Michael Tombu

2.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
18 papers, 1.8k citations indexed

About

Michael Tombu is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Social Psychology and Automotive Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Michael Tombu has authored 18 papers receiving a total of 1.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 15 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 6 papers in Social Psychology and 3 papers in Automotive Engineering. Recurrent topics in Michael Tombu's work include Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies (10 papers), Visual perception and processing mechanisms (7 papers) and Neural dynamics and brain function (3 papers). Michael Tombu is often cited by papers focused on Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies (10 papers), Visual perception and processing mechanisms (7 papers) and Neural dynamics and brain function (3 papers). Michael Tombu collaborates with scholars based in Canada, United States and Australia. Michael Tombu's co-authors include Pierre Jolicœur, Paul E. Dux, René Marois, Adriane E. Seiffert, Baxter P. Rogers, Stephenie Harrison, Frank Tong, Christopher L. Asplund, Justin W. Martin and Douglass Godwin and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Neuron and Journal of Neuroscience.

In The Last Decade

Michael Tombu

17 papers receiving 1.7k citations

Hit Papers

A central capacity sharing model of dual-task performance. 2003 2026 2010 2018 2003 100 200 300 400 500
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. A central capacity sharing model of dual-task performance.
    2003 504 citations Michael Tombu, Pierre Jolicœur Journal of Experimental Psychology Human Perception & Performance profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Michael Tombu Canada 13 1.3k 306 286 226 193 18 1.8k
Alan A. Hartley United States 29 2.3k 1.8× 433 1.4× 659 2.3× 116 0.5× 347 1.8× 72 3.1k
Matthew S. Peterson United States 22 1.6k 1.3× 243 0.8× 564 2.0× 148 0.7× 250 1.3× 66 2.3k
Hermann Müller Germany 14 965 0.8× 371 1.2× 134 0.5× 180 0.8× 106 0.5× 47 1.3k
André J. Szameitat United Kingdom 25 1.1k 0.9× 505 1.7× 374 1.3× 74 0.3× 173 0.9× 50 1.9k
Patrick D. Gajewski Germany 26 1.4k 1.1× 215 0.7× 501 1.8× 50 0.2× 262 1.4× 75 2.2k
Tilo Strobach Germany 30 1.5k 1.2× 446 1.5× 1.0k 3.6× 90 0.4× 217 1.1× 100 2.6k
John F. Larish United States 9 771 0.6× 221 0.7× 262 0.9× 119 0.5× 181 0.9× 14 1.1k
Eric Soetens Belgium 22 2.2k 1.7× 494 1.6× 517 1.8× 77 0.3× 206 1.1× 63 2.7k
Timothy J. Herron United States 26 1.3k 1.0× 129 0.4× 436 1.5× 45 0.2× 211 1.1× 70 2.0k
Thomas H. Carr United States 28 1.7k 1.4× 702 2.3× 639 2.2× 79 0.3× 233 1.2× 57 2.9k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Michael Tombu

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Michael Tombu

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All Works

18 of 18 papers shown
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Tombu, Michael & David R. Mandel. (2015). When Does Framing Influence Preferences, Risk Perceptions, and Risk Attitudes? The Explicated Valence Account. Journal of Behavioral Decision Making. 28(5). 464–476. 30 indexed citations
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Garner, Kelly, Michael Tombu, & Paul E. Dux. (2014). The influence of training on the attentional blink and psychological refractory period. Attention Perception & Psychophysics. 76(4). 979–999. 23 indexed citations
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Tamber-Rosenau, Benjamin J., Paul E. Dux, Michael Tombu, Christopher L. Asplund, & René Marois. (2013). Amodal Processing in Human Prefrontal Cortex. Journal of Neuroscience. 33(28). 11573–11587. 34 indexed citations
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Ho, Geoffrey, et al.. (2013). Blue Force Tracking. Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting. 57(1). 182–186. 5 indexed citations
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Tombu, Michael, Christopher L. Asplund, Paul E. Dux, et al.. (2011). A Unified attentional bottleneck in the human brain. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 108(33). 13426–13431. 166 indexed citations
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Tombu, Michael & Adriane E. Seiffert. (2010). Tracking planets and moons: mechanisms of object tracking revealed with a new paradigm. Attention Perception & Psychophysics. 73(3). 738–750. 26 indexed citations
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Dux, Paul E., Michael Tombu, Stephenie Harrison, et al.. (2009). Training Improves Multitasking Performance by Increasing the Speed of Information Processing in Human Prefrontal Cortex. Neuron. 63(1). 127–138. 214 indexed citations
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Tombu, Michael & John K. Tsotsos. (2008). Attending to orientation results in an inhibitory surround in orientation space. Perception & Psychophysics. 70(1). 30–35. 19 indexed citations
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Tombu, Michael & Adriane E. Seiffert. (2008). Attentional costs in multiple-object tracking. Cognition. 108(1). 1–25. 80 indexed citations
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Tombu, Michael & Pierre Jolicœur. (2005). Testing the Predictions of the Central Capacity Sharing Model.. Journal of Experimental Psychology Human Perception & Performance. 31(4). 790–802. 101 indexed citations
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Tombu, Michael & John K. Tsotsos. (2005). Attentional inhibitory surrounds in orentation space. Journal of Vision. 5(8). 1013–1013. 11 indexed citations
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Oriet, Chris, Michael Tombu, & Pierre Jolicœur. (2005). Symbolic distance affects two processing loci in the number comparison task. Memory & Cognition. 33(5). 913–926. 32 indexed citations
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Tombu, Michael, et al.. (2005). Interactions between spatial and temporal attention: an attentional blink study. Journal of Vision. 5(8). 109–109.
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Tombu, Michael & Pierre Jolicœur. (2004). Virtually No Evidence for Virtually Perfect Time-Sharing.. Journal of Experimental Psychology Human Perception & Performance. 30(5). 795–810. 88 indexed citations
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Tombu, Michael, et al.. (2004). Features of perception: Exploring the perception of change in a psychological refractory period paradigm. Visual Cognition. 11(6). 751–780. 3 indexed citations
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Tombu, Michael & Pierre Jolicœur. (2003). A central capacity sharing model of dual-task performance.. Journal of Experimental Psychology Human Perception & Performance. 29(1). 3–18. 504 indexed citations breakdown →
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Tombu, Michael & Pierre Jolicœur. (2003). A central capacity sharing model of dual-task performance.. Journal of Experimental Psychology Human Perception & Performance. 29(1). 3–18. 428 indexed citations
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Tombu, Michael & Pierre Jolicœur. (2002). Does size rescaling require central attention?. Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology/Revue canadienne de psychologie expérimentale. 56(1). 10–17. 6 indexed citations

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