Steven J. Luck

52.3k total citations · 18 hit papers
263 papers, 37.3k citations indexed

About

Steven J. Luck is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and Psychiatry and Mental health. According to data from OpenAlex, Steven J. Luck has authored 263 papers receiving a total of 37.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 235 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 36 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and 26 papers in Psychiatry and Mental health. Recurrent topics in Steven J. Luck's work include Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies (189 papers), Visual perception and processing mechanisms (109 papers) and Neural dynamics and brain function (102 papers). Steven J. Luck is often cited by papers focused on Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies (189 papers), Visual perception and processing mechanisms (109 papers) and Neural dynamics and brain function (102 papers). Steven J. Luck collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and United Kingdom. Steven J. Luck's co-authors include Steven A. Hillyard, Edward K. Vogel, Geoffrey F. Woodman, Edward K. Vogel, Emily S. Kappenman, Nicholas Gaspelin, Javier López‐Calderón, Weiwei Zhang, Kimron L. Shapiro and James M. Gold and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Journal of Neuroscience.

In The Last Decade

Steven J. Luck

245 papers receiving 36.4k citations

Hit Papers

The capacity of visual working memory for features and co... 1994 2026 2004 2015 1997 2014 2011 1997 2008 500 1000 1.5k 2.0k 2.5k
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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.

  1. The capacity of visual working memory for features and conjunctions
    1997 2.9k citations Steven J. Luck, Edward K. Vogel Nature profile →
  2. ERPLAB: an open-source toolbox for the analysis of event-related potentials
    2014 1.9k citations Steven J. Luck et al. profile →
  3. The Oxford Handbook of Event-Related Potential Components
    2011 1.7k citations Steven J. Luck, Emily S. Kappenman Oxford University Press eBooks profile →
  4. Neural Mechanisms of Spatial Selective Attention in Areas V1, V2, and V4 of Macaque Visual Cortex
    1997 1.2k citations Steven J. Luck et al. profile →
  5. Discrete fixed-resolution representations in visual working memory
    2008 1.1k citations Steven J. Luck et al. Nature profile →
  6. Electrophysiological correlates of feature analysis during visual search
    1994 1.1k citations Steven J. Luck et al. Psychophysiology profile →
  7. Sensory gain control (amplification) as a mechanism of selective attention: electrophysiological and neuroimaging evidence
    1998 925 citations Edward K. Vogel, Steven J. Luck et al. profile →
  8. Spatial filtering during visual search: Evidence from human electrophysiology.
    1994 916 citations Steven J. Luck et al. profile →
  9. Event-related potential studies of attention
    2000 849 citations Steven J. Luck, Geoffrey F. Woodman et al. profile →
  10. The visual N1 component as an index of a discrimination process
    2000 826 citations Steven J. Luck et al. Psychophysiology profile →
  11. How to get statistically significant effects in any ERP experiment (and why you shouldn't)
    2016 816 citations Steven J. Luck, Nicholas Gaspelin Psychophysiology profile →
  12. Storage of features, conjunctions, and objects in visual working memory.
    2001 738 citations Geoffrey F. Woodman, Steven J. Luck et al. profile →
  13. Visual working memory capacity: from psychophysics and neurobiology to individual differences
    2013 736 citations Steven J. Luck et al. profile →
  14. Storage of features, conjunctions, and objects in visual working memory.
    2001 595 citations Edward K. Vogel, Geoffrey F. Woodman et al. profile →
  15. Electrophysiological evidence for a postperceptual locus of suppression during the attentional blink.
    1998 571 citations Edward K. Vogel, Steven J. Luck et al. profile →
  16. Committee report: Publication guidelines and recommendations for studies using electroencephalography and magnetoencephalography
    2013 487 citations Emily S. Kappenman, Steven J. Luck et al. Psychophysiology profile →
  17. The Role of Inhibition in Avoiding Distraction by Salient Stimuli
    2017 293 citations Nicholas Gaspelin, Steven J. Luck profile →
  18. Progress toward resolving the attentional capture debate
    2020 219 citations Steven J. Luck, Nicholas Gaspelin et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Steven J. Luck United States 92 33.3k 8.0k 3.9k 2.6k 1.9k 263 37.3k
Marvin M. Chun United States 73 24.0k 0.7× 6.1k 0.8× 2.4k 0.6× 2.0k 0.8× 995 0.5× 169 26.8k
Gordon L. Shulman United States 68 38.9k 1.2× 7.0k 0.9× 3.4k 0.9× 2.0k 0.8× 4.3k 2.3× 133 44.8k
Glyn W. Humphreys United Kingdom 81 24.6k 0.7× 6.7k 0.8× 5.6k 1.4× 5.5k 2.1× 1.7k 0.9× 656 29.4k
Nancy Kanwisher United States 98 39.0k 1.2× 9.3k 1.2× 6.8k 1.8× 4.9k 1.9× 1.5k 0.8× 284 44.4k
Maurizio Corbetta United States 90 53.1k 1.6× 7.9k 1.0× 3.5k 0.9× 2.1k 0.8× 4.9k 2.6× 307 60.1k
Steven A. Hillyard United States 103 41.6k 1.2× 12.1k 1.5× 3.6k 0.9× 5.4k 2.0× 1.6k 0.8× 225 45.3k
Stephen M. Kosslyn United States 87 19.0k 0.6× 9.2k 1.1× 5.4k 1.4× 5.5k 2.1× 1.5k 0.8× 282 30.4k
Lutz Jäncke Switzerland 88 19.0k 0.6× 5.9k 0.7× 4.1k 1.1× 2.5k 0.9× 2.6k 1.3× 456 27.1k
Leslie G. Ungerleider United States 84 28.0k 0.8× 5.0k 0.6× 4.3k 1.1× 2.3k 0.9× 1.6k 0.8× 197 32.2k
Jon Driver United Kingdom 87 19.6k 0.6× 5.8k 0.7× 2.7k 0.7× 1.5k 0.6× 793 0.4× 185 22.1k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Barch, Deanna M., Molly Erickson, Megan A. Boudewyn, et al.. (2025). Auditory Perceptual Biases in Schizophrenia: A Case-Control Study Using Sine-Wave Speech.
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Kiat, John E., et al.. (2025). Enhanced Working Memory Representations for Rare Events. Psychophysiology. 62(3). e70038–e70038.
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Luck, Steven J., et al.. (2024). Using multivariate pattern analysis to increase effect sizes for event‐related potential analyses. Psychophysiology. 61(7). e14570–e14570. 9 indexed citations
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Zhang, Guanghui, et al.. (2024). Optimal filters for ERP research II : Recommended settings for seven common ERP components. Psychophysiology. 61(6). e14530–e14530. 21 indexed citations
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Zhang, Guanghui, et al.. (2024). Evaluating the effectiveness of artifact correction and rejection in event‐related potential research. Psychophysiology. 61(5). e14511–e14511. 11 indexed citations
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Gold, James M., Sonia Bansal, Benjamin M. Robinson, Alan Anticevic, & Steven J. Luck. (2024). Opposite-Direction Spatial Working Memory Biases in People With Schizophrenia and Healthy Control Participants. Biological Psychiatry Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging. 10(2). 167–174.
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Zhang, Guanghui, et al.. (2024). Assessing the effectiveness of spatial PCA on SVM-based decoding of EEG data. NeuroImage. 293. 120625–120625. 13 indexed citations
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Zhang, Guanghui & Steven J. Luck. (2023). Variations in ERP data quality across paradigms, participants, and scoring procedures. Psychophysiology. 60(7). e14264–e14264. 20 indexed citations
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Cantrell, Lisa, et al.. (2022). A new perspective on the role of physical salience in visual search: Graded effect of salience on infants’ attention.. Developmental Psychology. 59(2). 326–343. 3 indexed citations
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Robinson, Benjamin M., et al.. (2021). ACNP 60th Annual Meeting: Poster Abstracts P551 – P830. Neuropsychopharmacology. 46(S1). 369–518. 2 indexed citations
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Erickson, Molly, et al.. (2021). Neural basis of the visual working memory deficit in schizophrenia: Merging evidence from fMRI and EEG. Schizophrenia Research. 236. 61–68. 6 indexed citations
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Kappenman, Emily S., Jaclyn L. Farrens, Wendy Zhang, Andrew X Stewart, & Steven J. Luck. (2020). ERP CORE: An open resource for human event-related potential research. NeuroImage. 225. 117465–117465. 116 indexed citations
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Luck, Steven J. & Emily S. Kappenman. (2020). Resources to assist EEG/ERP researchers during the COVID‐19 pandemic. Psychophysiology. 57(9). e13659–e13659. 1 indexed citations
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Gaspelin, Nicholas & Steven J. Luck. (2018). “Top-down” Does Not Mean “Voluntary”. Journal of Cognition. 1(1). 37 indexed citations
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Luck, Steven J., et al.. (2013). Continuous versus discrete models of visual working memory capacity. Journal of Vision. 13(9). 1364–1364. 1 indexed citations
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Kappenman, Emily S. & Steven J. Luck. (2011). ERP Components: The Ups and Downs of Brainwave Recordings. Oxford University Press eBooks. 93 indexed citations
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Luck, Steven J. & Emily S. Kappenman. (2011). ERP Components and Selective Attention. Oxford University Press eBooks. 85 indexed citations
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Carter, C, Steven C. Dakin, James M. Gold, et al.. (2010). Translational Development and Psychometric Comparison of Two Visual Integration Tasks. UCL Discovery (University College London).
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Woodman, Geoffrey F. & Steven J. Luck. (2003). Dissociations Among Attention, Perception, and Awareness During Object-Substitution Masking. Psychological Science. 14(6). 605–611. 155 indexed citations
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Luck, Steven J. & Edward K. Vogel. (1997). The capacity of visual working memory for features and conjunctions. Nature. 390(6657). 279–281. 2921 indexed citations breakdown →

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