1.1×	500 0.2×	2.9k 1.5×	173	24.2k
Marcia K. Johnson United States	84	16.5k 1.6×	5.5k 1.8×	5.1k 1.8×	1.8k 0.8×	4.7k 2.3×	220	21.8k
Randall C. O’Reilly United States	56	13.2k 1.3×	1.4k 0.5×	2.0k 0.7×	1.6k 0.7×	1.9k 0.9×	127	16.7k
Uri Hasson United States	57	13.0k 1.2×	3.0k 1.0×	1.5k 0.5×	767 0.3×	2.6k 1.3×	113	15.3k
Earl K. Miller United States	73	30.1k 2.9×	2.6k 0.9×	2.0k 0.7×	1.3k 0.6×	3.8k 1.9×	172	35.7k
Nikolaus Kriegeskorte United Kingdom	55	14.8k 1.4×	2.1k 0.7×	1.1k 0.4×	1.3k 0.6×	2.6k 1.3×	146	17.8k
Roger Ratcliff United States	86	22.9k 2.2×	3.2k 1.1×	7.3k 2.5×	4.4k 1.9×	6.6k 3.3×	275	30.8k

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Lindsay, D. Stephen, John T. Wixted, Ryan J. Fitzgerald, et al.. (2025). Eyewitness suspect identification: six claims regarding the state of the science. Memory. 33(7). 1–8. 1 indexed citations

Mickes, Laura, Brent M. Wilson, & John T. Wixted. (2025). The cognitive science of eyewitness memory. Trends in Cognitive Sciences. 29(7). 655–668. 2 indexed citations

Robinson, Maria M., et al.. (2024). Zooming in on what counts as core and auxiliary: A case study on recognition models of visual working memory. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review. 32(2). 547–569.

Wixted, John T., et al.. (2024). The effect of lineup size on discriminability is dependent on filler similarity and independent of encoding strength. Memory & Cognition. 53(4). 1272–1286.

Wixted, John T., Stephen D. Goldinger, Megan H. Papesh, et al.. (2022). Two kinds of memory signals in neurons of the human hippocampus. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 119(19). e2115128119–e2115128119. 9 indexed citations

Robinson, Maria M., et al.. (2022). You cannot “count” how many items people remember in visual working memory: The importance of signal detection–based measures for understanding change detection performance.. Journal of Experimental Psychology Human Perception & Performance. 48(12). 1390–1409. 24 indexed citations

Semmler, Carolyn, John C. Dunn, Laura Mickes, & John T. Wixted. (2018). The role of estimator variables in eyewitness identification.. Journal of Experimental Psychology Applied. 24(3). 400–415. 47 indexed citations

Dutta, Anindita, Jing Li, Huimin Lu, et al.. (2014). Integrin αvβ6 Promotes an Osteolytic Program in Cancer Cells by Upregulating MMP2. Cancer Research. 74(5). 1598–1608. 58 indexed citations

Wixted, John T. & Denise J. Cai. (2013). Memory Consolidation. Oxford University Press eBooks. 8 indexed citations

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Dede, Adam J. O., Larry R. Squire, & John T. Wixted. (2013). A novel approach to an old problem: Analysis of systematic errors in two models of recognition memory. Neuropsychologia. 52. 51–56. 9 indexed citations

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Jeneson, Annette, John T. Wixted, Ramona O. Hopkins, & Larry R. Squire. (2012). Visual Working Memory Capacity and the Medial Temporal Lobe. Journal of Neuroscience. 32(10). 3584–3589. 59 indexed citations

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Smith, Christine N., John T. Wixted, & Larry R. Squire. (2011). The Hippocampus Supports Both Recollection and Familiarity When Memories Are Strong. Journal of Neuroscience. 31(44). 15693–15702. 67 indexed citations

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Kirwan, C. Brock, John T. Wixted, & Larry R. Squire. (2008). Activity in the Medial Temporal Lobe Predicts Memory Strength, Whereas Activity in the Prefrontal Cortex Predicts Recollection. Journal of Neuroscience. 28(42). 10541–10548. 116 indexed citations

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Carpenter, Shana K., Harold Pashler, John T. Wixted, & Edward Vul. (2008). The effects of tests on learning and forgetting. Memory & Cognition. 36(2). 438–448. 206 indexed citations

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Wixted, John T.. (2007). Dual-process theory and signal-detection theory of recognition memory.. Psychological Review. 114(1). 152–176. 677 indexed citations breakdown →

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Wais, Peter E., Laura Mickes, & John T. Wixted. (2007). Remember/Know Judgments Probe Degrees of Recollection. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. 20(3). 400–405. 107 indexed citations

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Mickes, Laura, John T. Wixted, Christine Fennema‐Notestine, et al.. (2007). Progressive impairment on neuropsychological tasks in a longitudinal study of preclinical Alzheimer's disease.. Neuropsychology. 21(6). 696–705. 76 indexed citations

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Wixted, John T., et al.. (2004). Stimulus salience and asymmetric forgetting in the pigeon. Learning & Behavior. 32(2). 173–182. 12 indexed citations

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Stevens, S. S. & John T. Wixted. (2002). Methodology in experimental psychology. John Wiley & Sons eBooks. 53 indexed citations

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Wixted, John T.. (1991). Conditions and consequences of maintenance rehearsal.. Journal of Experimental Psychology Learning Memory and Cognition. 17(5). 963–973. 9 indexed citations

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