Tom Foulsham

6.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
105 papers, 4.6k citations indexed

About

Tom Foulsham is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Tom Foulsham has authored 105 papers receiving a total of 4.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 77 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 40 papers in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition and 22 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. Recurrent topics in Tom Foulsham's work include Visual Attention and Saliency Detection (40 papers), Visual perception and processing mechanisms (34 papers) and Face Recognition and Perception (31 papers). Tom Foulsham is often cited by papers focused on Visual Attention and Saliency Detection (40 papers), Visual perception and processing mechanisms (34 papers) and Face Recognition and Perception (31 papers). Tom Foulsham collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Canada and United States. Tom Foulsham's co-authors include Alan Kingstone, Geoffrey Underwood, Joey T. Cheng, Jessica L. Tracy, Joseph Henrich, Geoffrey Underwood, Esther Walker, Megan Freeth, Kaitlin Laidlaw and Evan F. Risko and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Tom Foulsham

101 papers receiving 4.5k 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.

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Tom Foulsham United Kingdom	32	2.6k	1.3k	1.0k	1.0k	902	105	4.6k
Steven Franconeri United States	36	2.5k 1.0×	1.6k 1.2×	677 0.7×	1.1k 1.1×	364 0.4×	125	4.8k
Marcus Nyström Sweden	30	1.9k 0.7×	1.1k 0.8×	699 0.7×	965 1.0×	2.7k 3.0×	119	5.8k
Kenneth Holmqvist Sweden	38	2.1k 0.8×	1.3k 1.0×	895 0.9×	1.5k 1.5×	2.8k 3.1×	136	6.8k
Tim J. Smith United Kingdom	29	1.6k 0.6×	863 0.6×	337 0.3×	531 0.5×	594 0.7×	103	3.1k
Todd S. Horowitz United States	41	4.8k 1.9×	1.5k 1.2×	1.1k 1.1×	1.5k 1.5×	679 0.8×	114	7.3k
Thomas W. Schubert Portugal	34	1.7k 0.6×	508 0.4×	2.3k 2.2×	1.4k 1.4×	2.0k 2.3×	73	5.6k
Bruno Laeng Norway	35	3.5k 1.4×	613 0.5×	1.2k 1.2×	1.8k 1.8×	448 0.5×	153	5.7k
Ignace T. C. Hooge Netherlands	38	2.5k 1.0×	831 0.6×	548 0.5×	700 0.7×	1.6k 1.7×	148	4.4k
Fred W. Mast Switzerland	39	2.9k 1.1×	326 0.2×	923 0.9×	1.2k 1.2×	562 0.6×	191	5.0k
Roberto Caldara Switzerland	34	3.9k 1.5×	1.0k 0.8×	1.1k 1.0×	2.5k 2.5×	229 0.3×	112	4.9k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Tom Foulsham

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Mishra, Ashwani Kumar, et al.. (2025). Cognitive load affects gaze dynamics during real-world tasks. Experimental Brain Research. 243(4). 82–82. 2 indexed citations

Wintergerst, Maximilian W. M., et al.. (2024). Effects of lorazepam on saccadic eye movements – evidence from prosaccade and free viewing tasks. Psychopharmacology. 242(2). 271–284. 2 indexed citations

Foulsham, Tom, et al.. (2023). Exploring the use of a dance-based exergame to enhance autistic children’s social communication skills in the home and school environments: a feasibility study. International Journal of Developmental Disabilities. 71(1). 141–158. 2 indexed citations

Cohn, Neil & Tom Foulsham. (2022). Meaning above (and in) the head: Combinatorial visual morphology from comics and emoji. Memory & Cognition. 50(7). 1381–1398. 4 indexed citations

Foulsham, Tom, et al.. (2022). Don’t look at it! The effects of instruction on attention to social and non-social elements in complex images.. Journal of Vision. 22(14). 3231–3231.

Foulsham, Tom, Walter F. Bischof, Nicola Anderson, & Alan Kingstone. (2020). Turning the (virtual) world around: patterns in saccade direction vary with picture orientation and shape in virtual reality. Journal of Vision. 20(8). 21–21. 2 indexed citations

Foulsham, Tom, et al.. (2020). Sensitivity to Social Agency in Autistic Adults. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders. 51(9). 3245–3255. 3 indexed citations

Foulsham, Tom, Florentina J. Hettinga, David Parry, et al.. (2017). Information Acquisition Differences between Experienced and Novice Time Trial Cyclists. Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise. 49(9). 1884–1898. 13 indexed citations

Cohn, Neil, et al.. (2016). Meaning above the head: combinatorial constraints on the visual vocabulary of comics. Journal of Cognitive Psychology. 28(5). 559–574. 12 indexed citations

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Foulsham, Tom, Florentina J. Hettinga, Dave Parry, et al.. (2015). Differences in visual information-seeking behavior between expert and novice time-trial cyclists. 4(2). 1 indexed citations

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Foulsham, Tom, James Farley, & Alan Kingstone. (2013). Mind wandering in sentence reading: Decoupling the link between mind and eye.. Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology/Revue canadienne de psychologie expérimentale. 67(1). 51–59. 68 indexed citations

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Foulsham, Tom. (2012). “Eyes Closed” and “Eyes Open” Expectations Guide Fixations in Real-World Search. Cognitive Science. 34(34). 120–120. 1 indexed citations

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Dawson, Shane, Leah P. Macfadyen, Evan F. Risko, Tom Foulsham, & Alan Kingstone. (2012). Using technology to encourage self-directed learning. ASCILITE Publications. 246–255. 7 indexed citations

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Foulsham, Tom, et al.. (2012). Leftward biases in picture scanning and line bisection: A gaze-contingent window study. Vision Research. 78. 14–25. 73 indexed citations

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Dewhurst, R.J., et al.. (2011). A new method for comparing scanpaths based on vectors and dimensions. Journal of Vision. 11(11). 502–502. 2 indexed citations

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Foulsham, Tom, Esther Walker, & Alan Kingstone. (2011). The where, what and when of gaze allocation in the lab and the natural environment. Vision Research. 51(17). 1920–1931. 357 indexed citations

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Laidlaw, Kaitlin, Tom Foulsham, Gustav Kuhn, & Alan Kingstone. (2011). Potential social interactions are important to social attention. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 108(14). 5548–5553. 227 indexed citations

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Foulsham, Tom & Geoffrey Underwood. (2010). If Visual Saliency Predicts Search, Then Why? Evidence from Normal and Gaze-Contingent Search Tasks in Natural Scenes. Cognitive Computation. 3(1). 48–63. 18 indexed citations

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Foulsham, Tom, Jason J.S. Barton, Alan Kingstone, Richard Dewhurst, & Geoffrey Underwood. (2009). Fixation and saliency during search of natural scenes: The case of visual agnosia. Neuropsychologia. 47(8-9). 1994–2003. 27 indexed citations

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Foulsham, Tom, et al.. (2008). Knowledge-Based Patterns of Remembering: Eye Movement Scanpaths Reflect Domain Experience. Lecture notes in computer science. 5298. 125–144. 1 indexed citations

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