Most cited papers in Visual perception and processing mechanisms
What are the most cited papers in Visual perception and processing mechanisms?
The most cited paper in Visual perception and processing mechanisms is "Receptive fields, binocular interaction and functional architecture in the cat's visual cortex" (David Hunter Hubel, T. N. Wiesel, 1962), with 13,971 citations. Next come "Control of goal-directed and stimulus-driven attention in the brain" (13,238) and "A feature-integration theory of attention" (12,545).
Showing 50 of 100 papers. Every paper with more than 2,069 citations is listed.
| # | Paper | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Receptive fields, binocular interaction and functional architecture in the cat's visual cortex David Hunter Hubel, T. N. Wiesel · The Journal of Physiology | 1962 | 13,971 |
| 2 | Control of goal-directed and stimulus-driven attention in the brain Maurizio Corbetta, Gordon L. Shulman · Nature reviews. Neuroscience | Mar 2002 | 13,238 |
| 3 | A feature-integration theory of attention Anne Treisman, Garry A. Gelade · Cognitive Psychology | 1980 | 12,545 |
| 4 | Cortical Surface-Based Analysis Anders Martin Dale, Bruce R. Fischl, Martin I. Sereno · NeuroImage | Feb 1999 | 11,631 |
| 5 | A model of saliency-based visual attention for rapid scene analysis Laurent Itti, Christof Koch, Ernst Niebur · IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence | 1998 | 11,422 |
| 6 | Determining optical flow Berthold K. P. Horn, Brian G. Schunck · Artificial Intelligence | Aug 1981 | 10,151 |
| 7 | Statistical parametric maps in functional imaging: A general linear approach Karl John Friston, Andrew P. Holmes, Keith J. Worsley et al. · Human Brain Mapping | 1994 | 9,877 |
| 8 | Neural Mechanisms of Selective Visual Attention Robert Desimone, John S. Duncan · Annual Review of Neuroscience | Mar 1995 | 8,421 |
| 9 | Distributed Hierarchical Processing in the Primate Cerebral Cortex D.J. Felleman, David C. Van Essen · Cerebral Cortex | 1991 | 8,043 |
| 10 | Structural absorption by barbule microstructures of super black bird of paradise feathers Dakota E. McCoy, Teresa J. Feo, Todd Alan Harvey et al. · Nature Communications | 27 Dec 2017 | 7,502 |
| 11 | Effects of noise letters upon the identification of a target letter in a nonsearch task Barbara A. Eriksen, Charles W. Eriksen · Perception & Psychophysics | 1974 | 7,409 |
| 12 | Separate visual pathways for perception and action Melvyn Alan Goodale, A. David Milner · Trends in Neurosciences | 1992 | 6,642 |
| 13 | Cortical Surface-Based Analysis Bruce R. Fischl, Martin I. Sereno, Anders Martin Dale · NeuroImage | Feb 1999 | 6,470 |
| 14 | Theory of edge detection David G. Marr, Ellen C. Hildreth · Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences | 29 Feb 1980 | 6,259 |
| 15 | Emergence of simple-cell receptive field properties by learning a sparse code for natural images Bruno A. Olshausen, David J. Field · Nature | Jun 1996 | 5,901 |
| 16 | Predictive coding in the visual cortex: a functional interpretation of some extra-classical receptive-field effects Rajesh P. N. Rao, Dana H. Ballard · Nature Neuroscience | 1999 | 5,887 |
| 17 | Global Prevalence of Myopia and High Myopia and Temporal Trends from 2000 through 2050 Brien A. Holden, Tim Fricke, David A. Wilson et al. · Ophthalmology | 11 Feb 2016 | 5,676 |
| 18 | Recognition-by-components: A theory of human image understanding. Irving Biederman · Psychological Review | Apr 1987 | 5,602 |
| 19 | Humans integrate visual and haptic information in a statistically optimal fashion Marc O. Ernst, Martin S. Banks · Nature | 2002 | 5,051 |
| 20 | The distributed human neural system for face perception James V. Haxby, James V. Haxby, Elizabeth A. Hoffman et al. · Trends in Cognitive Sciences | Jun 2000 | 5,016 |
| 21 | PsychoPy—Psychophysics software in Python Jonathan W. Peirce · Journal of Neuroscience Methods | 24 Jan 2007 | 4,993 |
| 22 | A theory of cortical responses Karl John Friston · Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences | 29 Apr 2005 | 4,908 |
| 23 | Computational modelling of visual attention Laurent Itti, Christof Koch · Nature reviews. Neuroscience | Mar 2001 | 4,815 |
| 24 | Oscillatory responses in cat visual cortex exhibit inter-columnar synchronization which reflects global stimulus properties Charles Montgomery Gray, Peter König, Andreas Karl Engel et al. · Nature | Mar 1989 | 4,273 |
| 25 | Distributed and Overlapping Representations of Faces and Objects in Ventral Temporal Cortex James V. Haxby, M. Ida Gobbini, Maura L. Furey et al. · Science | 28 Sep 2001 | 4,187 |
| 26 | Lightness and Retinex Theory Edwin H. Land, John J. McCann · Journal of the Optical Society of America | 1971 | 4,136 |
| 27 | Forest before trees: The precedence of global features in visual perception David Navon · Cognitive Psychology | Jul 1977 | 4,064 |
| 28 | Representational similarity analysis – connecting the branches of systems neuroscience Nikolaus Kriegeskorte · Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience | 2008 | 3,813 |
| 29 | Shifts in Selective Visual Attention: Towards the Underlying Neural Circuitry Christof Koch, Shimon Ullman | 1987 | 3,784 |
| 30 | Sparse coding with an overcomplete basis set: A strategy employed by V1? Bruno A. Olshausen, David J. Field · Vision Research | Dec 1997 | 3,757 |
| 31 | Specific impairments of planning Timothy Shallice · Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences | 25 Jun 1982 | 3,742 |
| 32 | Visual search and stimulus similarity. John S. Duncan, Glyn W. Humphreys · Psychological Review | 1989 | 3,619 |
| 33 | Guided Search 2.0 A revised model of visual search Jeremy M. Wolfe · Psychonomic Bulletin & Review | Jun 1994 | 3,578 |
| 34 | Spatiotemporal energy models for the perception of motion Edward H. Adelson, James R. Bergen · Journal of the Optical Society of America A | Feb 1985 | 3,534 |
| 35 | Graph-Based Visual Saliency Jonathan Harel, Christof Koch, Pietro Perona · The MIT Press eBooks | 7 Sep 2007 | 3,495 |
| 36 | Saliency Detection: A Spectral Residual Approach Xiaodi Hou, Liqing Zhang | Jun 2007 | 3,456 |
| 37 | Hierarchical models of object recognition in cortex Maximilian Riesenhuber, Tomaso Poggio · Nature Neuroscience | Nov 1999 | 3,428 |
| 38 | Segregation of Form, Color, Movement, and Depth: Anatomy, Physiology, and Perception Margaret S. Livingstone, David Hunter Hubel · Science | 6 May 1988 | 3,394 |
| 39 | High-resolution intersubject averaging and a coordinate system for the cortical surface Bruce R. Fischl, Martin I. Sereno, Roger B. H. Tootell et al. · Human Brain Mapping | 1999 | 3,359 |
| 40 | The Visual Brain in Action A. David Milner, Melvyn Alan Goodale · The MIT Press eBooks | 25 Oct 2002 | 3,358 |
| 41 | Relations between the statistics of natural images and the response properties of cortical cells David J Field · Journal of the Optical Society of America A | Dec 1987 | 3,302 |
| 42 | Neuronal Population Coding of Movement Direction Apostolos P. Georgopoulos, Andrew B. Schwartz, Ronald E. Kettner · Science | 26 Sep 1986 | 3,251 |
| 43 | A saliency-based search mechanism for overt and covert shifts of visual attention Laurent Itti, Christof Koch · Vision Research | Jun 2000 | 3,235 |
| 44 | Uncertainty relation for resolution in space, spatial frequency, and orientation optimized by two-dimensional visual cortical filters John G. Daugman · Journal of the Optical Society of America A | Jul 1985 | 3,235 |
| 45 | Psychophysiological and Modulatory Interactions in Neuroimaging Karl John Friston, Christian Buechel, Gereon R. Fink et al. · NeuroImage | Oct 1997 | 3,204 |
| 46 | Visual Feature Integration and the Temporal Correlation Hypothesis Wolf Singer, Charles Montgomery Gray · Annual Review of Neuroscience | Mar 1995 | 3,194 |
| 47 | Electrophysiological Studies of Face Perception in Humans Shlomo Bentin, Truett Allison, Aina Puce et al. · Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience | Nov 1996 | 3,159 |
| 48 | A sensorimotor account of vision and visual consciousness John O'Regan, Alva Noë · Behavioral and Brain Sciences | Oct 2001 | 3,133 |
| 49 | A method for making group inferences from functional MRI data using independent component analysis Vince D. Calhoun, Tülay Adalı, Godfrey D. Pearlson et al. · Human Brain Mapping | 27 Aug 2001 | 3,116 |
| 50 | Object vision and spatial vision: two cortical pathways Mortimer M. Mishkin, Leslie G. Ungerleider, Kathleen A. Macko · Trends in Neurosciences | 1983 | 2,989 |
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