From neurophysiology to perception

Signal detection theory and psychophysics

1967 • 8,103 citations

The Structure of Scientific Revolutions

1996 • 7,062 citations

What Is It Like to Be a Bat?

1974 • 6,122 citations

Mental Rotation of Three-Dimensional Objects

1971 • 5,995 citations

Minnesota studies in the philosophy of science

1956 • 4,302 citations

A theory of memory retrieval.

1978 • 3,960 citations

The information available in brief visual presentations.

1960 • 3,875 citations

Application of fourier analysis to the visibility of gratings

1968 • 2,985 citations

Sensory Communication

1961 • 2,849 citations

DISCHARGE PATTERNS AND FUNCTIONAL ORGANIZATION OF MAMMALIAN RETINA

1953 • 2,579 citations

Chronometric explorations of mind

1978 • 2,422 citations

Which elements are excited in electrical stimulation of mammalian central nervous system: A review

1975 • 2,007 citations

Introduction to the Psychology of Hearing

1977 • 1,781 citations

Augmenting Mental Chronometry: The P300 as a Measure of Stimulus Evaluation Time

1977 • 1,687 citations

Methodological solipsism considered as a research strategy in cognitive psychology

1980 • 1,437 citations

Attention and performance IV

1973 • 1,424 citations

Organization of the retina of the mudpuppy, Necturus maculosus. II. Intracellular recording.

1969 • 1,378 citations

Speed-accuracy tradeoff and information processing dynamics

1977 • 1,271 citations

Implications of sustained and transient channels for theories of visual pattern masking, saccadic suppression, and information processing.

1976 • 1,234 citations

Handbook of Learning and Cognitive Processes

1982 • 1,096 citations

Intelligence, Information Processing, and Analogical Reasoning: The Componential Analysis of Human Abilities

1978 • 990 citations

Cerebral correlates of conscious experience

1978 • 942 citations

Contributions to Sensory Physiology

1965 • 717 citations

Temporal and spatial summation in human vision at different background intensities

1958 • 681 citations

Handbook of experimental psychology.

1951 • 534 citations

Changes in time scale and sensitivity in the ommatidia of Limulus

1964 • 523 citations

The nature and plausibility of Cognitivism

1978 • 509 citations

NATURE OF AVERAGE EVOKED POTENTIALS TO SOUND AND OTHER STIMULI IN MAN*

1964 • 486 citations

Analysis of Factorial Experiments by Estimating Monotone Transformations of the Data

1965 • 486 citations

The senses and the intellect.

1855 • 474 citations

Handbook of Sensory Physiology

1973 • 459 citations

Vision and Visual Perception

1966 • 453 citations

Learning centers of rat brain mapped by measuring latencies of conditioned unit responses.

1972 • 433 citations

Increment thresholds at low intensities considered as signal/noise discriminations

1957 • 417 citations

The Vertebrate Retina. Principles of Structure and Function

1974 • 413 citations

Two operations in character recognition: Some evidence from reaction-time measurements

1967 • 405 citations

PONTINE AND EXTRAPONTINE MYELINOLYSIS

1979 • 398 citations

Sensory Processes: The New Psychophysics

1975 • 395 citations

Conjoint-measurement analysis of composition rules in psychology.

1971 • 381 citations

Theory of Temporal Auditory Summation

1960 • 378 citations

Responses of Human Somatosensory Cortex to Stimuli below Threshold for Conscious Sensation

1967 • 370 citations

The generation and spread of S‐potentials in fish (Cyprinidae)

1967 • 369 citations

Speed-Accuracy Trade-Off in Recognition Memory

1973 • 368 citations

Interaction of visual and cognitive effects in word recognition.

1977 • 367 citations

Perturbation Techniques in Mathematics, Physics, and Engineering.

1965 • 332 citations

Relation between Hearing Threshold and Duration for Tone Pulses

1959 • 321 citations

Common strategies for light adaptation in the peripheral visual systems of fly and dragonfly

1978 • 320 citations

PRODUCTION OF THRESHOLD LEVELS OF CONSCIOUS SENSATION BY ELECTRICAL STIMULATION OF HUMAN SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX

1964 • 317 citations

Neural Theories of Simple Visual Discriminations*†

1963 • 302 citations

The nature of mental abilities.

1979 • 296 citations

Neurophysiology Studied in Man

1973 • 296 citations

Metacontrast and lateral inhibition.

1971 • 280 citations

Representation and process in linear syllogistic reasoning.

1980 • 278 citations

BRIGHTNESS DISCRIMINATION AS A FUNCTION OF THE DURATION OF THE INCREMENT IN INTENSITY

1938 • 262 citations

Temporal Summation of Loudness: An Analysis

1969 • 261 citations

The relative judgment theory of two choice response time

1975 • 253 citations

Properties of the receptor potential in Pacinian corpuscles

1953 • 252 citations

Reaction times in the detection of gratings by human observers: A probabilistic mechanism

1975 • 240 citations

The functional relation of visual evoked response and reaction time to stimulus intensity

1966 • 235 citations

The visibility of transient changes of luminance

1970 • 235 citations

Perceptual latencies to sinusoidal gratings

1976 • 231 citations

List length and the time course of recognition in immediate memory

1976 • 230 citations

Visual persistence: Effects of flash luminance, duration and energy

1974 • 227 citations

Perception and Experience

1978 • 226 citations

Relationship between Critical Flicker-Frequency and a Set of Low-Frequency Characteristics of the Eye

1954 • 220 citations

Peripheral neural determinants of temperature discrimination in man: a correlative study of responses to cooling skin.

1973 • 215 citations

Control of Retinal Sensitivity

1974 • 214 citations

Brightness and loudness as functions of stimulus duration

1966 • 211 citations

The sensations : their functions, processes and mechanisms

1952 • 199 citations

Distributed sensory coding applied to simulations of iconic storage and metacontrast

1978 • 187 citations

Direct estimates of the apparent duration of a flash.

1970 • 184 citations

Auditory Detection of a Noise Signal

1960 • 184 citations

Responses of cat retinal ganglion cells to brief flashes of light

1970 • 182 citations

Clinical Electroretinography

1966 • 179 citations

Visual Receptors and Retinal Interaction

1969 • 178 citations

Advances in psychophysics

1976 • 175 citations

Senile changes in visual acuity.

1975 • 174 citations

Backward masking.

1963 • 174 citations

Perception lag as a function of stimulus luminance

1963 • 170 citations

THE DURATION OF THE PRESENT

1967 • 164 citations

Relation of brightness to duration and luminance under light-and dark-adaptation

1964 • 162 citations

Brightness function: Effect of area and duration

1973 • 161 citations

AUDITORY REACTION TIME AND THE DERIVATION OF EQUAL LOUDNESS CONTOURS FOR THE MONKEY¹

1966 • 161 citations

The Foreperiod Effect Revisited

1975 • 160 citations

Functional organization of catfish retina

1977 • 158 citations

Visual intensity judgments: An empirical rule and a theory.

1969 • 154 citations

Spatial and temporal integration properties of units in first optic ganglion of dipterans.

1972 • 154 citations

Locus of the stimulus probability effect.

1973 • 153 citations

The Effect of Frequency Spectrum on Temporal Integration of Energy in the Ear

1947 • 144 citations

Quantification of shared capacity processing in auditory and visual discrimination

1967 • 144 citations

Visual adaptation: Retinal transduction, brightness and sensitivity

1976 • 143 citations

Visual reaction time and the Broca-Sulzer phenomenon.

1961 • 142 citations

Reaction time as a measure of the temporal response properties of individual colour mechanisms

1973 • 139 citations

Cognitive Psychophysiology: Principles of Covert Behavior

1980 • 139 citations

Model of visual adaptation and contrast detection

1970 • 139 citations

Stimulus intensity and information processing

1977 • 139 citations

Regenerative amacrine cell depolarization and formation of on‐off ganglion cell response.

1977 • 138 citations

Cyclic GMP injected into retinal rod outer segments increases latency and amplitude of response to illumination.

1978 • 137 citations

Reaction Time as a Measure of Span of Attention

1948 • 127 citations

Response of units in striate cortex of squirrel monkeys to visual and electrical stimuli.

1974 • 124 citations

Action Spectra and Adaptation Properties of Carp Photoreceptors

1973 • 122 citations

Brief flash brightness

1964 • 121 citations

Synaptic organization and ionic basis of on and off channels in mudpuppy retina. III. A model of ganglion cell receptive field organization based on chloride-free experiments.

1976 • 119 citations

Variation in the response latency of cat retinal ganglion cells

1973 • 119 citations

Critical Frequency Relations in Scotopic Vision

1922 • 118 citations

A Theory of Intermittent Vision

1922 • 117 citations

Basis for Judgments of Relative Brightness*

1958 • 116 citations

The mechanism of flicker and fusion studied on single retinal elements in the dark-adapted eye of the cat.

1952 • 116 citations

Nonlinear analysis with an arbitrary stimulus ensemble

1979 • 115 citations

Time-intensity reciprocity under various conditions of adaptation and backward masking.

1966 • 115 citations

Antidromic Activation of Renshaw Cells and their Axonal Projections

1973 • 113 citations

Color Vision-An Historical Introduction

1979 • 111 citations

ELECTRICAL STIMULATION OF MONKEY BRAIN WITH VARIOUS FREQUENCIES AND PULSE DURATIONS

1956 • 107 citations

The Eye and Aging

2015 • 102 citations

Spatial Discrimination of Cutaneous Warmth

1973 • 101 citations

Radial Localization of a Single Stimulus as a Function of Luminance and Duration of Exposure*

1955 • 99 citations

Stimulus intensity and reaction time: Evaluation of a decision-theory model.

1970 • 99 citations

Auditory hallucinations and left temporal lobe pathology

1975 • 98 citations

On the brightness of short and long flashes

1968 • 92 citations

Search reaction time for single targets in multiletter stimuli with brief visual displays

1973 • 92 citations

A power law transformation resulting in a class of short-term integrators that produce time-intensity trades for noise bursts

1978 • 91 citations

Luminance-Duration Relationship in the Electric Response of the Human Retina*

1956 • 90 citations

SECTION OF PSYCHOLOGY: THE ROLE OF PROPRIOCEPTION IN THE CONTROL OF BEHAVIOR*

1958 • 88 citations

Transient Responses to Sudden Illumination in Cells of the Eye of Limulus

1963 • 88 citations

Effects of Changes in the Intensity of White Noise on Simultaneity Judgements and Simple Reaction Time

1971 • 86 citations

Temporal Summation and Phenomenal Simultaneity: Experiments with the Radius Display

1970 • 84 citations

Critical duration for the resolution of form: Centrally or peripherally determined?

1967 • 83 citations

Temporal Summation Phenomena at Threshold: Their Relation to Visual Mechanisms

1970 • 82 citations

The span of apprehension as a function of exposure duration

1963 • 82 citations

Cone pigments in the normal human fovea

1963 • 82 citations

NEURAL CIRCUITS INVOLVED IN VISUOMOTOR REACTION TIME IN MONKEYS

1967 • 81 citations

THE VARIATION OF THE INTENSITY OF VISUAL SENSATION WITH THE DURATION OF THE STIMULUS

1904 • 81 citations

The interpretation of two-pulse measures of temporal resolution in vision

1968 • 80 citations

The dynamic behaviour of photoreceptor cells in the fly in response to random (white noise) stimulation at a range of temperatures.

1978 • 80 citations

Linear theory and the psychophysics of flicker

1964 • 80 citations

The Effect of Duration of Onset and Cessation of Light Flash on the Intensity-Time Relation in the Peripheral Retina*

1951 • 78 citations

Visual latencies at photopic levels of retinal illuminance

1971 • 76 citations

Time-intensity reciprocity in acuity as a function of luminance and figure-ground contrast

1966 • 75 citations

Reaction time as a measure of temporal summation at suprathreshold levels

1977 • 75 citations

The cerebrocortical projection of hypoglossal afferents

1969 • 74 citations

Photo-chemical changes in the dark-adapting human retina

1962 • 74 citations

Effect of Test-Flash Duration upon the Spectral Sensitivity of the Eye*

1962 • 72 citations

The influence of stimulus duration on reaction time.

1913 • 71 citations

Some Comments on the Ives Theory of Flicker

1934 • 69 citations

[Evoked potentials in psychiatry].

1988 • 67 citations

Retinal mechanisms of visual latency

1978 • 67 citations

Pathways and polarities of synaptic interactions in the inner retina of the mudpuppy: II. Insight revealed by an analysis of latency and threshold

1979 • 63 citations

II Facililation et inhibition. Paramètres de la fonction visuelle

1942 • 63 citations

Naming latency facilitation: An analysis of the encoding component in recognition reaction time.

1972 • 63 citations

CUTANEOUS TACTILE LOCALIZATION

1931 • 62 citations

Vision and fundus reflectometry

1965 • 61 citations

Quantum Concepts in Visual Intensity-Discrimination

1950 • 59 citations

Short-term retention during a simultaneous detection task

1969 • 59 citations

Speed-accuracy tradeoff in visual detection: Applications of neural counting and timing

1977 • 58 citations

On the psychophysiological identification of covert nonoral language processes.

1972 • 57 citations

Adaptive Threshold Procedures: BUDTIF

1968 • 56 citations

Luminance-duration relation in reaction time to spectral stimuli

1976 • 55 citations

The threshold of visual transients

1976 • 54 citations

Monaural and binaural temporal integration of noise bursts

1976 • 54 citations

Perceived numerosity: An information processing analysis.

1975 • 53 citations

Some properties of the components of the limulus ommatidial potential

1967 • 52 citations

Electrical Stimulation of a Human Ventrolateral‐Subventrolateral Thalamic Target Area

1969 • 51 citations

Event-Related Brain Potentials — Manifestations of Cognitive Activity

1979 • 50 citations

What can one learn from a strength-duration experiment?

1978 • 49 citations

Distributed sensory coding applied to simulations of iconic storage and metacontrast

1978 • 48 citations

The Effect of Brightness in the Range of Attention Experiment

1928 • 48 citations

Failure of Bloch’ s law for simple reaction time

1974 • 46 citations

Absolute and difference limen in visual perception as a function of the duration of stimulus pulse

1978 • 44 citations

Visual evoked responses to colored light stimuli (A)

1975 • 44 citations

Sensory Processes at the Neuronal and Behavioral Levels

1972 • 32 citations