Peter McLeod

5.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
53 papers, 3.4k citations indexed

About

Peter McLeod is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Developmental and Educational Psychology and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Peter McLeod has authored 53 papers receiving a total of 3.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 24 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 13 papers in Developmental and Educational Psychology and 12 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. Recurrent topics in Peter McLeod's work include Visual perception and processing mechanisms (11 papers), Motor Control and Adaptation (9 papers) and Visual and Cognitive Learning Processes (7 papers). Peter McLeod is often cited by papers focused on Visual perception and processing mechanisms (11 papers), Motor Control and Adaptation (9 papers) and Visual and Cognitive Learning Processes (7 papers). Peter McLeod collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Australia and United States. Peter McLeod's co-authors include Michael F. Land, Fernand Gobet, Merim Bilalić, Zoltán Dienes, Jon Driver, Navindra Persaud, Alan Cowey, Nick Reed, Edmund T. Rolls and Kim Plunkett and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Nature Neuroscience and Annual Review of Psychology.

In The Last Decade

Peter McLeod

52 papers receiving 3.2k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

From eye movements to actions: how batsmen hit the ball

2000 538 citations Michael F. Land, Peter McLeod Nature Neuroscience profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Peter McLeod United Kingdom	31	2.1k	764	695	599	337	53	3.4k
Claudia Carello United States	36	3.4k 1.6×	846 1.1×	1.7k 2.4×	793 1.3×	148 0.4×	121	4.6k
Claire F. Michaels Netherlands	33	2.4k 1.1×	737 1.0×	1.2k 1.7×	366 0.6×	103 0.3×	85	3.2k
Stephen R. Mitroff United States	34	1.9k 0.9×	497 0.7×	713 1.0×	845 1.4×	322 1.0×	117	3.3k
M. T. Turvey United States	32	3.3k 1.6×	605 0.8×	1.7k 2.4×	477 0.8×	140 0.4×	59	4.4k
Robert E. Shaw United States	26	1.2k 0.6×	478 0.6×	645 0.9×	548 0.9×	352 1.0×	76	3.2k
James C. Johnston United States	36	5.5k 2.6×	989 1.3×	1.2k 1.7×	1.7k 2.9×	400 1.2×	91	7.1k
A. T. Welford United States	25	2.5k 1.2×	587 0.8×	1.0k 1.4×	715 1.2×	97 0.3×	80	4.3k
Thomas H. Carr United States	36	4.4k 2.1×	2.9k 3.9×	1.3k 1.8×	1.8k 3.1×	180 0.5×	79	7.3k
Margaret Jean Intons-Peterson United States	16	2.2k 1.0×	746 1.0×	614 0.9×	1.0k 1.7×	185 0.5×	38	3.3k
Peter A. Frensch Germany	39	2.5k 1.2×	1.7k 2.2×	1.0k 1.5×	1.2k 2.0×	129 0.4×	114	5.5k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Peter McLeod

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Ferguson, A, et al.. (2025). Exploiting Unstructured Sparsity in Fully Homomorphic Encrypted DNNs. ENLIGHTEN (Jurnal Bimbingan dan Konseling Islam). 31–38. 1 indexed citations

McLeod, Peter, et al.. (2012). Comparing data mining with ensemble classification of breast cancer masses in digital mammograms. Figshare. 55–63. 4 indexed citations

Reed, Nick, Peter McLeod, & Zoltán Dienes. (2009). Implicit knowledge and motor skill: What people who know how to catch don’t know. Consciousness and Cognition. 19(1). 63–76. 37 indexed citations

Verma, Brijesh, et al.. (2009). Classification of benign and malignant patterns in digital mammograms for the diagnosis of breast cancer. Expert Systems with Applications. 37(4). 3344–3351. 66 indexed citations

Bilalić, Merim, Peter McLeod, & Fernand Gobet. (2009). Specialization Effect and Its Influence on Memory and Problem Solving in Expert Chess Players. Cognitive Science. 33(6). 1117–1143. 56 indexed citations

Bilalić, Merim, Peter McLeod, & Fernand Gobet. (2008). Expert and “novice” problem solving strategies in chess: Sixty years of citing de Groot (1946). Thinking & Reasoning. 14(4). 395–408. 29 indexed citations

McLeod, Peter, Nick Reed, Stuart J. Gilson, & Andrew Glennerster. (2008). How soccer players head the ball: A test of optic acceleration cancellation theory with virtual reality. Vision Research. 48(13). 1479–1487. 26 indexed citations

Bilalić, Merim, Peter McLeod, & Fernand Gobet. (2008). Why good thoughts block better ones: The mechanism of the pernicious Einstellung (set) effect. Cognition. 108(3). 652–661. 146 indexed citations

Persaud, Navindra & Peter McLeod. (2007). Wagering demonstrates subconscious processing in a binary exclusion task. Consciousness and Cognition. 17(3). 565–575. 31 indexed citations

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Persaud, Navindra, Peter McLeod, & Alan Cowey. (2007). Post-decision wagering objectively measures awareness. Nature Neuroscience. 10(2). 257–261. 292 indexed citations

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McLeod, Peter, Nick Reed, & Zoltán Dienes. (2006). The generalized optic acceleration cancellation theory of catching.. Journal of Experimental Psychology Human Perception & Performance. 32(1). 139–148. 49 indexed citations

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McLeod, Peter, Nick Reed, & Zoltán Dienes. (2003). How fielders arrive in time to catch the ball. Nature. 426(6964). 244–245. 36 indexed citations

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McLeod, Peter, Nick Reed, & Zoltán Dienes. (2001). Toward a unified fielder theory: What we do not yet know about how people run to catch a ball.. Journal of Experimental Psychology Human Perception & Performance. 27(6). 1347–1355. 8 indexed citations

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McLeod, Peter, Tim Shallice, & David C. Plaut. (2000). Attractor dynamics in word recognition: converging evidence from errors by normal subjects, dyslexic patients and a connectionist model. Cognition. 74(1). 91–114. 16 indexed citations

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Land, Michael F. & Peter McLeod. (2000). From eye movements to actions: how batsmen hit the ball. Nature Neuroscience. 3(12). 1340–1345. 538 indexed citations breakdown →

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Driver, Jon, Peter McLeod, & Zoltán Dienes. (1992). Motion coherence and conjunction search: Implications for guided search theory. Perception & Psychophysics. 51(1). 79–85. 85 indexed citations

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McLeod, Peter, et al.. (1991). TIMING ACCURACY AND DECISION TIME IN HIGH-SPEED BALL GAMES. Oxford University Research Archive (ORA) (University of Oxford). 39 indexed citations

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McLeod, Peter, Charles A. Heywood, Jon Driver, & Josef Zihl. (1989). Selective deficit of visual search in moving displays after extrastriate damage. Nature. 339(6224). 466–467. 32 indexed citations

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McLeod, Peter, et al.. (1988). Visual search for a conjunction of movement and form is parallel. Nature. 332(6160). 154–155. 307 indexed citations

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McLeod, Peter, et al.. (1979). How to Reduce Manual Response Interference in the Multiple Task Environment. Ergonomics. 22(4). 469–475. 3 indexed citations

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